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Medium: Found Objects
Jo Yarrington, Mute-Ability_Composition 3, 2019_acrylic, steel, player piano rol
Located in Darien, CT
Jo Yarrington’s photographs, prints, works on paper, glass sculptures and architecturally-based installations have been shown in exhibitions at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Y...
Category
2010s Conceptual Found Objects Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
"Modus Volito Rusticus 17", Abstract, Found Object, Free-Standing Sculpture
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This free-standing abstract sculpture titled "Modus Volito Rusticus 17" is an original artwork by Hyland Mather made of lost objects, acrylic, aerosol, steel and is ink signed on the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Jo Yarrington, Mute-Ability_Composition 1, 2019_acrylic, steel, player piano rol
Located in Darien, CT
Jo Yarrington’s photographs, prints, works on paper, glass sculptures and architecturally-based installations have been shown in exhibitions at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Yale University, Cornell University, the Museum of Glass, the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Artists Space, St. John the Divine Cathedral, Grounds for Sculpture, the Museum of American Glass and ODETTA, among others.
International exhibitions have included Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow Cathedral, Glasgow University, Galeria Sala Uno and Centro de las Artes de Guanajuato. She represented the United States at the Sharjah Biennial, United Arab Emirates and participated in the Berlin Biennial. in 2010 she received the Bronze Prize, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia.
Yarrington is a recipient of artist grants and Fellowships from the Pollock Krasner Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism. She has received Residency Fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Museum of Glass, the Museum of American Glass, the Bridge Virtual Residency/ SciArt Center, the Lucile Walton Fellow/Mountain Lake Biological Station, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, the Anderson Center and the Ucross Foundation, among others.
International grants and fellowships have included the Banff Center for Arts and Creativity/Canada, SIMS Residency/ Iceland, Cill Rialaig Artists Residency/Ireland, the Burren College of Art Residency/Ireland and the American Scandinavian Foundation. She is a Professor of Visual and Performing Arts at Fairfield University and lives and works in New York City.
STATEMENT
In site-specific exhibitions, public art commissions, collaborative and individual projects Jo Yarrington has used varied combinations of glass, waxed surfaces, found artifacts and experimental analog photography to investigate the way we perceive – searching for, experimenting with and developing throughout a sensory-based vernacular. Her mostly translucent materials function as physical framework and symbolic membrane. Light, both natural and ambient, provides a kinetic or time-based element to her work. Scale and the integration of architecture are also pivotal components.
In the 6-part installation for the two-person exhibition Illuminated, Yarrington continues her interest in the connections between vision, sound and language. In Mute-ability: Compositions 1 – 6, her title for this light-based comprehensive work, she combines the words mute and malleability. The work focuses on found piano rolls, a music storage medium, originally conceived as coded notations or ‘note control data’ for music produced in pneumatic player pianos...
Category
2010s Conceptual Found Objects Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Jesse Hickman, Note Three Twenty Seven Sixteen F, 2016, Enamel, Wood, Glue
Located in Darien, CT
Over the past few years, Jesse Hickman has been making minimal abstract paintings on wood with few constraints. He calls this series Notes, thinking of these pieces as drawn sketches...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Found Objects Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Enamel
Assembler Naranja N°1 and N°2. 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 Found Objects Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
"Petroleum Bubble Sunsets" Custom ALIFE sneakers, Abstract dimensional paint
By PJ Linden
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Petroleum Bubble Sunsets (pair)" is an original artwork by PJ Linden and is made from dimensional paint on ALIFE Leather Suede Sneakers. This piece measures 6.5"h x 8.5'w 11"d each shoe.
Linden uniquely refines the use of non-traditional mediums, such as the kitschy, dimensional fabric paint, oft-referred to as puff paint, seeking to transfigure the biological into the supernatural, as filtered through the prism of a consumerist culture predicated upon the synthetic and the mass-produced.
