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Period: Late 20th Century
Abstract Cast Glass Sculpture, 'Waka Tupapku', 1996 by David Ruth
By David Ruth
Located in Oakland, CA
'Waka Tupapaku' is a contemporary abstract cast glass sculpture by David Ruth from his Internal Space series.
About the Internal Space Series:
David’s experiments with sheet glass and fusing led him to try to make the glass thicker to see more interior space. It was during this time a professor pointed out that he was working with a metaphor, for which the internal space of the glass was the equivalent to the internal life of the mind. This became his operating mantra but also forced him to come to terms with the casting of thick sections.
“Creating those internal spaces came with some problems. Other than telescope mirrors, I did not know that anyone annealed glass in a kiln for more than a day or two. When pieces cracked after five days of cooling, I could not believe they would need even more time. The tragedy...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Glass
Bronze Abstract Sculpture Walter Valentini Città Del Sole City of The Sun
Located in Brescia, IT
Walter Valentini was born in 1928 in South Italy. A painter and engraver, he lives and works in Milan. He is Holder of the chair for engraving at the Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in...
Category
Post-Modern Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Flight, Abstract Expressionist Bronze Sculpture by Leonardo Nierman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Leonardo Nierman, Mexican (1932 - 2023) - Flight, Year: 1973, Medium: Bronze Sculpture, signed and numbered, Edition: I/VI, Size: 10.6 x 23.6 x 9.6 in. (26.92 x 59.94 x 24.38 cm)
Category
Abstract Expressionist Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Abstract Minimalist Ceramic Sculpture in White
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract Minimalist Ceramic Sculpture in White
Organic and minimalist sculpture by "Toki" John Toki (Japanese, 20th Century). This piece was pressed by hand from a mold. There is a ...
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Minimalist Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Medaglia 25 Anni Tecno Limited Edition bronze medallion plaque famous sculptor
Located in New York, NY
ARNALDO POMODORO
Medaglia 25 Anni Tecno (Two Sided Bronze Medallion), 1979
Bronze (incised signature)
2 1/2 × 2 × 7/10 inches
Edition 196/1600
Unframed
This beautiful two sided limit...
Category
Abstract Geometric Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Arnaldo Pomodoro, Signed metal pendant (Brooch), International Scullpture Center
Located in New York, NY
Arnaldo Pomodoro
Signed metal pendant (Brooch), ca. 1989
Sculpted metal brooch.
Incised signature by Arnaldo Pomodoro.
4 4/5 × 4 inches
Elegant sculpted metal brooch and/or pendant....
Category
Abstract Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Omaggio a Giacometti Tribute to Giacometti 1970 Italy Urano Palma
Located in Brescia, IT
This very intense and engaging artwork was created by Urano Palma that he is a well known Italian artist who starts to create his artworks following the philosophy of Lucio Fontana. ...
Category
Post-Modern Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Large Stainless Steel Abstract Israeli Sculpture 'Three Tubes' Maquette
By Israel Hadany
Located in Surfside, FL
Israel Hadany (Israeli, 1941-). A stainless steel maquette for sculpture "Three Tubes", currently installed at the University of Pennsylvania ...
Category
Abstract Geometric Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel, Iron
1980 Italy Post-Modern Bronze Abstract Sculpture by Ottorino Tonelli Eva
Located in Brescia, IT
This artwork was created by the Italian artist Ottorino Tonelli. Title "Eva"
Ottorino Tonelli was born in 1948 in Carrara, where he lives and works. After having completed his studie...
Category
Post-Modern Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Joseph Wesner "Sculpture from the Pherein Series" Abstract Sculpture Signed
Located in Detroit, MI
“Sculpture from the Pherein Series” is a monumental piece named with the Greek word “pherein” meaning both to bear and to bring. It is made of welded steel and wood and is one of several similar, but different pieces belonging to a series created by Wesner and named The Pherein Series.
Joseph Wesner...
