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Medium: Found Objects
Paintbrushes II, Accumulation Sculpture by Arman
Paintbrushes II, Accumulation Sculpture by Arman

Paintbrushes II, Accumulation Sculpture by Arman

By Arman

Located in Long Island City, NY

Artist: Arman, French/American (1929 - 2005) Title: Paintbrushes II Year: 1991 Medium: Paintbrushes and Oil Paint in Epoxy Resin Sculpture, Signature and number inscribed Edition: 20...

Category

1990s Dada Found Objects Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Epoxy Resin, Found Objects, Mixed Media, Oil

Liz Sweibel, Untitled (Splinter 2 ), 2014, Wood, Paint, Found Objects
Liz Sweibel, Untitled (Splinter 2 ), 2014, Wood, Paint, Found Objects

Liz Sweibel, Untitled (Splinter 2 ), 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

Assemblage with Cigar Box and the Letter P
Assemblage with Cigar Box and the Letter P

Assemblage with Cigar Box and the Letter P

By Michael Pauker

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

Loren Eiferman, Nature Will Heal, 108 Pieces of Wood, 2016, Wood, Found Objects
Loren Eiferman, Nature Will Heal, 108 Pieces of Wood, 2016, Wood, Found Objects

Loren Eiferman, Nature Will Heal, 108 Pieces of Wood, 2016, Wood, Found Objects

By Loren Eiferman

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

Patricia Miranda, Dreaming Awake, 2020, nightdress, cochineal dyes, plaster,
Patricia Miranda, Dreaming Awake, 2020, nightdress, cochineal dyes, plaster,

Patricia Miranda, Dreaming Awake, 2020, nightdress, cochineal dyes, plaster,

By Patricia Miranda

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

Fabric, Thread, Dye, Found Objects, Plaster

Patricia Miranda, Lamentations for Rebecca; 2020, lace, cochineal dye, thread
Patricia Miranda, Lamentations for Rebecca; 2020, lace, cochineal dye, thread

Patricia Miranda, Lamentations for Rebecca; 2020, lace, cochineal dye, thread

By Patricia Miranda

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

Andra Samelson, Microcosm 2, 2016, Canvas, Wood, Found Objects, Acrylic Paint

Andra Samelson, Microcosm 2, 2016, Canvas, Wood, Found Objects, Acrylic Paint

By Andra Samelson

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

Jo Yarrington, Mute-Ability_Composition 1, 2019_acrylic, steel, player piano rol
Jo Yarrington, Mute-Ability_Composition 1, 2019_acrylic, steel, player piano rol

Jo Yarrington, Mute-Ability_Composition 1, 2019_acrylic, steel, player piano rol

By Jo Yarrington

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

Jo Yarrington, Ghost Girls, 2018, Organic Material, Photographic Film, Plastic
Jo Yarrington, Ghost Girls, 2018, Organic Material, Photographic Film, Plastic

Jo Yarrington, Ghost Girls, 2018, Organic Material, Photographic Film, Plastic

By Jo Yarrington

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...

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2010s Conceptual Found Objects Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Pins, Organic Material, Plastic, Photographic Film, Acrylic Polymer, Fou...

Joseph Fucigna, Burning Bush, 2001, Plastic, Found Objects
Joseph Fucigna, Burning Bush, 2001, Plastic, Found Objects

