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Medium: Found Objects
Look
Located in New York, NY
Stainless Steel TIG Welding Rod, Aluminum, Fishing Accessories, Wire, Paint
Jeremy Bullis after David L. Bullis
Edition 1/5
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Steel, Wire
$920 Sale Price
20% Off
Tempest
Located in New York, NY
Stainless Steel TIG Welding Rod, Aluminum, Fishing Accessories, Wire, Paint
Jeremy Bullis after David L. Bullis
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Steel, Wire
$1,120 Sale Price
20% Off
Keynote XIV
By Dianne Baker
Located in Buffalo, NY
Diane Baker is a mixed media and fiber-related sculptor working out of Buffalo, NY. She has exhibited throughout the United States and in Canada and is included in several public and...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects, Tape, Wood
"Cascade", Contemporary, Mixed Media, Sculpture, Wall Hanging, Tapestry
By John Garrett
Located in St. Louis, MO
John Garrett was raised in southern New Mexico by parents who were both educators. They instilled in him an appreciation for the handmade with their collections of Native American a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Wire
Look
Located in New York, NY
Stainless Steel TIG Welding Rod, Aluminum, Fishing Accessories, Wire, Paint
Jeremy Bullis after David L. Bullis
Edition 1/5
Category
2010s Abstract Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel, Wire
$920 Sale Price
20% Off
Tempest
Located in New York, NY
Stainless Steel TIG Welding Rod, Aluminum, Fishing Accessories, Wire, Paint
Jeremy Bullis after David L. Bullis
Edition 1/5
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Steel, Wire
$1,120 Sale Price
20% Off
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
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 ...
The Ancient One
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
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...
Category
1990s Dada Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Epoxy Resin, Found Objects, Mixed Media, Oil
"Untitled - Face" Lonnie Holley, Mixed Media, Found and Assembled Objects
Located in New York, NY
Lonnie Holley
Untitled - Face , circa 1989
Mixed media sculpture, found and assembled objects
25 x 16 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches
Since 1979, Holley has dedicated his life to the realm of i...
Category
1980s American Modern Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Paint, Found Objects, Mixed Media
Assembler Naranja N°4. 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
Assembler Violeta N° 3. 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
Over Land And Sea
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
Lovesuite
By Bobbi Meier
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
An interactive hybrid of social experiment and sculptural object, envelopes the sitter into it’s cushiony softness, referencing a Victorian courting chair...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects, Other Medium
Arrival, Shipyards tales. Iron vessel wall sculpture. 49x42"
Located in Tel Aviv, IL
Nir Adoni's metal vessels sculptures have become his signature art and are displayed in public buildings around the world.
We are offering limited editions ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Steel, Iron
Wall sculpture / painting by Black African American artist w/ applied objects
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
"QUEEN VICTORIA" is created and from acrylic and found objects on round MDF panel by renowned Black African American artist Richard J. Watson. It includes a photograph of a figure, p...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects, Acrylic, Panel
Hot Dog Man, Found Objects and Paper Mache by Kay Ritter
By Kay Ritter
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Kay Ritter
Title: Hot Dog Man
Medium: Papier-mache Figure Sculpture with Mixed Media Found Objects, signed
Year: 1981
Size: 48 x 16 x 15 in. (121.92 x ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects, Papier Mâché
Bethany Krull Cat Tree Ceramic Paper Clay Green Conceptual Modern Sculpture
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original hand built porcelain and paper sculpture by contemporary conceptual American artist Bethany Krull.
Cattree, 2019
Paper, paint, wire, soil, found table
This work is currently featured in the artist's solo exhibition inside The Corridors Gallery at Hotel Henry...
Category
2010s Conceptual Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain, Clay, Found Objects, Handmade Paper
The Janitor, Free Standing Indoor Sculpture
By Kay Ritter
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Kay Ritter
Title: Janitor
Medium: Painted Papier-mache on Metal Base, with mop, duster, scrubbing brush, and key chain
Year: c. 1983
Size: 52 x 28 x 30 in. (132.08 x 71.12...
Category
1980s Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Metal
American Story No.1875
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
KAT FLYN is a self-taught assemblage artist working presently out of San Diego. She began her career as a costume designer in Southern California. Over the years she amassed a trove of artifacts and collectables which she began using to create assemblage art in the 1990’s. In 2000 she sold her business and moved to Cuyamaca, a remote community in the mountains outside of San Diego to devote herself exclusively to her artwork. In 2003 her work was interrupted when the Cedar Fire swept through San Diego county and destroyed the forest, her home & studio along with almost all of her collections and works of art. Following the fire she relocated to San Francisco, where she spent a decade concentrating on her art in her studio in SOMA and exhibiting at galleries in the Bay Area. In 2015 she returned to San Diego and now works out of her studio in La Jolla, exhibiting there and in Los Angeles.