Category
Abstract Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Hand Signed Dated 1993 Colorful Acrylic Vasa Laminated Lucite Triangle Sculpture
Located in Surfside, FL
Irregular triangle, 1993
Laminated acrylic
Hand signed and dated: Vasa / 1993
4" H x 12" W x 3" D (size is approximate)
Vasa Velizar Mihich (born 1933), known as Vasa, is an American artist based in Los Angeles, California. Born in Yugoslavia, Vasa has lived in Los Angeles since his arrival in the United States in 1960. He is an academically trained painter and was a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles UCLA in the Department of Design and Media Arts. He taught theories of color to understand interdependence and interaction of color and form, color and quantity, color and placement, and after-image. In the 1960s, Vasa developed techniques for working with cast laminated acrylic forms based on simple Euclidean shapes. These prisms of luminous construction are created by composing colored planes within these geometric forms. To fully appreciate these works of art, it is essential to observe them from different angles―the sculptures dimensionality contributes to an ever-changing appearance.
Now retired as a professor emeritus, Vasa focuses on his conceptual art practice. His studio, designed to accommodate the technology required for his work, is located in the heart of Los Angeles. He makes laminated acrylic sculptures that reflect and refract light. He has had solo exhibitions at galleries in the United States, Japan, Italy and Serbia, including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, the San Diego Museum of Art, and the Palm Springs Desert Museum.
Vasa is best known for his sculptures made from colored pieces of the plastic, poly(methyl methacrylate), which is also known as acrylic and by the brand names Plexiglas and Lucite. Untitled from 1975, in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art, demonstrates the effect of these minimalist sculptures. His work straddles the West Coast Light and Space art movement, Artists such as Robert Irwin, James Turrell, John McCracken, Larry Bell, Craig Kauffman, Billy Al Bengston, Peter Alexander, and Lita Albuquerque...
Category
Abstract Geometric Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Plastic, Lucite
John Van Alstine - Column XII (Strange Fruit), Sculpture 1999
Located in Greenwich, CT
Column XII (Strange Fruit), John Van Alstine.
This unique sculpture will be shipped directly from the artist's studio.
Stone and metal, usually granite or slate and found object st...
Category
Abstract Geometric Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Granite, Bronze
Oregon Pacific Northwest Artist Brutalist Bronze "Charging Animal" Sculpture
Located in Portland, OR
A good & large constructivist bronze by one of Oregon's most celebrated 20th century artists, Tom Hardy (1921-2016).
Hardy was an accomplished sculptor, painter & print-maker. This b...
Category
Constructivist Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Front City Mid-20th Century Abstract Gold Patinated Bronze Italian Sculpture
Located in Brescia, IT
This gold color patinated bronze sculpture is made by Lino Tinè a contemporary abstract sculptor that lives and works in Milan, Italy.
The sculpture expresse...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
1980 Italy Bronze Abstract Kinetic Sculpture Bruno Chersicla Playwork
Located in Brescia, IT
This sculpture is a multiple 1 piece of 1000 realized in 1980 by the well known Italian artist Bruno Chersicla.
All the pieces are numbered and signed by the artist and completed by ...
Category
Post-Modern Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Nexus
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
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...
Category
Abstract Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Aluminum
$4,500 Sale Price
30% Off
Italy 1980 Bruno Chersicla White Painted Metal Sculpture Upupa
Located in Brescia, IT
This sculpture is a multiple 1 piece of 50 realized in 1980 by the well known artist Bruno Chersicla.
All the pieces are numbered and signed by the artist and completed by the Certificate of the artist and the Editor who made the artworks.
The white painted metal sculpture...
Category
Post-Modern Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Optisk komposition
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Victor Vasarely Optisk komposition, 1970 is a Studio Line Rosenthal Porcelain relief with aluminum and is hand-signed by Victor Vasarely (Hungary, 1906 – France, 1997) on verso. Numb...
Category
Op Art Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain, Glaze
Italy Post Modern Jiro Sugawara Pewter Multiple Abstrac Sculpture
Located in Brescia, IT
This artwork was created by the artist Jiro Sugawara, the title is "Circle"
Jiro Sugawara is a post-war artist and he was born in Japon in 1941. He studied sculpture at the Tokyo Dep...
