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By Peter Olson
Located in New Orleans, LA
[lives & works – Philadelphia, PA ::: b. 1954]
Peter Olson is a Philadelphia-based photographer and ceramicist who creates pieces that chemically and conceptually fuse the two medi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain, Photographic Film
9, 10
By Peter Olson
Located in New Orleans, LA
Vases in various sizes.
From left to right:
9 - 21h x 5w in
10 - 20h x 5w in
[lives & works – Philadelphia, PA ::: b. 1954]
Peter Olson is a Philadelphia-based photographer and c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain, Photographic Film
8
By Peter Olson
Located in New Orleans, LA
[lives & works – Philadelphia, PA ::: b. 1954]
Peter Olson is a Philadelphia-based photographer and ceramicist who creates pieces that chemically and conceptually fuse the two medi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain, Photographic Film
7
By Peter Olson
Located in New Orleans, LA
[lives & works – Philadelphia, PA ::: b. 1954]
Peter Olson is a Philadelphia-based photographer and ceramicist who creates pieces that chemically and conceptually fuse the two medi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain, Photographic Film
6
By Peter Olson
Located in New Orleans, LA
[lives & works – Philadelphia, PA ::: b. 1954]
Peter Olson is a Philadelphia-based photographer and ceramicist who creates pieces that chemically and conceptually fuse the two medi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain, Photographic Film
5
By Peter Olson
Located in New Orleans, LA
[lives & works – Philadelphia, PA ::: b. 1954]
Peter Olson is a Philadelphia-based photographer and ceramicist who creates pieces that chemically and conceptually fuse the two medi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain, Photographic Film
Enough to make a feast
By Jenny Day
Located in New Orleans, LA
Retreating from the stress and chaos of the last year, I created another landscape; populated by an army of friendly creatures. Here the burdens of coronavirus, climate change, and political division are dismissed by hot pink kittens...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
A Curious Nest
By Jenny Day
Located in New Orleans, LA
Retreating from the stress and chaos of the last year, I created another landscape; populated by an army of friendly creatures. Here the burdens of coronavirus, climate change, and political division are dismissed by hot pink kittens that arc gracefully through meter showers and owls that bury into beds of daffodils. In this place worry is edged out by the fantastic and mystical snails trail neon candy canes through the scorched earth. The apocalyptic is supplanted by the surreal and the allegorical.
Anxiety followed me. The escapist reflects and distorts its shadow world, the real, a funhouse mirror...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Sanctuary #3
By Tony Dagradi
Located in New Orleans, LA
Medium: Wood, cutouts from books
TONY DAGRADI is an internationally recognized jazz performer, artist, composer, author, and educator. For over three decades he has made his home in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Paper
Sanctuary #1
By Tony Dagradi
Located in New Orleans, LA
Medium: Wood, cutouts from books
TONY DAGRADI is an internationally recognized jazz performer, artist, composer, author, and educator. For over three decades he has made his home in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Paper
Visions
By Tony Dagradi
Located in New Orleans, LA
Medium: Wood, cutouts from books
TONY DAGRADI is an internationally recognized jazz performer, artist, composer, author, and educator. For over three decades he has made his home in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Paper
Ukiyo-e
By Tony Dagradi
Located in New Orleans, LA
Medium: Wood, cutouts from books
TONY DAGRADI is an internationally recognized jazz performer, artist, composer, author, and educator. For over three decades he has made his home in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Paper, Wood
Just Jazz
By Tony Dagradi
Located in New Orleans, LA
Medium: Wood, cutouts from books
TONY DAGRADI is an internationally recognized jazz performer, artist, composer, author, and educator. For over three decades he has made his home in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Paper, Wood
Intrusion
Located in New Orleans, LA
[Portland, OR b. 1971 - Hunstville, Alabama]
Dirk Staschke is a full time studio artist who is best known for his exploration of Dutch Vanitas still life themes in the medium of ce...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
I.D. Bracelet
By Esperanza Cortes
Located in New Orleans, LA
ESPERANZA CORTÉS is a Colombian born contemporary multidisciplinary artist based in New York City. Cortés has exhibited in the United States in solo and group exhibitions in venues including Smack Mellon Gallery, Neuberger Museum of Art, Bronx Museum of Art, Queens Museum, El Museo Del Barrio, MoMA PS1, Socrates Sculpture Park and White-box Gallery in New York City. Nationally Cortes exhibitions include Cleveland Art Museum, OH, CSU Galleries at Cleveland University, OH, Helen Day Art Center, VT and The Lorenzo Homar...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Untitled Green 1
By Jenny Day
Located in New Orleans, LA
JENNY DAY is a painter who lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She earned an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Arizona, a BFA in Painting from the University of Alaska Fa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Untitled Blue 1
By Jenny Day
Located in New Orleans, LA
JENNY DAY is a painter who lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She earned an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Arizona, a BFA in Painting from the University of Alaska Fa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
An offering
