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Style: Abstract
Medium: Wood
Ori Guerreira na luz III, Figurative Sculpture. From the Series Sculptures
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Wood, stone, iron. The raw material and the material of a sculptor.
ancestor of any architectural practice. But the architect, the sculptor and the artist do not remain alone in thei...
Category
2010s Abstract Wood Sculptures
Materials
Granite, Copper, Iron, Wire
Blue Boy
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Criswell's dimensional wall sculpture emerged from a study of spatial organization by arranging basic, repetitive shapes into a harmonious balance, while exploring the concept of sim...
Category
2010s Abstract Wood Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Paint, Wood Panel
Umbra series 13, Abstract Wall Sculpture
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Fear and insecurity came uninvited to keep the artist company. Suddenly it became necessary to release the sensations that surrounded him day and night. At times the artist felt as i...
Category
2010s Abstract Wood Sculptures
Materials
Brass
Acapulco Dragon, Sculpture
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The act of painting becomes a form of meditation. Marino explains that the time and process of creating work are at the core of what the painting wants to mean, declaring: that is ho...
Category
2010s Abstract Wood Sculptures
Materials
Textile, Wood
La Línea Roja. From The Composition with Tools series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The “Composition with Tools” series engages observers with quirky and playful truisms, gently leading them toward deeper reflections. Jose Ricardo Contreras, after long hours using d...
Category
2010s Abstract Wood Sculptures
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic, Wood
Ice vibes. "Emotional states" series
Located in Zofingen, AG
This series of sculptures is called Emotional States. It was created in 2023 in Kyiv (Ukraine). I lived and worked all year in my hometown in the middle of a Big war. I experienced a...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Wood Sculptures
Materials
Textile, Wood, Acrylic
"History Man" Made from the Cabinet Oak Tree. The Texas White House. LBJ Ranch
By James Surls
Located in San Antonio, TX
James Surls
(Born 1943)
Texas / Colorado Artist
Image Size: 60 x 36 x 33
Medium: Wood Sculpture from the Cabinet Oak Tree at LBJ Ranch
2024
"History Man" Designed to stand.
James Surls (Born 1943) Texas / Colorado Artist
A modernist sculptor of delicate seeming wooden objects of intriguing designs, James Surles also does drawing and prints that feature natural and human images and forms.
He carves, whittles and stains his objects, but creating a monotone effect, rarely paints them but sometimes burns images into them. Some of his works are large, as much as nine-feet tall.
Surls earned a B.S. degree from Sam Houston University and an MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art. In 1998, he moved from Splendora, Texas to Carbondale, Colorado.
In 2009, five sculptures, made of bronze and steel, were set up on Park Avenue by the New York City Parks Public Art Program. His work has been shown in major New York museums including the Whitney, Guggenheim, and Museum of Modern Art. His work is in numerous public collections.
East Texas native James Surls is among the most acclaimed Texas artists of the late twentieth century and has found great success outside the state, as well. Surls' sculptures are most inspired by nature but also reveal metaphorical and mythological content.
In a 2009 catalog for The Grace Museum in Abilene, Texas, Patterson Sims wrote that Surl's works are "studies of myths, science, and human behavior."
After graduating from Sam Houston State University and The Cranbrook Academy of Art, he taught at Southern Methodist University and later at the University of Houston and the Lawndale Art Center, Houston.
Surl's work is held in many museum collections, and he has had numerous solo exhibitions, including the Dallas Museum of Art in 1984 and The Meadows Art Museum, Dallas, in 2003.
History Man and Walking Man – Provenance
James Surls, renowned Texas Artist, was commissioned by the Friends of the LBJ National Historical Park, to create art from what is known as the Cabinet Oak that is growing in the
yard of the Texas White House. As President, Lyndon Johnson held many meetings, including meetings with cabinet members, under the sprawling live oak tree in his front yard, next to his
swimming pool. For that reason, the tree became known as the Cabinet Oak. In 2019, a huge branch of the tree broke off. The park service searched for ways to turn this
devastating event into something positive and memorable. As a result, The Friends of Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park stepped forward and invited 53 artists to receive portions
of the wood and without conditions use the wood to reflect their vision of its meaning. Renowned artist James Surls used his section of the branch to create three art pieces,
including the two identified below that are being offered for sale. These works are unique examples of Surls artistry, showcasing his devotion to the LBJ legacy and to the beauty and
history of the wood itself.
