Contemporary Sculptures
CONTEMPORARY STYLE
Used to refer to a time rather than an aesthetic, Contemporary art generally describes pieces created after 1970 or being made by living artists anywhere in the world. This immediacy means it encompasses art responding to the present moment through diverse subjects, media and themes. Contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, performance, digital art, video and more frequently includes work that is attempting to reshape current ideas about what art can be, from Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s use of candy to memorialize a lover he lost to AIDS-related complications to Jenny Holzer’s ongoing “Truisms,” a Conceptual series that sees provocative messages printed on billboards, T-shirts, benches and other public places that exist outside of formal exhibitions and the conventional “white cube” of galleries.
Contemporary art has been pushing the boundaries of creative expression for years. Its disruption of the traditional concepts of art are often aiming to engage viewers in complex questions about identity, society and culture. In the latter part of the 20th century, contemporary movements included Land art, in which artists like Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer create large-scale, site-specific sculptures, installations and other works in soil and bodies of water; Sound art, with artists such as Christian Marclay and Susan Philipsz centering art on sonic experiences; and New Media art, in which mass media and digital culture inform the work of artists such as Nam June Paik and Rafaël Rozendaal.
The first decades of the 21st century have seen the growth of Contemporary African art, the revival of figurative painting, the emergence of street art and the rise of NFTs, unique digital artworks that are powered by blockchain technology.
Major Contemporary artists practicing now include Ai Weiwei, Cecily Brown, David Hockney, Yayoi Kusama, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami and Kara Walker.
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By Jane Manus
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Jane Manus has been continuously developing her oeuvre of forceful geometric sculptures since the 1970s, when as a young, female artist at the Art Institute of Boston she learned to ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Black Cube
By Jane Manus
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Jane Manus has been continuously developing her oeuvre of forceful geometric sculptures since the 1970s, when as a young, female artist at the Art Institute of Boston she learned to ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Singing Bowl Mercury - gold, black, meditative, stainless steel garden sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Artist Marlene Hilton Moore continues to explore the theme of listening with the creation of more beautiful ‘singing bowls.’ Like ancient vessels they are intended to be objects of m...
Category
2010s Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Untitled F
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Peter Reginato’s signature compositions in welded steel are a lively vocabulary of Matisse’s biomorphic shapes and Miro’s quirky symbols, spirals, zigs and zags; all surprising and d...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Enamel, Steel
Dream
By Joseph Havel
Located in Houston, TX
Joseph Havel
Dream, 2004
Double woven silk taffeta labels in an acrylic construction
13 1/2 x 12 1/2 x 1 3/4 inches
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Fabric
Radiant - silver, abstract human face, steel aircraft cable wall sculpture
By Dale Dunning
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Strands of steel aircraft cable are woven into a silent, glittering mask by sculptor Dale Dunning. Strand ends frame the mask like a radiant, glimmering halo.
Canadian sculptor...
Category
2010s Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Rest
By Joseph Havel
Located in Houston, TX
Joseph Havel
Rest, 2004
Double woven silk taffeta labels in an acrylic construction
13 1/2 x 12 1/2 x 1 3/4 inches
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Fabric
Four Ring Temps Zero Pink - geometric abstract, stainless steel sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Hot pink pops from the interior of four intersecting polished stainless-steel rings in this contemporary tabletop sculpture by Quebec a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
COSMOGONY #13
Located in New York, NY
Porcelain egg inspired sculpture. From the FLOWER TO BEE exhibition, winter 2020. Included in Exhibition catalogue.
Category
2010s Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
COSMOGONY #15
Located in New York, NY
Porcelain egg inspired sculpture. From FLOWER TO BEE exhibition, Winter 2020. Included in the catalogue.
Category
2010s Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
COSMOGONY #18
Located in New York, NY
Porcelain egg inspired abstract sculpture. From FLOWER TO BEE exhibition, Winter 2019. Included in Catalogue.
Category
2010s Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Synchrony - bright, glossy, fuchsia, smooth surfaced, abstract, wall sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
In shiny hot pink, two vertical rectangles sit side by side ‘in sync’ in this elegant wall sculpture by California artist, Lori Cozen-Geller.
Cozen-Geller’s work is minimalism, and h...
Category
2010s Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Laminate, Wood, Automotive Paint
Bough Laden With Candy Apple Green - bright, abstract, steel wall sculpture
By Shayne Dark
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Steel, coated in a glossy candy apple green is hand forged into a delicately detailed bough by Canadian master sculptor Shayne Dark. This wall sculpture, like most of Dark’s work is ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Fischring und Stern / Fish Ring and Star
Located in New York, NY
Katharina Fritsch
Fischring und Stern / Fish Ring and Star
1983/1994
Painted fiberglass and lacquered brass
Fish Ring: 3 1/4 inches (diameter); 8 cm
Star: 3 3/4 inches (diameter); 10...
