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20 MG Hope Freedom pill Combo (red, orange, white) - figurative sculpture
By Tal Nehoray
Located in New York, NY
This new work by Tal Nehoray is from her latest body of works called "Happy Pills".
All are hand made with ceramic and hand painted with automotive paint.
It is a combination of 2 ce...
Category
Pop Art 21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Automotive Paint
Cream w Spots Horse Vase (Yellowstone Ceramics) White Stoneware, glossy glaze
Located in Cody, WY
JESSE FALES, Spotted Cream & White Horse Vase, white stoneware and glaze, 2024. This handcrafted vase or candleholder pot channels the simplicity, strength,...
Category
Folk Art 21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware, Glaze
"Specimen", frame with electric picture light, faux fur, paper, pins, on board
Located in Toronto, Ontario
“Specimen“ is a mixed media piece by artist Heather Nicol, and measures 16x13x3“. Part of a body of work known as Salon, this particular assemblage is co...
Category
Assemblage 21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Board, Synthetic, Paper, Lights, Pins, Wood
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
Abstract 21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Brass
Shades of Neutral
Located in Deddington, GB
Red & white stoneware & porcelain in neutral shades. Using over 50 hand thrown & slipcast vessels to create and uplifting artwork. Exploring numerous matt & gloss glazes on a variety...
Category
Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain, Wood
Figural Bust Terracotta Sculpture, Alexander Ney, 'Goddess', 2019
Located in New York, NY
The ‘Goddess’ by visionary artist Alexander Ney was handcrafted using italian white terra cotta in 2019. Ney began his professional career as a highly productive visual artist, as a ...
Category
Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Ceramic NY Yankees cap sculpture (grey and pink) - figurative sculpture
By Yael Yanay
Located in New York, NY
This beautiful one of a kind ceramic hand made NY Yankees cap is from Yael Yanay’s latest body of works.
These hand-crafted ceramic hats are meticulously designed to resemble iconi...
Category
Pop Art 21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Charles Birnbaum_Composition Black and White No.2_Porcelain_Maximalist Sculpture
Located in Darien, CT
Charles Birnbaum is a sculptor and a self-taught photographer. He graduated from Kansas City Art Institute where he studied ceramics and was among a select group of the esteemed Ken ...
Category
Baroque 21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain, Acrylic
20 MG Happy pill Combo (turquoise, light pink and pink) - figurative sculpture
By Tal Nehoray
Located in New York, NY
This new work by Tal Nehoray is from her latest body of works called "Happy Pills".
All are hand made with ceramic and hand painted with automotive paint.
It is a combination of 3 ce...
Category
Pop Art 21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Automotive Paint
John Van Alstine - Sisyphean Holiday 35 (Speckled Stone), Sculpture 2017
Located in Greenwich, CT
Riverstone/ Pigmented and sealed steel
Stone and metal, usually granite or slate and found object steel are central in my sculpture. The interaction of these materials is a major fo...
Category
Abstract 21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Stone, Metal, Steel
"CASTLE CHANCELLOR", porcelain clay sculpture, turquoise glaze, royal court
By Rene Murray
Located in Toronto, Ontario
CASTLE CHANCELLOR is a porcelain clay sculpture with Turquoise Glaze and slip, by Brooklyn, New York artist Rene Murray. It measures 24"H x 22"W x 11"D. It...
Category
Romantic 21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Clay, Porcelain, Glaze
Imprints / I Am Yourself: Triangle. Art wall abstract sculpture installation
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Imprints/I am Yourself is a work of collection; a collection of images augmented by Casey Waterman to create a habitat where paralleled materials, connotations, and ambiguity comment...
Category
Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Plaster, Walnut, Vinyl
Imprints / I Am Yourself: Hall. Art wall abstract sculpture installation
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Imprints/I am Yourself is a work of collection; a collection of images augmented by Casey Waterman to create a habitat where paralleled materials, connotations, and ambiguity comment...
Category
Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Plaster, Walnut, Vinyl
Imprints / I Am Yourself: Girls. Art wall abstract sculpture installation
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Imprints/I am Yourself is a work of collection; a collection of images augmented by Casey Waterman to create a habitat where paralleled materials, connotations, and ambiguity comment...
Category
Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Plaster, Walnut, Vinyl
Emerald Plains, Clay-infused fabric sculpture, for wall installation
Located in Tel Aviv, IL
Painter and sculpture Artist Natalie Krainin creates artworks using the innovative method of Fabric Texture Art. This technique, which resonates deeply with her professional roots, a...
