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Medium: Found Objects
"Airplane Pool" Small Scale Superstructure Sign Made of Wood and Paper
"Airplane Pool" Small Scale Superstructure Sign Made of Wood and Paper

"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...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Metal, Enamel, Wire

Euphonic Flame
Euphonic Flame

Euphonic Flame

Located in West Hollywood, CA

Rod Lathim’s Euphonic Flame transforms a repurposed trombone into an illuminated sculpture that blurs the boundaries between object, sound, and spirit. Rising vertically like a ritua...

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21st Century and Contemporary Assemblage Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Found Objects, Neon Light

"Diptych: Egg Bag & Insect Net" framed found object assemblage, hanging maquette
"Diptych: Egg Bag & Insect Net" framed found object assemblage, hanging maquette

"Diptych: Egg Bag & Insect Net" framed found object assemblage, hanging maquette

By Katie VanVliet

Located in Philadelphia, PA

This piece titled "Diptych: Egg Bag & Insect Net" is an original artwork made from beeswax, quail eggs, mica, plastic, copper, linen, and silverpoint, mounted ...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Copper

"NNNAPES!" Abstract, wall hanging sculpture, found objects
"NNNAPES!" Abstract, wall hanging sculpture, found objects

"NNNAPES!" Abstract, wall hanging sculpture, found objects

By Jim Houser

Located in Philadelphia, PA

This piece titled "NNNAPES!" is an original artwork by Jim Houser and is made of assembled objects. This piece measures approximately 30.5”h x 30.5”w x 7”d and ships in the pictured ...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Found Objects, Acrylic

"Pelvic Pelt" Abstract, dimensional paint on found object
"Pelvic Pelt" Abstract, dimensional paint on found object

"Pelvic Pelt" Abstract, dimensional paint on found object

By PJ Linden

Located in Philadelphia, PA

This piece titled "Pelvic Pelt" is an original artwork by PJ Linden and is made from dimensional paint on found object. This piece measures 22”h x 25”w x 6”d. Born 1985 Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. PJ Linden is a New York City and Pennsylvania-based fine artist known for her abstract, three-dimensional work. She paints with machine-like precision, creating microscopic patterns on found objects, fashion, and technology. Linden got her start working with Patricia Field, creating custom, one-of-a-kind art and fashion under the name Wonderpuss Octopus. At Field's iconic, namesake boutique, Linden's work caught the eye of celebrity clients including Beyonce, Willow Smith, Kelly Osborne, and Solange Knowles...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Paint, Found Objects

Offerings: Contemporary Wall-Hanging Sculpture: 21st Century Paper & Thread Art
Offerings: Contemporary Wall-Hanging Sculpture: 21st Century Paper & Thread Art

Offerings: Contemporary Wall-Hanging Sculpture: 21st Century Paper & Thread Art

By Kelly Kozma

Located in Philadelphia, PA

This wall-hanging sculpture titled "Offerings" is an original artwork by Kelly Kozma made of credit card offer envelopes & assorted paper, hand-stitched together with embroidery thre...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Thread, Paper, Found Objects

Siamese Horse Cat: Sculpture, Contemporary Mixed Media, 6.5\" Tall
Siamese Horse Cat: Sculpture, Contemporary Mixed Media, 6.5\" Tall

Siamese Horse Cat: Sculpture, Contemporary Mixed Media, 6.5\" Tall

Located in Philadelphia, PA

This figurative sculpture titled "Siamese Horse Cat" is an original artwork by Debra Broz made of secondhand ceramics and mixed media. The sculpture measure...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Found Objects, Ceramic

Assemblage with Cigar Box and the Letter P
Assemblage with Cigar Box and the Letter P

Assemblage with Cigar Box and the Letter P

By Michael Pauker

Located in Soquel, CA

Abstract expressionist oil painting with assembled objects by Bay Area artist Michael Pauker (American, b. 1957). Against a yellow and black background, the artist has attached several objects, including plastic letters, cigar boxes, and glass slides. Unsigned, but was acquired with a collection of his work. Unframed. Image size: 20"H x 24"W Bay Area artist and art educator Michael Pauker was born in New York in 1957 and knew he wanted to be an artist from the age of 15. He earned a Bachelor’s in Fine Arts at SUNY Purchase in his native state of New York. In 1989 he went on to earn an M.F.A at Mills College in Oakland and was awarded the City of Oakland Artist Fellowship in Painting. He has been a Bay Area resident since 1988. His work has been exhibited widely across the U.S., as well as in Japan and Costa Rica, and is included in the collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Exhibitions include: 2007 Contemporary Art Museum, San Jose, Costa Rica 2007 “The Ebay Art Project,” Works/San Jose, San Jose, CA 2003 “Found Imagery: The Art of Collage,” Fresno Art Museum,Fresno, CA 2003 “Cut, Copy, Paste,” De Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, CA 2003 “20th Annual Exhibition,” Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA 2002 “40 by 40...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Canvas, Glass, Plastic, Paper, Oil, Found Objects

