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Medium: Handmade Paper
Fanfare Star, Teal Blue, Red Colorful Botanical Paper Flower Wall Sculpture
By Jill Parisi
Located in Kent, CT
A bright and colorful paper sculpture of a fantastical botanical form in vibrant teal blue, reddish orange and light lime green and yellow. Composed of hand-colored etchings on hand-...
Category
2010s Contemporary Handmade Paper Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Handmade Paper, Tissue Paper, Pigment, Pins, Digital, Etching
Earth and Sky Star, Colorful Botanical Paper Wall Sculpture, Light Orange Maroon
By Jill Parisi
Located in Kent, CT
In this bright and colorful paper sculpture, a fantastical botanical form in light orange with dark burgundy, magenta and light brown in the center is composed of hand-colored digita...
Category
2010s Contemporary Handmade Paper Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Handmade Paper, Tissue Paper, Pigment, Pins, Digital, Etching
Untitled #2/ Tied series, Handmade Abstract Sculpture
Located in Boston, MA
Untitled #2/ Tied series
10.0 x 16.0 x 0.5, 1.0 lbs
Handmade paper
Hand signed by artist
Artist's Commentary:
"'Tied', the title of the installation series, is a phonetic pun on the rising tides and the paper pages bound by threads.
As the water rises and falls, pages of our daily experience add and subtract to and from our memory. Our daily life permeates our memory just as the ink is absorbed into each page and create new shapes and patterns onto what once was a clean slate of a blank page."
About the Artist:
Yoonshin Park is a Chicago based multimedia artist, curator, and educator working with sculptural papers, artist books, and installations. Her interest in the comprehensive process of papermaking and bookbinding caters her work to encompass various elements woven into complete objects. She often uses her experience as a foreign transplant to question space and its implications in defining one's identity as the inspiration behind her work. Park has shown at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Hyde Park Art Center...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Handmade Paper Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Handmade Paper
"Chaco", Hand Made Khadi Paper, Gold Leaf, Acrylic Paint, Birch Panel, Frame
Located in St. Louis, MO
Glover did not begin her career as an artist. After receiving an MBA from Harvard Business School, she served as an international consultant in strategy, industry best practices, and...
Category
2010s Contemporary Handmade Paper Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Gold Leaf
Bloom
Located in Seoul, SO
Hee Kyung Kim portrays the moment of life, the breath of nature, and the moments of self-unification with 'Hanji paper', and transmits the traces of the 'Bloom' through her works. In order to reveal the light of life...
Category
2010s Handmade Paper Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Mulberry Paper
Bloom
Located in Seoul, SO
Hee Kyung Kim portrays the moment of life, the breath of nature, and the moments of self-unification with 'Hanji paper', and transmits the traces of the 'Bloom' through her works. In order to reveal the light of life...
Category
2010s Handmade Paper Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Mulberry Paper
Handmade Paper Collage Sculpture Art Assemblage with String Nancy Genn Modernist
By Nancy Genn
Located in Surfside, FL
Nancy Genn, American (b. 1929)
Marshfield 25 (1977)
Handmade paper collage
Hand signed verso
Dimensions: 20 1/8 x 22 inches
Utilizing what is now known as the 'Genn Method,' Nancy Genn created three-dimensional abstract works of handmade paper, gaining international recognition in the 1970s
Nancy Genn is an American artist living and working in Berkeley, California known for works in a variety of media, including paintings, bronze sculpture, printmaking, and handmade paper rooted in the Japanese washi paper making tradition. Her work explores geometric abstraction, non-objective form, and calligraphic mark making, and features light, landscape, water, and architecture motifs. She is influenced by her extensive travels, and Asian craft, aesthetics and spiritual traditions.
Nancy Genn was born in 1929 in San Francisco, California. She recognized early that she would pursue a career as an artist. Her mother, Ruth Wetmore Thompson Whitehouse, was a painter and UC Berkeley alumna who played a leadership role in the San Francisco Women Artists organization. Genn studied at San Francisco Art Institute (then California School of Fine Arts) with painter Hassel Smith, and at the Art Department at the University of California, Berkeley (1948–49) with Professors Margaret Peterson and John Haley, and fellow students Sam Francis and Sonya Rapoport. In 1949 she married Vernon “Tom” Genn, an engineer raised in Japan, with whom she had three children.
Career
Genn's first noted solo exhibition was in 1955 at Gump's Gallery in San Francisco. She received international recognition through her inclusion in French art critic Michel Tapié’s seminal text Morphologie Autre (1960), which cited her as one of the most important exponents of post-war informal art.