History Man
James Surls, 2024
60 inches times 36 inches times 33 inches
Free standing
Whistling Man...
Category
2010s Abstract Wood Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Transition (White)
By Greg Joubert
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Hand carved aspen wood sculpture
torched burnished and painted
Greg Joubert was born in 1977 and raised in the seaside New England town of Hingham, Massachusetts. Joubert gained hi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Wood Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
"Abstract Arrangement "Cement, Resin, Plastic, Zip-ties scuplture
By Duane Paul
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Duane Paul's work can best be characterized as innovative, dynamic and intimate. His sculptures each employ colorful organic shapes, which act as a personal language. The playful and...
Category
2010s Abstract Wood Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Plastic, Wood, Pigment
Clouds of Smoke – Glint
Located in New York, NY
Ching Ke Lin is a bamboo artist, who keeps delving into the land, exploring the common ground between humans and bamboo, and refining his creative vocabulary in the law of nature.
R...
Category
2010s Abstract Wood Sculptures
Materials
Wood
TAKI-KASURI FOLDS (dark indigo blue thick textile linen fold monochrome design)
By Chloe Hedden
Located in Quebec, Quebec
TAKI-KASURI FOLDS from Chloe Hedden’s Fold Series explores the tension between softness and structure through the poetic manipulation of handmade Japanese fabric on linen. In this sc...
Category
2010s Abstract Wood Sculptures
Materials
Textile, Wood, Linen
PHILOSOPHICAL STONE
Located in Edinburgh, GB
Astian Rey "PHILOSOPHICAL STONE"
Category
2010s Abstract Wood Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
Abstract Form No. 2
Located in Columbia, MO
EMERSON WOELFFER
Abstract Form No. 2
1979
Terra cotta on wooden plinth
3.5 x 5.5 x 8.5 inches
Category
20th Century Abstract Wood Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Terracotta
Abstract Serpentine Stone Sculpture by G. Krueger
Located in Soquel, CA
Organic abstract sculpture by G. Krueger. The Serpentine stone has gorgeous earth-toned green, yellow, and orange hues, sculpted into a flowing shape in the style of Herman Miller Sc...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Wood Sculptures
Materials
Stone
$2,800 Sale Price
20% Off
How Many Licks Betty?
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Betty Boop is a cheeky one-of-a-kind mixed media artwork that reimagines the classic pop culture icon through a contemporary and surrealist lens. Inspired by a vintage Betty Boop com...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Wood Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Mixed Media
Iris Crystals
By Chloe Hedden
Located in Quebec, Quebec
“Iris Crystals” is a rich blue colored wall sculpture made out of solid koa wood
and then painted and sealed with a UV matte sealer. The geometric facets
are hand carved and add intr...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Wood Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Spray Paint, Vinyl
Loren Eiferman, Nature Will Heal, 108 Pieces of Wood, 2016, Wood, Found Objects
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...
Category
2010s Abstract Wood Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Found Objects
"Ascension of Weary Bones " Mixed Media Sculpture
By Duane Paul
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Duane Paul's work can best be characterized as innovative, dynamic and intimate. His sculptures each employ colorful organic shapes, which act as a personal language. The playful and sensual experience of his work covertly explores sexuality, gender traditions, sex, and race. "My artistic mission is to stimulate productive public conversation around these topics."
"Ascension of Weary Bones...
Category
2010s Abstract Wood Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Wood, Pigment
Gridlock II - bright, white, intersecting, grid, bent aluminum wall sculpture
By Shayne Dark
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This is a wonderful example of Shayne Dark's dance with form and light. The work is created out of Ironwood, and is painted a flat white. On a light colored wall, the shadows become ...
Category
2010s Abstract Wood Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Latex
Violin - Collage and assembly in plexi case, Italy 1970s
Located in Napoli, IT
Assemblage, violin, paper collage on board, plexiglass case.
Chiari freely uses painting, objects, drawing and collage of photocopies and photographs to create intriguing works.
Exhibitions: Back to Future, Glenda Cinquegrana: lo Studio, 17.07-24.09.2013, Milan, Italy Giuseppe Chiari...