Diptych: Quiver & Multi-Cut Tool, Contemporary Mixed Media Sculpture
Diptych: Quiver & Multi-Cut Tool, Contemporary Mixed Media Sculpture

Diptych: Quiver & Multi-Cut Tool, Contemporary Mixed Media Sculpture

By Katie VanVliet

Located in Philadelphia, PA

This piece titled "Diptych: Quiver & Multi-Cut Tool" is an original artwork made from Mixed media: #11 steel blades, sinew, copper, and hardwoods (Multi-Cut Tool). Horsehair, plastic vials, sinew, copper, brass, hardwoods (Quiver) by Katie VanVliet. This piece measures 24"h x 60"w x 7"d. Katie VanVliet (she/her) is a sculptor and printmaker practicing from her home studio in Elkins Park...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Brass, Steel, Copper

"Modus Volito Rusticus 14", Abstract, Found Object, Free-Standing Sculpture
"Modus Volito Rusticus 14", Abstract, Found Object, Free-Standing Sculpture

"Modus Volito Rusticus 14", Abstract, Found Object, Free-Standing Sculpture

By Hyland Mather (X-O)

Located in Philadelphia, PA

This free-standing abstract sculpture titled "Modus Volito Rusticus 14" is an original artwork by Hyland Mather made of lost objects, acrylic, aerosol, steel and is ink signed on the...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Steel

"New Address" Contemporary Hand Embroidery and Collage
"New Address" Contemporary Hand Embroidery and Collage

"New Address" Contemporary Hand Embroidery and Collage

By Kelly Kozma

Located in Philadelphia, PA

This fabric work titled "New Address" is an original artwork by Kelly Kozma made of hand embroidery and photographs on paper. The piece measures 13”h by 13”w framed. Kelly Kozma is ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Fabric, Thread, Found Objects

"Thinking About the Old Carpet & the Air Hockey Table" Hand Embroidery & Collage
"Thinking About the Old Carpet & the Air Hockey Table" Hand Embroidery & Collage

"Thinking About the Old Carpet & the Air Hockey Table" Hand Embroidery & Collage

By Kelly Kozma

Located in Philadelphia, PA

This fabric work titled "Thinking About the Old Carpet & the Air Hockey Table" is an original artwork by Kelly Kozma made of hand embroidery and photogr...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Fabric, Thread, Found Objects, Paper, Photographic Paper

Inside Out - abstracted, repurposed metal, gothic, figurative, steel sculpture
Inside Out - abstracted, repurposed metal, gothic, figurative, steel sculpture

Inside Out - abstracted, repurposed metal, gothic, figurative, steel sculpture

By Dale Dunning

Located in Bloomfield, ON

This contemporary metal sculpture of a mask is kinetic and was created by a Canadian artist. This unique, one-of-a-kind ethereal sculpture was hand-forged by the masterful sculptor...

Category

2010s Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Metal, Steel, Stainless Steel

Jo Yarrington, Ghost Girls, 2018, Organic Material, Photographic Film, Plastic
Jo Yarrington, Ghost Girls, 2018, Organic Material, Photographic Film, Plastic

Jo Yarrington, Ghost Girls, 2018, Organic Material, Photographic Film, Plastic

By Jo Yarrington

Located in Darien, CT

Radioluminescence is the phenomenon by which light is produced in a material by bombardment with ionizing radiation and can be used as a low-level light source for night illumination of instruments or signage or other applications where light must be produced for long periods without external energy sources. Radioluminescent paint used to be used for clock hands and instrument dials...

Category

2010s Conceptual Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Pins, Organic Material, Plastic, Photographic Film, Acrylic Polymer, Fou...

ELLA Assemblage Artwork, Contemporary Acrylic on Wood, 21st Century
ELLA Assemblage Artwork, Contemporary Acrylic on Wood, 21st Century

ELLA Assemblage Artwork, Contemporary Acrylic on Wood, 21st Century

By Jim Houser

Located in Philadelphia, PA

"ELLA" is an original assemblage artwork by Jim Houser measuring 10" x 10". Jim Houser was born in 1973 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the city where he currently resides. He is a s...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Wood, Found Objects, Acrylic

"A FLATNESS IN THE EYES", Assemblage Wall-Hanging, Found Objects, Threat, Paint
"A FLATNESS IN THE EYES", Assemblage Wall-Hanging, Found Objects, Threat, Paint

"A FLATNESS IN THE EYES", Assemblage Wall-Hanging, Found Objects, Threat, Paint

By Jim Houser

Located in Philadelphia, PA

This artwork "A FLATNESS IN THE EYES" is an original assemblage artwork by Jim Houser. Incorporating various dimensional elements and techniques, such as painting and found objects, ...

Category

2010s Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Thread, Found Objects, Acrylic

Nudo. Abstract Polished metal, metal knot, metal, and Glass. Wall sculpture
Nudo. Abstract Polished metal, metal knot, metal, and Glass. Wall sculpture

Nudo. Abstract Polished metal, metal knot, metal, and Glass. Wall sculpture

By Fanny Szyller Finkelman

Located in Miami Beach, FL

For many, rusty materials, pieces of glass or plastic fragments are not rubbish that should be left in the trash can.Finkelman's creative sensitivity has made these materials irreplaceable when she creates her sculptures. From The Assembler series Polished metal, metal knot...

