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Conceptual Sculptures

CONCEPTUAL STYLE

In 1967, artist Sol LeWitt wrote that in “Conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work.” He was giving a name to an art movement that had emerged in the 1960s in which artists were less focused on their medium being something traditionally “artistic” and instead engaged in using any object, movement, form, action or place to express an idea.

LeWitt’s work was featured alongside an assemblage of notes, drawings and outlines by other artists in “Working Drawings and Other Visible Things on Paper Not Necessarily Meant to Be Viewed as Art,” a groundbreaking show at New York City’s School of Visual Arts curated by Mel Bochner, another leading exponent of Conceptualism. Building on radical 20th-century statements, like Fountain (1917) by French artist Marcel Duchamp, Conceptual artists around Europe and North and South America were not interested in the commercial art scene and rather directly challenged its systems and values.

Stretching into the 1970s, this movement has also been called Post-Object art and Dematerialized art. Conceptual art reflected a larger era of social and political upheaval. Pieces associated with the style range from Roelof Louw’s Soul City (Pyramid of Oranges) (1967) — a work of installation art that sees fresh oranges stacked into a pyramid from which visitors are allowed to take one orange away — to On Kawara’s “Today” series, which saw the Japanese artist carefully painting a date in white acrylic on canvases consisting of a single color from 1966 to his death in 2014. Artists such as Ed Ruscha, who created the Twentysix Gasoline Stations book — a collection of photos of gas stations that is widely said to be the first modern artists’ book — made photography a major platform for Conceptual art, as did Bruce Nauman, who burned one of Ruscha's books and then photographed it for his own.

Conceptual art’s legacy of questioning artistic authorship, ownership and how to work with complex ideas of space and time had a significant influence on the decades of culture that followed, and it continues to inform art today.

The collection of Conceptual photography, paintings and sculptures on 1stDibs includes artworks by John Baldessari, Jenny Holzer, Lawrence Weiner, Joseph Kosuth and others.

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Style: Conceptual
French Contemporary Sculpture by Beatrice De Domenico - The Blue Planet
Located in Paris, IDF
Beatrice de Domenico is a French sculptor born in 1956 who lives & works in Nice, France. She works between traditional sculpture, classical sculpture and teachings from Nouveaux Réa...
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2010s Conceptual Sculptures

Materials

Mixed Media

Spiderman - Lego Original
Located in New York, NY
Spiderman. Made completely of legos. About the Artist: Joseph Kraham is an "engineering artist". He combines thousands of Lego pieces, acrylic lac...
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2010s Conceptual Sculptures

Materials

Mixed Media

Illumination, 2018 LED Sculpture
Located in Brooklyn, NY
JORGE WELLESELEY From the series: Subterfuges, ”Illumination”, 2018 Aluminum, LED, plexiglass, PLA, concrete 15.5 x 23.5 x 12 in Ed: 2/3 + 1AP Jorge Wellesley (Havana, 1979) Cuban...
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2010s Conceptual Sculptures

Materials

Concrete, Metal

French Contemporary Sculpture by Beatrice De Domenico - Table of Hunting
Located in Paris, IDF
Beatrice de Domenico is a French sculptor born in 1956 who lives & works in Nice, France. She works between traditional sculpture, classical sculpture and teachings from Nouveaux Réa...
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2010s Conceptual Sculptures

Materials

Mixed Media

Quartet
Located in Buffalo, NY
A conceptual four part wall sculpture by American female artist Dianne Baker. I 8"x8"x 1" wood, metal, canvass II 8" x 10"x 1" wood, metal III 15" x 8" x 2" wood...
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2010s Conceptual Sculptures

