Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
CONTEMPORARY STYLE
Used to refer to a time rather than an aesthetic, Contemporary art generally describes pieces created after 1970 or being made by living artists anywhere in the world. This immediacy means it encompasses art responding to the present moment through diverse subjects, media and themes. Contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, performance, digital art, video and more frequently includes work that is attempting to reshape current ideas about what art can be, from Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s use of candy to memorialize a lover he lost to AIDS-related complications to Jenny Holzer’s ongoing “Truisms,” a Conceptual series that sees provocative messages printed on billboards, T-shirts, benches and other public places that exist outside of formal exhibitions and the conventional “white cube” of galleries.
Contemporary art has been pushing the boundaries of creative expression for years. Its disruption of the traditional concepts of art are often aiming to engage viewers in complex questions about identity, society and culture. In the latter part of the 20th century, contemporary movements included Land art, in which artists like Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer create large-scale, site-specific sculptures, installations and other works in soil and bodies of water; Sound art, with artists such as Christian Marclay and Susan Philipsz centering art on sonic experiences; and New Media art, in which mass media and digital culture inform the work of artists such as Nam June Paik and Rafaël Rozendaal.
The first decades of the 21st century have seen the growth of Contemporary African art, the revival of figurative painting, the emergence of street art and the rise of NFTs, unique digital artworks that are powered by blockchain technology.
Major Contemporary artists practicing now include Ai Weiwei, Cecily Brown, David Hockney, Yayoi Kusama, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami and Kara Walker.
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Recognized Seller Listings
Contrapposto Series: Remembering
Located in Dallas, TX
The figure has always been Deborah Ballard’s muse in her sculptures. Ballard works in bronze, cast stone, and plaster; her figures ranging from life-size to hand-size. Ballard says, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Cast Stone, Bronze
Untitled No 51 1/8 - emotive, nude, female, figurative, patina, bronze statuette
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This bronze statuette of a nude female dancer, toes pointed, thin legs outstretched with an anguished torso was created rapidly in gestures that verge on abstraction. The modern and ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Gossips II
Located in Dallas, TX
The figure has always been Deborah Ballard’s muse in her sculptures. Ballard works in bronze, cast stone, and plaster; her figures ranging from life-size to hand-size. Ballard says, ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Rapt Triptych - Large, figurative, masks, tryptic aluminum wall sculpture
By Dale Dunning
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Narrow strips of aluminum are skillfully shaped into the curves and folds of three masks by sculptor Dale Dunning. The industrial steam-punk inspired wrapped faces that change from right to left also reflect a romantic sensibility recalling the Gothic literature...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Reflection Series: Inner Voice
Located in Dallas, TX
The figure has always been Deborah Ballard’s muse in her sculptures. Ballard works in bronze, cast stone, and plaster; her figures ranging from life-size to hand-size. Ballard says, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Cast Stone, Stainless Steel, Iron
Calligraphy - abstracted, repurposed metal, gothic, bronze figurative sculpture
By Dale Dunning
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Old metal type, welded together to form the head of this over-sized bust, is cast in bronze and perched on a bronze pyramidal base by sculptor Dale Dunn...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Desiderium Head
Located in Dallas, TX
In his sculptures, drawings and paintings, Michael O’Keefe employs unpredictable processes as a means to discover content. He couples accident and chance with unconventional methods, tools, and materials as a means to move beyond the boundaries of his tendencies. In his recent sculptures of heads...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster, Pigment
Continued Conversations IV
Located in Dallas, TX
The figure has always been Deborah Ballard’s muse in her sculptures. Ballard works in bronze, cast stone, and plaster; her figures ranging from life-size to hand-size. Ballard says, ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Cast Stone, Iron
The Laurel Series, #6
Located in Dallas, TX
Michael O’Keefe’s sculptures, drawings, and paintings depict figurative narratives born from unpredictable processes. He couples innovative methods with unconventional tools to creat...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
Palimpsest 5/7 - abstract, repurposed metal, gothic, figurative wall sculpture
By Dale Dunning
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Repurposed metal type was fused in the shape of a mask then cast in aluminum and polished to create a rich surface by artist Dale Dunning. The title of the work palimpsest refers to ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
The Voice From Without
Located in Dallas, TX
From Memories of Egypt Series.