Born 1985 Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. PJ Linden is a New York City and Pennsylvania-based fine artist known for her abstract, three-dimensional work. She paints with machine-like precision, creating microscopic patterns on found objects, fashion, and technology. Linden got her start working with Patricia Field, creating custom, one-of-a-kind art and fashion under the name Wonderpuss Octopus. At Field's iconic, namesake boutique, Linden's work caught the eye of celebrity clients including Beyonce, Willow Smith, Kelly Osborne, and Solange Knowles...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Leather, Paint, Found Objects, Textile
"NNNAPES!" Abstract, wall hanging sculpture, found objects
By Jim Houser
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "NNNAPES!" is an original artwork by Jim Houser and is made of assembled objects. This piece measures approximately 30.5”h x 30.5”w x 7”d and ships in the pictured ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects, Acrylic
"Oldies Swing", Abstract Patterns, Geometric Abstraction, Woodcut, Monoprint
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Oldies Swing" is an original piece by Alexis Nutini and is made from a woodcut and and found object stencil monoprint mounted on panel. This piece measures 19"h x ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects, Wood Panel, Monoprint, Woodcut
Conny Goelz Schmitt "Flyover" Vintage Book Parts Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
"I create geometric collages, assemblages and sculptures with vintage book parts. My work is a never-ending story where I play with deconstruction and reconstruction, and changing di...
Category
2010s Contemporary Found Objects Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects
Thinking About the Old Carpet & the Air Hockey Table
By Kelly Kozma
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This fabric work titled "Thinking About the Old Carpet & the Air Hockey Table" is an original artwork by Kelly Kozma made of hand embroidery and photographs...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Found Objects Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Fabric, Thread, Found Objects
Conny Goelz Schmitt "Flaming Buttress" Vintage Book Parts Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
"I create geometric collages, assemblages and sculptures with vintage book parts. My work is a never-ending story where I play with deconstruction and reconstruction, and changing di...
Category
2010s Contemporary Found Objects Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects
"Lisa's Trip", Abstract Patterns, Geometric Abstraction, Woodcut Monoprint
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Lisa's Trip" is an original piece by Alexis Nutini and is made from a woodcut monoprint mounted on panel. This piece measures 14.5"h x 19"w.
Born in Mexico City,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects, Panel, Monoprint, Woodcut
Assembler Violeta N° 1, 2 and 3 .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 Found Objects Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
"Carry the Weight" Contemporary Abstract Mixed Media Found Object Wall Sculpture
Located in Houston, TX
Exhibited in "Benji Stiles: A Human Day" at Reeves Art + Design.
In “A Human Day,” a solo show dedicated to the work of contemporary multidisciplinary artist Benji Stiles, we explor...
Category
2010s Contemporary Found Objects Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects, Mixed Media
'BOX KING" Assemblage, found objects, painting
By Jim Houser
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "BOX KING" is an original artwork by Jim Houser and is made of assembled objects. This piece measures approximately 32”h x 8.25”w x 3.5”d....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects, Acrylic
Havabanana / Sleep (diptych)
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Havabanana / Sleep (diptych)" is an original artwork by Hyland Mather made of lost objects, acrylic, aerosol, abandoned papers, laser engraving, string, nails, wood box frame measur...
Category
2010s Contemporary Found Objects Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Thread, Wood, Paper, Found Objects, Acrylic, Engraving
New Address
By Kelly Kozma
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This fabric work titled "New Address" is an original artwork by Kelly Kozma made of hand embroidery and photographs on paper. The piece measures 13”h by 13”w framed.
Kelly Kozma is ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Found Objects Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Fabric, Thread, Found Objects
Loren Eiferman, Nature Will Heal, 108 Pieces of Wood, 2016, Wood, Found Objects
Located in Darien, CT
Over many decades Loren Eiferman has created and mastered a unique technique of working with wood—her primary material.
First, she begins with a drawing of an idea. Then she takes a daily walk in the woods surrounding her studio and collects tree limbs and long sticks that have fallen to the ground. She never chops down a living tree or uses green wood. Eiferman allows the wood time to cure in the studio to make sure it won’t check or crack.
Next, she debarks the branch and looks for shapes found within each piece of wood. Using a Japanese hand saw, she cuts and connect these small shapes together using dowels and wood glue. Then, all the open joints get filled with a home made putty, which is then sanded so she can see the newly formed shapes. This process is until the new sculpture appears like the original line drawing but in space. She wants the work to appear as if it grew in nature, when in fact each sculpture is composed of over 100 small pieces of wood that are seamlessly jointed together. Her work can be called the ultimate recycling: taking the detritus of nature and giving it a new life.
We have all at one point or another picked up a stick from the ground—touched the wood, peeled the bark off with our fingernails. Her work taps into that same primal desire of touching nature and being close to it. Trees connect us back to nature, back to this Earth. Her work has a meditative quality to it—a quiet, calming energy.
