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Play Time, Abstract 3D Original Glass and Metal Wall Sculpture
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Karo Martirosyan,
Work: Original Artwork,
Medium: Glass and Metal Wall Sculpture,
Year: 2022
Style: Contemporary Art,
Subject: Play Time,
Siz...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Holding Space 2 - intricate, nature-inspired, hand-shaped porcelain sculpture
By Paula Murray
Located in Bloomfield, ON
In her lakeside studio surrounded by nature, Paula Murray creates uniquely beautiful porcelain pieces. This vessel has a tall undulating form accentuated by waves of lines that run b...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Ascend, Modern Art, Original Glass and Metal Wall Sculpture
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Karo Martirosyan,
Work: Original Artwork,
Medium: Glass and Metal Wall Sculpture,
Year: 2022
Style: Contemporary Art,
Subject: Ascend,
Size: 14" x 24" x 3.5'' inch, 36x61x...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
MIROIRS D'ARTISTE (3D WALL SCULPTURE)
Located in Aventura, FL
Mirrored glass and silkscreened plexiglass wall sculpture. Incised artist signature and edition on verso. From the EA edition of 20 (there is also the main edition of 99).
Artwork...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Mirror, Plexiglass, Screen
Worldwide Limited Edition Yves Klein, Ours Pompon in resin with IKB pigments
Located in Paris, FR
Original Limited Edition Worldwide Yves Klein Ours Pompon, sculpture in resin with IKB pigments under Plexiglas, signed, titled and numbered, from 2022
Yves Klein tirelessly sought the essence of art and wanted to expose its immateriality. The artist thus found in sculpture a true space of freedom where the monochrome impregnates the space in three dimensions.
In 1962, Yves Klein covered universally admired masterpieces with his IKB blue: the Venus of Alexandria, the Victory of Samothrace or Michelangelo's Dying Slave. They then become incarnate objects, sensitive presences.
In 2022, 100 years after its success at the Salon d'Automne, François Pompon's White Bear ( Ours Pompon ) meets Yves Klein's Blue. One captured the essence of form, the other that of color and beyond, the essence of art. The art of reality, of freedom, of life.
Important :
This splendid orignal and authentic edition was handmade by French artisans out of respect and passion for the living heritage.
The work has been executed without interpreting, without damaging, without altering, with respect and admiration of the original work.
A careful edition in matter and form faithful to the spirit of the creator. It has been carried out with the agreement of the owners of the works and are also subject to the approval of the rights holders or their representatives with all the requirement and respect for the creations of the artists.
EDITIONS ARTEMUS, 2022
The Pompon bear...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin
Glacial, Abstract 3D Original Glass and Metal Wall Sculpture, Modern art
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Karo Martirosyan,
Work: Original Artwork,
Medium: Glass and Metal Wall Sculpture,
Year: 2024
Style: Contemporary Art,
Subject: Glacial,
Size: 19" x 24" x 4'' inch, (4...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
"Abstract Arrangement - Cement, Resin, Plastic, Zip-ties, Industrial Strapping
By Duane Paul
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Duane Paul's work can best be characterized as innovative, dynamic and intimate. His sculptures each employ colorful organic shapes, which act as a personal language. The playful and...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Plastic, Wood, Pigment
"Fold", Contemporary, Gestural, Ceramic, White, Cream, Stoneware, Sculpture
Located in Natick, MA
Sara Fine-Wilson's "Fold" is a gestural 20 x 9 x 8 inch ceramic sculpture in white and cream with accents of grey and blue. It is constructed out of white stoneware with porcelain...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware, Slip, Glaze
Transfigure
Located in Loveland, CO
"Transfigure" by Mark Leichliter
Abstract Sculpture
36x7x7" Stainless Steel 4/10 (blue in stock)
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
I was born in Loveland, Colorado and now reside in nearby Fort ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Greg Chann, "Eirene" Acrylic and Ink
Located in New York, NY
Of his recent work, Greg Chann states "I take inspiration from the ancient Chinese Yin and Yang symbol
