Modern Abstract Sculptures
MODERN STYLE
The late 19th and early 20th centuries saw sweeping social change and major scientific advances — both of which contributed to a new aesthetic: modernism. Rejecting the rigidity of Victorian artistic conventions, modernists sought a new means of expression. References to the natural world and ornate classical embellishments gave way to the sleek simplicity of the Machine Age. Architect Philip Johnson characterized the hallmarks of modernism as “machine-like simplicity, smoothness or surface [and] avoidance of ornament.”
Early practitioners of modernist design include the De Stijl (“The Style”) group, founded in the Netherlands in 1917, and the Bauhaus School, founded two years later in Germany.
Followers of both groups produced sleek, spare designs — many of which became icons of daily life in the 20th century. The modernists rejected both natural and historical references and relied primarily on industrial materials such as metal, glass, plywood, and, later, plastics. While Bauhaus principals Marcel Breuer and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe created furniture from mass-produced, chrome-plated steel, American visionaries like Charles and Ray Eames worked in materials as novel as molded plywood and fiberglass. Today, Breuer’s Wassily chair, Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona chair — crafted with his romantic partner, designer Lilly Reich — and the Eames lounge chair are emblems of progressive design and vintage originals are prized cornerstones of collections.
It’s difficult to overstate the influence that modernism continues to wield over designers and architects — and equally difficult to overstate how revolutionary it was when it first appeared a century ago. But because modernist furniture designs are so simple, they can blend in seamlessly with just about any type of décor. Don’t overlook them.
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Style: Modern
Glass vs. Plastic collection, "Knee-Replacement" blue and pink organic sculpture
Located in Naucalpan, Edo de Mex
A collaboration between Studio Orfeo Quagliata and Tony Wurman of Wunderwurks Design.
An unprecedented marriage of Orfeo's spectacular glass work, an obsessive process created by...
Category
2010s Mexican Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Plastic
Red Neck Wedding Dress Sculpture Glass vs Plastic Collection
Located in Naucalpan, Edo de Mex
A collaboration between Studio Orfeo Quagliata and Tony Wurman of Wunderwurks design. An unprecedented marriage of Orfeo's spectacular glass work, an obsessive process created by boiling high quality recycled crystal with color to create vibrant wispy blocks, then handcut, ground and polished to create the final components. Together with Wurman's one of a kind polymer sculptures; resulting in art and alchemy. Wurman utilizes a blend of EVA hot-melt adhesive and though his proprietary techniques, transforms this common industrial material into a unique medium of extreme clarity, color and dynamic beauty, with the flexibility of rubber, look of glass and durability of plastic. Each stunning artwork is created by hand at the Wunderwurks Studio in NYC. EVA is Non-toxic. No waste is created during production - all unused material is 100% recycled.
The pre made pieces are then shipped to Quagliata’s studio in Mexico City and bonded with the crystal parts...
Category
2010s Mexican Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Plastic
Stanley Blubrick Sculpture Glass Vs. Plastic Collection
Located in Naucalpan, Edo de Mex
A collaboration between Studio Orfeo Quagliata and Tony Wurman of Wunderwurks design. An unprecedented marriage of Orfeo's spectacular glass wor...
Category
2010s Mexican Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Plastic
Andrea Branzi Italian Ceramic Sculpture Model Pila Superego Editions
Located in Milan, Italy
Earthenware. Manufactured by Superego Editions, Italy. Underside with transfer print ‘A. Branzi/Superego/Editions’. 2007.
Biography
Superego editions was born in 2006, performing...
Category
Early 2000s Italian Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Contemporary Marble and Wood Sculpture, Candleholders, Flower Vase iTotem
Located in Reggio Emilia, IT
Contemporary handmade sculpture, candleholder, flower vase modular as you like made up of two marbles:
Carrara white, Grey Bardiglio, solid wood and glass ampoule for fresh flowers....