Her influences are many; from looking at nature and plant life on this Earth to researching the heavenly bodies in the images beamed back from the Hubble Telescope. From studying ancient Buddhist mandalas and designs to delving deeper into quantum physics. And from researching mysterious manuscripts to studying the patterns inside our brains.
For Invocation, we are exhibiting her newest body of work, inspired by the illustrations found in the Voynich Manuscript. This 250-page book, is believed to have been written in the early 15th century, of a mysterious origin and purpose.
Written in an unknown language and currently housed at Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book Library, the manuscript has eluded all attempts in the intervening centuries to decode or decipher its purpose and meaning. This enigmatic book is divided into 6 different sections (herbal, astronomical, biological, cosmological, pharmaceutical and recipes).
Having discovered the images contained in this codex over the Internet, Eiferman felt an immediate, profound and inexplicable connection to this manuscript and its creator.
The artist is currently transposing the “herbal” section of manuscript into sculptures. This section has drawings in it of plants and flowers that do not really exist in nature—past or present. These aren’t just pretty images of flowers—they also contain the wacky root systems and seemingly out of proportion leaves, stamens and pistils.
Loren Eiferman was born in Brooklyn, NY. She received her BFA from SUNY Purchase. Her work has been exhibited extensively throughout the Tri-State region including gallery and museum exhibitions in the Hudson Valley and Connecticut. Her work is included in numerous corporate and private art collections.
In 2014 she was awarded a NYC MTA Arts & Design art commission to produce steel railings...
Category
2010s Abstract Found Objects Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Found Objects
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 Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Canvas, Glass, Plastic, Paper, Oil, Found Objects
$716 Sale Price
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Empty, White Gold Leaf Glass Jug Wall Sculpture, Copper, Brass Plated Mushrooms
Located in Kent, CT
In this wall-mounted sculpture, copper and brass plated bracket, or shelf fungi line the sides of a glass jug with a handle on the spout hanging upside down, mirrored with white gold...
Category
2010s Contemporary Found Objects Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Gold Leaf
Conny Goelz Schmitt "Out of This World" Vintage Book Parts Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
"I create geometric collages, assemblages and sculptures with vintage book parts. My work is a never-ending story where I play with deconstruction and reconstruction, and changing di...
Category
2010s Contemporary Found Objects Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects
Waiting to Exhale, Accumulation Cigar Sculpture by Arman
Located in Long Island City, NY
A unique sculpture by the French artist, Arman. This collection of world-class cigars encased in clear resin is a quintessential piece from Arman's 'Accumulations' period in which he...
Category
1990s Modern Found Objects Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Epoxy Resin, Mixed Media, Found Objects
Coin Cunt XXVII
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This is an original navy blue sculpture from Suzanna Scott's ongoing "Coin Cunt" series made from a kisslock coin purse and thread. The piece measures approximately 4in x 4in.
ABOU...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Thread, Found Objects
Conny Goelz Schmitt "See Through" Vintage Book Parts Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
"I create geometric collages, assemblages and sculptures with vintage book parts. My work is a never-ending story where I play with deconstruction and reconstruction, and changing di...
Category
2010s Contemporary Found Objects Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects
Miss You
By Kelly Kozma
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This fabric work titled "Miss You" is an original artwork by Kelly Kozma made of hand embroidery, stickers, and chain on paper. The piece measures 13”h by 13”...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Found Objects Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Fabric, Thread, Found Objects
ImPossible
Located in New York, NY
Found objects, repurposed textiles
Statement
In work that integrates the theories and methodologies of both fine art and craft, I transform domestic cast-offs, such as old furnitu...
Category
2010s Abstract Found Objects Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Textile, Found Objects
Dead of Night
By Kelly Kozma
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This fabric work titled "Dead of Night" is an original artwork by Kelly Kozma made of hand embroidery on paper. The piece measures 13”h by 13”w framed.
Kelly Kozma is a mixed media ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Found Objects Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Fabric, Thread, Found Objects
"Philomena Dates a Photon" mixed media sculpture
Located in Glen Ellen, CA
This large-scale suspended sculpture is made from welded and powder-coated steel, repurposed highway reflectors, and a cut-glass sphere. It is pictured here installed outdoors with an optional welded steel stand, but the sculpture can also be suspended from another structure or stand, indoors or outdoors. Watch the short video to see "Philomena Dates a Photon" spinning from the ceiling in an indoor gallery setting!