Materials

Metal

Shoe 2 - bronze shoe sculpture
Located in Glen Ellen, CA
This cast bronze shoe sculpture has a highly detailed pink and black lace pattern and is stuffed with four delicious looking rolled cookies! From world-renowned artist Steve Tobin's bronze "Shoe" series of 100 shoes, each one is completely unique. The dimensions shown are approximate. "Shoe" sizes in the series range from US women's size 6-10. "Shoes" are available individually or in groups. The listed price reflects a single shoe. For the "Shoe Wall...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Katherine Jackson, Little Oil 19, 2020, Photograph on aluminum
Located in Darien, CT
There are two Little Oil installations available with 6 sculptures each on top of LED light boxes. Little Oil 19 is a digital photographic print on aluminum for the flat files. Katherine Jackson has been working with glass and light together for many years, Recently, she's been making glass castings of vintage oil cans, and displaying them -- singly, in small groupings, or in vitrines -- on light boxes. So far she has created about 90, each one unique. The series is called Little Oil, alluding to Big Oil, and sometimes Small Oils, as in oil painting. But “oil” can mean many things. It has been a source of light (sometimes from unconscionable sources) since ancient times as well as a source of eternal light in many faith traditions. Set atop lightboxes, where each work glows from within, these pieces can simply seem like vessels of light itself. At times, they appear to me to transcend their relation to oil altogether, appearing anthropomorphic or creaturely, even biological. These days, I think of them as archeological artifacts, relics of a past, oil-based, civilization. Necropolis is a print of a painting inspired by a map of the necropolis where the terra cotta soldiers...
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2010s Conceptual Sculptures

Materials

LED Light, Pigment, Glass

French Contemporary Sculpture by B. Domenico - Where the Wild Roses Grows ?
Located in Paris, IDF
Beatrice de Domenico is a French sculptor born in 1956 who lives & works in Nice, France. She works between traditional sculpture, classical sculpture and teachings from Nouveaux Réa...
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2010s Conceptual Sculptures

Materials

Mixed Media

Madame X (original lego art with frame)
Located in New York, NY
Madame X (original lego art with frame). Made completely of legos. About the Artist: Joseph Kraham is an "engineering artist". He combines thousand...
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2010s Conceptual Sculptures

Materials

Mixed Media

Gil Scullion, You Walk, 2017, 20 sheets stacked hand-cut paper
Located in Darien, CT
Where do we come from? Where are we going? What the hell is going on here? 2017-2018 Hand cut paper in wood box Gil Scullion’s conceptual text-based work has been featured in exhibi...
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2010s Conceptual Sculptures

Materials

Paper

Found Object Wall Sculpture/Relief by Gertie Lowe
By Gertie Lowe
Located in Long Island City, NY
Wall sculpture assemblage by Gertie Lowe, from 1978, is a conceptual abstract with everyday objects. Muted neutral tones are contrasted with vibrant accents. Signed and dated verso...
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1970s Conceptual Sculptures

Materials

Plastic, Wood

Fritz Horstman, Formwork for Branching Stream, 2017, Wood, Walnut
Located in Darien, CT
While working on a large building project several years ago the artist, Fritz Horstman was struck by the poetry in the unfinished state of the construction site. He was drawn specifically to the space between the plywood walls that were raised as formworks for the pouring of cement. That space could only exist for a few hours before the cement truck...
Category

2010s Conceptual Sculptures

Materials

Wood, Walnut

French Contemporary Sculpture by Beatrice De Domenico - Rise and Shine
Located in Paris, IDF
Beatrice de Domenico is a French sculptor born in 1956 who lives & works in Nice, France. She works between traditional sculpture, classical sculpture and teachings from Nouveaux Réa...
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2010s Conceptual Sculptures

Materials

Mixed Media

"Attention Oh Sorry Nevermind" - Contemporary Street Sign Sculpture
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Scott Froschauer is an experimental artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, where his primary focus is exploring new spaces and techniques for communication. This series "Word on ...
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2010s Conceptual Sculptures

Materials

Metal

Starry Night - Original Lego Creation
Located in New York, NY
Homage to Vincent Van Gogh. Made completely of legos. About the Artist: Joseph Kraham is an "engineering artist". He combines thousands of Lego pi...
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2010s Conceptual Sculptures

Materials

Mixed Media

Shoe 3 - bronze shoe sculpture
Located in Glen Ellen, CA
This cast bronze shoe sculpture is patterned in an elaborate gold and black patina and stuffed with bright and shiny hard candies. From world-renowned artist Steve Tobin's bronze "Shoe" series of 100 shoes, each one is completely unique. The dimensions shown are approximate. "Shoe" sizes in the series range from US women's size 6-10. "Shoes" are available individually or in groups. The listed price reflects a single shoe. For the "Shoe Wall...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

