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Period: 21st Century and Contemporary
Style: Abstract
Medium: Wood
Owl's Eye
By Greg Joubert
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Hand carved aspen wood sculpture
torched burnished and painted
Greg Joubert was born in 1977 and raised in the seaside New England town of Hingham, Massachusetts. Joubert gained hi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Wood Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
"History Man" Made from the Cabinet Oak Tree. The Texas White House. LBJ Ranch
By James Surls
Located in San Antonio, TX
James Surls
(Born 1943)
Texas / Colorado Artist
Image Size: 60 x 36 x 33
Medium: Wood Sculpture from the Cabinet Oak Tree at LBJ Ranch
2024
"History Man" Designed to stand.
James Surls (Born 1943) Texas / Colorado Artist
A modernist sculptor of delicate seeming wooden objects of intriguing designs, James Surles also does drawing and prints that feature natural and human images and forms.
He carves, whittles and stains his objects, but creating a monotone effect, rarely paints them but sometimes burns images into them. Some of his works are large, as much as nine-feet tall.
Surls earned a B.S. degree from Sam Houston University and an MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art. In 1998, he moved from Splendora, Texas to Carbondale, Colorado.
In 2009, five sculptures, made of bronze and steel, were set up on Park Avenue by the New York City Parks Public Art Program. His work has been shown in major New York museums including the Whitney, Guggenheim, and Museum of Modern Art. His work is in numerous public collections.
East Texas native James Surls is among the most acclaimed Texas artists of the late twentieth century and has found great success outside the state, as well. Surls' sculptures are most inspired by nature but also reveal metaphorical and mythological content.
In a 2009 catalog for The Grace Museum in Abilene, Texas, Patterson Sims wrote that Surl's works are "studies of myths, science, and human behavior."
After graduating from Sam Houston State University and The Cranbrook Academy of Art, he taught at Southern Methodist University and later at the University of Houston and the Lawndale Art Center, Houston.
Surl's work is held in many museum collections, and he has had numerous solo exhibitions, including the Dallas Museum of Art in 1984 and The Meadows Art Museum, Dallas, in 2003.
History Man and Walking Man – Provenance
James Surls, renowned Texas Artist, was commissioned by the Friends of the LBJ National Historical Park, to create art from what is known as the Cabinet Oak that is growing in the
yard of the Texas White House. As President, Lyndon Johnson held many meetings, including meetings with cabinet members, under the sprawling live oak tree in his front yard, next to his
swimming pool. For that reason, the tree became known as the Cabinet Oak. In 2019, a huge branch of the tree broke off. The park service searched for ways to turn this
devastating event into something positive and memorable. As a result, The Friends of Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park stepped forward and invited 53 artists to receive portions
of the wood and without conditions use the wood to reflect their vision of its meaning. Renowned artist James Surls used his section of the branch to create three art pieces,
including the two identified below that are being offered for sale. These works are unique examples of Surls artistry, showcasing his devotion to the LBJ legacy and to the beauty and
history of the wood itself.
History Man
James Surls, 2024
60 inches times 36 inches times 33 inches
Free standing
Whistling Man...
Category
2010s Abstract Wood Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Assemblage #1 (Porcelain, Glass Slide, and Tape)
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract expressionist oil painting with assembled objects by Bay Area artist Michael Pauker (American, b. 1957). Unsigned, but was acquired with a collection of his work. Unframed. ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Wood Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Oil, Porcelain, Glass, Wood, Tape
3-part painting construction by Black African American artist, w/ found objects
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This is an 3-part painting / construction (assemblage) created from acrylic paint, wood, glass, and found objects. It includes several historic photograph of figures as well as many scenes from Black African American cultural history. Each piece measures 23" x 7.75" x 2.5", and they can be hung close together or far apart, depending on the buyer's preference. All pieces are wired with the appropriate hanging hardware and are ready to install, no additional framing needed.
PROVENANCE: Exhibited in "Portals + Revelations: Richard J. Watson," the African American Museum in Philadelphia, Oct 2021 - Mar 2022.
