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Style: Contemporary
Medium: Paint
Three Mini Buddha Statues - Black, Gold and Grey, hand-painted Plexiglas Buddhas
By Tal Nehoray
Located in New York, NY
This Plexiglas Buddha trio is a set of 3 Mini bu statues in Gold (medium), black (mini) and grey (mini).
It's an edgy shelf /desk decor, that will start off...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plexiglass, Acrylic
Beach Boy
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Ed. of 15
For over a decade, Joshua Jensen-Nagle has captivated the viewer with his evocative large-scale photographs. Best known for his dreamy aerial ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Red House Glass Sculpture
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Stephanie Trenchard Art Glass Sculpture Sand-cast blacks sculpted and painted inclusions three separate pieces.
Size: 20x7.5x5
Stephanie Trenchar...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Paint
R.P.S 2017 1/24 (blue scissors)
By Kevin Box
Located in Napa, CA
It took two years of tireless experimentation for me to develop the process of casting paper into bronze, another seven years to perfect, and it continues to evolve today.” - Kevin B...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Bamboo Shoot. Child sitting on Bamboo. Painted steel. Graceful. Figure on stick
By Lei Lei
Located in Kuala Lumpur, MY
“As a human being, there is always a moment or many moments for him or her to rethink the past and self. During this process, people will turn over, rearrange or rebuild their though...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Light Boat Plans 1/12
By Kevin Box
Located in Napa, CA
It took two years of tireless experimentation for me to develop the process of casting paper into bronze, another seven years to perfect, and it continues to evolve today.” - Kevin B...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Peace
By Lei Lei
Located in Kuala Lumpur, MY
“As a human being, there is always a moment or many moments for he or she to rethink past and self. During this process, people will turn over, rearrange or rebuild their thoughts. T...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$12,000
"Poppy №2" 2022
Located in New York, NY
Anneke Bogardus "Poppy №2" 2022
Entirely hand sculpted clay fired in a gas kiln. Finished with touches of acrylic.
17 3/4” tallest, 49” widest, 33” around bottom base.
About the ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Clay, Acrylic
Vapos #1
Located in Bozeman, MT
Electric Coffin is coded within art history and ideologies from archetypes of mysticism. We explore found truths from modernity and a personal historical perspective. A process-drive...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Canvas, Glass, Wood, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Animal walking in its sleep, sculpture: 'A Beautiful Nightmare'
Located in New York, NY
Elizabeth Jordan is an artist working primarily in sculpture and whose work uses multiple materials to produce unique, organic forms. In addition to a solo and group shows at Ivy Bro...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Wire
Love Box In Pink With Rock Crystal
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Love Box Contemporary Pink Sculptural Box With Crystals.
Steel and automotive paint with rock crystals.
Randi Grantham was born and raised in Las Vegas...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Wood Sculpture: 'The Evil Eye Tree'
Located in New York, NY
Elizabeth Jordan is an artist working primarily in sculpture and whose work uses multiple materials to produce unique, organic forms. In addition to a solo and group shows at Ivy Brown Gallery, she has exhibited at The American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Nassau County Museum of Art, The Cornell Art Museum in Delray Beach, Florida and the New York Artists Equity Gallery. In 2023, she received a 2023 Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts in sculpture, and in 2022 was awarded the Alex J...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wire
Animal sitting in chair, sculpture: 'Jersey Devil III'
Located in New York, NY
Elizabeth Jordan is an artist working primarily in sculpture and whose work uses multiple materials to produce unique, organic forms. In addition to a solo and group shows at Ivy Bro...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Clay, Fabric, Plaster, Wood, Watercolor, Gouache, Mesh
Take a look Wabé Contemporary art sculpture colour papier mache figurative art
Located in Paris, FR
Unique varnished papier mâché sculpture with acrylic paint and glass
Hand-signed by the artist
Wabé is a French artist. She was born in Marseille in 1961. She lives and works in Mon...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Acrylic, Papier Mâché
Window Frame with Birds & Barbwire: 'Wren Day'
Located in New York, NY
Elizabeth Jordan is an artist working primarily in sculpture and whose work uses multiple materials to produce unique, organic forms. In addition to a solo and group shows at Ivy Bro...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wire
Water Tower Sculpture: 'Grey Dog'
Located in New York, NY
The images on the water towers are from the artist sketchbook. It was also a part of a wheatpaste street art initiative from 2020. During the COVID lockdown he wanted to inject a little bit of nature back in downtown New York. Referencing not only wildlife in general but also specifically from the neighborhood. In this series you might find dogs or cats from artists he personally knows but you might find a raccoon that somehow invaded the city.
