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Medium: Metal
Miles Jaffe - Put the Soup On, Sculpture 2023
By Miles Jaffe
Located in Greenwich, CT
metal, polymer, pigment, wood
Edition of 20
From NOTE Put the Soup On
This sculpture will be shipped directly from the artist's studio.
Category
2010s Contemporary Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Stainless Steel
Miles Jaffe - Conceptual Artist's Brush Set (v. 4), Sculpture 2023
By Miles Jaffe
Located in Greenwich, CT
metal, polymer, pigment, wood
"This set includes the following conceptual brushes: dry, hare, hair, air, shaving, and feather."
This sculpture will be shipped directly from the art...
Category
2010s Contemporary Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Stainless Steel
Miles Jaffe - Pill Blue, Sculpture 2023
By Miles Jaffe
Located in Greenwich, CT
metal, polymer, pigment, wood
"Label text: Go back to sleep, it's just a dream.
Companion piece to Pill Red."
This sculpture will be shipped directly from the artist's studio.
Category
2010s Contemporary Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Stainless Steel
Discount Cigarettes
By Drew Leshko
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Discount Cigarettes" is an original paper, enamel, pastel, inkjet prints, chain, wire, and tubing artwork by Drew Leshko measuring approx. 15"h x 10"w x 0.75"d.
Drew Leshko is a Ph...
Category
2010s Contemporary Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Enamel, Wire
Brush Strokes, Abstract, Sculpture, by Glenn Green, Santa Fe, Back, Metal, Zen
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Brush Strokes, abstract sculpture by Glenn Green, Santa Fe, black, metal, zen
Limited edition of 24
fabricated aluminum with powder coat finish in black
Custom sizes and colors are...
Category
2010s Contemporary Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Little Secret (Iron) -- Sculpture, Multiple, Cast Iron by Peter Randall-Page
Located in London, GB
Little Secret (Iron), 2009
Peter Randall-Page
Cast iron
From the edition of 30
Multiple: 4.5 × 5.5 × 5.5 cm (1.8 × 2.2 × 2.2 in)
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Iron
"FAR OUT", Miniature, white and blue trailer van, paper sculpture
By Drew Leshko
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This miniature, white and blue, paper sculpture titled "FAR OUT" is an original artwork by Drew Leshko made of paper, acrylic, inkjet prints, basswood, wire, PVC plastic, pastel, and...
Category
2010s Contemporary Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Wire
Austrian Cold-Painted Bronze Figural Statue of a Rider on a Camel Fetching Water
Located in New York, NY
An enchanting miniature cold painted bronze scene of a man riding a camel with a young female water carrier beside him. The three figures are rest upon on a sloping rock, presumably ...
Category
19th Century Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"GO AWAY", Miniature, camping trailer van, paper sculpture
By Drew Leshko
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This miniature paper sculpture titled "GO AWAY" is an original artwork by Drew Leshko made of paper, acrylic, inkjet prints, basswood, wire, PVC plastic, pastel, and clay. Through sc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Wire
Mandarin House
By Drew Leshko
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Mandarin House" is original artwork made from paper, inkjet print, enamel, wire, chain, aluminum tube, and pastel by Drew Leshko. This piece measures 10"h x 0.75"w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Wire
Territorios and Erosiones VII, Found objects in wood box wall sculpture
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Diptych: Erosiones VII and Territorios by Fernando Otero
Overall size: 20.5 in. H x 57 in. W x 4 in. D
Individual size: 20.5 in. H x 28.5 in. W x 4 in D
Found objects in wood box wal...
Category
2010s Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Metal
1965 Canadian Israeli Art Brutalist Abstract Welded Steel Sculpture Eli Ilan
Located in Surfside, FL
Eli Ilan (אלי אילן), 1928-1982 was an Israeli sculptor.
Abstract organic pod shape. in either steel or iron mounted on a wooden plinth.
Ilan was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He enrolled in a premedical curriculum at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and emigrated to Israel in 1948. He then studied prehistoric archaeology and physical anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 1956, he returned to Canada to study sculpture at the Ontario College of Art & Design. He lived in Kibbutz Sasa from 1959 to 1963. He died in 1982 in Caesarea, Israel.
