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Medium: Found Objects
BaileII -21st Century, Contemporary Art, Abstract Sculpture, Recycled Objects
BaileII -21st Century, Contemporary Art, Abstract Sculpture, Recycled Objects

BaileII -21st Century, Contemporary Art, Abstract Sculpture, Recycled Objects

By Lukas Ulmi

Located in Barcelona, Catalonia

Full title: "Baile con Sombra II" Lukas Ulmi’s work unveils the hidden beauty of shapes taking stones, seemingly static forms, incomplete or meaningless objects and turning them int...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Found Objects, Mixed Media

Baile con Sombra- 21st Cent., Contemporary, Abstract Sculpture, Recycled Objects
Baile con Sombra- 21st Cent., Contemporary, Abstract Sculpture, Recycled Objects

Baile con Sombra- 21st Cent., Contemporary, Abstract Sculpture, Recycled Objects

By Lukas Ulmi

Located in Barcelona, Catalonia

Full title: "Baile con Sombra XI" Lukas Ulmi’s work unveils the hidden beauty of shapes taking stones, seemingly static forms, incomplete or meaningless objects and turning them int...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Found Objects, Mixed Media

Euphonic Flame
Euphonic Flame

Euphonic Flame

By Rod Lathim

Located in West Hollywood, CA

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

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Assemblage Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Found Objects, Neon Light

"Bacongo Statue, Used as Fetish - Zaire, " Wood, Glass Feathers, & Cloth
"Bacongo Statue, Used as Fetish - Zaire, " Wood, Glass Feathers, & Cloth

"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

Cantabile
Cantabile

Cantabile

By Rod Lathim

Located in West Hollywood, CA

Rod Lathim’s Cantabile transforms a repurposed cello into a radiant sculpture where light and music converge. Painted in luminous white with edges subtly traced in black, the instrum...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Assemblage Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Found Objects, Neon Light

Never
Never

Never

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...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Found Objects

All of Your Unspoken Rehearsals Fermenting in the Corners

All of Your Unspoken Rehearsals Fermenting in the Corners

Located in New Orleans, LA

Samantha Combs says of her work... In my work, the shower serves as both a literal and metaphorical refuge—a private site where the emotional and cognitive remnants of daily life ar...

Category

2010s Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Epoxy Resin, Found Objects

Tao

Tao

By Manuèle Bernardi

Located in New York, NY

Manuele Bernardi was born in 1959 in Saint-Tropez. She lives and works in Roussillon, in the south of France. After completing studies at the Roederer Academy in Paris, she completed...

Category

2010s Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Thread, Plexiglass, Wood, Found Objects, Organic Material

The Greatest Show On Earth
The Greatest Show On Earth

The Greatest Show On Earth

By Kat Flyn

Located in New Orleans, LA

It is a sign of an unhealthy society when fringe personalities are increasingly found not on the fringe but in its mainstream. They bring with them ignorance, prejudice, and irration...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Found Objects, Mixed Media

"Carry the Weight" Contemporary Abstract Mixed Media Found Object Wall Sculpture

"Carry the Weight" Contemporary Abstract Mixed Media Found Object Wall Sculpture

By Benji Stiles

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

"Globalization IV: Collateral Damage" Mixed media Contemporary Wall Sculpture
"Globalization IV: Collateral Damage" Mixed media Contemporary Wall Sculpture

"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

Caballo V - 21st Century, Contemporary Sculpture, Figurative, Recycling
Caballo V - 21st Century, Contemporary Sculpture, Figurative, Recycling

Caballo V - 21st Century, Contemporary Sculpture, Figurative, Recycling

By Miquel Aparici

Located in Barcelona, Catalonia

"Caballo V" is 1.5kg Aparici's work is characterised by simplicity, since most of his pieces bring together few elements, resulting in very elegant compositions with simple lines, w...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Found Objects

The Last Stand
The Last Stand

The Last Stand

By Kat Flyn

Located in New Orleans, LA

assemblage sculpture: wood stadium-like stands with 13 hand-carved & painted people, 1 resin & wood figure, painted reversible wood carnival game clown with one side a smile and the reverse a frown, hand-painted wood flag...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Found Objects, Mixed Media

Untitled

Untitled

By Troy Abbott

Located in Bozeman, MT

Troy Abbott is a multidisciplinary artist working in digital media. His work has been exhibited in the United States and Europe and is in many Private Collections around the world. T...

