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Style: Contemporary
Medium: Paint
Untitled (Branch)
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Karine Payette was born in 1983 in Montreal, Quebec, where she lives and works. Working primarily with sculpture and installation, she reproduces, for the most part, environments tha...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Golden Slumbers
Located in Montreal, Quebec
For Nicolas Bourriaud, the flea market is a place where “past production is recycled and switches direction” and where “an object is given a new idea.” On the stalls of the flea market, objects are resurrected and given a second life. This is where Jennifer Small...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster, Acrylic, Plastic
Extrapolation 7
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
Mechanical balcony
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
A street corner
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
Extrapolation 2
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
Unbreakables (Diptych)
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
Agrafeuse
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Lamontagne has an interest for the conflicting relationship that exists between the end of the landscape and its contemplation, as well as for the so-called death of painting. The pa...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Tigre atacando I" art toy, tiger, pop art, Mexican, contemporary, 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 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
Apple Form
Located in Fairfield, CT
Chevy Black and Ford green on fiberglass.
Edition of 6.
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Fiberglass, Automotive Paint
Blackbumian Warbler
By Shawn Smith
Located in PARIS, FR
Unique piece
Created in 2015
40 x 28 x 23 cm
" My work investigates the slippery intersection between the digital world and reality. Specifically, I am interested in how we experien...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plywood, Ink, Acrylic
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
Lid #6
By Zeke Moores
Located in Montreal, Quebec
“Man's profound gestural relationship to objects, which epitomizes his integration into the world, into social structures, can be a highly fulfilling one, and this fulfilment is discernible in the beauty - the 'style' - of the relationship in its reciprocity.”
-Jean Baudrillard, The System of Objects (1996)
The cliché that “one man’s trash...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$6,000
"Fragmentación" art toy, tiger, pop art, Mexican, contemporary, sculpture, 4 pzs
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
Lid #9
By Zeke Moores
Located in Montreal, Quebec
“Man's profound gestural relationship to objects, which epitomizes his integration into the world, into social structures, can be a highly fulfilling one, and this fulfilment is discernible in the beauty - the 'style' - of the relationship in its reciprocity.”
-Jean Baudrillard, The System of Objects (1996)
The cliché that “one man’s trash...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$6,000
The First Cut is the Deepest
Located in Montreal, Quebec
For Nicolas Bourriaud, the flea market is a place where “past production is recycled and switches direction” and where “an object is given a new idea.” On the stalls of the flea market, objects are resurrected and given a second life. This is where Jennifer Small...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Contrabajo - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Sculpture, Iron, Spray Paint
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Complete title: Ànima de Contrabajo
Rosendo Porro Cuesta's sculptural work aims at being an optical illusion, going beyond the limits of drawing ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Iron
Acorn Woopeker
Located in PARIS, FR
Unique piece
Created in 2015
28 x 23 x 44 cm
" My work investigates the slippery intersection between the digital world and reality. Specifically, I am interested in how we experien...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plywood, Ink, Acrylic
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
Water Tower Sculpture: 'French Bull Dog Black'
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
Water Tower Sculpture: 'Pit'
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
Mixed Media Sculpture of House: 'Spilt House'
Located in New York, NY
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
Him
Located in Fairfield, CT
Red Porsche Guard on Fiberglass
Edition of 6
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Fiberglass, Automotive Paint
Bone Form
Located in Fairfield, CT
Classic Fire Engine Monaco Red on Fiberglass
Edition of 6
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Fiberglass, Automotive Paint
Dog on wood palate with twine: 'Speak to 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
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
James Clerk Maxwell
By Shawn Smith
Located in PARIS, FR
Unique piece
Created in 2015
33 x 28 x 43 cm
" My work investigates the slippery intersection between the digital world and reality. Specifically, I am interested in how we experie...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plywood, Ink, Acrylic
Osprey
By Shawn Smith
Located in PARIS, FR
Unique piece
Created in 2015
89 x 155 x 43 cm
" My work investigates the slippery intersection between the digital world and reality. Specifically, I am interested in how we experie...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plywood, Ink, Acrylic