Category

2010s Minimalist Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Metal

Can Man (Make Graffiti Fun Again), animatronic dancing spray can, black & gray
Can Man (Make Graffiti Fun Again), animatronic dancing spray can, black & gray

Can Man (Make Graffiti Fun Again), animatronic dancing spray can, black & gray

By NTEL

Located in Jersey City, NJ

Animatronic spray can sculpture by NTEL that dances and shakes its hips when plugged in. Made with felt, polymer and acrylic and includes cardboard black and silver brick wall. Gen...

Category

2010s Street Art Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Felt, Found Objects, Acrylic, Polymer

Leslie Fry_Stand_2025_ceramic, cast iron base, pigments_Feminist Figurative
Leslie Fry_Stand_2025_ceramic, cast iron base, pigments_Feminist Figurative

Leslie Fry_Stand_2025_ceramic, cast iron base, pigments_Feminist Figurative

Located in Darien, CT

Leslie's public projects respond to site, history and the body. Figures are female or hermaphroditic, of imaginary descent, often melded with animal, architecture and plant forms. I ...

Category

2010s Feminist Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Iron

Hot Dog Man, Found Objects and Paper Mache by Kay Ritter
Hot Dog Man, Found Objects and Paper Mache by Kay Ritter

Hot Dog Man, Found Objects and Paper Mache by Kay Ritter

By Kay Ritter

Located in Long Island City, NY

Artist: Kay Ritter Title: Hot Dog Man Medium: Papier-mache Figure Sculpture with Mixed Media Found Objects, signed Year: 1981 Size: 48 x 16 x 15 in. (121.92 x ...

Category

1980s Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Found Objects, Papier Mâché

Patricia Miranda, Florilegium Series, 2016, cochineal dyes, antique books, pearl
Patricia Miranda, Florilegium Series, 2016, cochineal dyes, antique books, pearl

Patricia Miranda, Florilegium Series, 2016, cochineal dyes, antique books, pearl

By Patricia Miranda

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, Plaster, Dye, Found Objects

"The Artist's Floor" - Abstract Assemblage
"The Artist's Floor" - Abstract Assemblage

"The Artist's Floor" - Abstract Assemblage

By Michael Pauker

Located in Soquel, CA

Abstract expressionist assemblage with found objects typical of an artist's studio floor by Bay Area artist Michael Pauker (American, b. 1957). Applied paint brushes, caps and tubes of paint, a few letters, putty knife, with splashes of color on wood. Unsigned. From the collection of the artist's work. Unframed. Image size: 11.25"H x 25.75"W Bay Area artist and art educator Michael Pauker was born in New York in 1957 and knew he wanted to be an artist from the age of 15. He earned a Bachelor’s in Fine Arts at SUNY Purchase in his native state of New York. In 1989 he went on to earn an M.F.A at Mills College in Oakland and was awarded the City of Oakland Artist Fellowship in Painting. He has been a Bay Area resident since 1988. His work has been exhibited widely across the U.S., as well as in Japan and Costa Rica, and is included in the collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Exhibitions include: 2007 Contemporary Art Museum, San Jose, Costa Rica 2007 “The Ebay Art Project,” Works/San Jose, San Jose, CA 2003 “Found Imagery: The Art of Collage,” Fresno Art Museum,Fresno, CA 2003 “Cut, Copy, Paste,” De Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, CA 2003 “20th Annual Exhibition,” Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA 2002 “40 by 40...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Glass, Plastic, Paper, Found Objects, Wood Panel, Wood, Oil

Clarrisa

Clarrisa

By Eric Rhein

Located in New York, NY

Eric Rhein “Clarrisa” 1989 Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity Wire, suede, brocade fabric, and found objects 16.5 x 17.5 x 8.5 inches (41.9 x 44.5 x 21.6 cm) This work...

Category

1980s Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Wire

Jango - 21st Century, Contemporary Sculpture, Figurative, Recycling
Jango - 21st Century, Contemporary Sculpture, Figurative, Recycling

Jango - 21st Century, Contemporary Sculpture, Figurative, Recycling

Located in Barcelona, Catalonia

“Jango” by Miquel Aparici is a creative fusion of form and function, capturing attention with its whimsical design. Constructed primarily from metal components, it depicts a stylised...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Found Objects

Bethany Krull Cat Tree Ceramic Paper Clay Green Conceptual Modern Sculpture
Bethany Krull Cat Tree Ceramic Paper Clay Green Conceptual Modern Sculpture

Bethany Krull Cat Tree Ceramic Paper Clay Green Conceptual Modern Sculpture

By Bethany Krull

Located in Buffalo, NY

An original hand built porcelain and paper sculpture by contemporary conceptual American artist Bethany Krull. Cattree, 2019 Paper, paint, wire, soil, found table This work is currently featured in the artist's solo exhibition inside The Corridors Gallery at Hotel Henry...