The figure has always been Deborah Ballard’s muse in her sculptures. Ballard works in bronze, cast stone, and plaster; her figures ranging from life-s...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Pigment, Wax, Plaster
Green Samurai - patinated, rustic, baroque, figurative, bronze wall sculpture
By Dale Dunning
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Bronze head fashion from cast found objects - the decorative elements added to furniture early in the last century. This piece is cast using elements of wood molding to create a mask...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Sounding IV - narrative of journey and change, mixed media, tapestry and vessel
Located in Bloomfield, ON
A ceramic canoe shape perforated and marked emerges from a plinth next to a tapestry of blue and light brown that repeats the vertical canoe shape. The title of this mixed media work...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Textile, Clay
The Pleiades-Celaeno 4/8 - emotive, nude, female, figurative, bronze statuette
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Canadian artist Richard Tosczak is known for his beautiful figurative sculptures. This bronze statuette of a nude female leaning as if against a wall, hands behind her back was first...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Agathist Head
Located in Dallas, TX
In his sculptures, drawings and paintings, Michael O’Keefe employs unpredictable processes as a means to discover content. He couples accident and chance with unconventional methods,...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Pigment, Plaster
Orpheus after the disappearance of Eurydice - male, figurative, bronze sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This powerful bronze sculpture of a nude male, standing, fists raised above a bowed head is by Canadian artist Richard Tosczak. Known for his beautiful figurative work, Tosczak’s pie...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Talavera Plate
By Carlos Luna
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A white ceramic plate with black and blue glaze depicting a crowing rooster and a woman's face in profile by Latin American artist Carlos Luna.
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
The Pleiades-Alcyone AP/12 - emotive, nude, female, figurative, bronze statuette
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This strongly posed female nude figure in patinated bronze was created rapidly in clay - in gestures that verge on abstraction. It has then been cast in bronze. This is the Artist...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Kuro Koi AP - black, rustic, baroque, face, figurative, bronze wall sculpture
By Dale Dunning
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Bronze cast mask, created by casting decorative escutcheons used in furniture at the turn the 19th century, and combining them into a mask that challenges both traditional ideas of t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Walk Series: Going Places
Located in Dallas, TX
The figure has always been Deborah Ballard’s muse in her sculptures. Ballard works in bronze, cast stone, and plaster; her figures ranging from life-size to hand-size. Ballard says, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Iron
Think II
Located in Dallas, TX
The figure has always been Deborah Ballard’s muse in her sculptures. Ballard works in bronze, cast stone, and plaster; her figures ranging from life-size to hand-size. Ballard says...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Iron, Stainless Steel
Saving Gaia III
Located in Dallas, TX
Deborah Ballard is best known for conceiving of figures and groupings of figures who relate to one another (and the viewer) through their body language, relationships and dialogue. S...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Talavera Plate
By Carlos Luna
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A white ceramic plate with deep blue glaze depicting an abstracted head of a man in a hat with three hammers above his head by Latin American artist Carlos Luna.
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Tabula Rasa - abstracted, gothic, bronze, gold plated, figurative sculpture
By Dale Dunning
Located in Bloomfield, ON
A gold patinated head bursts from its shell of bronze in this aptly titled sculpture by Dale Dunning.
Bronze sculptor Dale Dunning’s skilled craftsmanship never overshadows the stor...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Talavera Plate
By Carlos Luna
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A white ceramic plate with deep blue glaze depicting an abstracted elephant by Latin American artist Carlos Luna.
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
The Pleiades-Taygete 1/8 - emotive, nude, female, figurative, bronze statuette
Located in Bloomfield, ON
The elegant form of a nude female figure is captured in this sculpture by Canadian artist Richard Tosczak. This table-top piece is named after ‘Taygete’ one of the Pleiades--seven si...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Indispensable Losses 3
Located in Dallas, TX
Michael O’Keefe’s sculptures, drawings, and paintings depict figurative narratives born from unpredictable processes. He couples innovative methods with unconventional tools to creat...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Granite
Midori Koi (AP) - green, rustic, baroque, face, figurative bronze wall sculpture
By Dale Dunning
Located in Bloomfield, ON
The exquisite detail of antique hand-carved wood has been re-imagined as a mask in this intriguing sculpture by Dale Dunning. The Canadian artist often re-purposes found objects—this...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Sleep
Located in Dallas, TX
"Since childhood, I have been making clay figures to express what interested me. When I make a figure I try to feel what my subjects feel from the inside out. I choose the motif of p...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Glaze, Ceramic
Walk/Inner Voice Series: Changing Direction
Located in Dallas, TX
The figure has always been Deborah Ballard’s muse in her sculptures. Ballard works in bronze, cast stone, and plaster; her figures ranging from life-size to hand-size. Ballard says, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Matchstick Head
By David Mach
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A sculpture by David Mach. "Matchstick Head" is a small sculpture executed in matchsticks & depicting an abstracted mask by contemporary artist David Mach.