Jeff Glode Wise makes wildly exuberant sculptures. He utilizes such diverse materials as steel, wood, stone, glass, concrete, bronze, and gold -- whichever is the most appropriate for the aesthetic and functional purposes at hand. He then transforms these materials through various techniques and crafts honed for years through his practice of jewelry making: welding, carving, casting, meticulous fitting, plating, etc.
Art and the making of objects have defined Jeff Wise...
Category
2010s Contemporary Found Objects Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Jo Yarrington, Mute-Ability_Composition 2, 2019_acrylic, steel, player piano rol
Located in Darien, CT
Jo Yarrington’s photographs, prints, works on paper, glass sculptures and architecturally-based installations have been shown in exhibitions at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Yale University, Cornell University, the Museum of Glass, the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Artists Space, St. John the Divine Cathedral, Grounds for Sculpture, the Museum of American Glass and ODETTA, among others.
International exhibitions have included Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow Cathedral, Glasgow University, Galeria Sala Uno and Centro de las Artes de Guanajuato. She represented the United States at the Sharjah Biennial, United Arab Emirates and participated in the Berlin Biennial. in 2010 she received the Bronze Prize, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia.
Yarrington is a recipient of artist grants and Fellowships from the Pollock Krasner Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism. She has received Residency Fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Museum of Glass, the Museum of American Glass, the Bridge Virtual Residency/ SciArt Center, the Lucile Walton Fellow/Mountain Lake Biological Station, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, the Anderson Center and the Ucross Foundation, among others.
International grants and fellowships have included the Banff Center for Arts and Creativity/Canada, SIMS Residency/ Iceland, Cill Rialaig Artists Residency/Ireland, the Burren College of Art Residency/Ireland and the American Scandinavian Foundation. She is a Professor of Visual and Performing Arts at Fairfield University and lives and works in New York City.
STATEMENT
In site-specific exhibitions, public art commissions, collaborative and individual projects Jo Yarrington has used varied combinations of glass, waxed surfaces, found artifacts and experimental analog photography to investigate the way we perceive – searching for, experimenting with and developing throughout a sensory-based vernacular. Her mostly translucent materials function as physical framework and symbolic membrane. Light, both natural and ambient, provides a kinetic or time-based element to her work. Scale and the integration of architecture are also pivotal components.
In the 6-part installation for the two-person exhibition Illuminated, Yarrington continues her interest in the connections between vision, sound and language. In Mute-ability: Compositions 1 – 6, her title for this light-based comprehensive work, she combines the words mute and malleability. The work focuses on found piano rolls, a music storage medium, originally conceived as coded notations or ‘note control data’ for music produced in pneumatic player pianos...
Category
2010s Conceptual Found Objects Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Liz Sweibel, Untitled (Splinter 8 ), 2014, Wood, Paint, Found Objects
By Liz Sweibel
Located in Darien, CT
Liz Sweibel primarily makes sculpture, installations, and drawings. She uses a spare, personal language of abstraction to explore liminal spaces and unseen forces: wind, history, va...
Category
2010s Minimalist Found Objects Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Paint, Found Objects
Jo Yarrington, Ghost girls_Slide Carousel, 2018, Photographic Film, Found Object
Located in Darien, CT
Radioluminescence is the phenomenon by which light is produced in a material by bombardment with ionizing radiation and can be used as a low-level light source for night illumination of instruments or signage or other applications where light must be produced for long periods without external energy sources. Radioluminescent paint used to be used for clock hands and instrument dials...
Category
2010s Conceptual Found Objects Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Photographic Film, Found Objects
Offerings
By Kelly Kozma
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This wall-hanging sculpture titled "Offerings" is an original artwork by Kelly Kozma made of credit card offer envelopes & assorted paper, hand-stitched together with embroidery thre...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Thread, Paper, Found Objects
N2
Located in New York, NY
Found objects, repurposed textiles
Statement
In work that integrates the theories and methodologies of both fine art and craft, I transform domestic cast-offs, such as old furnitu...
Category
2010s Abstract Found Objects Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Textile, Found Objects
$1,725
"ELLA" Assemblage
By Jim Houser
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"ELLA" is an original assemblage artwork by Jim Houser measuring 10" x 10".
