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Medium: Found Objects
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

By Richard Klein

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...

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2010s Assemblage Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Metal

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

By Richard Klein

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...

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2010s Assemblage Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Metal

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

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 ...

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1980s Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Papier Mâché, Found Objects

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 ...

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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Found Objects, Spray Paint, Wood Panel

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

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

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...

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2010s Conceptual Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

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

Paintbrushes II, Accumulation Sculpture by Arman
Paintbrushes II, Accumulation Sculpture by Arman

Paintbrushes II, Accumulation Sculpture by Arman

By Arman

Located in Long Island City, NY

Artist: Arman, French/American (1929 - 2005) Title: Paintbrushes II Year: 1991 Medium: Paintbrushes and Oil Paint in Epoxy Resin Sculpture, Signature and number inscribed Edition: 20...

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1990s Dada Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Epoxy Resin, Found Objects, Mixed Media, Oil

Jo Yarrington, Ghost Girls_Brushes, 2017, Organic Material, Found Objects, Pins
Jo Yarrington, Ghost Girls_Brushes, 2017, Organic Material, Found Objects, Pins

Jo Yarrington, Ghost Girls_Brushes, 2017, Organic Material, Found Objects, Pins

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

Organic Material, Found Objects, Pins

Jo Yarrington, Mute-Ability_Composition 2, 2019_acrylic, steel, player piano rol
Jo Yarrington, Mute-Ability_Composition 2, 2019_acrylic, steel, player piano rol

Jo Yarrington, Mute-Ability_Composition 2, 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...

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2010s Conceptual Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Steel

Andra Samelson, Microcosm 2, 2016, Canvas, Wood, Found Objects, Acrylic Paint

Andra Samelson, Microcosm 2, 2016, Canvas, Wood, Found Objects, Acrylic Paint

By Andra Samelson

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...

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2010s Abstract Geometric Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Canvas, Wood, Found Objects, Acrylic

Joseph Fucigna, Burning Bush, 2001, Plastic, Found Objects
Joseph Fucigna, Burning Bush, 2001, Plastic, Found Objects

Joseph Fucigna, Burning Bush, 2001, Plastic, Found Objects

By Joseph Fucigna

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...

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Early 2000s Arte Povera Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Plastic, Found Objects

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...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

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

Oh, Georgia (Homage to O'Keeffe)
Oh, Georgia (Homage to O'Keeffe)

Oh, Georgia (Homage to O'Keeffe)

By Carolee Thea

Located in Long Island City, NY

Artist: Carolee Thea Title: Oh, Georgia (Homage to O'Keeffe) Year: 1986 Medium: Unique Wall Sculpture: Oak, Varnished Plywood and Bone Construction, signed and dated verso Size: ...

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1980s Surrealist Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Oak, Plywood, Found Objects

Lisa Levy, Didn't Have to Buy It, Mirror, Plastic, Marble, Found Objects
Lisa Levy, Didn't Have to Buy It, Mirror, Plastic, Marble, Found Objects

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 ...

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21st Century and Contemporary Assemblage Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Marble

Spinner

Spinner

By Paul Villinski

Located in New Orleans, LA

PAUL VILLINSKI has created studio and large-scale artworks for more than three decades. Villinski was born in York, Maine, USA, in 1960, son of an Air Force navigator. He has lived and worked in New York City since 1982. A scenic route through the educational system included stops at Phillips Exeter Academy and the Massachusetts College of Art, and a BFA with honors from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 1984. He lives with his partner, the painter Amy Park, and their son, Lark, in their studios in Long Island City, NY. His work has been included in numerous exhibitions nationally. A mid-career retrospective, “Farther,” is currently on view at The Taubman Museum of Art in Roanoke, VA, through July, 2018. Recent solo exhibitions include “Paul Villinski: Burst” at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, TX and “Passage: A Special Installation,” at the Blanton Museum, University of Texas, Austin. Recent group shows include “Material Transformations” at the Montgomery Museum of Art, Montgomery, AL; “Re: Collection,” at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY; “Making Mends,” at the Bellevue Museum of Arts, Bellevue, WA; and “Prospect .1,” an international Biennial in New Orleans, LA. “Emergency Response Studio,” a FEMA trailer transformed into an off-the-grid mobile artist...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Steel

Bronze Sculpture, Brass, Metal, Iron found objects by Indian Artist "In stock"
Bronze Sculpture, Brass, Metal, Iron found objects by Indian Artist "In stock"

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...

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2010s Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Metal, Brass, Iron

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...