Ethan Minsker's descriptors include writer, filmmaker, artist, publisher, and zine creator. His work chronicles the lifestyles and cultures of overlooked and underappreciated artists. He was a founding member of the Antagonist Art Movement, a New York City-based group of artists, writers, and musicians who promoted work by up-and-coming talent between 2000 and 2011. Ethan was the recipient of the Acker Award for Visual Arts in 2017. He was also the creator and editor-in-chief of Psycho Moto Zine, which has been in publication from 1988–present. He received his B.F.A. in Film with honors from the School of the Visual Arts and his masters in Media from the New School. Ethan has written three novels, produced nine feature films, and continues his relationship with under-served artists as a board member and president of Citizens for the Arts, a nonprofit group whose mission is to promote art for kids...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Gouache
book + aluminum (found cans), wire, Flashe paint
Located in New Orleans, LA
PAUL VILLINSKI has created studio and large-scale artworks for more than three decades. Villinski was born in York, Maine, USA, in 1960, son of an Air Force navigator. He has lived and worked in New York City since 1982. A scenic route through the educational system included stops at Phillips Exeter Academy and the Massachusetts College of Art, and a BFA with honors from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 1984. He lives with his partner, the painter Amy Park, and their son, Lark, in their studios in Long Island City, NY.
His work has been included in numerous exhibitions nationally. A mid-career retrospective, “Farther,” is currently on view at The Taubman Museum of Art in Roanoke, VA, through July, 2018. Recent solo exhibitions include “Paul Villinski: Burst” at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, TX and “Passage: A Special Installation,” at the Blanton Museum, University of Texas, Austin. Recent group shows include “Material Transformations” at the Montgomery Museum of Art, Montgomery, AL; “Re: Collection,” at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY; “Making Mends,” at the Bellevue Museum of Arts, Bellevue, WA; and “Prospect .1,” an international Biennial in New Orleans, LA. “Emergency Response Studio,” a FEMA trailer transformed into an off-the-grid mobile artist’s studio, was the subject of a solo exhibition at Rice University Art Gallery, Houston, TX; the exhibition also travelled to Ballroom Marfa, in Marfa, TX; Wesleyan University’s Zilkha Gallery, Middletown, CT; and the trailer was featured in the New Museum’s “Festival of Ideas for the New City”, in New York, NY.
Villinski’s work is widely collected, including major public works created by commission. “SkyCycles,” three full-scale “flying bicycles...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Wire
Untitled (Hermes)
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Jonathan Seliger makes meticulous reproductions/ interpretations of mass produced objects and containers for everyday consumables. Here, having departed from his signature painted canvas constructions to explore aluminum, bronze and stainless steel fabrications which are sprayed with automotive enamels, he takes the once popular slogan “Super Size It” to the extreme presenting larger-than-life versions of a milk carton and a Hermes bag...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze, Enamel
"Zāt Highchair II" Abstract Sculptural Chair 41" x 19" inch by Karim Abd Elmalak
Located in Culver City, CA
"Zāt Highchair II" Abstract Sculptural Chair 41" x 19" inch by Karim Abd Elmalak
Medium: iron & oil-based spray paint
Karim Abdel Malak's layered multi-medi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Iron, Wire
Goat Head sculpture in Wood box: 'Jersey Devil II'
Located in New York, NY
Elizabeth Jordan is an artist working primarily in sculpture and whose work uses multiple materials to produce unique, organic forms. In addition to a solo and group shows at Ivy Bro...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wire
Surreal small sculpture: 'Colony XII'
By Robert Lach
Located in New York, NY
I construct sculptures based on the architecture of bird, animal, and insect homes. Viscerally attracted by their nostalgia, ware, and uselessness, I mimic their design, form and str...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wire
Beautiful Elephant Framed Fabric Sculpture Perfect for Walls
Located in Mexico City, MX
Unique elephant silhouette made with 22,540 black pins. One by one, the pins were carefully placed and were recycled from an antique textile factory.
