1980s Abstract Sculptures

Pair, sisal, wool, stilon, 125" x 77", 1989. This large figurative, abstract tapestry was done by textile artist, Lilla Kulka (b. 1946, Krakow, Poland). Artist Statement: "I creat...

A plate with a green and yellow ceramic woman's body from waiter up attached on it. Signed and dated verso. Born in Havana in 1950, Alfonzo w...

Alan Johnston (Scottish, born 1945), Untitled, 1988, cast bronze, edition of 2, cast #2 Incised A.J. 2/2 88 on underside Provenance: Jack Tilton Gallery, NY This is a weighty, solid bronze sculpture mounted to a clear, lucite, acrylic or plexiglass base Alan Johnston, one of the leading British geometric abstract artists of his generation. Known for his large-scale architectural interventions and wall drawings including collaborations with architects such as Diener & Diener in Basel, Reiach & Hall architects Edinburgh, Shinichi Ogawa architects Tokyo and Hiroshima and Shinichi Ogawa in Japan, in 2013, he was commissioned to create a large ceiling drawing as part of the refurbishment of Tate Britain. His work has its roots in the practice of art, architecture and visual thinking in the West and the East, and relates to concepts and practices such as Wabi Sabi and Minimalism. His work is also related to the work of Patrick Geddes. He has engaged in collaborative initiatives in art and architecture with Professor Shinichi Ogawa, Tokyo, and Neil Gillespie, Edinburgh. Lives and works in Edinburgh, Scotland EDUCATION 1972 - 73 Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf 1969 - 72 Royal College of Art, London 1964 - 69 Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2015 Alan Johnston, H-I-C-A, Inverness-shire, Scotland, UK 2015 SAFN, Berlin, Germany Mies van der Rohe Haus, Berlin, Germany 2013 Bartha Contemporary, London, UK Wall Drawing, Tate Britain, London, UK 2012 Drawing A Shadow: No Object. Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK 2011 Spazio attivo ovvero struttura: Renata Fabbri Contemporary Art, Milano, Italy 2010 Drawing House of Art. Budejovice, Czech Republic 2010 exhibition at the Henry Moore Institute 2009 Wall Drawing Peloton, Sydney Australia 2008 Wall Drawing U8, Nagoya, Japan Tanizaki’s Mountains. Concept Space. Gunma, Japan 2007 Encased A.P.U.F.A.M. Museum, Aichi, Japan Shadow Without Object, NSA Gallery, Hiroshima, Japan Wall drawing, New Bedford Art Museum. New Bedford, USA 2005 Cairn Gallery Pittenweem Fife, Scotland, UK 1999 Northern Mirror Bury Museum, Bury, Greater Manchester, UK. Exhibition and installation Two Cubes, I.A.V.A Akiyoshidai International Contemporary Art and Architecture Academy. An Architectural Collaboration with Shinichi Ogawa, Akiyoshidai, Japan 1998 The Norwich Gallery, N.S.A.D. Norwich Jack Tilton Gallery, NYC, USA 1996 The Lisson Gallery, London. 1994 Jack Tilton Gallery, NYC, USA Haus Wittgenstein, Vienna, Austria 1993 Shimada Gallery, Yamaguchi, Japan 1979 Graeme Murray Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK 1978 Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK 1977 Graeme Murray Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK 1975 Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London, UK 1974 Von Der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal, Germany SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2012 A Parliament of Lines, CAC Edinburgh, UK. Including Charles Avery, Paul Chiappe, Layla Curtis, Nathalie De Briey, Moyna Flanagan, Luca Frei, Euan Gray, Sam Griffin, Marie Harnett, Callum Innes, Andrew MacKenzie, David Shrigley, Graeme Todd, Ainslie Yule 2011 Faster and Slower Lines - From the Collection of Pétur Arason and Ragna Róbertsdóttir, The Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland. Curated by Birta Gudjondottir and Petur Arason. Including Ingolfur Arnarsson, Birgir Andresson, Stanley Brouwn, Helmut Federle, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Roni Horn, Kristjan Gudmundsson, Donald Judd, Richard Long, Dieter Rot, Karin Sander, Lawrence Weiner Presente Futuro, Bordarier, Renata Fabbri arte contemporanea, Milano, IT. Inlcuding McLune, Radi, Sartorio, Shanahan, Thurston 2010 IFF, Marseilles, FR. curated by Gavin Morrison. Including Douglas Gordon, Sean Shanahan, Fraser Stables 2009 Tactile Vision, Slewe Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Curated and participated group exhibition including Roger Ackling, David Connearn, Yoko Terauchi, Thomas Clark, Andreas Karl Schulze, Eiji Watanabe, Taka Iwasaki, Ragna Robertsdottir, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Takaya Fujii, Thomas Struth, Hideo Shimada, Richard Tuttle, Adam Barker-Mill, On Kawara, Tom Benson, Takashi Suzuki, John McLaughlin, Atsuo Hukuda, Kenzo Onada, Shinichi Ogawa, Yasuko Otsuka, Masayuki Yasuhara SNO Contemporary Art Projects. 48, Sydney, Australia. Curated by Richard Dunn. Including Mark Brown, Richard Dunn, Marita Fraser, Manya Ginori, Alex Lawler, Adrian McDonald, Ragna Robertsdottir, Tsong Eng Tan 2007 The Secret Theory of Drawing, The Drawing Room, London Niland Gallery Model Arts Sligo Ireland. Including David Austen, Trisha Donnelly, Olafur Elliasson, Ceal Floyer...

