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Medium: Found Objects
"Chimaera: Green #15", reconstructed egg sculpture
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Chimaera: Green #15" is an original piece by Kate VanVliet and is made from eggshells, mica, and PVA. This piece measures 2.25”h x 2”w x 2”d and ships with the pic...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Glue, Found Objects, Mica, Organic Material, Acrylic
"Chimaera: Green #7", Found Object Sculpture, Egg Motif
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Chimaera: Green #12" is an original piece by Kate VanVliet and is made from eggshells, mica, and PVA. This piece measures 3.5”h x 2.5”w x 2.5”d and ships with the ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Glue, Found Objects, Mica, Organic Material, Acrylic
"Day in the Life: Chimaera #12", Found Object Sculpture, Egg Motif
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Day in the Life: Chimaera #12" is an original piece by Kate VanVliet and is made from eggshell, mica, and acrylic. This piece measures 4”h x 2.5”w x 2.5”d, and is ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Glue, Found Objects, Mica, Acrylic
"Day in the Life: Green #22", Found Object Sculpture, Egg Motif
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Day in the Life: Green #22" is an original piece by Kate VanVliet and is made from eggshell, mica, and acrylic. This piece measures 4”h x 2.5”w x 2.5”d, and is shi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Glue, Found Objects, Acrylic, Mica, Organic Material
"Day in the life: Green #25", Found Object Sculpture, Egg Motif
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Day in the life: Green #25" is an original piece by Kate VanVliet and is made from eggshell, mica, and acrylic. This piece measures 4”h x 2.5”w x 2.5”d, and is shi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Glue, Found Objects, Acrylic, Mica
"Day in the Life: Green #33", Found Object Sculpture, Egg Motif
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Day in the Life: Green #33" is an original piece by Kate VanVliet and is made from eggshell, mica, and acrylic. This piece measures 4”h x 2.5”w x 2.5”d, and is shi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Glue, Found Objects, Acrylic, Mica, Organic Material
"Day in the Life: Green #41", Found Object Sculpture, Egg Motif
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Day in the Life: Green #41" is an original piece by Kate VanVliet and is made from eggshell, mica, and acrylic. This piece measures 4”h x 2.5”w x 2.5”d, and is shi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Glue, Found Objects, Acrylic, Mica, Organic Material
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
Fig. 9.4
By Eric Rhein
Located in New York, NY
Eric Rhein “Fig. 9.4”
1998
Signed, verso
Wire, paper, and found objects
19 x 17.5 x 3 inches (48.3 x 44.5 x 7.6 cm), framed
This work is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
Category
1990s Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Wire
Lisa Levy, Didn't Have to Buy It, Mirror, Plastic, Marble, Found Objects
By Lisa Levy
Located in Darien, CT
Dr. Lisa's Ego Championship Trophies
Lisa Levy is a painter, conceptual artist, comedian and (self-proclaimed) psychotherapist.
Lisa's visual career started when she was 3 1/2 ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Assemblage Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Marble
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
Patricia Miranda, Florilegium Series, 2016, cochineal dyes, antique books, pearl
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
Liz Sweibel, Untitled (Scrapings #3), 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 consist...
Category
2010s Abstract Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Paint, Found Objects
Patricia Miranda, Florilegium Series, 2016, cochineal dyes, antique books, pearl
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
Liz Sweibel, Untitled (Scrapings #2), 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...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Paint, Found Objects
Andra Samelson, Microcosm 3, 2016, Canvas, Found Objects, Acrylic Paint
Located in Darien, CT
Andra Samelson’s work explores the relationship of microcosm and macrocosm, the celestial and terrestrial. Her imagery is often associated with molecular and galactic systems. Combin...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Canvas, Found Objects, Acrylic
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
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
Liz Sweibel, Untitled (Splinter 2 ), 2014, Wood, Paint, Found Objects
By Liz Sweibel
Located in Darien, CT
Liz Sweibel primarily makes sculpture, installations, and drawings. She uses a spare, personal language of abstraction to explore liminal spaces and unseen forces: wind, history, va...
