Still-life Sculptures
8
to
100
1,617
327
1,168
320
216
141
342
Overall Height
to
Overall Width
to
1,316
150
121
75
17
11
11
10
10
5
3
2
259
195
148
126
120
109
108
103
101
89
83
81
80
70
68
63
58
53
48
46
9
13
190
1,974
2
6
1
5
9
25
20
23
29
1
60
55
52
44
40
859
494
400
376
326
Still-life Sculptures For Sale
"Brillo Box Green" Sculpture 17" x 17.5" x 14" inch Edition 1/1 by Kii Arens
Located in Culver City, CA
"Brillo Box Green" Sculpture 17" x 17.5" x 14" inch Edition 1/1 by Kii Arens
ABOUT
One of the most credible and influential in Los Angeles - the award winning Kii Arens, is a critic...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Plexiglass, Mixed Media
Ron Arad Screw Stools Set of Three Driade Italy Sculpture Industrial Stainless
By Ron Arad
Located in New York, NY
Ron Arad Screw Stools Set of Three Driade Italy Sculpture Industrial Stainless
Ron Arad
Screw stools, set of three
Driade
United Kingdom / Italy, 2006
Stainless steel and aluminum
2...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Steel
"Ace of Spades" contemporary 3-D poker wall sculpture pop art contemporary cards
Located in New York, NY
This piece is Vacuum formed with metal cards, painted and fabricated to be physically 3-D.
All Yuki's works represent the 2-D while tricking our eyes in the 3-D physical world.
Category
2010s Pop Art Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Boulder #3 – The Tunnel by Tom Price - Rock-like bronze sculpture, smooth
By Tom Price
Located in Paris, FR
Boulder #3 – The Tunnel is a bronze sculpture by contemporary artist Tom Price, dimensions are 90 × 150 × 140 cm (35.4 × 59.1 × 55.1 in).
This artwork is available on commission. It...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Boulder #1 – The Speaker by Tom Price - Rock-like bronze sculpture, abstract
By Tom Price
Located in Paris, FR
Boulder #1 – The Speaker is a bronze sculpture by contemporary artist Tom Price, dimensions are 170 × 100 × 65 cm (66.9 × 39.4 × 25.6 in).
This artwork is available on commission. I...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Urbanut by Ondřej Oliva - Large aluminium sculpture, nut, contrasts, figurative
By Ondřej Oliva
Located in Paris, FR
Urbanut is an aluminium sculpture by contemporary Czech sculptor Ondřej Oliva, dimensions are 105 × 100 × 80 cm (41.3 × 39.4 × 31.5 in).
This artwork is from a limited edition of 6, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Mussel I by Ondřej Oliva - Unique aluminium sculpture, figurative, seafood
By Ondřej Oliva
Located in Paris, FR
Mussel I is a unique aluminium sculpture by contemporary artist Ondřej Oliva, dimensions are 20 cm × 49 cm × 26 cm (7.9 × 19.3 × 10.2 in). The sculpture is signed and comes with a ce...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Metal
"Calligraphic Cat" Abstract Sculpture 33.5" x 20" x 20" in by Ibrahim Khatab
Located in Culver City, CA
"Calligraphic Cat" Abstract Sculpture 33.5" x 20" x 20" in by Ibrahim Khatab
Ibrahim Khatab was born in Cairo 1984, works as a co-teacher in Cairo University, he mixes between paint...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
Boulder #2 - The Slide by Tom Price - Rock-like bronze sculpture, smooth
By Tom Price
Located in Paris, FR
Boulder #2 - The Slide is a bronze sculpture by contemporary artist Tom Price, dimensions are 85 × 200 × 130 cm (33.5 × 78.7 × 51.2 in).
This artwork is available on commission. It ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Forbidden Fruit II by Ondřej Oliva - Large bronze sculpture, apple form, cups
By Ondřej Oliva
Located in Paris, FR
Forbidden Fruit II is a bronze sculpture by contemporary Czech sculptor Ondřej Oliva, dimensions are 100 × 100 × 100 cm (39.4 × 39.4 × 39.4 in).