Education
1955 Hebrew University, Jerusalem, pre-historic archaeology and physical anthropology
1956 Ontario College of Art, Toronto, Canada, sculpture under Thomas Bowie
1959 Training College, Ottawa, criminal identification techniques
1969 Art Festival, Painting & Sculpture in Israel. Ganei Hataarucha, Tel Aviv
Artists: Chana Orloff, Eli Ilan, Zvi Aldouby, Jacob El Hanani, Ludwig Blum, Aharon Bezalel, Koki Doktori, Israel Hadany, Marcel Janco, Dov Feigin, Abel Pann, Esther Peretz Arad, Reuven Rubin, Ivan Schwebel, Jakob Steinhardt, Boris Schatz, Bezalel (Lilik) Schatz, Louise Schatz...
Category
1960s Abstract Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
NYPD Interceptor
By Drew Leshko
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Original NYPD interceptor sculpture made of archival paper, dry pigments, enamel, wood, clay, wire, plastic, and inkjet print by Drew Leshko measuring 16"h x 16"w x 3"d framed, as sh...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Enamel, Wire
Contemporary Cast Glass Sculpture, 'Geologic Editions #4, 2018 by David Ruth
By David Ruth
Located in Oakland, CA
Please allow a three month turnaround time for piece to be made.
About the Geologic Editions:
The Geologic Editions are studies for Colorado Cascade Mural. David pieced together bit...
Category
2010s Contemporary Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
"Fans" vertical bronze piece with three figures standing grounded and tall
By Wayne Salge
Located in Edgartown, MA
The historic tradition of cast bronze provides a contemporary avenue for the creation of Wayne Salge’s abstracted human and animal figures. Thoroughly modern and distinctly impressio...
Category
2010s Contemporary Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Trio of Hand Woven Suspended Textile Sculptures by Fiber Artist Barbara Coburn
Located in Dallas, TX
This is a collection of hand woven textile sculptures by fiber artist Barbara Coburn created in the 1970s and designed to be suspended from the ceiling....
Category
Mid-20th Century Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Brass
Great Blue Heron
Located in Nashville, TN
Mark Hopkins' work reveals his total fascination with nearly every conceivable aspect of life: from history, children, sports, music and religion to wildlife of the land, sea and air. He intends his work to be flowing and alive, a passionate and expressive of the artist himself.
For as long as he can remember, Mark has been captivated by form and design. From the time he was young boy, with the encouragement of family and teachers, he worked to develop his innate talent, and explore the various techniques and mediums of sculpture.
In addition to sculpting, Mark has made himself a technical expert in the art of "lost wax" bronze casting. At the Mark Hopkins Sculpture...
Category
20th Century Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Games N Tech Plus
By Drew Leshko
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Games N Tech Plus" is original artwork made from paper, inkjet print, enamel, wire, chain, aluminum tube, and pastel by Drew Leshko. This piece measures 10"h x 0.2...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Enamel, Wire
Indian Ponies, realistic bronze sculpture, dark brown patina, horses, Nambe
By Allan Houser
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Indian Ponies, realistic bronze sculpture, dark brown patina, horses, Nambe Foundry
limited edition bronze
solid casting
Allan Houser (Haozous), Chiricahua Apache (1914-1994)
Selec...
Category
1970s Contemporary Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Philosopher bronze sculpture
By John Denning
Located in Glen Ellen, CA
A recurring theme in John Denning’s art (both painting and sculpture) has been combining human figures with birds or horses. The bird in the freestanding bronze sculpture "Philosophe...