Joseph Fucigna, Burning Bush, 2001, Plastic, Found Objects

By Joseph Fucigna

Located in Darien, CT

Joseph Fucigna is a multi-media artist whose work is rooted in process, play and the innate qualities of the materials used. Through experimentation, play and innovation he creates sculptures, paintings and drawings that are known for their power to transform materials, inventiveness and odd but suggestive subject matter. The ultimate goal is to create an artwork that is a perfect balance between suggestive content, and the formal qualities of the material that allow both to be active participants. Joseph Fucigna received his Masters of Fine Arts degree from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. He also attended the Triangle Workshop in Pine Plains, NY and worked with the renowned sculptor Sir Anthony Caro and critic Clement Greenberg. Fucigna is a full-time Professor of Art at Norwalk Community College and is the Chair of the Studio Arts Program. Fucigna has also taught in the Art Department at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. Presently, he resides and works in Weston, CT. Fucigna has exhibited nationally including shows at the Fitchburg Art Museum in Massachusetts, Real Art Ways in Connecticut, the United Nations, Grounds for Sculpture in New Jersey, the Lyman Allyn Art Museum in Connecticut, the New York State Museum in Albany, NY and the Burchfield Art Center in Buffalo NY. He has had one-person exhibitions at the Fred Giampietro Gallery, Sculpture Barn, Norwalk Community College Art Gallery, Artist Space New Haven and the Bannister...

Category

Early 2000s Arte Povera Found Objects Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Plastic, Found Objects

Cabinet of Wonders, Persistence and the Fugitive
Cabinet of Wonders, Persistence and the Fugitive

Cabinet of Wonders, Persistence and the Fugitive

By Greg Garvey

Located in Darien, CT

This flat file installation is a kind of Wunderkammer – a Cabinet of Wonder or Curiosity containing a small idiosyncratic collection of select wonders and oddities of the natural wor...

Category

2010s Conceptual Found Objects Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Wood, Video, Found Objects

Argumento - 21st Century, Contemporary Art, Abstract Sculpture, Iron, Objects
Argumento - 21st Century, Contemporary Art, Abstract Sculpture, Iron, Objects

Argumento - 21st Century, Contemporary Art, Abstract Sculpture, Iron, Objects

By Lukas Ulmi

Located in Barcelona, Catalonia

Lukas Ulmi’s work unveils the hidden beauty of shapes taking stones, seemingly static forms, incomplete or meaningless objects and turning them into authentic sculptures where weight...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Iron

Stolen Stickers & Visions: Hand Embroidery Mixed Media Sculpture
Stolen Stickers & Visions: Hand Embroidery Mixed Media Sculpture

Stolen Stickers & Visions: Hand Embroidery Mixed Media Sculpture

By Kelly Kozma

Located in Philadelphia, PA

This fabric work titled "Stolen Stickers & Visions" is an original artwork by Kelly Kozma made of hand embroidery, sticker and gem on paper. The piece measures 13”h by 13”w. Kelly K...

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21st Century and Contemporary Found Objects Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Fabric, Thread, Found Objects

"Squeaking By", Fabric Sculpture, Hand Embroidery on Paper, 21st Century
"Squeaking By", Fabric Sculpture, Hand Embroidery on Paper, 21st Century

"Squeaking By", Fabric Sculpture, Hand Embroidery on Paper, 21st Century

By Kelly Kozma

Located in Philadelphia, PA

This fabric work titled "Squeaking By" 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...

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21st Century and Contemporary Found Objects Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Fabric, Thread, Found Objects, Paper

Dead of Night Hand Embroidery Sculpture in Fabric and Thread
Dead of Night Hand Embroidery Sculpture in Fabric and Thread

Dead of Night Hand Embroidery Sculpture in Fabric and Thread

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 ...

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21st Century and Contemporary Found Objects Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Fabric, Thread, Found Objects

"Superpowers" Hand embroidery, Collage, and Embellished Paper by Kelly Kozma
"Superpowers" Hand embroidery, Collage, and Embellished Paper by Kelly Kozma

"Superpowers" Hand embroidery, Collage, and Embellished Paper by Kelly Kozma

By Kelly Kozma

Located in Philadelphia, PA

This fabric work titled "Superpowers" is an original artwork by Kelly Kozma made of hand embroidery, stickers, glitter paper and acrylic paint on paper. The piece measures 13”h by 13...