Category
Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Clay, Fabric, Cotton, Paint, Glaze
Lisa Levy, You Give Good Gratitude, 2014, Mirror, Plastic, Marble, Found Objects
By Lisa Levy
Located in Darien, CT
Dr. Lisa's Ego Championship Trophies
Lisa Levy is a painter, conceptual artist, comedian and (self-proclaimed) psychotherapist.
Lisa's visual career started when she was 3 1/2 ...
Category
Assemblage 21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Imprints / I Am Yourself: Wood. Art wall abstract sculpture installation
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Imprints/I am Yourself is a work of collection; a collection of images augmented by Casey Waterman to create a habitat where paralleled materials, connotations, and ambiguity comment...
Category
Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Plaster, Walnut, Vinyl
Michele Brody, Drawing Roots: Curvature, Handmade Cast Paper, Dried Wheat Grass
Located in Darien, CT
Michele Brody, Nature in Absentia: Cattails Plucked Out, Handmade Cast Paper
The essence of Michele Brody’s work thrives on the interaction with n...
Category
Naturalistic 21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Handmade Paper
Bath - 3D model animated with video
By Marina Alexeeva
Located in New York, NY
Video multi media- Live Boxes-
Mixed Media, Video Miniature Sculpture
16 ½” x 18” x 15 ¾”,
4’27” loop, 2014
Category
Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media, Video
Imprints / I Am Yourself: Boat. Art wall abstract sculpture installation
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Imprints/I am Yourself is a work of collection; a collection of images augmented by Casey Waterman to create a habitat where paralleled materials, connotations, and ambiguity comment...
Category
Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Plaster, Walnut, Vinyl
"Shoes" (2021) By Dana Younger, Bas-relief Sculpture
Located in Denver, CO
Dana Younger's (US based) "Shoes" is an original, handmade Bas-relief sculpture on Maple and Niove that depicts a pair of shoes at three quarters view.
(Frame included)
Dana Younger is a Texas sculptor who earned a BA in Theater from the University of Texas at Austin. His experiences in the theater, as well as in construction and boatbuilding, led him to a career in fabrication. Younger began his work as an artist as a founding partner of Blue Genie...
Category
Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Maple
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
Abstract Geometric 21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Paper Plate with Dice and Chip
By Richard Shaw
Located in Burlingame, CA
In the world of ceramics, Richard Shaw is a professor and the master of trompe l’oeil (French for “fool the eye”) sculpture, a style often associated with paintings intended to give a convincing illusion of reality. Shaw's work replicates everyday objects (such as tin cans, playing cards, and cutlery) in porcelain. He then glazes these components and groups them in unexpected and even jarring combinations. While interested in how objects can reflect a person’s identity, Shaw also poses questions regarding the relationship between appearance and authenticity.
Paper Plate...
Category
Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Charles Birnbaum, 371_Wall Piece No.19_2017_porcelain_19x13x5 in_Visionary
Located in Darien, CT
Charles Birnbaum is a sculptor and a self-taught photographer. He graduated from Kansas City Art Institute where he studied ceramics and was one of a select group of the esteemed Ken...
Category
Baroque 21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
"Parlour", wallpaper, glass, silver platter, butterfly, nails, mounted on board
Located in Toronto, Ontario
“Parlour“ is a wall relief panel by artist Heather Nicol, and measures 17x19x4“. Part of a body of work known as Brief Lives, this particular piece is comprised of wallpaper, fabric, wood, nails, glass, silver platter, plastic wrap, butterfly specimen, mounted on board. It fixes to the wall with a custom-fit wooden cleat. Reflecting on domestic materials and their relationships to display and social identity, Parlour celebrates and questions feminist reclamation, nostalgic tenderness and the histories embedded in the objects, while carrying on their aesthetic traditions through transformation into works of art.
Heather Nicol is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice includes immersive sound installation, small-scale discrete object making, and independent curating. Her large site-specific interventions explore the architectural, sonic, historic and operational conditions across a wide range of locations. These include concourse atriums, rail terminus, lobbies, a theatre, a public school building, a theme...
Category
Assemblage 21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Silver
Spilling Pepsi Cup with Coffee Lid and Five of Spades
By Richard Shaw
Located in Burlingame, CA
In the world of ceramics, Richard Shaw is a professor and the master of trompe l’oeil (French for “fool the eye”) sculpture, a style often associated with paintings intended to give a convincing illusion of reality. Shaw's work replicates everyday objects (such as tin cans, playing cards, and cutlery) in porcelain. He then glazes these components and groups them in unexpected and even jarring combinations. While interested in how objects can reflect a person’s identity, Shaw also poses questions regarding the relationship between appearance and authenticity.
Spilling Pepsi Cup with Coffee Lid...