$17,000
Nest
By Shawn Smith
Located in PARIS, FR
Unique piece
Created in 2015
38 x 23 x 33 cm
" My work investigates the slippery intersection between the digital world and reality. Specifically, I am interested in how we experie...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plywood, Ink, Acrylic
$14,300
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
Atlas Moth
By Shawn Smith
Located in PARIS, FR
Unique piece
Created in 2015
94 x 49 x 8 cm
" My work investigates the slippery intersection between the digital world and reality. Specifically, I am interested in how we experienc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plywood, Ink, Acrylic
$12,800
Blue-bearded Helmet crest
By Shawn Smith
Located in PARIS, FR
Unique piece
Created in 2015
39 x 28 x 41 cm
" My work investigates the slippery intersection between the digital world and reality. Specifically, I am interested in how we experien...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plywood, Ink, Acrylic
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 ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Paint
Julia
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
St-Laurent
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
Extrapolation 5
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
Extrapolation 1
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
Dom
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
A Second Breath
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
"Diablito 4" art toy, red devil, pop art, Mexican, mask, contemporary, 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
Lid #7
By Zeke Moores
Located in Montreal, Quebec
“Man's profound gestural relationship to objects, which epitomizes his integration into the world, into social structures, can be a highly fulfilling one, and this fulfilment is discernible in the beauty - the 'style' - of the relationship in its reciprocity.”
-Jean Baudrillard, The System of Objects (1996)
The cliché that “one man’s trash...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$6,000
Lid #8
By Zeke Moores
Located in Montreal, Quebec
“Man's profound gestural relationship to objects, which epitomizes his integration into the world, into social structures, can be a highly fulfilling one, and this fulfilment is discernible in the beauty - the 'style' - of the relationship in its reciprocity.”
-Jean Baudrillard, The System of Objects (1996)
The cliché that “one man’s trash...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$6,000
Time Takes a Cigarette
Located in Montreal, Quebec
For Nicolas Bourriaud, the flea market is a place where “past production is recycled and switches direction” and where “an object is given a new idea.” On the stalls of the flea market, objects are resurrected and given a second life. This is where Jennifer Small...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Paint, Mixed Media
Gallon de démesure
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Lamontagne has an interest for the conflicting relationship that exists between the end of the landscape and its contemplation, as well as for the so-called death of painting. The pa...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Enfoncer le clou
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Lamontagne has an interest for the conflicting relationship that exists between the end of the landscape and its contemplation, as well as for the so-called death of painting. The pa...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Predator, Prey & Victim
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Nicholas Crombach is currently an artist in residence at The Florence Trust in London, UK. Crombach graduated from OCAD University’s Sculpture and Installation program in 2012. He h...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Animal Skin, Resin, Acrylic
Sail Form
Located in Fairfield, CT
Stinger Orange over Fiberglass
Edition of 6
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Fiberglass, Automotive Paint
Green Heron
By Shawn Smith
Located in PARIS, FR
Unique piece
Created in 2015
49 x 28 x 29 cm
" My work investigates the slippery intersection between the digital world and reality. Specifically, I am interested in how we experien...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plywood, Ink, Acrylic
Fire Kudo
By Shawn Smith
Located in PARIS, FR
Unique piece
Created in 2015
112 x 65 x 48 cm
" My work investigates the slippery intersection between the digital world and reality. Specifically, I am interested in how we experi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plywood, Ink, Acrylic
$12,800
Bedroom Brunette with Irises
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A sculpture by Tom Wesselmann. "Bedroom Brunette with Irises" is a contemporary wall sculpture, oil on cut-out aluminum by Blue Chip, Pop artist Tom Wesselmann. The work is unsigned. This piece was conceived in 1988 and frabricated by Lippincott Sculpture studio in 2004.
Tom Wesselmann was born in Cincinnati Ohio on February 23 1931. He attended college from 1945-1951, first at the Hiram College in Ohio and then the University of Cincinnati, where he majored in psychology. He was drafted during the Korean War in 1952, and it was during this time that Wesselmann did his first cartoons. After he was discharged and had finished in degree in psychology, Wesselmann began to study drawing at the Art Academy of Cincinnati. He sold his first cartoon strips to two magazines, 1000 Jokes and True.