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21st Century and Contemporary Found Objects Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Fabric, Thread, Found Objects

Right On Fabric Sculpture, Hand Embroidery & Collage, 21st Century
Right On Fabric Sculpture, Hand Embroidery & Collage, 21st Century

Right On Fabric Sculpture, Hand Embroidery & Collage, 21st Century

By Kelly Kozma

Located in Philadelphia, PA

This fabric work titled "Right On" is an original artwork by Kelly Kozma made of hand embroidery and collage on rag paper. The piece measures 13”h by 13”w framed. Kelly Kozma is a m...

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21st Century and Contemporary Found Objects Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Fabric, Thread, Found Objects

Potential

Potential

By George Herms

Located in Santa Monica, CA

Beyond Baroque Literary Art Center Gift direct from the Artist Consigned to ViCA

Category

Early 2000s Assemblage Found Objects Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Found Objects

Assembler Violeta N: 1, and N: 3 Diptych. Abstract Mixed Media Wall Sculpture
Assembler Violeta N: 1, and N: 3 Diptych. Abstract Mixed Media Wall Sculpture

Assembler Violeta N: 1, and N: 3 Diptych. Abstract Mixed Media Wall Sculpture

By Fanny Szyller Finkelman

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

Assembler Naranja N°1, N°3 and N°2. Abstract Mixed Media Wall Sculpture
Assembler Naranja N°1, N°3 and N°2. Abstract Mixed Media Wall Sculpture

Assembler Naranja N°1, N°3 and N°2. Abstract Mixed Media Wall Sculpture

By Fanny Szyller Finkelman

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

Homecoming for Matt

Homecoming for Matt

Located in New York, NY

Stainless Steel TIG Welding Rod, Aluminum, Fishing Accessories, Wire, Paint Jeremy Bullis after David L. Bullis Edition 1/5

Category

2010s Abstract Found Objects Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Stainless Steel, Wire

Homecoming for Matt
Homecoming for Matt

Homecoming for Matt

Located in New York, NY

Stainless Steel TIG Welding Rod, Aluminum, Fishing Accessories, Wire, Paint Jeremy Bullis after David L. Bullis Edition 1/5

Category

2010s Abstract Found Objects Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Stainless Steel, Wire

Look
Look

David L. BullisLook, 2001/2023

$920Sale Price|20% Off

Look

Located in New York, NY

Stainless Steel TIG Welding Rod, Aluminum, Fishing Accessories, Wire, Paint Jeremy Bullis after David L. Bullis Edition 1/5

Category

2010s Abstract Geometric Found Objects Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Steel, Wire

Name Unknown
Name Unknown

Name Unknown

Located in New York, NY

Stainless Steel TIG Welding Rod, Aluminum, Fishing Accessories, Wire, Paint Jeremy Bullis after David L. Bullis Edition 1/5

Category

2010s Abstract Found Objects Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Stainless Steel, Wire

Tempest
Tempest

David L. BullisTempest, 1996/2023

$1,120Sale Price|20% Off

Tempest

Located in New York, NY

Stainless Steel TIG Welding Rod, Aluminum, Fishing Accessories, Wire, Paint Jeremy Bullis after David L. Bullis Edition 1/5

Category

2010s Abstract Geometric Found Objects Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Steel, Wire

Tempest
Tempest

David L. BullisTempest, 1996/2023

$1,120Sale Price|20% Off

Tempest

Located in New York, NY

Stainless Steel TIG Welding Rod, Aluminum, Fishing Accessories, Wire, Paint Jeremy Bullis after David L. Bullis

Category

2010s Abstract Geometric Found Objects Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Steel, Wire

Willow  Wave Basket
Willow  Wave Basket

Willow Wave Basket

Located in Wilton, CT

Wood was integral to the artistic practice of the late Markku Kosonen of Finland. An important aspect of his work was the ability to express things; cra...