Category
Post-Modern Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Nude in Abstract, Modern Bronze sculpture with gold patina
Located in Long Island City, NY
Georges Charpentier, French (1937 - 2024) - Nude in Abstract, Year: circa 1980, Medium: Bronze sculpture with gold patina, signature and numbering inscribed, Edition: EA, Size: 3...
Category
Modern Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Tusk
Located in Palm Desert, CA
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...
Category
Post-War Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
$56,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Giuliano Tosi Large Italian Sculpture - Glass Head with Red Eye
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Fascinating Large Italian Glass Sculpture - Face with Red Eye.
Incised signature on the base - Giuliano Tosi.
Created by the famous Italian glassmaker circa 1970's - 1980's.
The work measures 19 ½ inches high and 11 inches across at the widest point.
It is in excellent condition with no damage and is quite an eye-catching objet d'art.
Master Giuliano Tosi, born in 1942, hails from a lineage steeped in glassmaking tradition dating back to 1483. His journey with glass began at the tender age of 12, under the tutelage of Master Albino Carrara. Recognizing Tosi's burgeoning mastery, Carrara gifted him his corteo, an essential glass-cutting tool, symbolizing a rite of passage and an honor Tosi cherishes to this day.
Tosi's expertise extends beyond traditional techniques, evident in his introduction of the external sbruffi technique in furnaces, a method enhancing color vibrancy and variation. His works have graced galleries worldwide, including Milan's Fashion District, Chicago, New York, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, marking him as a significant figure in Murano's glass history over the past six decades.
His talent for creating art glass pieces has attracted commissions from luminaries such as the Pope, Julia Roberts, Michael Douglas, and Victoria Adams...
Category
Abstract Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Glass
Untitled, Conceptual Collage and Mixed Media by Josep Grau-Garriga
Located in Long Island City, NY
Josep Grau-Garriga, Spanish (1929 - 2011) - Untitled, Year: 1977, Medium: Collage and mixed media, mounted on stiffened canvas, signed and dated in pencil, Size: 19.25 x 16.25 x 3...
Category
Conceptual Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
Italy 1980 Late 20th Century Pop Art Multiple Bronze Bottles
Located in Brescia, IT
This is a multiple bronze with wood base create by the Italian artist Tino Stefanoni in 1980 circa.
This artwork is following Pop Art and its philosophy that elevates everyday objetc...
Category
Post-Modern Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
D from Logo Suite (Magenta) Silkscreen on 3-D Molded Plastic Over Wood Signed/N
Located in New York, NY
3-D sculpted multiple (to be hung on the wall) by British Pop Art pioneer Richard Smith:
Richard Smith
D from Logo Suite (Magenta), 1971
Silkscreen on 3-D Molded Plastic Over Wood
P...
Category
Pop Art Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Plastic, Wood, Mixed Media, Screen, Pencil
Asymmetric Two-Sided Surrealist Hanging Sculpture
Located in Soquel, CA
Asymmetric Two-Sided Surrealist Hanging Sculpture by Mickey Kane
Dual-sided biomorphic construction by Mickey "Kano" Kane (American, 1939-2002). This piece features smooth, organic ...
Category
Contemporary Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Plywood, Acrylic
1980 Italy Post-Modern Abstract Sculpture Alessandro Guerriero Goodluck White
Located in Brescia, IT
This artwork was created by the Italian artist Alessandro Guierriero, it is a multiple of a serie of specimens made in limited edition not numbered.
The set is forged in aluminium an...
Category
Abstract Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Personnage Bronze Sculpture
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Personnage Patinated Bronze
Artist signed edition 7/24
JAMES COIGNARD (1925-2008)
Painter of still lifes; Mised Media Painter; Collages; Sculptor; Engraver; Expressionistic style, l...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Eroica A.P. 1 - smooth, polished, abstract, contemporary, bronze sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This modern bronze sculpture was inspired by music and made by David Chamberlain.
