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David Ebner Bronze Scallion Floor Sculpture, Signed
By David N. Ebner
Located in North Miami, FL
This nearly six foot tall solid bronze sculpture of a scallion has incredible weight and patina. Whimsical and important. Signed and dated to base.
Category
Early 2000s American Organic Modern 20th Century Specialists Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Richard Hirsch Ceramic Altar Bowl with Weapon Sculpture #28, 2001
By Richard A. Hirsch
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary American ceramic artist Richard Hirsch's Altar Bowl with Weapon Sculpture #28 was assembled in 2001. It's wheel thrown and hand built clay, low fired slips and glazes wi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern 20th Century Specialists Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Richard Hirsch Ceramic Ceremonial Vessel, Tripod Vessels Collection, 1984
By Richard A. Hirsch
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary American ceramic artist Richard Hirsch's Ceramic Ceremonial Tripod Vessel is raku-fired, hand built and hand sculptured. Each piece is uniqu...
Category
20th Century American Modern 20th Century Specialists Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Richard Hirsch Ceramic Altar Bowl with Weapon Sculpture, 2000
By Richard A. Hirsch
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary American ceramic artist Richard Hirsch's Altar Bowl with Weapon Sculpture was assembled in 2000. It's wheel thrown and hand built clay, low fired slips and glazes, iron ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern 20th Century Specialists Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Richard Hirsch Ceramic Scholar Rock Cup Sculpture #25, 2018
By Richard A. Hirsch
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary American ceramic artist Richard Hirsch's Scholar Rock Cup Sculpture with stand #25 was made in 2018. It's wheel thrown and hand built clay with white and black glaze. Hi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern 20th Century Specialists Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Barry Entner Triangle Solids Glass Sculpture, 2014
By Barry Entner
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary American artist Barry Entner's Triangle Solids Glass Sculpture is created with consideration of each individual piece as paint strokes that, once assembled, becomes the desired composition. He doesn't make these using traditional blown glass techniques. For the past 15 years, Barry has developed a method of using steam pressure, produced by way of inserting a wet cherrywood cone into solid hot glass, to “blow” air into the pieces. This allows him to create shapes and forms that are unique within the art glass world, and are “other worldly,” as is sometimes described. This sculpture is signed and dated. Measurements below are for the total overall size; small triangle is 3.25" diameter x 19.75" height, medium triangle is 3.25" diameter x 21.75" height and large triangle is 3.25" diameter x 23" height.
About the artist:
Barry Entner was born on November 1, 1959 in Brookline, Massachusetts. In the late 1970s, Barry attended Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, where he studied developmental psychology, cultural anthropology and philosophy. He also began to study glass sculpture under Gene Koss...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Mid-Century Modern 20th Century Specialists Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Blown Glass
Richard Hirsch Glazed Ceramic Crucible Sculpture, 2018
By Richard A. Hirsch
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary American ceramic artist Richard Hirsch Ceramic Crucible Sculpture was made in 2018. It's wheel thrown and hand built clay, wood fired wi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern 20th Century Specialists Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Wendy Hendelman Marble Torsos Sculpture, 2001
By Wendy Hendelman
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary American sculptor Wendy Hendelman's creamy white Marble Torsos Sculpture on black marble base. Hendelman’s work reflects her love of the Primitive and the ancient. The s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern 20th Century Specialists Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Jérémy Gobé, Ronde, Standing Sculpture, France, 2011
Located in New York, NY
This piece hypnotically draws the viewer's eyes to the centre, aided by layers of would fabric in a circular pattern, creating something seemingly endless while thematically contained.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary French 20th Century Specialists Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Fabric
Richard Hirsch Ceramic Mortar and Glass Pestle Sculpture, 2007
By Richard A. Hirsch
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary American ceramic artist Richard Hirsch's Mortar and Glass Pestle Sculpture #1 was assembled in 2007. It's wheel thrown and hand built clay with green and black watermelon glaze, raku rust patina and hot blown glass. Two separate pieces of wood fired stoneware are assembled with a third piece -- a hot blown glass pestle. "The glass "masher" is lightly sand-blasted, suggesting opacity but yielding subtle light penetration, the perfect foil for Hirsch’s heavy clay concavities. Conceptually, Hirsch enjoys the compatibility of the two heat-driven materials, and the alchemical issues with shared chemistry seems right for themes involving vessels and raw geologic age." This three piece sculpture...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern 20th Century Specialists Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Blown Glass
