Abstract Sculptures
ABSTRACT STYLE
Beginning in the early 20th century, abstract art became a leading style of modernism. Rather than portray the world in a way that represented reality, as had been the dominating style of Western art in the previous centuries, abstract paintings, prints and sculptures are marked by a shift to geometric forms, gestural shapes and experimentation with color to express ideas, subject matter and scenes.
Although abstract art flourished in the early 1900s, propelled by movements like Fauvism and Cubism, it was rooted in the 19th century. In the 1840s, J.M.W. Turner emphasized light and motion for atmospheric paintings in which concrete details were blurred, and Paul Cézanne challenged traditional expectations of perspective in the 1890s.
Some of the earliest abstract artists — Wassily Kandinsky and Hilma af Klint — expanded on these breakthroughs while using vivid colors and forms to channel spiritual concepts. Painter Piet Mondrian, a Dutch pioneer of the art movement, explored geometric abstraction partly owing to his belief in Theosophy, which is grounded in a search for higher spiritual truths and embraces philosophers of the Renaissance period and medieval mystics. Black Square, a daringly simple 1913 work by Russian artist Kazimir Malevich, was a watershed statement on creating art that was free “from the dead weight of the real world,” as he later wrote.
Surrealism in the 1920s, led by artists such as Salvador Dalí, Meret Oppenheim and others, saw painters creating abstract pieces in order to connect to the subconscious. When Abstract Expressionism emerged in New York during the mid-20th century, it similarly centered on the process of creation, in which Helen Frankenthaler’s expressive “soak-stain” technique, Jackson Pollock’s drips of paint, and Mark Rothko’s planes of color were a radical new type of abstraction.
Conceptual art, Pop art, Hard-Edge painting and many other movements offered fresh approaches to abstraction that continued into the 21st century, with major contemporary artists now exploring it, including Anish Kapoor, Mark Bradford, El Anatsui and Julie Mehretu.
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Style: Abstract
Warrior
Located in Edinburgh, GB
A series of works .. ANCIENT .. this series has a magical connection. They have the ancient spirit of past civilizations and sections of different corners of history. Looking at each...
Category
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Ancient
Located in Edinburgh, GB
Victor Prodanchuk "Ancient" 2007
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Festive
Located in Edinburgh, GB
Victor Prodanchuk "Festive" 2006
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Granite, Bronze
Sofia Sheptytska
Located in Edinburgh, GB
Psychological portrait, project "Eternal and Ingenious".
The concept of the work: a reflection of the inner
psychological image of the artist, the state of mind
using elements of his...
Category
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Clay
Knight
Located in Edinburgh, GB
A series of works .. ANCIENT .. ..FOREST .. ..AQUA .. all these series have a magical connection with each other. They have the ancient spirit of past civilizations and sections of d...
Category
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Guardianship
Located in Edinburgh, GB
A series of works .. ANCIENT .. ..FOREST .. ..AQUA .. all these series have a magical connection with each other. They have the ancient spirit of past civilizations and sections of d...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
View
Located in Edinburgh, GB
A series of works .. ANCIENT .. ..FOREST .. ..AQUA .. all these series have a magical connection with each other. They have the ancient spirit of past civilizations and sections of d...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Granite, Bronze
Fish
Located in Edinburgh, GB
A series of works .. ANCIENT .. ..FOREST .. ..AQUA .. all these series have a magical connection with each other. They have the ancient spirit of past civilizations and sections of d...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Frieda Kahlo
Located in Edinburgh, GB
The project "Eternal and Ingenious" is based on portraits of famous artists from around the world and Ukraine.
The concept of the work - the image of internal and external psychological image, state of mind and creative impulse of the artist. Using elements of his works and creative ideas in the portrait. The main thing in the portrait is not 100% similarity and his soul and inner state and creative world.