Adela Akers (b. 1933, Santiago de Compostela, Spain) is a Spanish-born textile and fiber artist. She is Professor Emeritus (1972 to 1995) at the Tyler Scho...

Monastery Gate (work no. HVP03012) is the most unique contemporary modern abstract geometric bronze sculpture by acclaimed Dutch constructivist Henk van Putten, who was born in The N...

Textured contemporary orange and green wall sculpture. The work is textured using masonite and sawdust. The work is titled, dated and signed by the artist on the back of the work. Michael Richardson...

"Positive Crack" by John Ruppert Cast iron Over the past 35 years, John Ruppert has been working in cast metals; manufactured materials such as chain-link fabric; mixed media; and m...

Lusia Robinson: Bamboo sculpture - This sculpture is characteristic of Robinson’s work emphasizing materiality within form integrating indigenous materials with modern technology a...

"Untitled (Homage to Frank Stella)" by contemporary American artist Bruce Houston is a mixed media sculpture created with wood, paint and toy parts in 1989.

Peach Tones sculpture of two figures in an embrace. The stone has natural tones and speckles. The artist signed and dated the work on the bottom of the figu...

This Enamel on aluminum in plexi box by Jay Phillips, is a structural contemporary work. Phillips cut and folded his materials to form overlaps and projections. His use of bright colors reflected his early Southern California art...

Artist: Curtis Mitchell, American (1954 - ) Title: Broken Wall Year: 1989 Medium: Mixed Media Wall Sculpture (Plaster, Resin, Acrylic), signed and dated ...

Original stainless steel sculpture. Incised "Leon Ferrari 1981" on a metal plaque affixed to the lower area of the sculpture. Certificate of Authenticity is included. Please do not...

Figurative sculpture of a thinking women seated. Women appears to be in a long dress. The stone has natural tones that come out with the carvings of the sculpture.

'Were We Ever Really Children?' is a rare early example of the small-scale assemblages that American artist Joel Jaeks began producing in the 1980s. As with all of his assemblages, t...

This astonishing artwork titled "Deji" is an abstract sculpture in polished bronze dated 1985, the period in which the artist was present to twice editions of Biennale of Venice, Int...

Tanned stone sculpture of a women who appears to be in a dance. The sculpture comes on a white pedestal. The sculpture is signed and dated by the artist. Measurements include the ped...

'Scratch The Earth, Let The Telephone Ring' is a rare early example of the small-scale assemblages that American artist Joel Jaeks began producing in the 1980s. As with all of his assemblages, the artwork is constructed inside an envelope-sized paper board box – then filled with what can only be called memories, ideas and fading dreams. 'Scratch The Earth, Let The Telephone Ring' is covered on the exterior and interior by splatters of blue and red paint, applied with the same vigor as the Abstract Expressionist canvases of Jackson Pollock. On the back, four squares cut from a screenprint of a winter landscape form a window to the themes on the inside: pasted on the back, a Victorian postcard...