Kat Flyn refers to herself as an Assemblage Sculptor and her works as Political Art or Protest Art. She separates herself from other assemblage artists in that she only employs “saved” as opposed to “found” objects in her work; and her pieces always have a political or cultural narrative to them rather than being surreal or abstract. She also constructs or refashions many of the pieces which she uses in her art, for example she turns a soft drink box...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Found Objects, Mixed Media
Bill Clark Found Object Assemblage on Board
Located in Astoria, NY
Bill Clark (American, XX-XXI), Found Object Assemblage on Board, 2000, overall painted grey with license plate, hood ornament, electronics, and...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects, Acrylic, Board, Newsprint
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: ...
Category
1980s Surrealist Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Oak, Plywood, 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
"Carry the Weight" Contemporary Abstract Mixed Media Found Object Wall Sculpture
Located in Houston, TX
Exhibited in "Benji Stiles: A Human Day" at Reeves Art + Design.
In “A Human Day,” a solo show dedicated to the work of contemporary multidisciplinary artist Benji Stiles, we explor...
Category
2010s Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects, Mixed Media
Donna in piedi, 2016
Located in Atlanta, GA
Dario Tironi is the artist that evades the classic canons of Besharat Gallery's sculptures.
But we could not remain indifferent to his fantastic, incredi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
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
Inside Out - abstracted, repurposed metal, gothic, figurative, steel sculpture
By Dale Dunning
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This contemporary metal sculpture of a mask is kinetic and was created by a Canadian artist.
This unique, one-of-a-kind ethereal sculpture was hand-forged by the masterful sculptor...
Category
2010s Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Steel, Stainless Steel
Leather Daddy (Peter)
By Jonathan Casey
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original concrete and found object sculpture by American contemporary artist Jonathan Casey.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Concrete
Highly conceptual mixed media wall sculpture Contemporary skull emoji jewelry
Located in Buffalo, NY
Monarch Memento Mori
UV print on aluminum, chain, jewelry, keychain,
boondoggle, stickers, Croc Jibbitz, rabbits’ foot
12x36”
2019
$975
Eternal Flame is a...
Category
2010s Conceptual Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Metal
“Stepping Out in Pink Sole” Contemporary White Found Object Shoe Painting
Located in Houston, TX
White abstract found object painting by Houston, TX artist Tra' Slaughter. The painting features a shoe wrapped with string on a painted canvas. This piece was included in Tra's solo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Latex, Found Objects, Mixed Media, Canvas
“Pen Decline 1 - 2 - 3 in Grey” (Archeology series) Computer Keyboard Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
Daniel Fiorda in this new series of sculptures, continues in many ways the themes that have infused his previous work. For the last several years, Fiorda has dealt with technology, obsolescence, with the trail of discarded tech that humanity leaves behind and what it says about us. The new work takes this thematic one step further. These new wall pieces feature barely concealed found objects, almost fully engulfed by concrete, and yet still eerily discernible: industrial gears, computer keyboards, objects that evoke industrial post-digital eras. This piece is a set of 3 artworks...
Category
2010s Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Concrete
Kaleidoscopic Dream
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
Wood, Paper, Varnish, Found Objects
Richard Klein, Holiday Inn Nocturne, 2020, Found and altered objects assemblage
Located in Darien, CT
In the mid 1990s Richard Klein started working with found glass objects, including bottles, drinking glasses, ashtrays, and eyeglasses. Initially, Klein rejected any object with commercial or advertising content, but in 2015 he became fascinated with the promotional content that was screen printed on ashtrays from the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s. This period was before smoking was looked at as being primarily a negative habit, and iconic American businesses, including Howard Johnson’s, International House of Pancakes (iHop) and Holiday Inn, all produced promotional ashtrays printed with their graphic identity.
By the time Klein became interested in these objects, the businesses had either ceased to exist, or had changed their logos, and many of their signature buildings, which where examples of classic, “Pop” roadside architecture, has been torn down or repurposed. The artist wanted to connect the glass objects with the business’s sites that were still recognizable and spoke of their history, so he began researching where original buildings still stood.
Klein then embarked on a series of road trips to photograph these sites with the intention of combining the photographs with the promotional glass objects. This led him to as far south as Maryland and as far north as upstate New York from his home in Connecticut.