Category

1990s Abstract Found Objects Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Organic Material, Wood, Found Objects

Seeking Arrangement

Seeking Arrangement

By Bobbi Meier

Located in Boston, MA

Artist Commentary: This soft, pepto-bismol pink sculpture intertwined around a found traditional lamp and wrapped around the table it is sitting on reminded me of people who are look...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Found Objects Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Found Objects, Other Medium, Oak

Lovesuite
Lovesuite

Lovesuite

By Bobbi Meier

Located in Boston, MA

Artist Commentary: An interactive hybrid of social experiment and sculptural object, envelopes the sitter into it’s cushiony softness, referencing a Victorian courting chair...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Found Objects Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Found Objects, Other Medium

Keynote XIV
Keynote XIV

Keynote XIV

By Dianne Baker

Located in Buffalo, NY

Diane Baker is a mixed media and fiber-related sculptor working out of Buffalo, NY. She has exhibited throughout the United States and in Canada and is included in several public and...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Found Objects Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Found Objects, Tape, Wood

Oh, Georgia (Homage to O'Keeffe)
Oh, Georgia (Homage to O'Keeffe)

Oh, Georgia (Homage to O'Keeffe)

By Carolee Thea

Located in Long Island City, NY

Artist: Carolee Thea Title: Oh, Georgia (Homage to O'Keeffe) Year: 1986 Medium: Unique Wall Sculpture: Oak, Varnished Plywood and Bone Construction, signed and dated verso Size: ...

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1980s Surrealist Found Objects Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Oak, Plywood, Found Objects

Found objects sculpture by counterculture artist Marr Grounds
Found objects sculpture by counterculture artist Marr Grounds

Found objects sculpture by counterculture artist Marr Grounds

Located in Colfax, CA

Found art sculpture by Australian-American environmental and counterculture artist Marr Grounds. This work was likely created in the 1960s when Grounds was active at UC Berkeley, and...

Category

1960s Abstract Expressionist Found Objects Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Found Objects

“Pen Decline 1 - 2 - 3 in Grey” (Archeology series) Computer Keyboard Sculpture
“Pen Decline 1 - 2 - 3 in Grey” (Archeology series) Computer Keyboard Sculpture

“Pen Decline 1 - 2 - 3 in Grey” (Archeology series) Computer Keyboard Sculpture

By Daniel Fiorda

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...

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2010s Contemporary Found Objects Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Concrete

Untitled (double dip)
Untitled (double dip)

Untitled (double dip)

By Roberley Bell

Located in Buffalo, NY

An original conceptual blown glass wall sculpture by American artist Roberley Bell. IN CURRENT SHOW The Corridors Gallery at Hotel Henry Fall Show Untitled (double dip...

Category

Early 2000s Conceptual Found Objects Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Plastic, Found Objects, Fiberboard

"Pompeii, " Mixed Media Sculpture
"Pompeii, " Mixed Media Sculpture

"Pompeii, " Mixed Media Sculpture

By Michael Thompson

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...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Found Objects Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Stone

Manifestation I
Manifestation I

Manifestation I

By Virginia Fleck

Located in Boston, MA

Artist Commentary: This artwork is intended as a gently rotating, dimensional mandala. It has a baroque-upcycled aesthetic that playfully transcends the utility of the can-tab. The shape recalls a chandelier or and upside-down layer cake. Sparkling moiré patterns emerge in the hanging chains as viewers circumnavigate the art. One can experience the artwork as a sparkling, crystalline mystery from a distance, then as a familiar but incalculable marvel up close. Keywords: kinetic art, suspended art, upcycled, sparkling , metal Details: A kinetic, sensory sculpture made from post-consumer can-tabs, safety pins, steel armature and ceiling mounted motor. 84"l x 55"w x 55"d. 65 lbs. rotates at 1 to 1-1/2 rpm Artist Biography: Since 2002, award winning artist Virginia Fleck...