By Jenny Day
Located in New Orleans, LA
JENNY DAY is a painter who lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She earned an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Arizona, a BFA in Painting from the University of Alaska Fa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Edelweiss
By Jenny Day
Located in New Orleans, LA
JENNY DAY is a painter who lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She earned an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Arizona, a BFA in Painting from the University of Alaska Fa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Medicine Man
By Tony Dagradi
Located in New Orleans, LA
Medium: hardcover book, acrylic varnish
TONY DAGRADI is an internationally recognized jazz performer, artist, composer, author, and educator. For over three decades he has made his ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Paper, Varnish
Images From The Floating World
By Tony Dagradi
Located in New Orleans, LA
Medium: hardcover book, acrylic varnish
TONY DAGRADI is an internationally recognized jazz performer, artist, composer, author, and educator. For over three decades he has made his ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Paper, Varnish
Humanity in War
By Tony Dagradi
Located in New Orleans, LA
Medium: hardcover book, acrylic varnish
TONY DAGRADI is an internationally recognized jazz performer, artist, composer, author, and educator. For over three decades he has made his ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Paper, Varnish
Bride
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
assemblage sculpture: old wood mantle clock box refashioned to resemble a Morocco Riad mansion, 6 antique painted skittles pins, antique photo with ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Found Objects, Mixed Media
Noah's Slaughterhouse
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
assemblage sculpture: painted wood building refashioned out of an old seed box, constructed old wood toy boat to resemble the Ark, vintage carved & painted an...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Found Objects, Mixed Media
Sustenance
By Esperanza Cortes
Located in New Orleans, LA
Medium: clay figure, fresco, wood
Esperanza Cortés is a Colombian born multidisciplinary artist based in New York City. Cortés has been exhibited nationally in galleries and museums...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Clay, Wood
The De-Memorialized
By Esperanza Cortes
Located in New Orleans, LA
Medium: clay sculpture, glass beads, metal beads, chains, crystal, silver leaf, metal
Esperanza Cortés is a Colombian born multidisciplinary artist based in New York City. Cortés ha...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Silver
Second Sight
By Esperanza Cortes
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: installation, table, mirror, 20 glass and metal beaded clay sculptures
Esperanza Cortés is a Colombian born multidisciplinary artist based in New York City. Cortés has been ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Geronimo
By Tony Dagradi
Located in New Orleans, LA
Medium: hardcover book, acrylic varnish
TONY DAGRADI is an internationally recognized jazz performer, artist, composer, author, and educator. For over three decades he has made his ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Paper, Varnish
Tutankhamen
By Tony Dagradi
Located in New Orleans, LA
Medium: hardcover book, acrylic varnish
TONY DAGRADI is an internationally recognized jazz performer, artist, composer, author, and educator. For over three decades he has made his ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Paper, Varnish
Four Score And Seven Years
By Tony Dagradi
Located in New Orleans, LA
Medium: hardcover book, acrylic varnish
TONY DAGRADI is an internationally recognized jazz performer, artist, composer, author, and educator. For over three decades he has made his ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Paper, Varnish
Bygone Days
By Tony Dagradi
Located in New Orleans, LA
Medium: hardcover book, acrylic varnish
TONY DAGRADI is an internationally recognized jazz performer, artist, composer, author, and educator. For over three decades he has made his ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Paper, Varnish
Birds Of The World
By Tony Dagradi
Located in New Orleans, LA
Medium: hardcover book, acrylic varnish
TONY DAGRADI is an internationally recognized jazz performer, artist, composer, author, and educator. For over three decades he has made his ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Paper, Varnish
Sentinel Species
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
It is now 2020 and Covid-19 is loose in the world. Medical personnel are our first line of defense against this out-of-control pandemic. We seem able to provide weapons and protective gear for the police as they battle protestors, who are marching against racial injustice, but not able to provide PPE clothing and other medical equipment...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
The American Way
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
assemblage sculpture: vintage wood boxes containing 20 vintage handmade & painted wood toy game men, vintage handheld dexterity game that reads “The American Way – Liberty and Justice for All...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
Fortress America
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
assemblage sculpture: vintage wood fort with hand-painted graffiti, a vintage handmade wood carving of Uncle Sam & Trump, confederate flag scrap blindfold, metal chains, 4 vintage fl...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
Visitors
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
assemblage sculpture: old wood dugout made from an antique stool, hand-painted graffiti on all sides & back & roof under old wood painted and distressed scoreboard with graffiti bench inside.