Category

2010s Conceptual Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Porcelain, Clay, Found Objects, Handmade Paper

Richard Klein, American Glassware, 2010-2024, Found and altered objects
Richard Klein, American Glassware, 2010-2024, Found and altered objects

Richard Klein, American Glassware, 2010-2024, Found and altered objects

Located in Darien, CT

In the mid 1990s Richard Klein started working with found glass objects, including bottles, drinking glasses, ashtrays, and eyeglasses. Initially, Klein rejected any object with commercial or advertising content, but in 2015 he became fascinated with the promotional content that was screen printed on ashtrays from the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s. This period was before smoking was looked at as being primarily a negative habit, and iconic American businesses, including Howard Johnson’s, International House of Pancakes (iHop) and Holiday Inn, all produced promotional ashtrays printed with their graphic identity. By the time Klein became interested in these objects, the businesses had either ceased to exist, or had changed their logos, and many of their signature buildings, which where examples of classic, “Pop” roadside architecture, has been torn down or repurposed. The artist wanted to connect the glass objects with the business’s sites that were still recognizable and spoke of their history, so he began researching where original buildings still stood. Klein then embarked on a series of road trips to photograph these sites with the intention of combining the photographs with the promotional glass objects. This led him to as far south as Maryland and as far north as upstate New York from his home in Connecticut. American Glassware (2010-present) which is presented in a small, wall-mounted vitrine. American Glassware is composed of three glass objects: a “souvenir” Walden Pond ashtray made by me as a multiple; a real souvenir ashtray from the 1964-65 New York World’s Fair; and an authentic “Happy Face” drinking glass from the same era. They are all nestled in crumpled, vintage newspaper from 1967, and are presented together in a dilapidated cardboard box, as if they have been found in someone’s attic or basement. Once again, in a similar manner to the Glass House Ashtray, versions of his Walden Pond ashtray (Walden Pond Souvenir) have been injected into the collectable stream of tag sales and flea markets, creating a souvenir that never existed. The ashtray is screenprinted with an image of Thoreau’s cabin on Walden Pond as pictured on the title page of his book Walden, or Life in the Woods (1854). (The original illustration was created by Thoreau’s sister, Sophia.) Walden Pond Souvenir was originally produced for the 2010 exhibition Renovating Walden at the Tufts University Art Gallery in Medford, MA. Richard Klein is a Connecticut-based artist, independent curator and writer. As an artist, he has exhibited widely, including the Neuberger Museum of Art at SUNY Purchase; Caren Golden Fine Art, New York; the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI; Hales Gallery, London; Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach, FL; deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA; James Barron Art, Kent, CT; The Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA), Portland, OR; Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA; Stephan Stoyanov Gallery, NY; Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY; Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT; Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY; Exhibit by Alberson Tulsa, OK; Incident Report/Flow Chart Foundation, Hudson, NY; ICEHOUSE Project Space, Sharon, CT; Kenise Barnes Fine Art in Kent, CT and with ODETTA Gallery at the Equity Gallery in New York City.. Reviews of his work have appeared in Two Coats of Paint, Whitehot Magazine, The New York Times, Sculpture Magazine, Art in America, and The New Yorker. In the summer of 2024 he will be the first Artist-In-Residence at Peck Ledge Light...

Category

2010s Assemblage Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Metal

"Brick" Portrait of Man Made Out Layered Paper, Sewn Canvas, and Stone
"Brick" Portrait of Man Made Out Layered Paper, Sewn Canvas, and Stone

"Brick" Portrait of Man Made Out Layered Paper, Sewn Canvas, and Stone

By Eustace Mamba

Located in Philadelphia, PA

"Brick" is a unique piece by Eustace Mamba measures approx. 4.5"h" x 2.5"w x 5"d. Mamba creates an abstract portrait from found material, sewn canvas, acrylic, and oil paint. This sc...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Textile, Paint, Mixed Media, Found Objects, Canvas, Thread, Brick, Acrylic

Richard Klein, iHop II, 2018, Found and altered objects assemblage
Richard Klein, iHop II, 2018, Found and altered objects assemblage