Wendy Hendelman Brown Alabaster Torso Sculpture, 2017
By Wendy Hendelman
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary American sculptor Wendy Hendelman's Brown Alabaster Torso Sculpture on a black marble base. Hendelman’s work reflects her love of the prim...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern 20th Century Specialists Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Alabaster
Joanna Poag Binding Time (Grid w/ Quatrefoils & Flowers) Ceramic Sculpture, 2019
By Joanna Poag
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary American ceramic artist Joanna Poag's Binding Time (Grid with Quatrefoils & Flowers) tabletop sculpture is part of a series. It's hand built clay, high fired to cone 6 a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Organic Modern 20th Century Specialists Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware, Ceramic
Joanna Poag Binding Time (Black Grid with Coils) Ceramic Sculpture, 2019
By Joanna Poag
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary American ceramic artist Joanna Poag's Binding Time (Black Grid with Coils) tabletop sculpture is part of a series. Its hand built clay, glaze fired to cone 6 with cobalt...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Organic Modern 20th Century Specialists Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Ceramic Sculptural Vase by Henrik Folsgaard, Denmark, 2020
By Henrik Folsgaard
Located in New York, NY
We recently acquired several pieces by contemporary Danish ceramicist Henrik Folsgaard. His work is reminiscent of American ceramic artist George Ohr whose ...
Category
2010s Danish 20th Century Specialists Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Wendy Hendelman White Alabaster Torso Sculpture, 2018
By Wendy Hendelman
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary American sculptor Wendy Hendelman's White Alabaster Torso Sculpture on a black marble base. Hendelman’s work reflects her love of the prim...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern 20th Century Specialists Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Alabaster
Joanna Poag Custom Ceramic Untitled II Sculpture, Equilibrium Series, 2016
By Joanna Poag
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary American ceramic artist Joanna Poag's Untitled II Sculpture is part of the Equilibrium Series. It's hand built and sculptured, fired to cone 5 and hung by fishing wire. ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern 20th Century Specialists Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Clay
Richard Hirsch Ceramic Scholar Rock Cup Sculpture #32, 2017 - 2018
By Richard A. Hirsch
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary American ceramic artist Richard Hirsch's Scholar Rock Cup Sculpture with stand #32 was made in 2017 - 2018. It's wheel thrown and hand built clay with white glaze, black...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern 20th Century Specialists Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Crystal Sculpture by Floris Meydam Leerdam, Netherlands, 1970s
By Floris Meydam, Glasfabriek Leerdam
Located in Milan, IT
Crystal sculpture by Floris Meydam Leerdam.
Category
1970s Dutch Vintage 20th Century Specialists Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Crystal
Richard Hirsch Ceramic Scholar Rock Cup Sculpture #28, 2017
By Richard A. Hirsch
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary American ceramic artist Richard Hirsch's Scholar Rock Cup Sculpture #28 was assembled in 2017. It's wheel thrown and hand built clay with black glaze, polychrome enamel ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern 20th Century Specialists Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Richard Hirsch Ceramic Mortar and Pestle, 2007
By Richard A. Hirsch
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary American ceramic artist Richard Hirsch's Mortar and Glass Pestle #27 is raku-fired, hand built and hand sculptured. This piece is made of three separate pieces of green rust patinaed wood fired stoneware. "In his process, Hirsch is a reducer, endlessly honing and refining his forms to their simplest and most powerful presence. It is the same “less is more” aesthetic evidenced by the work of Noguchi, Brancusi, and Giacometti, artists he holds in greatest esteem. His content is principally the vocabulary of form, color, and surface, subtly referencing utility while defying overt narration and cultural specificity. A mortar and pestle like this one, for example, might be discernible in a piece, but presented with such economy that it becomes only important as a stand-in for larger issues; their anima/animus relationship or as a record of human use and wear over considerable time. For Hirsch, the particular only exists for the purpose of making the universal palpable. His is a point of view similar...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern 20th Century Specialists Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Mario Dal Fabbro, Sculpture, United States, 1983
By Mario Dal Fabbro
Located in New York, NY
Signed: Mario Dal Fabbro, 1983
Marked: I. 8
Typical of the sculptural output of dal Fabbro, the lines of this piece shift rhythmically depending on the viewer's position. The art...