"Most of my works are supported by memories of the past and suggested realities. Issues of social politics, ancestral references, and astral projections are presented with fragmented elements of 'real life' collaged and collapsed, as dreams are prone to do. If connections are made, all the better. I feel that life should remind us of our dreams." - Richard J. Watson
Richard J. Watson is an icon in the Philadelphia art world. Much of his work relates to his experiences as a Black African American man. He is a graduate of Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1968), has taught at his alma mater, and has served in the Exhibitions Department at the African American Museum in Philadelphia since the 1980s. He has been exhibiting his work for decades, and has an extensive bibliography. His work is held in the Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art; the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; the Uniworld Corporation; Sony; the Federal Reserve Bank; the City of Philadelphia; Sprint; the Church of the Advocate; the poet Dr. Sonia Sanchez; and the Woodmere Museum...
Category
2010s Abstract Wood Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Glass, Wood
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 Wood Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Paint, Found Objects
La Línea Roja. From The Composition with Tools series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The “Composition with Tools” series engages observers with quirky and playful truisms, gently leading them toward deeper reflections. Jose Ricardo Contreras, after long hours using d...
Category
2010s Abstract Wood Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic, Wood
Acapulco Dragon, Sculpture
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The act of painting becomes a form of meditation. Marino explains that the time and process of creating work are at the core of what the painting wants to mean, declaring: that is ho...
Category
2010s Abstract Wood Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Textile, Wood
Karen Schiff, Space Eyes, 2016, Wood, Gouache
By Karen Schiff
Located in Darien, CT
Karen Schiff is an artist and wordsmith based in New York; she has always been a reader as well as a visual artist. Her drawings, paintings, installations, and performances combine t...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Wood Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Gouache
Karen Schiff, Hypercubic, 2016, Wood, Gouache
By Karen Schiff
Located in Darien, CT
Karen Schiff is an artist and wordsmith based in New York; she has always been a reader as well as a visual artist. Her drawings, paintings, installations, and performances combine t...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Wood Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Gouache
Archy - #12 P, Sculpture 2024
Located in Stamford, CT
"My Pop Minimalist collection, “A Small World”, celebrates iconic characters from pop culture, film, music and television by presenting them in a pared-down, regressive form, highlig...
Category
2010s Abstract Wood Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
Archy - #1 M & M (Part One), Sculpture 2024
Located in Stamford, CT
"My Pop Minimalist collection, “A Small World”, celebrates iconic characters from pop culture, film, music and television by presenting them in a pared-down, regressive form, highlig...
Category
2010s Abstract Wood Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
Jose Soto, Focus, 2017, Steel, Mirror, Plexiglass, Wood, Adhesive
By Jose Soto
Located in Darien, CT
FOCUS is a public art sculpture about photographic vision and how it shapes the way we see the world. It is concerned with the viewer’s growing visual perception and bodily experienc...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Wood Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Ice vibes. "Emotional states" series
Located in Zofingen, AG
This series of sculptures is called Emotional States. It was created in 2023 in Kyiv (Ukraine). I lived and worked all year in my hometown in the middle of a Big war. I experienced a...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Wood Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Textile, Wood, Acrylic
Ceramic Wall Hanging or Centerpiece with Engravings, Sticks, and Thread
Located in Soquel, CA
Ceramic Wall Hanging or Centerpiece with Engravings, Sticks, and Thread
Balanced abstract sculptural piece by an unknown artist (20th Century). This sculpture is composed of various...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Wood Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Thread, Wood
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 Wood Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Found Objects, Acrylic
Smile 2.0. "Emotional states" series
Located in Zofingen, AG
This series of sculptures is called Emotional States. It was created in 2023 in Kyiv (Ukraine). I lived and worked all year in my hometown in the middle of a Big war. I experienced a...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Wood Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Textile, Wood, Acrylic
Play Tower #3 (Colorful Abstract Standing Sculpture in Blue, Beige, Red & Black)
Located in Hudson, NY
Abstract, three-dimensional standing sculpture in colorful shades of aqua blue, blood orange, green, black, gray, and beige
"Play Tower #3", made by Hudson Valley artist, Donise Engl...