Category
2010s Minimalist Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Paint, Found Objects
Jo Yarrington, Mute-Ability_Composition 4, 2019_acrylic, steel, player piano rol
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
Viral Structure
By Eric Rhein
Located in New York, NY
Eric Rhein “Viral Structure”
1999
Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity
Wire, paper, and found objects
18 x 34 x 14 inches (45.7 x 86.4 x 35.6 cm)
61 x 38 x 18 inches (154...
Category
1990s Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Wire
"CELLAR MUSIC" Wall hanging assemblage by Jim Houser
By Jim Houser
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "CELLAR MUSIC" is an original artwork by Jim Houser and is made of assembled objects. This piece measures approximately 9.5”h x 8”w x 5.5”...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects, Acrylic
Joseph Fucigna, Burning Bush, 2001, Plastic, Found Objects
Located in Darien, CT
Joseph Fucigna is a multi-media artist whose work is rooted in process, play and the innate qualities of the materials used. Through experimentation, play and innovation he creates sculptures, paintings and drawings that are known for their power to transform materials, inventiveness and odd but suggestive subject matter. The ultimate goal is to create an artwork that is a perfect balance between suggestive content, and the formal qualities of the material that allow both to be active participants.
Joseph Fucigna received his Masters of Fine Arts degree from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. He also attended the Triangle Workshop in Pine Plains, NY and worked with the renowned sculptor Sir Anthony Caro and critic Clement Greenberg.
Fucigna is a full-time Professor of Art at Norwalk Community College and is the Chair of the Studio Arts Program. Fucigna has also taught in the Art Department at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. Presently, he resides and works in Weston, CT.
Fucigna has exhibited nationally including shows at the Fitchburg Art Museum in Massachusetts, Real Art Ways in Connecticut, the United Nations, Grounds for Sculpture in New Jersey, the Lyman Allyn Art Museum in Connecticut, the New York State Museum in Albany, NY and the Burchfield Art Center in Buffalo NY.
He has had one-person exhibitions at the Fred Giampietro Gallery, Sculpture Barn, Norwalk Community College Art Gallery, Artist Space New Haven and the Bannister...
Category
Early 2000s Arte Povera Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Plastic, Found Objects
Milky Way
By Eric Rhein
Located in New York, NY
Eric Rhein “Milky Way”
2006
Signed, verso
Wire, paper, and found objects
17 x 24 x 2 inches (43.2 x 61 x 7.6 cm), framed
This work is offered by CLAMP i...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Wire
Arrival, Shipyards tales. Iron vessel wall sculpture. 37x32"
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
"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
Orpheus Sculpture with Bird & Blocks
Located in Milford, NH
A fine abstract expressionist assemblage by American artist Varujan Boghosian (1926-2020). Boghosian was born in New Britain, CT and after serving in the United States Navy, he attended Central Connecticut Teachers College and the Vesper George School of Art in Boston. In 1953, he had a Fulbright grant to paint in Italy, and from 1956 to 1959, he worked with Josef Albers, geometric abstractionist, at Yale University where he earned both his BFA and MFA. Boghosian became a professor of sculpture at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, and became primarily known for his assemblages in which he uses a variety of incongruous objects such as parts of weathered barn...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects
"WELCOME TO MY BOOK COLLECTION"Brightly-colored assemblage, Still life sculpture
By Jim Houser
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "WELCOME TO MY BOOK COLLECTION" is an original artwork by Jim Houser and is made of assembled objects. This piece measures approximately 2...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects, Acrylic
Lisa Levy, You See Through Bullshit, 2014, Mirror, Plastic, Marble, Found Object
By Lisa Levy
Located in Darien, CT
Dr. Lisa's Ego Championship Trophies
Lisa Levy is a painter, conceptual artist, comedian and (self-proclaimed) psychotherapist.
Lisa's visual career started when she was 3 1/2 ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Assemblage Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Andra Samelson, Microcosm 2, 2016, Canvas, Wood, Found Objects, Acrylic Paint
Located in Darien, CT
Andra Samelson’s work explores the relationship of microcosm and macrocosm, the celestial and terrestrial. Her imagery is often associated with molecular and galactic systems. Combin...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Found Objects, Acrylic
Flamingo
By Leo Sewell
Located in Greenwich, CT
Leo Sewell (b. 1945) is an American "found object" artist. His assemblages of recycled material are in over 40 museums and in private collections worldwide.