whereby contrary forces may actually be complementary,
interconnected and inter...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Ink
"Wandering Around" Abstract Diptych Painting
Located in Westport, CT
This textured abstract diptych by Teodora Guererra features a light blue-green palette with warm yellow accents throughout. The artist layers thick strokes of paint using a palette k...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
Caballo Arroyo (Bronze horse sculpture by Frank Arnold)
By Frank Arnold
Located in Fresno, CA
Frank Arnold is thought by many to be one of the foremost abstract figurative painters and sculptors of our time. He is a living master whose work is considered to be both personal a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Sunset, Abstract 3D Original Glass and Metal Wall Sculpture, Modern Art
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Karo Martirosyan,
Work: Original Artwork,
Medium: Glass and Metal Wall Sculpture,
Year: 2022
Style: Contemporary Art,
Subject: Sunset,
Size: 19" x 24" x 4'' inch, (48...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Tupuna, Ancestor's Cloak, ceramic sculpture, abstract, Maori, contemporary art
By Wi Taepa
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Tupuna, Ancestor's Cloak, ceramic sculpture, abstract, Maori, contemporary art
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Clay
Glass Sculpture - Without end
Located in Winterswijk, NL
This modern, minimalist and elegant glass artwork is a hand-crafted piece of colored glass using the fusion process. This piece features a mesmerizing spiral with black accents. The...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
We Belong Only to Ourselves, Hand Built and Carved Porcelain Vase
Located in Miami Beach, FL
This vessel is the first of the Unsung Muses series, and it references two compositions by Cezanne in which women are seen bathing, undisturbed by the voyeurism of the artist and/or ...
Category
2010s Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Clay, Porcelain, Paint
Abstract Cast Glass Sculpture, 'Ras Algethi', 1995 by David Ruth
By David Ruth
Located in Oakland, CA
'Ras Algethi' is a contemporary abstract cast glass sculpture by David Ruth from his Internal Space series. This part of the series was inspired by astronomy and the distant galaxies and stars. David fused various colored glass creates a layered, suspended, and vibrant three-dimensional space within an spiral form.
About the Internal Space Series:
David’s experiments with sheet glass and fusing led him to try to make the glass thicker to see more interior space. It was during this time a professor pointed out that he was working with a metaphor, for which the internal space of the glass was the equivalent to the internal life of the mind. This became his operating mantra but also forced him to come to terms with the casting of thick sections.
“Creating those internal spaces came with some problems. Other than telescope mirrors, I did not know that anyone annealed glass in a kiln for more than a day or two. When pieces cracked after five...
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Glass
Cascade, Abstract 3D Original Glass and Metal Wall Sculpture, Modern Design
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Karo Martirosyan,
Work: Original Artwork,
Medium: Glass and Metal Wall Sculpture,
Year: 2024
Style: Contemporary Art,
Subject: Cascade,
Siz...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
DNA 2006 by Silvia Zotta Abstract Ceramic Wall Sculpture in Red and Purple
Located in Brescia, IT
This engaging artwork was hand made in ceramic and then finished with lacquer in red and purple color. This piece is a part of the DNA collection, that represents the research of the artist into the micro human world.
This artwork is a one of a kind piece.
Silvia Zotta...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Impressions, Abstract 3D Original Glass and Metal Wall Sculpture, Modern Art
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Karo Martirosyan,
Work: Original Artwork,
Medium: Glass and Metal Wall Sculpture,
Year: 2024
Style: Contemporary Art,
Subject: Impressions,
Size: 19" x 24" x 4'' inch,...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Modern Abstract Rhino Head Metal Sculpture
Located in Houston, TX
Abstract metal rhino head metal sculpture by Mexican artist and sculptor. Signed and editioned by artist at the left side.
Artist Biography: Sergio Bustam...