Category
2010s Abstract Wood Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Wax, Archival Paper
Zig Zag / ceramic wall sculpture - cream, white, neutral 36 x 36 in
Located in Burlingame, CA
Minimal Abstract Ceramic 36 x 36 inch wall sculpture in glossy and matte white ceramic tiles that create a zig-zag motif. Tiles are mounted to a white wood panel. A neutral work of a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Wood Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Wood, Paint
TAKI-KASURI FOLDS (dark indigo blue thick textile linen fold monochrome design)
By Chloe Hedden
Located in Quebec, Quebec
TAKI-KASURI FOLDS from Chloe Hedden’s Fold Series explores the tension between softness and structure through the poetic manipulation of handmade Japanese fabric on linen. In this sc...
Category
2010s Abstract Wood Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Textile, Wood, Linen
Diane Englander, White Form on Red Wood, 2018, scrapwood and acrylic, 12 x 13 in
Located in Darien, CT
Diane Englander uses formal means to create a place between discord and tranquility, a zone with a charged harmony that energizes as it also provides refuge. That often requires that the prettiness of an initial surface is made ugly, or there’s a conscious choice to avoid balance in the composition.
Hers is a largely intuitive process, the materials entice her. Inspiration from the world that we don't call “art” is where she finds her muse: a wall, a landscape, a window shade transfused with light, a stretch of sand and shadow. Most influential are predecessors like Burri, Vicente, Tapies, Motherwell, Rauschenberg, medieval cloisonné, Vermeer, Breughel, and many, many more.
A native New Yorker, Diane had an earlier career including 17 years as a management consultant to local nonprofits concerned with poverty or disenfranchisement; work in NYC government; and several years as a lawyer at a large NYC law firm.
“I was brought up going to galleries and museums, a sometimes reluctant attendant to my parents’ passion for looking and for collecting. My own expressive energy must have simmered internally for years, occasionally emerging in photography, in quilt-making, in other tentative explorations, and certainly in providing opportunity and materials for my children to create. Not until those children were nearly grown did I come unequivocally to the need to make art myself.”
In late 2006 Diane began making collages that started her on her current path; in late 2007 she left her consulting job to focus on her artwork full-time.
She has studied with Bruce Dorfman at the Art Students League in New York, and has had solo exhibits at the Alexey von Schlippe...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Wood Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic, Wood
"Ascension of Weary Bones " Mixed Media Sculpture
By Duane Paul
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Duane Paul's work can best be characterized as innovative, dynamic and intimate. His sculptures each employ colorful organic shapes, which act as a personal language. The playful and sensual experience of his work covertly explores sexuality, gender traditions, sex, and race. "My artistic mission is to stimulate productive public conversation around these topics."
"Ascension of Weary Bones...
Category
2010s Abstract Wood Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Wood, Pigment
"Playground Punching Bag" Mixed Media Sculpture
By Duane Paul
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Duane Paul's work can best be characterized as innovative, dynamic and intimate. His sculptures each employ colorful organic shapes, which act as a personal language. The playful and sensual experience of his work covertly explores sexuality, gender traditions, sex, and race. "My artistic mission is to stimulate productive public conversation around these topics."
"Playground Punching Bag...
Category
2010s Abstract Wood Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Wood, Pigment
"Toy Train, Broken Tracks" resin, pigment, enamel paint and wood sculpture
By Duane Paul
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Duane Paul's work can best be characterized as innovative, dynamic and intimate. His sculptures each employ colorful organic shapes, which act as a personal language. The playful and...
Category
2010s Abstract Wood Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Enamel
Gridlock II - bright, white, intersecting, grid, bent aluminum wall sculpture
By Shayne Dark
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This is a wonderful example of Shayne Dark's dance with form and light. The work is created out of Ironwood, and is painted a flat white. On a light colored wall, the shadows become ...
Category
2010s Abstract Wood Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Latex
Dark Star
Located in Dallas, TX
David A. Dreyer was born in Dallas in 1958, and earned his BFA and MFA at Southern Methodist University. He was a recipient of the Moss/Chumley Award from the Meadows Museum and has ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Wood Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Birch, Graphite, Oil
Clouds of Smoke – Pulse
Located in New York, NY
Ching Ke Lin is a bamboo artist, who keeps delving into the land, exploring the common ground between humans and bamboo, and refining his creative vocabulary in the law of nature.
R...
Category
2010s Abstract Wood Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Israeli Abstract Expressionist Dina Recanati Cosmos Painting, Sculpture in Metal
Located in Surfside, FL
Dina Recanati
Cosmos Series
(they look like outer space or abstract desert landscapes)
2002
Metallic paint, acid etched on aluminum, wood
Hand signed and dated on side
Dina Recanati (born Diane Hettena; 1928 – 2021) was an Israeli artist, sculptor and painter.
