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Lemon
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Born and raised in Atlanta, Kristofer Laméy has brought much to the southeastern art and design table.
From debuting his unique design perspective in the 2007 ICFF in New York City and showcasing his Art at Aqua during the 2008 Art Basel in Miami, to his solo Museum of Design Atlanta (MODA) exhibit titled “Serving Form” in 2010, Kristofer is best known for his one-off commissioned sculptural art forms. His work has found a place in homes and collections across the globe.
One of his most ambitious design challenges was solving a decades-long problem in the aviation industry: How to more efficiently design and install jet aircraft interiors. This was the birth of AIMS.
Kristofer’s work straddles a fine line that resides between art and design. Many, lost within the engineering of his creations, like to push his work out of the category of art and into the realm of design. This line is the fulcrum that leverages his work into a playing field of his own, and he is proud of that. Those looking for solutions in the marketplace that are in need of an outside perspective to differentiate a product benefit from his fresh and creative approach to modern manufacturing.
In April 2020 Kristofer moved his family to the North Georgia mountain...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
Chenille Contempo
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Atticus Adams is a sculptor whose work embodies the transformative power of art to create beauty, meaning, and emotional impact from industrial materials. Using mostly aluminum mesh—...
Category
2010s Folk Art Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wire, Bronze
"SAFE", Sculpture, Concrete and Steel Mesh, Black, Red, Grey, Temple Form, 2016
By Eva Ennist
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Eva Ennist, a mixed media and fiber artist, travels extensively through the Far East, gathering materials and techniques for her practice. The sculpture "SAFE" is a prime example of ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Concrete, Steel
Coral Ocean, beautiful abstract and nature like wall art sculpture
Located in Mexico City, MX
"The ideal state is not one which everyone has access to the same amount of wealth, but in proportion to their contribution to the general wealth"
This piece was handmade in the hea...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Sandstone
Easy Chair/Failed Odalisque
By Bobbi Meier
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
This chaise, originally covered in lime green cotton upholstery, sat in my studio for months, acting as a daybed for my miniature poodle. Finally after several att...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects, Other Medium
Oak Column and Oxidated Garden Torch - "Wings" - handmade unique art object
Located in Winterswijk, NL
Extraordinary garden torch with one burner insert on an untreated oak spot.
If the spot is set up outside, she develops a gray patina.
The included burner already contains individua...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Art Deco Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Pink Lollipop
Located in San Francisco, CA
"Pink Lollipop" is a resin sculpture by Elena Bulatova. She is originally from Russia now is an international artist who resides permanently in Palm Sp...
Category
2010s Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic, Resin
Cavalier #Tous2024, 2019
By Mauro Corda
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Mauro Corda’s figurative sculptures maintain a reverence for classical and modernist traditions, while also expressing the artist’s voice. Though born in France, the artist hails fro...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin
Vigilante II - 21st Century, Contemporary Art, Abstract Sculpture, Recycling
By Lukas Ulmi
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Lukas Ulmi’s work unveils the hidden beauty of shapes taking stones, seemingly static forms, incomplete or meaningless objects and turning them into authentic sculptures where weight...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stone, Iron
HENRI 4
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Artist
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media, Found Objects
Georgian Contemporary Sculpture by Erekle Tsuladze - Elvis Presley
Located in Paris, IDF
Artificial stone & nickel bronze
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone, Bronze
Georgian Contemporary Sculpture by Erekle Tsuladze - Puma
Located in Paris, IDF
Artificial stone & aluminium
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone
Adirondack Chair 1
Located in ATLANTA, GA
George Long received his BFA from the Atlanta College of Art in 1995 and currently lives and works in Atlanta. His first solo exhibition was at Marcia Wood Gallery in Atlanta in 2004, where he introduced the widely acclaimed 8 x 8 work. Long’s solo and 2 person exhibitions include Flux Projects, Atlanta, the Zuckerman Museum, Kennesaw State University, Space Eight, St Augustine, FL, Gallery One Twelve, Atlanta, Tempus Projects, St. Augustine, FL,Cosms, Dashboard Coop, Atlanta, Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA, the University of West Georgia, Carrolton, GA, the Madison County Art Council, Marshall N.C. among others. Group exhibitions have included the International Kunstler Kolonie Exhibition,Nuremburg, (and residency), The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center (2007 Biennial and 2012 "Day Job: Georgia), the Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art, Jacksonville, FL, the Zuckerman Museum, Kennesaw, GA, Art on the Beltline, Atlanta, GA, Paco Sas Artes, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Tempus Projects, Tampa, FL, Dalton Gallery, Agnes Scott College, Georgia, and Brenau University, Georgia. In 2010 he received an NEA grant for public sculpture. Sculpture exhibitions include theAnn Marie Sculpture Center in Solomon Island, Maryland, North River Park, Charleston, SC, and the Chattahooche Nature Center, Roswell, GA, Art in Freedom Park, Atlanta, and Bonaroo, Manchester, Ten. Long has collaborated with Spelman University choreographer T. Lang, New Orleans Airlift, Georgia Tech, Lucky Penny...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Found Object Wall Sculpture/Relief by Gertie Lowe
By Gertie Lowe
Located in Long Island City, NY
Wall sculpture assemblage by Gertie Lowe, from 1978, is a conceptual abstract with everyday objects. Muted neutral tones are contrasted with vibrant accents. Signed and dated verso...