Category
1970s Abstract Wood Sculptures
Materials
Plexiglass, Wood, Paper
Dark Star
Located in Dallas, TX
David A. Dreyer was born in Dallas in 1958, and earned his BFA and MFA at Southern Methodist University. He was a recipient of the Moss/Chumley Award from the Meadows Museum and has ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Wood Sculptures
Materials
Birch, Graphite, Oil
"Portal of Grace" Hanging Teak Wood and Quartz Modern Organic Sculpture
Located in Las Vegas, NV
This modern organic sculpture features Teak Root, known for its grounding and stabilizing qualities, paired with the powerful healing energies of Malachite and Quartz Crystal. The na...
Category
2010s Abstract Wood Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Adhesive
"Maybe", abstract sculpture, wood, paint, geometry, circle, kiss, gravity, flow
Located in Toronto, Ontario
"Maybe" is an abstract artwork by Stan Olthuis composed of acrylic paint on polystyrene mounted in a painted wood frame. Maybe measures 26" high by 30" wide by 2.5" deep. Typical of the artist, this minimal geometric abstraction resonates with a rich charge. It's a sculpture and a painting. The circles, the discs, almost touch but not quite. The artist's obsession with geometry and shapes in proximity is a clear gesture here. The eye delights in the formal play of shape and color, while the mind engages the material force of the wood and paint.
From Stan Olthuis – "My work has always involved tactility and expressionistic energy. I visualize the story and imagery simultaneously, allowing the work to surprise me and come to life as I work. I am almost careless in how I use color and texture, facing the fear of improvising on-the-fly. I like to leave the obvious raw record of the process visible, but I believe a mystery remains."
Stan Olthuis looks for expressive opportunities in found and harvested raw material – wood, stone, metal, rubber – and brings a fabricator's expertise to the work of making minimalist, joyful sculptures. Geometry is key, as are a sense of play and an adept's feel for sacred energies.
His work is exhibited and collected internationally, including private and corporate commissions in Canada, United States, France, Japan and Norway. Stan is represented by Gagné Contemporary in Toronto and New York City, and has select works available through the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), and Motokawa Gallery in Japan.
Stan Olthuis' formal education began in Chicago with Henk Krijger, the celebrated master printmaker, type designer, painter and sculptor. Back in Toronto, Olthuis graduated (with distinction) with a degree in Experimental Arts at Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD), studying under artists Fred Hagen, Tom Hodgson...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Wood Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Acrylic, Polystyrene
"Little Swann 9" Painted Wooden Cube Sculpture
By Sofie Swann
Located in Westport, CT
This 5" hand-painted sculptural cube by Sofie Swann is made with acrylic paint and gesso on wood. It features a deep teal palette with light textured rectangle shapes etched into the...
Category
2010s Abstract Wood Sculptures
Materials
Gesso, Wood, Acrylic
Diane Englander, White Form on Red Wood, 2018, scrapwood and acrylic, 12 x 13 in
Located in Darien, CT
Diane Englander uses formal means to create a place between discord and tranquility, a zone with a charged harmony that energizes as it also provides refuge. That often requires that the prettiness of an initial surface is made ugly, or there’s a conscious choice to avoid balance in the composition.
Hers is a largely intuitive process, the materials entice her. Inspiration from the world that we don't call “art” is where she finds her muse: a wall, a landscape, a window shade transfused with light, a stretch of sand and shadow. Most influential are predecessors like Burri, Vicente, Tapies, Motherwell, Rauschenberg, medieval cloisonné, Vermeer, Breughel, and many, many more.
A native New Yorker, Diane had an earlier career including 17 years as a management consultant to local nonprofits concerned with poverty or disenfranchisement; work in NYC government; and several years as a lawyer at a large NYC law firm.
“I was brought up going to galleries and museums, a sometimes reluctant attendant to my parents’ passion for looking and for collecting. My own expressive energy must have simmered internally for years, occasionally emerging in photography, in quilt-making, in other tentative explorations, and certainly in providing opportunity and materials for my children to create. Not until those children were nearly grown did I come unequivocally to the need to make art myself.”
In late 2006 Diane began making collages that started her on her current path; in late 2007 she left her consulting job to focus on her artwork full-time.