Sewell was born in Annap...
Category
2010s Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects, Mixed Media
Jo Yarrington, Mute-Ability_Composition 2, 2019_acrylic, steel, player piano rol
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
Land Of The Giants
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
For Fox Sake - Contemporary Animal Sculpture Recycled (Red+Yellow+Purple)
By Yulia Shtern
Located in Gilroy, CA
"For Fox Sake" is a sculpture by the Italy-based Canadian Artist Yulia Shtern. Red Fox is the species of fox with the widest distribution. They inhabit most of the Northern Hemisphere. Their status is listed as "least concern" by the International Union for Conservation of Nature due to their ability to adapt to human expansion. However, having been introduced to Australia with disastrous results, the red fox is on the list of the world's 100 worst invasive species. This piece is made from completely up / recycled materials, lessening the artist's carbon footprint in the art world.
From the artist: "One of the biggest, ugliest truths of our time is that we have been knowingly destroying our planet and killing off its natural life in pursuit of the falsehoods promised by mass consumption. Displaying a trophy of a stuffed dead animal...
Category
2010s Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Adhesive, Found Objects, Mixed Media, Magazine Paper, Newsprint, Papier ...
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
Cabinet of Wonders, Persistence and the Fugitive
By Greg Garvey
Located in Darien, CT
This flat file installation is a kind of Wunderkammer – a Cabinet of Wonder or Curiosity containing a small idiosyncratic collection of select wonders and oddities of the natural wor...
Category
2010s Conceptual Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Video, Found Objects
Kathleen Vance, Traveling Landscape, Luce, 2017, Resin, Found Objects, Lights
Located in Darien, CT
Kathleen Vance explores environmental issues such as water conservation and protection through positive stewardship of the land. She looks to convey an appreciation of nature and tra...
Category
2010s Post-Modern Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Found Objects, Lights
ImPossible
Located in New York, NY
Found objects, repurposed textiles
Statement
In work that integrates the theories and methodologies of both fine art and craft, I transform domestic cast-offs, such as old furnitu...
Category
2010s Abstract Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Textile, Found Objects
Lisa Levy, You Give Good Gratitude, 2014, Mirror, Plastic, Marble, Found Objects
By Lisa Levy
Located in Darien, CT
Dr. Lisa's Ego Championship Trophies
Lisa Levy is a painter, conceptual artist, comedian and (self-proclaimed) psychotherapist.
Lisa's visual career started when she was 3 1/2 ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Assemblage Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Cycloid
Located in New Orleans, LA
Paul Villinski's "Cycloid" incorporates his signature butterfly motif with a found antique frame. This unique piece dazzles with its shimmering gold leaf finish, with the bespoke but...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Wire, Gold Leaf
Midnight - Majestic Sculpture of Mongolian Animal, Altai Argali in Rainbow Color
By Yulia Shtern
Located in Gilroy, CA
"Midnight," is a stunning sculpture by Canadian artist, Yulia Shtern. She as modeled this work after the endangered Mongolian species Altai Argali. The animal is brightly colored, in a rainbow color scheme in this work. She has done a fabulous job of making her subject matter eye catching and dynamic. Shtern styles this series after the tradition of mounting heads by hunters, but instead she gives life to her up-cycled materials and fights against the inhumane act of trophy hanging. Follow our storefront, or message us for more works by Yulia Shtern, and for special pricing.
From the artist: "One of the biggest, ugliest truths of our time is that we have been knowingly destroying our planet and killing off its natural life in pursuit of the falsehoods promised by mass consumption. Displaying a trophy of a stuffed dead animal...
Category
2010s Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Adhesive, Found Objects, Mixed Media, Magazine Paper, Newsprint, Papier ...
Bronze Sculpture, Brass, Metal, Iron found objects by Indian Artist "In stock"
By Narayan Sinha
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Narayan Sinha - Ganesha - 30 x 14 x 4 inches
Brass, Iron, Metal and Found Objects.
The artist uses discarded materials such as automobile parts, utensils, latches, locks, keys, wood, nuts and metal scrap to create sculptures and installations that tell the story.