Jim Houser was born in 1973 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the city where he currently resides. He is a s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Found Objects, Acrylic
Assembler Naranja N°1, N°3 and N°2. 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 Found Objects Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
"Modus Volito Rusticus 14", Abstract, Found Object, Free-Standing Sculpture
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This free-standing abstract sculpture titled "Modus Volito Rusticus 14" is an original artwork by Hyland Mather made of lost objects, acrylic, aerosol, steel and is ink signed on the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Nudo. Abstract Polished metal, metal knot, metal, and Glass. 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 irreplaceable when she creates her sculptures.
From The Assembler series
Polished metal, metal knot...
Category
2010s Minimalist Found Objects Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Assembler Violeta N: 3, and N: 1. 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 Found Objects Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
"Fox Hunt", wallpaper, acrylic paint, optical lens, screws, mounted on board
Located in Toronto, Ontario
“Fox Hunt“ is a wall relief panel by artist Heather Nicol, and measures 16x19x4“. Part of a body of work known as Brief Lives, this particular piece is comprised of wallpaper, wood, acrylic paint, screws and an optical lens...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Assemblage Found Objects Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Wood, Found Objects, Board, Acrylic
Patricia Miranda, Pearls Before Swine 2020, cochineal dyes, pages, sewn pearls
Located in Darien, CT
Patricia Miranda's work includes interdisciplinary installation, textile, paper and books. The textiles incorporated in these new pieces are vintage linens from her Italian and Irish grandmothers and sourced from friends and strangers around the country. Each donation is documented and integrated into the work. Textile as a form that wraps the body from cradle to grave. The role of lacemaking in the lives of women both economically and historically is packed with metaphorical potential. The relationship of craft and women’s work (re)appropriated by artists today to environmental and social issues is integral to the artist's research.
Her work is process oriented; materials are submerged in natural dyes from oak gall wasp nests, cochineal insects, turmeric, indigo, and clay. She forages for raw materials, cook dyes, grind pigments, ecofeminist actions that consider environmental impacts of objects. The process is left visible as dyestuff is unfiltered in the vat and finished work. Sewn into larger works, Miranda incorporates hair, pearls, bone beads, Milagros, cast plaster. The distinct genetics and environmental and cultural history of each material asserts its voice as collaborator rather than medium.
The lace inserts a visceral femininity into the pristine gallery, and exerts a ghostly trace of the history of domestic labor. The combination of earth and lace references human and environmental devastation and the conflation of nature and women’s bodies as justifications for exploitation. Mournful and solastalgic, they are lamentations to the violence against women and the earth.
Patricia Miranda is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, educator, and founder of The Crit Lab, graduate-level critique seminars and Residency for artists, and MAPSpace project space. She has been Visiting Artist at Vermont Studio Center, the Heckscher Museum, and University of Utah; and been awarded residencies at I-Park, Weir Farm, Vermont Studio Center, and Julio Valdez Printmaking Studio.
She received an Anonymous Was a Woman Covid19 Artist Relief Grant, an artist grant from ArtsWestchester/New York State Council on the Arts, and was part of a year-long NEA grant working with homeless youth.
Miranda currently teaches graduate curatorial studies at Western Colorado University, and develops programs for K-12, museums, and institutions such as Franklin Furnace.
Her work has been exhibited at ODETTA, NYC; ABC No Rio, NYC; Alexey von...
Category
2010s Feminist Found Objects Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Thread, Dye, Found Objects
Liz Sweibel, Untitled (Scrapings #1), 2016, Wood, Paint, Found Objects
By Liz Sweibel
Located in Darien, CT
The freestanding sculptures in this portfolio are made from the “sticks”: a pile of found wood that Sweibel has been pulling from to make new works since about 2002. The pile consisted of more than a dozen four- to seven-foot lengths of hardwood, each an uneven inch in depth and width. The sticks were warped, with worn yellow paint on one side and raw wood on the other three. Over the years she has painted the raw sides of the sticks, cut the wood into shorter lengths, and sliced paint off – and kept the residue from these actions. Sweibel has also made sculptures ranging from full-length sticks to tiny stick splinters. She built these sculptures using sliced-off paint.
Timeworn materials and objects have an intelligence that the artist looks for and listens to. Shaping and reshaping material to find new form and elicit new insights in the material itself is the territory she is mining. The limitations of the process are its strengths. Her work is concerned with fragility, precariousness, adaptability, and strength. It is a visual response to powerful yet unseen forces - like wind and thoughts - that threaten, propel, ruin, and protect.