Category
2010s Italian Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Marble
White Pearl Pitcher II, a unique white Glass Sculpture by Fredrik Nielsen
Located in London, GB
The White Pearl Pitcher II is a unique white glass sculpture with a lustrous finish by the Swedish artist Fredrik Nielsen. The artist literally freehand sculpts his glass to create these monumental artworks. This piece has been finished with car body spray paint.
Predominantly experimental, Nielsen’s artworks are made in defiance of what is perceived as perfect. Weighty yet spontaneous, his creations carry marks, almost scars, that are inflicted during their making. What may appear rough and unfinished remain as part of the final piece. The intention is to not abuse his glass but to take it to its limits, questioning the role of the artist and how these pieces sit within the world of art and craft.
Neilsen has also incorporated live music...
Category
2010s Swedish Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Art Glass, Blown Glass
Katerpillarz : Crystal Organic Multi-Color Wall Decoration
Located in Naucalpan, Edo de Mex
Katerpillarz crystal multi-color wall decoration linear long glass multi-color wall sculpture. An object of fused and thermoformed glass designed by Orfeo Quagliata. 100% handmade wi...
Category
2010s Mexican Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Glass
Venini Circo Di Lune Multicolor Sculpture by Monica Guggisberg & Philip Baldwin
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Venini Circo Di Lune sculpture by Monica Guggisberg & Philip Baldwin. Limited edition in 99 art-pieces for each color. Sculptures made up of spherical el...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Wendy Hendelman Black Alabaster Torso Sculpture, 2017
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary American sculptor Wendy Hendelman's black Alabaster Torso sculpture on a black marble base. Hendelman’s work reflects her love of the prim...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Alabaster
Fragile Structure#10 Norihiko Terayama Berndt Friberg
Located in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
This series is made up of some glass and some ceramic works. These works are highly unique form and looking. Norihiko Terayama created them from damaged vases, coffee cups and so on....
Category
2010s Japanese Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Pocket-Landscape "Colline" Landscape Sculpture in Black Iron by Aldo Cibic
By Aldo Cibic
Located in Como, IT
"Colline" is a table or sculpture, part of the "Pocket-Landscape" collection designed by Aldo Cibic: a scenery with two hills and a tree.
“I have always been attracted to nature tha...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Iron
Polychromatic Interleave 005, a unique glass vessel in red & blue by Liam Reeves
By Liam Reeves
Located in London, GB
Polychromatic Interleave 005, is a unique handblown glass vessel with fine filigree white cane detail by the British artist Liam Reeves. The two colours of glass in red and blue, merge in the making to create a larger spectrum of hues where they meet, covering the white canes below. A truly exquisite piece.
Liam Reeves has been making glass professionally since 1998 when he graduated from Middlesex University with a BA (Hons) in three-dimensional design. During this time he has honed his skills whilst working in the glass industry for some of the best glassmakers in the UK. In 2009 Reeves studied for an MA at the RCA in order to explore the creative possibilities of the medium of glassblowing. He is currently hot-glass technician at the very same and prestigious Royal College of Art in London.
While at the RCA Liam discovered a passion for investigating pivotal techniques from glassblowing’s two-millennia of rich history. From the mould blowing of ancient Rome to the complex goblet-making techniques of Renaissance Venice...
Category
2010s British Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Art Glass, Blown Glass
Alessandro Mendini Model Prònao 12 Colonne Collection Superego Editions
Located in Milan, Italy
Ceramic sculpture of the 12 columns collection designed by Alessandro Mendini and produced by Superego editions. Limited edition of 10 pieces. Signed and numbered.
Biography
Alessan...
Category
Early 2000s Italian Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Wendy Hendelman White Marble Torso Sculpture, 2018
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 Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Jim Hunter Maquette #3
By Jim Hunter
Located in New York, NY
Abstract sculpture of bent wire with a painted wooden sphere suspended by fish line atop a wooden base, created circa 2010. Essentially a maquette, as Hunter always thinks about scal...