Style : For sculptor, Narayan Sinha, art is all about celebrating beauty. Sinha is mostly known for his installations created with junk automobile parts, metal drums, fuel tanks of kerosene stoves...
Category
2010s Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Brass, Iron
Gregory the Great
By Joe Brubaker
Located in Park City, UT
Joe Brubaker was born in Lebanon, Missouri and raised in Southern California. He received his B.A. from Sacramento State University, then attended UCLA where he earned his MA and MFA...
Category
2010s Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Found Objects
Elf King
By Joe Brubaker
Located in Park City, UT
Joe Brubaker was born in Lebanon, Missouri and raised in Southern California. He received his B.A. from Sacramento State University, then attended UCLA where he earned his MA and MFA...
Category
2010s Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Fruits of War
Located in Milford, NH
A fine abstract expressionist assemblage by American artist Varujan Boghosian (1926-2020). Boghosian was born in New Britain, CT and after serving in the United States Navy, he attended Central Connecticut Teachers College and the Vesper George School of Art in Boston. In 1953, he had a Fulbright grant to paint in Italy, and from 1956 to 1959, he worked with Josef Albers, geometric abstractionist, at Yale University where he earned both his BFA and MFA. Boghosian became a professor of sculpture at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, and became primarily known for his assemblages in which he uses a variety of incongruous objects such as parts of weathered barn...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects
Stolen Stickers & Visions
By Kelly Kozma
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This fabric work titled "Stolen Stickers & Visions" is an original artwork by Kelly Kozma made of hand embroidery, sticker and gem on paper. The piece measures 13”h by 13”w.
Kelly K...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Fabric, Thread, Found Objects
Miss You
By Kelly Kozma
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This fabric work titled "Miss You" is an original artwork by Kelly Kozma made of hand embroidery, stickers, and chain on paper. The piece measures 13”h by 13”...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Fabric, Thread, Found Objects
Arrival, Shipwrecks stories. Iron vessel wall sculpture. 23.5x11"
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
Spirit of Ecstasy - Pop Art Sculpture
By Alben
Located in New York, NY
Cheeky references to pop culture and the societal context.
Grounded in a postmodern vernacular, Alben’s paintings and sculptures are a pastiche of art historical moments including P...
Category
2010s Pop Art Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Epoxy Resin, Mixed Media, Found Objects
W2
Located in New York, NY
Found objects, repurposed textiles
Statement
In work that integrates the theories and methodologies of both fine art and craft, I transform domestic cast-offs, such as old furnitu...
Category
2010s Abstract Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Textile, Found Objects
Excerpts
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
Breathe Easy
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
Arrival, Shipyards tales. Iron vessel wall sculpture. 19x21 "
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, Iron, Steel
"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
"SOMEWHERE ELSE #2", Watercolor on Sal Leaf Plate, Black Frame, Green, Red, Tan
By Eva Ennist
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Eva Ennist, a mixed media and fiber artist, travels extensively through the Far East, gathering materials and techniques for her practice. The artwork "SOMETHING ELSE #2" uses materi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Naturalistic Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Watercolor, Organic Material, Wood, Found Objects, Mixed Media
Lost in the Stars
Located in Milford, NH
A wonderful abstract expressionist three dimensional construction by American artist Varujan Boghosian (1926-2020). Boghosian was born in New Britain, CT and after serving in the United States Navy, he attended Central Connecticut Teachers College and the Vesper George School of Art in Boston. In 1953, he had a Fulbright grant to paint in Italy, and from 1956 to 1959, he worked with Josef Albers, geometric abstractionist, at Yale University where he earned both his BFA and MFA. Boghosian became a professor of sculpture at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, and became primarily known for his assemblages in which he uses a variety of incongruous objects such as parts of weathered barn doors, antique dolls' heads, old leather, marbles, and ping-pong balls. This construction consists of antique lithographs laid on board, including a shooting target sheet, and metal jacks, all presented on an antique celestial map...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects, Laid Paper, Lithograph, Adhesive, Wood Panel
"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
Assembler Violeta N: 3, and N: 1. Abstract Mixed Media Wall Sculpture
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 irrepla...
Category
2010s Minimalist Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Metal
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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