Liz Sweibel is a multidisciplinary artist working in drawing, sculpture, installation, and digital photography and video. Her spare, personal language of abstraction transforms ordinary materials into statements about connectedness and responsibility: every action has an impact, the effects persist in space and over time, and we are accountable. By drawing attention to simple, ordinary “stuff of life” and referencing both shared and personal history, Sweibel’s work explores and reflects back fundamental experiences in response to our world and relationships. Her intention is to reinvigorate viewers’ awareness of the everyday – in its raw beauty and precariousness – in hopes that they might bring heightened senses of sight and care to their daily lives.
Sweibel has participated in solo, two-person, and group exhibits in New York, Massachusetts, Maine, Connecticut, Michigan, and Tennessee since 1998. In 2016, Sweibel’s work was in the group shows Lightly Structured at Sculpture Space NYC, Precarious Constructs at the Venus Knitting Art...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Found Objects Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Paint, Found Objects
Andra Samelson, Pemarom, 2013-2022, 1300 + cds, Edition of 5, Abstract Sculpture
Located in Darien, CT
The word in Tibetan for lotus is “Pema.” In Buddhism the lotus is a symbol of purity. The lotus is planted and rooted in the mud, but grows up through the water and into the vast sky...
Category
2010s Conceptual Found Objects Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Mirror, Plastic, Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Other Medium
“Pen Decline 1 - 2 - 3 in Black” (Archeology series) Computer Keyboard Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
Daniel Fiorda in this new series of sculptures, continues in many ways the themes that have infused his previous work. For the last several years, Fiorda has dealt with technology, obsolescence, with the trail of discarded tech that humanity leaves behind and what it says about us. The new work takes this thematic one step further. These new wall pieces feature barely concealed found objects, almost fully engulfed by concrete, and yet still eerily discernible: industrial gears, computer keyboards, objects that evoke industrial post-digital eras. This piece is a set of 3 artworks...
Category
2010s Contemporary Found Objects Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Concrete
Jo Yarrington, Ghost Girls_Brushes, 2017, Organic Material, Found Objects, Pins
Located in Darien, CT
Radioluminescence is the phenomenon by which light is produced in a material by bombardment with ionizing radiation and can be used as a low-level light source for night illumination of instruments or signage or other applications where light must be produced for long periods without external energy sources. Radioluminescent paint used to be used for clock hands and instrument dials...
Category
2010s Conceptual Found Objects Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Organic Material, Found Objects, Pins
Tool-Box
By Mary Shaffer
Located in Glen Ellen, CA
This "Tool-Box" installation by Mary Shaffer includes all nine slumped glass and found metal tool sculptures, as well as the custom, painted wood wall cabinet for display...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
$21,000
Jo Yarrington, Mute-Ability_Composition 6, 2019_acrylic, steel, player piano rol
Located in Darien, CT
Jo Yarrington’s photographs, prints, works on paper, glass sculptures and architecturally-based installations have been shown in exhibitions at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Yale University, Cornell University, the Museum of Glass, the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Artists Space, St. John the Divine Cathedral, Grounds for Sculpture, the Museum of American Glass and ODETTA, among others.
International exhibitions have included Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow Cathedral, Glasgow University, Galeria Sala Uno and Centro de las Artes de Guanajuato. She represented the United States at the Sharjah Biennial, United Arab Emirates and participated in the Berlin Biennial. in 2010 she received the Bronze Prize, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia.
Yarrington is a recipient of artist grants and Fellowships from the Pollock Krasner Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism. She has received Residency Fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Museum of Glass, the Museum of American Glass, the Bridge Virtual Residency/ SciArt Center, the Lucile Walton Fellow/Mountain Lake Biological Station, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, the Anderson Center and the Ucross Foundation, among others.
International grants and fellowships have included the Banff Center for Arts and Creativity/Canada, SIMS Residency/ Iceland, Cill Rialaig Artists Residency/Ireland, the Burren College of Art Residency/Ireland and the American Scandinavian Foundation. She is a Professor of Visual and Performing Arts at Fairfield University and lives and works in New York City.
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In site-specific exhibitions, public art commissions, collaborative and individual projects Jo Yarrington has used varied combinations of glass, waxed surfaces, found artifacts and experimental analog photography to investigate the way we perceive – searching for, experimenting with and developing throughout a sensory-based vernacular. Her mostly translucent materials function as physical framework and symbolic membrane. Light, both natural and ambient, provides a kinetic or time-based element to her work. Scale and the integration of architecture are also pivotal components.