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21st Century and Contemporary Kinetic Found Objects Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Found Objects, Pins

Tao

Tao

By Manuèle Bernardi

Located in New York, NY

Manuele Bernardi was born in 1959 in Saint-Tropez. She lives and works in Roussillon, in the south of France. After completing studies at the Roederer Academy in Paris, she completed...

Category

2010s Contemporary Found Objects Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Thread, Plexiglass, Wood, Found Objects, Organic Material

Pile-up at The Gates of Hell
Pile-up at The Gates of Hell

Pile-up at The Gates of Hell

By Bobbi Meier

Located in Boston, MA

Artist Commentary: Abstract forms emerge from remembrances of disco dancing, Earth Wind & Fire, darkness, heat, perspiration and glitz. Materials are twisted into ambiguous shapes, s...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Found Objects Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Wood, Found Objects, Other Medium

Elohim

Elohim

By Manuèle Bernardi

Located in New York, NY

Manuele Bernardi was born in 1959 in Saint-Tropez. She lives and works in Roussillon, in the south of France. After completing studies at the Roederer Academy in Paris, she completed...

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2010s Contemporary Found Objects Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Thread, Plexiglass, Wood, Found Objects

Patricia Miranda, Lamentations for Ermenegilda; 2020, lace, cochineal dye, thread

Patricia Miranda, Lamentations for Ermenegilda; 2020, lace, cochineal dye, thread

By Patricia Miranda

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...

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2010s Feminist Found Objects Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Ceramic, Fabric, Thread, Dye, Found Objects

Liz Sweibel, Untitled (Scrapings #1), 2016, Wood, Paint, Found Objects
Liz Sweibel, Untitled (Scrapings #1), 2016, Wood, Paint, 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...

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2010s Abstract Expressionist Found Objects Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Wood, Paint, Found Objects

Liz Sweibel, Untitled (Scrapings #3), 2016, Wood, Paint, Found Objects
Liz Sweibel, Untitled (Scrapings #3), 2016, Wood, Paint, Found Objects

Liz Sweibel, Untitled (Scrapings #3), 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 consist...

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2010s Abstract Found Objects Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Wood, Paint, Found Objects

Jo Yarrington, Mute-Ability_Composition 2, 2019_acrylic, steel, player piano rol
Jo Yarrington, Mute-Ability_Composition 2, 2019_acrylic, steel, player piano rol

Jo Yarrington, Mute-Ability_Composition 2, 2019_acrylic, steel, player piano rol

By Jo Yarrington

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...

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2010s Conceptual Found Objects Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Steel

Matti Havens & Gregory Kramer, Lovelace's Tribute, 2018, Sound Installation
Matti Havens & Gregory Kramer, Lovelace's Tribute, 2018, Sound Installation

Matti Havens & Gregory Kramer, Lovelace's Tribute, 2018, Sound Installation

By Matti Havens & Gregory Kramer

Located in Darien, CT

Lovelace’s Tribute 2018 sung by Christina Tsers This installation is in honor of Ada Lovelace, generally recognized as the first computer programmer. Lovelace was the daughter of ...

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2010s New Media Found Objects Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Wire

Jo Yarrington, Ghost Girls_Brushes, 2017, Organic Material, Found Objects, Pins
Jo Yarrington, Ghost Girls_Brushes, 2017, Organic Material, Found Objects, Pins

Jo Yarrington, Ghost Girls_Brushes, 2017, Organic Material, Found Objects, Pins

By Jo Yarrington

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...

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2010s Conceptual Found Objects Abstract Sculptures

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Organic Material, Found Objects, Pins

Jo Yarrington, Ghost girls_Slide Carousel, 2018, Photographic Film, Found Object
Jo Yarrington, Ghost girls_Slide Carousel, 2018, Photographic Film, Found Object

Jo Yarrington, Ghost girls_Slide Carousel, 2018, Photographic Film, Found Object

By Jo Yarrington

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...

