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Medium: Found Objects
"You Are Here: Green" Thread Assemblage in Spiral Pattern by Kelly Kozma
By Kelly Kozma
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This sculpture titled "You Are Here: Green" is an original artwork by Kelly Kozma made of thread scraps & acrylic on panel. The piece measures 4"h x 4"w x 1.75"d.
Kelly Kozma is...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects, Acrylic, Panel
"You Are Here: Gold" String and Paint in Radial Pattern
By Kelly Kozma
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This sculpture titled "You Are Here: Gold" is an original artwork by Kelly Kozma made of thread scraps & acrylic on panel. The piece measures 4"h x 4"w x 1.75"d.
Kelly Kozma is ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects, Acrylic, Panel
Paintbrushes I
By Arman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Arman, French/American (1929 - 2005)
Title: Paintbrushes I
Year: 1991
Medium: Paintbrushes and Oil Paint in Epoxy Resin Sculpture, Signature and number inscribed
Edition: 20,...
Category
1990s Dada Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Epoxy Resin, Found Objects, Mixed Media, Oil
$15,000
Patricia Miranda, Dreaming Awake, 2020, nightdress, cochineal dyes, plaster,
Located in Darien, CT
Patricia Miranda's work includes interdisciplinary installation, textile, paper and books. The textiles incorporated in these new pieces are vintage linens from her Italian and Irish grandmothers and sourced from friends and strangers around the country. Each donation is documented and integrated into the work. Textile as a form that wraps the body from cradle to grave. The role of lacemaking in the lives of women both economically and historically is packed with metaphorical potential. The relationship of craft and women’s work (re)appropriated by artists today to environmental and social issues is integral to the artist's research.
Her work is process oriented; materials are submerged in natural dyes from oak gall wasp nests, cochineal insects, turmeric, indigo, and clay. She forages for raw materials, cook dyes, grind pigments, ecofeminist actions that consider environmental impacts of objects. The process is left visible as dyestuff is unfiltered in the vat and finished work. Sewn into larger works, Miranda incorporates hair, pearls, bone beads, Milagros, cast plaster. The distinct genetics and environmental and cultural history of each material asserts its voice as collaborator rather than medium.
The lace inserts a visceral femininity into the pristine gallery, and exerts a ghostly trace of the history of domestic labor. The combination of earth and lace references human and environmental devastation and the conflation of nature and women’s bodies as justifications for exploitation. Mournful and solastalgic, they are lamentations to the violence against women and the earth.
Patricia Miranda is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, educator, and founder of The Crit Lab, graduate-level critique seminars and Residency for artists, and MAPSpace project space. She has been Visiting Artist at Vermont Studio Center, the Heckscher Museum, and University of Utah; and been awarded residencies at I-Park, Weir Farm, Vermont Studio Center, and Julio Valdez Printmaking Studio.
She received an Anonymous Was a Woman Covid19 Artist Relief Grant, an artist grant from ArtsWestchester/New York State Council on the Arts, and was part of a year-long NEA grant working with homeless youth.
Miranda currently teaches graduate curatorial studies at Western Colorado University, and develops programs for K-12, museums, and institutions such as Franklin Furnace.
Her work has been exhibited at ODETTA, NYC; ABC No Rio, NYC; Alexey von...
Category
2010s Feminist Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Fabric, Thread, Dye, Found Objects, Plaster
American Story No.1776
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
KAT FLYN is a self-taught assemblage artist working presently out of San Diego. She began her career as a costume designer in Southern California. Over the years she amassed a trove of artifacts and collectables which she began using to create assemblage art in the 1990’s. In 2000 she sold her business and moved to Cuyamaca, a remote community in the mountains outside of San Diego to devote herself exclusively to her artwork. In 2003 her work was interrupted when the Cedar Fire swept through San Diego county and destroyed the forest, her home & studio along with almost all of her collections and works of art. Following the fire she relocated to San Francisco, where she spent a decade concentrating on her art in her studio in SOMA and exhibiting at galleries in the Bay Area. In 2015 she returned to San Diego and now works out of her studio in La Jolla, exhibiting there and in Los Angeles.