Category

2010s Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Found Objects, Mixed Media, ABS

Fleur-de-lis
Fleur-de-lis

Fleur-de-lis

By Paul Villinski

Located in New Orleans, LA

medium: trumpet, aluminum (found cans), stainless steel wire, soot, enamel 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, recently including the solo exhibitions “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’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 ERS 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 commissioned public works including “SkyCycles,” three full-scale “flying bicycles...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Metal, Wire

Rock Bottom
Rock Bottom

Rock Bottom

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

"Pompeii, " Mixed Media Sculpture
"Pompeii, " Mixed Media Sculpture

"Pompeii, " Mixed Media Sculpture

By Michael Thompson

Located in Chicago, IL

Based in Chicago, IL, contemporary artist Michael Thompson creates unique kites, collages and mixed media works assembled from material fragments of past and present collected in his travels. In his ongoing series of memory jugs, Thompson adorns stoneware vessels with a kaleidoscope of ceramic shards, found objects, and pocket-sized trinkets he collected over the course of his life. Also known as forget-me-not jugs or spirit jars, memory jugs are African American folk art objects that honor a loved one who has recently passed. Small tokens and mementos of the deceased are gathered and affixed to the exterior of a jug or vase, an abundance of memories that celebrates a life lived to the fullest. Michael Thompson applies this tradition to his own practice, creating tactile assemblages of this and that. Formed in the manner of collage, each jug honors the lost memories of generations past and his own memories of personally discovering each item. With varied sources for materials including Kyoto, Turkey, and Mexico, a great number of the found shards are 18th and 19th century ceramics...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Stone

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...

Category

2010s Assemblage Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Metal

At Delphi
At Delphi

At Delphi

By Anastasia Pelias

Located in New Orleans, LA

ANASTASIA PELIAS was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native and ancestral roots in New Orleans, LA...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Wood, Found Objects

Mosquito - 21st Century, Contemporary Sculpture, Figurative, Recycled Objects
Mosquito - 21st Century, Contemporary Sculpture, Figurative, Recycled Objects

Mosquito - 21st Century, Contemporary Sculpture, Figurative, Recycled Objects

By Miquel Aparici

Located in Barcelona, Catalonia

Miquel Aparici's sculptures are surprising assemblages made from old objects that had other uses in the past, and which the artist recovers and uses in a creative and ingenious way. ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Found Objects, Mixed Media

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

Aurae
Aurae

Aurae

By KX2: Ruth Avra and Dana Kleinman

Located in New Orleans, LA

KX2 is a collaboration combining the strengths of artists and sisters Ruth Avra and Dana Kleinman who create mathematically inspired sculpture merging metal and painting. From a dist...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Found Objects, Acrylic, Canvas

Portals
Portals

Portals

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

Fabric, Wood, Ceramic, Found Objects

"Around the World" -- Collage Wall Sculpture by Tony Dagradi

"Around the World" -- Collage Wall Sculpture by Tony Dagradi

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, Wood

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

Portal III
Portal III

Portal III

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

Trapped in History
Trapped in History

Trapped in History

By Tony Dagradi

Located in New Orleans, LA

TONY DAGRADI is an internationally recognized jazz performer, artist, composer, author, and educator. For over three decades he has made his home in New Orleans, performing on tenor ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Wood, Paper, Varnish, Found Objects

Obstruction Cascade
Obstruction Cascade

Obstruction Cascade

By KX2: Ruth Avra and Dana Kleinman

Located in New Orleans, LA

KX2 is a collaboration combining the strengths of artists and sisters Ruth Avra and Dana Kleinman who create mathematically inspired sculpture merging metal and painting. From a dist...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Canvas, Found Objects, Acrylic

Patricia Miranda, Pearls Before Swine  2020, cochineal dyes, pages, sewn pearls
Patricia Miranda, Pearls Before Swine  2020, cochineal dyes, pages, sewn pearls

Patricia Miranda, Pearls Before Swine 2020, cochineal dyes, pages, sewn pearls

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

Thread, Dye, 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

Liz Sweibel, Untitled (Scrapings #1), 2016, Wood, Paint, Found Objects
Liz Sweibel, Untitled (Scrapings #1), 2016, Wood, Paint, Found Objects

Liz Sweibel, Untitled (Scrapings #1), 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

Too Much Tea
Too Much Tea

Too Much Tea

Located in West Hollywood, CA

Sharon Brooks, the imaginative creator of the mixed media assemblage sculpture "Too Much Tea," describes it as a whimsical and delightful artwork. The centerpiece of this piece is a silver tray, cleverly supported by pounded silver cones that securely hold a wooden plate in place through drilled holes. This arrangement not only provides stability but also adds a touch of resilience to the sculpture. In her creative manipulation, Brooks has added a playful twist by incorporating the head of a doll sitting atop a teapot. It appears as if the doll is emerging from the teapot, with her arms playfully sticking out of the snout. This unique concept adds a sense of charm and intrigue to the artwork, reinventing the traditional tea-serving experience. The sculpture is further enhanced by the presence of multiple trays...