French Contemporary Sculpture by Beatrice De Domenico - Wood Block Printing
Located in Paris, IDF
Beatrice de Domenico is a French sculptor born in 1956 who lives & works in Nice, France. She works between traditional sculpture, classical sculpture and teachings from Nouveaux Réa...
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2010s Conceptual Sculptures

Materials

Mixed Media

The Terminator - Original Lego Work of Art
Located in New York, NY
Figurative, portrait art - The Terminator - Arnold Schwarzenegger. Made completely of legos. About the Artist: Joseph Kraham is an "engineering art...
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2010s Conceptual Sculptures

Materials

Mixed Media

Nonsense (Gas Mask), Unique Bronze Sculpture by Mark Eastridge
By Mark Eastridge
Located in Long Island City, NY
A bronze sculpture by Mark Eastridge. A surrealist composition of a bronze case gas mask sitting atop a glove. Artist: Mark Eastridge, American Title: Nonsense (Gas Mask) Medium: Br...
Category

Late 20th Century Conceptual Sculptures

Materials

Granite, Bronze

Shoe 6 - bronze shoe sculpture
Located in Glen Ellen, CA
This cast bronze shoe sculpture has a handful of bright green peapods stuffed into the colorful leopard print shoe. From world-renowned artist Stev...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

"Untitled Environment" 3d printed
Located in Southampton, NY
In a statement Roesch says: "The spires describe my journey on the planet. I have placed spires in rows, in star patterns, and in random placement. The spires in Random placement are...
Category

2010s Conceptual Sculptures

Materials

Plexiglass, Mixed Media

Untitled (double dip)
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original conceptual blown glass wall sculpture by American artist Roberley Bell. IN CURRENT SHOW The Corridors Gallery at Hotel Henry Fall Show Untitled (double dip...
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Early 2000s Conceptual Sculptures

Materials

Plastic, Found Objects, Fiberboard

"Relax" - Contemporary Street Sign Sculpture
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Scott Froschauer is an experimental artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, where his primary focus is exploring new spaces and techniques for communication. This series "Word on ...
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2010s Conceptual Sculptures

Materials

Metal

French Contemporary Sculpture by Beatrice De Domenico - Bunch of Flowers
Located in Paris, IDF
Beatrice de Domenico is a French sculptor born in 1956 who lives & works in Nice, France. She works between traditional sculpture, classical sculpture and teachings from Nouveaux Réa...
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2010s Conceptual Sculptures

Materials

Mixed Media

Sculpture: 'Pair of Chopines'
Located in New York, NY
The artistic collaboration of Kelly Bugden + Van Wifvat has produced a thought-provoking body of sculptures, paintings, and constructions. Nature, childhood memories, and everyday archetypes take shape in unexpected combinations of materials. The works emerged as the tactile and visual senses channeled the ritualistic power and materiality of selected artifacts. The resulting objects exist in a space between what they were originally and what they could become. A wheel, for example, is distorted as if seen through a prism. Their collaboration grew out of years of shaping materials into one-of-a-kind objects. Intuitively, the process of creating with their hands took an inward turn. Prism is a travelogue through memories and dreams, yielding abstract forms that capture moments of transformation. Van Wifvat grew up with eight siblings and studied sculpture and environmental design in Minneapolis at MCAD. In 1979, he opened a storefront art gallery to promote the work of local artists. The space featured printed materials—art books, periodicals, fanzines, and postcard’s. Wifvat moved to New York in 1983 to study at the Fashion Institute of Technology and Parsons. In 1987, he co-founded Van Gregory & Norton design studio, specializing in convex mirrors and curtain hardware...
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2010s Conceptual Sculptures

Materials

Gesso, Muslin, Wood

French Contemporary Sculpture by Beatrice De Domenico - This is Not a Banch
Located in Paris, IDF
Beatrice de Domenico is a French sculptor born in 1956 who lives & works in Nice, France. She works between traditional sculpture, classical sculpture and teachings from Nouveaux Réa...
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2010s Conceptual Sculptures

