Modern Abstract Sculptures

Organic, abstract bronze sculpture by Yulla Lipchitz of a woman lying down with a tree. About this artist: Yulla Lipchitz, née Halberstadt, was born on April 21, 1911 in Berlin, Ge...

Gio Schiano is a contemporary Italian designer who was born in Naples, Italy in 1976. He is a well-known high fashion photographer as well as a painter, sculptor and designer. Schian...

"Experimental Piece #12" by Kate Hunt, 12" x 11" x 2", made of newspaper, burnt encaustic, and baling twine, with hanging wire included on the back, also sig...

"Scalloped Basket" is a stoneware piece with the decorative layer of the rich toned glazes and markings that John was so well-known for. He was, also, known for the undulating lip lines on his exquisite pieces. The basket portion is shaped with gentle curves and a sculptural handle. Each piece that John produced was unique. He was seduced by the effects of the reduction kiln, which decreased the levels of oxygen during firing, inducing the flame to pull oxygen out of the clay and glazes changing the colors of the glazes depending on their iron and copper content. In this way he achieved the rich gradients of ochre and umber and variations in stippling and opacity. This particular "basket" also has the cool blues and grays that contrast with the umber. It is signed and stamped on the bottom. John was an American Abstract Expressionist ceramicist born in Detroit, MI. Though open to artistic experimentation, Glick was most influenced by the styles and aesthetics of Asian pottery—an inspiration that shows in his use of decorative patterns and glaze choices. He has said that he is attracted to simplicity, as well as complexity: my work continually reflects my re-examination that these two poles can coexist… or not, in a given series. Glick also took influences from master potters of Japan, notably Shoji Hamada and Kanjrio Kawai, blending their gestural embellishments of simple forms with attitudes of Abstract Expressionism. He was particularly drown to the work of Helen Frankenthaler whose soak-stain style resonated with Glick’s multi-layered glaze surfaces, which juxtaposed veils of atmospheric color with gestural marks and pattern. He spent countless hours developing and making his own tools in order to achieve previously unseen results in his work with clay and glaze. Glick’s “Plum Tree Pottery...

"Makaha (Metal)" is a fun modernist freestanding sculpture that brings bold statement to wherever it is placed. Made from .25" thick powder coated mild steel, it is vibrant and durable and can be used both inside and outside (powder coated is weather resistant). The color is a retro teal (Even though it appears almost bright blue in the bright sun photos...

"Experimental Piece #13" by Kate Hunt, 12" x 12" x 2", made of newspaper, burnt encaustic, and baling twine, with hanging wire included on the back, also sig...

"Balken" is a minimalist and modernist wood wall sculpture that brings bold statement to wherever it is placed. The piece was inspired by my love for brutalist architecture of the ...

"Refresher" is a minimalist and modernist solid wood wall sculpture that brings bold statement to wherever it is placed. The piece is part of my popular "Small Pops" Series which are...

NOTE: This listing is for a commission based off the original piece. Please allow 4-6 weeks for delivery. Custom colors and sizes are available. "Snakecharmer" is a minimalist and...

"Blue Zebra" is a minimalist and modernist wood wall sculpture reminiscent of both mid century modern forms and bold graphic design. Blue Zebra is part of my "Small Pops" Series whic...

NOTE: This is a commission piece. It will be made specifically for you. Custom sizes and colors available. Allow 3-4 weeks plus shipping. "Denim V" is a modern, minimalist, wood ...

"Elbow" is a minimalist and modernist, geometric, solid wood wall sculpture that brings bold statement to wherever it is placed. The piece is part of my popular "Small Pops" Series w...

Romania-born Antonovici is best-known as Constantin Brancusi’s protege. He worked closely with the master sculptor in his studio until he emigrated to the USA in 1953. Modern Cross,...

NOTE: This is for a commission piece based on the original. Can be ordered in custom sizes and colors. Allow 4 weeks plus shipping. Flour is a mixed media wall sculpture. It is co...