Category
2010s American Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wire
Monoliti Magma Carlo Moretti Murano Glass Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
One of a kind Murano crystal multicolored sculpture created in 2017.
Carlo Moretti: An artisan factory
Strolling afoot through the foundations of Murano, the visitor provi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Crystal
Venini Circo Di Lune Black Sculpture by Monica Guggisberg & Philip Baldwin
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Venini Circo Di Lune sculpture by Monica Guggisberg & Philip Baldwin. Limited edition in 99 art-pieces for each color. Sculptures made up of spherical el...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
James Bearden "Mystical Galaxy Chimes"
Located in New York, NY
“Mystical Galaxy Chimes,” a kinetic sounding sculpture in patinated and gold gilded steel, and glass enamel, with a reference to Gustav Klimt. From the Cathedral series by American artist James Bearden, 2017. Bearden's work was featured in a 2020 solo exhibition at the NY Design Center titled "James Bearden: Technical and Aesthetic Revelations," in an article in the January 2017 Interior Design Magazine...
Category
2010s American Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze, Enamel, Steel
Wendy Hendelman Alabaster Head and Torso Sculpture, 2015
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary American sculptor Wendy Hendelman's alabaster head and torso sculpture on marble base. Hendelman’s work reflects her love of the primitive ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Alabaster
"Brama Totem" Ltd. Ed. White Glazed and Gold Leaf, Sculpture by P. Girardin
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Brama Totem" is a handmade sculpture, designed and produced by Canadian artist Pascale Girardin in a limited edition, made of glazed high fire stoneware with a white ivory finish an...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Canadian Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Gold Leaf, Aluminum
Wendy Hendelman White Marble Torso Sculpture, 2018
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary American sculptor Wendy Hendelman's White Marble Torso Sculpture on a black marble base. Hendelman’s work reflects her love of the primitive and the ancient. The small s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Richard Hirsch Ceramic Primal Cups with Stands, 2014
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary American ceramic artist Richard Hirsch's Primal Cups with Stands #5 and #12 are raku-fired, hand built and hand sculptured. Hirsch creates ceramic sculptures that explor...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
"Brama Totem" Ltd. Ed. Black Glazed and Gold Leaf Sculpture by P. Girardin
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Brama Totem" is a handmade sculpture, designed and produced by Canadian artist Pascale Girardin in a limited edition, made of glazed high fire stoneware with a cast-iron black finish and 22.5-karat gold leaf (gilding) with an urethane varnish, featuring a powder-coated aluminum structure.
DIMENSIONS:
Ø 7", H. 36.5"
Pascale Girardin said about "Brama Totem":
"The Brama Totems are playful pieces in which I bring together pre-existing forms to create something surprising and intriguing."
These objets d’art by Canadian ceramic...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Canadian Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Gold Leaf, Aluminum
"Brama Totem" Ltd. Ed. White Glazed and Gold Leaf Sculpture by P. Girardin
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Brama Totem" is a handmade sculpture, designed and produced by Canadian artist Pascale Girardin in a limited edition, made of glazed high fire stoneware with a white ivory finish and 22.5-karat gold leaf (gilding) with an urethane varnish, featuring a powder-coated aluminum structure.
DIMENSIONS:
Ø 7", H. 45"
Pascale Girardin said about "Brama Totem":
"The Brama Totems are playful pieces in which I bring together pre-existing forms to create something surprising and intriguing."
These objets d’art by Canadian ceramicist Pascale Girardin use totemic motifs to emphasize the universal themes of identity that transcend place, culture and belief systems. For each piece, the artist hand-selects several stand-alone stoneware elements of different shapes, sizes and forms before assembling them into a single textural column. Customized for height in ivory, Egyptian-blue or cast-iron black, each totem is combined with gilded accents to produce a one-of-a-kind composition.