This circular frame was handmad...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
"Tigre de pared II" art toy, tiger, pop art, Mexican, contempo, sculpture
Located in Ciudad de México, MX
A piece from the exhibition "Cosmic Duality" by artist Mr. Mitote.
Mitote is a term we use today to describe a lively, noisy, and excessive gathering. It’s also used to depict tumul...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Paint, Spray Paint, Acrylic
Cherry - Blossom {Cerisier}
By Cat Sirot
Located in New York, NY
Cat Sirot is a French plastic artist, with a focus on painting and Sculpture. She lives near Paris and works in her Argenteuil Studio. Through her sculptural...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Paint, Varnish
Spring Night
By Cat Sirot
Located in New York, NY
Cat Sirot is a French plastic artist, with a focus on painting and Sculpture. She lives near Paris and works in her Argenteuil Studio. Through her sculptural work she speaks about lo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Paint, Varnish
Sculpture of hare on wood base with mask on: 'Children 11'
Located in New York, NY
Elizabeth Jordan is an artist working primarily in sculpture and whose work uses multiple materials to produce unique, organic forms. In addition to a solo and group shows at Ivy Bro...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wire
Sculpture of Rabbit crawling up wood ladder: 'Talking about Hard Things'
Located in New York, NY
Elizabeth Jordan is an artist working primarily in sculpture and whose work uses multiple materials to produce unique, organic forms. In addition to a solo and group shows at Ivy Bro...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wire
Goat with Cat riding on its back, earth tone sculpture: 'Soul to Soul'
Located in New York, NY
Elizabeth Jordan is an emerging artist working primarily in sculpture. Her work uses multiple materials to produce unique, organic forms. In early 2016, she participated in an exhibi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wire
Rabbit on wood block, earth tone sculpture: 'The Tinder Box'
Located in New York, NY
Elizabeth Jordan is an artist working primarily in sculpture and whose work uses multiple materials to produce unique, organic forms. In addition to a solo and group shows at Ivy Bro...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster, Wood, Watercolor
Rabbit Sculpture with tin cans in wood box: 'What Makes A God Weep'
Located in New York, NY
Elizabeth Jordan is an artist working primarily in sculpture and whose work uses multiple materials to produce unique, organic forms. In addition to a solo and group shows at Ivy Bro...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wire
Canine and crow sculpture on fence: 'Philosophy Of The World'
Located in New York, NY
Elizabeth Jordan is an artist working primarily in sculpture and whose work uses multiple materials to produce unique, organic forms. In addition to a solo and group shows at Ivy Bro...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wire, Metal
Small Sculpture of a possum: 'Possum Kingdom'
Located in New York, NY
Elizabeth Jordan is an artist working primarily in sculpture and whose work uses multiple materials to produce unique, organic forms. In addition to a solo and group shows at Ivy Bro...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wire, Metal
Sculpture of wolf on wood platform with chain: 'Let go and let God'
Located in New York, NY
Elizabeth Jordan is an artist working primarily in sculpture and whose work uses multiple materials to produce unique, organic forms. In addition to a solo and group shows at Ivy Bro...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wire
Sculpture of birds on wood plank: 'Shanghaied'
Located in New York, NY