This artwork is from a limited editio...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Drago — a pair of two glass treasuries, golden dragon & grounded brown
Located in Helsinki, FI
glass treasury, volume IX no. 7 & 8, golden & grounded brown
Drago is a sculptural glassware that explores the concept of a treasury — the power of a container object to reflect th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Blown Glass
Fire Fly - large, red, translucent, feathers, solid glass wall sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Crimson glass feathers are gathered into a fiery composition in this dramatic wall sculpture by artist John Paul Robinson. The work is enhanced by the pa...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Glass
Flying White - large, translucent, feathers, solid glass wall sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This exquisite glass wall sculpture extends almost 60 inches across. It was featured in Robinson's solo exhibition at the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery. It evokes a remarkable sens...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Glass
Duality R - dynamic, translucent, red, glass, steel, abstract wall sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Elegantly curved deep red glass pieces in twos are suspended on fine black steel cables in this dramatic new wall sculpture by Canadian artist John Paul Robinson. His glass work is i...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Matisse's Persian Woman - Sculptural Ode to Henri Matisse in Hand Built Ceramic
By Sandy Kaplan
Located in Chicago, IL
Henri Matisse collected Persian carpets, Arab embroideries and African wall hangings throughout his life, his studio becoming a treasure trove of exotic and vibrant pattern. The collection was practical — it was the impetus for various works with voluptuous women surrounded by rich textures and patterns. Sandy Kaplan takes Matisse's work to a three-dimensional level in her ceramic piece simply titled "Matisse's Persian Woman".
Sandy Kaplan
Matisse's Persian Woman
ceramic
18h x 14w x 14d in
45.72h x 35.56w x 35.56d cm
SAK007
Sandy Kaplan
b. 1943, St. Louis, MO
2021 Maturity and Its Muse, Art Saint Louis
2020 Storytellers Exhibit, Art Saint Louis
2019 SOFA Chicago, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
Honors Exhibit, Art Saint Louis
Anthony Bourdain - Parts Unknown: Ceramic Centric, Foundry Arts Ctr, St. Charles, MO
Current Profiles, Craft Alliance Center, St. Louis, MO
2018 SOFA Chicago, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
Maturity and Its Muse, Art Saint Louis
Works from the Studios, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO
Drawn From Life: Artful Aging, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
2017 3-D, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL
SOFA Chicago, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
2016 Works from the Studio, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO
A Moveable Feast Exhibit, Oak Park Art League, Oak Park, IL
Maturity and Its Muse, Art Saint Louis
2015 Writers Round Table, Craft Alliance Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2014 Save the Last Dance for Me, Art Saint Louis XXX...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
On a Course - a narrative of journey and change, mixed media, paper and vessel
Located in Bloomfield, ON
A canoe shaped ceramic vessel glazed in light brown and pierced by a darning needle is perched on a floating shelf below a mixed media work on paper. The image repeats the canoe shap...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Balloon Dog (Blue)
By Jeff Koons
Located in Calabasas, CA
Artist: Jeff Koons
Title: Balloon Dog (Blue)
Year: 2021
Medium: Porcelain with metallic chromatic coating
Dimensions: 15 3/4 x 18 7/8 x 6 3/16 inches (40 x 47.9 x 15.7 cm)
Edition: 7...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
"AVIRONS, Lune dans L'Arbre" - wall sculpture, moon, celestial, space, oar
Located in Atlanta, GA
"AVIRONS, Lune dans L'Arbre" is a wall sculpture made of bronze and copper with patina.
Corrina is inspired by the work of Louise Bourgeois, Louise Nevelson, Albert Paley, Lee Bonte...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Brass, Iron
Hyperreal Light Green Glass Balloon Sculpture
Located in East Quogue, NY
Emerald green glass water balloon sculpture by Dylan Martinez. 100% hot sculpted glass. Each sculpture is unique and signed by the artist.
Size: 4.5 x 3.5 x 3.5 in
Dylan Martinez i...
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Blown Glass
Transition
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 Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
Perception
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 Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
Shift
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 Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
Perception
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 Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
Layered
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 Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
Large Bisazza Murano Art Glass Aquarium, 'Immersion I', model 3325
Located in Beachwood, OH
Bisazza Murano Glass Aquarium, "Immersion I," model 3325
Blown Glass
With acid stamp signature to base Muranite Murano Venezia, in original corrugated cardboard box with label to top...
Category
Late 20th Century Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Blown Glass
Hyperreal Light Purple Glass Balloon Sculpture
Located in East Quogue, NY
Light purple glass water balloon sculpture by Dylan Martinez. Made of 100% hot-sculpted glass, each sculpture is unique and signed by the artist.
Size: 4.5 x 3.5 x 3.5 in
Dylan Mar...