Category
1970s Conceptual Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Plastic, Wood
Georgian Contemporary Sculpture by Irakli Tsuladze - Love Notes
Located in Paris, IDF
Bronze & marble
Irakli Tsuladze is a Georgian sculptor born in 1973 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. His sculptures present a peculiar unity of substance and emotions, where...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
bright star - neon art work
Located in New York, NY
Mary Jo designs all the neon as a unique piece of artwork. Each piece is hand blown glass and assembled to create a one-of-a-kind piece, which comes completely ready to install. Whit...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Neon Light
1960 Italy Modular Kinetic Stainless Steel Abstract Wall Panel by Maldonado
Located in Brescia, IT
The mirrored surfaces of the stainless steel Maldonado work of art, reflect the world around.
Maldonado's artistic research has an ethological matrix: a sign as a kind of pre-Incan g...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Geometric Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Monument to mankind
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Dario Tironi is the artist that evades the classic canons of Frilli Gallery's sculptures.
But we could not remain indifferent to his fantastic, incredi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects
Tolla Inbar, Aspiration, Bronze Sculpture
By Tolla Inbar
Located in Tel Aviv, IL
Tolla Inbar, Aspiration, Bronze Sculpture, Nude figure, Rope sculpture, elevation, international artist, Israeli artist, Israeli art
Category
1990s Contemporary Nude Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Garden Torch - "Wings" on a dark oak pedestal - unique handmade ornament
Located in Winterswijk, NL
This extraordinary garden torch "Wings" on oxidised oak pedestal is a real eye-catcher for your house or garden.
The included burner already contains individual lava stones, so this...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Art Deco Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Moose Plunge (large) - tall, playful, pop art, Canadian, aluminum sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This tragicomic depiction of a moose plummeting from a cliff merges playful, pop art inspired elements with deeply iconic Canadian imagery. The steel moose silhouette sculptures have...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Enamel
Large Gilt Bronze Sculptures of Herons
Located in Rome, IT
Elegant pair of gilt bronze heron sculptures . The item will be well-suited to either an indoor or outdoor setting.
Category
1990s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Cavaliere Della Pace
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Born in Rome, Italy in 1963, lives and works in Rome. Artist is currently on display in Besharat Gallery Barbizon, France.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Plaster
A Sardines Sentence
Located in West Hollywood, CA
We are proud to premiere the latest works by American artist Darren LeGallo.
Our second exhibition, Darren LeGallo, "From Destruction" has just opened at our West Hollywood gallery...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Azul, Carolina Yrarrázaval, handwoven textile
Located in Wilton, CT
This handwoven contemporary textile sculpture, Azul, was done by Chilean fiber artist, Carolina Yrarrázaval (b. 1960). Yrarrázaval explains her in...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Fabric, Textile, Linen
Saturn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Brandon Vickerd is a Hamilton based artist and Professor of Sculpture at York University, where he also serves as Chair of the Department of Visual Arts and Art History. He received ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze, Steel
Philosopher bronze sculpture
By John Denning
Located in Glen Ellen, CA
A recurring theme in John Denning’s art (both painting and sculpture) has been combining human figures with birds or horses. The bird in the freestanding bronze sculpture "Philosophe...
Category
1990s Contemporary Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Contortionniste au Masque Minnie
By Mauro Corda
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Mauro Corda’s figurative sculptures maintain a reverence for classical and modernist traditions, while also expressing the artist’s voice. Though born in France, the artist hails fro...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Garden Angel, 2017
Located in ATLANTA, GA
In life, every time you do or make something you have the opportunity to make something creative and original. Take something, add to it and pass it on; that’s the creative process. ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Southern Birch
Located in Chicago, IL
The work of Eric Serritella is a paean to nature, offered in clay. His trompe l’oeil ceramic sculptures are effigies of nature burned by man. His forms echo natural organisms so per...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
This Is Not A Picasso
By Eric Liot
Located in Sofia, BG
"This is not a Picasso" decorated wood sculpture.