Category
1960s Abstract Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Enchanted, Original Glass and Metal Wall Sculpture, Modern Art 3D
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Karo Martirosyan,
Work: Original Artwork,
Medium: Glass and Metal Wall Sculpture,
Year: 2022
Style: Contemporary Art,
Subject: Enchanted,
Size: 19" x 24" x 4'' inch, ...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Molluski, Andrew Casto, 2025, Porcelain Sculpture with Gold Luster Glaze
By Andrew Casto
Located in St. Louis, MO
Andrew Casto (b. Ohio, USA, 1977) lives and works in Iowa City, USA. He was the 2011 MJD fellow at The Archie Bray Foundation for Ceramic Art in Helena, Montana, and has exhibited wo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Gold
Together by Kirk Tatom, bronze bird sculpture, deco, bronze, patina, edition
By Kirk Tatom
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Together by Kirk Tatom, bronze bird sculpture, deco, bronze, patina, edition
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Handmade Paper Collage Sculpture Art Assemblage with String Nancy Genn Modernist
By Nancy Genn
Located in Surfside, FL
Nancy Genn, American (b. 1929)
Marshfield 25 (1977)
Handmade paper collage
Hand signed verso
Dimensions: 20 1/8 x 22 inches
Utilizing what is now known as the 'Genn Method,' Nancy Genn created three-dimensional abstract works of handmade paper, gaining international recognition in the 1970s
Nancy Genn is an American artist living and working in Berkeley, California known for works in a variety of media, including paintings, bronze sculpture, printmaking, and handmade paper rooted in the Japanese washi paper making tradition. Her work explores geometric abstraction, non-objective form, and calligraphic mark making, and features light, landscape, water, and architecture motifs. She is influenced by her extensive travels, and Asian craft, aesthetics and spiritual traditions.
Nancy Genn was born in 1929 in San Francisco, California. She recognized early that she would pursue a career as an artist. Her mother, Ruth Wetmore Thompson Whitehouse, was a painter and UC Berkeley alumna who played a leadership role in the San Francisco Women Artists organization. Genn studied at San Francisco Art Institute (then California School of Fine Arts) with painter Hassel Smith, and at the Art Department at the University of California, Berkeley (1948–49) with Professors Margaret Peterson and John Haley, and fellow students Sam Francis and Sonya Rapoport. In 1949 she married Vernon “Tom” Genn, an engineer raised in Japan, with whom she had three children.
Career
Genn's first noted solo exhibition was in 1955 at Gump's Gallery in San Francisco. She received international recognition through her inclusion in French art critic Michel Tapié’s seminal text Morphologie Autre (1960), which cited her as one of the most important exponents of post-war informal art.
In 1961, Genn began creating bronze sculptures using the lost-wax casting method. Influenced by noted sculptor and family friend Claire Falkenstein, who used open-formed structures in her work, Genn cast forms woven from long grape vine cuttings, and produced vessels, fountains, fire screens, a menorah, a lectern, and, notably, the Cowell Fountain (1966) at UC Santa Cruz. In 1963 her sculptural work was exhibited with Berkeley artists Peter Voulkos and Harold Paris in the influential exhibition Creative Casting curated by Paul J. Smith at the Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York.
Genn was one of the first American artists to express herself through handmade paper, first receiving wide recognition via exhibitions at Susan Caldwell Gallery, New York, beginning in 1977, and in traveling exhibitions with Robert Rauschenberg and Sam Francis. In 1978-1979, supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and Japan Creative Arts Fellowship, she studied papermaking in Japan, visiting local paper craftspeople, working in Shikenjo studio in Saitama Prefecture, and exhibiting her work in Tokyo. She also learned techniques from Donald Farnsworth...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Handmade Paper
Ascend, Abstract, Original Glass and Metal Wall Sculpture
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Karo Martirosyan,
Work: Original Artwork,
Medium: Glass and Metal Wall Sculpture,
Year: 2022
Style: Contemporary Art,
Subject: Ascend,
Size: 14" x 24" x 3.5'' inch, 36x61x...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Arctic, Original Glass and Metal Wall Sculpture, modern art, Handmade
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Karo Martirosyan,
Work: Original Artwork,
Medium: Glass and Metal Wall Sculpture,
Year: 2022
Style: Contemporary Art,
Subject: Arctic,
Size: 19" x 24" x 4'' inch, 49x61x10...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Ragtime II
Located in Burlingame, CA
White circular abstract wall sculpture from Pop Art pioneer Jane B. Grimm, who began her artistic career in the 1960’s, when her free-form sculptural jewelry exploded onto the fashio...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
"Memory of Rain" carved stone pedestal sculpture
Located in Glen Ellen, CA
This carved basalt pedestal sculpture, "Memory of Rain," was the impetus for sculptor Rebecca Johnson's 'Rain Collection' series. Three smooth, voluptu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stone
Blue Crater - small, blue, geometrical, 3D, felt, fabric, biomorphic, wall art
By Chung-Im Kim
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Sapphire blue felt takes the shape of a biomorphic form in this contemplative wall sculpture by fabric artist Chung-Im Kim. The felt is cut into irregular shapes that are sewn with p...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Felt, Wood
Assembler Gris. Abstract Mixed Media Wall Sculpture
Located in Miami Beach, FL
For many, rusty materials, pieces of glass or plastic fragments are not rubbish that should be left in the trash can.Finkelman's creative sensitivity has made these materials irrepla...