Prodanchuk Viktor Pavlovych was born on February 4, 1975 in the small town of Dunaievtsi, Khmelnytskyi region in a family of the artist, school teacher of history and nurse. In the childhood Viktor often was in the Cossack valley where there lived the grandmother of maternal grandmother Rafaila Voitivna who told about the cruel Cossack fights of Khmelnytskyi times which occurred in the Cossack valley. It has influenced on the further formation of national consciousness.
Repeatedly participated in the Olympic Games in history and geography, taking prizes. The father Pavlo Prodanchuk being a school art teacher, has imparted to Viktor love to art that has affected the future of the boy.
In 1990 he entered the Kosvivskyi college of decorative and applied art on the specialty of metal art. During one of excursion trips to Lviv, Lev's city so impressed Viktor that he decided further to combine the life with the capital of the Western Ukraine.
In 1995 he entered the Lviv Academy of Arts and obtained the graphic designer's phases. During tuition at Academy of arts he joined to the restoration of Uspenskyi, Zlatoverkhyi cathedrals, Kyiv Pechersk Lavra and church of the Nativity on the Podol where read the burial songs over Taras Shevchenko...
Category
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Series X #90
By Gregor Turk
Located in Atlanta, GA
As a self-proclaimed topophiliac, Gregor Turk is known for ceramic sculptures, photography, mixed-media constructions and various public art installations, with the most recent at th...
Category
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Choke II: Gibraltar 01
By Gregor Turk
Located in Atlanta, GA
As a self-proclaimed topophiliac, Gregor Turk is known for ceramic sculptures, photography, mixed-media constructions and various public art installations, with the most recent at th...
Category
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Series X #105
By Gregor Turk
Located in Atlanta, GA
As a self-proclaimed topophiliac, Gregor Turk is known for ceramic sculptures, photography, mixed-media constructions and various public art installations, with the most recent at th...
Category
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
We Are All In
Located in Lincoln, RI
"We Are All In" is a wall hung sculpture depicting a series of arm/hand outlines overlapping. I was referencing a sports team ritual of standing in a circle before or after a game. ...
Category
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Plaster, Acrylic
CONCH #8
By Lyle London
Located in Tempe, AZ
This large 3D print is part of a series of organic abstractions inspired by ocean conches. 3D prints are especially suited to the computer aided design process used to create these ...
Category
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Plastic, Paint
"Autoportrait" Brass Sculpture
Located in Paris, FR
Sculpture "Autoportrait", Pièce unique, one of a kind, created in patinated brass (weight 3Kg)
About the artist.
Graduate in ceramic design and metal sculpture (2001,2003), he worked...
Category
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Brass
Sea Grid
Located in Denton, TX
Earthenware with colored slips. Epoxy. Cone 04 textured and satin glazes.
Signed, titled, and dated in ink on bottom.
Milnes served as Dean of the College of Visuals Arts and Design at the University of North Texas from January 2006 to his retirement in August 2014, when he moved to Asheville, NC with his wife Karen, re-establishing Arbitrary Forms Studio there. A sculptor and ceramist, he served previously as Director of the School of Art and Design at San Jose State University in California, Director of the School of Art at Louisiana State University, and as Chair of the Art Department at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. He taught at the Penland School of Crafts in 1972 and 1979.
Milnes is the past president of the National Council of Art Administrators and the National Association of Schools of Art and Design. He has served as a consultant or evaluator for more than sixty universities, colleges, and independent schools of art in the US and abroad and served in Dallas on the Board of Directors of the Business Council for the Arts and as Chair of the Community Advisory Board for KERA, the NPR station for North Texas. He was recently named a Fellow and Lifetime Member of NASAD and served on the Board of Directors of the Center for Craft in Asheville, NC and as co-chair of the Blue Ridge Public Radio Strategic Planning Committee.
He is a member of the Southern Highland Crafts Guild.
Category
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Earthenware, Slip, Glaze
Untitled (Kaleidoscope)
By Mattia Toso
Located in New York, NY
Unique oblong-shaped vase with curved stem using traditional Murano glassblowing and cold-working techniques.