Kat Flyn refers to herself as an Assemblage Sculptor and her works as Political Art or Protest Art. She separates herself from other assemblage artists in that she only employs “saved” as opposed to “found” objects in her work; and her pieces always have a political or cultural narrative to them rather than being surreal or abstract. She also constructs or refashions many of the pieces which she uses in her art, for example she turns a soft drink box...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Found Objects, Mixed Media
Study in Green with Pearls, 2021, Matt Smith
By Matt Smith
Located in London, GB
MATT SMITH (BRITISH)
Study in Green with Pearls, 2021
Black Parian, Found Ceramic, Freshwater Pearls
29 x 14 x 14 cm
11 1/2 x 5 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.
(MS206)
£ 4,000.00
UK-born Matt Smit...
Category
2010s Old Masters Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Found Objects
"Caress of Water, " Mixed Media Sculpture
Located in Chicago, IL
Based in Chicago, IL, contemporary artist Michael Thompson creates unique kites, collages and mixed media works assembled from material fragments of past and present collected in his...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Stone
Contemporary, Mixed Media, Hanging, Sculpture, Wood, Metal, Glass, Found Objects
By John Garrett
Located in St. Louis, MO
Contemporary, Mixed Media, Hanging, Sculpture, Wood, Metal, Glass, Found Objects
John Garrett was raised in southern New Mexico by parents who were both educators. They instilled i...
Category
2010s Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Steel
Contemporary Mixed Media Wall Sculpture, Installation, Crocheted Found Material
By John Garrett
Located in St. Louis, MO
John Garrett was raised in southern New Mexico by parents who were both educators. They instilled in him an appreciation for the handmade with their collections of Native American a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects, Mixed Media, Other Medium
American Feminist Contemporary Chair Black Red Sculpture - Brush Swivel 64
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Brush Swivel 64 - American Feminist Contemporary Chair Black Red Sculpture
Linda Stein has been addressing the theme of Power/Vulnerability for more than five decades....
Category
1970s Feminist Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Plexiglass, Wood, Paper, Found Objects, Acrylic
Arrival, Shipyards tales. Iron vessel wall sculpture. 49x42"
Located in Tel Aviv, IL
Nir Adoni's metal vessels sculptures have become his signature art and are displayed in public buildings around the world.
We are offering limited editions ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Steel, Iron
Garden Variety
Located in New York, NY
Recycled textiles, thread, batting, glazed ceramic, metal table, spray paint
34 x 22 x 18 inches
Artist Statement
I hand-sew compound sculptural forms that are constructed from clot...
Category
2010s Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Textile, Thread, Found Objects, Spray Paint
$3,680 Sale Price
20% Off
"Wire Songs", Contemporary, Mixed Media, Sculpture, Plied Wire, Aluminum, Metal
By John Garrett
Located in St. Louis, MO
John Garrett was raised in southern New Mexico by parents who were both educators. They instilled in him an appreciation for the handmade with their collections of Native American a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Wire
Contemporary, Mixed Media, Hanging, Sculpture, Wood, Metal, Glass, Found Objects
By John Garrett
Located in St. Louis, MO
Contemporary, Mixed Media, Hanging, Sculpture, Wood, Metal, Glass, Found Objects
John Garrett was raised in southern New Mexico by parents who were both educators. They instilled i...
Category
2010s Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Highly conceptual mixed media wall sculpture Contemporary Cat charm rabbit foot
Located in Buffalo, NY
No Fear (Trapper Keeper)
UV print on aluminum, chain, jewelry, keychain, sticker,
Croc Jibbitz, rabbit’s foot, Tamagotchi
18x48”
2019
$975
Eternal Flame i...
Category
2010s Conceptual Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Metal
The Greatest Show On Earth
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
It is a sign of an unhealthy society when fringe personalities are increasingly found not on the fringe but in its mainstream. They bring with them ignorance, prejudice, and irration...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects, Mixed Media
"Duty Free"
By Chakaia Booker
Located in Astoria, NY
Chakaia Booker (American, b. 1953) "Duty Free", 2010, rubber tire assemblage sculpture, signed and dated on back, with two signed wooden cleats. 24" H x 24" W x 9" D. Provenance: Mus...
Category
2010s Assemblage Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Rubber, Found Objects
Catching Blessings: shadow box painting & collage w/ figures & found objects
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This is a shadow box construction approx. 13" x 9" x 2.5" with painted and collaged materials including historic photographs of Black figures and other found objects. Encased in a dark wood frame under glass. It is signed and dated along the lower edge.