Category
2010s Minimalist Sculptures
Materials
Metal
D from Logo Suite (Magenta) Silkscreen on 3-D Molded Plastic Over Wood Signed/N
Located in New York, NY
3-D sculpted multiple (to be hung on the wall) by British Pop Art pioneer Richard Smith:
Richard Smith
D from Logo Suite (Magenta), 1971
Silkscreen on 3-D Molded Plastic Over Wood
P...
Category
1970s Pop Art Mixed Media
Materials
Plastic, Wood, Mixed Media, Screen, Pencil
"Circles Within" geometric sculpture
Located in Glen Ellen, CA
Mirror polished stainless steel.
The primary focal point of this sculpture is its slanting progression of intersecting geometric objects, located in the upper half. It is as if the ...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Abstract Cast Glass Sculpture, 'Al Safi', 1993 by David Ruth
By David Ruth
Located in Oakland, CA
'Al Safi' is a contemporary abstract cast glass sculpture by David Ruth from his Internal Space series. This part of the series was inspired by astronomy and the distant galaxies an...
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Glass
Liquid Sunshine Gear Column 24 X 10 X 10
By Niho Kozuru
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Liquid Sunshine Gear Column is made of hand dyed cast polymer and the base is painted steel.
It is 24 X 10 X 10
Niho Kozuru (髙鶴丹穂) is a Japanese-born mixed me...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Hand-crafted Glass Urn for Sale - Ravenna Purple
Located in Winterswijk, NL
Hand-crafted Glassfusing Glass Artwork Glass Urn Symbolic Memorial Art for Sale
This unique glass artwork, model "Ravenna Purple", is a hand-crafted piece of colored glass using the...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric More Art
Materials
Steel
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 Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic, Panel, Found Objects, Mixed Media
Codina Corona. Boat la barca Original- wood realistic sculpture-
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
sculpture on wood by Spanish artist CODINA CORONA.
Sculpture of one piece of wood
Josep Maria Codina Corona (Igualada, 1935 - Barcelona, 2006) was a Catalan sculptor. He studied at...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood
John Van Alstine - Sisyphean Circle XLIV, Sculpture 2010
Located in Greenwich, CT
10" x 28" x 11"
Small
Slate, Pigmented, and Sealed Steel
Stone and metal, usually granite or slate, and found object steel are central in my sculpture. The interaction of these mat...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Sculptures
Materials
Slate, Steel
Mirroire d'Artiste
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Jesus Rafael Soto, Venezuelan (1923 - 2005)
Title: Mirroire d'Artiste
Year: 2005
Medium: Mirrored Glass and Silkscreened Plexiglass Wall Sculpture, signature and number ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Op Art Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Island Jewel
By Jon Kuhn
Located in Long Island City, NY
A polished glass sculpture by Joh Kuhn from 1992. A spectacular sculpture of crystal clear glass that forms a complicated prism in which light is reflected in a multitude of optical ...
Category
1990s Op Art Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Glass
"Relentless", Contemporary, Steel, Iron, Grassy Shapes, Sculpture
Located in Natick, MA
Sculpted out of steel, Sarah Alexander’s Relentless grassy shapes twist and dance as if they were alive, defying the nature of the iron that has been hand hammered and formed appears...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Biomorphic No 13 - smooth, carved, stained, polished wood, abstract sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This sensual hand carved wooden sculpture by artist Jana Osterman is once again inspired by forms found in nature.
Biomorphic forms are intended to evoke images of living things wh...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Equilibre 5/10 - red, geometric abstract, modern, reflective, aluminum sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Philippe Pallafray’s dramatic contemporary sculptures often appear to defy the laws of gravity. This imposing minimalist piece features a highly polished stainless steel ball precariously balanced between two bright red painted cubes...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Stainless Steel
Tree of life series, Wings
Located in Zofingen, AG
Description for all series "Tree of Life": "One day I was in the furniture workshop of my friends and noticed wooden logs in the corner. I have been working with wood all my life and...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood
John Van Alstine, POINTE 2016, Sculpture 2016
Located in Greenwich, CT
POINTE 2016
Slate/pigmented and sealed steel
22.5" (height) x 23" (width) x 6" (depth)
Stone and metal, usually granite or slate, and found object steel are central in my sculpture....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Slate, Steel
Huge Seguso Murano Glass Centerpiece Sculpture
By Livio Seguso
Located in Surfside, FL
A huge centerpiece good-quality Seguso Murano (probably 1970s or 1980s, Memphis Milano era) elliptical-form clear glass sculptural bowl with striated ...