It is created by the French artist Eric Liot.
About the artwork:
TECHNIQUE: Mixte, Low reliefs, wood...
Category
2010s Pop Art Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Attitudes, Blue
Located in Solana Beach, CA
Original/Unique
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Automotive Paint
Sky Cradle, sculpture by John Reeves, mixed media, wood, granite, limestone
By John Reeves
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Sky Cradle, sculpture by John Reeves, mixed media, wood, granite, limestone
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Granite
"Holding 2" steel vessel sculpture with birds
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Kim Cridler
Holding 2, 2021
steel, ecoat, paint
74" x 35" x 32"
*Piece can be displayed outside if under a roof/cover
Kim Cridler’s sculptures describe b...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Steel
The Chameleon Effect - Flexible Rigids - sculptural wall, parametric design
Located in Dallas, TX
HUGO G. URRUTIA
B. 1974, Mexico
Hugo G. Urrutia is a multidisciplinary artist-designer, interested in the cross-pollination between art and architecture. His artwork challenges the...
Category
2010s New Media Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Plywood, Lacquer, Oil
Busto
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Dario Tironi is the artist that evades the classic canons of Besharat Gallery's sculptures.
But we could not remain indifferent to his fantastic, incredi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Intaglio, Found Objects
"Cuba Salsa" contemporary bronze floor sculpture figurative girl salsa dancing
Located in Kowloon, Hong Kong
Cuba Salsa is a bronze sculpture with green patina, it is connected to a steel base. The edition size is 7. The sculpture will be shipped in wood crate to render maximum protection d...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze, Steel
Rhythmic
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 Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
Candelabra, Solar Sculpture
Located in Lawrence, NY
unique
signed on base
Aluminum, stained glass, solar panels & controller
powered by solar batteries
Candelabra 90 is self-illuminating. Behind a wall of stained glass, low voltage LEDs provide ambient light. This sculpture will power up to 20, one-watt LED landscape lights.
Steven Lowy’s most recent work in 'solar sculpture...
Category
2010s American Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
Joy Buddies
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
The Joy Buddies were created from a simple question I asked myself - if joy were tangible, what would it look like? The Joy Buddies message is that we are better, together. I created them to symbolize the joy and hope I feel like I come together in unity with the people I love. Over the years, they have exhibited across the country in various sculptural and digital art forms but always keeping true to their same human-like shape and fire-painted designs.
Keywords: Abstract, modern, contemporary, metal art, sculpture, sculptural
Artist Biography:
Mini Mukherjee...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Copper, Brass
Tears of Joy
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
Tears of Joy. Most of my work focuses on the bittersweet feeling of joy. This piece was made for/inspired by a couple who were celebrat...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Copper
Untitled Sunflower Bouquet Sculpture
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The sunflower and the bouquet is an idea that has been floating around in the artist's head for years. It starts with the notion of the still life, the most basic subject when approaching visual art. It's the attempt to look at that which is full of life, yet by acknowledging its existence, one understands that beauty is temporary and will fade. This series starts with the flower, the symbol of fleeing beauty. By taking this character and turning it into a cast object, the artist has turned it into an icon, further removed from reality by bleeding it of color. The sunflowers then become beautiful shadows their former selves, as dying coral becomes enticing when it bleaches. They are elegant reminders of their past, whilst also becoming new figures that reference archaic notes of classical beauty expressed monochromatic hues.
STATEMENT
In the end, gravity always wins. It is the blunt, immutable force that has a constant effect, keeping us on the ground and ultimately pulling us into it. Sculpture by its very nature is in conversation with this pull, at times enjoying and acknowledging it, and at times trying to hide and defy it.
My work recognizes the force of gravity, sometimes tacitly and sometimes overtly. It is a practice of mixing the delicate with the ordinary. I have been mining the contrasts of sculpture, relishing the materiality while also attempting to address the ephemeral. Because sculpture is so heavily rooted in the ground, one has to accept its materiality. Yet, some of the most effective work I have witnessed is that which attempts transcendence. It is that steady push and pull between mass and lightness, solidity and absence, form and void. Additionally, I am drawn towards familiar objects and associations that are embedded within them. Current work makes reference to visual anchors such as bodily forms, sagging, or bloating. Whether the product is a still life created in Scotch tape or a bouquet composed of plaster flowers, I look to the fantastic as a goal in my work. The work is intensely representational in content but without clearly assigned meaning, thus creating a disquiet. In this way I think in a surrealist vein, looking to traditional figures like Eva Hesse and Piero Manzoni, and contemporary figures like Robert Gober and Matthew Barney. The juxtaposition of the seemingly simple streamline objects with this disquiet adds a powerful force to the work, again symbolic of the contrast between the emotional life which defines us as humans and the compulsions and minutia that compose our daily lives.