Materials

Mixed Media

French Contemporary Sculpture by Beatrice De Domenico - Two Sided
Located in Paris, IDF
Beatrice de Domenico is a French sculptor born in 1956 who lives & works in Nice, France. She works between traditional sculpture, classical sculp...
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2010s Conceptual Sculptures

Materials

Mixed Media

Prelude to Dawn
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original conceptual hand carved and joined wood wall sculpture by Kevin Kegler. This work is currently featured in the artist's solo exhibition inside The Corridors Gallery at ...
Category

2010s Conceptual Sculptures

Materials

Copper

"You Are ...." Contemporary Street Sign Sculpture
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Scott Froschauer is an experimental artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, where his primary focus is exploring new spaces and techniques for communication. This series "Word on ...
Category

2010s Conceptual Sculptures

Materials

Metal

"Start" - Contemporary Street Sign Sculpture
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Scott Froschauer is an experimental artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, where his primary focus is exploring new spaces and techniques for communication. This series "Word on ...
Category

2010s Conceptual Sculptures

Materials

Metal

"We Are The Ones" - Contemporary Street Sign Sculpture
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Scott Froschauer is an experimental artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, where his primary focus is exploring new spaces and techniques for comm...
Category

2010s Conceptual Sculptures

Materials

Metal

Bethany Krull Cat Tree Ceramic Paper Clay Green Conceptual Modern Sculpture
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original hand built porcelain and paper sculpture by contemporary conceptual American artist Bethany Krull. Cattree, 2019 Paper, paint, wire, soil, found table This work is currently featured in the artist's solo exhibition inside The Corridors Gallery at Hotel Henry...
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2010s Conceptual Sculptures

Materials

Clay, Found Objects, Porcelain, Handmade Paper

Broken Wall
By Curtis Mitchell
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Curtis Mitchell, American (1954 - ) Title: Broken Wall Year: 1989 Medium: Mixed Media Wall Sculpture (Plaster, Resin, Acrylic), signed and dated ...
Category

1980s Conceptual Sculptures

Materials

Resin, Plaster, Acrylic

"How Far To Now" - Contemporary Street Art Sculptures
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Scott Froschauer is an experimental artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, where his primary focus is exploring new spaces and techniques for comm...
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2010s Conceptual Sculptures

Materials

Metal

"Attention Take Note" - Contemporary Street Sign Sculpture
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Scott Froschauer is an experimental artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, where his primary focus is exploring new spaces and techniques for communication. This series "Word on ...
Category

2010s Conceptual Sculptures

Materials

Metal

Paintbrushes (Orange Red and Green) IV
Located in Long Island City, NY
An accumulation sculpture of paintbrushes by the great accumulator sculptor, Arman. This work features 13 paintbrushes with various shades of paint in oranges, greens, and reds again...
Category

1990s Conceptual Sculptures

Materials

Resin, Paint

Jo Yarrington, Mute-Ability_Composition 5, 2019_acrylic, steel, player piano rol
Located in Darien, CT
Jo Yarrington’s photographs, prints, works on paper, glass sculptures and architecturally-based installations have been shown in exhibitions at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Yale University, Cornell University, the Museum of Glass, the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Artists Space, St. John the Divine Cathedral, Grounds for Sculpture, the Museum of American Glass and ODETTA, among others. International exhibitions have included Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow Cathedral, Glasgow University, Galeria Sala Uno and Centro de las Artes de Guanajuato. She represented the United States at the Sharjah Biennial, United Arab Emirates and participated in the Berlin Biennial. in 2010 she received the Bronze Prize, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia. Yarrington is a recipient of artist grants and Fellowships from the Pollock Krasner Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism. She has received Residency Fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Museum of Glass, the Museum of American Glass, the Bridge Virtual Residency/ SciArt Center, the Lucile Walton Fellow/Mountain Lake Biological Station, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, the Anderson Center and the Ucross Foundation, among others. International grants and fellowships have included the Banff Center for Arts and Creativity/Canada, SIMS Residency/ Iceland, Cill Rialaig Artists Residency/Ireland, the Burren College of Art Residency/Ireland and the American Scandinavian Foundation. She is a Professor of Visual and Performing Arts at Fairfield University and lives and works in New York City. STATEMENT In site-specific exhibitions, public art commissions, collaborative and individual projects Jo Yarrington has used varied combinations of glass, waxed surfaces, found artifacts and experimental analog photography to investigate the way we perceive – searching for, experimenting with and developing throughout a sensory-based vernacular. Her mostly translucent materials function as physical framework and symbolic membrane. Light, both natural and ambient, provides a kinetic or time-based element to her work. Scale and the integration of architecture are also pivotal components. In the 6-part installation for the two-person exhibition Illuminated, Yarrington continues her interest in the connections between vision, sound and language. In Mute-ability: Compositions 1 – 6, her title for this light-based comprehensive work, she combines the words mute and malleability. The work focuses on found piano rolls, a music storage medium, originally conceived as coded notations or ‘note control data’ for music produced in pneumatic player pianos...
Category