PASCALE GIRARDIN is a Canadian ceramic artist whose work ranges from functional tableware to large-scale architectural installations. She has gained international recognition, collaborating with some of the world’s top design firms on projects that include the Shanghai’s Four Seasons Place, New York’s Peninsula Hotel...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Canadian Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Gold Leaf, Aluminum
Joanna Poag Untitled lll Ceramic Sculpture, Encompassed Series, 2016
By Joanna Poag
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary American ceramic artist Joanna Poag’s Untitled lll Ceramic Sculpture is part of the Encompassed Series. It’s hand sculptured white stoneware fired to Cone 6 and hung by ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Modern Style Carved Rock Crystal and Marble Sculpture
Located in Cypress, CA
One-of-a-kind large modern style hand-carved and hand polished rock crystal sculpture on dark green rectangular base.
The measurement for the base is width 15 inches x depth 12 in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Rock Crystal, Metal
Andrea Branzi Italian Ceramic Sculpture Model Pila Superego Editions
Located in Milan, Italy
Earthenware. Manufactured by Superego Editions, Italy. Underside with transfer print ‘A. Branzi/Superego/Editions’. 2007.
Biography
Superego editions was born in 2006, performing...
Category
Early 2000s Italian Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Grand Wall Sculpture Modern Design
Located in Tourcoing, FR
Grand, mythological and mystical wall fiberglass sculpture: outstanding by its huge dimensions but also its incredible lightness.
Category
Early 2000s Italian Modern Abstract Sculptures
Modern Style Carved Rock Crystal Sculpture
Located in Cypress, CA
One-of-a-kind Modern style hand-carved and hand polished rock crystal sculpture on artistic base. Sculpture tilts on its side.
Rock crystal (crystal quartz) is a natural material born of the earth and touched by the hand of man...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Rock Crystal
Industrial Wall Sculpture with Cables & Black Wood. Wall Art, In Stock
Located in Middle Grove, NY
This wall hung sculpture by Peter Harrison features a woven basket of stainless steel cable which leaps off the wall nearly 12?. The corners are m...
Category
Early 2000s American Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel, Aluminum
Fragile Structure#11 Norihiko Terayama Gertrud Lonegren
Located in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
This series is made up of some glass and some ceramic works. These works are highly unique form and looking. Norihiko Terayama created them from damaged vases, coffee cups and so on....
Category
2010s Japanese Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Reduction Vessel #4 Faceted Carved and Polished Bronze Piece Unique Collectible
By Henry Norris
Located in Vancouver, BC
Reduction series vessels are process driven collectible design, handmade from solid silicon bronze. Our process is as follows:
1) The blank is hand carved by the designer, reduced from a large block of foam
2) Foam is used as a pattern for cutting of sheet bronze that forms the faceted surface
3...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Canadian Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze, Sheet Metal, Metal
Richard Hirsch Ceramic Altar Bowl with Blown Glass Weapon, 2002
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 Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Glass
Link-On: 4C/2 - Contemporary Handmade Multiple Piece Glass Sculpture - In Stock
Located in New York, NY
Multiple component sculptural structure comprised of four handmade blown, carved and polished glass pieces. Pieces fabricated using encalmo technique to create distinct line of color...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Blown Glass
'Tincture Reflector' Screen by Luuk van den Broek
Located in Copenhagen, DK
About: Based in Eindhoven, Luuk van den Broek is working in the field between art and industrial design. Intuitively looking for the deepest colour, the most logical connection or th...
Category
2010s Dutch Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Odysseus, a unique black hand-blown glass sculpture by Cathryn Shilling
Located in London, GB
Odysseus, is a unique black glass sculpture by the British artist Cathryn Shilling. A handblown and free-form shaped glass sculpture with 'glass fabric' decoration worked onto the glass body while hot. A spectacular fusion of blown and kiln formed glass techniques incorporating Cathryn Shilling's signature woven glass. With her Cloaked Collection, Shilling takes mythical tragic figures as her inspiration. This piece is based on Odysseus.