Elizabeth Jordan is an artist working primarily in sculpture and whose work uses multiple materials to produce unique, organic forms. In addition to a solo and group shows at Ivy Brown Gallery, she has exhibited at The American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Nassau County Museum of Art, The Cornell Art Museum in Delray Beach, Florida and the New York Artists Equity Gallery. In 2023, she received a 2023 Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts in sculpture, and in 2022 was awarded the Alex J...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wire
Pain killer (bleu)
Located in Montreal, Quebec
In 2015, I made a series of sculptures called "HYPERland" illustrating the utopia promised by the "liberal democracy" and the dystopia that is rather created by the market and financ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Clay, Glass, Acrylic, Polymer
"Marilyn Android" High relief 3D metallic wall sculpture
Located in West Hollywood, CA
High relief 3D steel wall sculpture by Frederic Daty
ABOUT THE WORK - Robotization and artificial intelligence are the beginnings of the era of beings of steel, silicone and microch...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Animal in play position, sculpture: 'Prepare Thyself to Follow Me'
Located in New York, NY
Elizabeth Jordan is an artist working primarily in sculpture and whose work uses multiple materials to produce unique, organic forms. In addition to a solo and group shows at Ivy Bro...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wire
"Zāt Highchair I" Abstract Sculptural Chair 41" x 19" inch by Karim Abd Elmalak
Located in Culver City, CA
"Zāt Highchair I" Abstract Sculptural Chair 41" x 19" inch by Karim Abd Elmalak
Medium: iron & oil-based spray paint
Karim Abdel Malak's layered multi-media...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Iron, Wire
Goat Head in wood box Sculpture: 'Jersey Devil I'
Located in New York, NY
Elizabeth Jordan is an artist working primarily in sculpture and whose work uses multiple materials to produce unique, organic forms. In addition to a solo and group shows at Ivy Bro...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wire
Mouse in box, earth tone sculpture: 'Prophecy'
Located in New York, NY
Elizabeth Jordan is an artist working primarily in sculpture and whose work uses multiple materials to produce unique, organic forms. In addition to a solo and group shows at Ivy Bro...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wire
Henry
By Joe Brubaker
Located in Wellesley, MA
"Henry," Basswood, Acrylic Paint, Milk Paint, Prismacolor, 8 x 4 x 2 1/2 nches, is one of an extensive series of intricately carved portrait heads in wood and paint by an artist who...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic, Wood
$2,800
Lampost Top Sculpture with Dragon Flies: 'Danse Macabre'
Located in New York, NY
Elizabeth Jordan is an artist working primarily in sculpture and whose work uses multiple materials to produce unique, organic forms. In addition to a solo and group shows at Ivy Bro...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wire
Ram's Head Contemporary Plaster Sculpture with Green Patina Ancient Rome Style
Located in Firenze, IT
This contemporary plaster sculpture of a ram’s head is inspired by the art of Ancient Rome and Ancient Greece with a reference to Neoclassicism and Neoclassical period old masters, when the discoveries of archaeological sites became the focal point in art history between the 18th and 19th century.
The artist is able to attribute incredible details to this work of art featuring a majestic appearance due to its large curling ridged horns.
This animal figurative work of art is sculpted on the round, the artist took inspiration both from his imagination and archaic reminiscences. He modeled the inert chalk creating an animal with very real facial expression and incredible realistic features with intricate detailed head.
This sculpture is the plaster cast hand modeled by the artist that served him as a reference model to create a bronze sculpture with the lost wax technique, also the bronze version is on sale on my page.
So it represents the first phase of a fascinating and long process of creating sculptural art, a studio piece made as a maquette before a bronze version was cast.