2010s Conceptual Sculptures

Materials

Steel

Monocromo rojo quemado
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
Eduardo Costa is one of the key figures in global conceptual art. He was born in Buenos Aires in 1940. He graduated in Literature and Art at the University of Buenos Aires in 1965 where he took courses with Jorge Luis Borges in the late fifties. His practice developed into Conceptual POP with the Fashion Fictions Series, 1966-to the present. He is also credited with creating Conceptual Geometry which he showed internationally starting in 1995 at the Elga Wimmer Gallery, NY, and in 2001 at Cecilia de Torres LTD., NY. With Cecilia de Torres he exhibited a fully developed edition of his Volumetric Paintings, which use painting to such a volume that it stands by itself without any cloth or other support.Eduardo Costa lived twenty-five years in New York and over four years in Rio de Janeiro where he met almost daily with Hélio Oiticica, Lygia Pape...
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2010s Conceptual Sculptures

Materials

Acrylic

Sculpture, abstract record player: 'Kristallo'
Located in New York, NY
The artistic collaboration of Kelly Bugden + Van Wifvat has produced a thought-provoking body of sculptures, paintings, and constructions. Nature, childhood memories, and everyday ar...
Category

2010s Conceptual Sculptures

Materials

Steel, Brass

Fritz Horstman, Formwork for a Square Pad, 2015, Steel, Wood, Maple
Located in Darien, CT
While working on a large building project several years ago the artist, Fritz Horstman was struck by the poetry in the unfinished state of the construction site. He was drawn specifically to the space between the plywood walls that were raised as formworks for the pouring of cement. That space could only exist for a few hours before the cement truck...
Category

2010s Conceptual Sculptures

Materials

Steel

Jo Yarrington, Mute-Ability_Composition 6, 2019_acrylic, steel, player piano rol
Located in Darien, CT
Jo Yarrington’s photographs, prints, works on paper, glass sculptures and architecturally-based installations have been shown in exhibitions at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Yale University, Cornell University, the Museum of Glass, the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Artists Space, St. John the Divine Cathedral, Grounds for Sculpture, the Museum of American Glass and ODETTA, among others. International exhibitions have included Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow Cathedral, Glasgow University, Galeria Sala Uno and Centro de las Artes de Guanajuato. She represented the United States at the Sharjah Biennial, United Arab Emirates and participated in the Berlin Biennial. in 2010 she received the Bronze Prize, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia. Yarrington is a recipient of artist grants and Fellowships from the Pollock Krasner Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism. She has received Residency Fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Museum of Glass, the Museum of American Glass, the Bridge Virtual Residency/ SciArt Center, the Lucile Walton Fellow/Mountain Lake Biological Station, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, the Anderson Center and the Ucross Foundation, among others. International grants and fellowships have included the Banff Center for Arts and Creativity/Canada, SIMS Residency/ Iceland, Cill Rialaig Artists Residency/Ireland, the Burren College of Art Residency/Ireland and the American Scandinavian Foundation. She is a Professor of Visual and Performing Arts at Fairfield University and lives and works in New York City. STATEMENT In site-specific exhibitions, public art commissions, collaborative and individual projects Jo Yarrington has used varied combinations of glass, waxed surfaces, found artifacts and experimental analog photography to investigate the way we perceive – searching for, experimenting with and developing throughout a sensory-based vernacular. Her mostly translucent materials function as physical framework and symbolic membrane. Light, both natural and ambient, provides a kinetic or time-based element to her work. Scale and the integration of architecture are also pivotal components. In the 6-part installation for the two-person exhibition Illuminated, Yarrington continues her interest in the connections between vision, sound and language. In Mute-ability: Compositions 1 – 6, her title for this light-based comprehensive work, she combines the words mute and malleability. The work focuses on found piano rolls, a music storage medium, originally conceived as coded notations or ‘note control data’ for music produced in pneumatic player pianos...
Category

