Found Objects Paintings

"At Sea between Fossils and Satellites 9" is a textural and elemental abstract painting on canvas. It explores the hybridization of chance-derived color-fields with art deco aestheti...

"Rift Valley, Sonde 2" is a textural and elemental abstract painting on canvas. It explores the hybridization of chance-derived color-fields with textural topography. Various techniq...

"Concrete Gardens" is a body of work that translates Patrick Burns' deep love of the land and complicated past into richly textured, mixed-media paintings with reverberating, monochr...

Schwartz received a degree in fine art from the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne, Australia, and later studied sculpture at Columbia University. Her work has been shown in...

Schwartz received a degree in fine art from the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne, Australia, and later studied sculpture at Columbia University. Her work has been shown in...

Schwartz received a degree in fine art from the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne, Australia, and later studied sculpture at Columbia University. Her work has been shown in...

Schwartz received a degree in fine art from the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne, Australia, and later studied sculpture at Columbia University. Her work has been shown in...

Schwartz received a degree in fine art from the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne, Australia, and later studied sculpture at Columbia University. Her work has been shown in...

Jane Sangerman lives and works in New York City. She received her BFA from the University of New Mexico and her MFA from the State University of New York at Buffalo. She has had on...

Jane Sangerman lives and works in New York City. She received her BFA from the University of New Mexico and her MFA from the State University of New York at Buffalo. She has had one ...

Jane Sangerman lives and works in New York City. She received her BFA from the University of New Mexico and her MFA from the State University of New York at Buffalo. She has had one ...

Abstract expressionist oil painting with assembled objects by Bay Area artist Michael Pauker (American, b. 1957). Against a yellow and black background, the artist has attached several objects, including plastic letters, cigar boxes, and glass slides. Unsigned, but was acquired with a collection of his work. Unframed. Image size: 20"H x 24"W Bay Area artist and art educator Michael Pauker was born in New York in 1957 and knew he wanted to be an artist from the age of 15. He earned a Bachelor’s in Fine Arts at SUNY Purchase in his native state of New York. In 1989 he went on to earn an M.F.A at Mills College in Oakland and was awarded the City of Oakland Artist Fellowship in Painting. He has been a Bay Area resident since 1988. His work has been exhibited widely across the U.S., as well as in Japan and Costa Rica, and is included in the collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Exhibitions include: 2007 Contemporary Art Museum, San Jose, Costa Rica 2007 “The Ebay Art Project,” Works/San Jose, San Jose, CA 2003 “Found Imagery: The Art of Collage,” Fresno Art Museum,Fresno, CA 2003 “Cut, Copy, Paste,” De Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, CA 2003 “20th Annual Exhibition,” Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA 2002 “40 by 40...

Luke Forsyth is a painter and illustrator living and working in Los Angeles, California. Known for a playful approach, Forsyth enjoys working in an array of colors and mediums. He dr...

Tethered to the Echos of You Ink, Charcoal, Embers & Natural Mixed Media on Buried Canvas by Katherine Filice Tethered to the Echos of You is a 39.5 x 27 x 3‑inch work on buried canv...

A 2010 documentary on Harald focused on his impressive exhibition in the Chelsea art district of New York City. In this heavily textured abstract painting, Harald M. Olson uses oil...

Abstract diptych painting by Katherine Filice created with layered ink, stucco, mica, charcoal, and found materials on two wood panels. Part of her "Common Ground" series, this work ...

Vestiges spectrales IV continues Melisa Taylor Metzger’s exploration of oceanic memory and material transformation through mixed media and impasto. This smaller-scale work, rich in t...

Artist: Robert Melee Title: Another Unrendered Quasi-Articulated Substitution Year: 2006 Medium: Beer bottle caps, Plaster and Enamel on Wood, signed verso Size: 40 inch Diameter

Vestiges spectrales III is a mixed-media painting on canvas that continues Melisa Taylor Metzger’s exploration of the spectral and oceanic sublime. Though more intimate in scale, it ...

Mat Tomezko's "Price" series of mixed media collage paintings are constructed from periodicals, circulars, acrylic, asphalt, graffiti, and coal on panel. Using mostly found materials...

"Hiding on Saturn (No. 2)" is a 31.5 x 36-inch mixed media painting by Katherine Filice, made with ink, paper, charcoal, branches, stucco, and chalk on buried canvas. The surface is ...

"Burn Scar (No. 4)" is a 16.5 x 23-inch work made with ink, paper, burnt branches, charcoal, and stucco on buried canvas. Katherine Filice uses scorched natural materials to tell a s...

Burn Scars (No. 3)" is an 11 x 11-inch (Framed Size 15 x 15 x 2 in) mixed media piece from Katherine Filice’s "Burn Scar" series, which reflects on the resilience of nature and the s...

Artist Commentary: Found material, pastel, paper, ink on a cardboard box. A piece about hurting yourself for the love of another. Will professionally frame in float frame if purchase...

Artist Commentary: A piece playing with the ideas surrounding vanity and youth, and the influence of it at a young age. The makeup carries a toy quality and the baby rattles blend in...

Jerry Cabrera’s Light Painting series captures the preciousness and sacredness of light through his glowing and vibrant rectangular canvasses. Although abstract, Cabrera’s stacked ca...

Luke Forsyth is a painter and illustrator living and working in Los Angeles, California. Known for a playful approach, Forsyth enjoys working in an array of colors and mediums. He dr...

Luke Forsyth is a painter and illustrator living and working in Los Angeles, California. Known for a playful approach, Forsyth enjoys working in an array of colors and mediums. He dr...

Jerry Cabrera’s Light Painting series captures the preciousness and sacredness of light through his glowing and vibrant rectangular canvasses. Although abstract, Cabrera’s stacked ca...

Encaustic abstract painting by Katherine Filice, incorporating charcoal, ink, wax, and found objects on a wood panel. Part of the artist’s newest series, "Common Ground", this painti...

Contemporary abstract painting combining ink, acrylic, stucco, and found objects on a wood panel. This piece from Katherine Filice’s newest series, "Common Ground" balances fluid ges...

Abstract painting by Katherine Filice, created with ink, stucco, mica, charcoal, and found objects on a wood panel. Part of the artist’s "Common Ground" series, this work explores ma...

Artist Commentary: A piece about the "stuff" we buy. What's it for? Is it worth it? How do we affect nature with these decisions? Shape shifts between resembling an old ship and a mo...

Jerry Cabrera’s Light Painting series captures the preciousness and sacredness of light through his glowing and vibrant rectangular canvasses. Although abstract, Cabrera’s stacked ca...

Jerry Cabrera’s Light Painting series captures the preciousness and sacredness of light through his glowing and vibrant rectangular canvasses. Although abstract, Cabrera’s stacked ca...

Acrylic and found objects.