Joe Davidson
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wire
Yterbine
Located in Paris, FR
Dominique Pollès,
1945, French
Yterbine, 1998
Bronze with pink platinium patina
Signed, dated and numbered 4/4
Certificate by the Artist
Dimension...
Category
Late 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Pangea IV
Located in Lincoln, RI
This piece is made by casting Hydrocal FGR95 (a very hard plaster) on top of an oil clay pattern. Once cured, the oil clay is removed, then paint and gold leaf are applied to the su...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
What's New
By Laure Krug
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Laure Krug. Contemporary French artist
Holder of a license in plastic arts, she naturally turns to sculpture.
Materials: She begins by working the soil and masters the different co...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Fiberglass, Polyester, Acrylic
Large fiber wall hanging: 'Politics of Hair Camo Tricolor Fringe'
Located in New York, NY
Theda Sandiford, is a self-taught mixed media artist based in Jersey City, NJ. Though art is engrained in her psyche, Theda’s first creative endeavors were in the music business as a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Fabric, Thread, Yarn
Pollen Keeper II, by Melanie Yazzie, sculpture, aluminum, orange, vertical
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Pollen Keeper II, by Melanie Yazzie, sculpture, aluminum, orange, vertical
Once the order is received via 1st Dibs, the sculpture will be fabricated. Allow 6 to 8 weeks for completion.
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
This Rock is in a Hard Place, Original Abstract Sculpture, 2021
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
During the COVID-19 pandemic I decided to collect boxes from around my neighborhood and repurpose the cardboard material. By utilizing materials that would otherwi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media, Cardboard
En Partence, 2013
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Fernando Moreno is a Mexican artist who was born in 1983. Fernando Moreno's work has been offered at auction multiple times. Only one artwork sold; this was Untitled, which realized ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Resin
La grande cascade, 2006
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Born in 1949 in Mézières, Bernard Métranve was convinced from early childhood that he would become a visual artist and that he would follow the path of artists like Brancusi, and Moo...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
La rivière, 1997
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Born in 1949 in Mézières, Bernard Métranve was convinced from early childhood that he would become a visual artist and that he would follow the path of artists like Brancusi, and M...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Tejer la Forma I
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Carmen Anzano is a contemporary interdisciplinary artist who works with painting, sculpture and installations to showcase an interpretation of her personal universe of geometry and s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
Portraits from the In Light of Her, Series. Carved Porcelain Wall Sculpture Set
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Portraits from the In Light of Her, Series.
Carved Porcelain Wall Sculpture Set
Room in a Room, Lock and Key, Chin Up, Protective Linings, Bamboo Backbone Woman, Stairway to Nowhere Girl, Supporting Perspective, Madame Monarch, Flight Risk, Snake Got Your Tongue, Falling Backwards, Earnest Eve.
Overall size: 44.5 in. H x 44 in. W
One of a kind
Each piece can be sold separately
Her poetic porcelain plates...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Clay, Porcelain
Canto Decimosecondo, 2013
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Nicola Domenici was born in 1969 in Viareggio (Lucca). After the University and several experiences in the fields of jewellery and goldsmithery, he dec...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin
"Zerques", Abstract, Organic, Industrial Large-Scale Outdoor Sculpture in steel
Located in New York, NY
"Zerques" by Carole Eisner
Rolled and welded steel I-beams
Carole Eisner has worked with scrap and recycled metal for 40 years creating elegant, abstract forms welded in steel. The ...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Georgian Contemporary Sculpture by Erekle Tsuladze - Time Machine
Located in Paris, IDF
Stainless steel
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Study for a Head
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Stephen Angell I found my voice in marble. Carving stone is a de-constructive approach to conception, which is a physical and mental concentration whose...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Havabanana / Sleep (diptych)
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Havabanana / Sleep (diptych)" is an original artwork by Hyland Mather made of lost objects, acrylic, aerosol, abandoned papers, laser engraving, string, nails, wood box frame measur...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Thread, Wood, Paper, Found Objects, Acrylic, Engraving
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