As graceful as a dancer’s form, this contemporary bronze sculpture in a striking deep turquoise patina is by David Chamberlain. Created from one luminous piece the lustre accentuates the spiralling form and reflects light.
Chamberlain’s sculptures...
Category
Abstract Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Bronze
1980 Italy Post Modern Abstract Bronze Sculpture Horse Head
Located in Brescia, IT
This is an interesting multiple artwork signed by the author Roberto Nanut, a talented artist of years 80' in Italy.
This is a multiple of a numbered edition of 1.000 pieces; we can...
Category
Post-Modern Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
1985 Italy Wooden Abstract Sculpture by Urano Palma Grande Trono Big Throne
Located in Brescia, IT
This very intense and engaging artwork was created by Urano Palma that is a well known Italian artist who starts to create his artworks following the philosophy of Lucio Fontana. He ...
Category
Post-Modern Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Aharon Bezalel Israeli Modernist Sculpture 2 Parts Minimalist Aluminum or Steel
Located in Surfside, FL
A suite of 2 sculptures. Lovers, man and woman nestled together. sleek minimalist mod sculpture.
polished finish on one side. not sure if theese are stell or aluminium. they are cast and signed in Hebrew with initials and numbered 9/9. It is 2 parts that nest together.
Aharon Bezalel (born Afghanistan 1926) Born in Afghanistan in 1926 and immigrated to Israel at an early age. As a youth was engaged as a silversmith and craftsman, and was a student of the sculptor Zev Ben-Zvi from whom he absorbed the basic concepts of classic and modernist art and interpreted, according to them, ideas based on ancient Hebrew sources.
Aharon Bezalel works and resides in Jerusalem, he taught art for many years.
“I saw myself as part of this region. I wanted to find the contact between my art and my surroundings. Those were the first years of Jean Piro’s excavations at the Beer-Sheba mound. They found there, for example, the Canaanite figurines that I especially liked and that were an element that connected me with the past and with this place.” “…a seed and sperm or male and female. These continue life. The singular, the individual alone, cannot exist; I learned this from my father who dabbled with the Kabbalah.”
(Aharon Bezalel, excerpt from an interview with David Gerstein)
“The singular in Aharon Bezalel’s work is always potentially a couple if not a threesome, the one is also the many: when the individual is revealed within the group he will always seek a huddling, a clinging together.
The principle of modular construction is required by this perception of unity and multiplicity, as modular construction in his work is an act of conception or defense.
Two poles of unity, potentially alone, exist in Aaron Bezalel’s world: From a formal, sculptural sense these are the sphere and pillar, metaphorically these are the female in the final stages of pregnancy and the solitary male individual. Sphere-seed-woman; Pillar-strand-man. The disproportional, small heads in Aharon Bezalel’s figures leave humankind in it’s primal physical capacity. The woman as a pregnancy or hips, the man as an aggressive or defensive force, the elongated chest serves as a phallus and weapon simultaneously.
(Gideon Ofrat)
EIN HAROD About the Museum's Holdings: Israeli art is represented by the works of Reuven Rubin, Zaritzky, Nahum Gutman, Mordechai Ardon, Aharon Kahana, Arie Lubin, Yehiel Shemi...
Category
Minimalist Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
1980 Italy Bronze Abstract Sculpture by Ottorino Tonelli Romeo
Located in Brescia, IT
This artwork was created by the Italian artist Ottorino Tonelli. Title "Romeo" .
Ottorino Tonelli was born in 1948 in Carrara, where he lives and works. After having completed his st...
Category
Post-Modern Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Standing Figure
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Tom Cramer (b.1960). Standing Figure, 1988. Carved wood and polymer paint. Measures 11.5 inches high. Excellent condition. Signed and dated under base.