"I like using baseball...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
The Disremembered II
By Esperanza Cortes
Located in New Orleans, LA
The artist says of her work...
Arrested Symphony is an exhibition incorporating sculptures, reliefs, drawings and hanging works that explore the theme of injustice that is at the roots of the predatory gem and mineral excavation industry. While at a residency in Knoxville, Tennessee, I discovered that Oakridge was only 30 miles away. Oakridge played a key role in the development of the Atom Bomb and the Manhattan Project. I began an exploration and comparison of Uranium and Emeralds. These minerals look very much alike, beautiful but dangerous on their effect on civil conflict. Colombia my birthplace, has the finest Emeralds in the world. The mining of Emeralds was an important element in the continued colonization of the region. Emeralds have helped to fund the more than 60-year conflict which has taken over 450,000 lives and displaced about 5.7 million people. Uranium has brought destruction to a level which altered the future of warfare. The developments made during the Manhattan Project led to the death of about 700,000 people and its effects are still felt around the world. I use Colombia as an example, however this situation is repeating itself in many parts of the world. Sierra Leone, Liberia, the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of Congo are all involved in brutal civil conflicts fueled by Blood Diamonds. This project will make visual the human cost extracted with these minerals, once exposed to the light of day they can never be unearthed.
My practice is an ongoing object-based exploration through which I create artworks which are organic and improvisational constructions that are infused with hope and renewal. The hand-crafted artworks are poetically and intricately crafted, creating an intimate repository for the individual and collective memory and implement the human body as a symbol and expression of nature, vulnerability and power. The work encourages viewers to reconsider social and historical narratives especially when dealing with the aftermath of Colonialism and raises critical questions about the politics of erasure and exclusion.
ESPERANZA CORTÉS is a Colombian born contemporary multidisciplinary artist based in New York City. Cortés has exhibited in the United States in solo and group exhibitions in venues including Smack Mellon Gallery, Neuberger Museum of Art, Bronx Museum of Art, Queens Museum, El Museo Del Barrio, MoMA PS1, Socrates Sculpture Park and White-box Gallery in New York City. Nationally Cortes exhibitions include Cleveland Art Museum, OH, CSU Galleries at Cleveland University, OH, Helen Day Art Center, VT and The Lorenzo Homar...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Purple Heart
By Esperanza Cortes
Located in New Orleans, LA
The artist says of her work...
Arrested Symphony is an exhibition incorporating sculptures, reliefs, drawings and hanging works that explore the theme of injustice that is at the roots of the predatory gem and mineral excavation industry. While at a residency in Knoxville, Tennessee, I discovered that Oakridge was only 30 miles away. Oakridge played a key role in the development of the Atom Bomb and the Manhattan Project. I began an exploration and comparison of Uranium and Emeralds. These minerals look very much alike, beautiful but dangerous on their effect on civil conflict. Colombia my birthplace, has the finest Emeralds in the world. The mining of Emeralds was an important element in the continued colonization of the region. Emeralds have helped to fund the more than 60-year conflict which has taken over 450,000 lives and displaced about 5.7 million people. Uranium has brought destruction to a level which altered the future of warfare. The developments made during the Manhattan Project led to the death of about 700,000 people and its effects are still felt around the world. I use Colombia as an example, however this situation is repeating itself in many parts of the world. Sierra Leone, Liberia, the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of Congo are all involved in brutal civil conflicts fueled by Blood Diamonds. This project will make visual the human cost extracted with these minerals, once exposed to the light of day they can never be unearthed.