Category
20th Century Abstract Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Glass
Sky Passages
By Sally Hepler
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Hand fabricated bronze with patina. Sealed with lacquer and wax.
Large pyramid- 20"h x 8 x 8 x 4" base, small pyramid 18"h x 7 x 7 x 4" base
2 separate pyramids. Total size together ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Atlantian Continuum
By Terry Poulos
Located in Chicago, IL
A time traverse mechanism with antecedents in mythological Atlantis. Legend speaks of a Minoan connection to Atlantis. The time machine's fictional narrative builds upon the latest in archeological finds and a growing body of circumstantial evidence hinting of an advanced society lost to history. Perchance, dare say, one which developed methods defying the very forward arrow of the space time continuum. The Atlantian Continuum narrative tells of it originally being buried in volcanic ash (thereby preserved) after a catastrophic event altered the earth's magnetic polarity. A broken piece of Minoan-Atlantian continental land mass drifted thousands of miles south (based upon recent real-life scholarly posits), further protecting the device in the permafrost of the Antarctic. Metrics of time manipulation employed are aligned with many of Einstein‘s theories including Relativity, Light Quanta, entanglement, curvature of space and infinite time loops. The sculpture portends an original scientific perspective replete with esoteric symbols, equations, formulai and multi-dimensional geometry, all portending a series of radical posits. These heuristic, intuitive theories expand upon the latest cutting-edge scientific, mathematical and philosophical insights into "visiting" the past.
SPECS: Vintage spot welded cast-iron gears, cogs, sprockets and other pieces of used farm implements. Total of 49 individual pieces, all antique and vintage dating as far back as 1920. Antique plano-convex glass ball clock housed in brass. Antique brass transit surveyor. Antique brass car oiler. Antique iron padlock...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Aluminum, Metal
Emerald Plains, Clay-infused fabric sculpture, for wall installation
Located in Tel Aviv, IL
Painter and sculpture Artist Natalie Krainin creates artworks using the innovative method of Fabric Texture Art. This technique, which resonates deeply with her professional roots, a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Clay, Fabric, Cotton, Paint, Glaze
First Journey
Located in New York, NY
Provenance: Sables de Fontainbleau, Seine-et-Marne, France
“Gogottes” are natural creations formed out of sands deposited in Northern France during the Oligocene Period, approximately 30 million years ago. Much later, in a process that has only recently become understood, groundwater rich in silica flowed through the sands...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Naturalistic Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Sandstone
Charles Birnbaum, 371_Wall Piece No.19_2017_porcelain_19x13x5 in_Visionary
Located in Darien, CT
Charles Birnbaum is a sculptor and a self-taught photographer. He graduated from Kansas City Art Institute where he studied ceramics and was one of a select group of the esteemed Ken...
Category
2010s Baroque Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Suzanne Benton, 1974, Pelvic Woman, Copper, Coated Steel
Located in Darien, CT
In 1972, the women’s movement was in full flower. Suzanne Benton had been an early activist, a founder and organizer of NOW Chapters, CT Feminists in the Arts, Women, Metamorphosis 1 (in New Haven, CT, the first women’s art festival in the USA). She'd already been creating metal sculpted masks and working with them in mask tale performances of Women of Myth and Heritage. Her inaugural performance of Sarah and Hagar n 1972 took place at Lincoln Center in NYC.
Benton then became the artistic director and producer of an evening on Broadway, Four Chosen Women (performers included herself as mask tale performer, author Anais Nin, actress Vinie Burroughs and dancer Joan Stone). The evening took place at the Edison Theatre, November 22, 1972. While developing the evening on Broadway, Benton met renowned Swedish actress and Hollywood star, Viveca Lindfors.