Category
1990s Contemporary Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Ram of Mendes
By Sandy Scott
Located in Loveland, CO
Ram of Mendes by Sandy Scott
Bronze Wildlife Ram / Big Horned Sheep Bust Sculpture
13x14x10" cast bronze, completed/sold out edition, circa 1995
This particular casting is available...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
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
"Beaded Flower 10" Oversized terracotta beads, Ceramics, Flora Hanging Sculpture
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Beaded Flower 10" is an original piece by Jeff Rubio made from terra cotta and stoneware beads, glaze, rope, metal hardware, steel paperclip. This pieces measures 30"h x 7.5"w x 2.5...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Steel
'Abstract Love, ' by ArmanH, Graphic Metal Sculpture
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
The graphic metal sculpture 'Abstract Love' by ArmanH is an experience to turn the artist's drawing into a 2D sculpture using metal. The intricately woven lines of metal create dram...
Category
2010s Contemporary Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Steel
Blue Orbit by Kuno Vollet - Large Contemporary Round Orbit sculpture
By Kuno Vollet
Located in DE
A large contemporary blue 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
"Rough Skinned Newt" (2023) By Tony Hochstetler, Original Bronze Sculpture
Located in Denver, CO
Tony Hochstetler's "Rough Skinned Newt" (2022) is an original handmade bronze sculpture that depicts a newt curiously looking upwards.
Tony Hochstetler is a sculptor of unusual anim...
Category
2010s Realist Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Granite, Bronze
Urbanut II by Ondřej Oliva - Bronze sculpture, contrasts, figurative, organic
By Ondřej Oliva
Located in Paris, FR
Urbanut II is a bronze sculpture by contemporary Czech sculptor Ondřej Oliva, dimensions are 40 × 50 × 40 cm (15.7 × 19.7 × 15.7 in).
This artwork is from a limited edition of 6, eac...
Category
2010s Contemporary Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"High Five" Sculpture 11" x 10" x 10" in Edition of 33 by Huang Yulong
By Huang Yulong
Located in Culver City, CA
"High Five" Sculpture 11" x 10" x 10" in Edition of 33 by Huang Yulong
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Huang Yulong was born in 1983 in Anhui Province, China. In 2007 he graduated with a Bachelor ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
"Hot Wings Wall Mount" By Tony Hochstetler, Original Bronze Wall Installation
Located in Denver, CO
Tony Hochstetler's "Hot Wings Wall Mount (8/21)" (2022) is an original handmade bronze sculpture that depicts a dried peppers with a bat flying downwards.
Tony Hochstetler is a scul...
Category
2010s Realist Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Mockingbird" Sculpture 40.5" x 19" x 18.5" inch Edition 3/8 by Huang Yulong
By Huang Yulong
Located in Culver City, CA
"Mockingbird" Sculpture 42.5" x 19" x 18.5" inch Edition 3/8 by Huang Yulong
Bronze sculpture
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Huang Yulong was born in 1983 in Anhui Province, China. In 2007 he graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture from the Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute in Jiangxi Province. As one of the new generation of Chinese artists and part of the ‘post-80s generation’ and ‘only child’ generation, Huang is strongly influenced by the phenomenon of foreign culture in China, which he combines with his fascination with pottery and the material world. Huang is best known for his sculptures of Buddhas in hoodies, displaying an exchange of Eastern tradition and Western contemporary style. He was selected by “Complex” as “25 Contemporary Chinese Artists You Need to Know” in 2013. His sculptures have been exhibited at Niubi Newbie Kids II, at Schoeni Gallery, Hong Kong; “Zeitgeist” Huang Yulong’s Solo Exhibition at Himalayas Art Museum, Shanghai, China; Chinese Artist / Marseille Artist at Marseilles, France; The 4th International Contemporary Art Exhibition at Gwangju Biennale Korea, Art Beijing Art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Leader 3" Bronze Sculpture 26" x 9.5" x 7.5" inch Edition 3/8 by Huang Yulong
By Huang Yulong
Located in Culver City, CA
"Leader 3" Bronze Sculpture 26" x 9.5" x 7.5" inch Edition 3/8 by Huang Yulong
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Huang Yulong was born in 1983 in Anhui Province, China. In 2007 he graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture from the Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute in Jiangxi Province. As one of the new generation of Chinese artists and part of the ‘post-80s generation’ and ‘only child’ generation, Huang is strongly influenced by the phenomenon of foreign culture in China, which he combines with his fascination with pottery and the material world. Huang is best known for his sculptures of Buddhas in hoodies, displaying an exchange of Eastern tradition and Western contemporary style. He was selected by “Complex” as “25 Contemporary Chinese Artists You Need to Know” in 2013. His sculptures have been exhibited at Niubi Newbie Kids II, at Schoeni Gallery, Hong Kong; “Zeitgeist” Huang Yulong’s Solo Exhibition at Himalayas Art Museum, Shanghai, China; Chinese Artist / Marseille Artist at Marseilles, France; The 4th International Contemporary Art Exhibition at Gwangju Biennale Korea, Art Beijing Art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Apple of Eden, Porcelain Art Decor, Installation, Metal Gold
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Kristina Oganezz
Work: Art Installation / Art decor
Medium: Porcelaine
Year: 2024
Color: Metal Gold
Title: Apple of Eden
Size: H 4,75" x Diameter 3,75" inch, 337 Gram,
Arti...
