Organic Modern Abstract Sculptures
ORGANIC MODERN STYLE
Organic modern furniture is characterized by clean lines, an overall uncomplicated aesthetic and a prioritizing of natural, sustainable materials, such as wood and stone. There are lots of earth tones and natural-world textures rather than bright color palettes or fabrics embellished with busy patterns.
Organic furniture is minimalist and, owing to the ideas of venerable architect Frank Lloyd Wright, designed for warm spaces that promote harmony between human habitation and the great outdoors. Organic modern design, including in furniture and architecture, emerged in the 1930s.
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Style: Organic Modern
Creator: Helena Starcevic Ceramics
Black Ceramic TOTEM Trio, 3 Hand Built Sculptures, Rings on Arc'd Legs
Located in New York, NY
A trio of 3 hand built ceramic Modern TOTEMs from a series investigating the Totemic form. Each one is different, a soft rectangle, an oval and a circular ring on arcing legs. The s...
Category
Early 2000s American Organic Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Bright Red Ceramic Sculpture, Hand Built, Six Soft Rectangles on Angled Legs
Located in New York, NY
Part of an ongoing exploration into the sculptural family of Modern Totemic Forms and Objects, all hand built in ceramic stoneware. They are "modern" in the Mid-Century Modern vein....
Category
2010s American Organic Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Ceramic Sculpture, Curved, Standing Skeletal Spine With Metallic Black Glaze
Located in New York, NY
This Unique Hand Built Ceramic Sculpture is part of a series of works referencing the spine ("Rachis" in Latin). It is fired twice, the second time with a special platinum/metallic g...
Category
2010s American Organic Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Matte Black Modern TOTEM, Chalice Top on Tripod Legs, Hand Built Ceramic
Located in New York, NY
A Hand Formed Chalice on Tripod Legs, one in a series of Modern TOTEMS, in matte black, underglazed stoneware.
Each TOTEM is unique and has its own person...
Category
2010s American Organic Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware, Ceramic
Crusty Yellow-Gold Ceramic TOTEM with Crescent Top, Crawl Glaze, Hand Built
Located in New York, NY
This 3-part crusty yellow-gold hand built ceramic TOTEM is a true gift from the "kiln gods", a term ceramicists often use. Here, the result was totally unpredictable and unexpected. ...
Category
2010s American Organic Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Matte Black Hand Built Ceramic TOTEM "Take a Bite" on Tripod Legs
Located in New York, NY
One of a trio of fully hand built ceramic TOTEMS in matte black under glazed stoneware. This one, "Take a Bite" has a small arc-like bite at the top. They each have their own personality which occurs when clay is hand-formed into shapes, connected together, and fired in a hot kiln. The surface is textured and coated with underglaze, giving the impression of black clay. Pictured below with 2 sister pieces: "Tall Feather" and "First Walk on the Moon...
Category
2010s American Organic Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware, Ceramic
24-Legged Black Glazed Ceramic Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
This year I began focussing on the feet of a piece. How can I change the personality of the artwork by changing the feet it stands on? This challenging piece has many longer feet, ...
Category
2010s American Organic Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Matte Brown Ceramic TOTEM with Tiny Crescent Top on Soft Rectangle & Oval Forms
Located in New York, NY
One in a new series of Modern TOTEMS consisting of soft round or rectangular forms on small conical feet. The shapes begin as a solid piece. They are then hollowed out, stacked and t...
Category
2010s American Organic Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Mottled Deep Blue Hand Built Ceramic Totem, Wide Oval on Curved Foot
Located in New York, NY
Mottled deep blue with light and dark areas, this amazing matte glaze surface was the result of a mistake in glaze chemistry and boy am I glad! It reminds me of Yves Klein Blue, a de...
Category
2010s American Organic Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Blue Planet Sphere with Hand Carved Surface
Located in New York, NY
Blue Planet Sphere is a round elliptically shaped sculpture, like a flattened, angle-edged ball. Not exactly shaped like our Blue Planet, it still looks li...
Category
2010s American Organic Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Black Ceramic TOTEM, Center Sphere, White Crinkled Top, Tripod Legs, Hand Built
Located in New York, NY
This glazed black hand built ceramic modern TOTEM consists of a freeform open top with a middle spherical shape on tripod legs. Part of a series of Modern Totemic works.
The dark brown stoneware clay is hand formed in 3 sections which are attached before firing. The rich Black Glaze on the lower forms alternates between satin and gloss and shows the texture of the clay, while the White Glazed top reveals the artist's hand and the brown clay beneath. Several ceramic techniques are used here, slab construction, coiling and pinching...