Abstract sculpture by American artist, Jack Youngerman (b.1926). Nexus, 1990. 24.5 inches. Aluminum, numbered 2/3. Signed and numbered on base. 1926 Born, St. Louis, Missouri; moved with family to Louisville, Kentucky in 1929 1943-44; 1946-47 Attended University of Missouri 1944-46 U.S. Navy, University of North Carolina 1947-49 Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris 1949-55 Lived and worked in Paris 1956 Returned to the United States; lived in New York City 1956-1995 1995-current Resides in Bridgehampton, New York ONE MAN EXHIBITIONS: 1951 Galerie Arnaud, Paris 1958 Betty Parsons Gallery, New York (1960, 1961, 1964, 1967, 1968) 1959 Museum of Modern Art, New York, "Sixteen Americans" 1962 Galerie Lawrence, Paris (also 1965) 1963 Galeria dell' Ariete, Milan Everett Ellen Gallery, Los Angeles, California The Phillips Collection, Washington, D. C. 1971 Pace Gallery, New York (also 1972, 1975) 1972 Portland Center for the Arts, Oregon Seattle Art Museum, Washington 1973 The Arts Club of Chicago, Illinois Galerie Denise Rene, Paris 1975 Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 1976 Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York 1981 Washburn Gallery...

'When Every Little Bit Of Hope Is Gone' is a rare early example of the small-scale assemblages that American artist Joel Jaeks began producing in the 1980s. As with all of his assemb...

This sculpture is one of a kind piece, no other one exists, and it was realized in 1980 by the well known Italian artist Bruno Chersicla. This is a kinetic abstract sculpture, most ...

Sculpture is a beautiful gray, with delicate texturing and the opening at the top of the stairs casts a striking reverse shadow. This plated steel pedestal sculpture is from Bella Fe...

Naturalistic figure of a women with long hair and a long dress. The stone is a darker blue toned with natural veins and speckling. The figure is signed on the bottom of the dress.

Podroz (Journey) from the Kolodia series, linen, sisal, wool 60" x 56", 1986. This mid-century modern woven textile wall sculpture was done by fiber artist, Agnieszka Ruszczynska-Sza...

'And Ten Out of Ten' is a rare early example of the small-scale assemblages that American artist Joel Jaeks began producing in the 1980s. As with all of his assemblages, the artwork ...

Cool grey figurative sculpture of a female figure. Sculpture has concave areas where the limbs would extend from the body. The sculpture sits on a base that appears to be a leg. Jose...

Sculpture of a seated women with her hands on her knees. Sculpture has various natural colors that branch through the stone. Artist signed the sculpture on the back right thigh. Luiz...

Gold Laugh (1980-85) metallic and acrylic thread, cotton. Gold, Metallic Woven Abstract Textile Sculpture. Textile artist, Micheline Beauchemin (1929-2009) was born in Longqueuil, Quebec, Canada. She has created a repertory of various works which includes theatre curtains, tapestries, wall hangings, embroidery murals, flexible walls, stained glass works, scale models, collages, toys, costumes and illustrations. Micheline Beauchemin began her career making stained-glass windows but early on turned to weaving and embroidering spectacular wall hangings in vibrant colors, including blues and greens. travelled and studied in Japan, China, India, North Africa, the Canadian Arctic and the Andes, adding depth and mystery to the love of light, water, wings and nets that is evident in her body of work. Beauchemin’s works are included in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; the Musée du Québec; Pearson Airport, Toronto; the Canada Council, Ottawa; the Canadian Museum of Civilization, Gatineau; the Bibliothèque Centrale, Quebec; the Taxation Data Centre, Shawinigan; the Revenue Building, Québec; North York...

"Pierced Slab Top Jar" is a ceramic sculpture made with Terra Sigillata by Christine LePage. It is pierced in the neck of the jar and was made in black...

Compelling abstract bronze assemblage sculpture by California artist David Phelps (American, b.1956). This is a unique modern piece that references times past by juxtaposing several ...

"Raku Vase with Fireworks" is an original ceramic vase by Marty Marcus. The artist signed the piece on the bottom. It features brightly colored abstract patterns on an earth-toned background. The vessel is a unique piece of décor priced well under $900. Part of the Design Lovers Sale...

Artist: Hans van de Bovenkamp, Dutch (1938 - ) Title: Circles and Waves Year: 1986 Medium: Steel Sculpture Overall Size: 87 x 50 in. (220.98 x 127 cm)

Tan colored stone sculpture of a female figure with hands covering the sides of her head. The sculpture is signed by the artist and dated. Milton Goldin is known for producing abstra...