Category
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Glass
Delta
Located in Denton, TX
Stoneware with colored slips. Cone 04 textured and satin glazes.
Signed, titled, and dated in ink on bottom by Robert Milnes
Milnes served as Dean of the College of Visuals Arts and...
Category
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Earthenware, Slip, Glaze
$2,800
"Equine Spirit II" Bronze sculpture 23" x 14.5" inch by Ibrahim Abd Elmalak
Located in Culver City, CA
"Equine Spirit II" Bronze sculpture 23" x 14.5" inch by Ibrahim Abd Elmalak
Equine Spirit II, 1997
Bronze & Marble
Signed & Dated
Sculptures that mostly depict his characteristic...
Category
20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Light Glyph VFSV
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Light-Glyphs, a range of colors illuminate the interior of translucent sculptural boxes. The color is muted and light diffused through frosted surfaces. At center, a thin blade of co...
Category
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Pigment
Pyramids
By Gord Smith
Located in Toronto, ON
Three identically-shaped bronze triangular prisms comprise this unique work by renowned Canadian sculptor, Gord Smith (1937-2023). The individual pieces are meant to be moved to crea...
Category
1990s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$20,000
Curtain Wall
Located in Lincoln, RI
Curtain Wall is a piece created from cast resin panels. The piece depicts the nighttime Mountain Views and a cave system within that range. With this piece I was inspired by tapest...
Category
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Copper, Foil
Knot #63CT 1/7
Located in Napa, CA
The sculptures of Damon Hyldreth appear both static and fluid, rigid and flexible, strong and smooth, effectively blurring the line between nature and structure. By crafting organic ...
Category
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
$24,500
Pig Pile
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Joe Davidson’s recent body of work consists of interlocking forms stacked one on top of another. Upon closer inspection, one can see the remnants of the ...
Category
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Plaster, ABS
"The man without a rod B" Bronze Sculpture by Sergii Shaulis
Located in Culver City, CA
"The man without a rod B" Bronze Sculpture by Sergii Shaulis
"The man without a rod B"
Bronze sculpture by Sergii Shaulis
9" x 4" x 3" inch
( 23 х ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Woman III
By Tom Nussbaum
Located in New Orleans, LA
Tom Nussbaum is known for a variety of work including drawings, paper cuts, prints, sculpture, children’s books, animations, functional design objects, and site-specific commissions....
Category
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Aria (Red)
By Eric Johnson
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Eric Johnson creates enigmatic and sensual abstract sculptures that are constructed with pigment, wood and resin. Johnson’s work seamlessly unites two traditions of Southern California art - the sleek and sexy aesthetic of the Finish Fetish movement and the organic and elegant tradition of woodworking. His handcrafted pieces are sheathed in resin skins, which often reveal glimpses of the wooden architectures encased within. Endlessly fascinated by physics and science, Johnson’s references range from cosmology and astrophysics to the human form.
Johnson’s work is deeply personal - in addition to drawing inspiration from his ancestral boat-building heritage (which is Norwegian, Scottish and Cree Native...
Category
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Lacquer
$14,500
Rainning inside
By L.G.
Located in Paris, FR
One of a kind Blown and fused Glass Sculpture in molted opaque black , brown/black and sandblasted.
Includes its black metal base ( about 32 cm...
Category
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Blown Glass
Armadillo, scrap metal abstract sculpture
Located in New York, NY
Carole Eisner's indoor sculptures, averaging two to four feet tall, are made from a welded
collage of drops and cut-out steel pieces from the same series of scrap she found in a
Conn...
Category
1970s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Hyperbolic Mandala
By Lyle London
Located in Tempe, AZ
This piece emerged from an array of hyperbolic strings. The 3D spatial geometry is mesmerizing and similar to a 2D Mandala. The central geometric piece is 3D printed in nylon whic...