Category
2010s American Organic Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Three-Part Hand Built Ceramic Totem, Brown and White Rectangles & Curved Crown
Located in New York, NY
This Totem has three stacking parts, a hollow brown rectangle, hollow white rectangle and a brown curved crescent crown on four small feet. The 3 parts are started as solid forms the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Organic Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware, Ceramic
Gray/Green Ceramic Pod Composite Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
Hand built Ceramic Sculpture, in Gray/Green Underglaze. The Gray/Green is hard to capture: more dark gray than green, it has the feeling of the color sage green. The piece is a composite of hollow pods, elongated, pointed oval or elliptical shapes. They are individually hand-formed, attached together and fused during the firing. White stoneware clay with gray/green underglazes create a soft, powdery surface that still shows a bit of texture from the clay. It is not glazed. The Composite Series has an earthy presence, inspired by the huge bare boulders of the Anza Borrego...
Category
2010s American Organic Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Metallic Silver-Gray Ceramic Sculpture, Angled Head with 2 Middle Bars on 4 Legs
Located in New York, NY
This Metallic Silver-Gray hand-built ceramic sculpture evokes a proud creature that walks and observes. A Modern TOTEM, abstract with an angled head on two middle bars, balanced on 4...
Category
Early 2000s American Organic Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Matte Black Hand Built Ceramic TOTEM, "First Walk On The Moon" on Tripod Legs
Located in New York, NY
One in a series of fully Hand Built Ceramic TOTEMS in Matte Black Underglazed Stoneware. This one, "First Walk On The Moon" has a full moon-like hollo...
Category
2010s American Organic Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Red Chalice on Black Tripod Legs, Hand Built Ceramic Stoneware
Located in New York, NY
This Red Ceramic Chalice is a modern take on an ancient idea, designed and hand built by the artist, Helena Starcevic. It has a glossy red glaze over a dark clay body which shows thr...
Category
2010s American Organic Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware, Ceramic
Hand Built Ceramic Challis, Matte with Black Glazed Interior
Located in New York, NY
A further examination of "The Challis" , these pieces are an offering, a gift, a ritual. Rather than a cup to be used it is a piece to be celebrated. Each one completely unique. Bu...
Category
2010s American Organic Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Dark Matte Brown Ceramic Sculpture, Hollow Oval on 4 Button Feet, Hand Built
Located in New York, NY
A hollow oval sculpture on 4 button feet. Part of a new series of related pieces, a sculptural "Family" of Modern Shapes as ceramic stoneware objects. This piece has a dark matte bro...
Category
2010s American Organic Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Bare Clay Ceramic Challis With Black Glaze and White Accents
Located in New York, NY
A further examination of "The Challis" these sculptural pieces become an offering, a gift, a ritual. Rather than a cup to be used it is a piece to be celebrated. Each one complete...
Category
2010s American Organic Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Matte Black Ceramic TOTEM, Round and Rectangular Forms, Organic Crinkled Cup Top
Located in New York, NY
One in a new series of modern TOTEMS consisting of soft round or rectangular forms on small conical feet. The shapes begin as a solid piece. They are then hollowed out, stacked and i...
Category
2010s American Organic Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Hand Built Ceramic Challis Sculpture in Matte Black With Glazed "Black Flame"
Located in New York, NY
A further examination of "The Challis" these sculptural pieces are an offering, a gift, a ritual. Rather than a cup to be used it is a piece to be celebrated. Each one completely ...
Category
2010s North American Organic Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Handbuilt Ceramic Sculpture, Pod Composite 'Black Coal' in Matte Black
Located in New York, NY
Hand Built Ceramic Sculpture, "Black Coal". A composite of hollow, elongated, pointed oval or elliptical shapes, individually hand-formed clay parts, attached together and fused during the firing. This is a dark stoneware with a black underglaze revealing all the scrapes and marks of the clay underneath. The individual parts are all different, together they create a landscape inspired by the huge bare boulders of the Anza Borrego...
Category
2010s American Organic Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Matte Brown Ceramic TOTEM w/ Gold Arc'd Crown on Soft Cube & Oval Forms
Located in New York, NY
One in a new series of Modern TOTEMS consisting of soft round or rectangular forms on small conical feet. The shapes begin as a solid piece. They are then hollowed out, stacked and t...
Category
2010s American Organic Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Short Standing TOTEM, Rectangular Ovals on Angled Legs in Metallic Glazed Clay
Located in New York, NY
This shorter "Modern Totem" sculpture consists of softly rectangular rings stacked one on top of the other, on short angled feet. Another angled foot is replicated above under the to...