Tom Cramer is an American artist working in Portland, Oregon noted for his intricately carved and painted wood reliefs and ubiquity throughout the city of Portland. Often called the unofficial Artist Laureate of Portland,[2] Cramer is one of the most visible and successful artists in the city. The influences on his work are both organic and technological. He is widely collected and is in many prominent west coast museum and private collections. He is in the permanent collections of the Portland Art Museum[3] in Portland Oregon, the Halle Ford Museum in Salem Oregon, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum in Eugene, Oregon, the Boise Art Museum in Idaho.
Cramer made a name for himself in the 1980s and 1990s becoming a bridge between historical Oregon artists like Clifford Gleason and Milton Wilson...
Category
Neo-Expressionist Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Latex
1980 Italy Bronze Abstract Sculpture Jiro Sugawara Orizzonte Femminile
Located in Brescia, IT
This artwork was created by the artist Jiro Sugawara, the title is "Female horizon""
Jiro Sugawara is a post-war artist and he was born in Japon in 1941. He studied sculpture at the ...
Category
Post-Modern Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Salvador Dali Daum Pate de Verre with Gold, Glass Plate Sculpture Crystal Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Salvador Dali for Daum (French, Nancy, founded 1878),
"Ceci n'est pas une assiette" or “This is not a plate” plate in dusky rose pink glass pate de verre with gold lettering and des...
Category
Pop Art Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Glass
Walking Man
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Maxine Kim Stussy, a prolific sculptor and painter from the late 1940’s to present. Maxine led an incredibly artistic life traveling the world with h...
Category
Modern Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Little Eden Italy 1980 Annamaria Gelmi Oxidized Rust Metal Sculpture
Located in Brescia, IT
This sculpture is a multiple 1 piece of 50 realized in 1980 by the Italian artist Annamaria Gelmi.
All the pieces are numbered and signed by the artist and completed by the Certificate of the artist and the Editor who made the artworks.
The iron oxidized rust sculpture...
Category
Abstract Impressionist Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Modern Colored Paper Sculptural Art 1986
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3991 Sculptural Art piece rolled archival acrylic painted paper set in a custom acrylic frame on dark blue back round
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Scultura Spezzata Broken Sculpture 1975 Italy by Roberto Vecchione
Located in Brescia, IT
This intense and engaging abstract bronze sculpture was created by the Italian artist Roberto vecchione. The title " Scultura Spezzata" translated in "Broken Sculpture...
Category
Post-Modern Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Geometric abstraction mid century modern constructivist Signed metal sculpture
Located in New York, NY
Forrest Myers
Untitled geometric abstraction, 1976
Painted aluminum
Signed in the metal with the artist's incised initials (FM) and stamp numbered 52/75; bears Treitel-Gratz foundry ...
Category
Constructivist Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Vintage 1980s Hand Blown Studio Art Glass Plate by Peter Bramhall
Located in East Quogue, NY
Beautiful yellow glass centerpiece created by Peter Bramhall, signed and dated 8/2/80. The swirl design platter is uniquely shaped and is full...
Category
Contemporary Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Blown Glass
Island Jewel
By Jon Kuhn
Located in Long Island City, NY
A polished glass sculpture by Joh Kuhn from 1992. A spectacular sculpture of crystal clear glass that forms a complicated prism in which light is reflected in a multitude of optical ...
Category
Op Art Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Glass
$50,000
Archeologia del Pensiero Archeology of Thought 1980 Italy by Luciana Matalon
Located in Brescia, IT
This engaging bronze abstract sculpture was created by the Italian artist Luciana Matalon in 1980.
This is a mulptiple of 1000 specimens numbered and signed. The title is " Archeolog...
Category
Post-Modern Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Italy 1980 Bruno Chersicla White Painted Metal Sculpture Egitto
Located in Brescia, IT
This sculpture is a multiple 1 piece of 50 realized in 1980 by the well known artist Bruno Chersicla.
All the pieces are numbered and signed by the artist and completed by the Certif...
Category
Post-Modern Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
"You Have the Right to Remain Silent" Wood Panel Original Painting and Carving
Located in Soquel, CA
"You Have the Right to Remain Silent" Wood Panel Original Painting and Carving
Elaborate collage, painting and carved sculpture by Mickey "Kano" Kane (American, 20th century). In Yo...