PROVENANCE: Exhibited in "Portals + Revelations: Richard J. Watson," the African American Museum in Philadelphia, Oct 2021 - Mar 2022.
"Most of my works are supported by memories of the past and suggested realities. Issues of social politics, ancestral references, and astral projections are presented with fragmented elements...
Category
2010s Abstract Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects, Acrylic, Glass
"Pompeii, " Mixed Media Sculpture
Located in Chicago, IL
Based in Chicago, IL, contemporary artist Michael Thompson creates unique kites, collages and mixed media works assembled from material fragments of past and present collected in his travels. In his ongoing series of memory jugs, Thompson adorns stoneware vessels with a kaleidoscope of ceramic shards, found objects, and pocket-sized trinkets he collected over the course of his life.
Also known as forget-me-not jugs or spirit jars, memory jugs are African American folk art objects that honor a loved one who has recently passed. Small tokens and mementos of the deceased are gathered and affixed to the exterior of a jug or vase, an abundance of memories that celebrates a life lived to the fullest.
Michael Thompson applies this tradition to his own practice, creating tactile assemblages of this and that. Formed in the manner of collage, each jug honors the lost memories of generations past and his own memories of personally discovering each item. With varied sources for materials including Kyoto, Turkey, and Mexico, a great number of the found shards are 18th and 19th century ceramics...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Stone
Cloud
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: found aluminum cans, wire
Available in multiple color/finish options (inquire with gallery).
Installations are made to order, sizes and shapes of butterflies vary.
Unique, ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
$18,000
"Iridescence, " Mixed Media Sculpture
Located in Chicago, IL
Based in Chicago, IL, contemporary artist Michael Thompson creates unique kites, collages and mixed media works assembled from material fragments of past and present collected in his travels. In his ongoing series of memory jugs, Thompson adorns stoneware vessels with a kaleidoscope of ceramic shards, found objects, and pocket-sized trinkets he collected over the course of his life.
Also known as forget-me-not jugs or spirit jars...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Stone
"Beach-Combed Mochaware, " Mixed Media Sculpture
Located in Chicago, IL
Based in Chicago, IL, contemporary artist Michael Thompson creates unique kites, collages and mixed media works assembled from material fragments of past and present collected in his travels. In his ongoing series of memory jugs, Thompson adorns stoneware vessels with a kaleidoscope of ceramic shards, found objects, and pocket-sized trinkets he collected over the course of his life.
Also known as forget-me-not jugs or spirit jars, memory jugs are African American folk art objects that honor a loved one who has recently passed. Small tokens and mementos of the deceased are gathered and affixed to the exterior of a jug or vase, an abundance of memories that celebrates a life lived to the fullest.
Michael Thompson applies this tradition to his own practice, creating tactile assemblages of this and that. Formed in the manner of collage, each jug honors the lost memories of generations past and his own memories of personally discovering each item. With varied sources for materials including Kyoto, Turkey, and Mexico, a great number of the found shards are 18th and 19th century ceramics...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Stone
American Story No.1921
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
KAT FLYN is a self-taught assemblage artist working presently out of San Diego. She began her career as a costume designer in Southern California. Over the years she amassed a trove of artifacts and collectables which she began using to create assemblage art in the 1990’s. In 2000 she sold her business and moved to Cuyamaca, a remote community in the mountains outside of San Diego to devote herself exclusively to her artwork. In 2003 her work was interrupted when the Cedar Fire swept through San Diego county and destroyed the forest, her home & studio along with almost all of her collections and works of art. Following the fire she relocated to San Francisco, where she spent a decade concentrating on her art in her studio in SOMA and exhibiting at galleries in the Bay Area. In 2015 she returned to San Diego and now works out of her studio in La Jolla, exhibiting there and in Los Angeles.
Kat Flyn refers to herself as an Assemblage Sculptor and her works as Political Art or Protest Art. She separates herself from other assemblage artists in that she only employs “saved” as opposed to “found” objects in her work; and her pieces always have a political or cultural narrative to them rather than being surreal or abstract. She also constructs or refashions many of the pieces which she uses in her art, for example she turns a soft drink box...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Found Objects, Mixed Media
Remington Rand A, Vintage Typewriter Machine Gun, conceptual wall sculpture
By Éric Nado
Located in Dallas, TX
Typewriter Machine Guns by Eric Nado - "Remington Rand A - Mitra Lettres" is created from very unusual material - a vintage typewriter. The series ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Metal
"Everlast" Contemporary Pastel Abstract Boxing Glove Wall Sculpture
Located in Houston, TX
Exhibited in "Benji Stiles: A Human Day" at Reeves Art + Design.