Category
2010s American Organic Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Hanging Rachis With Tail, Hand Built Ceramic Mobile, Stoneware and Porcelain
Located in New York, NY
There's something about art that hangs in space rather than on the wall. This piece, "Hanging Rachis With Tail" consists of graduating stonewa...
Category
Early 2000s American Organic Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
3 Rectangular Ovals on Short Angled Legs, Metallic Black-Glaze Clay Sculpture #2
Located in New York, NY
This tall "Modern Totem" sculpture consists of softly rectangular rings stacked one on top of the other, on short angled feet. Another smaller angled foot shape is replicated above u...
Category
2010s American Organic Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
32-Legged Black Glazed Ceramic Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
This year I began focussing on the feet of a piece. How can I change the personality of the artwork by changing the feet it stands on? This challenging piece has many longer feet, ...
Category
2010s American Organic Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Black Oval Ceramic Sculpture with 2 Rows of Small Pointed Feet
Located in New York, NY
A new series of small sculptures in the Modern Totemic vein. Not exactly humanistic, but they do have feet and personality. They are abstract...
Category
2010s American Organic Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Matte Brown Hand Built Ceramic TOTEM w/ Gold Crown on Soft Cube & Oval Forms
Located in New York, NY
One in a new series of Modern TOTEMS consisting of soft round or rectangular forms on small conical feet. The shapes begin as a solid piece. They are then hollowed out, stacked and t...
Category
2010s American Organic Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Ceramic Sculpture "Starburst" Sphere in Natural White With Blue/Gray Interior
Located in New York, NY
Inspired by the viewing of the 2017 Total Eclipse of the Sun, these pieces consist of uniquely hand-formed conical shapes, like bursts or rays eminating from an interior sphere. This challenging form takes weeks to construct, many more for the multiple underglaze applications and firings required.
"Starburst" sphere in natural white with blue or gray depicts the muted tones of the underglazes used. There is no...
Category
2010s American Organic Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Ceramic Sculpture, Oblong Cube with Oval Opening in Glossy Gray Glaze
Located in New York, NY
Hollow yet weighted, this contemplative ceramic sculpture is both an object to look at as well as to hold. The center opening creates negative space, suggesting the passing through o...
Category
2010s American Organic Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Hollow Black Wide Oval Ceramic Sculpture on Small Feet
Located in New York, NY
A new series of small sculptures in the Modern Totemic vein. Not exactly humanistic, but they do have feet and personality. They are abstract...
Category
2010s American Organic Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Hollow Black Oval Ceramic Sculpture on Eight Pointed Feet
Located in New York, NY
A new series of small sculptures in the Modern Totemic vein. Not exactly humanistic, but they do have feet and personality. They are abstract...
Category
2010s American Organic Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
White Ceramic Composite Sculpture "White Cloud"
Located in New York, NY
Hand built Ceramic Sculpture, "White Cloud". A composite of hollow, elongated pointed oval or elliptical shapes, individually hand-formed clay parts, attached together and fused during the firing. White stoneware with a white underglaze creating a soft, powdery surface that still shows a bit of texture from the clay. They have a cloud-like presence, inspired by the huge bare boulders of the Anza Borrego...
Category
2010s American Organic Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Open Crimped Curve Top, Elongated Center, Tripod Legs, Black Ceramic TOTEM
Located in New York, NY
Hand built ceramic sculpture in mottled black glaze. This piece, one in a series of Modern TOTEMS has a crimped curve open top, an elongated center form, tripod legs and a luscious b...
Category
2010s American Organic Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Hollow Black Rectangular Ceramic Sculpture on Eight Slender Feet
Located in New York, NY
A new series of small sculptures in the Modern Totemic vein. Not exactly humanistic, but they do have feet and personality. They are abstract...
Category
2010s American Organic Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Organic Modern abstract sculptures for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Organic Modern abstract sculptures for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage abstract sculptures created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include decorative objects, serveware, ceramics, silver and glass, lighting and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with glass, art glass and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Organic Modern abstract sculptures made in a specific country, there are Europe, North America, and United Kingdom pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original abstract sculptures, popular names associated with this style include Zieta, Helena Starcevic Ceramics, Ernesto Duran, and Jörg Pietschmann. It’s true that these talented designers have at times inspired knockoffs, but our experienced specialists have partnered with only top vetted sellers to offer authentic pieces that come with a buyer protection guarantee. Prices for abstract sculptures differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $175 and tops out at $57,545 while the average work can sell for $3,415.