Category
20th Century American 20th Century Specialists Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Richard Hirsch Ceramic Altar Bowl with Blown Glass Ladle #5, 2007
By Richard A. Hirsch
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary American ceramic artist Richard Hirsch's Altar bowl with blown glass ladle #5 was assembled in 2007. It's wheel thrown and hand built clay with low fire slips and glazes, black glaze, enamel polychrome paint, raku green patina and hot blown glass. In the book "With Fire: Richard Hirsch, A Life Between Chance and Design" Scott Meyer said; "As Hirsch's work progressed over the years, it would be a mistake to portray these advances as chronological. In fact, items found provocative would be added to the roster of possibility. The vessel might change in character with the deep interior space of a mortar becoming the shallow concavity of a Japanese, stone Tsubi basin or natural geode form. The corresponding implement might change from bulbous pestle to delicate ladle, alluding to the ceremonial cleansing for participants in the Tea Ceremony. In this sense, the proximity of these objects to their implied ceremonial use was similar to that which traditional Raku bowls...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern 20th Century Specialists Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Blown Glass
Richard Hirsch Ceramic Altar Bowl with Ladle #3, 2007
By Richard A. Hirsch
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary American ceramic artist Richard Hirsch's Altar bowl with Ladle #3 was made in 2007. It's wheel thrown and hand built clay with low fire white glaze and raku patinas. In the book "With Fire: Richard Hirsch, A Life Between Chance and Design" Scott Meyer said; "As Hirsch's work progressed over the years, it would be a mistake to portray these advances as chronological. In fact, items found provocative would be added to the roster of possibility. The vessel might change in character with the deep interior space of a mortar becoming the shallow concavity of a Japanese, stone Tsubi basin or natural geode form. The corresponding implement might change from bulbous pestle to delicate ladle, alluding to the ceremonial cleansing for participants in the Tea Ceremony. In this sense, the proximity of these objects to their implied ceremonial use was similar to that which traditional Raku bowls...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern 20th Century Specialists Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Richard Hirsch Ceramic Altar Bowl with Blown Glass Ladle Sculpture #3, 2020
By Richard A. Hirsch
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary American ceramic artist Richard Hirsch's Altar Bowl with Blown Glass Ladle Sculpture #3 was assembled in 2020. It's wheel thrown and hand built clay, gold enamel paint, black and white glazes with hot blown glass. In the book "With Fire: Richard Hirsch, A Life Between Chance and Design" Scott Meyer said; "As Hirsch's work progressed over the years, it would be a mistake to portray these advances as chronological. In fact, items found provocative would be added to the roster of possibility. The vessel might change in character with the deep interior space of a mortar becoming the shallow concavity of a Japanese, stone Tsubi basin or natural geode form. The corresponding implement might change from bulbous pestle to delicate ladle, alluding to the ceremonial cleansing for participants in the Tea Ceremony. In this sense, the proximity of these objects to their implied ceremonial use was similar to that which traditional Raku bowls...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern 20th Century Specialists Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Blown Glass
Cesare Arduini, Abstract Marble and Steel Sculpture, United States, 2019
By Cesare Arduini
Located in New York, NY
With this captivating white marble sculpture, Cesare Arduini has continued his masterful exploration of space, his play of the balance between positive and negative space.
Unique ...
Category
2010s American 20th Century Specialists Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Statuary Marble, Steel
Wendy Hendelman White Marble Torso Sculpture, 2018
By Wendy Hendelman
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary American sculptor Wendy Hendelman's white marble torso sculpture on a marble base. Hendelman’s work reflects her love of the primitive and the ancient. The small scale a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern 20th Century Specialists Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Joanna Poag Custom Untitled III Ceramic Sculpture, Encompassed Series, 2017
By Joanna Poag
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary American ceramic artist Joanna Poag’s Untitled lll Sculpture is part of the Encompassed Series. It’s hand sculptured white stoneware fired to Cone 6 and hung by fishing ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Organic Modern 20th Century Specialists Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Richard Hirsch Ceramic Mortar and Pestle Sculpture #30, 2009
By Richard A. Hirsch
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary American ceramic artist Richard Hirsch's Mortar and Pestle Sculpture #30 was assembled in 2009. It's wheel thrown and hand built clay, slips and glazes with raku patinas. The following is an excerpt from the book "With Fire: Richard Hirsch, A Life Between Chance and Design" written by Scott Meyer; "The glass "masher" is lightly sand-blasted, suggesting opacity but yielding subtle light penetration, the perfect foil for Hirsch’s heavy clay concavities. Conceptually, Hirsch enjoys the compatibility of the two heat-driven materials, and the alchemical issues with shared chemistry seems right for themes involving vessels and raw geologic age." This four piece sculpture is signed and dated by the artist. It will ship directly from the artist’s studio in Rochester, NY.