Category
Outsider Art Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel, Masonite, Adhesive, Fiberboard
Abstract Cast Glass Sculpture, 'Ras Algethi', 1995 by David Ruth
By David Ruth
Located in Oakland, CA
'Ras Algethi' is a contemporary abstract cast glass sculpture by David Ruth from his Internal Space series. This part of the series was inspired by astronomy and the distant galaxies and stars. David fused various colored glass creates a layered, suspended, and vibrant three-dimensional space within an spiral form.
About the Internal Space Series:
David’s experiments with sheet glass and fusing led him to try to make the glass thicker to see more interior space. It was during this time a professor pointed out that he was working with a metaphor, for which the internal space of the glass was the equivalent to the internal life of the mind. This became his operating mantra but also forced him to come to terms with the casting of thick sections.
“Creating those internal spaces came with some problems. Other than telescope mirrors, I did not know that anyone annealed glass in a kiln for more than a day or two. When pieces cracked after five...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Glass
Suzanne Benton, Becoming, 1975, Copper, Coated Steel
Located in Darien, CT
In 1972, the women’s movement was in full flower. Suzanne Benton had been an early activist, a founder and organizer of NOW Chapters, CT Feminists in the Arts, Women, Metamorphosis 1 (in New Haven, CT, the first women’s art festival in the USA). She'd already been creating metal sculpted masks and working with them in mask tale performances of Women of Myth and Heritage. Her inaugural performance of Sarah and Hagar n 1972 took place at Lincoln Center in NYC.
Benton then became the artistic director and producer of an evening on Broadway, Four Chosen Women (performers included herself as mask tale performer, author Anais Nin, actress Vinie Burroughs and dancer Joan Stone). The evening took place at the Edison Theatre, November 22, 1972. While developing the evening on Broadway, Benton met renowned Swedish actress and Hollywood star, Viveca Lindfors.
Viveca was then working on her solo performance, I AM A WOMAN, and was looking for a unique theatre set for the show. The happenstance that brought Viveca and Suzanne together. At that same time, recent travel to Macchu Picchu inspired her with the mountain’s great stones sitting on the edge of precipices. These vast stones led her to create welded steel Seated Sculpture Works. Viveca was intrigued by the concept and let her own imagination fly. Imagining a set of welded steel sculpture, she took the leap in commissioning Suzanne with complete faith in artist's ability to fulfill her mandate. Benton created groups of welded sculptures for two theater sets.
Protection is one of three sculptures in first set created in 1973. Mother and Child, Pelvic Woman, Facing Each Other are three of five works from the 1974 second set. The first toured with her shows throughout the East Coast and into Toronto, Canada. The second set, created to nest together could travel as checked baggage for international and domestic airline travel. They flew to Denmark in 1980 for her performance at the UN sponsored 1980 Women’s International Conference, Copenhagen.
In addition to creating the theatre sets, Benton mounted exhibitions of her masks and sculptures in the lobbies of theatres where she performed (NYC and Northampton). Continuing on with this theme, Becoming is her 1975 Seated Sculpture Work. The theatre sets were returned at the final end of its long run. These Seated Sculpture Works have often been featured in exhibitions, including both the 2003 and 2005 retrospectives. They are part of an oeuvre of 797 sculptures and masks.
What attracted her to welded sculpture? This excerpt from her book, The Art of Welded Sculpture, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1975 speaks of its lure:
"Early in my life, when I had decided to become an artist, I had had an inner vision of being able to hold the physical material of my art in such a way as to bring it into existence with my hands. In welding, I wear a mask, a heavy apron, and gloves. I heat the metal and make it bend so smoothly and gracefully; I cut the metal, rigid metal, into endless shapes; I join the pieces by causing them to flow together with the heat of the flame. Welding was a return to my adolescent vision. It was fulfillment. At that beginning time I felt that even if I went no further, this experience in itself gave me astounding satisfaction. It was as thrilling as the moment of birth. It was my birth."