Category
20th Century Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects
Talavera Plate
By Carlos Luna
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A blue and white ceramic plate depicting a stylized crowing rooster by Carlos Luna.
Carlos Luna’s oeuvre is an amalgam of native Cuban influence from twentieth century artists suc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Sculpture XXIX 1/8 - emotive, nude, female, figurative, patina, bronze statuette
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This delicately balanced, female nude figure is patinated in a dark blue and black tone.
Available by commission in an edition of 8, this piece is 1/8.
A former student of philosop...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Rethinking It All
Located in Dallas, TX
This sculpture is cast and manipulated stone, fiberglass, iron, and casters.
Deborah Ballard is best known for conceiving of figures and groupings of figures who relate to one anoth...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Cast Stone, Iron
Shiro Koi AP - white, rustic, baroque, face, figurative, bronze wall sculpture
By Dale Dunning
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Using small hand carved wooden escutcheons created by rural furniture makers early in the last century as the basis for the molds, Dunning has created the wax elements and sculpted a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Akai Koi AP - red, rustic, baroque, face, figurative, bronze wall sculpture
By Dale Dunning
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Bronze sculptor Dale Dunning’s skilled craftsmanship never overshadows the story he wants to tell. Often he presents new ways of looking at the human face – sometimes as a mask, other times brimming with words and thoughts – and always compelling, sacred and narrative. His formal education includes a MFA (1971) from Cranbrook Academy...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Mr. Blu
Located in Dallas, TX
After receiving her BFA from the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles, Carol Cook earned a Master of Occupational Therapy degree from Texas Woman’s University in Denton. In 2000, Cook e...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Clay, Acrylic, Glaze
Maquette for Memories of Egypt Series
Located in Dallas, TX
Deborah Ballard is best known for conceiving of figures and groupings of figures who relate to one another (and the viewer) through their body language, relationships and dialogue. S...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Cast Stone
Release Series: Curled
Located in Dallas, TX
Deborah Ballard is best known for conceiving of figures and groupings of figures who relate to one another (and the viewer) through their body language, relationships and dialogue. S...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
I Ain't Takin' No Shower
Located in Dallas, TX
After receiving her BFA from the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles, Carol Cook earned a Master of Occupational Therapy degree from Texas Woman’s University in Denton. In 2000, Cook e...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Clay, Acrylic, Glaze
Joyce
Located in Dallas, TX
After receiving her BFA from the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles, Carol Cook earned a Master of Occupational Therapy degree from Texas Woman’s University in Denton. In 2000, Cook e...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Clay, Acrylic, Glaze
Coversation
By Ron Reihel
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A sculpture by Ron Reihel. "Conversation" is an abstract, plaster, wood and canvas sculpture, executed in black by contemporary artist Ron Reihel. "Conversation" depicts a group of t...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster, Wood, Canvas
Astarte
Located in Dallas, TX
"The Phoenician goddess of fertility and sexual love, she is also regarded as a moon goddess."
Quote from the monograph "Anita Huffington," Photographs by David Finn...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Untitled XXVII 4/8 - emotive, nude, female, figurative, patina, bronze statuette
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Powerful bronze female nude sculpture caught in a transitional movement. The patina on this textured sculpture is a deep blue-black. The modern and dynamic formalism that departs fro...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Sculpture VIII 1/8 - emotive, nude, female, figurative, patina, bronze statuette
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This thoughtful, female, nude figure is patinated in a dark blue and black tone.
Available by commission in an edition of 8, this piece is 1/8. Please allow 4-5 weeks for completion...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Elefante
By Carlos Luna
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A sculpture by Carlos Luna. "Elefante" is a bronze sculpture depicting an detailed yet abstracted elephant by Latin American artist Carlos Luna. Edition 8 of 8.
Signed lower left.
C...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Untitled XXVIII A.P./8 - emotive, nude, female, figurative, bronze statuette
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This thoughtful female figure has wrapped her arms around herself. The light green patina highlights this gentle gesture. The study feels intimate, and indeed, the sculptor's wife wa...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Cloud
Located in Dallas, TX
The alabaster of "Cloud," upon which this bronze is based, is in the collection of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas.
Anita Huffington's work is also included in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; the Morris Museum in Augusta, Georgia; the Arkansas Arts Center in Little Rock; and the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida in Gainesville.