My practice is an ongoing object-based exploration through which I create artworks which are organic and improvisational constructions that are infused with hope and renewal. The hand-crafted artworks are poetically and intricately crafted, creating an intimate repository for the individual and collective memory and implement the human body as a symbol and expression of nature, vulnerability and power. The work encourages viewers to reconsider social and historical narratives especially when dealing with the aftermath of Colonialism and raises critical questions about the politics of erasure and exclusion.
ESPERANZA CORTÉS is a Colombian born contemporary multidisciplinary artist based in New York City. Cortés has exhibited in the United States in solo and group exhibitions in venues including Smack Mellon Gallery, Neuberger Museum of Art, Bronx Museum of Art, Queens Museum, El Museo Del Barrio, MoMA PS1, Socrates Sculpture Park and White-box Gallery in New York City. Nationally Cortes exhibitions include Cleveland Art Museum, OH, CSU Galleries at Cleveland University, OH, Helen Day Art Center, VT and The Lorenzo Homar...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Tunisia
By Esperanza Cortes
Located in New Orleans, LA
ESPERANZA CORTÉS is a Colombian born contemporary multidisciplinary artist based in New York City. Cortés has exhibited in the United States in solo and group exhibitions in venues ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Leather, Clay, Thread, Mixed Media
Puño Azul/ Blue Fist
By Esperanza Cortes
Located in New Orleans, LA
ESPERANZA CORTÉS is a Colombian born contemporary multidisciplinary artist based in New York City. Cortés has exhibited in the United States in solo and group exhibitions in venues ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Clay, Glass
Corazón Plateado/ Silver Heart
By Esperanza Cortes
Located in New Orleans, LA
ESPERANZA CORTÉS is a Colombian born contemporary multidisciplinary artist based in New York City. Cortés has exhibited in the United States in solo and group exhibitions in venues including Smack Mellon Gallery, Neuberger Museum of Art, Bronx Museum of Art, Queens Museum, El Museo Del Barrio, MoMA PS1, Socrates Sculpture Park and White-box Gallery in New York City. Nationally Cortes exhibitions include Cleveland Art Museum, OH, CSU Galleries at Cleveland University, OH, Helen Day Art Center, VT and The Lorenzo Homar...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Reliquary, The Dead Photographed in Upper Derby PA
By Peter Olson
Located in New Orleans, LA
For the last six years, Peter Olson has harmonized photography and ceramics, two mediums that have forced their way into fine art. As bands of imagery spin around the thrown and asse...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain, Photographic Film
Impending Doom
By Peter Olson
Located in New Orleans, LA
For the last six years, Peter Olson has harmonized photography and ceramics, two mediums that have forced their way into fine art. As bands of imagery spin around the thrown and asse...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain, Photographic Film
Buku Rover (traffic sign)
By Skylar Fein
Located in New Orleans, LA
SKYLAR FEIN was born in Greenwich Village and raised in the Bronx. He has had many careers including teaching nonviolent resistance under the umbrella of the Quakers, working for a g...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Steel
Human
By Akihiko Sugiura
Located in New Orleans, LA
AKIHIKO SUGIURA is a Japanese painter from Hyogo, Japan whose artistic style mixes purely physical non-representational art with a base of traditional representational painting. A co...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Batman
By Tony Dagradi
Located in New Orleans, LA
materials: Greatest Batman Stories 1938-83 (excerpts)
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TONY DAGRADI is an internationally recognized jazz performer, artist, composer, author and educator.
For over three deca...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Wood, Paper, Mixed Media
Self-Portrait
By Paul Villinski
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: powder-coated steel with glass and birdseed
Paul Villinski has created studio and large-scale artworks for more than three decades. Villinski was born in York, Maine, USA, i...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Self-Portrait
By Paul Villinski
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: steel, birds nest
Paul Villinski has created studio and large-scale artworks for more than three decades. Villinski was born in York, Maine, USA, in 1960, son of an Air Fo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Untitled (Merged) II
By Nikki Rosato
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: hand-cut road map
Nikki Rosato earned her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 2013. Prior to studying at SMFA, Rosato received a Bachelor of Arts deg...
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