She has studied with Bruce Dorfman at the Art Students League in New York, and has had solo exhibits at the Alexey von Schlippe...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Wood Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic, Wood
"Playground Punching Bag" Mixed Media Sculpture
By Duane Paul
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Duane Paul's work can best be characterized as innovative, dynamic and intimate. His sculptures each employ colorful organic shapes, which act as a personal language. The playful and sensual experience of his work covertly explores sexuality, gender traditions, sex, and race. "My artistic mission is to stimulate productive public conversation around these topics."
"Playground Punching Bag...
Category
2010s Abstract Wood Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Wood, Pigment
"Abstract Arrangement #14"- Hydrocal Gypsum Cement, Resin, Plastic, Zip-ties
By Duane Paul
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Duane Paul's work can best be characterized as innovative, dynamic and intimate. His sculptures each employ colorful organic shapes, which act as a personal language. The playful and...
Category
2010s Abstract Wood Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Plastic, Wood, Pigment
Tell-Tale PhotoTotem: stacked wood cube sculpture w/ black & white photographs
By Jenny Lynn
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
"Tell-Tale PhotoTotem" is a sculpture created from four solid wood cubes, with each of the 16 visible sides holding a different original black & white silver gelatin print (photograph) from artist Jenny Lynn...
Category
2010s Abstract Wood Sculptures
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin, Wood
Karen Schiff, Space Eyes, 2016, Wood, Gouache
By Karen Schiff
Located in Darien, CT
Karen Schiff is an artist and wordsmith based in New York; she has always been a reader as well as a visual artist. Her drawings, paintings, installations, and performances combine t...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Wood Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Gouache
Mid Century Primordial Pictograph Abstract
Located in Soquel, CA
Stunning abstract with Native American symbols using earth tones and 3D aspect for increased depth and texture by listed artist Duane Armstrong (American, b. 1938). 1966. Signed and ...
Category
1960s Abstract Wood Sculptures
Materials
Foam, Masonite, Oil
$2,280 Sale Price
20% Off
After the Raid, abstract geometric wooden sculpture
Located in New York, NY
Milled wood, plaster, colored pencil and acrylic.
Joe Sultan started sculpting later in life after building a home in the Hudson Valley in 2012. He trained, worked as an architect ...
Category
2010s Abstract Wood Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
"Structure Relief 254" Abstract Landscape Relief, Earth Tones
Located in Detroit, MI
"Structure Relief 254" is an abstract structural relief painted in earth tones. Throughout his life Barr was interested in engineering, structure, mathematics and nature. Although i...
Category
1980s Abstract Geometric Wood Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
Loren Eiferman, Galaxy, 129 Pieces of Wood, 2012, Wood, Putty, Wood Sculpture
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...
Category
2010s Abstract Wood Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Putty
Jesse Hickman, Note Three Twelve Sixteen (Nebraska), 2016, Wood, Enamel
Located in Darien, CT
Over the past few years, Jesse Hickman has been making minimal abstract paintings on wood with few constraints. He calls this series Notes, thinking of these pieces as drawn sketches...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Wood Sculptures
Materials
Enamel
Ceramic Wall Hanging or Centerpiece with Engravings, Sticks, and Thread
Located in Soquel, CA
Ceramic Wall Hanging or Centerpiece with Engravings, Sticks, and Thread
Balanced abstract sculptural piece by an unknown artist (20th Century). This sculpture is composed of various...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Wood Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Thread, Wood
$1,480 Sale Price
20% Off
"Little Swann 6" Painted Wooden Cube Sculpture
By Sofie Swann
Located in Westport, CT
This 5" hand-painted sculptural cube by Sofie Swann is made with acrylic paint and gesso on wood. It features a coastal white, blue, and sandy beige palette with organic shapes layer...
Category
2010s Abstract Wood Sculptures
Materials
Gesso, Wood, Acrylic
CONTEMPORARY ABSTRACT Sculpture of Light VI Italian Giorgio Petracci
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
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Size: 14x13x14 cm
Pedestal not included.
Medium: Wood, acrylic and holographic...
Category
2010s Abstract Wood Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
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 Wood Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Paint, Found Objects
"Abstract Arrangement - Cement, Resin, Plastic, Zip-ties, Industrial Strapping
By Duane Paul
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Duane Paul's work can best be characterized as innovative, dynamic and intimate. His sculptures each employ colorful organic shapes, which act as a personal language. The playful and...