Category
1990s Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Brass
Truth and Illusions - textured, white, modernist glass wall sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Recalling images of snow and ice, this modernist wall sculpture is by Cheryl Wilson Smith. The Canadian artist lives where the road ends in Northern Ontario surrounded by lakes, rock...
Category
2010s Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Glass
Marble & Idaho Green Quartzite 4
Located in New York, NY
Born in Pasadena and raised in Orange County, Elizabeth Turk earned her M.F.A. at the Rinehart School of Sculpture, Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore.
In Turk’s work, the shape of the line is created by extreme loss. That is, the reductive process of carving creates a positive, fragile form in which the absence of the original material is a focus. Turk encourages us to consider how nature has shaped these organic materials long before the artist’s manipulation of them into new forms. When viewed as components in a complex natural system, their singular beauty and inherent mystery is revealed. Turk compels us to view works of art not only as objects to be coveted and collected, but also as expressions of the natural world and our evolving relation to it.
A recipient of numerous awards, including a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (2010), a Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation Fellowship (2010), and a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship (2011), Turk is internationally recognized for transforming her signature medium of marble into strikingly intricate objects that defy convention and challenge our preconceptions of what marble can do. Through the use of electric grinders, dental tools...
Category
2010s Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Stone, Marble
Home 2
Located in New York, NY
Born in Pasadena and raised in Orange County, Elizabeth Turk earned her M.F.A. at the Rinehart School of Sculpture, Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore.
In Turk’s work, the shape of the line is created by extreme loss. That is, the reductive process of carving creates a positive, fragile form in which the absence of the original material is a focus. Turk encourages us to consider how nature has shaped these organic materials long before the artist’s manipulation of them into new forms. When viewed as components in a complex natural system, their singular beauty and inherent mystery is revealed. Turk compels us to view works of art not only as objects to be coveted and collected, but also as expressions of the natural world and our evolving relation to it.
A recipient of numerous awards, including a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (2010), a Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation Fellowship (2010), and a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship (2011), Turk is internationally recognized for transforming her signature medium of marble into strikingly intricate objects that defy convention and challenge our preconceptions of what marble can do. Through the use of electric grinders, dental tools...
Category
2010s Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Granite Craig - dynamic textured, grey, yellow, rust, glass sculpted wall relief
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This ruggedly beautiful wall sculpture was created by the glass artist, Cheryl Wilson Smith.
Granite Craig is so detailed and natural in its design that it looks as if it had been ch...
Category
2010s Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Glass
Conviction, Blue - bright, blue, glossy smooth surfaced, abstract wall sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
In Ford Shelby Blue, this dramatic sculpture by California artist Lori Cozen-Geller is rooted in minimalism. Using the rich glossy palette of cars—a nod to the west coast’s car cultu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Laminate, Wood, Automotive Paint
Persephone's Six Seeds - bright, red, pomegranate, glass, still life sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Clustered and sensuous oblong forms in translucent red glass have a smooth polished surface like the fruit that surrounds pomegranate seeds. A single seed sits next to the cluster. T...
Category
2010s Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Blown Glass
Bull - playful, modern, abstract, contemporary, tabletop, fibreglass sculpture
By Benny Katz
Located in Bloomfield, ON
The distinctive shape of a bull’s head attached to a horn-like stand pops in glossy bright colours of red, yellow and black in this whimsical sculpture by Benny Katz. As a former gra...
Category
2010s Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Metal
The Pleiades-Asterope 3/8 - emotive, nude, female, figurative, bronze statuette
Located in Bloomfield, ON
The striking figure of a nude female, arms stretched above her head is the subject of this bronze sculpture by Canadian artist Richard Tosczak. Known for his beautiful figurative wor...
Category
2010s Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Disruption II, Mixed media wall sculpture
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Disruption II, 2019 by Hunter & Gatti
Acrylic And Oil Pastel On Pigment Print
Image size: 36 cm. H x 28 cm. W
UNFRAMED
This piece is part of the H&G series titled "Nothing Stays Sti...
Category
2010s Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic, Black and White, Archival Pigment
Zephyr Minor 5/50 - smooth, black, granite, indoor/outdoor, abstract sculpture
By Jeremy Guy
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Smooth surfaced, black granite flecked almost imperceptibly with copper and white has been engineered into an elegant ribbon in tangible contrast to its weight. This work has a stee...