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2010s Conceptual Found Objects Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Photographic Film, Found Objects

Conversation Piece (erect)
Conversation Piece (erect)

Conversation Piece (erect)

By Bobbi Meier

Located in Boston, MA

Artist Commentary: Remembering formal dinners my mother would arrange in our modest midwestern, suburban home, this piece and it's companion, Conversation Piece...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Found Objects Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Wood, Found Objects, Other Medium

Treasure 7.8 (with blue silver and pink)
Treasure 7.8 (with blue silver and pink)

Treasure 7.8 (with blue silver and pink)

By Virginia Fleck

Located in Boston, MA

Artist Commentary: Made from post consumer can-tabs. Can-tabs can be found in a rainbow of colors according to their brands. The blue are from Michelob beer and the pink are from White Claw brand beverages. The can-tabs are washed 3 times at my studio before being added to an artwork. Keywords: assemblage, post consumer can-tabs Details: This is a wall mounted scuplture made from post consumer can-tabs and safety pins mounted on green MDF. A hanging cleat is attached on back. signed on back. No paints are used in this piece. The can-tabs are manufactured in many colors according to thier brand. Artist Biography: Since 2002, award winning artist Virginia Fleck...

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21st Century and Contemporary Assemblage Found Objects Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Found Objects, Pins

'The Calendar Wheel' assemblage in drawer with spheres clock shells cards
'The Calendar Wheel' assemblage in drawer with spheres clock shells cards

'The Calendar Wheel' assemblage in drawer with spheres clock shells cards

Located in Milwaukee, WI

'Calendar Wheel' is an original assemblage by the American artist Charles Berg. Within a divided drawer, Berg has assembled a variety of found objects: metal balls, a clock, a sheet of copper punched with the word 'wind,' a Victorian card of a woman, etc. The artwork takes its name, however, from a transparent 1935 calendar in the lower right. Berg here is following the tradition other artists who specialize in assemblage, including Joseph Cornell, Robert Rauchenberg, and Betye Saar...

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1970s Contemporary Found Objects Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Metal

Obstruction Cascade
Obstruction Cascade

Obstruction Cascade

By KX2: Ruth Avra and Dana Kleinman

Located in New Orleans, LA

KX2 is a collaboration combining the strengths of artists and sisters Ruth Avra and Dana Kleinman who create mathematically inspired sculpture merging metal and painting. From a dist...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Canvas, Found Objects, Acrylic

Ghost Piling
Ghost Piling

Ghost Piling

By KX2: Ruth Avra and Dana Kleinman

Located in New Orleans, LA

KX2 is a collaboration combining the strengths of artists and sisters Ruth Avra and Dana Kleinman who create mathematically inspired sculpture merging metal and painting. From a dist...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Enamel, Stainless Steel

Flame on Bamboo, Found Objects Dadaist Lamp Sculpture by Garry Bennett
Flame on Bamboo, Found Objects Dadaist Lamp Sculpture by Garry Bennett

Flame on Bamboo, Found Objects Dadaist Lamp Sculpture by Garry Bennett

Located in Long Island City, NY

Flame on Bamboo Garry Bennett, American (1934–2022) Date: 2008 Assemblage Bamboo Lamp, Signed and dated on bottom Size: 10.25 x 5 x 2 in. (26.04 x 12.7 x 5.08 cm)

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Early 2000s Abstract Found Objects Abstract Sculptures

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Found Objects

GRIST Unique Sculpture Fabricated wood, steel, reclaimed wheels 2017 EARL JAMES
GRIST Unique Sculpture Fabricated wood, steel, reclaimed wheels 2017 EARL JAMES

GRIST Unique Sculpture Fabricated wood, steel, reclaimed wheels 2017 EARL JAMES

Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA

“Grist” 2017 Fabricated wood, steel, reclaimed wheels, paint 47 h X 31 w X 35 d (inches) Signed Provenance: The collection of the artist Born in Jamaica, West Indies, and raised in Rochester, New York, Earl James...

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2010s Assemblage Found Objects Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Steel

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