In 1956, he was accepted to Cooper Union in New York and he continued his studies there. It was while he was studying in New York, specifically on a trip to the MoMA that Wesselmann became inspired by Robert Motherwell and Willem de Kooning. In 1958, a landscape painting trip to Cooper Union’s Green Camp in New Jersey brought him to the realization that he could make his career in painting, rather than cartooning.
After graduation, Wesselmann became one of the founding members of the Judson Gallery, along with Marc Ratliff and Jim Dine. Wesselmann also began to teach art at a public school in Brooklyn and later at the High School of Art and Design.
In 1961, Wesselmann began the series that would bring him to the attention of the art world, Great American Nude. After a dream concerning the phrase “red, white and blue”, Wesselmann decided to limit himself to a palette of only those colors (including colors like gold and khaki that are associated with patriotic motifs). This series incorporated representational images along the same patriotic theme, including American landscape photographs and portraits of the founding fathers. Wesselmann often collaged these images from magazines and discarded posters which required him to work in a much larger format than he was used to. As his works became larger and larger he approached advertisers directly to acquire billboards. Wesselmann’s first solo show was held in 1961 at Tanager Gallery. In 1962, Richard Bellamy gave him a one man exhibition at the Green Gallery.
In 1962, Wesselmann participated in the group exhibition “New Realists” at the Sidney Janis Gallery and kicked off his international career. In that same year his first pieces with the title of Still Life, came about. In these works, Wesselmann concentrated on the juxtaposition of different elements, i.e. a cigarette ad...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
(ORIGINALFAKE) COMPANION - black
By KAWS
Located in London, GB
(ORIGINALFAKE) COMPANION - black
By KAWS
2006
Painted bronze. In the original wooden case.
38.7 × 16.5 × 10 cm
Edition of 10
Stamped by artist's estate, Signed, dated 06 and nu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Price Upon Request
(ORIGINALFAKE) COMPANION - grey
By KAWS
Located in London, GB
(ORIGINALFAKE) COMPANION - grey
By KAWS
2006
Painted bronze. In the original wooden case.
38.7 × 16.5 × 10 cm
Edition of 10
Stamped by artist's estate, Signed, dated 06 and num...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Price Upon Request
Daniel
Located in New York, NY
Greer Lankton
Daniel
1982
Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity
Sculpting wire, human hair, papier-mâché, acrylic paint, Sacred Heart of Mary m...
Category
1980s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wire
Price Upon Request
Marionette
Located in New York, NY
Marionette
1962
Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity
Wood, paint, and metal pins
18 x 8 x 2 inches
Contact gallery for price.
This was the first doll that Greer Lankton...
Category
1960s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Price Upon Request
"The Last Sip" Wall Sculpture 23" x 19" inch by Gosha Ostretsov
Located in Culver City, CA
"The Last Sip" Wall Sculpture 23" x 19" inch by Gosha Ostretsov
Born in 1967, in Moscow
Lived in Paris for ten years (1988 - 1998), now lives and works in Moscow.
PUBLIC COLLECTION...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Flowing
By Gil Bruvel
Located in PARIS, FR
Unique and original sculpture by Gil Bruvel.
From the iconic Mask sculpture series.
Gil Bruvel is a visual artist who was born in 1959 in Sydney, he lives and works in Houston, Unit...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
Price Upon Request
Blue Tree
Located in New York, NY
Ardan Özmenoğlu draws from her own experiences as a Turkish woman to explore ideas about history, popular culture, and the formation of a national and cultural identity. Known for her figurative works made from Post-it notes and sculptures created from layers of glass panels, Özmenoğlu aims to make the viewer rethink familiar concepts, objects, and imagery using everyday items. Works such as Beauty Balloon Pink with Triangles (2020) exude playfulness and uniqueness in their recontextualization of mundane objects. In works like post-it leaves (2019), she prints...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Price Upon Request
Reclining figure II
Located in Fairfield, CT
Auto painted bronze
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Price Upon Request
Tsunami VIII
Located in Fairfield, CT
Metallic Auto-Painted Aluminum
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Price Upon Request
Lone Ranger
Located in New Orleans, LA
Thierry Job was born in Marseille, France and currently lives in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. He studied art at the School of Beaux Arts in Paris. His wo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Price Upon Request
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