Category
Photorealist 21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain, Glaze, Underglaze
Goblets VIII, Joanne Tinker, Original Wall Sculpture, Sweet Wrappers, Colourful
Located in Deddington, GB
Goblets VIII by Joanne Tinker [2021]
original
Sweet wrappers
Image size: H:50 cm x W:50 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:50 cm x W:50 cm x D:4cm
Frame Size: H:50 cm x W:50 cm...
Category
Impressionist 21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Wood, Mixed Media
Cocoa Krispies Fun Size #1
By Paul Rousso
Located in Montreal, Quebec
A native of Charlotte, North Carolina, Paul Rousso attended the Cleveland Institute of Art in Ohio and went on to earn his BFA from the California College of the Arts in 1981. In his...
Category
Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media, Polystyrene
Violin- 21st Century Sculpture, live size, of a figurine
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
This sculpture by Astrid Ritmeester belongs to a series she has called 'Memories'
Ritmeester also works as a costume and graphic designer for theatre productions.
Astrid Ritmeeste...
Category
Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Fabric
Optimo Cigar Box with Watercolor Palette
By Richard Shaw
Located in Burlingame, CA
In the world of ceramics, Richard Shaw is a professor and the master of trompe l’oeil (French for “fool the eye”) sculpture, a style often associated with paintings intended to give a convincing illusion of reality. Shaw's work replicates everyday objects (such as tin cans, playing cards, and cutlery) in porcelain. He then glazes these components and groups them in unexpected and even jarring combinations. While interested in how objects can reflect a person’s identity, Shaw also poses questions regarding the relationship between appearance and authenticity.
Optimo Cigar Box with Watercolor Palette...
Category
Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Chant - bright, dynamic, narrative, painted stainless steel outdoor sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Canadian sculptor Marlene Hilton Moore continues the theme of listening in a series of outdoor singing bowl sculptures -- this bowl is laser cut with the word "Chant" in a stencil fo...
Category
Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Moose Plunge (large) - figurative, pop-art, Canadian, aluminum outdoor sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Toronto contemporary artist Charlie Pachter’s tragicomic depiction of a moose plummeting from a cliff merges playful, pop art inspiration with deeply iconic Canadian imagery, compose...
Category
Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Enamel
American Pie
By Paul Rousso
Located in Montreal, Quebec
A native of Charlotte, North Carolina, Paul Rousso attended the Cleveland Institute of Art in Ohio and went on to earn his BFA from the California College of the Arts in 1981. In his...
Category
Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Polystyrene, Mixed Media
Dylan Martinez - Small Purple Ghost, Sculpture 2024
Located in Greenwich, CT
A hyper-realistic glass sculptor, Dylan's playful creations deceive the eye with their lifelike appearance. Whether mimicking water balloons or plastic bags filled with water housing...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Glass
Flat Pot VII, 2019, Glazed earthenware wall sculpture, flat tea cup, earth tones
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Flat Pot VII" (2019)
Glazed earthenware flat tea cup wall sculpture
Hanging system on back side
Earth tones and pastels, light minty sage green on terracotta clay
Certificate of au...
Category
Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Earthenware, Glaze, Terracotta
Singing Bowl Cerulean Sky Medium - outdoor stainless steel sculpture in blue
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Based on Tibetan singing bowls, a medium sized outdoor stainless steel bowl is coated in a rich cerulean blue by sculptor Marlene Hilton Moore. T...
Category
Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Organic Wall Sculptures on Reclaimed Corkwood. Four pieces "No Valid Name"
Located in FISTERRA, ES
This series of four sculptural wall pieces combines painting and organic materiality, exploring the intersection of nature and contemporary art. Made from reclaimed corkwood, each wo...
Category
Pop Art 21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Spray Paint, Acrylic, Wood
Flat Pot X, 2019, Glazed earthenware flat wall sculpture pastel on terracotta
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Flat Pot X" (2019)
Glazed earthenware flat pitcher wall sculpture
Hanging system on back side
Pastels and earth tones, light minty blue on terracotta clay
Certificate of authenticity
Category
Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Earthenware, Glaze, Terracotta
Biophilia Green. Sculptural Painting on Natural Cork Tondo. Leafy Emoticon Art
Located in FISTERRA, ES
This sculptural wall piece, crafted from reclaimed cork oak wood and hand-painted with acrylic, features a vibrant composition of lush green foliage forming a smiling face. The organ...
Category
Pop Art 21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Spray Paint, Acrylic, Wood
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
Assemblage 21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Metal
"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
Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Shades of White
Located in Deddington, GB
White stoneware & porcelain shades of white. Using over 50 hand thrown & slipcast vessels to create an uplifting artwork. Exploring numerous matt & gloss glazes on light ceramic & po...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain, Wood
Sorrowful Emoticon – Original Hand-Painted Organic Wall Sculpture with Foliage
Located in FISTERRA, ES
This unique wall sculpture blends organic materials with hand-painted details, presenting a melancholic expression formed by meticulously arranged green foliage. Crafted from reclaim...