In the case of Holiday Inn, it wasn’t their buildings, but their iconic illuminated sign that appeared on ashtrays, so he sought out a standing example of the sign he could photograph.
As it turned out all had been removed years before from the hotels' properties and the only working example was indoors at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. He did, however, find out that there was one still standing, surprisingly, in Beruit, Lebanon. He found an image of it on the web and used it to make Holiday Inn (Beruit).
In 1973 Holiday Inn changed their tagline from “The Nations Innkeeper” to “The World’s Innkeeper” as they expanded overseas, including the Mideast. For the hotel chain it was bad timing: the disastrous Lebanese civil war began in 1975. In the war, the different Lebanese militias involved in the conflict, including the Nasserites, Christian Phalangists, and the Lebanese National Movement engaged in what came to be called “The Battle of the Hotels” where they each occupied a major high-rise hotel in central Beruit. The Phalangists commanded the Holiday Inn, which they used to fire with both light arms and heavier weapons at the militias in neighboring hotels.
Klein used the photo of the heavily damaged Holiday Inn sign as I thought it spoke in a curious, offhanded way about American cultural imperialism in juxtaposition with an ashtray that proclaimed Holiday Inn to be “The World’s Innkeeper.” In the work Holiday Inn (Nocturne) the artist utilized a found, 35mm slide of a Holiday Inn sign at night at an unknown location as the basis of the photograph in the work.
Richard Klein is a Connecticut-based artist, independent curator and writer. As an artist, he has exhibited widely, including the Neuberger Museum of Art at SUNY Purchase; Caren Golden Fine Art, New York; the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI; Hales Gallery, London; Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach, FL; deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA; James Barron Art, Kent, CT; The Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA), Portland, OR; Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA; Stephan Stoyanov Gallery, NY; Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY; Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT; Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY; Exhibit by Alberson Tulsa, OK; Incident Report/Flow Chart Foundation, Hudson, NY; ICEHOUSE Project Space, Sharon, CT; Kenise Barnes Fine Art in Kent, CT and with ODETTA Gallery at the Equity Gallery in New York City..
Reviews of his work have appeared in Two Coats of Paint, Whitehot Magazine, The New York Times, Sculpture Magazine, Art in America, and The New Yorker. In the summer of 2024 he will be the first Artist-In-Residence at Peck Ledge Light...
Category
2010s Assemblage Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Richard Klein, McDonalds (El Nino), 2024, Found and altered objects assemblage
Located in Darien, CT
In the mid 1990s Richard Klein started working with found glass objects, including bottles, drinking glasses, ashtrays, and eyeglasses. Initially, Klein rejected any object with commercial or advertising content, but in 2015 he became fascinated with the promotional content that was screen printed on ashtrays from the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s. This period was before smoking was looked at as being primarily a negative habit, and iconic American businesses, including Howard Johnson’s, International House of Pancakes (iHop) and Holiday Inn, all produced promotional ashtrays printed with their graphic identity.
By the time Klein became interested in these objects, the businesses had either ceased to exist, or had changed their logos, and many of their signature buildings, which where examples of classic, “Pop” roadside architecture, has been torn down or repurposed. The artist wanted to connect the glass objects with the business’s sites that were still recognizable and spoke of their history, so he began researching where original buildings still stood.
Klein then embarked on a series of road trips to photograph these sites with the intention of combining the photographs with the promotional glass objects. This led him to as far south as Maryland and as far north as upstate New York from his home in Connecticut.
In the case of Holiday Inn, it wasn’t their buildings, but their iconic illuminated sign that appeared on ashtrays, so he sought out a standing example of the sign he could photograph.
As it turned out all had been removed years before from the hotels' properties and the only working example was indoors at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. He did, however, find out that there was one still standing, surprisingly, in Beruit, Lebanon. He found an image of it on the web and used it to make Holiday Inn (Beruit).
In 1973 Holiday Inn changed their tagline from “The Nations Innkeeper” to “The World’s Innkeeper” as they expanded overseas, including the Mideast. For the hotel chain it was bad timing: the disastrous Lebanese civil war began in 1975. In the war, the different Lebanese militias involved in the conflict, including the Nasserites, Christian Phalangists, and the Lebanese National Movement engaged in what came to be called “The Battle of the Hotels” where they each occupied a major high-rise hotel in central Beruit. The Phalangists commanded the Holiday Inn, which they used to fire with both light arms and heavier weapons at the militias in neighboring hotels.