Diane Hettena was born in Cairo, Egypt. In 1946, she married Raphael Recanati in Tel Aviv, Mandatory Palestine.
Went to London to study History and Art 1946-1948.
Moved to New York 1948. Raised two sons, Oudi and Michael.
Attended Art Student League 1959-1962. Studied with Jose de Creft and John Hovannes.
Beginning in 1964, she was active on the board of the America-israel Cultural Foundation. In the 1970s, she was a member of the board of the Israel Museum and in the 1980s Bezalel Academy of Art & Design, Jerusalem. At the same time as she was working as an artist, she was also collecting artwork. She lives and works in Herzliya and New York.
Most of Recanati's work is in the medium of sculpture. Her works, which contain images of books or parchment, have been influenced by American abstract expressionism in their use of swaths of color. In the 1980s and 1990s, she worked widely in sculptures in the public domain. Dina Recanati was a proponent of Israeli art and supported many Israeli artists. In the 1950s and 1960s, she showcased the work of beginning artists at the 5th Avenue branch of Israel Discount Bank in New York City, while growing Discount Bank’s art collection.
She has gone on to exhibit worldwide with permanent works in the Israel Museum, Tel Aviv Museum, Ben Gurion Airport, The Jewish Museum (New York) among others. She is the recipient of the AICF AVIV Award and The Council for a Beautiful Israel Yakir Award.
She was represented by Flomenhaft Gallery in New York City (was included in the Feminist Art Project along with Miriam Schapiro) and Gordon Gallery in Tel Aviv.
Recanati died in Herzliya Pituah at the ate of 93.
Israeli Art: Painting, Sculpture, Graphic Work. Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv 1971
Artists: Igael Tumarkin, Bezalel Schatz, Yehiel Shemi, Buky Schwartz, Dina Recanati, Menashe Kadishman, David Palombo, Itzhak Danziger, Sorel Etrog, Yaacov Agam, Jakob Steinhardt, Louise Schatz, Anna Ticho, Ruth Schloss, Moshe Castel, Yohanan Simon, Lea Nikel, Marcel Janco, Mordecai Ardon etc.
40 From Israel: Contemporary Sculpture & Drawing Israel: Contemporary Sculpture & Drawing Brooklyn...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Wood Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Mars Sucks a Circular Geometric Sculptural Wall Relief with Reds, Blues, Greens
Located in New York, NY
Christine Romanell's "Mars Sucks" (2025) is a sculptural wall piece measuring 14 x 18 x 3 inches, composed of acrylic and Flashe on seven layers of laser-cut birch plywood. Predomina...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Wood Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Birch, Plywood, Acrylic
Assemblage #3 (Stamps, Glass Slide, and Gold Paint)
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract expressionist oil painting with assembled objects by Bay Area artist Michael Pauker (American, b. 1957). Against a gold background, the artist has attached several objects, ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Wood Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Plastic, Wood, Paper, Oil
$1,440 Sale Price
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"It's Complicated", abstract sculpture, wood, paint, rubber knots, found objects
Located in Toronto, Ontario
"It's Complicated" is an abstract artwork by Stan Olthuis composed of acrylic paint on reclaimed bicycle inner tube, wrapped and mounted on painted pine f...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Wood Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Acrylic, Rubber
"Abstract Arrangement "Cement, Resin, Plastic, Zip-ties scuplture
By Duane Paul
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Duane Paul's work can best be characterized as innovative, dynamic and intimate. His sculptures each employ colorful organic shapes, which act as a personal language. The playful and...
Category
2010s Abstract Wood Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Plastic, Wood, Pigment
L Aluminum
Located in Genève, GE
Metal sculpture
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Wood Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Karen Schiff, Space Eyes, 2016, Wood, Gouache
By Karen Schiff
Located in Darien, CT
Karen Schiff is an artist and wordsmith based in New York; she has always been a reader as well as a visual artist. Her drawings, paintings, installations, and performances combine t...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Wood Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Gouache
L Wooden
Located in Genève, GE
Wooden sculpture
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Wood Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood
"Abstract Arrangement #14"- Hydrocal Gypsum Cement, Resin, Plastic, Zip-ties
By Duane Paul
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Duane Paul's work can best be characterized as innovative, dynamic and intimate. His sculptures each employ colorful organic shapes, which act as a personal language. The playful and...