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Blown Glass
Hyperreal Green, Pink & Purple Glass Balloon Sculpture Set
Located in East Quogue, NY
Set of 3 hyperreal glass water balloon sculptures by Dylan Martinez. Made of 100% hot-sculpted glass.
Each sculpture is unique and signed by the artist.
Size: 4.5 x 3.5 x 3.5 in -...
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Blown Glass
Limited Edition Glass Goldfish Water Bag Sculpture
Located in East Quogue, NY
Inspired by popular demand, these limited-edition hyperreal goldfish cracker glass water bags are a playful nod to the carnival goldfish in plastic bags.
Created with molten glass ...
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Glass, Blown Glass
Rare Demondtiod garnet with IGI certificate
Located in Lagos, NG
This rare and natural Diamantoid Garnet is a unique piece of gemstone. The gemstone boasts a beautiful green colour with a brilliant cut shape. It is transparent and has a slight inc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Naturalistic Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Precious Stone
Diamond (Red)
By Jeff Koons
Located in Calabasas, CA
Artist: Jeff Koons
Title: Diamond (Red)
Year: 2020
Medium: Porcelain with metallic chromatic coating
Dimensions: 12 1/5 x 15 7/16 x 12 5/8 inches (31 x 39.2 x 32.1 cm)
Edition: 599; ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Small Red Orbit by Kuno Vollet - Large Contemporary Round Orbit sculpture
By Kuno Vollet
Located in DE
A large contemporary red powder coated steel sculpture. Beautiful on the floor or a pedestal.
A contemporary statement piece full of elegance and movement.
_________________________...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Steel
Large Black Orbit by Kuno Vollet - Large Contemporary Round Orbit sculpture
By Kuno Vollet
Located in DE
A large contemporary black powder coated steel sculpture. Beautiful on the floor or a pedestal.
A contemporary statement piece full of elegance and movement.
_______________________...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Steel
Red Orbit by Kuno Vollet - Large Contemporary Round Orbit sculpture
By Kuno Vollet
Located in DE
A large contemporary red powder coated steel sculpture. Beautiful on the floor or a pedestal.
A contemporary statement piece full of elegance and movement.
_________________________...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Steel
Black Orbit by Kuno Vollet - Large Contemporary Round Orbit sculpture
By Kuno Vollet
Located in DE
A large contemporary black powder coated steel sculpture. Beautiful on the floor or a pedestal.
A contemporary statement piece full of elegance and movement.
_______________________...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Steel
Cranberry and Chartreuse Macchia with Lapis Lip Wrap
By Dale Chihuly
Located in Miami, FL
Dale Chihuly
Cranberry and Chartreuse Macchia with Lapis Lip Wrap
1984
Blown Glass
16 x 18 x 18 in
Dale Chihuly is a contemporary American glassblower whose large-scale installatio...
Category
1980s Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Blown Glass
Barok by Ondřej Oliva - Figurative bronze sculpture, mysterious form, golden
By Ondřej Oliva
Located in Paris, FR
Barok is a bronze sculpture by contemporary Czech sculptor Ondřej Oliva, dimensions are 35 × 60 × 35 cm (13.8 × 23.6 × 13.8 in).
This artwork is a unique piece and comes with a certi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Limited Edition Bronze Bust Sculpture "White Unicorn"
Located in Cape Town, ZA
A small, detailed, limited edition bronze sculpture of a unicorn bust a wooden base. Edition 1/12.
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Louis Vuitton Lips
By Erik Salin
Located in Nottingham, GB
Original Sculpture
Beautiful Pop Art sculpture based upon our love of brand and consumerism.
Hand crafted and painted in France. The artist, Erik Salin works tirelessly to recrea...
Category
2010s Pop Art Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
Golden Orbit by Kuno Vollet - Contemporary brass sculpture with marble base
By Kuno Vollet
Located in DE
Contemporary Minimal Gold Brass sculpture, gilded and then lacquered to keep its shiny surface.
Limited edition of 10
Kuno Vollet is a sculptor working with different materials such ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Brass
Aqua Poppies
Located in Calabasas, CA
Artist: Donald Sultan
Title: Aqua Poppies
Year: 2021
Medium: Painted aluminum on polished aluminum base
Edition: 25; signature, title, date, and edition number incised on base (in or...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
Mini Glass Water Bag - Hyperreal glass sculpture
Located in East Quogue, NY
Hyperreal mini water bag glass sculpture - solid and hollow glass by Dylan Martinez.