Richard Klein, iHop II, 2018, Found and altered objects assemblage

Located in Darien, CT

In the mid 1990s Richard Klein started working with found glass objects, including bottles, drinking glasses, ashtrays, and eyeglasses. Initially, Klein rejected any object with commercial or advertising content, but in 2015 he became fascinated with the promotional content that was screen printed on ashtrays from the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s. This period was before smoking was looked at as being primarily a negative habit, and iconic American businesses, including Howard Johnson’s, International House of Pancakes (iHop) and Holiday Inn, all produced promotional ashtrays printed with their graphic identity. By the time Klein became interested in these objects, the businesses had either ceased to exist, or had changed their logos, and many of their signature buildings, which where examples of classic, “Pop” roadside architecture, has been torn down or repurposed. The artist wanted to connect the glass objects with the business’s sites that were still recognizable and spoke of their history, so he began researching where original buildings still stood. Klein then embarked on a series of road trips to photograph these sites with the intention of combining the photographs with the promotional glass objects. This led him to as far south as Maryland and as far north as upstate New York from his home in Connecticut. In the case of Holiday Inn, it wasn’t their buildings, but their iconic illuminated sign that appeared on ashtrays, so he sought out a standing example of the sign he could photograph. As it turned out all had been removed years before from the hotels' properties and the only working example was indoors at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. He did, however, find out that there was one still standing, surprisingly, in Beruit, Lebanon. He found an image of it on the web and used it to make Holiday Inn (Beruit). In 1973 Holiday Inn changed their tagline from “The Nations Innkeeper” to “The World’s Innkeeper” as they expanded overseas, including the Mideast. For the hotel chain it was bad timing: the disastrous Lebanese civil war began in 1975. In the war, the different Lebanese militias involved in the conflict, including the Nasserites, Christian Phalangists, and the Lebanese National Movement engaged in what came to be called “The Battle of the Hotels” where they each occupied a major high-rise hotel in central Beruit. The Phalangists commanded the Holiday Inn, which they used to fire with both light arms and heavier weapons at the militias in neighboring hotels. Klein used the photo of the heavily damaged Holiday Inn sign as I thought it spoke in a curious, offhanded way about American cultural imperialism in juxtaposition with an ashtray that proclaimed Holiday Inn to be “The World’s Innkeeper.” In the work Holiday Inn (Nocturne) the artist utilized a found, 35mm slide of a Holiday Inn sign at night at an unknown location as the basis of the photograph in the work. Richard Klein is a Connecticut-based artist, independent curator and writer. As an artist, he has exhibited widely, including the Neuberger Museum of Art at SUNY Purchase; Caren Golden Fine Art, New York; the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI; Hales Gallery, London; Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach, FL; deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA; James Barron Art, Kent, CT; The Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA), Portland, OR; Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA; Stephan Stoyanov Gallery, NY; Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY; Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT; Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY; Exhibit by Alberson Tulsa, OK; Incident Report/Flow Chart Foundation, Hudson, NY; ICEHOUSE Project Space, Sharon, CT; Kenise Barnes Fine Art in Kent, CT and with ODETTA Gallery at the Equity Gallery in New York City.. Reviews of his work have appeared in Two Coats of Paint, Whitehot Magazine, The New York Times, Sculpture Magazine, Art in America, and The New Yorker. In the summer of 2024 he will be the first Artist-In-Residence at Peck Ledge Light...

Category

2010s Assemblage Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Metal

Surreal Contemporary Figurative Mixed-Media Sculpture Found-Object American
Surreal Contemporary Figurative Mixed-Media Sculpture Found-Object American

Surreal Contemporary Figurative Mixed-Media Sculpture Found-Object American

Located in Buffalo, NY

One of a kind mixed-media sculpture by Philip Kuznicki from the Spirit exhibition. Comes in its original frame. Born in Dunkirk NY, Kuznicki started his career working for artists su...

Category

2010s Surrealist Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Found Objects, Mixed Media

"His Name Was Writ in Acrylic Paint" - Abstract Assemblage
"His Name Was Writ in Acrylic Paint" - Abstract Assemblage

"His Name Was Writ in Acrylic Paint" - Abstract Assemblage

By Michael Pauker

Located in Soquel, CA

Abstract expressionist oil painting with assembled objects by Bay Area artist Michael Pauker (American, b. 1957). Splashes of gold paint are applied to a wood panel, with a few bits of burnt umber. Several objects - including a paint tube, cotton balls, and a miniature painting - are attached to the panel. Signed "Michael Pauker", titled "His Name Was Writ in Acrylic Paint", and dated "2017" on verso. There is a note from the artist that this is the top of a two-part piece, but the whereabouts of the bottom half are unknown. Unframed. Image size: 20"H x 24"W Bay Area artist and art educator Michael Pauker was born in New York in 1957 and knew he wanted to be an artist from the age of 15. He earned a Bachelor’s in Fine Arts at SUNY Purchase in his native state of New York. In 1989 he went on to earn an M.F.A at Mills College in Oakland and was awarded the City of Oakland Artist Fellowship in Painting. He has been a Bay Area resident since 1988. His work has been exhibited widely across the U.S., as well as in Japan and Costa Rica, and is included in the collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Exhibitions include: 2007 Contemporary Art Museum, San Jose, Costa Rica 2007 “The Ebay Art Project,” Works/San Jose, San Jose, CA 2003 “Found Imagery: The Art of Collage,” Fresno Art Museum,Fresno, CA 2003 “Cut, Copy, Paste,” De Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, CA 2003 “20th Annual Exhibition,” Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA 2002 “40 by 40...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Glass, Plastic, Paper, Found Objects, Cotton, Wood Panel

Margaret Roleke, Holy Wars, 2015, children's toys, spray enamel, wood panel
Margaret Roleke, Holy Wars, 2015, children's toys, spray enamel, wood panel

Margaret Roleke, Holy Wars, 2015, children's toys, spray enamel, wood panel

By Margaret Roleke

Located in Darien, CT

Roleke creates politically aware work. Her wall reliefs are composed of multitudes of plastic toys, oddly sexualized Disney characters and Happy Meal trinkets. Through investigation ...