Cathryn Shilling began her arts career as a graphic designer but went on to study glass after moving to Connecticut with her family. On returning to the UK she studied kiln-formed glass at Kensington and Chelsea College and blown glass with Peter Layton at the London Glassblowing Workshop. She set up studio in London in 2007 from where she has gone on to create a huge body and variety of work.
Shilling experiments with colour and technique to produce beautiful one off sculptures. Her innovative pieces push the glass beyond our usual comfort zones. With some sculptures, glass rods are woven together like fabric, mimicking the flexibility and movement of cloth. The apparent frailty of the glass is balanced by the strong dynamic forms, differing levels of light picking out layers of colour. With other works, bubbles are trapped in swathes of watery hues. Her colour palette and choice of forms are very much informed by the various natural states in which water is found: icebergs, waterfalls and whirlpools for example.
Shilling’s work has been collected and widely exhibited internationally including: Ireland Glass Biennale 2019 at Dublin Castle The 3rd Session of China·Hejian Craft Glass Design & Creation Exhibition and Competition, Ming Shangde Glass Museum, Cangzhou City, Hebei Province, China 2019 TACTILE at Glazenhuis, Lommel, Belgium New Aquisitions 2017 at Glasmuseum Lette, Coesfield, Germany Peter Bremers...
Category
2010s British Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Art Glass, Blown Glass
Richard Hirsch and Michael Rogers Time Sculpture, 2007
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary American ceramic artist Richard Hirsch and glass artist Michael Rogers' Time Sculpture was created in 2007. This piece is comprised of a tiny antique oil can...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Richard Hirsch and Michael Rogers Figure Sculpture, 2007
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 Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Blown Glass, Glass
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 Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Clay
Constellation, a clear & black glass sculpture with gold leaf by Louis Thompson
Located in London, GB
Constellation is a unique glass sculpture created from clear and black glass with gold leaf detail. Handcrafted in blown and sculpted glass by the British artist Louis Thompson.
Acc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary British Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Gold Leaf
Richard Hirsch Ceramic Mortar and Pestle, 2007
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 ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Conical Terminals, limited edition patinated bronze sculpture by Vivienne Foley
Located in London, GB
'Conical Terminals' is a limited-edition (3 + 2AP) bronze sculpture on a limestone base by the British artist Vivienne Foley.
Vivienne Foley’s bronze sculptures are a recent develo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary British Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Richard Hirsch Ceramic Mortar and Glass Pestle, 2004
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary American ceramic artist Richard Hirsch's Mortar and Glass Pestle #30 is raku-fired, hand built and hand sculptured. Two separate pieces of wood fired stoneware are assem...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Glass
Contemporary Korean Ceramic, "Large Stack Vessel Pair" by Soo Joo
Located in New York, NY
Large Stack Vessel is a stack sculpture made by Soo Joo in Korean ceramic stoneware and celadon glaze. Its timeless form expresses the ideal ratio and formal balance through a variet...
Category
2010s Korean Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Ceramic Console "Aztèque" by Agnès Debizet, Unique Piece, 2022
Located in London, GB
« Console Aztèque » (2022) by Agnès Debizet
Material: Stoneware, porcelain slip
Dimension: H 90 x 135 x 30 cm
Unique piece, dated and signed.