Category
2010s Impressionist Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Concrete, Gold Leaf
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
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
Designer Eyes
By Drew Leshko
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Designer Eyes" is original artwork made from paper, inkjet print, enamel, wire, chain, aluminum tube, and pastel by Drew Leshko. This piece measures 10"h x 0.75"w ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Enamel, Wire
Jo Yarrington, Ghost Girls, Camel Hair Brush Display, 2018, Found Objects, Metal
Located in Darien, CT
Radioluminescence is the phenomenon by which light is produced in a material by bombardment with ionizing radiation and can be used as a low-level light source for night illumination of instruments or signage or other applications where light must be produced for long periods without external energy sources. Radioluminescent paint used to be used for clock hands and instrument dials...
Category
2010s Conceptual Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Apples of Eden, Porcelain Art Decor, Installation, Metal, Concrete, Gold, Gift
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Kristina Oganezz
Work: Art Installation / Art decor
Medium: Porcelaine, Concrete
Year: 2024
Color: Metal Gold
Title: Apples of Eden
Set Size: H 5.5" x Diameter 6.0" inch, 1...
Category
2010s Impressionist Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Concrete, Gold Leaf
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
Slumber, Rodger Jacobsen bronze sculpture skinny man sleeping bed with big head
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Slumber, Rodger Jacobsen bronze sculpture skinny man sleeping bed with a big head
Slumber, small bronze sculpture skinny man sleeping bed with a big head...
Category
2010s Contemporary Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"MY WILLY", Miniature, camping trailer van, paper sculpture
By Drew Leshko
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This miniature paper sculpture titled "MY WILLY" is an original artwork by Drew Leshko made of paper, acrylic, inkjet prints, basswood, wire, PVC plastic, pastel, and clay. Through s...
Category
2010s Contemporary Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Wire
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
Glass Sculpture Flower bud
Located in Winterswijk, NL
Hand-crafted Colorful Glass Artwork.
This unique glass artwork, titled "Flower Bud," is a hand-crafted piece made using the fusion glass process. The design resembles a blooming fl...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Steel
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...
Category
1910s American Realist Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
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...
Category
2010s Assemblage Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Metal
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 155 × 100 × 65 cm (61 × 39.4 × 25.6 in).
This artwork is available on commission. 8 e...
Category
2010s Contemporary Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
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...