Category
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
At last it is here
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Ruan Hoffmann uses ceramic earthenware as his preferred medium. Ruan Hoffmann chooses familiar objects such as plates as his canvases, however the resulting works are not presented a...
Category
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain, Glaze
Work N° 3 of Kevin Cheng-Feng YU
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
1) Untitled
2) Wooden cardboard, acrylic
3) Year of creation : 2016
4) 38X16,6X1,7cm
5) Signed on the back
6) Unique copy
7)1100 euros
Category
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic Polymer
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
Upcycled metal
Unique work
Includes a Certificate of Authenticity
Category
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Light-Glyph (Silver)
Located in Santa Monica, CA
With Light Glyphs, Casper Brindle presents two new bodies of work, each involving dramatic investigations into light, color and perspective. The results are poetic, sensual and spat...
Category
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Pigment
NOR Hug
Located in Ranchos De Taos, NM
Ceramic sculpture of combined clay bodies, unique processes developed by Anna Bush Crews, looks to inherent qualities in the material, the way it smoot...
Category
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
L' Angel Combattant
Located in Villafranca Di Verona, IT
Numbered and limited to 12 copies ( 8 + 4 )
Artwork signed
Authenticity: Sold with certificate of Authenticity from the gallery
Invoice from the gallery
Sculpture: bronze, metal, bro...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Lulo 2 - Wood sculpture by Zlata Kornilova, Yakisugi technique
Located in Paris, FR
Sculpture Lulo 2
Limited edition of 12
Dimensions : H. 89 cm x D. 27 cm
Mediums: Ash, oil, brass
Japanese technique Yakisugi
LULO - Collection
Climbing. Both word and action are ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Brass
Bronze Untitled, Landscape, large scale
Located in Boston, MA
One of a kind cast Bronze and Steel. Cast in a foundry using the lost wax mold process it is very expensive and time consuming to create. No fewer than 12 mo...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze, Steel
Fear Singer
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Olga’s artistic approach is centered around the elusive concept of time and its impermanence. Rather than engaging in an ontological reflection on the nature of time, Olga prefers to...
Category
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Prozor : contemporary modern abstract geometric sculpture
Located in New York, NY
Greg Chann creates contemporary modern abstract geometric sculptures. His constructions are complex interwoven systems of physical elements varying in size, material, and color. Thes...
Category
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Meditation man
Located in Miami, FL
Meditation has been a cornerstone of spiritual practices for centuries, offering numerous mental and physical health benefits. It involves training the mind to focus on a specific ob...
Category
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Red Queen
By Tom Nussbaum
Located in New Orleans, LA
Tom Nussbaum is known for a variety of work including drawings, paper cuts, prints, sculpture, children’s books, animations, functional design objects, and site-specific commissions....
Category
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
$12,800
NOR Swirl 2
Located in Ranchos De Taos, NM
Ceramic sculpture of combined clay bodies, the unique processes developed by Anna Bush Crews, looks to inherent qualities in the material, the way it s...
Category
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Balanced Point Stone and Steel with Patina Angled Abstract Sculpture
By Delos Van Earl
Located in Miami, FL
Two marble pieces converge on one point in this perfectly balanced sculpture of warm marble and steel. It is a beautiful abstract work that hold both inte...
Category
1990s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Steel
$2,800 Sale Price
20% Off
Three Clays XIII, Emma Bell, Original Installation Art, Living Art, Zen Art
By Emma Bell
Located in Deddington, GB
Emma Bell
73cmx73cmx 7cm
Three clays XIII
Emma Bell’s ceramic and porcelain Pot Frame – Installation Piece.
