Found Objects Abstract Sculptures

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

Bobbi Meier
Conversation Piece (erect), 2020

Soft Swirl

By Kelly Kozma

Located in Philadelphia, PA

This fibers, drawing, and sculptural work titled "Soft Swirl" is an original artwork by Kelly Kozma made of hand-embroidery, colored pencil, and acrylic paint on paper. The artist us...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Found Objects Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Fabric, Thread, Found Objects

Kelly Kozma
Soft Swirl, 2021

Seeking Arrangement

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...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Found Objects Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Found Objects, Other Medium, Oak

Bobbi Meier
Seeking Arrangement, 2020

Pile-up at The Gates of Hell

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

Bobbi Meier
Pile-up at The Gates of Hell, 2020

“Surge Protector” Blue Abstract Contemporary Mixed Media Found Object Sculpture

By Brent Fogt

Located in Houston, TX

Abstract contemporary collage sculpture that incorporates found furniture, jute, concrete, and paint. The amorphous form features a primarily blue "cord" extending from a grey wooden and concrete base. Artist Biography: The son of a Lutheran pastor and a psychotherapist, Brent Fogt...

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2010s Abstract Found Objects Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Concrete

Brent Fogt
“Surge Protector” Blue Abstract Contemporary Mixed Media Found Object Sculpture, 2017

Lovesuite

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

Bobbi Meier
Lovesuite, 2020

Conversation Piece (reclining)

Located in Boston, MA

Artist Commentary: Paired with "Conversation Piece (erect)" this work was inspired by childhood memories of formal dinner parties in our split-leve...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Found Objects Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Found Objects, Other Medium, Wood

Bobbi Meier
Conversation Piece (reclining), 2020

Tablescape

Located in Boston, MA

Artist Commentary: This piece is constructed from my grandmother's dressing table mirror, a found table base, and dismembered segments of a soft sculpture I had previously made and n...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Found Objects Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Found Objects, Other Medium, Glass, Mirror, Spray Paint

Bobbi Meier
Tablescape, 2020

Spiral III, Willow Wall Sculpture by Finnish Artist, Markku Kosonen

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

Markku Kosonen
Spiral III, Willow Wall Sculpture by Finnish Artist, Markku Kosonen, 1994

Easy Chair/Failed Odalisque

Located in Boston, MA

Artist Commentary: This chaise, originally covered in lime green cotton upholstery, sat in my studio for months, acting as a daybed for my miniature poodle. Finally after several att...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Found Objects Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Found Objects, Other Medium

Bobbi Meier
Easy Chair/Failed Odalisque, 2020

Pussy Willow X, Sculpture by Finnish Artist, Markku Kosonen

Located in Wilton, CT

Kosonen's Pussy Willow X can be displayed on a surface as a vessel, or be mounted as a wall sculpture. Wood was integral to the artistic practice of the late Markku Kosonen...

Category

1990s Abstract Found Objects Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Organic Material, Wood, Found Objects

Markku Kosonen
Pussy Willow X, Sculpture by Finnish Artist, Markku Kosonen, 1994

Lost in the Stars

Located in Milford, NH

A wonderful abstract expressionist three dimensional construction by American artist Varujan Boghosian (1926-2020). Boghosian was born in New Britain, CT and after serving in the United States Navy, he attended Central Connecticut Teachers College and the Vesper George School of Art in Boston. In 1953, he had a Fulbright grant to paint in Italy, and from 1956 to 1959, he worked with Josef Albers, geometric abstractionist, at Yale University where he earned both his BFA and MFA. Boghosian became a professor of sculpture at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, and became primarily known for his assemblages in which he uses a variety of incongruous objects such as parts of weathered barn doors, antique dolls' heads, old leather, marbles, and ping-pong balls. This construction consists of antique lithographs laid on board, including a shooting target sheet, and metal jacks, all presented on an antique celestial map...

Category

Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Found Objects Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Adhesive, Wood Panel, Found Objects, Laid Paper, Lithograph

Varujan Boghosian
Lost in the Stars, 2002

Union Leader

Located in Milford, NH

A fine abstract expressionist assemblage by American artist Varujan Boghosian (1926-2020). Boghosian was born in New Britain, CT and after serving in the United States Navy, he attended Central Connecticut Teachers College and the Vesper George School of Art in Boston. In 1953, he had a Fulbright grant to paint in Italy, and from 1956 to 1959, he worked with Josef Albers, geometric abstractionist, at Yale University where he earned both his BFA and MFA. Boghosian became a professor of sculpture at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, and became primarily known for his assemblages in which he uses a variety of incongruous objects such as parts of weathered barn doors, antique dolls' heads, old leather, marbles, and ping-pong balls. This three piece assemblage includes a Union Leader tobacco can...

Category

Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Found Objects Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Found Objects

Varujan Boghosian
Union Leader, circa late 20th century

Orpheus Sculpture with Bird & Blocks

Located in Milford, NH

A fine abstract expressionist assemblage by American artist Varujan Boghosian (1926-2020). Boghosian was born in New Britain, CT and after serving in the United States Navy, he attended Central Connecticut Teachers College and the Vesper George School of Art in Boston. In 1953, he had a Fulbright grant to paint in Italy, and from 1956 to 1959, he worked with Josef Albers, geometric abstractionist, at Yale University where he earned both his BFA and MFA. Boghosian became a professor of sculpture at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, and became primarily known for his assemblages in which he uses a variety of incongruous objects such as parts of weathered barn...

Category

Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Found Objects Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Found Objects

Varujan Boghosian
Orpheus Sculpture with Bird & Blocks, circa late 20th century

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

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

Fruits of War

Located in Milford, NH

A fine abstract expressionist assemblage by American artist Varujan Boghosian (1926-2020). Boghosian was born in New Britain, CT and after serving in the United States Navy, he attended Central Connecticut Teachers College and the Vesper George School of Art in Boston. In 1953, he had a Fulbright grant to paint in Italy, and from 1956 to 1959, he worked with Josef Albers, geometric abstractionist, at Yale University where he earned both his BFA and MFA. Boghosian became a professor of sculpture at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, and became primarily known for his assemblages in which he uses a variety of incongruous objects such as parts of weathered barn...

Category

Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Found Objects Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Found Objects

Varujan Boghosian
Fruits of War, circa late 20th century

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

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

Liz Sweibel, Untitled (Scrapings #10), 2016, Wood, Paint, Found Objects

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

Liz Sweibel
Liz Sweibel, Untitled (Scrapings #10), 2016, Wood, Paint, Found Objects, 2016

Liz Sweibel, Untitled (Scrapings #2), 2016, Wood, Paint, Found Objects

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

Found Objects, Wood, Paint

Liz Sweibel
Liz Sweibel, Untitled (Scrapings #2), 2016, Wood, Paint, Found Objects, 2016

Andra Samelson, Microcosm 3, 2016, Canvas, 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, Found Objects, Acrylic

Andra Samelson
Andra Samelson, Microcosm 3, 2016, Canvas, Found Objects, Acrylic Paint, 2016

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

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...

Category

2010s Abstract Found Objects Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Wood, Paint, Found Objects

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

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