In 1961, Genn began creating bronze sculptures using the lost-wax casting method. Influenced by noted sculptor and family friend Claire Falkenstein, who used open-formed structures in her work, Genn cast forms woven from long grape vine cuttings, and produced vessels, fountains, fire screens, a menorah, a lectern, and, notably, the Cowell Fountain (1966) at UC Santa Cruz. In 1963 her sculptural work was exhibited with Berkeley artists Peter Voulkos and Harold Paris in the influential exhibition Creative Casting curated by Paul J. Smith at the Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York.
Genn was one of the first American artists to express herself through handmade paper, first receiving wide recognition via exhibitions at Susan Caldwell Gallery, New York, beginning in 1977, and in traveling exhibitions with Robert Rauschenberg and Sam Francis. In 1978-1979, supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and Japan Creative Arts Fellowship, she studied papermaking in Japan, visiting local paper craftspeople, working in Shikenjo studio in Saitama Prefecture, and exhibiting her work in Tokyo. She also learned techniques from Donald Farnsworth...
Category
1970s Abstract Handmade Paper Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media, Handmade Paper
Huddled
Located in East Patchogue, NY
Steeped in tradition I am a hand papermaker. I make unexpected paper. Unfamiliar and mysterious appearing like gut or some ancient idea of vellum. It suggests that it was born not gr...
Category
2010s Abstract Handmade Paper Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Handmade Paper
Relief, abstract boat wall sculpture by Jane Balsgaard
Located in Wilton, CT
This abstract boat wall sculpture by Danish artist, Jane Balsgaard, is constructed with iron, bamboo, willow, fishing line and handmade plantpaper...
Category
2010s Abstract Handmade Paper Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Iron
Territorios and Erosiones VII, Found objects in wood box wall sculpture
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Diptych: Erosiones VII and Territorios by Fernando Otero
Overall size: 20.5 in. H x 57 in. W x 4 in. D
Individual size: 20.5 in. H x 28.5 in. W x 4 in D
Found objects in wood box wal...
Category
2010s Handmade Paper Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
De la Serie: Cajas Intervenidas
Located in Miami, FL
N/a
Category
2010s Contemporary Handmade Paper Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Handmade Paper
De la Serie: Cajas Intervenidas
Located in Miami, FL
N/a
Category
2010s Contemporary Handmade Paper Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Handmade Paper
Paisleys and Thistles Star Flower, Bright Botanical Wall Sculpture in Teal, Pink
By Jill Parisi
Located in Kent, CT
In this bright and colorful paper sculpture, a fantastical botanical form in vibrant teal green, dark magenta with gold and marbled pink, green, yellow and blue is composed of hand-c...
Category
2010s Contemporary Handmade Paper Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Handmade Paper, Tissue Paper, Pigment, Pins, Etching
Nancy Cohen "Capture" - Abstract Sculpture of Glass and Handmade Paper
By Nancy Cohen
Located in New York, NY
Nancy Cohen
Capture, 2021
glass, metal, wire, handmade paper
8 x 17 x 20 in.
(coh066)
Nancy Cohen works concurrently in two media: She creates organic sculptural forms from pieces o...
Category
2010s Abstract Handmade Paper Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Wire
Nancy Cohen "Tilt a Whirl" - Abstract Sculpture of Glass and Handmade Paper
By Nancy Cohen
Located in New York, NY
Nancy Cohen
Tilt a Whirl, 2021
glass, metal, handmade paper
5 x 12 x 10 in.
(coh065)
Nancy Cohen works concurrently in two media: She creates organic scu...
Category
2010s Abstract Handmade Paper Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Wire
Endless Graduation, Paper sculpture by Norie Hatakeyama
By Norie Hatakeyama
Located in Wilton, CT
Hatekayama works with factory-made paper-packing tape to realize her geometric concerns. It is an experimental material that enables her to break free from traditional limitations.
...
Category
1980s Abstract Geometric Handmade Paper Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Rice Paper
Paper Sculpture III, Abstract boat sculpture by Jane Balsgaard
Located in Wilton, CT
Paper Sculpture III (2020) is part of a series of abstract boat-like objects by Danish sculptor, Jane Balsgaard. The minimalist construction consists of...
Category
2010s Abstract Handmade Paper Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Plexiglass, Wood, Handmade Paper, Bamboo Paper
Untitled #3/ Tied series (Black and white), Handmade Abstract Sculpture, 2018
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
“Tied”, the title of the installation, is a phonetic pun on the rising tides and the paper pages bound by threads.
As the water rises and falls, pages of our daily...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Handmade Paper Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Fabric, Thread, Ink, Handmade Paper
Paper Sculpture IV, Abstract boat sculpture by Jane Balsgaard
Located in Wilton, CT
Paper Sculpture IV (2020) is part of a series of abstract boat-like objects by Danish sculptor, Jane Balsgaard. The minimalist construction consists of ...