NOTE: This is a commission piece, made after the original. It can be commissioned in custom sizes and colors. Allow 3-4 weeks plus shipping. Achtung VI is a vibrant large-scale mi...

NOTE: This is for a commission piece based on the original. Colors and size can be customized. Allow 4-6 weeks. Quiet Riot V is a large mixed media wall sculpture. Layers of MDF ...

Ruth Asawa Bronze Flower, 1979 Cast Bronze relief plaque with original presentation box 5 1/4 × 6 1/4 × 1/4 inches Numbered from the Edition of 2500 Signed and dated 'Asawa 1979' (lower edge) incised in the bronze; numbered; stamped "Designed Exclusively for Crown Zellerbach Corporation"; foundry copyright Cast at the Berkley Arts Foundry for Crown Zellerbach Ruth Asawa's estate is represented by David Zwirner. Unframed This beautiful, limited edition signed cast bronze flower plaque makes a distinctive and original gift! It bears the artist's incised signature and is uniquely numbered from the limited edition of 2500. In 1979, the Crown Zellerbach Corporation of San Francisco, which had worked closely with her on neighborhood arts programs, commissioned Asawa to make a series of bronze bas-relief plaques, including this beautiful piece, which were cast by the Berkeley Arts Foundry. Cast at Berkley Arts Foundry for Crown Zellerbach Another example of this work was exhibited in the show "On Black Mountain: The Bauhaus Legacy in America", April 5, 2019-April 27, 2019 at the Sager Braudis Gallery in Columbia, Missouri. It is reproduced on page 13 of the exhibition catalogue. Ruth Asawa Biography American artist, educator, and arts activist Ruth Asawa (1926-2013) is known for her extensive body of wire sculptures that challenge conventional notions of material and form through their emphasis on lightness and transparency. Born in rural California, Asawa was first exposed to professional artists while her family and other Japanese Americans were detained at Santa Anita, California, in 1942. Following her release from an internment camp in Rohwer, Arkansas, eighteen months later, she enrolled in 1943 in Milwaukee State Teachers College. Unable to receive her degree due to continued hostility against Japanese Americans, Asawa left Milwaukee in 1946 to study at Black Mountain College in North Carolina, then known for its progressive pedagogical methods and avant-garde aesthetic environment. Asawa's time at Black Mountain proved formative in her development as an artist, and she was particularly influenced by her teachers Josef Albers, Buckminster Fuller, and the mathematician Max Dehn. She also met architectural student Albert Lanier, whom she would marry in 1949 and with whom she would raise a large family and build a career in San Francisco. Asawa continued to produce art steadily over the course of more than a half century, creating a cohesive body of sculptures and works on paper that, in their innovative use of material and form, deftly synthesizes a wide range of aesthetic preoccupations at the heart of postwar art in America. Asawa’s work has been exhibited widely since the early 1950s, including early solo exhibitions at Peridot Gallery, New York in 1954, 1956, and 1958. In 1965, Walter Hopps organized a solo exhibition of the artist’s sculptures and drawings at the Pasadena Art Museum (now Norton Simon Museum) in California, where Asawa completed a residency at the Tamarind Lithography Workshop the same year. Other solo presentations include those held at the San Francisco Museum of Art (1973); Fresno Art Museum, California (2001; traveled to Oakland Museum of California, 2002); de Young Museum, San Francisco (2006); Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas (2012); and Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena, California (2014). In 2018 to 2019, the Pulitzer Arts Foundation in St. Louis presented Ruth Asawa: Life’s Work, the first major museum exhibition of the artist’s work in more than a decade. An accompanying catalogue published by Pulitzer Arts Foundation and Yale University Press includes essays by Aruna D’Souza, Helen Molesworth, and Tamara H. Schenkenberg. The two-person exhibition, Lineage: Paul Klee and Ruth Asawa was on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2021. In 2022, Ruth Asawa: Citizen of the Universe was on view at Modern Art Oxford, England, and later traveled to the Stavanger Kunstmuseum, Norway. Opening September 16, 2023 at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York is Ruth Asawa: Through Line, a solo presentation which will later travel to the Menil Drawing Institute in Houston. The artist’s works have also been included in significant group exhibitions, including Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933–1957, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2015; traveled to Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, and Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, 2016-2017); America Is Hard to See, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2015); Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women, 1947–2016, Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles (2017); Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2017); The Pencil Is a Key: Drawings by Incarcerated Artists, The Drawing Center, New York (2019); and In a Cloud, in a Wall, in a Chair: Six Modernists in Mexico at Midcentury, Art Institute of Chicago (2019). A selection of the artist's work was presented at the 59th Venice Biennale, The Milk of Dreams (2022). In addition to her wire sculptures, Asawa is well known for her public commissions, particularly in San Francisco and the wider Bay Area. These include the much beloved Andrea fountain in Ghirardelli Square (1966-1968) and the San Francisco Fountain outside the Grand Hyatt Union Square (1970-1973), the latter of which includes hundreds of baker’s clay images molded by local schoolchildren, friends, and other artists cast...