In “A Human Day,” a solo show dedicated to the work of contemporary multidisciplinary artist Benji Stiles, we explor...
Category
2010s Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Plaster, Wood, Found Objects, Acrylic
"As the Crow Flies" -- Assemblage by Kat Flyn
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
KAT FLYN is a self-taught assemblage artist working presently out of San Diego. She began her career as a costume designer in Southern California. Over the years she amassed a trove ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Found Objects, Mixed Media
Bronze Relief of Construction Blocks in Wooden Cart, 2025 - 'Big Set'
Located in Bruxelles, BE
Conrad Willems’ “Big Set” is a bronze sculpture that reimagines the wooden construction blocks central to his artistic practice. Encased in one of the small wooden carts the artist u...
Category
2010s Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Everyone gets Due Process, Right?
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
KAT FLYN is a self-taught assemblage artist working presently out of San Diego. She began her career as a costume designer in Southern California. Over the years she amassed a trove ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Found Objects, Mixed Media
"Surf Board Guitar" Hybrid Instrument Wall Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
This sculpture created by Ken Butler is part guitar part surfboard. It is made in the spirit of absurdity many surrealists embraced using found objects in functional scenarios. signe...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Assemblage Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects, Mixed Media
"Deliverance" -- Assemblage by Kat Flyn
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
KAT FLYN is a self-taught assemblage artist working presently out of San Diego. She began her career as a costume designer in Southern California. Over the years she amassed a trove ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Found Objects, Mixed Media
Alight
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: aluminum (found cans), wire
Available in multiple color/finish options (inquire with gallery).
Installations are made to order, sizes and shapes of butterflies vary.
Unique...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Woke
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
KAT FLYN is a self-taught assemblage artist working presently out of San Diego. She began her career as a costume designer in Southern California. Over the years she amassed a trove of artifacts and collectables which she began using to create assemblage art in the 1990’s. In 2000 she sold her business and moved to Cuyamaca, a remote community in the mountains outside of San Diego to devote herself exclusively to her artwork. In 2003 her work was interrupted when the Cedar Fire swept through San Diego county and destroyed the forest, her home & studio along with almost all of her collections and works of art. Following the fire she relocated to San Francisco, where she spent a decade concentrating on her art in her studio in SOMA and exhibiting at galleries in the Bay Area. In 2015 she returned to San Diego and now works out of her studio in La Jolla, exhibiting there and in Los Angeles.
Kat Flyn refers to herself as an Assemblage Sculptor and her works as Political Art or Protest Art. She separates herself from other assemblage artists in that she only employs “saved” as opposed to “found” objects in her work; and her pieces always have a political or cultural narrative to them rather than being surreal or abstract. She also constructs or refashions many of the pieces which she uses in her art, for example she turns a soft drink box...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Found Objects, Mixed Media
$2,800
It's Only a Game
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
Medium: very old hand-carved bat, old handmade ball, hand-carved wood toy plane, Old wood handmade toolbox, one photo of young men gathered to play baseball ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects, Mixed Media
Saturación, Luminosidad & Destornillador. From The Composition with Tools series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The “Composition with Tools” series engages observers with quirky and playful truisms, gently leading them toward deeper reflections. Jose Ricardo Contreras...
Category
2010s Abstract Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Wood, Found Objects
"Louis", Contemporary, Mixed Media, Beaded, Sculpture, Found Objects, Glass
By Jan Huling
Located in St. Louis, MO
Jan Huling was born in Chicago and raised in St. Louis. After attending the Kansas City Art Institute she started her career in greeting card design at Hallmark. She now works in New...
Category
2010s Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Plastic, Found Objects, Mixed Media, Other Medium
$12,000 Sale Price
20% Off
"Infinite Purpose: Rainbow" Found Artist Materials in Wall-Mounted Sculpture
By Kelly Kozma
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This sculpture titled "Infinite Purpose: Rainbow" is an original artwork by Kelly Kozma made of retired colored pencils & acrylic on panel. The piece measures 12”h x 7”w.