(Pelvic Woman and Protection are illustrated in the book):
What began in 1965 became by 2017 an oeuvre of 797 sculptures and masks. The magic of the welding mask...
Category
Feminist Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Copper, Steel
Codina Corona. Boat la barca Original- wood realistic sculpture-
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
sculpture on wood by Spanish artist CODINA CORONA.
Sculpture of one piece of wood
Josep Maria Codina Corona (Igualada, 1935 - Barcelona, 2006) was a Catalan sculptor. He studied at...
Category
Contemporary Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Portrait of A Woman, Modern Bronze sculpture with gold patina
Located in Long Island City, NY
Georges Charpentier, French (1937 - 2024) - Portrait of A Woman, Year: circa 1980, Medium: Bronze sculpture with gold patina on wooden base, signature and numbering inscribed, Edit...
Category
Modern Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
1985 Italy Terracotta Abstract Sculpture by Urano Palma Terracotta Throne
Located in Brescia, IT
This very intense and engaging artwork was created by Urano Palma that is a well known Italian artist who starts to create his artworks following the philosophy of Lucio Fontana. He ...
Category
Post-Modern Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Hajibito (Ceramic 53), by Yasuhisa Kohyama
Located in Wilton, CT
Yasuhisa Kohyama shapes his asymmetrical forms using piano wire, creating distinctive rough surfaces. The clay with its feldspar nuggets creates a tac...
Category
Abstract Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Clay
John Van Alstine - Cudgel II, Sculpture 1991
Located in Greenwich, CT
Stone and metal,usually granite or slate and found object steel are central in my sculpture. The interaction of these materials is a major focus. On the most basic level the work is ...
Category
Abstract Geometric Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Slate
Abstract Bronze Sculpture, Unique Signed work from the estate of Arthur Carr
Located in New York, NY
Peter Reginato
Abstract Bronze Sculpture, ca. 1987
Bronze
Signed on the underside
4 × 6 1/2 × 5 1/2 inches
This bronze sculpture is by the American abstract sculptor Peter Reginato. ...
Category
Abstract Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
John Van Alstine - Pique A Terre IV, Sculpture 1991
Located in Greenwich, CT
Stone and metal,usually granite or slate and found object steel are central in my sculpture. The interaction of these materials is a major focus. On the most basic level the work is ...
Category
Abstract Geometric Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Slate, Steel
"Soul Bond" Satirical Bond Paperwork Collage
Located in Soquel, CA
"Soul Bond" Satirical Bond Paperwork Collage
Elaborate collage by Mickey "Kano" Kane (American, 20th century). Soul Bond takes the form of a satirical contract, darkly parodying the...
Category
Post-War Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Glue, Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Magazine Paper
John Van Alstine - Cornucopia With Columns, Sculpture 1998
Located in Greenwich, CT
Cornucopia With Columns, John Van Alstine.
Stone and metal, usually granite or slate and found object steel are central in my sculpture. The interaction of these materials is a majo...
Category
Abstract Geometric Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Concrete, Steel, Iron
Abstract Cast Glass Sculpture, 'Altair', 1993 by David Ruth
By David Ruth
Located in Oakland, CA
'Altair' is a contemporary abstract cast glass sculpture by David Ruth from his Internal Space series. David fused various colored glass to create a layered, suspended, and vibrant ...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Glass
Gente e Dune People and Dunes 1980 Italy by Luciana Matalon
Located in Brescia, IT
This engaging bronze abstract sculpture was created by the Italian artist Luciana Matalon in 1980.
This is a mulptiple of 1000 specimens numbered and signed. The title is " Gente e d...
Category
Post-Modern Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Tropical Parrot with Woman, " Corneille, Carved Wood Sculpture with Bird
By Corneille
Located in New York, NY
Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo (Corneille)
Tropical Parrot with Woman, circa 1970
Signed: Corneille
Edition Number: 6 of 8
Constructed and Painted wood
39" high x 40 1/2" wide x 6" ...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Paint
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