NOTE: This is a commission piece. It will be made specifically for you. Custom sizes and colors available. Allow 3-4 weeks plus shipping. "Denim IV" is a modern, minimalist, wood...

This listing is for a commission based from the shown piece. The original was sold. Custom sizes and colors available. UltraMarine is a mixed media wall sculpture. Made from acryli...

"Preppy" is a minimalist and modernist wood wall sculpture that brings bold statement to wherever it is placed. The piece was inspired by my love for simple bold colors and minimali...

Transponder is a low relief wall sculpture made with bright orange latex washes on birch finished with satin lacquer. It is mounted on a MDF backer that is finished with matte metall...

"1959 (Orange)" is a fun modernist freestanding sculpture that brings bold statement to wherever it is placed. Made from .125" thick powder coated mild steel, it is vibrant and dura...

"Button" is a minimalist and modernist wood wall sculpture that brings bold statement to wherever it is placed. The piece is relatively small, but it feels much larger due to the bo...

"LemonGrass" is a minimalist and modernist, solid wood wall sculpture that brings bold statement to wherever it is placed. Artist Scott Troxel says "The piece is part of my popular...

"Waikiki" is a minimalist and modernist, solid wood wall sculpture that brings bold statement to wherever it is placed. Artist Scott Troxel says "The piece is part of my popular "Small Pops" Wall Sculpture Series...

"Toucan" is a minimalist and modernist, solid wood wall sculpture that brings bold statement to wherever it is placed. Artist Scott Troxel says "The piece is part of my popular "Small Pops" Wall Sculpture Series...

NOTE: This is a commission piece, made after the original. It can be commissioned in custom sizes. Allow 3-4 weeks plus shipping. BlueBird is an elegant modern and minimalist cont...

"Pagoda" is a modern rustic wall sculpture. It was made in a similar fashion to an abstract expressionist painting, where the process of creating the piece is not predetermined, but ...

"Bourgeois Big Top" is a wood wall sculpture. Made for repurposed oak, mahogany, walnut, leather, suede, dining room table legs and brass tacks...

"Oranges" is a minimalist and modernist maple wood wall sculpture that brings bold statement to wherever it is placed. The piece was inspired by my love for simple bold colors and ...

"NavyCitron" is a striking mid century modernist inspired wall sculpture made from birch, mdf, solid walnut, metallic gold Venetian plaster paint and acrylic paint. Inspired by the ...

"Spomenik" is a wood wall sculpture. Made for repurposed oak, mahogany, walnut, leather, suede and brass tacks, the piece has an overtly architectural feel. Inspired by brutalist mo...

Ronin II is a mixed media wall sculpture. Constructed from repurposed cherry hardwood, mahogany and MDF and finished with enamel and semi-gloss lacquer. I try to create work that t...

"Skylark" is a striking mid century modernist inspired wall sculpture made from birch wood and acrylic washes. Inspired by the futuristic designs of the Mid Century Modern era, Thrus...