2010s Conceptual Sculptures

Materials

Steel

Felice Koenig Contemporary Painting Wall Sculpture Blue Silver Red Metallic
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original wall sculpture by American female artist Felice Koenig. Koenig covers carved polystyrene forms with layers upon layers of acrylic dots. The works take Koenig around 6 m...
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2010s Conceptual Sculptures

Materials

Polystyrene, Acrylic

Jo Yarrington, See-matics - Answer, 2019, acrylic, 9 x 22 inches
Located in Darien, CT
Jo Yarrington’s photographs, prints, works on paper, glass sculptures and architecturally-based installations have been shown in exhibitions at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Y...
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2010s Conceptual Sculptures

Materials

Plexiglass

Jo Yarrington, See-matics - Voice, 2019, acrylic, 9 x 22 inches
Located in Darien, CT
Jo Yarrington’s photographs, prints, works on paper, glass sculptures and architecturally-based installations have been shown in exhibitions at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Y...
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2010s Conceptual Sculptures

Materials

Plexiglass

Alkyd Enamel Oil Painting Half A Thought Cut Panel Wall Hanging Modern Sculpture
Located in Surfside, FL
Oil-based alkyd enamel on plywood panel with cuts. this is a cut plywood wall relief sculpture with paint on it. This has an architectural quality to it. Peter Wegner (born 1963) is an American artist whose works consist of painting, photograph, collage, prints, artist's books, and large-scale installations Born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Peter Wegner earned his BA at Yale University. He works in multiple media, ranging from paintings and photography to large-scale installations and wall works. His pieces are included in major public and private collections worldwide. He currently lives and works in Berkeley, California. A core theme in Wegner's work is color. Professor, author, and critic Eve Meltzer noted in a 2002 review that “color may be the… center” of his entire practice. The artist first began deconstructing the subject in the late 1990s with his "Remarks on Color" series, which used commercial paint chip samples as their starting point. Another theme identified by experts is Wegner's engagement with architecture. For example, in his photography series "Buildings Made of Sky," Wegner reverses urban streetscapes to reveal how skyscrapers shape the open-air spaces between one another into skyscraper-like forms of their own. Wegner has also often pushed the construction of his works in an architectural direction, presenting paintings in the form of leaning columns, complex lattices, and multi-layered scrims. Huldisch noted that “[h]is stacks, grids, and lattice structures reveal both an interest in the forms of Minimalism and a rejection of the stringent doctrine that predicated them." Wegner's early work focuses on everyday artifacts embedded in popular culture, including typography specimens (the basis for the "American Types" series), commercial paint chips (in the "Remarks on Color" series), and security envelopes (in the "Security" series). Wegner produced in 2005 the "Lever Labyrinth," a human-scale maze composed of 2.2 million sheets of stacked paper––all in various shades of green, creating columns of subtly gradating color––constructed inside the Lever House building. In 2008, Wegner executed the major paper installation "GUILLOTINE OF SUNLIGHT, GUILLOTINE OF SHADE" at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The piece consisted of 1.4 millions sheets of die-cut paper in 40 hues, arranged to create two 12’ x 26.5’ x 7" color gradations inside the museum: a wall progressing from blue to yellow in one gallery, and a wall progressing from yellow to red in another. Around this same time, Wegner introduced two new elements into his work: time and neon. He combined both in 2007 to create “THE UNITED STATES OF NOTHING,” which included time-controlled neon signage showing the name, latitude, and longitude of every U.S. city that invokes the concept of nothingness. He has showed at William Griffin Gallery. The gallery has featured solo exhibitions by James Turrell, Richard Long, Robert Rauschenberg, David Lynch, Ed Ruscha, Richard Serra, Tony Smith, Peter Wegner, Greg Colson, Liza Ryan and others. It has presented group exhibitions such as Early California Minimalism, a survey of significant early works by Robert Irwin, John McCracken, and Craig Kauffman; and Wall Installations, with works by Maya Lin, James Turrell, Richard Long, Robert Therrien, Teresita Fernández, Karin Sander, Peter Wegner, and Kira Lynn Harris. It has also presented projects of work by Richard Tuttle, Ana Mendieta...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Sculptures