Kelly ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Found Objects, Acrylic, Color Pencil
"We're All Just Taller Children"Artist Self Portrait in Acrylic & Colored Pencil
By Kelly Kozma
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This sculpture titled "We're All Just Taller Children" is an original artwork by Kelly Kozma made of colored pencil, ink & acrylic on paper, wood, chain and handmade origami wishing ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects, Acrylic, Wood, Paper, Ink, Color Pencil
"Infinite Purpose: Purple & Pink" Color Pencil and Acrylic Gradient
By Kelly Kozma
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This sculpture titled "Infinite Purpose: Purple & Pink" is an original artwork by Kelly Kozma made of retired colored pencils & acrylic on panel. The piece measures 12”h x 7”...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects, Acrylic, Wood
"Senufo (Gbon) Statute of Royalty, " Wood, Ivory, & Cowry Shells created c. 1940
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Senufo (Gbon) Statute of Royalty" is a sculpture by thr Senufo peoples of Gabon. It is wood, mixed fiber, textiles, and cowry shells.
14" x 8" x 3"
The...
Category
1940s Tribal Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Found Objects
American Feminist Contemporary Chair Black Tan Sculpture - Skeletal Format 67
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Skeletal Format 67 - American Feminist Contemporary Chair Black Tan Sculpture
Linda Stein has been addressing the theme of Power/Vulnerability for more than five deca...
Category
1970s Feminist Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Plastic, Wood, Found Objects, Acrylic
Frankenstein
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
"Trans Youth - Body of a boy/girl, mind of a monster, soul of an unearthly thing. Prejudice against transgender people is widespread."
KAT FLYN is a self-taught assemblage artist working presently out of San Diego. She began her career as a costume designer in Southern California. Over the years she amassed a trove of artifacts and collectables which she began using to create assemblage art in the 1990’s. In 2000 she sold her business and moved to Cuyamaca, a remote community in the mountains outside of San Diego to devote herself exclusively to her artwork. In 2003 her work was interrupted when the Cedar Fire swept through San Diego county and destroyed the forest, her home & studio along with almost all of her collections and works of art. Following the fire she relocated to San Francisco, where she spent a decade concentrating on her art in her studio in SOMA and exhibiting at galleries in the Bay Area. In 2015 she returned to San Diego and now works out of her studio in La Jolla, exhibiting there and in Los Angeles.
Kat Flyn refers to herself as an Assemblage Sculptor and her works as Political Art or Protest Art. She separates herself from other assemblage artists in that she only employs “saved” as opposed to “found” objects in her work; and her pieces always have a political or cultural narrative to them rather than being surreal or abstract. She also constructs or refashions many of the pieces which she uses in her art, for example she turns a soft drink box...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Mixed Media, Found Objects
Memo (Night)
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: aluminum (found cans), wire, soot
Unique, open edition
Available in multiple color/finish options (see second image on listing for options).
Installations are made to order, sizes and shapes of butterflies vary and can be oriented leftward or rightward.
Ships with installation template and loaner tool kit.
Installation can be arranged with JONATHAN FERRARA GALLERY.
Paul Villinski is a professional visual artist who 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, recently including the solo exhibition “Passage: A Special Project,” at the Blanton Museum, University of Texas, Austin; “Making Mends,” at the Bellevue Museum of Arts, Bellevue, WA; “Second Lives: Re-purposing the Ordinary,” at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY; and “Prospect .1,” an international Biennial in New Orleans, LA. “Emergency Response Studio,” a FEMA trailer redesigned and rebuilt into a solar-and wind-powered 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. His studio is currently at work on “SkyCycles,” three full-scale “flying...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Wire
Ghost Gear (diptych)
Located in New Orleans, LA
KX2 is a collaboration combining the strengths of artists and sisters Ruth Avra and Dana Kleinman who create mathematically inspired sculpture merging metal and painting. From a dist...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Enamel, Stainless Steel
"Bouquet, " Mixed Media Sculpture
Located in Chicago, IL
Based in Chicago, IL, contemporary artist Michael Thompson creates unique kites, collages and mixed media works assembled from material fragments of past and present collected in his travels. In his ongoing series of memory jugs, Thompson adorns stoneware vessels with a kaleidoscope of ceramic shards, found objects, and pocket-sized trinkets he collected over the course of his life.