Category
2010s Abstract Wood Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Plastic, Wood, Pigment
"Humpty Dumpty Saddle " Mixed Media Sculpture
By Duane Paul
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Duane Paul's work can best be characterized as innovative, dynamic and intimate. His sculptures each employ colorful organic shapes, which act as a personal language. The playful and sensual experience of his work covertly explores sexuality, gender traditions, sex, and race. "My artistic mission is to stimulate productive public conversation around these topics."
"Humpty Dumpty...
Category
2010s Abstract Wood Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Enamel
"Abstract Arrangement - Cement, Resin, Plastic, Zip-ties, Industrial Strapping
By Duane Paul
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Duane Paul's work can best be characterized as innovative, dynamic and intimate. His sculptures each employ colorful organic shapes, which act as a personal language. The playful and...
Category
2010s Abstract Wood Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Plastic, Wood, Pigment
Jose Soto, FOCUS II, 2016, Birch, Paint
By Jose Soto
Located in Darien, CT
FOCUS is a public art sculpture about the viewer’s growing visual perception and bodily experience. It consists of two large rectangular-shaped pieces, one placed in a vertical posit...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Wood Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Birch, Paint
Raspberry Shimmer Pyrites (plum red cubic, tabletop sculpture, geometric, wood)
By Chloe Hedden
Located in Quebec, Quebec
This series by Chloe Hedden and Bill Hedden explores the growth forms of the mineral pyrite. Pyrite or 'fools gold' grows in organic ever expanding interconnected cubes. This father...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Wood Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Alkyd
Ryan Cronin - Bunny, Sculpture 2010
Located in Stamford, CT
Bunny
Ryan Cronin
Oil Paint, Wood, and Fiberglass
52" (Height) x 25" (Width) x 12.5" (Depth)
When people look at his work Cronin wants them to feel an immediate impact, even if they...
Category
2010s Abstract Wood Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Fiberglass, Wood, Oil
"Village", abstract sculpture, wood, geometry, circle, square, variable
Located in Toronto, Ontario
"Village" is an abstract sculpture by Stan Olthuis composed of seven boards of poplar wood with acrylic paint. The boards can be arranged as shown or othe...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Wood Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
Karen Schiff, Space Eyes, 2016, Wood, Acrylic Paint, Watercolor
By Karen Schiff
Located in Darien, CT
Karen Schiff is an artist and wordsmith based in New York; she has always been a reader as well as a visual artist. Her drawings, paintings, installations, and performances combine t...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Wood Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Acrylic, Watercolor
Transition (White)
By Greg Joubert
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Hand carved aspen wood sculpture
torched burnished and painted
Greg Joubert was born in 1977 and raised in the seaside New England town of Hingham, Massachusetts. Joubert gained hi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Wood Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
Richard Bottwin, Mike's Arm, 2018, poplar, plywood, acrylic paint
Located in Darien, CT
Architecture, functional objects and the human gestures that occur when interacting with these structures inform the vocabulary of Richard Bottwin’s sculpture. The plywood surfaces,...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Wood Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Poplar, Plywood, Acrylic
American Contemporary Sculpture by Scott Troxel - Old Sport
By Scott Troxel
Located in Paris, IDF
Artwork made in latex washes, enamel, birch, MDF & lacquer
Scott Troxel has exhibited his work at numerous fairs and exhibitions across the United States, including The Other Art Fa...
Category
2010s Abstract Wood Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Enamel
Shift
By Greg Joubert
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Hand carved aspen wood sculpture
torched burnished and painted
Greg Joubert was born in 1977 and raised in the seaside New England town of Hingham, Massachusetts. Joubert gained hi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Wood Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
$2,900
American Contemporary Sculpture by Scott Troxel - Wavy Olive
By Scott Troxel
Located in Paris, IDF
Artwork made with spray acrylic on maple maple and matte clear coat
Scott Troxel draws on the aesthetics of bygone technology and the forward-looking designs of the Atomic Age and m...