Category
2010s Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Granite
Arethusa immerses herself in the Alpheus river - figurative, bronze statuette
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This large bronze statuette of a reclining nude with legs outstretched, arms tucked in and straining to sit up was created rapidly in gestures that verge on abstraction. The modern a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Intensity - Textured Red Copper Glass Sculpted Wall Relief
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Wafers of red copper glass frit are stacked and layered in this modernist wall sculpture by Cheryl Wilson Smith. Wilson Smith's work is created by forming minute glass particles, kno...
Category
2010s Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Glass
Daedalus 2/7 - abstracted, repurposed metal, gothic, figurative wall sculpture
By Dale Dunning
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Repurposed lead type, welded together to form the haunted face of this piece, is cast in aluminum by Dale Dunning. The addition of wings complete the narrative in this piece of Daeda...
Category
2010s Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Metal
"One Just Knows"
By Brad Howe
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
BRAD HOWE
BIBLIOGRAPHY
• Art Ltd. Magazine, Nov/Dec 2016, Woodland Hills, California, November 2016
• University Hospitals, Artwork from the Collection of University Hospitals, Clev...
Category
2010s Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Rat Trapper 1 of 3 - life size, male, figurative, narrative resin wall sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Edgy life size wall sculpture of a somber faced man, with both rat and trap dangling from his neck.
(b.1989, Kingston, ON) Nicholas Crombach graduated from OCAD University’s Sculpt...
Category
2010s Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Tangled - silver, abstract human face, stainless steel and cable wall sculpture
By Dale Dunning
Located in Bloomfield, ON
A continuous strand of slender, silver aircraft cable is threaded through polished squares of stainless steel to create an ethereal mask. The compelling work by Dale Dunning is powde...
Category
2010s Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Stainless Steel
Untitled (Horse)
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A wall sculpture by Deborah Butterfield. This Untitled (Horse) wall sculpture is constructed from sticks and paper on wire armature by contemporary artist Deborah Butterfield. This D...
Category
1980s Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Wire
Black Slider - glossy black, nature inspired, abstract, glazed ceramic vessel
Located in Bloomfield, ON
In a stunning glossy black, master ceramicist Steven Heinemann has created this unique handcrafted sculpture. Heineman’s work is often inspired by the natural world and its ancient h...
Category
2010s Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Finding - textured, white, modernist, layered glass wall sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This dynamic wall sculpture was handmade by Cheryl Wilson Smith. Inspired by the rugged beauty of her Northern Ontario home—the lakes, the trees...
Category
2010s Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Glass
Ice Ridge No 3 - dynamic, textured, white, glass sculpted wall relief
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Slivers of cool white glass frit create layers, stacked in squares and formed into a dynamic crescent by sculptor Cheryl Wilson Smith. This wall sculpture evokes fragility through it...
Category
2010s Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Glass
Hound 2/8 - small, grey, white, blue, figurative, dog, wildlife, resin sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
A cast resin figurine of a hound who has hunted a fox, which in turn has hunted a goose is patinated in indigo, black and white by emerging sculptor Nicholas Crombach. The work refl...
Category
2010s Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Paint
From the Earth: Red Seeds - luscious pomegranate red glass, still life sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Clustered and sensuous oblong forms in translucent red glass have a smooth polished surface like the fruit that surrounds pomegranate seeds. A single seed sits next to the cluster. T...
Category
2010s Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Blown Glass
High Sierra - pink, blue, contemporary, abstract, stainless steel sculpture
By Viktor Mitic
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Captivated by the colour, form, and pattern of paint splatterings on the floor of his Toronto studio, artist Viktor Mitic re-imagined them as playful abstract sculptures. High Sierra...
Category
2010s Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Press - tall, steam-punk inspired, human face, lead, aluminum and iron sculpture
By Dale Dunning
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This steam-punk inspired metal sculpture incorporates Dunning's mask motif in metal print typeface and a re-purposed cast iron squeeze jolt molding machine. This machine was used to press sand in a flask around a pattern for molds used by foundries. The powerful 6.5 foot tall indoor sculpture...
Category
2010s Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Times 3 - elegant, blown glass, metal, abstract hanging wall sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Three blown glass orbs that contain assembled clock works, wheels, sprockets and coils, hang from fine chain in this unique wall sculpture. The elegant orbs in three sizes are define...
Category
2010s Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Probability R - red glass, copper, translucent abstract suspended wall sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Arcs of glowing crimson glass are curated into elegant overlapping waves in this wall sculpture by Canadian artist John Paul Robinson. The design of the ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Metal
On a Course - a narrative of journey and change, mixed media, paper and vessel
Located in Bloomfield, ON
A canoe shaped ceramic vessel glazed in light brown and pierced by a darning needle is perched on a floating shelf below a mixed media work on paper. The image repeats the canoe shap...