In the 6-part installation for the two-person exhibition Illuminated, Yarrington continues her interest in the connections between vision, sound and language. In Mute-ability: Compositions 1 – 6, her title for this light-based comprehensive work, she combines the words mute and malleability. The work focuses on found piano rolls, a music storage medium, originally conceived as coded notations or ‘note control data’ for music produced in pneumatic player pianos...
Category
2010s Conceptual Found Objects Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Margaret Roleke, Pop pop, 2018, spent shot gun shells, wire, zipties, steel box
Located in Darien, CT
Margaret Roleke has created the sculpture “Pop,pop” specifically for the Las Gravitas exhibition at ODETTA. The title refers both to the fun and colorful hues of the piece that pop ...
Category
2010s Pop Art Found Objects Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel, Wire
Patricia Miranda, Lamentations for Rebecca; 2020, lace, cochineal dye, thread
Located in Darien, CT
Patricia Miranda's work includes interdisciplinary installation, textile, paper and books. The textiles incorporated in these new pieces are vintage linens from her Italian and Irish grandmothers and sourced from friends and strangers around the country. Each donation is documented and integrated into the work. Textile as a form that wraps the body from cradle to grave. The role of lacemaking in the lives of women both economically and historically is packed with metaphorical potential. The relationship of craft and women’s work (re)appropriated by artists today to environmental and social issues is integral to the artist's research.
Her work is process oriented; materials are submerged in natural dyes from oak gall wasp nests, cochineal insects, turmeric, indigo, and clay. She forages for raw materials, cook dyes, grind pigments, ecofeminist actions that consider environmental impacts of objects. The process is left visible as dyestuff is unfiltered in the vat and finished work. Sewn into larger works, Miranda incorporates hair, pearls, bone beads, Milagros, cast plaster. The distinct genetics and environmental and cultural history of each material asserts its voice as collaborator rather than medium.
The lace inserts a visceral femininity into the pristine gallery, and exerts a ghostly trace of the history of domestic labor. The combination of earth and lace references human and environmental devastation and the conflation of nature and women’s bodies as justifications for exploitation. Mournful and solastalgic, they are lamentations to the violence against women and the earth.
Patricia Miranda is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, educator, and founder of The Crit Lab, graduate-level critique seminars and Residency for artists, and MAPSpace project space. She has been Visiting Artist at Vermont Studio Center, the Heckscher Museum, and University of Utah; and been awarded residencies at I-Park, Weir Farm, Vermont Studio Center, and Julio Valdez Printmaking Studio.
She received an Anonymous Was a Woman Covid19 Artist Relief Grant, an artist grant from ArtsWestchester/New York State Council on the Arts, and was part of a year-long NEA grant working with homeless youth.
Miranda currently teaches graduate curatorial studies at Western Colorado University, and develops programs for K-12, museums, and institutions such as Franklin Furnace.
Her work has been exhibited at ODETTA, NYC; ABC No Rio, NYC; Alexey von...
Category
2010s Feminist Found Objects Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Fabric, Thread, Dye, Found Objects
Bent Blue slumped glass sculpture
By Mary Shaffer
Located in Glen Ellen, CA
Celebrated Studio Glass artist Mary Shaffer combines slumped hot glass with found metal for this incredible wall-hung sculpture. "I take lovingly crafted, hand-forged tools - the epi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Found Objects Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Mary Bauermeister, Studio Leftover Fetich, 3D mixed media sculpture Fluxus, S/N
Located in New York, NY
Mary Baumeister
Studio Leftover Fetich, 1953, 1967
Unique Mixed Media 3-D Assemblage
Ink Signed, dated, titled, annotated "Edition Original" and numbered 52/75.
Shadow box frame Incl...