Materials

Enamel

Jo Yarrington, Mute-Ability_Composition 2, 2019_acrylic, steel, player piano rol
Located in Darien, CT
Jo Yarrington’s photographs, prints, works on paper, glass sculptures and architecturally-based installations have been shown in exhibitions at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Yale University, Cornell University, the Museum of Glass, the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Artists Space, St. John the Divine Cathedral, Grounds for Sculpture, the Museum of American Glass and ODETTA, among others. International exhibitions have included Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow Cathedral, Glasgow University, Galeria Sala Uno and Centro de las Artes de Guanajuato. She represented the United States at the Sharjah Biennial, United Arab Emirates and participated in the Berlin Biennial. in 2010 she received the Bronze Prize, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia. Yarrington is a recipient of artist grants and Fellowships from the Pollock Krasner Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism. She has received Residency Fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Museum of Glass, the Museum of American Glass, the Bridge Virtual Residency/ SciArt Center, the Lucile Walton Fellow/Mountain Lake Biological Station, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, the Anderson Center and the Ucross Foundation, among others. International grants and fellowships have included the Banff Center for Arts and Creativity/Canada, SIMS Residency/ Iceland, Cill Rialaig Artists Residency/Ireland, the Burren College of Art Residency/Ireland and the American Scandinavian Foundation. She is a Professor of Visual and Performing Arts at Fairfield University and lives and works in New York City. STATEMENT In site-specific exhibitions, public art commissions, collaborative and individual projects Jo Yarrington has used varied combinations of glass, waxed surfaces, found artifacts and experimental analog photography to investigate the way we perceive – searching for, experimenting with and developing throughout a sensory-based vernacular. Her mostly translucent materials function as physical framework and symbolic membrane. Light, both natural and ambient, provides a kinetic or time-based element to her work. Scale and the integration of architecture are also pivotal components. In the 6-part installation for the two-person exhibition Illuminated, Yarrington continues her interest in the connections between vision, sound and language. In Mute-ability: Compositions 1 – 6, her title for this light-based comprehensive work, she combines the words mute and malleability. The work focuses on found piano rolls, a music storage medium, originally conceived as coded notations or ‘note control data’ for music produced in pneumatic player pianos...
Category

2010s Conceptual Sculptures

Materials

Steel

Katherine Jackson, Suspension of Disbelief, 2015, Graphite, Paper, Framed
Located in Darien, CT
Drawing, glass, and light: these three ingredients are the basis of Katherine Jackson’s work. She begins with drawing, which sometimes becomes an end...
Category