Category
2010s Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Cocoon Series Smoky Grey and White - textured, translucent, glass wall sculpture
By Julia Reimer
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Three textured glass cocoon shapes in clear, charcoal grey and black are curated vertically in this unique wall sculpture by Julia Reimer. Inspired by nature, the elements resemble ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Blown Glass
Soritical Loop - rustic, gothic, figurative, repurposed steel wall sculpture
By Dale Dunning
Located in Bloomfield, ON
It is a striking piece. Canadian artist Dale Dunning is known for his intriguing sculptural metal ‘masks’ that use the image of a human head as a metaphor for our collective experien...
Category
2010s Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Bronze, Steel
Boar 2/8 - small, grey, blue, figurative, animal, cast resin, tabletop sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Cast in resin, this figurine of a boar in a stance used in taxidermy reveals the artist's themes of human-animals relationships, domestication and conquest. These multi-layered meani...
Category
2010s Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Paint
Pair of Gossips II
Located in Dallas, TX
The figure has always been Deborah Ballard’s muse in her sculptures. Ballard works in bronze, cast stone, and plaster; her figures ranging from life-size to hand-size. Ballard says, ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Houston Can You Hear Me?
By Hana Hillerova
Located in Houston, TX
Hana Hillerova
"Houston Can You Hear Me?" 2010
Laser cut powder coated steel
18 5/8 x 18 3/4 x 20 inches
*Can hang from the ceiling or be displayed as a tabletop sculpture
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Interweave - White, grey, silver, abstract, three dimensional, wall sculpture
By Lucy Maki
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Maki's work is influenced by early Modernist Abstraction, while her combination of materials and technique make the pieces uniquely her own.
This work, in subtle shades of white, gra...
Category
2010s Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Contrapposto Series: Remembering
Located in Dallas, TX
The figure has always been Deborah Ballard’s muse in her sculptures. Ballard works in bronze, cast stone, and plaster; her figures ranging from life-size to hand-size. Ballard says, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Cast Stone, Bronze
Mandara
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A glass sculpture by Lino Tagliapietra. "Mandara" is executed in blues, green and black by contemporary artist Lino Tagliapietra. Signed and dated underneath, carved into the glass, ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Glass
Sophist AP - abstracted, repurposed metal, gothic, bronze figurative sculpture
By Dale Dunning
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Large metal letters, welded together into the form of an abstracted head are skillfully cast in bronze by sculptor Dale Dunning. The title of this ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Memory Box, Series. Wall Sculpture light boxes made multiple exposure photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
'Memory Box' Full Series by Magda von Hanau
Overall size: 39.5 in. H x 49 in. W x 10.5 in. D
Electrical light boxes made of multiple exposure photographs pr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Lights
Aquagraphie Variation 2 (Water Writing) - abstract, outdoor steel sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This piece is titled 'Aquagraphie' in French which translates to 'Water Writing'. A rectangular, steel outdoor sculpture in black is divided into three parts, like a puzzle, the edges polished and reflective. This seven-foot upright is mirrored in three reflective steel puddle shapes installed at its base. Inspired by the graphic design of river maps...
Category
2010s Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Reflection Series: Inner Voice
Located in Dallas, TX
The figure has always been Deborah Ballard’s muse in her sculptures. Ballard works in bronze, cast stone, and plaster; her figures ranging from life-size to hand-size. Ballard says, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Cast Stone, Stainless Steel, Iron
Macaw - large, rustic, figurative, animal, bird, bronze, outdoor sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
A large, bronze baby macaw struggles and screeches from an awkward position on the ground. Loud, self-confident and active, macaws are the symbol of creative intelligence, inspiratio...
Category
2010s Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
The Laurel Series, #6
Located in Dallas, TX
Michael O’Keefe’s sculptures, drawings, and paintings depict figurative narratives born from unpredictable processes. He couples innovative methods with unconventional tools to creat...
Category
2010s Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
Ninja II
By Ed Dean
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A rusted steel on absolute granite abstract sculpture by contemporary artist Ed Dean.
Category
2010s Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Granite, Cut Steel
Desiderium Head
Located in Dallas, TX
In his sculptures, drawings and paintings, Michael O’Keefe employs unpredictable processes as a means to discover content. He couples accident and chance with unconventional methods, tools, and materials as a means to move beyond the boundaries of his tendencies. In his recent sculptures of heads...
Category
2010s Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Plaster, Pigment
Continued Conversations IV
Located in Dallas, TX
The figure has always been Deborah Ballard’s muse in her sculptures. Ballard works in bronze, cast stone, and plaster; her figures ranging from life-size to hand-size. Ballard says, ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Cast Stone, Iron
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Find a wide variety of authentic Contemporary 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, orange and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including KOBE, Richard MacDonald, KAWS, and HIRO ANDO. Frequently made by artists working with Metal, and Bronze and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Contemporary sculptures, so small editions measuring 0.25 inches across are also available.
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