(Literature: "With Fire: Richard Hirsch, A Life Between Chance and Design", Scott Meyer (Author), RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press 2012 - "Mortars and Pestles" pgs. 57 - 60. The Ceramic Mortar and Pestle...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern 20th Century Specialists Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Tall Lucite Sculpture by Joseph Alan Hough
By Joseph Alan Hough
Located in Pasadena, CA
This one-of-a-kind sculpture was carved from a single piece of crystal clear Lucite. The base of the clear Lucite piece is signed "J. Alan Hough.
Joseph Alan Hough is a Californian ...
Category
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 20th Century Specialists Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Lucite
Richard Hirsch, Scott Meyer and Ken Baskin Crucible Project Sculpture, 2013
By Scott Meyer, Richard A. Hirsch , Ken Baskin
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary American ceramic artists Richard Hirsch, Scott Meyer and Ken Baskin's collaborative Crucible Project Sculpture was created in 2013 and is wood...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern 20th Century Specialists Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Richard Hirsch Glazed Ceramic Crucible Sculpture Group #1, 2016
By Richard A. Hirsch
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary American ceramic artist Richard Hirsch's Crucible Sculpture Group #1 was assembled in 2016. It's wheel thrown and hand built clay, wood and soda fired with Baskin crusty...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern 20th Century Specialists Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Richard Hirsch Ceramic Scholar Rock Cup Sculpture #51, 2018
By Richard A. Hirsch
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary American ceramic artist Richard Hirsch's Scholar rock cup sculpture was assembled in 2018. It's wheel thrown and hand built clay with red and green glaze, raku rust pati...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern 20th Century Specialists Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Richard Hirsch Glazed Ceramic Crucible Sculpture with Blown Glass Pestle, 2018
By Richard A. Hirsch
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary American ceramic artist Richard Hirsch Ceramic Crucible sculpture was made in 2018. It's wheel thrown and hand built clay, wood fired with bronze glaze, raku rust patina...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern 20th Century Specialists Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware, Ceramic, Blown Glass
Richard Hirsch Ceramic Mortar and Glass Pestle Sculpture #1, 2020
By Richard A. Hirsch
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary American ceramic artist Richard Hirsch's Mortar and Glass Pestle Sculpture #1 was assembled in 2020. It's wheel thrown and hand built clay, gold enamel paint, black and ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern 20th Century Specialists Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Blown Glass
Richard Hirsch Ceramic Mortar and Glass Pestle Sculpture #2, 2020
By Richard A. Hirsch
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary American ceramic artist Richard Hirsch's Mortar and Glass Pestle Sculpture #2 was assembled in 2020. It's wheel thrown and hand built clay, gold enamel paint, black and ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern 20th Century Specialists Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Blown Glass
Richard Hirsch Ceramic Mortar and Hot Blown Glass Pestle Sculpture, 2009
By Richard A. Hirsch
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary American ceramic artist Richard Hirsch's Mortar and Glass Pestle Sculpture was assembled in 2009. It's wheel thrown and hand built clay with red and black glazes, raku patinas and a hot blown glass pestle. The following is an excerpt from the book "With Fire: Richard Hirsch, A Life Between Chance and Design" written by Scott Meyer...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern 20th Century Specialists Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Blown Glass
Richard Hirsch Ceramic Scholar Rock Cup Sculpture #16, 2016
By Richard A. Hirsch
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary American ceramic artist Richard Hirsch's Scholar Rock Cup Sculpture #16 was assembled in 2016. It's wheel thrown and hand built clay, wood fired stoneware with shino gla...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern 20th Century Specialists Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Richard Hirsch Ceramic Scholar Rock Cup Sculpture, 2018
By Richard A. Hirsch
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary American ceramic artist Richard Hirsch's Scholar Rock Cup Sculpture was assembled in 2018. It's wheel thrown and hand built clay with red and black glaze, raku rust patinas and polychrome enamel paint. Hirsch creates ceramic sculptures that explore the spirituality and ritual embedded in familiar vessel forms. He imbues his work with the look of age and antiquity by applying certain ceramic surfaces and incorporating other materials such as iron, glass, bronze, and wood. As Hirsch states in his artist statement, "Ultimately, this work is an attempt to metamorphosize the seemingly mundane vessel-object into a sacred entity." This three piece sculpture...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern 20th Century Specialists Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Richard Hirsch Glazed Ceramic Crucible Sculpture #1, 2011
By Richard A. Hirsch
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary American ceramic artist Richard Hirsch Ceramic Crucible Sculpture #1 was assembled in 2011. It's wheel thrown and hand built clay, black glaze, low fired slips and raku ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern 20th Century Specialists Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Richard Hirsch Ceramic Scholar Rock Cup Sculpture #19, 2016