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21st Century and Contemporary Post-Modern Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Plastic, Found Objects, Spray Paint, Wood Panel

Margaret Roleke, Barbie Lives In A Police State, 2015, children's toys, wood
Margaret Roleke, Barbie Lives In A Police State, 2015, children's toys, wood

Margaret Roleke, Barbie Lives In A Police State, 2015, children's toys, wood

By Margaret Roleke

Located in Darien, CT

Roleke creates politically aware work. Her wall reliefs are composed of multitudes of plastic toys, oddly sexualized Disney characters and Happy Meal trinkets. Through investigation ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Found Objects, Spray Paint, Wood Panel

Liz Sweibel, Untitled (Scrapings #10), 2016, Wood, Paint, Found Objects
Liz Sweibel, Untitled (Scrapings #10), 2016, Wood, Paint, Found Objects

Liz Sweibel, Untitled (Scrapings #10), 2016, Wood, Paint, Found Objects

By Liz Sweibel

Located in Darien, CT

The freestanding sculptures in this portfolio are made from the “sticks”: a pile of found wood that Sweibel has been pulling from to make new works since about 2002. The pile consisted of more than a dozen four- to seven-foot lengths of hardwood, each an uneven inch in depth and width. The sticks were warped, with worn yellow paint on one side and raw wood on the other three. Over the years she has painted the raw sides of the sticks, cut the wood into shorter lengths, and sliced paint off – and kept the residue from these actions. Sweibel has also made sculptures ranging from full-length sticks to tiny stick splinters. She built these sculptures using sliced-off paint. Timeworn materials and objects have an intelligence that the artist looks for and listens to. Shaping and reshaping material to find new form and elicit new insights in the material itself is the territory she is mining. The limitations of the process are its strengths. Her work is concerned with fragility, precariousness, adaptability, and strength. It is a visual response to powerful yet unseen forces - like wind and thoughts - that threaten, propel, ruin, and protect. Liz Sweibel is a multidisciplinary artist working in drawing, sculpture, installation, and digital photography and video. Her spare, personal language of abstraction transforms ordinary materials into statements about connectedness and responsibility: every action has an impact, the effects persist in space and over time, and we are accountable. By drawing attention to simple, ordinary “stuff of life” and referencing both shared and personal history, Sweibel’s work explores and reflects back fundamental experiences in response to our world and relationships. Her intention is to reinvigorate viewers’ awareness of the everyday – in its raw beauty and precariousness – in hopes that they might bring heightened senses of sight and care to their daily lives. Sweibel has participated in solo, two-person, and group exhibits in New York, Massachusetts, Maine, Connecticut, Michigan, and Tennessee since 1998. In 2016, Sweibel’s work was in the group shows Lightly Structured at Sculpture Space NYC, Precarious Constructs at the Venus Knitting Art...

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2010s Abstract Expressionist Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Wood, Paint, Found Objects

Patricia Miranda, Florilegium Series, 2016, cochineal dyes, antique books, pearl
Patricia Miranda, Florilegium Series, 2016, cochineal dyes, antique books, pearl

Patricia Miranda, Florilegium Series, 2016, cochineal dyes, antique books, pearl

By Patricia Miranda

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...

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2010s Feminist Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Fabric, Thread, Plaster, Dye, Found Objects

Margaret Roleke, Holy Torture, 2016, children's toys, spray enamel, wood
Margaret Roleke, Holy Torture, 2016, children's toys, spray enamel, wood

Margaret Roleke, Holy Torture, 2016, children's toys, spray enamel, wood

By Margaret Roleke

Located in Darien, CT

In the body of work for “Child’s Play” Roleke has created diminutive worlds in which toys tell the story of consumption, consumerism, war, and the misuse of power and religion. The m...

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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Enamel

Roots - An Iron vessel wall sculpture by Nir Adoni. 64x42"
Roots - An Iron vessel wall sculpture by Nir Adoni. 64x42"

Roots - An Iron vessel wall sculpture by Nir Adoni. 64x42"

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 ...