Also known as forget-me-not jugs or spirit jars, memory jugs are African American folk art objects that honor a loved one who has recently passed. Small tokens and mementos of the deceased are gathered and affixed to the exterior of a jug or vase, an abundance of memories that celebrates a life lived to the fullest.
Michael Thompson applies this tradition to his own practice, creating tactile assemblages of this and that. Formed in the manner of collage, each jug honors the lost memories of generations past and his own memories of personally discovering each item. With varied sources for materials including Kyoto, Turkey, and Mexico, a great number of the found shards are 18th and 19th century ceramics...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Stone
American Story, Tulsa May 30, 1921
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
KAT FLYN is a self-taught assemblage artist working presently out of San Diego. She began her career as a costume designer in Southern California. Over the years she amassed a trove of artifacts and collectables which she began using to create assemblage art in the 1990’s. In 2000 she sold her business and moved to Cuyamaca, a remote community in the mountains outside of San Diego to devote herself exclusively to her artwork. In 2003 her work was interrupted when the Cedar Fire swept through San Diego county and destroyed the forest, her home & studio along with almost all of her collections and works of art. Following the fire she relocated to San Francisco, where she spent a decade concentrating on her art in her studio in SOMA and exhibiting at galleries in the Bay Area. In 2015 she returned to San Diego and now works out of her studio in La Jolla, exhibiting there and in Los Angeles.
Kat Flyn refers to herself as an Assemblage Sculptor and her works as Political Art or Protest Art. She separates herself from other assemblage artists in that she only employs “saved” as opposed to “found” objects in her work; and her pieces always have a political or cultural narrative to them rather than being surreal or abstract. She also constructs or refashions many of the pieces which she uses in her art, for example she turns a soft drink box...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Found Objects, Mixed Media
Death of a Spirit Guide
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
"This narrative questions the storyline that the wolf was the threat; but rather the Huntsman was the predator."
KAT FLYN is a self-taught assemblage artist working presently out of San Diego. She began her career as a costume designer in Southern California. Over the years she amassed a trove of artifacts and collectables which she began using to create assemblage art in the 1990’s. In 2000 she sold her business and moved to Cuyamaca, a remote community in the mountains outside of San Diego to devote herself exclusively to her artwork. In 2003 her work was interrupted when the Cedar Fire swept through San Diego county and destroyed the forest, her home & studio along with almost all of her collections and works of art. Following the fire she relocated to San Francisco, where she spent a decade concentrating on her art in her studio in SOMA and exhibiting at galleries in the Bay Area. In 2015 she returned to San Diego and now works out of her studio in La Jolla, exhibiting there and in Los Angeles.
Kat Flyn refers to herself as an Assemblage Sculptor and her works as Political Art or Protest Art. She separates herself from other assemblage artists in that she only employs “saved” as opposed to “found” objects in her work; and her pieces always have a political or cultural narrative to them rather than being surreal or abstract. She also constructs or refashions many of the pieces which she uses in her art, for example she turns a soft drink box into a tenement building in Affordable Housing 2017, a jewelry box into a wheelchair in Last Lily Foot 2016, an old shoe shine box...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Found Objects, Mixed Media
"Fiber Truck - PHD Edition" Dimensional Embroidered Vehicle
By Han Cao
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Fiber Truck - PHD Edition" is an original piece by Han Cao and is made from cotton embroidery thread, plastic stitching canvas, painted wooden spools, acrylic disp...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Thread, Found Objects, Canvas, Cotton, Plastic, Wood
The Last Stand
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
assemblage sculpture: wood stadium-like stands with 13 hand-carved & painted people, 1 resin & wood figure, painted reversible wood carnival game clown with one side a smile and the reverse a frown, hand-painted wood flag...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects, Mixed Media
"3 Pallets" Hand-Crafted Miniature Wooden Pallets
By Drew Leshko
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "3 Pallets" is original artwork made from coffee stirrers, basswood, pastel, watercolor by Drew Leshko. This piece measures 5”h x 1”w x 5”d.