Category
2010s Abstract Handmade Paper Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Plexiglass, Wood, Handmade Paper, Bamboo Paper
Spira Fiore
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
Spira Fiore comes from a body of work based on a tying system I created which draws inspiration from sea shells. It is made of three layers of bamboo. One layer u...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Handmade Paper Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Linen, Glass, Wood, Wax, Handmade Paper
The Beginning, 2021, cast paper, framed sculpture, black, Chinese text
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Cheung Yee, Cast Paper painting, wall sculpture, black, edition
CHEUNG YEE (1936–2019)
The Chinese artist Cheung Yee, a pioneer of the contemporary art scene in Hong Kong, died in Los Angeles on December 4 at the age of eighty-three. The Hong Kong Museum of Art confirmed his passing. Best known for his paper castings; bronze relief; and wooden, stone, and bronze sculptures, which mixed Western modernism, traditional Chinese aesthetics, and elements of folklore and ancient philosophies, Cheung cofounded the avant-garde Circle Art Group with Hon Chi Fun, Wucius Wong, and several other peers. The group was active from 1964 to 1971.
Born in Guangzhou, China, in 1936, Cheung was raised in Hong Kong but was forced to leave the region when the Japanese invaded China during the Second Sino-Japanese War; his family relocated to Guangzhou. When the conflict ended, Cheung returned to the region and began learning Gongbi, a realist brush technique in Chinese painting. In the 1950s, he studied art at Taiwan Normal University in Taipei, where he met his wife. Throughout his schooling, Cheung pursued his interests in archaeology and began experimenting with different materials and with approaches to copperplate etching, welding, and modeling.
In 1964, Cheung’s first major retrospective was organized by the City Museum and Art Gallery at Hong Kong City Hall. The following year, he received a grant from the Institute of International Education to study in the United States and Europe. Since then, he has had solo exhibitions at the Hong Kong Museum of Art, AO Vertical Art...
Category
1970s Contemporary Handmade Paper Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Handmade Paper
"NESTING LOTUS #1", Sculpture, Wire Mesh, Reed, Bamboo, Handmade Paper, Concrete
By Eva Ennist
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Eva Ennist, a mixed media and fiber artist, travels extensively through the Far East, gathering materials and techniques for her practice. The sculpture "NE...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Naturalistic Handmade Paper Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Concrete, Wire
Own Path
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Hand cut paper
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Handmade Paper Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Handmade Paper, Paper
"NESTING LOTUS #8", Sculpture, Bamboo, Reed, Handmade Paper, Wood, Concrete
By Eva Ennist
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Eva Ennist, a mixed media and fiber artist, travels extensively through the Far East, gathering materials and techniques for her practice. The sculpture "NE...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Naturalistic Handmade Paper Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Concrete
Teardrop Light, Walnut stained Rattan
Located in Hudson, NY
Domestic use of rattan is as old as human inhabitation of tropical
forests around the world. Used here by the Toraja women of Sulawesi,
Indonesia originally to create fishing baskets...
Category
2010s Contemporary Handmade Paper Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Walnut, Lights, Other Medium, Rice Paper
"NESTING LOTUS #3", Sculpture, Wire Mesh, Reed, Handmade Paper, Concrete, Temple
By Eva Ennist
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Eva Ennist, a mixed media and fiber artist, travels extensively through the Far East, gathering materials and techniques for her practice. The sculpture "NESTING LOTUS #3" is a prime...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Naturalistic Handmade Paper Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Concrete, Wire
Votive lights ( Set of Three lamps ), Naturally finished Rattan
Located in Hudson, NY
Domestic use of rattan is as old as human inhabitation of tropical
forests around the world. Used here by the Toraja women of Sulawesi,
Indonesia originally to create fishing baskets...
Category
2010s Contemporary Handmade Paper Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Rice Paper, Organic Material, Lights, Other Medium
Life Phases of a Woman Full of Hope - Stunning Eastern European Scultpure
By Radoslava Hrabovska
Located in Gilroy, CA
"Life Phases of a Woman Full of Hope," is an incredible, hand-made sculpture by Slovakian artist, Radoslava Hrabovska. This work is her rendition of a traditional Slovakian wedding ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Handmade Paper Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wire
Atlas
By Emily Payne
Located in Mill Valley, CA
At the heart of Emily Payne's work is drawing. Even her large hanging wire sculptures are like drawings in 3 dimensional space. By reducing thin...
Category
2010s Contemporary Handmade Paper Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel, Wire
Resin Abstract Circle Sculpture: 'Circle'
Located in New York, NY
The artistic collaboration of Kelly Bugden + Van Wifvat has produced a thought-provoking body of sculptures, paintings, and constructions. Nature, childhood memories, and everyday archetypes take shape in unexpected combinations of materials. The works emerged as the tactile and visual senses channeled the ritualistic power and materiality of selected artifacts.