The present aries' head sculpture has been painted to simulate the green patina that archaeological metal sculptures take over the centuries. Two green patina sculptures...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster, Lacquer, Paint, Chalk
Acrylic Resin Sculpture: 'Donut Narwhal Eater'
By Joshua Goode
Located in New York, NY
Inspired by amateur archaeologists such as Heinrich Schliemann who discovered Troy and by past elaborate hoaxes like that of the Piltdown Man, Joshua travels the world performing sta...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Paint, Acrylic Polymer
American Contemporary Sculpture - Linda Stein, Knight of Words 705
Located in New York, NY
This sculpture from Linda Stein’s Knights of Protection series functions both as a defender in battle and a symbol of pacifism. This work is an edition of...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Acrylic
$1,600 Sale Price
20% Off
Linda Stein, Lower Manhattan 007 Mixed Media Contemporary Collage Wall Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Lower Manhattan 007 - Mixed Media Contemporary Collage Wall Sculpture
These wall constructions and dioramas were made in the 1970s when Linda Stein was also working on ...
Category
1970s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Jorge
By Joe Brubaker
Located in Wellesley, MA
Jorge,Alaskan Cedar, Found Materials, Acrylic Paint, Epoxy, 14 x 11 x 5 Inches, is one of an extensive series of intricately carved portrait heads in wood and paint by an artist who...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic, Wood
$3,800
David Hostetler Bronze Dancer Ferrari Red Automotive Paint Female Movement
Located in Nantucket, MA
Dancing Lady is an iconic form of David Hostetler's. His first Dancing Lady was carved in white oak and painted in 1979. It wasn't until the early 1990's that David revisited this fo...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Untitled
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Guillaume Lachapelle’s work combines the real and the imaginary to create miniature environments and scenarios that showcase connections between humans and their everyday worlds. In Extrapolations, Lachapelle extracts seemingly mundane mechanical objects from a typical cityscape – such as radiators, fire hydrants, and balconies – and manipulates their appearance by creating 3D printed models that visually oscillate between the magical and the monstrous.
In some of his sculptures, Lachapelle uses photogrammetry – a method that scans a series of two-dimensional photographs or images to create three-dimensional models. While photogrammetry typically enables real-life objects to be accurately reproduced, the artist challenges this paradigm by tampering with the machine’s process, both by accepting the machine’s glitches and by triggering them. When scanning images, the results may not always be what is anticipated, however, for Lachapelle it is about welcoming the unknown. In several examples, he encourages the program to read screenshots of images and extrapolates what should be there, filling in blank data with added images and various shapes. The resulting sculptures are symmetrical and geometric, appearing uncannily familiar like human vertebrae, yet unfamiliar in fantastical abstracted forms. The sculptures merge between two different worlds, bridging human and machine through unexpected adaptations to everyday things.
Extrapolations balances between this duality, ultimately reflecting on the increasing dependency humans have on technology in our everyday world. For Lachapelle, this is especially pertinent in a world where technology is continuously developing. The sculptures highlight the dynamic and everchanging relationship between humans and technology, making us question this reliance on technology.
In this exhibition, Lachapelle also introduces the inclusion of human characters back into his art practice. He places people in unnatural and impossible exchanges with machines and technology. For instance, while in past exhibitions, he has usually tried to conceal the electronic components that make moving pieces...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Paint
“Traveling Landscape, "Golden Interior” Miniature Landscape in Vintage Case
Located in New York, NY
Kathleen Vance, “Traveling Landscape, "Golden Interior” found case, artificial foliage, resin, paint (12.5”x5”x8”) 2022
Kathleen Vance is an environmental artist who creates sculptures and installations that connect people to local aspects of nature that are overlooked or under-appreciated.
Vance received her B.F.A. from Pratt Institute and her M.F.A. from Hunter College in sculpture. She has received numerous grants and awards for her artwork including: a travel grant to research the geo-thermal regions of Iceland, a grant from the Puffin foundation for public sculpture, a development grant from Aljira, Center for Contemporary Art in conjunction with the Creative Capital Foundation, and a grant from the Brooklyn Arts council which aided the development and implementation of an outdoor community based art project in East New York. Ms. Vance was artist in resident in Berlin, Germany, presenting a workshop on environmental arts in connection with the Grunewald Parks Department in Germany.
