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Medium: Metal
Miles Jaffe - Burn Baby Burn, Sculpture 2023
By Miles Jaffe
Located in Greenwich, CT
metal, polymer, pigment, wood
Edition of 8
From MB HOT Burn Baby Burn
This sculpture will be shipped directly from the artist's studio.
Category
2010s Contemporary Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Stainless Steel
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 Metal 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 Metal 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 Metal 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 Metal 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 Metal 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 Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Metal
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 Metal 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 Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
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 Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Metal
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 Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Metal
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 Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
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 Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Steel
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 Metal 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 Metal 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 Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Steel
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 Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
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 Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Brass
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 Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
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 Metal 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 Metal 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 Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Foil
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 Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Metal
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 Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
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 Metal 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 Metal 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 Metal 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 Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Richard Klein, iHop II, 2018, 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...
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2010s Assemblage Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Metal
"STACKED" LOUIS VUITTON SCULPTURE, UNIQUE VERSION Multicolor LV Box BRILLO
By Charles Lutz
Located in Brooklyn, NY
CHARLES LUTZ (AMERICAN, B. 1982)
STACKED (LOUIS VUITTON SCULPTURE) 2008-
Acrylic on canvas with leather and brass fittings over wood in three pieces.
61 x 19 x 24 in. (154.9 x 48.2 ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Enamel, Brass
Black seed - small free standing sculpture with clay on brass
Located in New York, NY
The new works of Mylinh Nguyen designed from polymer resin, bring us into a nature whose refinement commands admiration. From the physiognomy of living or extinct plant species, the ...
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2010s Abstract Geometric Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Brass
One of a Kind (souvenirs)
Located in Denver, CO
Timothy Berg and Rebekah Myers are a studio art collaborative based in Claremont, California. Berg and Myers have participated in multiple solo exhibitions including On the bright si...
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2010s Contemporary Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Solid Bronze Wildlife Sculpture 'Dab Chick' by Richard Smith
Located in Shrewsbury, Shropshire
'Dabchick' is a solid Bronze sculpture with a stunning patination. Richard Smith's ability to convey so much character with such simple lines is a testament to the knowledge and love the artist has of the animals he sculpts.
Richard J. Smith was born in Luton, Bedfordshire, UK in 1955. He studied illustration at Luton School of Art to a high standard and graduated with a diploma in Technical & Scientific Illustration. He was soon offered a job as a medical artist at the John Radcliffe teaching hospital in Oxford. In 1978 he was painting for galleries as a full time artist with his depictions of wildlife. He has gained an international reputation for his work and is best known for his superb paintings of fish and water. He has exhibited at prestigious galleries such as the Tryon Gallery and W. H. Patersons in London, The Sportsman's Edge Gallery in New York, The Call of Africa in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and the Everard Reed Gallery in Johannesburg, South Africa. Richard has exhibited his paintings at the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Museum in the USA and the Natural History Museum and Tring Museum in Britain. He has sold at all the major auctions houses in London, such as Christie's, Sotheby's, Bonhams and Phillips. In the latter part of 2007, Richard was commissioned to produce several fish paintings, for the Sultan of Oman. Callaghan Fine Paintings has commissioned a series of life size bronze birds. His works include British birds such as the elusive Snipe sitting atop a fence post and the beautiful Little Blue penguin...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
'Calling Curlew' Solid Bronze Nature & Wildlife Sculpture by Richard Smith
Located in Shrewsbury, Shropshire
'Calling Curlew' is a Solid Bronze Bird Sculpture by Richard Smith is a stunning piece. The endangered curlew is captured beautifully and sculpted with such love - you can feel the a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Roland Paris Bronze Statue Glider 1933 Schneider Grunau Baby Glider
Located in Oakland, CA
Roland Paris Bronze Statue Glider 1933. This glider was originally based on the Schneider Grunau Baby Glider from 1931. It held the world record fo...
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1930s Art Deco Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Dog Bronze Foxhound Sculpture by Charles Rumsey
Located in Brookville, NY
This beautiful bronze of a Foxhound is a study for what was to be a pair of larger ones used as a pair of Andirons outside fireplace at Harriman House in NYC. The artist, Charles Ru...
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1910s American Realist Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"En el sueño la vigilia" Dreamscape, nature, leaf, bronze branches installation
Located in Ciudad de México, MX
Life can be scary, fast, and discordant. Adulthood, the compilation of myriad experiences, can bury youthful dreams. Alejandra España resists this dark
potential, using a common, joy...
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2010s Contemporary Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"En el sueño la vigilia" Dreamscape, nature, leaf, bronze branches installation
Located in Ciudad de México, MX
Life can be scary, fast, and discordant. Adulthood, the compilation of myriad experiences, can bury youthful dreams. Alejandra España resists this dark
potential, using a common, joy...
Category
2010s Contemporary Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Rams Head Sculpture in Bronze by Charles Rumsey
Located in Brookville, NY
Charles Rumsey was an avid sportsman, horseman and a child prodigy in sculpting sent to Paris to study as a boy. His life of hunting fishing and ridin...
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1910s American Realist Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Joel Urruty - Lady in Silver, Sculpture 2024
By Joel Urruty
Located in Greenwich, CT
Medium: Silver Leaf, Basswood
As an artist I strive to create elegant sculptures that capture the true essence of the subject matter. Form, line and surface are used as the visual l...