Category
2010s Abstract Wood Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Plastic, Wood, Pigment
L Aluminum
Located in Genève, GE
Metal sculpture
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Wood Sculptures
Materials
Wood
"Little Swann 10" Painted Wooden Cube Sculpture
By Sofie Swann
Located in Westport, CT
This 5" hand-painted sculptural cube by Sofie Swann is made with acrylic paint and gesso on wood. It features a cool palette with a turquoise-green background and painted teal circul...
Category
2010s Abstract Wood Sculptures
Materials
Gesso, Wood, Acrylic
Loren Eiferman, 5r, 146 Pieces of Wood with Rope and Wax, 2016, Wood Sculpture
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...
Category
2010s Abstract Wood Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Assemblage #1 (Porcelain, Glass Slide, and Tape)
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract expressionist oil painting with assembled objects by Bay Area artist Michael Pauker (American, b. 1957). Unsigned, but was acquired with a collection of his work. Unframed. ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Wood Sculptures
Materials
Oil, Porcelain, Glass, Wood, Tape
L Wooden
Located in Genève, GE
Wooden sculpture
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Wood Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Archy - #32 TM, Sculpture 2025
Located in Greenwich, CT
"My Pop Minimalist collection, “A Small World”, celebrates iconic characters from pop culture, film, music and television by presenting them in a pared-down, regressive form, highlig...
Category
2010s Abstract Wood Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
Torso XXL , Bronze/wood H 15 cm; L 30cm; W 20 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Ivars Miķelsons (1962)
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Wood Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
American Contemporary Sculpture by Scott Troxel - Zephyr
By Scott Troxel
Located in Paris, IDF
Zephyr Wood, paint, lacquer on MDF + birch on MDF with enamel & wax finish 24" x 24” x 1”
Zephyr II is a mixed media wall sculpture. Made from oils on birch, wax, MDF and copper spray enamel. Finished with a hand waxed process. Zephyr II is a complex and sophisticated monochromatic piece which is minimalistic in nature, so the form, composition and the balance of the artwork trumps any definitive subject matter. With flowing Art Deco inspired lines and midcentury feel, Zephyr feels at once modern and retro. The bold copper background...
Category
2010s Abstract Wood Sculptures
Materials
Enamel
Ivars Miķelsons (1962) , Bronze/wood H 38 cm; L 72cm; W 25 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Ivars Miķelsons (1962)
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Wood Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
'General (Napoleon)' original bronze sculpture by Doris Jarowsky 1960s abstract
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This small-scale bronze of the General Napoleon by American artist Doris Jarowsky is an excellent example of the sculpture of the 1960s. The sculpture i...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Wood Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Monica..." cement, enamel paint, plastic and wood sculpture
By Duane Paul
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Duane Paul's work can best be characterized as innovative, dynamic and intimate. His sculptures each employ colorful organic shapes, which act as a personal language. The playful and...
Category
2010s Abstract Wood Sculptures
Materials
Enamel
"Toy Train, Broken Tracks" resin, pigment, enamel paint and wood sculpture
By Duane Paul
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Duane Paul's work can best be characterized as innovative, dynamic and intimate. His sculptures each employ colorful organic shapes, which act as a personal language. The playful and...
Category
2010s Abstract Wood Sculptures
Materials
Enamel
Karen Schiff, Space Eyes, 2016, Wood, Gouache
By Karen Schiff
Located in Darien, CT
Karen Schiff is an artist and wordsmith based in New York; she has always been a reader as well as a visual artist. Her drawings, paintings, installations, and performances combine t...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Wood Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Gouache
Mars Sucks a Circular Geometric Sculptural Wall Relief with Reds, Blues, Greens
Located in New York, NY
Christine Romanell's "Mars Sucks" (2025) is a sculptural wall piece measuring 14 x 18 x 3 inches, composed of acrylic and Flashe on seven layers of laser-cut birch plywood. Predomina...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Wood Sculptures
Materials
Birch, Plywood, Acrylic
American Contemporary Sculpture by Scott Troxel - Balken
By Scott Troxel
Located in Paris, IDF
Artwork made with spray acrylic on solid mahogany, cherry & oak
Scott Troxel draws on the aesthetics of bygone technology and the forward-looking designs of the Atomic Age and mid-c...