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2010s Conceptual Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Porcelain, Clay, Found Objects, Handmade Paper

Portal IV
Portal IV

Portal IV

By Peyton Pickenpaugh

Located in New Orleans, LA

Peyton Pickenpaugh says of her work… In my work, I explore the hidden histories of women, feminist reinterpretations of myth, and the spiritual resonance of materiality. Through lay...

Category

2010s Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Ceramic, Fabric, Wood, Found Objects

"Kryptonite Wares", Found Objects 2015/2019, Chartreuse & Red, House Paint
"Kryptonite Wares", Found Objects 2015/2019, Chartreuse & Red, House Paint

"Kryptonite Wares", Found Objects 2015/2019, Chartreuse & Red, House Paint

Located in Detroit, MI

"Kryptonite Wares" is a clever and humorous collection of both superfluous and everyday objects purchased from the Dollar Store. It is a wry comment by the artist on the overabundanc...

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2010s Assemblage Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Plastic, Wood, Found Objects, Lights, Mixed Media, House Paint

Viral Structure
Viral Structure

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...

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1990s Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Wire

Bayou

Bayou

By Eric Rhein

Located in New York, NY

Eric Rhein “Bayou” 2010 Signed, verso Gelatin silver print, sterling silver, bronze, and found objects 25 x 21 x 4 inches (63.5 x 53.3 x 10.2 cm), framed This work is offered by...

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2010s Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Silver, Bronze

"Yoni", reconstructed egg assemblage, Hanging Sculpture
"Yoni", reconstructed egg assemblage, Hanging Sculpture

"Yoni", reconstructed egg assemblage, Hanging Sculpture

By Katie VanVliet

Located in Philadelphia, PA

This piece titled "Yoni" is an original piece by Kate VanVliet and is made from eggshells, mica, PVA. This piece measures 14.5”h x 9.5”w x 2.5”d and comes with 3-D printed screw cove...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Glue, Found Objects, Mica, Organic Material, Acrylic

Peck, Contemporary Still-Life Sculpture with Mica and Eggshells
Peck, Contemporary Still-Life Sculpture with Mica and Eggshells

Peck, Contemporary Still-Life Sculpture with Mica and Eggshells

By Katie VanVliet

Located in Philadelphia, PA

This piece titled "Peck" is an original piece by Kate VanVliet and is made from eggshells (bantam), mica, and PVA. This piece measures 3”h x 9”w x 7”d. Kate VanVliet is a sculptor a...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Glue, Found Objects, Mica, Organic Material, Acrylic

"Donut (Mint)", Reconstructed Egg Assemblage Sculpture, Contemporary Art
"Donut (Mint)", Reconstructed Egg Assemblage Sculpture, Contemporary Art

"Donut (Mint)", Reconstructed Egg Assemblage Sculpture, Contemporary Art

By Katie VanVliet

Located in Philadelphia, PA

This piece titled "Donut (Mint)" is an original piece by Kate VanVliet and is made from eggshells, mica, and PVA. This piece measures 3.5”h x 3.5”w x 1.5”d and ships with the picture...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Found Objects, Mica, ABS

"Tripod", Reconstructed Egg Assemblage Sculpture on Tripod, 21st Century
"Tripod", Reconstructed Egg Assemblage Sculpture on Tripod, 21st Century

"Tripod", Reconstructed Egg Assemblage Sculpture on Tripod, 21st Century

By Katie VanVliet

Located in Philadelphia, PA

This piece titled "Tripod" is an original piece by Kate VanVliet and is made from eggshells, mica, and PVA. This piece measures 10”h x 9”w x 6.5”d. Kate VanVliet is a sculptor and p...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Glue, Found Objects, Mica, Organic Material, Acrylic

"Chimaera: White #1", Found Object Sculpture, Egg Motif
"Chimaera: White #1", Found Object Sculpture, Egg Motif

"Chimaera: White #1", Found Object Sculpture, Egg Motif

By Katie VanVliet

Located in Philadelphia, PA

This piece titled "Chimaera: White #1" 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 p...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Glue, Found Objects, Mica, Organic Material, Acrylic

"Chimaera: White #2", Found Object Sculpture, Egg Motif
"Chimaera: White #2", Found Object Sculpture, Egg Motif

"Chimaera: White #2", Found Object Sculpture, Egg Motif

By Katie VanVliet

Located in Philadelphia, PA

This piece titled "Chimaera: White #2" is an original piece by Kate VanVliet and is made from eggshells, mica, and PVA. This piece measures 3”h x 3”w x 2.5”d and ships with the pictu...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Glue, Found Objects, Mica, Organic Material, Acrylic

"Chimaera: Green #17", Reconstructed egg sculpture
"Chimaera: Green #17", Reconstructed egg sculpture

"Chimaera: Green #17", Reconstructed egg sculpture

By Katie VanVliet

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

"Chimaera: Green #7", Found Object Sculpture, Egg Motif
"Chimaera: Green #7", Found Object Sculpture, Egg Motif

"Chimaera: Green #7", Found Object Sculpture, Egg Motif

By Katie VanVliet

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

"Chimaera: Green #9", Found Object Sculpture, Egg Motif
"Chimaera: Green #9", Found Object Sculpture, Egg Motif

"Chimaera: Green #9", Found Object Sculpture, Egg Motif

By Katie VanVliet

Located in Philadelphia, PA

This piece titled "Chimaera: Green #9" is an original piece by Kate VanVliet and is made from eggshells, mica, and PVA. This piece measures 2.5”h x 2”w x 2”d and ships with the pictu...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Glue, Found Objects, Mica

"Chimaera: Green #15", reconstructed egg sculpture
"Chimaera: Green #15", reconstructed egg sculpture

"Chimaera: Green #15", reconstructed egg sculpture

By Katie VanVliet

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

"Oldies Swing", Abstract Patterns, Geometric Abstraction, Woodcut, Monoprint
"Oldies Swing", Abstract Patterns, Geometric Abstraction, Woodcut, Monoprint

"Oldies Swing", Abstract Patterns, Geometric Abstraction, Woodcut, Monoprint

By Alexis Nutini

Located in Philadelphia, PA

This piece titled "Oldies Swing" is an original piece by Alexis Nutini and is made from a woodcut and and found object stencil monoprint mounted on panel. This piece measures 19"h x ...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Found Objects, Wood Panel, Monoprint, Woodcut

"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

Leaf Winged Male

Leaf Winged Male

By Eric Rhein

Located in New York, NY

Eric Rhein “Leaf Winged Male” 1999 Signed, verso Wire, paper, and found objects 26.25 x 21 x 3.25 inches (53.3 x 8.3 cm), framed This work is offered by CLAMP in New York City.

Category

1990s Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Wire

Butterfly Girl

Butterfly Girl

By Eric Rhein

Located in New York, NY

Eric Rhein “Butterfly Girl” 1992-1995 Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity Steel, brass, and gold-filled wire, thread, glue, and found object...

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1990s Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Brass, Steel, Wire

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...

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1980s Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Wire

Stolen Stickers & Visions: Hand Embroidery Mixed Media Sculpture
Stolen Stickers & Visions: Hand Embroidery Mixed Media Sculpture

Stolen Stickers & Visions: Hand Embroidery Mixed Media Sculpture

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. Kel...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Fabric, Thread, Found Objects

"Superpowers" Hand embroidery, Collage, and Embellished Paper by Kelly Kozma
"Superpowers" Hand embroidery, Collage, and Embellished Paper by Kelly Kozma

"Superpowers" Hand embroidery, Collage, and Embellished Paper by Kelly Kozma

By Kelly Kozma

Located in Philadelphia, PA

This fabric work titled "Superpowers" is an original artwork by Kelly Kozma made of hand embroidery, stickers, glitter paper and acrylic paint on paper. The piece measures 13”h by 13...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Fabric, Thread, Found Objects

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...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Wood, Found Objects, Acrylic

Story Time
Story Time

Story Time

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

Paper, Varnish, Found Objects

Persephone
Persephone

Persephone

By Peyton Pickenpaugh

Located in New Orleans, LA

Peyton Pickenpaugh says of her work… In my work, I explore the hidden histories of women, feminist reinterpretations of myth, and the spiritual resonance of materiality. Through lay...

Category

2010s Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Ceramic, Fabric, Wood, Found Objects

Flame on Bamboo, Found Objects Dadaist Lamp Sculpture by Garry Bennett
Flame on Bamboo, Found Objects Dadaist Lamp Sculpture by Garry Bennett

Flame on Bamboo, Found Objects Dadaist Lamp Sculpture by Garry Bennett

Located in Long Island City, NY

Flame on Bamboo Garry Bennett, American (1934–2022) Date: 2008 Assemblage Bamboo Lamp, Signed and dated on bottom Size: 10.25 x 5 x 2 in. (26.04 x 12.7 x 5.08 cm)

Category

Early 2000s Abstract Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Found Objects