Emma Bell says: “This piece is inspired by my glaze test...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain, Wood
Deco, four foot welded steel sculpture, 2004
Located in New York, NY
Carole Eisner's indoor sculptures, averaging two to four feet tall, are made from a welded
collage of drops and cut-out steel pieces from the same series of scrap she found in a
Conn...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Steel
$38,400 Sale Price
20% Off
Owl's Eye
By Greg Joubert
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Hand carved aspen wood sculpture
torched burnished and painted
Greg Joubert was born in 1977 and raised in the seaside New England town of Hingham, Massachusetts. Joubert gained hi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
Centering
By Greg Joubert
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Hand carved aspen wood sculpture
torched burnished and painted
Greg Joubert was born in 1977 and raised in the seaside New England town of Hingham, Massachusetts. Joubert gained hi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
Duality
By Greg Joubert
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Hand carved aspen wood sculpture
torched burnished and painted
Greg Joubert was born in 1977 and raised in the seaside New England town of Hingham, Massachusetts. Joubert gained hi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
Transition 2
By Greg Joubert
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Hand carved aspen wood sculpture
torched burnished and painted
Greg Joubert was born in 1977 and raised in the seaside New England town of Hingham, Massachusetts. Joubert gained hi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
Owl's Eye
By Greg Joubert
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Hand carved aspen wood sculpture
torched burnished and painted
Greg Joubert was born in 1977 and raised in the seaside New England town of Hingham, Massachusetts. Joubert gained hi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
Perception
By Greg Joubert
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Hand carved aspen wood sculpture
torched burnished and painted
Greg Joubert was born in 1977 and raised in the seaside New England town of Hingham, Massachusetts. Joubert gained hi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
Jorge Salas, You and Me Series / Soto, 2018, Carved and painted on wood
By Jorge Salas
Located in Miami, FL
Jorge Salas
You and Me Series / Soto, 2018
Carved and painted on wood
125,7 x 95,3 x 6,4 cm
49.5 x 37.5 x 2.5 in.
The "Tu y Yo" (You and Me) series is based ...
Category
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
TRIAD
By Lyle London
Located in Tempe, AZ
This piece of brushed bronze is an edition of 12. The style I have in mind here could be described as organic abstraction. Each of the individual sculptures is assembled in a sligh...
Category
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$2,900
Untitled I : abstract steel sculpture
Located in New York, NY
Transform any interior or exterior into a truly unique space with the dynamic works of an acclaimed sculptor Naomi Press.
Naomi Press was one of the very few women working in large ...
Category
1980s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Bedfellows
Located in Lincoln, RI
Bedfellows refers to partnerships and celebrates relationships. This piece is subtle and beautiful. The pale, purple paint accentuates the carved texture. The piece is framed in wh...
Category
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Plaster, Wood, Maple, Acrylic
Work N° 2 of Kevin Cheng-Feng YU
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
1) Untitled
2) Wooden cardboard, acrylic.
3) Year of creation : 2016-2017
4) 106,5X48X0,5cm and 36X16X1cm
5) signed on the back
6) Unique copy
7) 3600 euros
Category
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic Polymer
David Hostetler Semaphore II Bronze Sculpture Abstract Female Pale Gold Frontal
Located in Nantucket, MA
Signature is along the bottom edge of the sculpture. The marble base can be substituted for steel for an outdoor setting. The edition is 1/24 with 2 artist proofs.
Semaphore Woman II...
Category
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Vase 2017. Stone mass, 14x15.5x12 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Vase
2017. Stone mass, 14x15.5x12 cm
Category
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stone
$457 Sale Price
20% Off
Untitled X : large-scale steel sculpture
Located in New York, NY
A large-scale steel sculpture by Naomi Press. Signed with initials.
Naomi Press is a female abstract sculptor, who was one of the very few women working i...
Category
1980s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
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Find a wide variety of authentic Abstract sculptures available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add sculptures created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, red, purple, green and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Scott Troxel, John Van Alstine, Marty Mackenzie, and Stephen Walling. Frequently made by artists working with Wood, and Paint and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Abstract sculptures, so small editions measuring 0.38 inches across are also available. Prices for sculptures made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $11 and tops out at $1,400,000, while the average work sells for $4,500.
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