Klein used the photo of the heavily damaged Holiday Inn sign as I thought it spoke in a curious, offhanded way about American cultural imperialism in juxtaposition with an ashtray that proclaimed Holiday Inn to be “The World’s Innkeeper.” In the work Holiday Inn (Nocturne) the artist utilized a found, 35mm slide of a Holiday Inn sign at night at an unknown location as the basis of the photograph in the work.
Richard Klein is a Connecticut-based artist, independent curator and writer. As an artist, he has exhibited widely, including the Neuberger Museum of Art at SUNY Purchase; Caren Golden Fine Art, New York; the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI; Hales Gallery, London; Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach, FL; deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA; James Barron Art, Kent, CT; The Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA), Portland, OR; Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA; Stephan Stoyanov Gallery, NY; Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY; Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT; Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY; Exhibit by Alberson Tulsa, OK; Incident Report/Flow Chart Foundation, Hudson, NY; ICEHOUSE Project Space, Sharon, CT; Kenise Barnes Fine Art in Kent, CT and with ODETTA Gallery at the Equity Gallery in New York City..
Reviews of his work have appeared in Two Coats of Paint, Whitehot Magazine, The New York Times, Sculpture Magazine, Art in America, and The New Yorker. In the summer of 2024 he will be the first Artist-In-Residence at Peck Ledge Light...
Category
2010s Assemblage Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Metal
"Child of the Night" Norma Minkowitz, contemporary mixed media textile sculpture
Located in Wilton, CT
This mixed media textile sculpture was done by American fiber artist, Norma Minkowitz (b. 1937). Minkowitz mixes her own interlacing technique with the...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Textile, Thread, Found Objects, Mixed Media
Feather Wall Artwork, 3-dimensional Abstract Red and Green feathers, 2025
Located in San Francisco, CA
"Dragon Dreams" by Spanish artist Henar Iglesias is a one of a kind green and red 3-dimensional feather artwork on a felt relief. The green feather of the Lady Amherst Pheasant with ...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Animal Skin, Organic Material, Found Objects
"Inside/Out: Nipple Bucket I, " Mixed Media Sculpture by Timothy Andrew Kussow
By Timothy Andrew Kussow
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Inside/Out: Nipple Bucket I" is a sculpture created by Timothy Andrew Kussow. The artist signed the piece. It was created with a feed pail, aluminum, rubber nipples, fur, and steel....
Category
1990s Dada Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Steel
Secret Garden
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
"Globalization IV: Collateral Damage" Mixed media Contemporary Wall Sculpture
By Gyöngy Laky
Located in Wilton, CT
Globalization IV: Collateral Damage, ash, commercial wood, paint, blue concrete bullets, 32" x 97" x 4" (Installed dimensions), 2005.
This 3-piece wall sculpture was done by San Francisco-based artist, Gyöngy Laky...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Paint, Found Objects, Organic Material
Teddy
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
Wood, Paper, Varnish, Found Objects
$5,000
Margaret Roleke, Religious Toys, 2016, children's toys, spray enamel, wood
Located in Darien, CT
In the body of work for “Child’s Play” Roleke has created diminutive worlds in which toys tell the story of consumption, consumerism, war, and the misuse of power and religion. The m...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Enamel
Feather Wall Art, Abstract Red and Earth Tones Geometric Pattern, 2025
Located in San Francisco, CA
"Consummation III" by Spanish artist Henar Iglesias is a one of a kind abstract partridge and golden pheasant feather artwork with an optical illusion quality. The work is mounted on...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Animal Skin, Organic Material, Found Objects, Wood Panel
Joe, Gorila - 21st Century, Contemporary Sculpture, Figurative, Recycled Objects
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Joe, the Gorilla.
Miquel Aparici's sculptures are surprising assemblages made from old objects that had other uses in the past, and which the artist re...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects, Mixed Media
The Boy Orator
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
Wood, Paper, Varnish, Found Objects
Lady Gaga
By Pablo Cano
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
This Lady Gaga marionette sculpture is made of found objects in Pablo Cano's signature style. Some of the elements include: plastic bowl, a metal candy dish, soda cans plastic credit cards, and a potato masher among other found objects.
Born in Havana, Cuba in 1961, Pablo Cano was on the last flight out of the country before the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. He has since been a resident of Miami’s Little Havana, and is regarded by art patrons and critics alike as one of Florida’s premier contemporary fine artists.
Since childhood, marionettes have fascinated Pablo. At the age of ten, he was mounting elaborate plays for his family featuring puppets constructed of household bric-a-brac. His primary work today continues to center around the marionettes that he fashions from found objects, and the performance pieces he composes to showcase these protagonists.