Category
2010s Abstract Wood Sculptures
Materials
Mahogany, Oak, Spray Paint
Untitled beautiful colorful abstract contemporary sculpture
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A central figure in the California Light and Space movement, Laddie John Dill has been crafting light and earthy materials like concrete, glass, sand, and metal into luminous sculptures, wall pieces, and installations since the 1970s. Referring to his choice of materials, Dill explains: “I was influenced by [Robert] Rauschenberg, Keith Sonnier, Robert Smithson...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Wood Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Wood, Pigment
$9,200 Sale Price
20% Off
MOVEMENT OF THE UNIVERSE
Located in Edinburgh, GB
Astian Rey "MOVEMENT OF THE UNIVERSE"
Category
2010s Abstract Wood Sculptures
Materials
Enamel
Convergence
Located in New York, NY
Christine Romanell’s bold geometric wall sculpture bursts with vibrant color and dynamic movement, showcasing her signature use of sacred geometry. This three-dimensional constructio...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Wood Sculptures
Materials
Birch, Plywood, Acrylic
Liz Sweibel, Untitled (Scrapings #10), 2016, Wood, Paint, Found Objects
By Liz Sweibel
Located in Darien, CT
The freestanding sculptures in this portfolio are made from the “sticks”: a pile of found wood that Sweibel has been pulling from to make new works since about 2002. The pile consisted of more than a dozen four- to seven-foot lengths of hardwood, each an uneven inch in depth and width. The sticks were warped, with worn yellow paint on one side and raw wood on the other three. Over the years she has painted the raw sides of the sticks, cut the wood into shorter lengths, and sliced paint off – and kept the residue from these actions. Sweibel has also made sculptures ranging from full-length sticks to tiny stick splinters. She built these sculptures using sliced-off paint.
Timeworn materials and objects have an intelligence that the artist looks for and listens to. Shaping and reshaping material to find new form and elicit new insights in the material itself is the territory she is mining. The limitations of the process are its strengths. Her work is concerned with fragility, precariousness, adaptability, and strength. It is a visual response to powerful yet unseen forces - like wind and thoughts - that threaten, propel, ruin, and protect.
Liz Sweibel is a multidisciplinary artist working in drawing, sculpture, installation, and digital photography and video. Her spare, personal language of abstraction transforms ordinary materials into statements about connectedness and responsibility: every action has an impact, the effects persist in space and over time, and we are accountable. By drawing attention to simple, ordinary “stuff of life” and referencing both shared and personal history, Sweibel’s work explores and reflects back fundamental experiences in response to our world and relationships. Her intention is to reinvigorate viewers’ awareness of the everyday – in its raw beauty and precariousness – in hopes that they might bring heightened senses of sight and care to their daily lives.
Sweibel has participated in solo, two-person, and group exhibits in New York, Massachusetts, Maine, Connecticut, Michigan, and Tennessee since 1998. In 2016, Sweibel’s work was in the group shows Lightly Structured at Sculpture Space NYC, Precarious Constructs at the Venus Knitting Art...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Wood Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Paint, Found Objects
"The Artist's Floor" - Abstract Assemblage
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract expressionist assemblage with found objects typical of an artist's studio floor by Bay Area artist Michael Pauker (American, b. 1957). Applied paint brushes, caps and tubes of paint, a few letters, putty knife, with splashes of color on wood. Unsigned. From the collection of the artist's work. Unframed. Image size: 11.25"H x 25.75"W
Bay Area artist and art educator Michael Pauker was born in New York in 1957 and knew he wanted to be an artist from the age of 15. He earned a Bachelor’s in Fine Arts at SUNY Purchase in his native state of New York. In 1989 he went on to earn an M.F.A at Mills College in Oakland and was awarded the City of Oakland Artist Fellowship in Painting. He has been a Bay Area resident since 1988. His work has been exhibited widely across the U.S., as well as in Japan and Costa Rica, and is included in the collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
Exhibitions include:
2007 Contemporary Art Museum, San Jose, Costa Rica
2007 “The Ebay Art Project,” Works/San Jose, San Jose, CA
2003 “Found Imagery: The Art of Collage,” Fresno Art Museum,Fresno, CA
2003 “Cut, Copy, Paste,” De Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, CA
2003 “20th Annual Exhibition,” Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
2002 “40 by 40...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Wood Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Plastic, Paper, Found Objects, Wood Panel, Wood, Oil
$552 Sale Price
35% Off
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