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2010s Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Metal, Steel, Iron

Jo Yarrington, Mute-Ability_Composition 6, 2019_acrylic, steel, player piano rol
Jo Yarrington, Mute-Ability_Composition 6, 2019_acrylic, steel, player piano rol

Jo Yarrington, Mute-Ability_Composition 6, 2019_acrylic, steel, player piano rol

By Jo Yarrington

Located in Darien, CT

Jo Yarrington’s photographs, prints, works on paper, glass sculptures and architecturally-based installations have been shown in exhibitions at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Yale University, Cornell University, the Museum of Glass, the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Artists Space, St. John the Divine Cathedral, Grounds for Sculpture, the Museum of American Glass and ODETTA, among others. International exhibitions have included Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow Cathedral, Glasgow University, Galeria Sala Uno and Centro de las Artes de Guanajuato. She represented the United States at the Sharjah Biennial, United Arab Emirates and participated in the Berlin Biennial. in 2010 she received the Bronze Prize, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia. Yarrington is a recipient of artist grants and Fellowships from the Pollock Krasner Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism. She has received Residency Fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Museum of Glass, the Museum of American Glass, the Bridge Virtual Residency/ SciArt Center, the Lucile Walton Fellow/Mountain Lake Biological Station, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, the Anderson Center and the Ucross Foundation, among others. International grants and fellowships have included the Banff Center for Arts and Creativity/Canada, SIMS Residency/ Iceland, Cill Rialaig Artists Residency/Ireland, the Burren College of Art Residency/Ireland and the American Scandinavian Foundation. She is a Professor of Visual and Performing Arts at Fairfield University and lives and works in New York City. STATEMENT In site-specific exhibitions, public art commissions, collaborative and individual projects Jo Yarrington has used varied combinations of glass, waxed surfaces, found artifacts and experimental analog photography to investigate the way we perceive – searching for, experimenting with and developing throughout a sensory-based vernacular. Her mostly translucent materials function as physical framework and symbolic membrane. Light, both natural and ambient, provides a kinetic or time-based element to her work. Scale and the integration of architecture are also pivotal components. In the 6-part installation for the two-person exhibition Illuminated, Yarrington continues her interest in the connections between vision, sound and language. In Mute-ability: Compositions 1 – 6, her title for this light-based comprehensive work, she combines the words mute and malleability. The work focuses on found piano rolls, a music storage medium, originally conceived as coded notations or ‘note control data’ for music produced in pneumatic player pianos...

Category

2010s Conceptual Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Steel

Jasmine - 21st Century, Contemporary Sculpture, Figurative, Recycling
Jasmine - 21st Century, Contemporary Sculpture, Figurative, Recycling

Jasmine - 21st Century, Contemporary Sculpture, Figurative, Recycling

Located in Barcelona, Catalonia

"Pepe" is a striking metal sculpture of a wild pig, showcasing an exceptional combination of industrial aesthetics and natural form. Crafted from textured, rust-toned metal, the scul...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Found Objects

Trapped in History
Trapped in History

Trapped in History

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 ...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Wood, Paper, Varnish, Found Objects

Cave Branch (self portrait)

Cave Branch (self portrait)

By Eric Rhein

Located in New York, NY

Eric Rhein “Cave Branch (self portrait)” 2010 Signed, verso Silver gelatin print, sterling silver, bronze, and found objects 25 x 24 x 4 inches (63.5 x 61 x 10.2 cm), framed Thi...

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2010s Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Silver, Bronze

Jo Yarrington, Mute-Ability_Composition 5, 2019_acrylic, steel, player piano rol
Jo Yarrington, Mute-Ability_Composition 5, 2019_acrylic, steel, player piano rol

Jo Yarrington, Mute-Ability_Composition 5, 2019_acrylic, steel, player piano rol

By Jo Yarrington

Located in Darien, CT

Jo Yarrington’s photographs, prints, works on paper, glass sculptures and architecturally-based installations have been shown in exhibitions at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Yale University, Cornell University, the Museum of Glass, the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Artists Space, St. John the Divine Cathedral, Grounds for Sculpture, the Museum of American Glass and ODETTA, among others. International exhibitions have included Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow Cathedral, Glasgow University, Galeria Sala Uno and Centro de las Artes de Guanajuato. She represented the United States at the Sharjah Biennial, United Arab Emirates and participated in the Berlin Biennial. in 2010 she received the Bronze Prize, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia. Yarrington is a recipient of artist grants and Fellowships from the Pollock Krasner Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism. She has received Residency Fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Museum of Glass, the Museum of American Glass, the Bridge Virtual Residency/ SciArt Center, the Lucile Walton Fellow/Mountain Lake Biological Station, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, the Anderson Center and the Ucross Foundation, among others. International grants and fellowships have included the Banff Center for Arts and Creativity/Canada, SIMS Residency/ Iceland, Cill Rialaig Artists Residency/Ireland, the Burren College of Art Residency/Ireland and the American Scandinavian Foundation. She is a Professor of Visual and Performing Arts at Fairfield University and lives and works in New York City. STATEMENT In site-specific exhibitions, public art commissions, collaborative and individual projects Jo Yarrington has used varied combinations of glass, waxed surfaces, found artifacts and experimental analog photography to investigate the way we perceive – searching for, experimenting with and developing throughout a sensory-based vernacular. Her mostly translucent materials function as physical framework and symbolic membrane. Light, both natural and ambient, provides a kinetic or time-based element to her work. Scale and the integration of architecture are also pivotal components. In the 6-part installation for the two-person exhibition Illuminated, Yarrington continues her interest in the connections between vision, sound and language. In Mute-ability: Compositions 1 – 6, her title for this light-based comprehensive work, she combines the words mute and malleability. The work focuses on found piano rolls, a music storage medium, originally conceived as coded notations or ‘note control data’ for music produced in pneumatic player pianos...