"Outlier" is a modern, minimalist, wood wall sculpture made from birch, washed and metallic acrylic and finished with furniture wax. The paint has been sanded back on the edges of th...

"Three" is a minimalist and modernist solid wood wall sculpture that brings bold statement to wherever it is placed. The piece is part of my popular "Small Pops" Series which are in...

Note: Streamliner I is shown with Streamliner II in some of the photos. Streamliner II is the Darker of the two sculptures and shown on the right (When both are shown in same photo)...

Note: This listing is for a commission based off the original, which was sold. Allow 3-4 weeks for delivery. Custom colors are available. Contact us for details. "Signal" is a min...

This listing is for a commission piece based from the original. Please allow 4 weeks for production. Contact us with custom color and sizing requests. "False Idol" is a minimalist...

King is a modern mixed media wall sculpture. Made from Italian plaster paint, paint, birch panel, and MDF. From the artist: This is the second piece I made as I begin to experiment w...

Zephyr II is a mixed media wall sculpture. Made from oils on birch, wax, MDF and copper spray enamel. Finished with a hand waxed process. Zephyr II is a complex and sophisticated mo...

"WavyBlue" is a minimalist and modernist maple wood wall sculpture that brings bold statement to wherever it is placed. The piece was inspired by my love for simple bold colors and...

"Firedancer" is a minimalist and modernist solid wood wall sculpture that brings bold statement to wherever it is placed. The piece is part of my popular "Small Pops" Series which ar...

Original handmade fibreglass relief sculpture from Ron Hitchins' own home. Uniquely handmade and signed by the artist. Part of a series of 3 (see our other listings for the other two...

NOTE: This is for a commission piece based on the original. Colors and size can be customized. Allow 4-6 weeks. Quiet Riot is a large mixed media wall sculpture. Layers of MDF pa...

Pinwheel is a modern and refined minimalist wall sculpture made from washed birch panels and mounted on a metallic backer. It is finished with semi-gloss lacquer. Pinwheel is a monoc...

Duster is a modern, subtle and minimalist wall sculpture. Made from layers of paint which are sanded back and added repeatedly, the distressed surface looks translucent as different ...

NOTE: This piece has sold. But it can be commissioned in different sizes and or colors. Timeline for commission is roughly 4 weeks to ship. Modulus II is a striking mid century mo...

"BigBlue" is a fun modernist freestanding sculpture that brings bold statement to wherever it is placed. Made from .25" thick powder coated mild steel. Both vibrant and durable, th...

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Old Sport is a modern, monochromatic, minimalist wall sculpture made from acrylic paint on birch panels. It is distressed and finished with a satin clear lacquer. Old Sport feels mo...

"Makaha (Wood)" is a minimalist and modernist, solid wood freestanding sculpture that brings bold statement to wherever it is placed. Artist Scott Troxel says "The piece is part of...

"NavyReds" is a minimalist and modernist wood wall sculpture reminiscent of both mid century modern forms and bold graphic design. Navyreds is part of my "Small Pops" Series which ar...

"Dusty Pink" is a minimalist and modernist solid wood wall sculpture that brings bold statement to wherever it is placed. The piece is part of my popular "Small Pops" Series which ar...

NOTE: This is a commission piece, made after the original. It can be commissioned in custom sizes. Allow 3-4 weeks plus shipping. Achtung III is a vibrant large-scale mixed media ...

Part of the Terebellum Series by Scott Troxel, "Archer" is a large, modern, wood wall sculpture. As with all of Scott Troxel's work, Archer is retrofuturist, meaning that it is both...

30LOVE is an elegant modern and minimalist contemporary wall sculpture. It is constructed with birch panels, acrylic and latex washes with a satin lacquer clear coat finish. The pain...

Deceptor is a minimalist, monochromatic and contemporary wall sculpture. It is constructed with birch panels, acrylic washes and completed with a satin lacquer finish. The paint is s...