Martinez's hyperreal sculptures are hot sculpted glass hand-molded entirely by the artist. The p...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Glass
Spyrite 7
Located in ÉTRÉCHY, FR
The Spyrite 8 sculpture is a stainless steel artwork that embodies the concept of fire blast and fusion energy. The harmonious lines and shapes of the sculpture evoke the aesthetics ...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
"Brillo Box Purple" Sculpture 17" x 17.5" x 14" inch Edition 1/1 by Kii Arens
Located in Culver City, CA
"Brillo Box Purple" Sculpture 17" x 17.5" x 14" inch Edition 1/1 by Kii Arens
ABOUT
One of the most credible and influential in Los Angeles - the award winning Kii Arens, is a criti...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Plexiglass, Mixed Media
Mobius 4
Located in ÉTRÉCHY, FR
The Mobius 4 sculpture is a work that explores the concepts of circulation, torsion and movement through the Möbius ring. The artist draws inspiration from this fascinating mathemati...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
'Dipper' Solid Bronze Modern Bird Sculpture, British Wildlife & Nature
Located in Shrewsbury, Shropshire
'Dipper' is a stunningly elegant Bronze sculpture. Richard Smith conveys so much character in such simple lines, exemplifying a truly wonderful talent. The fantastic richly detailed ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Goblets XXV, Sweet wrapper art, contemporary wall sculpture, conversation art
Located in Deddington, GB
Goblets XXV is a signed original wall sculpture made from sweet wrappers by Joanne Tinker of a selection of colourful wine goblets on a black shelved frame.
Joanne Tinker wall sculpt...
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Foil
Natural Rose quartz crystals 10 tonnes
Located in Lagos, NG
Natural Rose quartz crystals available in tonnes total weight 5 tonnes Price includes shipping location Lagos city Nigeria
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Naturalistic Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Precious Stone
"Juicy Juice" Sculpture 24" x 12" x 8" inch Edition 1/1 by Kii Arens
Located in Culver City, CA
"Juicy Juice" Sculpture 24" x 12" x 8" inch Edition 1/1 by Kii Arens
ABOUT
One of the most credible and influential in Los Angeles - the award winning Kii Arens, is a critical drive...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Plexiglass, Mixed Media
"What's up people? UMI" Resin Sculpture 13" x 8" x 8" by Huang Yulong
By Huang Yulong
Located in Culver City, CA
"What's up people? UMI" Resin Sculpture 13" x 8" x 8" by Huang Yulong
Medium: Resin
Open edition
What’s up people?UMI./ 吃了么?悠米
What’s up people is a set of sculptures created by ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Plastic
Mini Glass Water Bag - Hyperreal glass sculpture
Located in East Quogue, NY
Hyperreal mini water bag glass sculpture - solid and hollow glass by Dylan Martinez.
Martinez's hyperreal sculptures are hot sculpted glass hand-molded entirely by the artist. The p...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Glass
Alpine
By Sue Tirrell
Located in Denver, CO
Born and raised in Red Lodge, MT, Sue Tirrell received a BFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 1997. She served as Education Director for the Custer...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Clay, Earthenware, Glaze
Iceberg
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Rendered in many small, stainless steel discs, a hollow head floated on a clear, plexiglas cylinder appears to melt, the discs diminishing in size and forming 'puddles' in this sculp...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Richard Klein, Johnson Hs. & Guest Hs. General View (2024), Ed 2/3, replica
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.
Johnson Hs. & Guest Hs. is an exact replica of an art history slide made in the 1950s picturing Philip Johnson’s Glass House. The slide has been replicated digitally on a much larger scale (23” x 23”) and like the original is made of a cardboard mount that contains a color transparency. The original slide is faded from years of use and most of the color, other than red, has been bleached out.
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 Dada Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Photographic Film, Film, Archival Paper, Digital, Wood
Richard Klein, Holiday Inn Beirut, 2017, 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 Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Metal
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 Still-life 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 Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Richard Klein, Expo 67, 2017, 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 Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Richard Klein, American Glassware, 2010-2024, Found and altered objects
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 Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Recently Viewed
View AllMore Ways To Browse
Hudson Mirror
Edouard Cortes Oil Painting
Portrait Medici
American Vintage Bass
Fitzpatrick Tony
Large Vertical Landscape Oil Paintings
Map Of Texas
F Leger Art
Pont Des Arts
Pop Scott
Lobster Painting
Lily Pond Painting
Chicago Lincoln Park
Antique Fishing Paintings
Maritime Realist Art
Meditation Ring
Pop And Scott
Summer Seat