Viveca was then working on her solo performance, I AM A WOMAN, and was looking for a unique theatre set for the show. The happenstance that brought Viveca and Suzanne together. At that same time, recent travel to Macchu Picchu inspired her with the mountain’s great stones sitting on the edge of precipices. These vast stones led her to create welded steel Seated Sculpture Works. Viveca was intrigued by the concept and let her own imagination fly. Imagining a set of welded steel sculpture, she took the leap in commissioning Suzanne with complete faith in artist's ability to fulfill her mandate. Benton created groups of welded sculptures for two theater sets.
Protection is one of three sculptures in first set created in 1973. Mother and Child, Pelvic Woman, Facing Each Other are three of five works from the 1974 second set. The first toured with her shows throughout the East Coast and into Toronto, Canada. The second set, created to nest together could travel as checked baggage for international and domestic airline travel. They flew to Denmark in 1980 for her performance at the UN sponsored 1980 Women’s International Conference, Copenhagen.
In addition to creating the theatre sets, Benton mounted exhibitions of her masks and sculptures in the lobbies of theatres where she performed (NYC and Northampton). Continuing on with this theme, Becoming is her 1975 Seated Sculpture Work. The theatre sets were returned at the final end of its long run. These Seated Sculpture Works have often been featured in exhibitions, including both the 2003 and 2005 retrospectives. They are part of an oeuvre of 797 sculptures and masks.
What attracted her to welded sculpture? This excerpt from her book, The Art of Welded Sculpture, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1975 speaks of its lure:
"Early in my life, when I had decided to become an artist, I had had an inner vision of being able to hold the physical material of my art in such a way as to bring it into existence with my hands. In welding, I wear a mask, a heavy apron, and gloves. I heat the metal and make it bend so smoothly and gracefully; I cut the metal, rigid metal, into endless shapes; I join the pieces by causing them to flow together with the heat of the flame. Welding was a return to my adolescent vision. It was fulfillment. At that beginning time I felt that even if I went no further, this experience in itself gave me astounding satisfaction. It was as thrilling as the moment of birth. It was my birth."
(Pelvic Woman and Protection are illustrated in the book):
What began in 1965 became by 2017 an oeuvre of 797 sculptures and masks. The magic of the welding mask...
Category
1970s Feminist Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Copper, Steel
Limited Edition Painted Steel Sculpture "Coming Home"
By Uwe Pfaff
Located in Cape Town, ZA
A limited edition, powder coated mild steel spiral sculpture. Edition 1/3. Available in different colours on request.
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Steel
"Terraforming Consciousness", Contemporary, Textile, Fiber, Wall Sculpture
By Ethan Meyer
Located in St. Louis, MO
Groot Foundation Grant Honorable Mention Recipient 2025
Terraforming Consciousness by Ethan Meyer is a powerful, contemporary textile sculpture that combines abstract form with deep...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Textile, Yarn
"Another Connection", Abstract Figurative Ceramic Sculpture with Colorful Glaze
By SunKoo Yuh
Located in St. Louis, MO
The ceramic sculptures of SunKoo Yuh are composed of tight groupings of various forms including plants, animals, fish, and human figures. While Korean art, Buddhism, and Confucian be...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Clay, Porcelain, Glaze
"Parlour", wallpaper, glass, silver platter, butterfly, nails, mounted on board
Located in Toronto, Ontario
“Parlour“ is a wall relief panel by artist Heather Nicol, and measures 17x19x4“. Part of a body of work known as Brief Lives, this particular piece is comprised of wallpaper, fabric, wood, nails, glass, silver platter, plastic wrap, butterfly specimen, mounted on board. It fixes to the wall with a custom-fit wooden cleat. Reflecting on domestic materials and their relationships to display and social identity, Parlour celebrates and questions feminist reclamation, nostalgic tenderness and the histories embedded in the objects, while carrying on their aesthetic traditions through transformation into works of art.
Heather Nicol is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice includes immersive sound installation, small-scale discrete object making, and independent curating. Her large site-specific interventions explore the architectural, sonic, historic and operational conditions across a wide range of locations. These include concourse atriums, rail terminus, lobbies, a theatre, a public school building, a theme...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Assemblage Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Silver
Ceramic Wall Hanging or Centerpiece with Engravings, Sticks, and Thread
Located in Soquel, CA
Ceramic Wall Hanging or Centerpiece with Engravings, Sticks, and Thread
Balanced abstract sculptural piece by an unknown artist (20th Century). This sculpture is composed of various...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Thread, Wood