Category

2010s Surrealist Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Found Objects

"Drill Case Guitar" Hybrid Instrument Wall Sculpture
"Drill Case Guitar" Hybrid Instrument Wall Sculpture

"Drill Case Guitar" Hybrid Instrument Wall Sculpture

By Ken Butler

Located in New York, NY

This guitar-sculpture designed by Ken Butler features a compilation of dials, gauges, wires and knobs. The body of the guitar is an actual plastic drill case. This sculpture has a st...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Assemblage Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Found Objects, Mixed Media

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

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

By Jo Yarrington

Located in Darien, CT

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

Category

2010s Conceptual Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Steel

"Bouquet, " Mixed Media Sculpture
"Bouquet, " Mixed Media Sculpture

"Bouquet, " Mixed Media Sculpture

By Michael Thompson

Located in Chicago, IL

Based in Chicago, IL, contemporary artist Michael Thompson creates unique kites, collages and mixed media works assembled from material fragments of past and present collected in his travels. In his ongoing series of memory jugs, Thompson adorns stoneware vessels with a kaleidoscope of ceramic shards, found objects, and pocket-sized trinkets he collected over the course of his life. Also known as forget-me-not jugs or spirit jars, memory jugs are African American folk art objects that honor a loved one who has recently passed. Small tokens and mementos of the deceased are gathered and affixed to the exterior of a jug or vase, an abundance of memories that celebrates a life lived to the fullest. Michael Thompson applies this tradition to his own practice, creating tactile assemblages of this and that. Formed in the manner of collage, each jug honors the lost memories of generations past and his own memories of personally discovering each item. With varied sources for materials including Kyoto, Turkey, and Mexico, a great number of the found shards are 18th and 19th century ceramics...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Stone

Jo Yarrington, Ghost girls_Slide Carousel, 2018, Photographic Film, Found Object
Jo Yarrington, Ghost girls_Slide Carousel, 2018, Photographic Film, Found Object

Jo Yarrington, Ghost girls_Slide Carousel, 2018, Photographic Film, Found Object

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

Photographic Film, Found Objects

Cabinet of Wonders, Persistence and the Fugitive
Cabinet of Wonders, Persistence and the Fugitive

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...

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2010s Conceptual Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Wood, Video, Found Objects

Kathleen Vance, Traveling Landscape, Luce, 2017, Resin, Found Objects, Lights
Kathleen Vance, Traveling Landscape, Luce, 2017, Resin, Found Objects, Lights

Kathleen Vance, Traveling Landscape, Luce, 2017, Resin, Found Objects, Lights

By Kathleen Vance

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...

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2010s Post-Modern Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Resin, Found Objects, Lights

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

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

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Canvas, Glass, Plastic, Paper, Oil, 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

Everyone gets Due Process, Right?
Everyone gets Due Process, Right?

Everyone gets Due Process, Right?

By Kat Flyn

Located in New Orleans, LA

KAT FLYN is a self-taught assemblage artist working presently out of San Diego. She began her career as a costume designer in Southern California. Over the years she amassed a trove ...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Wood, Found Objects, Mixed Media

"Child of the Night" Norma Minkowitz, contemporary mixed media textile sculpture
"Child of the Night" Norma Minkowitz, contemporary mixed media textile sculpture

"Child of the Night" Norma Minkowitz, contemporary mixed media textile sculpture

By Norma Minkowitz

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...

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Early 2000s Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures

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Textile, Thread, Found Objects, Mixed Media

Found objects sculpture by counterculture artist Marr Grounds
Found objects sculpture by counterculture artist Marr Grounds

Found objects sculpture by counterculture artist Marr Grounds

Located in Colfax, CA

Found art sculpture by Australian-American environmental and counterculture artist Marr Grounds. This work was likely created in the 1960s when Grounds was active at UC Berkeley, and...

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1960s Abstract Expressionist Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Found Objects

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

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

The Boy Orator

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 ...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Wood, Paper, Varnish, Found Objects

Willie & Joe

Willie & Joe

By Tony Dagradi

Located in New Orleans, LA

TONY DAGRADI is an internationally recognized jazz performer, artist, composer, author, and educator. For over three decades he has made his home in New Orleans, performing on tenor ...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures

Materials

Wood, Paper, Varnish, Found Objects

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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