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Carol Salmanson is a Brooklyn-based light artist working with LEDs & reflective materials to create installations, light sculptures, wall pieces and public art. She received a B.S. in biological psychology from Carnegie Mellon University and an MBA from the University of Chicago. She attended the Arts Students League, the School of Visual Arts as a Public Art Resident and the National Academy of Fine Arts as an Abbey Mural Workshop Fellow. Public art projects include Water Bubbles, an installation in twenty windows of the abandoned landmark The White Tower in Yekaterinburg in Russia. Other window installations include the venues Station Independent Projects, Time Equities’ Art-in-Buildings program, OK Harris Works of Art, 254 Park Avenue South and Mixed Greens Gallery, all in New York. Her outdoor sculptures include Tri-Quadular Cone in Summit and Lot’s Ex-Wife in Brooklyn. She will also have an installation, Crown Colony, in the window at 266 W. 37th Street. Her solo and two-person exhibition venues include SL Galler, Slag Contemporary, Station Independent Projects, Brian Morris Gallery, the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Storefront Bushwick in Brooklyn and others. Her group exhibitions include “Space Invaders”, curated by Karin Bravin at Lehman College in Bronx, “Illuminators” at OK Harris, Dumbo Arts Festival in Brooklyn and “Resplendency” at the East/West Project in Berlin. Her work will also be featured at Odetta Gallery in Brooklyn in the four-person show “Mesmerized”. Salmanson also curated “The Language of Painting” at Lesley Heller Workspace, and co-curated “Tonal Shifts” at Station Independent Projects. Salmanson’s work has been written about by Graziella Melani Graci in Il Giorno dell’Arte and Il Manifesto in Italy, James Panero in the New Criterion, Two Coats of Paint blog, Edward Rubin in NY Arts Magazine, Jill Conner in The Brooklyn Rail and Leah Oates in NY Arts Magazine, among others. Her work was featured in the Russian television outlets ETB and GTRK, a James Kalm video which is now part of the youtube channel “Rough Cuts” and a studio visit by Brian Bernhard on CUNY television. A native of Providence, Rhode Island, Salmanson lives and works in Brooklyn.

If you’re thinking about decorating your space with abstract sculpture, there are a couple of things to keep in mind.

You don’t have to look for a piece that demands attention. Find a work of abstract sculpture that speaks to you. As is the case with any abstract art, whether it’s sculpture, an abstract painting or a grouping of prints, you can select a work for your living room or dining room, for example, that will either casually fade into the background or serve as a focal point. When you’re thinking about how to arrange your furniture and decor, consider color, texture and what kind of energy you’d like a specific room or corner to evoke. Abstract sculpture can go a long way in elevating a home, and its history is interesting if you’re shopping for a new piece today.

As a pioneer in naturalistic forms and figures that vividly express emotion, Auguste Rodin is often called the father of modern sculpture. His work in the 19th and early 20th century broke with artistic conventions and inspired modernism, leading to a new period of avant-garde abstraction.

Among the first artists to push abstract sculpture into the mainstream were Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. They helped define the movement of Cubism, which focused on deconstructing the world abstractly.

Later in the 20th century, the artistic movements of Italian Futurism, Dadaism, Neo-Dadaism, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism and minimalism all contributed to the advancement of new and more abstract sculpture designs. Italian Futurism, for example, celebrated movement, dynamics and technology in abstract sculpture. These movements passed down ideas that continue to inform abstract sculpture today.

Browse a range of modern abstract sculptures, postmodern abstract sculptures and other kinds of sculpture on 1stDibs.