Cano reveals, “I create a dream world where inanimate objects come to life – springing from my imagination in the Surrealist tradition. But my work is founded on Dada ideals. The Dadaists used chance, spontaneity, and childlike innocence in order to create their statement. Their intention, as is mine, was to break with tradition and painting technique and to return to the elemental basics of art; to start from scratch; to allow the process of imagination to unfold and begin anew each time I create.”
Influences from the color palette of Russian Constructivist Alexandra Exter...
Category
2010s Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects
$5,600 Sale Price
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Trout
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
$5,000
Typo
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
Wood, Paper, Varnish, Found Objects
$3,600
Run
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
Wood, Paper, Varnish, Found Objects
$3,600
Treasure 7.8 (with blue silver and pink)
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
Made from post consumer can-tabs. Can-tabs can be found in a rainbow of colors according to their brands. The blue are from Michelob beer and the pink are from White Claw brand beverages. The can-tabs are washed 3 times at my studio before being added to an artwork.
Keywords: assemblage, post consumer can-tabs
Details: This is a wall mounted scuplture made from post consumer can-tabs and safety pins mounted on green MDF. A hanging cleat is attached on back. signed on back. No paints are used in this piece. The can-tabs are manufactured in many colors according to thier brand.
Artist Biography:
Since 2002, award winning artist Virginia Fleck...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Assemblage Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects, Pins
Lobster
By Leo Sewell
Located in Greenwich, CT
Leo Sewell Biography
American, b. 1945
Leo Sewell (b. 1945) is an American "found object" artist. His assemblages of recycled material are in over 40 museums and in private collecti...
Category
2010s Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media, Found Objects
$6,000
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...
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2010s Feminist Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Fabric, Thread, Plaster, Dye, Found Objects
"Deviation (OY)" Gyöngy Laky, Contemporary Mixed Media Textual Sculpture
By Gyöngy Laky
Located in Wilton, CT
"Deviation" Gyöngy Laky, apple, acrylic paint, screws, 30" x 60" x 2.5" (installed), 2020.
This contemporary mixed media wall sculpture was done by San Fr...
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2010s Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Organic Material, Wood, Paint, Found Objects
"Duty Free"
By Chakaia Booker
Located in Astoria, NY
Chakaia Booker (American, b. 1953) "Duty Free", 2010, rubber tire assemblage sculpture, signed and dated on back, with two signed wooden cleats. 24" H x 24" W x 9" D. Provenance: Mus...
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2010s Assemblage Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Rubber, Found Objects
"Cradle to Cradle" Contemporary mixed media sculpture, vessel
By Gyöngy Laky
Located in Wilton, CT
"Cradle to Cradle" apple, commercial wood, screws, 16" x 30" x 30", 2007.
This mixed media sculptural vessel was done by San Francisco-based artist, Gyöngy Laky...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Found Objects, Organic Material, Mixed Media
'The Calendar Wheel' assemblage in drawer with spheres clock shells cards
Located in Milwaukee, WI
'Calendar Wheel' is an original assemblage by the American artist Charles Berg. Within a divided drawer, Berg has assembled a variety of found objects: metal balls, a clock, a sheet of copper punched with the word 'wind,' a Victorian card of a woman, etc. The artwork takes its name, however, from a transparent 1935 calendar in the lower right. Berg here is following the tradition other artists who specialize in assemblage, including Joseph Cornell, Robert Rauchenberg, and Betye Saar...
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1970s Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Metal
"Senufo (Gbon) Statute of Royalty, " Wood, Ivory, & Cowry Shells created c. 1940
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Senufo (Gbon) Statute of Royalty" is a sculpture by thr Senufo peoples of Gabon. It is wood, mixed fiber, textiles, and cowry shells.
14" x 8" x 3"
The...
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1940s Tribal Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Found Objects
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)
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Early 2000s Abstract Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects
"Bacongo Statue, Used as Fetish - Zaire, " Wood, Glass Feathers, & Cloth
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This wood statue, used as a fetish, was created by an unknown Bacongo artist in Zaire. The Kongo people (also Bakongo) are a Bantu ethnic group primarily defined as the speakers of K...
Category
Early 1900s Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Fabric, Glass, Wood, Found Objects
"Nonsense" Gyöngy Laky, Contemporary wall sculpture, US Cent Symbol
By Gyöngy Laky
Located in Wilton, CT
"Nonsense" charcoal, plastic soldiers, paint, acrylic medium, 35 x 26 x 4, 2007. Artist signature on back.
This mixed media wall sculpture was done by San Francisco-based artist, Gyöngy Laky...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Paint, Charcoal, Found Objects, Acrylic
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