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2010s Contemporary Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Silver
Six Vintage Stainless Steel Sculptural Dining Chairs Sculpture Mid-Century Set 6
Located in New York, NY
Six Vintage Stainless Steel Sculptural Dining Chairs Sculpture Mid-Century Set
Kings and Queens could feats on these sculptures, this stunning set of six dining chairs. They are art...
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1950s Modern Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Curved Form -original geometrical abstract sculpture-artwork-contemporary Art
Located in London, Chelsea
"Curved Form" by David Sprakes is an original table-top bronze sculpture that commands attention with its abstract interpretation of form and geometry. Crafted in bronze and offered ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Winning the Race Galloping Horse and Rider in Bronze by Charles Rumsey
Located in Brookville, NY
Rumsey’s specialties included equestrian sculptures – portraits of polo players and prize horses, as well as of cowboys, cattle and horses as metaphors. He worked principally in bron...
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1910s American Impressionist Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Grey Streak Transparency", Waxed Linen Sculpture with Mixed Media, Copper, Iron
By Mary Giles
Located in St. Louis, MO
Mary Giles (1944-2018) received her BS in Art Education from Mankato State University in Minnesota. After receiving her degree she began exploring various textile processes. She honed her fiber techniques through workshops with such fiber artists as Fern Jacobs, Lissa Hunter, Diane Itter, Jane Sauer...
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2010s Contemporary Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Copper
Pequi Tree
By Ai Weiwei
Located in London, GB
Ai Weiwei
Pequi Tree Miniature, 2021
Tin
12 3/5 × 3 1/10 in 32 × 8 cm
Edition of 250
The "Pequi Tree" is a notable installation by the renowned Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. This artwo...
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2010s Contemporary Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Metal
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.
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Steel
Discordo Ergo Sum Red Rose Sculpture with knife in Murano Glass by Bertlemann
Located in Zug, CH
A continuation of her evocative Venice Biennale's installation, Bertlmann creates this sculpture as a symbol of both attractiveness and strength.
Knife-rose by Renate Bertlmann
Mur...
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2010s Contemporary Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Metal
The Old Virginian, Bronze of a Horse and Rider with Dogs by Charles Rumsey
Located in Brookville, NY
From the estate of the Artist Charles Cary Rumsey
The Artist, Charles Rumsey, was a child prodigy sent to Paris as a young boy to study sculpture. He later was a world class sports...
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1910s American Impressionist Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Joel Urruty - Lotus, Sculpture
By Joel Urruty
Located in Greenwich, CT
Lotus
basswood, sterling silver leaf, lacquer
24" x 7" x 7"
As an artist I strive to create elegant sculptures that capture the true essence of the subject matter. Form, line and s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Silver
Sculpture of a Polo Player Harrison Tweed by Charles Rumsey
Located in Brookville, NY
Polo Pony and Rider Harrison Tweed . Charles Rumsey was an 8 goal polo player with Meadowbrook Polo Club on Long Island NY. He was an avid sportsman, equestrian and artist. His ab...
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1910s Abstract Impressionist Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Joel Urruty - Cocoon, Sculpture 2024
By Joel Urruty
Located in Greenwich, CT
Medium: Wood, metallic finish
As an artist I strive to create elegant sculptures that capture the true essence of the subject matter. Form, line and surface are used as the visual l...
Category
2010s Contemporary Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Metal
John Van Alstine - Fledge 6-20 (criss-cross), Sculpture 2020
Located in Greenwich, CT
Stone and metal, usually granite or slate and found object steel are central in my sculpture. The interaction of these materials is a major focus. On the most basic level, the work i...
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2010s Contemporary Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Slate, Bronze
Joel Urruty - Atlas, Sculpture 2024
By Joel Urruty
Located in Greenwich, CT
Medium: Bronze
Edition #1/8
As an artist I strive to create elegant sculptures that capture the true essence of the subject matter. Form, line and surface are used as the visual la...
Category
2010s Contemporary Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Joel Urruty - Beta, Sculpture 2024
By Joel Urruty
Located in Greenwich, CT
Medium: Bronze
Edition #1/8
As an artist I strive to create elegant sculptures that capture the true essence of the subject matter. Form, line and surface are used as the visual la...
Category
2010s Contemporary Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
John Van Alstine - Tiller VI, Sculpture 2020
Located in Greenwich, CT
Stone and metal, usually granite or slate, and found object steel are central in my sculpture. The interaction of these materials is a major focus. On the most basic level, the work ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Granite, Bronze
John Van Alstine - Rockslide '22, Sculpture 2022
Located in Greenwich, CT
Stone and metal, usually granite or slate, and found object steel are central in my sculpture. The interaction of these materials is a major focus. On the most basic level, the work ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Slate, Steel
Perseus' sword
Located in Oswestry, GB
The images of this sculpture are of a larger original than the scaled down version for sale here. This sword was a gift from Zeus to Perseus to defeat the gorgon Medusa. Davies desig...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Renaissance Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Urn
Located in Oswestry, GB
Davies designed this urn by drawing on extensive research culminating in adopting classical elements from Graeco-Roman antiquity.
It's elegant shape is subtly embellished with a Roma...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Renaissance Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
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