Category
2010s Abstract Wood Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Coating, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Poplar
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 Wood Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Found Objects
CONTEMPORARY ABSTRACT Sculpture Light IV Italian Giorgio Petracci
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Size: 13x9x14 cm
Pedestal not included
Medium: Wood, acrylic and holographic print
At Escat Gallery we are committed to maintaining the highest st...
Category
2010s Abstract Wood Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
Ricahard Bottwin, 'Lily Leaping', 2016, Wood
Located in Darien, CT
Architecture and functional objects inform the vocabulary of Richard Bottwin’s sculpture. The plywood surfaces, laminated with wood veneers or painted with acrylic colors, are confi...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Wood Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood
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 Wood Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Paint, Found Objects
Jesse Hickman, Note Three Twelve Sixteen (Nebraska), 2016, Wood, Enamel
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 Abstract Wood Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Enamel
Loren Eiferman, 5r, 146 Pieces of Wood with Rope and Wax, 2016, Wood Sculpture
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...
Category
2010s Abstract Wood Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood
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...
Category
2010s Abstract Wood Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Paint, Found Objects
Loren Eiferman, Galaxy, 129 Pieces of Wood, 2012, Wood, Putty, Wood Sculpture
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 Wood Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Putty
Loren Eiferman, Winter Solstice, 2012, 165 Pieces of Wood, Putty, Wood Sculpture
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.
Her newest body of work is 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 Wood Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Putty
Loren Eiferman, 2V, 180 Pieces of Wood with Celluclay, 2015, Polymer, Wood, Clay
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...
Category
2010s Abstract Wood Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Clay, Wood, Polymer
Diane Englander, White and Yellow Wood 2018, scrapwood and acrylic, 7 x 11.25 in
Located in Darien, CT
Diane Englander uses formal means to create a place between discord and tranquility, a zone with a charged harmony that energizes as it also provides refuge. That often requires that the prettiness of an initial surface is made ugly, or there’s a conscious choice to avoid balance in the composition.
Hers is a largely intuitive process, the materials entice her. Inspiration from the world that we don't call “art” is where she finds her muse: a wall, a landscape, a window shade transfused with light, a stretch of sand and shadow. Most influential are predecessors like Burri, Vicente, Tapies, Motherwell, Rauschenberg, medieval cloisonné, Vermeer, Breughel, and many, many more.
A native New Yorker, Diane had an earlier career including 17 years as a management consultant to local nonprofits concerned with poverty or disenfranchisement; work in NYC government; and several years as a lawyer at a large NYC law firm.
“I was brought up going to galleries and museums, a sometimes reluctant attendant to my parents’ passion for looking and for collecting. My own expressive energy must have simmered internally for years, occasionally emerging in photography, in quilt-making, in other tentative explorations, and certainly in providing opportunity and materials for my children to create. Not until those children were nearly grown did I come unequivocally to the need to make art myself.”
In late 2006 Diane began making collages that started her on her current path; in late 2007 she left her consulting job to focus on her artwork full-time.
She has studied with Bruce Dorfman at the Art Students League in New York, and has had solo exhibits at the Alexey von Schlippe...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Wood Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic, Wood
CC 100 - Blue red abstract geometric 3D wall circular sculpture
Located in New York, NY
Anna Kruhelska is a visual artist and architect working across fields of art and design. She creates abstract, three-dimensional paper wall reliefs that startle in their intricacy an...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Wood Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Plywood, Acrylic
Elevate
By Greg Joubert
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Hand carved aspen wood sculpture
torched burnished and painted
Greg Joubert was born in 1977 and raised in the seaside New England town of Hingham, Massac...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Wood Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
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Find a wide variety of authentic Wood abstract sculptures available on 1stDibs. While artists have worked in this medium across a range of time periods, art made with this material during the 21st Century is especially popular. If you’re looking to add Abstract sculptures created with this material to introduce a provocative pop of color and texture to an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, green, pink, red and other colors. There are many well-known artists whose body of work includes ceramic sculptures. Popular artists on 1stDibs associated with pieces like this include Scott Troxel, Chloe Hedden, Arozarena De La Fuente, and David E. Peterson. Frequently made by artists working in the Abstract, Contemporary, all of these pieces for sale are unique and many will draw the attention of guests in your home. Not every interior allows for large Wood abstract sculptures, so small editions measuring 0.25 inches across are also available
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