Category

2010s Conceptual Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Steel

Jo Yarrington, Orchestrations, 2016, Found Objects, Plexiglass
Jo Yarrington, Orchestrations, 2016, Found Objects, Plexiglass

Jo Yarrington, Orchestrations, 2016, Found Objects, Plexiglass

By Jo Yarrington

Located in Darien, CT

The installation, Orchestrations, explores the vernacular in vintage piano roles. The physical perforations in the piano roll paper, coded notations for sound, act as a vehicle for l...

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2010s Post-Minimalist Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Plexiglass, Found Objects

Loren Eiferman, Nature Will Heal, 108 Pieces of Wood, 2016, Wood, Found Objects
Loren Eiferman, Nature Will Heal, 108 Pieces of Wood, 2016, Wood, Found Objects

Loren Eiferman, Nature Will Heal, 108 Pieces of Wood, 2016, Wood, Found Objects

By Loren Eiferman

Located in Darien, CT

Over many decades Loren Eiferman has created and mastered a unique technique of working with wood—her primary material. First, she begins with a drawing of an idea. Then she takes a daily walk in the woods surrounding her studio and collects tree limbs and long sticks that have fallen to the ground. She never chops down a living tree or uses green wood. Eiferman allows the wood time to cure in the studio to make sure it won’t check or crack. Next, she debarks the branch and looks for shapes found within each piece of wood. Using a Japanese hand saw, she cuts and connect these small shapes together using dowels and wood glue. Then, all the open joints get filled with a home made putty, which is then sanded so she can see the newly formed shapes. This process is until the new sculpture appears like the original line drawing but in space. She wants the work to appear as if it grew in nature, when in fact each sculpture is composed of over 100 small pieces of wood that are seamlessly jointed together. Her work can be called the ultimate recycling: taking the detritus of nature and giving it a new life. We have all at one point or another picked up a stick from the ground—touched the wood, peeled the bark off with our fingernails. Her work taps into that same primal desire of touching nature and being close to it. Trees connect us back to nature, back to this Earth. Her work has a meditative quality to it—a quiet, calming energy. Her influences are many; from looking at nature and plant life on this Earth to researching the heavenly bodies in the images beamed back from the Hubble Telescope. From studying ancient Buddhist mandalas and designs to delving deeper into quantum physics. And from researching mysterious manuscripts to studying the patterns inside our brains. For Invocation, we are exhibiting her newest body of work, inspired by the illustrations found in the Voynich Manuscript. This 250-page book, is believed to have been written in the early 15th century, of a mysterious origin and purpose. Written in an unknown language and currently housed at Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book Library, the manuscript has eluded all attempts in the intervening centuries to decode or decipher its purpose and meaning. This enigmatic book is divided into 6 different sections (herbal, astronomical, biological, cosmological, pharmaceutical and recipes). Having discovered the images contained in this codex over the Internet, Eiferman felt an immediate, profound and inexplicable connection to this manuscript and its creator. The artist is currently transposing the “herbal” section of manuscript into sculptures. This section has drawings in it of plants and flowers that do not really exist in nature—past or present. These aren’t just pretty images of flowers—they also contain the wacky root systems and seemingly out of proportion leaves, stamens and pistils. Loren Eiferman was born in Brooklyn, NY. She received her BFA from SUNY Purchase. Her work has been exhibited extensively throughout the Tri-State region including gallery and museum exhibitions in the Hudson Valley and Connecticut. Her work is included in numerous corporate and private art collections. In 2014 she was awarded a NYC MTA Arts & Design art commission to produce steel railings...

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2010s Abstract Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Wood, Found Objects

Rafael - 21st Century, Contemporary Sculpture, Figurative, Recycling
Rafael - 21st Century, Contemporary Sculpture, Figurative, Recycling

Rafael - 21st Century, Contemporary Sculpture, Figurative, Recycling

Located in Barcelona, Catalonia

Aparici's work is characterized by simplicity, since most of his pieces bring together few elements, resulting in very elegant compositions with simple lines, which together with his...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Found Objects

Patricia Miranda, Dreaming Awake, 2020, nightdress, cochineal dyes, plaster,
Patricia Miranda, Dreaming Awake, 2020, nightdress, cochineal dyes, plaster,

Patricia Miranda, Dreaming Awake, 2020, nightdress, cochineal dyes, plaster,

By Patricia Miranda

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...

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2010s Feminist Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Fabric, Thread, Dye, Found Objects, Plaster

Patricia Miranda, Lamentations for Rebecca; 2020, lace, cochineal dye, thread
Patricia Miranda, Lamentations for Rebecca; 2020, lace, cochineal dye, thread

Patricia Miranda, Lamentations for Rebecca; 2020, lace, cochineal dye, thread

By Patricia Miranda

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...

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2010s Feminist Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Ceramic, Fabric, Thread, Dye, Found Objects

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