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2010s Assemblage Metal Still-life Sculptures
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Metal
Dragon City
By Drew Leshko
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Dragon City" is original artwork made from paper, inkjet print, enamel, wire, chain, aluminum tube, and pastel by Drew Leshko. This piece measures 10"h x 0.75"w x ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Metal Still-life Sculptures
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Enamel, Wire
Super Star Laundrymat
By Drew Leshko
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Super Star Laundrymat" is original artwork made from paper, inkjet print, enamel, wire, chain, aluminum tube, and pastel by Drew Leshko. ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Metal Still-life Sculptures
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Metal, Enamel, Wire
Mine-original realism wildlife sculpture-oil painting-Artwork-contemporary Art
Located in London, Chelsea
This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online. Henk Jan Sanderman's "Mine:" is a captivating blend of sculptur...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Metal Still-life Sculptures
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Bronze
Pullin Puffins - original realism wildlife sculpture painting - contemporary Art
Located in London, Chelsea
This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online. "Pullin Puffins" by Henk Jan Sanderman is a delightful and whim...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Metal Still-life Sculptures
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Bronze
Daydreamer-bunny-original realism wildlife sculpture painting - contemporary Art
Located in London, Chelsea
This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online. In "Daydreamer-Bunny," Henk Jan Sanderman invites us into a whi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Metal Still-life Sculptures
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Metal
Compressed Hyperbaroque XV
Located in Pampilhosa da Serra, PT
15 x 15 x 31 cm
PetG and Metal Gold Paint
Lisbon-based, Miguel Rodrigues is renowed by having developed a highly innovative and personal artistic style: the hyperbaroque. His hyper...
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2010s Baroque Metal Still-life Sculptures
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Metal
Arrival, Shipyards tales. Iron vessel wall sculpture. 37x32"
Located in Tel Aviv, IL
Nir Adoni's metal vessels sculptures have become his signature art and are displayed in public buildings around the world.
We are offering limited editions ...
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2010s Contemporary Metal Still-life Sculptures
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Metal, Steel, Iron
Jack's Famous Bar
By Drew Leshko
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Jack's Famous Bar" is original artwork made from paper, inkjet print, enamel, wire, chain, aluminum tube, and pastel by Drew Leshko. This piece measures 10"h x 0.7...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Metal Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Enamel, Wire
Shovel, Recovered
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Shovel, Recovered" is an original artwork made from iron, paper, beeswax, brass, pine, mounted on panel by Katie VanVliet. This piece measures 12"h x 24"w x 5"d
Katie VanVliet (she/her) is a sculptor and printmaker practicing from her home studio in Elkins Park...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Metal Still-life Sculptures
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Brass, Iron
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 ...
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2010s Contemporary Metal Still-life Sculptures
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Granite, Bronze
Latin American Abstract Geometric Chrome Bronze Architectural Sculpture E. Tafur
Located in Surfside, FL
Edgar Tafur (Colombian, 1929 - 2007)
Chrome Over Bronze Sculpture
Undated, signed on side near bottom, abstract sculpture
Dimensions: Height: 12 3/4 inches, Width: 4 inches, Depth: 3 3/4 inches
Mod Space Age Chrome over Bronze Abstract Architectural Totem Cast Sculpture
Edgar Alonso Tafur, Latin American artist born and raised in Cali. Colombia, was first trained as an architect at the University of the Andes, but shortly thereafter switched his focus to sculpture. It is this work which brought Tafur to the United States, first to study at the University of Florida and then to Oklahoma where he was featured in a solo exhibition at the Oklahoma Art Center in 1966. Alluding his architectural roots, Tafurs sculptures possess a marked structural form, drawing on themes of positive and negative space. In addition to his work as a sculptor, Tafur was well known for his modernist concept designs, consisting of fountains and architectural murals commissioned by fellow architects. “Each of his works is an understatement of the principles of architecture, which is itself sculptural. Tafur’s sensitivity towards the play of light and shadow on the surfaces, his relationship of positive and negative spaces, and his fluid play of rhythms all lend themselves dramatically to an exciting visual statement. His simplicity and modernism evokes the opinion of the renowned architect, Mies Van der Rohe: ‘less is more.'” Patric Shannon, Director, Oklahoma Art Center
While some of his work has a brutalist quality to it it is generally more abstract geometric, masculine with polished chrome surfaces, enamel and some with great, strong colors. This has an abstract flora, cactus like shape to it. He is from the generation of Colombian artists who rose to prominence in the mid 20th century which included Fernando Botero, Doris Salcedo, Oscar Murillo, Antonio Caro...
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20th Century Post-Modern Metal Still-life Sculptures
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Metal
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