Carole Eisner's indoor sculptures, averaging two to four feet tall, are made from a welded collage of drops and cut-out steel pieces from the same series of scrap she found in a Conn...

A bronze sculpture by Winni Bruggemann from 1983. A sonambient floor piece done in the style of Harry Bertoia. Interactive metal strands sway when touched creating an resounding, dee...

Robert Winslow emerged as a recognized sculptor and painter in the late 1970’s. His paintings and sculptures are in the collections of many prominent corporations including McDonald...

This artwork is made in solid cast polished aluminum. The organic forms recall bodies or souls that fit together. Giacomo Benevelli is an Italian ar...

This artwork is made in solid cast polished aluminum. The organic forms recall bodies or souls that fit together. Giacomo Benevelli is an Italian ar...

"Dancer II" by Isobel Folb Sokolow Welded steel, found metal, automotive metal, welding rod Sokolow directly welds found metals creating both purely abstract and abstract figurative...

Dudley Vaill Talcott, American (1899-1986), Free Form Abstract Sculpture [II], circa 1984. From the estate of the artist. In fine condition. Exhibited: Aetna Life Insurance Galler...

Welded steel sculpture with geometric patterns and feather like imagery. The sculpture sits on a gold pedestal. Artist signed and dated the work...

"Flower" is a double-walled porcelain ceramic bowl by Wayne Fischer. It features delicate pink and white coloration. 4 1/2" x 7" diameter Milwaukee ceramist currently residing in ...

Artist: William Landwehr (American, b. 1941) Title: Yellow is the Color of my Dead Bird's Tail Year: circa 1980 Medium: Mixed Media Construction with Neon...

This Pop work of art in hand-lacquered ABS is composed by two part: the arrow and the capital letter A. The installation decided by the artist would put in evidence the dualism of the world: the two pieces, POP art and Abstract art. Man represented by the PVC and Nature by art. Art and Culture. Gianantonio Abate...

This piece is an original porcelain bowl by Wayne Fischer. It is a double-walled ceramic and features delicate natural coloration. 10 3/4" diameter Milwaukee ceramist currently res...

"White Wedding Tears" is an original porcelain and ink piece by Marjorie Mau. The artist signed the sculpture. 16" x 14" x 3" art Artist's Statement: "My works are about the act o...

This Walter Valentini art work is made in cast lost wax bronze: "sun city" represent the dream of the man, a postive future for all. Signed by the artist.

This piece is an original bowl by Wayne Fischer. It is a double-walled bowl made from porcelain and features delicate and subtle coloration. 11" diameter Milwaukee ceramist current...

A steel sculpture by Bruce Stillman from 1980. A kinetic sculpture with rotating components perched atop a whimsically modernist base. Artist: Bruc...

Robert Winslow emerged as a recognized sculptor and painter in the late 1970’s. His paintings and sculptures are in the collections of many prominent corporations including McDonald...

Robert Winslow's 'Form' is a contemporary abstract sculpture ladened with Winslow's characteristic scratching between curved areas of smooth polished T...

An abstract sculpture of 132 Jello molds on an iron plate by Post War artist Tim Hawkinson. Signed verso, "88, Tim Hawkinson." Provenance: ACE Gallery, Los Angeles; Private coll...

Gutai Object, Paris Period by Takesada Matsutani Important organic abstraction in polyvinyl acetate adhesive on vinyl by Takesada Matsutani (Japanese, b. 1937). Titled "Objct" on verso. Signed and dated (1983) on verso with "Japan, Paris, S.F" delinated. Unframed. Image size: 47"H x 37"W. x 3"D Condition: Good: some bending and creasing to thinner edge areas top center and all corners, vinyl on lower right corner and under signature. One image shows a patch of vinyl tape, this is the artists access port for adding air under the acrylic glue to pump up the area. We will mount on Sturdy foam core and make the conservation minor fixes to the vinyl layers prior to shipping. From the early sixties to the early seventies, Matsutani was a key member of the ‘second generation’ of the Gutai Art...

This artwork is a cast patinated bronze and brass panel. This artist was present at the Biennale of Venice with his architectural artworks. He h...

An original woven paper and staple wall sculpture by Jozef Bajus. This piece is comprised of hundreds of pieces of old textile patterns created by the artist in his capacity as a fa...

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: ...

An original clay wall sculpture by American artist Neil Tetkowski.

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 ...