The resulting objects exist in a space between what they were originally and what they could become. A wheel, for example, is distorted as if seen through a prism. Their collaboration grew out of years of shaping materials into one-of-a-kind objects. Intuitively, the process of creating with their hands took an inward turn. Prism is a travelogue through memories and dreams, yielding abstract forms that capture moments of transformation.
Van Wifvat grew up with eight siblings and studied sculpture and environmental design in Minneapolis at MCAD. In 1979, he opened a storefront art gallery to promote the work of local artists. The space featured printed materials—art books, periodicals, fanzines, and postcard’s. Wifvat moved to New York in 1983 to study at the Fashion Institute of Technology and Parsons. In 1987, he co-founded Van Gregory & Norton design studio, specializing in convex mirrors and curtain hardware...
Category
2010s Conceptual Handmade Paper Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Resin, Wood, Glaze, Handmade Paper
Doble giro, estructuras variables (rosa)
By Rosa Brun
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
Joseph Kosuth, father of conceptual art, once famously said: “Works of art that try to tell us something about the world are bound to fail (…)The absence of reality in art is exactly...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Handmade Paper Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Handmade Paper
Doble giro, estructuras variables (amarillo)
By Rosa Brun
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
Joseph Kosuth, father of conceptual art, once famously said: “Works of art that try to tell us something about the world are bound to fail (…)The absence of reality in art is exactly...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Handmade Paper Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Handmade Paper
Doble giro, con negro y azul
By Rosa Brun
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
Joseph Kosuth, father of conceptual art, once famously said: “Works of art that try to tell us something about the world are bound to fail (…)The absence of reality in art is exactly...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Handmade Paper Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Linen, Handmade Paper
Doble giro, estructuras variables (naranja)
By Rosa Brun
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
Joseph Kosuth, father of conceptual art, once famously said: “Works of art that try to tell us something about the world are bound to fail (…)The absence of reality in art is exactly...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Handmade Paper Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Handmade Paper
Wood equals paper
By Dianne Baker
Located in Buffalo, NY
A contemporary collection of conceptual wall sculptures by Dianne Baker titled "Wood = Paper" created in 2016 with wood, metal, leather and handmade paper.
Various Sizes:
16" x 1...
Category
2010s Conceptual Handmade Paper Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
"Exodus", Joan Giordano, Mixed Media, Paper, Newsprint, Wall Hanging, vertical
Located in New York, NY
"Exodus" by Joan Giordano
Mixed Media, Handmade Abaca Paper, Newspapers, Photographic Prints, Encaustic
Museum shown and collected artist Joan Giordano is known for her unique hand ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Handmade Paper Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Archival Paper, Handmade Paper, Newsprint
"Money Tree" Handmade Paper, Mixed Media, Wall Relief Sculpture, Vertical
Located in New York, NY
"Money Tree" by Joan Giordano from her "Presences" series of vertical wall scrolls
Handmade Kozo Paper, Yellow Pigment, Bamboo, Encaustic
Museum-shown and collected artist Joan Gior...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Handmade Paper Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Paper, Handmade Paper, Pigment
Sylvia Schwartz, 'Brush Stroke, sculptural element in Red Plane', 2016, Resin
Located in Darien, CT
Sylvia Schwartz
In her structures, silicone molds are cast from both natural and hand-made forms, including clay coils, volcanic rock patterns, seaweed, and the artist’s own fingerprints. Leaving the human trace evident through the repetition of shapes and textures in both the natural and man-made elements, provides a measure of stability, a reference point. These manmade and natural forms merge, revealing our inexplicable dependence on nature. Through this melding of two entities, new life is breathed into the art object.
Paper as a primary medium allows Schwartz to sculpt, draw and paint simultaneously. The flow of the pulp (a natural phenomenon in itself) meshes with the molded forms creating a structure that seems to rest on the edge between painting and sculpture. The duality between light and heavy, interior and exterior, planned and accidental, order and chaos, leading ultimately to a sense of life.
Red...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Handmade Paper Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Handmade Paper
"Chaco", Framed Wall Sculpture, Hand Made Paper and Gold Leaf on Birch
Located in St. Louis, MO
Glover did not begin her career as an artist. After receiving an MBA from Harvard Business School, she served as an international consultant in strategy, industry best practices, and...
Category
2010s Contemporary Handmade Paper Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Gold Leaf
Vessel: Pierced III, Unique Wall or Table Art by Sylvia Seventy
By Sylvia Seventy
Located in Long Island City, NY
This mixed media sculpture by Sylvia Seventy, from 1986, is a conceptual work in neutral tones. Materials include handmade paper, Apple Wood, Willow, Paint, Oil Pastel, Wax, Cotton ...
Category
1980s Conceptual Handmade Paper Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Cotton, Handmade Paper, Oil Pastel, Paint, Wood
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