Her sculptural installations have been featured at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Jacksonville, the Orlando Museum of Art, the Weatherspoon Art Museum, the Peeler Art Center, the Weisman Art Museum, the Brandywine River Museum of Art, the Bruce Museum, the Ellen Noel Art Museum, Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, the Hillwood Art Museum, VOLTA New York, PULSE New York and Miami, and EXPO Chicago, as well as many private and public institutions. Kathleen Vance has exhibited extensively in New York and internationally and continues to live and work in New York.
Kathleen Vance Artist Statement, “Traveling Landscapes”
With the series “Traveling Landscapes” Vance creates miniature landscapes inside vintage suitcases and trunks...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Paint, Found Objects
Pony - Desktop Blue 16/30 - Te Jui Fu
By Kevin Box
Located in Napa, CA
“It took two years of tireless experimentation for me to develop the process of casting paper into bronze, another seven years to perfect, and it continues to evolve today.” - Kevin ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Canevas
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Text by Nancy Webb
It’s Saturday night and Karine Payette is in her studio. We meander into a conversation about the dog she used to have and her soft spot for German shepherds, an intensely obedient and loyal breed in a deceivingly wolf-like package. Payette’s most recent series of photographs, sculptures and video work seem to speak directly to this preoccupation with the multifaceted nature of human-animal relationships—the dialogues of control, intimacy, violence and domestication that subtly take place on an interspecies level.
Her workspace is part laboratory, part prop closet—a bowl of fur sits not far from her computer. Somehow in this bright, open, chemical-clean scented room, Payette conjures wildness. We are taken to a strange place, the borderlands of interspecies mingling. At one extreme of the animal-human dynamics scale is the stalwart compliance of a professionally trained German shepherd who responds to commands with robotic precision. Here, power is comfortably held by an off-screen voice, animality pacified by a set of linguistic prompts. At the other end of the scale is a sculpture of a human figure clad in red, sharing a languorous kiss with a wolf. The story of Little Red Riding Hood is immediately called to mind, except that here our hooded protagonist seems to have bailed on grandmother’s orders, instead opting for a forest floor make-out with her canine stalker. This taboo mise-en-scène is a brazen inquiry into the boundaries we maintain with our animal counterparts. Its scale and three-dimensionality contribute to a feeling of immersion that the artist has been courting with her work for the past several years. It feels as though you’ve just walked in on something: you are implicated and your discomfort is like an invisible mist that coats these inanimate beings.
Elsewhere in Payette’s suite of anthropomorphic works, the demarcation between species grows even fainter. A photographic series depicts the slow encroachment of fur, scales and feathers on human skin—a striking process of contamination facilitated by touch. The fusion of flesh, charcoal cat fur and a pale silky dress...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Silicone, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Doum
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Guillaume Lachapelle’s work combines the real and the imaginary to create miniature environments and scenarios that showcase connections between humans and their everyday worlds. In ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Paint
Pony - Desktop Silver 11/30 - Te Jui Fu
By Kevin Box
Located in Napa, CA
“It took two years of tireless experimentation for me to develop the process of casting paper into bronze, another seven years to perfect, and it continues to evolve today.” - Kevin ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Diablito de pared II" art toy, red devil, pop art, Mexican, contempo, sculpture
Located in Ciudad de México, MX
A piece from the exhibition "Cosmic Duality" by artist Mr. Mitote.
Mitote is a term we use today to describe a lively, noisy, and excessive gathering. It’s also used to depict tumul...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Paint, Spray Paint, Acrylic
“Traveling Landscape, "Golden Interior” Miniature Landscape in Vintage Case
Located in New York, NY
Kathleen Vance, “Traveling Landscape, "Golden Interior” found case, artificial foliage, resin, paint (12.5”x5”x8”) 2022
Kathleen Vance is an environmental artist who creates sculptures and installations that connect people to local aspects of nature that are overlooked or under-appreciated.