Drew Leshko is a Phila...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Found Objects, Watercolor
"Cigar" Crafted Wall-Mounted Miniature Storefront Hanging Sign by Drew Leshko
By Drew Leshko
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Cigar" is original artwork made from paper, inkjet print, enamel, wire, chain, aluminum tube, pastel, toy cigar by Drew Leshko. This piece measures 12”h x 1”w x 7....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Enamel, Wire
"Vagabond", Miniature Paper and Found object Sculpture, Rusted Camper Truck
By Drew Leshko
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This miniature paper sculpture titled "Vagabond" is an original artwork by Drew Leshko made of paper, PVC, basswood, acrylic, enamel, pastel, watercolor, inkjet prints, aluminum. The...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Enamel
"Airplane Pool" Small Scale Superstructure Sign Made of Wood and Paper
By Drew Leshko
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Airplane Pool" is original artwork made from paper, acrylic, enamel, PVC, inkjet prints, basswood, pastel, reindeer moss by Drew Leshko. This piece measures 15”h x...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Enamel, Wire
Stephanie Todhunter, Donna, Mixed Media, 2019
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Stephanie Todhunter
Title: Donna
Year: 2019
Size: 8"x7"x4"
Material: Plaster of paris, found objects, spraypaint, alcohol inks
Category
2010s Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Plaster, Found Objects, Ink, Spray Paint
Manifest Destiny
By Tony Dagradi
Located in New Orleans, LA
TONY DAGRADI is an internationally recognized jazz performer, artist, composer, author, and educator. For over three decades he has made his home in New Orleans, performing on tenor ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Paper, Varnish, Found Objects
Manifestation II
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
This kinetic artwork is intended as a gently rotating, dimensional mandala. It has a baroque-upcycled aesthetic that playfully transcends the utility of the can-tab. Sparkling moiré patterns emerge as the artwork rotates slowly. One can experience the artwork as a sparkling, crystalline mystery from a distance, then as a familiar but incalculable marvel up close. Fun fact: it is powered by a disco ball motor
Keywords: kinetic art,sensory art, suspended art, upcycled, sparkling , metal
Details: A kinetic, sensory sculpture made from post-consumer can-tabs, safety pins, steel armature and ceiling mounted motor. 84"l x 44"w x 44"d x 40 lbs. rotates at 1 to 1-1/2 rpm
Artist Biography:
Since 2002, award winning artist Virginia Fleck...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Kinetic Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects
"Fiber Truck - Pride Edition", Full Color Spectrum in Dimensional Embroidery
By Han Cao
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Fiber Truck - PHD Edition" is an original piece by Han Cao and is madecotton embroidery thread, plastic stitching canvas, painted wooden spools, acrylic display ca...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Thread, Found Objects, Canvas, Cotton, Plastic, Wood, Paint
Vase with Roses, Honeysuckle, and Pheasant's Eye
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: reclaimed button-down, wire, floral tape, metal vase
Born in 1971 in Cincinnati, Ohio, CARLTON SCOTT STURGILL received his Masters of Arts (Fine Art) from London’s Chelsea C...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Wire
Noah's Slaughterhouse
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
assemblage sculpture: painted wood building refashioned out of an old seed box, constructed old wood toy boat to resemble the Ark, vintage carved & painted an...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects, Mixed Media
Arrangement in Sunflowers, Anemones, and Cornflowers
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: reclaimed button-down shirts on birch plywood panel
Born in 1971 in Cincinnati, Ohio, CARLTON SCOTT STURGILL received his Masters of Arts (Fine Art) from London’s Chelsea Co...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Wire
Arrangement in Poppies
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: reclaimed button-down shirts on birch plywood panel
Born in 1971 in Cincinnati, Ohio, CARLTON SCOTT STURGILL received his Masters of Arts (Fine Art) from London’s Chelsea Co...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Wire
Found Objects sculptures for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Found Objects sculptures available on 1stDibs. While artists have worked in this medium across a range of time periods, art made with this material during the 21st Century is especially popular. If you’re looking to add sculptures created with this material to introduce a provocative pop of color and texture to an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of orange, blue, pink, purple and other colors. There are many well-known artists whose body of work includes ceramic sculptures. Popular artists on 1stDibs associated with pieces like this include Katie VanVliet, Kat Flyn, Kelly Kozma, and Ulla-Stina Wikander. Frequently made by artists working in the Contemporary, Abstract, all of these pieces for sale are unique and many will draw the attention of guests in your home. Not every interior allows for large Found Objects sculptures, so small editions measuring 0.12 inches across are also available
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