Category
1960s Abstract Found Objects Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media, Wood, Found Objects, Ink, Acrylic
"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 Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Plastic, Paper, Found Objects, Wood Panel, Wood, Oil
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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 Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Animal Skin, Organic Material, Found Objects, Wood Panel
“Tip-toeing Under the Dark Veil” Contemporary Black Found Object Shoe Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Black abstract found object painting by Houston, TX artist Tra' Slaughter. The painting features a shoe wrapped with string on a painted canvas. This piece was included in Tra's solo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Found Objects Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Canvas, Latex, Found Objects, Mixed Media
Liz Sweibel, Untitled (Scrapings #10), 2016, Wood, Paint, Found Objects
By Liz Sweibel
Located in Darien, CT
The freestanding sculptures in this portfolio are made from the “sticks”: a pile of found wood that Sweibel has been pulling from to make new works since about 2002. The pile consisted of more than a dozen four- to seven-foot lengths of hardwood, each an uneven inch in depth and width. The sticks were warped, with worn yellow paint on one side and raw wood on the other three. Over the years she has painted the raw sides of the sticks, cut the wood into shorter lengths, and sliced paint off – and kept the residue from these actions. Sweibel has also made sculptures ranging from full-length sticks to tiny stick splinters. She built these sculptures using sliced-off paint.
Timeworn materials and objects have an intelligence that the artist looks for and listens to. Shaping and reshaping material to find new form and elicit new insights in the material itself is the territory she is mining. The limitations of the process are its strengths. Her work is concerned with fragility, precariousness, adaptability, and strength. It is a visual response to powerful yet unseen forces - like wind and thoughts - that threaten, propel, ruin, and protect.
Liz Sweibel is a multidisciplinary artist working in drawing, sculpture, installation, and digital photography and video. Her spare, personal language of abstraction transforms ordinary materials into statements about connectedness and responsibility: every action has an impact, the effects persist in space and over time, and we are accountable. By drawing attention to simple, ordinary “stuff of life” and referencing both shared and personal history, Sweibel’s work explores and reflects back fundamental experiences in response to our world and relationships. Her intention is to reinvigorate viewers’ awareness of the everyday – in its raw beauty and precariousness – in hopes that they might bring heightened senses of sight and care to their daily lives.
Sweibel has participated in solo, two-person, and group exhibits in New York, Massachusetts, Maine, Connecticut, Michigan, and Tennessee since 1998. In 2016, Sweibel’s work was in the group shows Lightly Structured at Sculpture Space NYC, Precarious Constructs at the Venus Knitting Art...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Found Objects Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Paint, Found Objects
After 77 Years, Again in Fear? - Mixed Media Assemblage on Canvas
By Irena Orlov
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Title: "After 77 Years, Again in Fear?" - Mixed Media Assemblage on Canvas
Discover the powerful and thought-provoking artwork "After 77 Years, Again in Fear?" by acclaimed contempo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Found Objects Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Andra Samelson, Microcosm 2, 2016, Canvas, Wood, Found Objects, Acrylic Paint
Located in Darien, CT
Andra Samelson’s work explores the relationship of microcosm and macrocosm, the celestial and terrestrial. Her imagery is often associated with molecular and galactic systems. Combin...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Found Objects Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Canvas, 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 Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic, Wood, Found Objects
"Beach-Combed Mochaware, " Mixed Media Sculpture
Located in Chicago, IL
Based in Chicago, IL, contemporary artist Michael Thompson creates unique kites, collages and mixed media works assembled from material fragments of past and present collected in his travels. In his ongoing series of memory jugs, Thompson adorns stoneware vessels with a kaleidoscope of ceramic shards, found objects, and pocket-sized trinkets he collected over the course of his life.
Also known as forget-me-not jugs or spirit jars, memory jugs are African American folk art objects that honor a loved one who has recently passed. Small tokens and mementos of the deceased are gathered and affixed to the exterior of a jug or vase, an abundance of memories that celebrates a life lived to the fullest.
Michael Thompson applies this tradition to his own practice, creating tactile assemblages of this and that. Formed in the manner of collage, each jug honors the lost memories of generations past and his own memories of personally discovering each item. With varied sources for materials including Kyoto, Turkey, and Mexico, a great number of the found shards are 18th and 19th century ceramics...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Found Objects Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stone
Bill Clark Found Object Assemblage on Board
Located in Astoria, NY
Bill Clark (American, XX-XXI), Found Object Assemblage on Board, 2000, overall painted grey with plaques, register keys, and other objects, ins...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects, Acrylic, Board, Newsprint
“Stepping Out in Pink Sole” Contemporary White Found Object Shoe Painting
Located in Houston, TX
White abstract found object painting by Houston, TX artist Tra' Slaughter. The painting features a shoe wrapped with string on a painted canvas. This piece was included in Tra's solo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Found Objects Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Latex, Found Objects, Mixed Media, Canvas
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