Vance received her B.F.A. from Pratt Institute and her M.F.A. from Hunter College in sculpture. She has received numerous grants and awards for her artwork including: a travel grant to research the geo-thermal regions of Iceland, a grant from the Puffin foundation for public sculpture, a development grant from Aljira, Center for Contemporary Art in conjunction with the Creative Capital Foundation, and a grant from the Brooklyn Arts council which aided the development and implementation of an outdoor community based art project in East New York. Ms. Vance was artist in resident in Berlin, Germany, presenting a workshop on environmental arts in connection with the Grunewald Parks Department in Germany.
Her sculptural installations have been featured at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Jacksonville, the Orlando Museum of Art, the Weatherspoon Art Museum, the Peeler Art Center, the Weisman Art Museum, the Brandywine River Museum of Art, the Bruce Museum, the Ellen Noel Art Museum, Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, the Hillwood Art Museum, VOLTA New York, PULSE New York and Miami, and EXPO Chicago, as well as many private and public institutions. Kathleen Vance has exhibited extensively in New York and internationally and continues to live and work in New York.
Kathleen Vance Artist Statement, “Traveling Landscapes”
With the series “Traveling Landscapes” Vance creates miniature landscapes inside vintage suitcases and trunks...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Paint, Found Objects
"Tigre vidente" art toy, three eyed tiger, pop art, mexican art, mask, nature
Located in Ciudad de México, MX
A piece from the exhibition "Cosmic Duality" by artist Mr. Mitote.
Mitote is a term we use today to describe a lively, noisy, and excessive gathering. It’s also used to depict tumultuous gatherings marked by disorder, commotion, and sometimes even quarrels. In the colonial past, mitote was a celebration commemorating the establishment of the New Spain kingdom, blending local pride with imperial solemnity. However, throughout both ancient times and the present day, mitotes serve as rituals embedded in the culture and religiosity of various indigenous groups in Mexico, such as the Nahua, Cora, Tepehuan, and Huichol. Adorned in rich attire, gathered around a fire amidst the sounds of musical instruments, and under the intoxicating influence of alcoholic beverages, mitotes serve as occasions to invoke sacred beings—whether protective deities of nature or Christian saints associated with agriculture—to pray for bountiful harvests. Mitotes encompass and have always embodied rites, myths, and life.
In homage to the artist’s name, this exhibition is presented as a mitote: a celebration displaying the intimate mythologies of its creator through various artistic expressions such as sculpture, artwork, and video. Cosmic Duality is a concept wherein Mr. Mitote delves into memories of his childhood from a contemporary perspective. His mother introduced him at a young age to the traditions and customs of her native Maltrata, Veracruz, a town steeped in the memory of a noble past wherein it fought for its autonomy. Every year on January 1st, to invoke prosperity, the dance of the huehues (meaning “old people” or “elders” in Nahuatl) is performed. According to oral and local traditions, these characters embody foes in a mocked and vanquished manner, dancing beneath the lash of a tiger or devil. Their costumes feature pre-Columbian symbols merged with elements evoking nature, alongside nods to contemporary entertainment culture.
Through the observation and interpretation of nature, numerous ancestral cultures created dual cosmologies. Far from viewing opposites, they conceived of dual complementary systems such as chaos-order, cold-heat, humidity-drought, feminine-masculine, and life-death, among others, to uphold cosmic order. Placed within the context of Mexico City, Mr. Mitote reimagines these enduring principles from ancient religious practices alongside contemporary languages. He does so through vibrant entities that blend tradition and innovation, memory and fantasy, past and present, ancestral ceremonies, and urban rituals. Each artwork serves as a reminder that across all latitudes and human territories, culture thrives, tradition evolves continuously, the past is revitalized, and the present shapes the path forward into the future.
The body has served as the quintessential conduit bridging two dual dimensions: the human and the divine, the earthly and the celestial, the microcosm and the macrocosm. In several of his artworks, Mr. Mitote invokes propitiatory dances, and ritual practices, aimed at attracting abundant rain and fostering good harvests, many of which entail risking the physical well-being and even the lives of participants. The tiger hunt...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Paint, Spray Paint, Acrylic
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2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
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Painted cast stainless steel, patinated bronze, granite base
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Category
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Materials
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