American Story No.1776
American Story No.1776

American Story No.1776

By Kat Flyn

Located in New Orleans, LA

KAT FLYN is a self-taught assemblage artist working presently out of San Diego. She began her career as a costume designer in Southern California. Over the years she amassed a trove of artifacts and collectables which she began using to create assemblage art in the 1990’s. In 2000 she sold her business and moved to Cuyamaca, a remote community in the mountains outside of San Diego to devote herself exclusively to her artwork. In 2003 her work was interrupted when the Cedar Fire swept through San Diego county and destroyed the forest, her home & studio along with almost all of her collections and works of art. Following the fire she relocated to San Francisco, where she spent a decade concentrating on her art in her studio in SOMA and exhibiting at galleries in the Bay Area. In 2015 she returned to San Diego and now works out of her studio in La Jolla, exhibiting there and in Los Angeles. Kat Flyn refers to herself as an Assemblage Sculptor and her works as Political Art or Protest Art. She separates herself from other assemblage artists in that she only employs “saved” as opposed to “found” objects in her work; and her pieces always have a political or cultural narrative to them rather than being surreal or abstract. She also constructs or refashions many of the pieces which she uses in her art, for example she turns a soft drink box...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Wood, Found Objects, Mixed Media

Eden
Eden

Severine GallardoEden, 2021

$3,840Sale Price|20% Off

Eden

By Severine Gallardo

Located in Santa Monica, CA

Headdresses; embroideries, felted and crocheted yarn, stones, linen, and old photography.

Category

2010s Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Felt, Linen, Found Objects, Mixed Media

Memo (Twilight)
Memo (Twilight)

Memo (Twilight)

By Paul Villinski

Located in New Orleans, LA

medium: aluminum (found cans), wire, blue Flashe paint Unique, open edition Available in multiple color/finish options (see second image on listing for options). Installations are made to order, sizes and shapes of butterflies vary and can be oriented leftward or rightward. Ships with installation template and loaner tool kit. Installation can be arranged with JONATHAN FERRARA GALLERY. Paul Villinski is a professional visual artist who has created studio and large-scale artworks for more than three decades. Villinski was born in York, Maine, USA, in 1960, son of an Air Force navigator. He has lived and worked in New York City since 1982. A scenic route through the educational system included stops at Phillips Exeter Academy and the Massachusetts College of Art, and a BFA with honors from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 1984. He lives with his partner, the painter Amy Park, and their son, Lark, in their studios in Long Island City, NY. His work has been included in numerous exhibitions nationally, recently including the solo exhibition “Passage: A Special Project,” at the Blanton Museum, University of Texas, Austin; “Making Mends,” at the Bellevue Museum of Arts, Bellevue, WA; “Second Lives: Re-purposing the Ordinary,” at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY; and “Prospect .1,” an international Biennial in New Orleans, LA. “Emergency Response Studio,” a FEMA trailer redesigned and rebuilt into a solar-and wind-powered mobile artist’s studio, was the subject of a solo exhibition at Rice University Art Gallery, Houston, TX; the exhibition also travelled to Ballroom Marfa, in Marfa, TX; Wesleyan University’s Zilkha Gallery, Middletown, CT; and the trailer was featured in the New Museum’s “Festival of Ideas for the New City”, in New York, NY. Villinski’s work is widely collected, including major public works created by commission. His studio is currently at work on “SkyCycles,” three full-scale “flying bicycles...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Metal, Wire

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

By Philip Kuznicki

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...

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2010s Surrealist Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Found Objects, Mixed Media

Biography of a Drive-By: wall sculpture by Black African-American artist
Biography of a Drive-By: wall sculpture by Black African-American artist

Biography of a Drive-By: wall sculpture by Black African-American artist

By Richard J. Watson

Located in Bryn Mawr, PA

This is a two-part wall mounted painting / sculpture this integrates found objects and photographs into an acrylic painting on the top, and a wooden shelf with bullet casings and coins below. This is a conceptual, abstract work of art that is a powerful homage to lives lost through calculated gun violence in American cites. signed by the artist. PROVENANCE: Exhibited in "Portals + Revelations: Richard J. Watson," the African American Museum in Philadelphia, Oct 2021 - Mar 2022. "Most of my works are supported by memories of the past and suggested realities. Issues of social politics, ancestral references, and astral projections are presented with fragmented elements...

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2010s Abstract Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Acrylic, Panel, Found Objects, Mixed Media

Assembler Violeta N: 1, and N: 3 Diptych. Abstract Mixed Media Wall Sculpture
Assembler Violeta N: 1, and N: 3 Diptych. Abstract Mixed Media Wall Sculpture

Assembler Violeta N: 1, and N: 3 Diptych. Abstract Mixed Media 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 irrepla...

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2010s Minimalist Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Metal

Potential

George HermsPotential

$6,800Sale Price|20% Off

Potential

By George Herms

Located in Santa Monica, CA

Beyond Baroque Literary Art Center Gift direct from the Artist Consigned to ViCA

Category

Early 2000s Assemblage Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Found Objects

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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