By Richard A. Hirsch
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary American ceramic artist Richard Hirsch's Scholar Rock Cup Sculpture #19 was assembled in 2016. It's wheel thrown and hand built clay, wood fired stoneware with shino gla...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern 20th Century Specialists Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Richard Hirsch Ceramic Altar Bowl with Weapon Sculpture, 2000
By Richard A. Hirsch
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary American ceramic artist Richard Hirsch's Altar Bowl with Weapon Sculpture was assembled in 2000. It's wheel thrown and hand built clay with blue and green glazes, red te...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern 20th Century Specialists Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Richard Hirsch Ceramic Scholar Rock Cup Sculpture, 2011
By Richard A. Hirsch
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary American ceramic artist Richard Hirsch's scholar rock cup sculpture was assembled in 2011. It's wheel thrown and hand built clay with black glaze, raku rust patina, gree...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern 20th Century Specialists Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Richard Hirsch Ceramic Scholar Rock Cup Sculpture #20, 2014
By Richard A. Hirsch
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary American ceramic artist Richard Hirsch's Scholar Rock Cup Sculpture #20 was assembled in 2014. It's wheel thrown and hand built clay, low fire slips and shino glaze, rak...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern 20th Century Specialists Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Iron
Richard Hirsch Glazed Ceramic Crucible Sculpture #12, 2010
By Richard A. Hirsch
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary American ceramic artist Richard Hirsch Ceramic Crucible Sculpture #12 was made in 2010. It's wheel thrown and hand built, wood fired with raku patinas and black glaze an...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern 20th Century Specialists Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Richard Hirsch Black Glazed Ceramic Crucible Sculpture #4, 2009
By Richard A. Hirsch
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary American ceramic artist Richard Hirsch Ceramic Crucible Sculpture #4 was created in 2009. It's wheel thrown, hand built with black glaze and raku patinas. In the book "W...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern 20th Century Specialists Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Anna Torfs Vaza Medium Glass Vase or Sculpture in Smoke
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Anna Torfs medium Vaza glass vase or sculpture in smoke with sanded finish. Available in other colors and sizes. Only sanded finish available. Clear no long...
Category
2010s Czech 20th Century Specialists Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Glass
"Cosmos" Sculpture in Brass and Rock Glass Elements, Mounted on Pedestal Base
Located in North Miami, FL
This custom original art piece by Gustavo Olivieri highlights a custom base pedestal and creative accents throughout. Aqua blue/green rock glass elemen...
Category
2010s American Modern 20th Century Specialists Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Brass
Joanna Poag Binding Time (Dreams Become You) Ceramic Sculpture, 2019
By Joanna Poag
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary American ceramic artist Joanna Poag's Binding Time (Dreams Become You) table top sculpture is part of a series. It's hand built clay, high fired to cone 6 with engobes a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Organic Modern 20th Century Specialists Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Joanna Poag Binding Time (Black Grid with Spheres) Ceramic Sculpture, 2019
By Joanna Poag
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary American ceramic artist Joanna Poag's Binding Time (Black Grid with Spheres) tabletop sculpture is part of a series. It's hand built clay, glaze fired to cone 6 with cob...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Organic Modern 20th Century Specialists Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Richard Hirsch Ceramic Altar Bowl with Blown Glass Weapon, 2002
By Richard A. Hirsch
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary American ceramic artist Richard Hirsch's Altar Bowl with Glass Weapon #22 is raku-fired, hand built and hand sculptured. Two separate pieces of wood / salt fired stonewa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern 20th Century Specialists Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Glass
Joanna Poag Binding Time (Grid with Pods and Leaves) Ceramic Sculpture, 2019
By Joanna Poag
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary American ceramic artist Joanna Poag's Binding Time (Grid with Pods and Leaves) tabletop sculpture is part of a series. It's hand built clay, high fired to cone 6 and sur...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Organic Modern 20th Century Specialists Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Joanna Poag Encompassed No. 7 Ceramic Sculpture, 2013
By Joanna Poag
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary American ceramic artist Joanna Poag's Encompassed No. 7 tabletop sculpture is part of a series. It's hand built clay fired to cone 6 with clear glaze. Encompassed is a b...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Organic Modern 20th Century Specialists Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Clay, Ceramic
Richard Hirsch Bronze Tripod Vessel and Stand #1B Sculpture, 1991
By Richard A. Hirsch
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary American ceramic artist Richard Hirsch's Tripod Vessel and Stand #1B is part of his Skirted Series. The tripod and base are cast bronze with polychromed patinas that wer...