Taking its inspiration from Latin America antique...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary French Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain, Stoneware
"Kogetsudai 'beige'", 2015 Coiled Rope Sculptural Fiber Vessel by Doug Johnston
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Kogetsudai (beige)", 2015
coiled nylon cord, sewing thread
"Kogetsudai (beige)" is one of four works made in the approximate shape of the Kogetsudai gravel mound in the garden of Ginkaku-ji in Kyoto, Japan. Upon my first visit to this garden, I was fascinated with the Kogetsudai, and the more I learned about it the more my interest was piqued. The feature is one of two special gravel mounds there, which are made from fine grey gravel or sand and re-shaped nearly every day by the gardeners. The name translates to something like "moon-viewing platform" but the reason for the name, the shape, and its significance has been lost to history. Some speculate that the name derives from how the top of the cone appears as a silvery moon-like reflection against a sea of gravel at night when viewed from the upper floor of the adjacent Silver Pavilion - and that the shape may be a reference to Mount Fuji. The Kogetsudai at Ginkaku-ji is a "frustum" shape about 2 meters tall and records show it being in its current shape and approximate dimension since the late 1700's. The shape is very powerful but it is made only of moistened sand. I made this series as a way to study the shape and understand its geometry and presence. I wanted to be able to sit with that shape in a room. I made the shape as a vessel to reinforce the idea of the shape itself, rather than as a solid mass. Furthermore, the dedication to the continual rebuilding of the form and object over and over through time, without a need for any "function" other than beauty and cultural continuity, was similar to how I have come to think of the act of vessel-making by humans. We likely inherited vessel-making skills from our pre-sapiens human ancestors, and have continued this activity over hundreds of thousands of years, and in a proliferation of materials from fibers, wood, clay, metal, glass, plastic, and more. Especially since the beginning of the Holocene, a certain amount of vessel making has had no function or purpose other than for cultural continuity and the cultural, formal, craft, and visual aesthetics within the multitude of human cultures. In this series of works, the continuous length of rope coiled into a conical helix also serves as an expression of this continuity through time, perhaps working towards a yet-unknown endpoint or goal, while creating a space that is simultaneously empty and loaded.
This work was first exhibited in 2015 at Patrick Parrish Gallery as part of my solo exhibition "what it is". It was later shown at the Haystack Mountain School of Craft in Deer Isle, Maine, as well as several other group exhibitions. It has also appeared in several design and art publications in print and online.
Since 2010 Doug Johnston has produced a wide range of functional and sculptural objects using a process of coiling and stitching rope using industrial sewing...
Category
2010s North American Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Nylon
Unique Glass Sculptural Centerpiece by Heike Brachlow
Located in New York, NY
Aurora, 2020 (Glass, C. 11.4 in. h x 17.5 in. w x 14 in. d, Object No.: 4105)
Heike Brachlow was born in Munich, Germany in 1970 and currently lives ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary European Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Glass
Gray Fibonacci Vessel, 2019
Located in New York, NY
In a career spanning over 30 years, New York City artist Christopher Russell has devoted himself to creating unique works of art, functional design, custom architectural elements, an...
Category
2010s American Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Contemporary Wall Mounted Sculpture from 'Delta' Series by James Rowland
Located in Paraty, Rio de Janeiro
A piece from the 'Delta' abstract sculpture series by James Rowland made from Brazilian wood Caxeta.
Scottish Artist and furniture Designer-Maker James ...
Category
2010s Brazilian Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Contemporary Wall Mounted Sculpture from 'Ripples' Series by James Rowland
Located in Paraty, Rio de Janeiro
A piece from the 'Ripples' abstract sculpture series by James Rowland made from solid hard wood Cumaru.
Scottish Artist and furniture Designer-Maker Jam...
Category
2010s Brazilian Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Contemporary Wall Mounted Sculpture from 'Delta' Series by James Rowland
Located in Paraty, Rio de Janeiro
A piece from the 'Delta' abstract sculpture series by James Rowland made from Brazilian wood Caxeta dyed with watercolor paint.
Scottish Artist and fu...
Category
2010s Brazilian Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Contemporary Wall Mounted Sculpture from 'Ripples' Series by James Rowland
Located in Paraty, Rio de Janeiro
A piece from the 'Ripples' abstract sculpture series by James Rowland made from solid hard wood Sucupira.
Scottish Artist and furniture Designer-Maker J...
Category
2010s Brazilian Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Sculptural Vases by Elica Studio Porcelain Gold Handmade Italy Contemporary
Located in London, GB
Elica Studio, Phylocallos Sir Pent and Sparspay, 2022, porcelain, engobes, gold 24K, oxides, glaze 21 x 11 x 27cm h Hand painted
Elisabetta Bovina (b. Italy, 1961) and Carlo Pastor...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Gold
Teemu Salonen, Fantasy Flower 3, FL
Located in New York, NY
Todd Merrill Studio began representing Finnish artist Teemu Salonen in 2019. Teemu Salonen’s iconoclastic work is an active renunciation of the simple lines and unadorned nature perv...
Category
2010s Finnish Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Paint
"Pitchdrop" 2015 Coiled and Sewn Cotton Fiber Sculpture by Doug Johnston
Located in Brooklyn, NY
-Made in 2015
-Nylon and cotton cord, sewing thread.
"Pitchdrop" was made in 2015 as part of a body of work for my exhibition "what it is." It is a sculptural vessel-form object made by coiling and sewing nylon and cotton rope with an industrial zig-zag sewing machine. The piece is not made with a specific form in mind when started, so its shape emerges somewhat organically during its making. Multiple smaller, individual vessels are made, then joined together. More rope is coiled and sewn onto the new form, and new parts are incorporated and built upon from there. This piece features a main body sewn with black nylon cord, which acts as a visual and physical anchor for the object. From this, a series of smaller arm-like appendages grow ni coiled cotton cord.
Since 2010 Doug Johnston has produced a wide range of functional and sculptural objects using a process of coiling and stitching rope using industrial sewing machines...
Category
2010s North American Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Cotton, Nylon
"Kogetsudai 'black'", 2015 Coiled Rope Sculptural Fiber Vessel by Doug Johnston
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Kogetsudai (black)", 2015
coiled nylon cord, sewing thread
"Kogetsudai (black)" is one of four works made in the approximate shape of the Kogetsudai gravel mound in the garden o...
Category
2010s North American Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Nylon
"Kogetsudai (navy)", 2015 Coiled Rope Sculptural Fiber Vessel by Doug Johnston
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Kogetsudai (navy)", 2015
coiled nylon cord, sewing thread
"Kogetsudai (navy)" is one of four works made in the approximate shape of the Kogetsudai gravel mound in the garden of ...
Category
2010s North American Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Nylon
"Untitled 'Navy Shroud'" 2015 Sewn Rope Sculptural Fiber Object by Doug Johnston
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Untitled (Navy Shroud)", 2015
coiled nylon cord, sewing thread, urethane resin
"Untitled (Navy Shroud)" was made as part of a group of works exploring objects as shroud spaces. The pieces create a space, the contents unknown, upon which the viewer's understanding becomes one reality, while another reality of the object itself is in continuous withdrawal from the viewers' perception. The exploration was based on contemplations of "Schrödinger's cat" and Object-Oriented Ontology. The work was made by coiling nylon cordage and sewing it together on an industrial zig-zag sewing machine. In the process of coiling, irregularities are introduced that alter the overall form as it is being made. These irregularities are placed and responded to improvisationally, working towards a composition that appears as if a thick cloth is loosely draped over an object of indeterminate form. The interior of the nylon vessel was then coated by hand with a black epoxy resin, which solidified the textile into a rigid shell. The result is a free-standing shroud-like object, which is to be placed into a space as a sculptural object, to conceal other objects, unsightly architectural features, etc.
This work was first exhibited in 2015 at Patrick Parrish Gallery as part of my solo exhibition "what it is". It was later shown in 2017-2018 at the Cranbrook Art Museum in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, as well as several other group exhibitions. It has also appeared in several design and art publications in print and online.
Since 2010 Doug Johnston has produced a wide range of functional and sculptural objects using a process of coiling and stitching rope using industrial sewing machines...
Category
2010s North American Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Nylon, Epoxy Resin
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