Anita Huffington's history includes a long period in New York City starting in the late fifties when she studied dance with Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham. Huffington became acquainted with a circle of artists of the New York School, including Kline and de Kooning, as well as a diverse and individualistic group of painters, sculptors, musicians, and poets in this vital and idealistic period. These experiences, and her later choice to live in the woods of the Arkansas Ozarks, sowed the seeds for the sculpture she makes in stone, bronze, wood, and mixed media. Her work reflects both the world of art and the spirit of her life in the woods.
Anita Huffington states:
"I do direct carving in stone and make bronzes, often using the stone as part of the process. My sculpture is usually based on the human form, primarily the female nude. I often carve torsos...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Interloper - colourful, playful, abstracted figures, painted steel sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Toronto artist Robert Clarke Ellis creates expressive outdoor sculptures in minimalist form. Using abstract shapes forged from steel…half-moons for heads and long curved stands resem...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Fading pink (#3)
By Hernan Bas
Located in New York, NY
Hernan Bas is best known for his narratively rich scenes that feature a wide-range of references spanning art and literature, popular culture, kitsch, the occult, religion, and mythology. Across his works, Bas seeks to defamiliarize everyday experience through humor, revealing the surreal and absurd lurking beneath the mundane.
In conceiving this flamingo sculpture series, Bas was inspired specifically by the 19th century novel ‘Against Nature’ by Joris-Karl Huysmans. In the novel, the main character, an astute dandy of epic proportions, decides to cover a pet tortoise's shell with ornate jewels in order to see how the light would glimmer on it as it slowly treaded across his carpets. Bas imagined a fictional character of his own, a "Florida Dandy," who would naturally want bright pink flamingos as pets. The ball and chain keep them from flying away and simultaneously constrain them to a certain territory.
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Fading pink (#3), 2016-2017
resin, feathers, galvanized metal buoy...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Iron
Fading pink (#1)
By Hernan Bas
Located in New York, NY
Hernan Bas is best known for his narratively rich scenes that feature a wide-range of references spanning art and literature, popular culture, kitsch, the occult, religion, and mythology. Across his works, Bas seeks to defamiliarize everyday experience through humor, revealing the surreal and absurd lurking beneath the mundane.
In conceiving this flamingo sculpture series, Bas was inspired specifically by the 19th century novel ‘Against Nature’ by Joris-Karl Huysmans. In the novel, the main character, an astute dandy of epic proportions, decides to cover a pet tortoise's shell with ornate jewels in order to see how the light would glimmer on it as it slowly treaded across his carpets. Bas imagined a fictional character of his own, a "Florida Dandy," who would naturally want bright pink flamingos as pets. The ball and chain keep them from flying away and simultaneously constrain them to a certain territory.
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Fading pink (#1), 2016-2017
resin, feathers, rug, galvanized metal buoy...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
"Bluff"
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
Mike Carson is a Minneapolis painter, and graduate of the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, whose artwork can be found in private and corporate collec...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Pastel Pink
Located in New York, NY
Kristalova is best known for her figurative ceramic sculptures that incorporate aspects of the human body and elements of nature. Across her oeuvre, she explores transition as a stag...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Taken by trees
Located in New York, NY
Kristalova is best known for her figurative ceramic sculptures that incorporate aspects of the human body and elements of nature. Across her oeuvre, she explores transition as a stag...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Fireplace
Located in New York, NY
Kristalova is best known for her figurative ceramic sculptures that incorporate aspects of the human body and elements of nature. Across her oeuvre, she explores transition as a stag...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
BIG HEART GOWN
By Lesley Dill
Located in New York, NY
The language on this extravagant sculpture are two poems that read; "The heart asks pleasure first and then excuse from pain," Emily Dickinson & "Becoming ever more quiet constantly ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Sentinel - large, rusted, male figure, Corten steel outdoor sculpture
By Jason Kimes
Located in Bloomfield, ON
An imposing figure, he stands tall, head held high, hands at his side and as the name suggests he appears to be on guard. (Sentinel) This is the extraordinary work of American artist...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Haza'el
By Boaz Vaadia
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Vaadia says of his work, “By using the natural forces of rocks, my work awakens ancient ‘earth senses’ that were slowly abandoned by man during his evolution to civilization. By carv...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bluestone, Bronze
Contemporary figurative sculptures for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Contemporary figurative sculptures available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add figurative sculptures created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, purple, red, orange and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including KOBE, Richard MacDonald, Beth Carter, and Evert den Hartog. Frequently made by artists working with Metal, and Bronze and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Contemporary figurative sculptures, so small editions measuring 0.5 inches across are also available.
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