2010s Conceptual Sculptures

Materials

Glass, Graphite

Jo Yarrington, Mute-Ability_Composition 4, 2019_acrylic, steel, player piano rol
Located in Darien, CT
Jo Yarrington’s photographs, prints, works on paper, glass sculptures and architecturally-based installations have been shown in exhibitions at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Yale University, Cornell University, the Museum of Glass, the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Artists Space, St. John the Divine Cathedral, Grounds for Sculpture, the Museum of American Glass and ODETTA, among others. International exhibitions have included Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow Cathedral, Glasgow University, Galeria Sala Uno and Centro de las Artes de Guanajuato. She represented the United States at the Sharjah Biennial, United Arab Emirates and participated in the Berlin Biennial. in 2010 she received the Bronze Prize, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia. Yarrington is a recipient of artist grants and Fellowships from the Pollock Krasner Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism. She has received Residency Fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Museum of Glass, the Museum of American Glass, the Bridge Virtual Residency/ SciArt Center, the Lucile Walton Fellow/Mountain Lake Biological Station, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, the Anderson Center and the Ucross Foundation, among others. International grants and fellowships have included the Banff Center for Arts and Creativity/Canada, SIMS Residency/ Iceland, Cill Rialaig Artists Residency/Ireland, the Burren College of Art Residency/Ireland and the American Scandinavian Foundation. She is a Professor of Visual and Performing Arts at Fairfield University and lives and works in New York City. STATEMENT In site-specific exhibitions, public art commissions, collaborative and individual projects Jo Yarrington has used varied combinations of glass, waxed surfaces, found artifacts and experimental analog photography to investigate the way we perceive – searching for, experimenting with and developing throughout a sensory-based vernacular. Her mostly translucent materials function as physical framework and symbolic membrane. Light, both natural and ambient, provides a kinetic or time-based element to her work. Scale and the integration of architecture are also pivotal components. In the 6-part installation for the two-person exhibition Illuminated, Yarrington continues her interest in the connections between vision, sound and language. In Mute-ability: Compositions 1 – 6, her title for this light-based comprehensive work, she combines the words mute and malleability. The work focuses on found piano rolls, a music storage medium, originally conceived as coded notations or ‘note control data’ for music produced in pneumatic player pianos...
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2010s Conceptual Sculptures

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Steel

Revolve
Located in Santa Monica, CA
twisted newspaper obituaries
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Sculptures

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Mixed Media

"Peace" - Contemporary Street Sign Sculpture
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Scott Froschauer is an experimental artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, where his primary focus is exploring new spaces and techniques for comm...
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2010s Conceptual Sculptures

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Metal

Katherine Jackson, Suspension of Disbelief II, 2015, Graphite, Paper, Framed
Located in Darien, CT
Drawing, glass, and light: these three ingredients are the basis of Katherine Jackson’s work. She begins with drawing, which sometimes becomes an end...
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2010s Conceptual Sculptures

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Graphite, Glass

Contemporary Porcelain Sculpture Poodle Purple Dog Animal Bethany Krull
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original hand built porcelain and paper sculpture by contemporary conceptual American artist Bethany Krull.
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2010s Conceptual Sculptures

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Porcelain

Highly conceptual mixed media wall sculpture Contemporary Cat charm rabbit foot
Located in Buffalo, NY
No Fear (Trapper Keeper) UV print on aluminum, chain, jewelry, keychain, sticker, Croc Jibbitz, rabbit’s foot, Tamagotchi 18x48” 2019 $975 Eternal Flame i...
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2010s Conceptual Sculptures

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Metal

Americano 1/7, 2/7, 3/7, 4/7, 5/7
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
He refers to the history of art, particularly to pop culture and the social circumstances of its local environment as well as its universal confrontation. Humor and irony with a crit...
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2010s Conceptual Sculptures

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Bronze

El sueño de Acteón
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
He refers to the history of art, particularly to pop culture and the social circumstances of its local environment as well as its universal confrontation. Humor and irony with a crit...
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2010s Conceptual Sculptures

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Bronze

Fritz Horstman, Formwork for a Rectangle 2, 2014, Wood, Plywood
Located in Darien, CT
While working on a large building project several years ago the artist, Fritz Horstman was struck by the poetry in the unfinished state of the construction site. He was drawn specifically to the space between the plywood walls that were raised as formworks for the pouring of cement. That space could only exist for a few hours before the cement truck...
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2010s Conceptual Sculptures

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Wood, Plywood

Bound to Read - Autobiographical Straightjacket
Located in Mill Valley, CA
Straightjacket with vinyl hardback book covers stitched with leather details.
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2010s Conceptual Sculptures

Materials

Mixed Media

"Yield Heart" - Contemporary Street Sign Sculpture
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Scott Froschauer is an experimental artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, where his primary focus is exploring new spaces and techniques for communication. This series "Word on ...
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2010s Conceptual Sculptures

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Metal

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