Category
Pop Art 21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic, Wood, Spray Paint
Yoshitomo Nara "My Sweet Dog" Hand Painted Wooden Toy Sculpture Contemporary Art
Located in Draper, UT
2005
Wood
Edition of 100
Limited Edition made by VILAC
Category
Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Adhesive, Acrylic
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...
Category
Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Peacock No 1 - small, cast aluminum, male, bird, interior tabletop sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Cast in aluminum, this sculpture of a poised male peacock reflects the artist Nicholas Crombach's primary theme of human and animal interaction. This sculpture is number 1 from an ed...
Category
Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Metal
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
Abstract 21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Luke Chueh The Prisoner Vicodin 2016 Resin Sculpture Opiates Street Contemporary
Located in Draper, UT
Based on Luke Chueh’s original painting, The Prisoner ponders captivity in its many forms—physical, mental or in some cases pharmaceutical.
Vicodin is a ...
Category
Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Resin
Contemporary Installation Sculpture, Woven and Crocheted Videotape with Cotton
By John Garrett
Located in St. Louis, MO
John Garrett was raised in southern New Mexico by parents who were both educators. They instilled in him an appreciation for the handmade with their collections of Native American a...
Category
Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Fabric, Cotton, Wood, Tape, Mixed Media, Other Medium
Lucky Green – Smiling Botanical Wall Sculpture in Reclaimed Cork Oak Wood
Located in FISTERRA, ES
This handcrafted wall sculpture, made from reclaimed cork oak wood, features a radiant smile composed of meticulously arranged clovers and foliage. The interplay of deep greens with ...
Category
Pop Art 21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Spray Paint, Acrylic, Wood
Twilight Colour Wheel
By Robin Rhode
Located in London, GB
8 x Skateboard decks
Each deck measure approx. 31x8in (80x20cm)
Made of 7-ply Grade A Canadian Maple wood
1 Easyfix wall mount included per deck
Limited Edition of 10
hand-signed by ...
Category
Street Art 21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Weeping Leaves – Organic Face Sculpture with Natural Foliage on Reclaimed Wood
Located in FISTERRA, ES
Carved from reclaimed cork oak, this organic wall sculpture portrays a sorrowful expression emerging from a lush tapestry of rounded leaves and subtle blue floral accents. The deep g...
Category
Street Art 21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic, Wood, Spray Paint
Paint Palette with Spilling Dixie Cup
By Richard Shaw
Located in Burlingame, CA
In the world of ceramics, Richard Shaw is a professor and the master of trompe l’oeil (French for “fool the eye”) sculpture, a style often associated with paintings intended to give...
Category
Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
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
Assemblage 21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Metal
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
Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Granite, Bronze
Flat Pot XVIII, 2019, Glazed earthenware wall sculpture cream & brown terracotta
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Earthenware and glaze
"Flat Pot XVIII" (2019)
Glazed earthenware flat goblet wall sculpture
Hanging system on back side
Earth tones, cream and brown on terracotta clay
Certificate o...
Category
Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Earthenware, Glaze, Terracotta
"Cordial", wallpaper, spray paint, aunt's pearls, crystal, red resin, on board
Located in Toronto, Ontario
“Cordial“ is a wall relief panel by artist Heather Nicol, and measures 16x19x4“. Part of a body of work known as Brief Lives, this particular piece is comprised of wallpaper, spray paint, wood, the artist's aunt's pearls, crystal and red resin (solid), mounted on board. It fixes to the wall with a custom-fit wooden cleat. Reflecting on domestic materials and their relationships to display and social identity, Cordial celebrates and questions feminist reclamation, nostalgic tenderness and the histories embedded in the objects, while carrying on their aesthetic traditions through transformation into works of art.
Heather Nicol is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice includes immersive sound installation, small-scale discrete object making, and independent curating. Her large site-specific interventions explore the architectural, sonic, historic and operational conditions across a wide range of locations. These include concourse atriums, rail terminus, lobbies, a theatre, a public school building, a theme...
Category
Assemblage 21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Wood, Found Objects, Board, Resin, Spray Paint
"G.I.Jo" Bronze Sculpture 39" x 16.5" x 14" inch Edition of 8 by Huang Yulong
By Huang Yulong
Located in Culver City, CA
"G.I.Jo" Bronze Sculpture 39" x 16.5" x 14" inch Edition of 8 by Huang Yulong
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Huang Yulong was born in 1983 in Anhui Province, China. In 2007 he graduated with a Ba...
Category
Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