Category
20th Century American Modern 20th Century Specialists Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Richard Hirsch and Michael Rogers Figure Sculpture, 2007
By Michael Rogers, Richard A. Hirsch
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary American ceramic artist Richard Hirsch and glass artist Michael Rogers' Figure Sculpture was created in 2007. This sculpture is comprised of a cast glass head...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern 20th Century Specialists Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Blown Glass, Glass
Richard Hirsch Ceramic Altar Bowl with Cast Glass Weapon, 1998
By Richard A. Hirsch
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary American ceramic artist Richard Hirsch's Altar Bowl with Glass Weapon #31 is raku-fired, hand built and hand sculptured. Two separate pieces of high fired stoneware are ...
Category
20th Century American Modern 20th Century Specialists Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Glass
Antique Japanese Trio of Heavy Bronze Bud Vases
Located in North Miami, FL
Finely cast bronze, these Japanese bud vases in faux bamboo design come with acrylic insulator to hold water for fresh flowers. These are heavy bronz...
Category
20th Century Japanese 20th Century Specialists Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Yongjin Han, a Piece of Wood, Sculpture, United States, 1976
By Yongjin Han
Located in New York, NY
Yongjin Han was born in Seoul, South Korea in 1934. After the Korean War—in which he fought, lying about his age in order to enlist—he was one of six students admitted to the sculpture program at the Seoul National University. At the time of his enrollment little of his native city remained intact; nonetheless, he had never felt more responsible to his work, firm in the conviction that artistic expression is every bit as essential to life and human nature as eating, drinking, or breathing.
One of Han’s teachers was Kim Chong Yung, a pioneer of Korean abstract sculpture, and by the time of his graduation he had adopted the abstraction that had seized both Europe and the United States several years before. . In 1967 he relocated to the USA, where he studied at Dartmouth and Columbia. Over the course of his long career the artist returned to Korea with frequency and made extended stays in Japan and Europe.
Trips to Korea signified something more than mere homesickness: Han’s work, though made largely in America, remained grounded in his rich cultural heritage. Korea rests on a bedrock of granite, and freestanding sculpture produced of the stone has for centuries demarcated sites of historical and religious significance. Han’s sculpture bridges this past with modernity. Richard A. Born, former Curator at the Smart Museum at the University of Chicago, has said that Han “brought Korea’s tradition of direct stone carving out of figuration into a refined, non-objective abstraction.”
For his part, Han put very little stock in designations; his focus, instead, was on the stone itself. His pieces explore a certain harmonization with nature. Han, when describing his work, said, "As stone has been around since the beginning of time, it has much to teach us if we care to slow down and listen." He believed that each stone has its own history, character, and energy and that his task was to draw out these inherently spiritual qualities. He described his process as a “dialogue” with his material: "The stone tells me it has an itch in a certain spot, so I scratch it—and we both feel better!"
Han worked alone and with manual tools, and the process is arduous. Carving stone this way takes time, and, what’s more, required great force—yet Han’s sculptures, even the monumental ones, are, as friend and fellow artist David Parker...
Category
1970s American Vintage 20th Century Specialists Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Franck Evennou, Large-Scale Wooden TOTEM, France, 2020
By Franck Evennou
Located in New York, NY
The totems of the French sculptor Franck Evennou possess a playful quality that counterbalances the traditional solemnity of the form. With their rough, splitting surface, they are n...
Category
2010s French 20th Century Specialists Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood
