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Style: Abstract
Medium: Found Objects
Biography of a Drive-By: wall sculpture by Black African-American artist
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This is a two-part wall mounted painting / sculpture this integrates found objects and photographs into an acrylic painting on the top, and a wooden shelf with bullet casings and coins below. This is a conceptual, abstract work of art that is a powerful homage to lives lost through calculated gun violence in American cites. signed by the artist.
PROVENANCE: Exhibited in "Portals + Revelations: Richard J. Watson," the African American Museum in Philadelphia, Oct 2021 - Mar 2022.
"Most of my works are supported by memories of the past and suggested realities. Issues of social politics, ancestral references, and astral projections are presented with fragmented elements...
Category
2010s Abstract Found Objects Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel, Found Objects, Mixed Media
World Of Chaos, Original Painting in Acrylic on Canvas, 2021
Located in Boston, MA
World Of Chaos, Original Painting in Acrylic on Canvas, 2021
Artist Commentary:
This piece highlights the relationship between nature and humans.
Keywords: light, day, abstract, wa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Found Objects Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas, Pastel, Found Objects
"Some Spain" (Abstract, Neutral, Graphic, Bold, Black & White painting on Wood)
Located in Paris, IDF
SOME SPAIN
2021
Paris, France
Graphically bold, yet cerebral, this textured, abstract piece offers a rich color palette. Painted using oil, acrylic and plaster, and executed on an ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Found Objects Paintings
Materials
Wood, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic
Saturación, Luminosidad & Destornillador. From The Composition with Tools series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The “Composition with Tools” series engages observers with quirky and playful truisms, gently leading them toward deeper reflections. Jose Ricardo Contreras...
Category
2010s Abstract Found Objects Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Wood, Found Objects
Feather Wall Art, Tree Rings and gold leaf, 2021
Located in San Francisco, CA
"Growth Rings IV" by Spanish artist Henar Iglesias is a one of a kind organic shaped abstract partridge feather and gold leaf work. This work mimics the growth rings of a tree. The f...
Category
2010s Abstract Found Objects Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Catching Blessings: shadow box painting & collage w/ figures & found objects
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This is a shadow box construction approx. 13" x 9" x 2.5" with painted and collaged materials including historic photographs of Black figures and other found objects. Encased in a dark wood frame under glass. It is signed and dated along the lower edge.
PROVENANCE: Exhibited in "Portals + Revelations: Richard J. Watson," the African American Museum in Philadelphia, Oct 2021 - Mar 2022.
"Most of my works are supported by memories of the past and suggested realities. Issues of social politics, ancestral references, and astral projections are presented with fragmented elements...
Category
2010s Abstract Found Objects Paintings
Materials
Found Objects, Acrylic, Glass
In the Nick of Time: African American collage painting w/ found objects & figure
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
"In The Nick Of Time" is an abstract collage / painting created from acrylic and found objects on leather mounted on round MDF panel. The work itself is 20" diameter, framed to 23" diameter in a wide, dark brown round wooden frame with two bronze painted rings. It includes several photograph of figures. It is signed and dated along the lower edge.
PROVENANCE: Exhibited in "Portals + Revelations: Richard J. Watson," the African American Museum in Philadelphia, Oct 2021 - Mar 2022.
"Most of my works are supported by memories of the past and suggested realities. Issues of social politics, ancestral references, and astral projections are presented with fragmented elements of 'real life' collaged and collapsed, as dreams are prone to do. If connections are made, all the better. I feel that life should remind us of our dreams." - Richard J. Watson
Richard J. Watson is an icon in the Philadelphia art world. Much of his work relates to his experiences as a Black African American man. He is a graduate of Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1968), has taught at his alma mater, and has served in the Exhibitions Department at the African American Museum in Philadelphia since the 1980s. He has been exhibiting his work for decades, and has an extensive bibliography. His work is held in the Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art; the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; the Uniworld Corporation; Sony; the Federal Reserve Bank; the City of Philadelphia; Sprint; the Church of the Advocate; the poet Dr. Sonia Sanchez; and the Woodmere Museum...
Category
2010s Abstract Found Objects Paintings
Materials
Found Objects, Acrylic, Panel, Leather, Fiberboard
At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites I1
Located in Quebec, Quebec
"At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites I1" is a textured mixed-media painting that explores the connection between the ancient and the celestial. Created with acrylic, latex, copper ...
Category
2010s Abstract Found Objects Paintings
Materials
Bronze, Copper
Pipe Dreams: African American collage painting w/ photographs figures, objects
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This is an abstract collage / painting created from acrylic and found objects. It is framed in a wide, dark wooden frame with gold accents. It includes several manipulated historic photograph of figures in many guises, arranged as if on stage. It is signed and dated by the artist lower left.
PROVENANCE: Exhibited in "Portals + Revelations: Richard J. Watson," the African American Museum in Philadelphia, Oct 2021 - Mar 2022.
"Most of my works are supported by memories of the past and suggested realities. Issues of social politics, ancestral references, and astral projections are presented with fragmented elements of 'real life' collaged and collapsed, as dreams are prone to do. If connections are made, all the better. I feel that life should remind us of our dreams." - Richard J. Watson
Richard J. Watson is an icon in the Philadelphia art world. Much of his work relates to his experiences as a Black African American man. He is a graduate of Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1968), has taught at his alma mater, and has served in the Exhibitions Department at the African American Museum in Philadelphia since the 1980s. He has been exhibiting his work for decades, and has an extensive bibliography. His work is held in the Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art; the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; the Uniworld Corporation; Sony; the Federal Reserve Bank; the City of Philadelphia; Sprint; the Church of the Advocate; the poet Dr. Sonia Sanchez; and the Woodmere Museum...
Category
2010s Abstract Found Objects Paintings
Materials
Found Objects, Acrylic, Mixed Media
Sylvia Schwartz 4, 2018, fabric, silk, wool, 14"H x 13"W
Located in Darien, CT
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...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Found Objects Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Found Objects, Wool, Silk
Sylvia Schwartz 3, 2018, fabric, 16" x 15"
Located in Darien, CT
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...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Found Objects Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Plastic, Silicone, Found Objects
Whistle A Happy Tune: shadow box painting & collage w/ figures & found objects
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This is a shadow box construction approx. 13" x 9" x 2.5" with painted and collaged materials and found objects. Encased in a dark wood frame under glass. It is signed and dated twice, at different orientations.
PROVENANCE: Exhibited in "Portals + Revelations: Richard J. Watson," the African American Museum in Philadelphia, Oct 2021 - Mar 2022.
"Most of my works are supported by memories of the past and suggested realities. Issues of social politics, ancestral references, and astral projections are presented with fragmented elements...
Category
2010s Abstract Found Objects Paintings
Materials
Glass, Found Objects, Acrylic
At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites I1
Located in Quebec, Quebec
"At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites I1" is a textured mixed-media painting that explores the connection between the ancient and the celestial. Created with acrylic, latex, copper ...
Category
2010s Abstract Found Objects Paintings
Materials
Bronze, Copper
Assemblage #5 (Ornithology Illustrations & Glass Slide with Silver, Gold Paint)
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract expressionist found object assemblage on wood with highly expressive silver and gold paint by Bay Area artist Michael Pauker (American, b. 1957). Against the raw woodgrain, the artist has attached several objects, including paper fragments of ornithological illustrations of birds...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Found Objects Paintings
Materials
Glass, Plastic, Wood, Paper, Oil, Found Objects, Acrylic
At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites II2
Located in Quebec, Quebec
"At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites II2" is a textured mixed-media painting that explores the connection between the ancient and the celestial. Created with acrylic, latex, copper...
Category
2010s Abstract Found Objects Paintings
Materials
Bronze, Copper
At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites II2
Located in Quebec, Quebec
"At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites II2" is a textured mixed-media painting that explores the connection between the ancient and the celestial. Created with acrylic, latex, copper...
Category
2010s Abstract Found Objects Paintings
Materials
Bronze, Copper
Momoiro I, 2024 - Minimalist Abstract Oil + Ink on Vintage Book Pages on Canvas
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Jane Skingley paints seascapes and landscapes in oils. Her first exhibition was a huge success and since then she has gone from strength to strength exhibiting in galleries and art s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Found Objects Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Found Objects, Ink, Oil
Rift Valley, Sonde 1 (khaki tan green organic copper coastal abstract texture)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
"Rift Valley, Sonde 1" is a textural and elemental abstract painting on canvas. It explores the hybridization of chance-derived color-fields with bas-relief aesthetics. Various techn...
Category
2010s Abstract Found Objects Paintings
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic
"Crimson Garden 02" Mixed Media Painting
Located in Chicago, IL
"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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Found Objects Paintings
Materials
Concrete
All For You, Original Abstract Painting, 2017
Located in Boston, MA
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Found Objects Paintings
Materials
Ink, Pastel, Found Objects
At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites 16 (texture, organic, biophilic, teal)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites 16 (vertical) is a richly textured mixed-media painting by Melisa Taylor Metzger, part of her decade-long series At Sea Between Fossils and Sate...
Category
2010s Abstract Found Objects Paintings
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic
3-part painting construction by Black African American artist, w/ found objects
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This is an 3-part painting / construction (assemblage) created from acrylic paint, wood, glass, and found objects. It includes several historic photograph of figures as well as many scenes from Black African American cultural history. Each piece measures 23" x 7.75" x 2.5", and they can be hung close together or far apart, depending on the buyer's preference. All pieces are wired with the appropriate hanging hardware and are ready to install, no additional framing needed.
PROVENANCE: Exhibited in "Portals + Revelations: Richard J. Watson," the African American Museum in Philadelphia, Oct 2021 - Mar 2022.
"Most of my works are supported by memories of the past and suggested realities. Issues of social politics, ancestral references, and astral projections are presented with fragmented elements of 'real life' collaged and collapsed, as dreams are prone to do. If connections are made, all the better. I feel that life should remind us of our dreams." - Richard J. Watson
Richard J. Watson is an icon in the Philadelphia art world. Much of his work relates to his experiences as a Black African American man. He is a graduate of Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1968), has taught at his alma mater, and has served in the Exhibitions Department at the African American Museum in Philadelphia since the 1980s. He has been exhibiting his work for decades, and has an extensive bibliography. His work is held in the Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art; the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; the Uniworld Corporation; Sony; the Federal Reserve Bank; the City of Philadelphia; Sprint; the Church of the Advocate; the poet Dr. Sonia Sanchez; and the Woodmere Museum...
Category
2010s Abstract Found Objects Paintings
Materials
Found Objects, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Glass, Wood
"A View From The Moon (No.6)" A gorgeous textural work featuring blues and green
Located in Hollister, CA
A View From The Moon No. 6 (Unframed)
Ink, Charcoal, Embers & Natural Mixed Media on Buried Canvas by Katherine Filice
A View From The Moon No. 6 is a dimensional, textured work by K...
Category
2010s Abstract Found Objects Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Driftwood, Found Objects, Archival Ink, Sumi Ink, Acrylic, Other...
"Tethered To The Echos of You" a stunning textural painting with blues and grays
Located in Hollister, CA
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...
Category
2010s Abstract Found Objects Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Driftwood, Charcoal, Found Objects, Archival Ink, Mica
At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites 15 (texture, organic, biophilic, sand)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites 15 is a richly textured, mixed-media painting by Melisa Taylor Metzger from her decade-long series At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites (2015–2...
Category
2010s Abstract Found Objects Paintings
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic
Biomorphic Forms - Early Abstract Expressionist - like Arshile Gorky
Located in Miami, FL
It's 1945. What artists were making totally abstract, non-objective paintings like this? Work characterized by organic forms and flattened picture planes, with solid bold colors dr...
Category
1940s Abstract Expressionist Found Objects Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Found Objects, Oil
Sylvia Schwartz, Queen, 2018, canvas, fabric, paint, plastic
Located in Darien, CT
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...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Found Objects Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Plastic, Found Objects, Acrylic, Canvas
Sunrise Over Money: framed painting / collage by Black African American artist
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
"Sunrise Over Money" is an acrylic painting of an abstracted, dream-like landscape with collaged found objects and photographs. It is an homage to Emmitt Till, who is pictured at ce...
Category
2010s Abstract Found Objects Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel, Found Objects
Debra Smith "Shifting Vision #4" -- Abstract Vintage Silk Collage
By Debra Smith
Located in New York, NY
Debra Smith
Shifting Vision #4, 2017
pieced vintage silk
18 x 15 in.
This original textile collage by Debra Smith features bold red silk squares carefully stitched with with layers ...
Category
2010s Abstract Found Objects Paintings
Materials
Silk, Found Objects, Mixed Media
At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites 11 (celestial blue, texture, organic, sea)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites 11 (horizontal) is a richly textured, mixed-media painting from Melisa Taylor Metzger’s decade-long series At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites...
Category
2010s Abstract Found Objects Paintings
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Acrylic, Oil
"Fragmentation Installation Series No. 16" Found paper, wood, architecture
By Seth Clark
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Seth Clark's "Fragmentation Installation Series" is the newest series by the artist fresh from his studio. The series is comprised of 50 unique pieces total, this listing being one ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Found Objects Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Wood Panel, Found Objects
Debra Smith "Shifting Vision #5" -- Abstract Vintage Silk Collage
By Debra Smith
Located in New York, NY
Debra Smith
Shifting Vision #5, 2017
pieced vintage silk
18 x 15 in.
This original textile collage by Debra Smith features graphic shapes crafted with layers of vintage silk in vari...
Category
2010s Abstract Found Objects Paintings
Materials
Silk, Found Objects, Mixed Media
Assemblage with Cigar Box and the Letter P
Located in Soquel, CA
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Found Objects Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Glass, Plastic, Paper, Oil, Found Objects
At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites 14 (texture, organic, biophilic, sand)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites 14 is a vertical mixed-media work from Melisa Taylor Metzger’s decade-long series At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites (2015–2025). This piece ...
Category
2010s Abstract Found Objects Paintings
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic
At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites 13 (texture, organic, biophilic, sand)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites 13 (horizontal) is a vivid mixed-media painting by Melisa Taylor Metzger from her long-term series At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites (2015–2...
Category
2010s Abstract Found Objects Paintings
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic
Jane Sangerman, Road 2, 2014, Found Objects, Wax, Oil Paint, Spray Paint, Modern
Located in Darien, CT
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...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Found Objects Paintings
Materials
Found Objects, Wax, Oil, Spray Paint, Acrylic
Another Unrendered Quasi-Articulated Substitution, Wall Sculpture by R. Melee
By Robert Melee
Located in Long Island City, NY
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
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Found Objects Paintings
Materials
Enamel
At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites 12 (texture, organic, biophilic, sand)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites 12 (horizontal) is a luminous, mixed-media painting by Melisa Taylor Metzger from her decade-long series At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites (...
Category
2010s Abstract Found Objects Paintings
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic
"His Name Was Writ in Acrylic Paint" - Abstract Assemblage
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract expressionist oil painting with assembled objects by Bay Area artist Michael Pauker (American, b. 1957). Splashes of gold paint are applied to a wood panel, with a few bits of burnt umber. Several objects - including a paint tube, cotton balls, and a miniature painting - are attached to the panel.
Signed "Michael Pauker", titled "His Name Was Writ in Acrylic Paint", and dated "2017" on verso.
There is a note from the artist that this is the top of a two-part piece, but the whereabouts of the bottom half are unknown.
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Found Objects Paintings
Materials
Glass, Plastic, Paper, Found Objects, Cotton, Wood Panel
Jane Sangerman, Remnant 14, 2015, Found Objects, Spray Paint, Acrylic Paint
Located in Darien, CT
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...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Found Objects Paintings
Materials
Found Objects, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Panel
Sylvia Schwartz_1, 2018, wood, fabric, paint, 15" x 11" x 1"
Located in Darien, CT
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...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Found Objects Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Plastic, Wood, Found Objects, Acrylic
Sylvia Schwartz_2, 2018, fabric, silicone, plastic, 14" x 13" x 2"
Located in Darien, CT
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...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Found Objects Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Plastic, Found Objects, Silicone
Sylvia Schwartz 7, 2018, wood, fabric, plastic, paint, 9" x 7.5" x 2"
Located in Darien, CT
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...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Found Objects Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Wood, Found Objects, Acrylic, Plastic
Sylvia Schwartz 9, 2018, wood, fabric, paint. 10' x 16" x 2"
Located in Darien, CT
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...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Found Objects Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Plastic, Wood, Found Objects, Acrylic
Composition in Texture, 38x38", 2008
Located in Southampton, NY
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...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Found Objects Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Fabric, Found Objects, Paint, Varnish, Wood, Plaster
Jane Sangerman, Digit 14, 2015, Found Objects, Wax, Oil Paint, Spray Paint
Located in Darien, CT
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 ...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Found Objects Paintings
Materials
Found Objects, Wax, Oil, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Panel
"The Artist's Floor" - Abstract Assemblage
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract expressionist assemblage with found objects typical of an artist's studio floor by Bay Area artist Michael Pauker (American, b. 1957). Applied paint brushes, caps and tubes of paint, a few letters, putty knife, with splashes of color on wood. Unsigned. From the collection of the artist's work. Unframed. Image size: 11.25"H x 25.75"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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Found Objects Paintings
Materials
Glass, Plastic, Paper, Found Objects, Wood Panel, Wood, Oil
Sylvia Schwartz 8, 2018, wood, fabric, plastic, 11" x 11.5" x 2"
Located in Darien, CT
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...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Found Objects Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Plastic, Wood, Found Objects, Acrylic
"The Bigger Picture", abstract sculpture, found frame, wood, paint, geometry
Located in Toronto, Ontario
"The Bigger Picture" is an abstract artwork by Stan Olthuis composed of acrylic paint on pine wood and reclaimed picture frame. The Bigger Picture measures...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Found Objects Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood, Found Objects
The Battle (of Grunwald) -- geometric abstract mixed media collage painting
By Mat Tomezsko
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
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...
Category
2010s Abstract Found Objects Paintings
Materials
Found Objects, Acrylic, Panel, Wood Panel, Magazine Paper, Newsprint, As...
Queen Victoria -- contemporary abstract painting & collage with figure & objects
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
"QUEEN VICTORIA" is created and from acrylic and found objects on round MDF panel. It includes a photograph of a figure, pocket knife, beads, charms, and other unidentified objects in metal and wood. It is signed and dated along the lower edge.
PROVENANCE: Exhibited in "Portals + Revelations: Richard J. Watson," the African American Museum in Philadelphia, Oct 2021 - Mar 2022.
"Most of my works are supported by memories of the past and suggested realities. Issues of social politics, ancestral references, and astral projections are presented with fragmented elements of 'real life' collaged and collapsed, as dreams are prone to do. If connections are made, all the better. I feel that life should remind us of our dreams." - Richard J. Watson
Richard J. Watson is an icon in the Philadelphia art world. Much of his work relates to his experiences as a Black African American man. He is a graduate of Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1968), has taught at his alma mater, and has served in the Exhibitions Department at the African American Museum in Philadelphia since the 1980s. He has been exhibiting his work for decades, and has an extensive bibliography. His work is held in the Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art; the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; Temple University; the Uniworld Corporation; Sony; the Federal Reserve Bank; the City of Philadelphia; Sprint; the Church of the Advocate; the poet Dr. Sonia Sanchez; and the Woodmere Museum...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Found Objects Paintings
Materials
Found Objects, Acrylic, Panel
"Ultrablue Garden 04" Mixed Media Painting
Located in Chicago, IL
"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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Found Objects Paintings
Materials
Concrete
At Sea Between Fossils & Satellites (large-scale textured painting sand organic)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
"At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites" is a large-scaled textured mixed-media painting that explores the connection between the ancient and the celestial. Created with acrylic, late...
Category
2010s Abstract Found Objects Paintings
Materials
Bronze, Copper
Feather Wall Art, Abstract Red and Earth Tones Geometric Pattern, 2025
Located in San Francisco, CA
"Consummation III" by Spanish artist Henar Iglesias is a one of a kind abstract partridge and golden pheasant feather artwork with an optical illusion quality. The work is mounted on...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Found Objects Paintings
Materials
Animal Skin, Organic Material, Found Objects, Wood Panel
Rift Valley, Sonde 1 (khaki tan green organic copper coastal abstract texture)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
"Rift Valley, Sonde 1" is a textural and elemental abstract painting on canvas. It explores the hybridization of chance-derived color-fields with bas-relief aesthetics. Various techn...
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2010s Abstract Found Objects Paintings
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic
Price Cycles: large geometric abstract mixed media painting w/ found objects
By Mat Tomezsko
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
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Mat Tomezko's "Price" series of mixed media paintings are const...
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2010s Abstract Found Objects Paintings
Materials
Found Objects, Acrylic, Panel, Wood Panel, Magazine Paper, Newsprint, As...
Rift Valley, sonde 2 (texture copper bronze gold emerald green abstract wine red
Located in Quebec, Quebec
"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...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Found Objects Paintings
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic
"Violet Garden 01" Mixed Media Painting
Located in Chicago, IL
"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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Found Objects Paintings
Materials
Concrete
"Ultrablue Garden 03" Mixed Media Painting
Located in Chicago, IL
"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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Found Objects Paintings
Materials
Concrete
"Burn Scar (No. 4)" Mixed Media Forest Fragment on Canvas by Katherine Filice
Located in Hollister, CA
"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...
Category
Early 1600s Abstract Found Objects Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Color Pencil, Archival Paper, Acrylic, Archival Ink, Charcoal, F...
Found Objects paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Found Objects paintings available on 1stDibs. While artists have worked in this medium across a range of time periods, art made with this material during the 21st Century is especially popular. If you’re looking to add paintings created with this material to introduce a provocative pop of color and texture to an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, pink, purple, red and other colors. There are many well-known artists whose body of work includes ceramic sculptures. Popular artists on 1stDibs associated with pieces like this include Melisa Taylor Metzger, Sylvia Schwartz, Sean 9 Lugo, and Lydia Viscardi. Frequently made by artists working in the Contemporary, Abstract, all of these pieces for sale are unique and many will draw the attention of guests in your home. Not every interior allows for large Found Objects paintings, so small editions measuring 0.1 inches across are also available
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