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Item Ships From: Chicago
The Path - Abstract Geometric Form, Hand Painted Welded Steel Wall Sculpture
By Chris Hill
Located in Chicago, IL
This dynamic wall sculpture is created from sheets of steel, welded together in an abstract geometric pattern. Muted shades of blue, grey, purple and green dominate and are balanced by softer hues. While the work adheres to a rigid, rational geometry, this sculptures suggest lyrical movement, apparent weightlessness and improvisation as the title suggests.
Chris Hill
The Path
welded steel, acrylic paint
28h x 15.75w x 2d in
71.12h x 40.01w x 5.08d cm
CHI018
Chris Hill is a Santa Fe based sculptor. Chris was born in Port Arthur...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Chicago - Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Serie Olimpo Vulcano - Bronze Sculpture of Mythological God of Fire
By Jesus Curia Perez
Located in Chicago, IL
Serie Olimpo Vulcano
bronze, 2/8
30h x 14w x 8.75d in
76.20h x 35.56w x 22.23d cm
ed. 2
JCP072
Jesús Curiá's sculptures arouse something more than purely aesthetic pleasure. We can ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Chicago - Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Fight I - Hanging Sculpture of Intertwined Bronze Figures with Orange Hood
By Jesus Curia Perez
Located in Chicago, IL
Suspended in air, these figures float and dance, their bodies intertwined in embrace for all time. This dynamic and innovative sculpture challenges our perception of space while capt...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Chicago - Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Adan- Bronze Figure of Adam with Hand Reaching Down to Bitten Apple
By Jesus Curia Perez
Located in Chicago, IL
Jesús Curiá Perez
Adan
bronze
23h x 7w x 7d in
58.42h x 17.78w x 17.78d cm
ed. 4/8
JCP069
Jesús Curiá's sculptures arouse something more than purely aesthetic pleasure. We can anal...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Chicago - Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Deslizando - Bronze Sculpture of Speed Skating Figure in Orange Outfit
By Jesus Curia Perez
Located in Chicago, IL
Jesús Curiá Perez
Deslizando
bronze and acrylic
24h x 12.50w x 11.75d in
60.96h x 31.75w x 29.84d cm
ed. 1/8
JCP068
Jesús Curiá's sculptures arouse something more than purely aesthe...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Chicago - Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
The Black Road: Crystal - Resin Head Sculpture with Interior Light and Tree
By Dean Kugler
Located in Chicago, IL
Dean Kugler
The Black Road: Crystal, 2022
resin, steel, limestone
31h x 13w x 12d in
78.74h x 33.02w x 30.48d cm
DK0044
Dean Kugler is a seasoned interdisciplinary artist, painter, ...
Category
2010s American Realist Chicago - Sculptures
Materials
Concrete, Steel
"Case Runner, " Mixed Media Sculpture
Located in Chicago, IL
To Chicago-based artist Patrick Fitzgerald, his sculptures are a means of traveling through time. Working from found materials, Fitzgerald constructs miniature soap box cars...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Outsider Art Chicago - Sculptures
Materials
Wire
Tempest - Large Scale Brightly Colored Abstract Sculpture, Intertwined Form
Located in Chicago, IL
Robert Segal’s abstract sculpture offers a particularly fertile ground for experiments in shape, color, proportion, and technique. He steps away from non-traditional sculpting method...
Category
1990s Abstract Chicago - Sculptures
Materials
Fiberglass, Acrylic
Cord
By Michael Ayrton
Located in Chicago, IL
Edition of 12
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Chicago - Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Figure vase by Beatrice Wood BEATO
By Beatrice Wood
Located in Morton Grove, IL
A rare and beautiful vase by Beato! Beatrice Wood,
It is signed.
Beatrice Wood (American, 1893–1998) was a painter, draughtsman, and sculptor best known for her luster-glazed ceramic...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Chicago - Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Terracotta, Glaze
Art-ikythera Mechanism
By Terry Poulos
Located in Chicago, IL
Modern-day rendition of the world's oldest computer, the real-life Antikythera Mechanism (c. 205 BC). To our knowledge, the world's first outright, true sculpture that honors the world's oldest computer. The Antikythera Mechanism was a hand-powered astronomical calculator/planetarium consisting of anywhere from 24 to approximately 30 interlocking concentric gears and cogs. It was the most complex man-made instrument ever made until nearly the Renaissance, a fact which demands rewrite on the capabilities of the ancients. The ART-ikythera directly connects Archimedes to the invention of the mechanism by virtue of the symbol for Pi being inscribed on the sculpture base. Also inscribed is a spiral glyph, gleaned from the real-life Archimedes Palimpsest. Another accoutrement is the "eye of Archimedes," a concave mirror which when illuminated casts the illusion of a convex magnifying glass. The shape of the base is a square within a circle, symbolizing how Archimedes "squared the circle" to calculate Pi to the second decimal expansion (3.14). ART-ikythera is an esoteric code generator with clues and ciphers leading to a unique scientific perspective.
SPECS: Total of 23 individual pieces, including spot-welded antique and vintage cast-iron gears, cogs and sprockets from used farm implements, antique brass all angle inclinometer (late 19th century), antique padlock...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Chicago - Sculptures
Materials
Aluminum, Metal
Motion - Bronze Figurative Sculpture - Yoga - Decorative - Price for the Pair
By Kostis Georgiou
Located in Chicago, IL
Pair of Bronze sculptures
11 x 7.8 x 2.3 in
28 x 20 x 6 cm
Available in RED & BLACK painted patinas
Born in Thessaloniki, Greece, Kostis Georgiou studied stage scenery in Flo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Chicago - Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Arco II - Bronze Figure Poised Shooting an Arrow, Verdigris Patina, Steel Base
By Jesus Curia Perez
Located in Chicago, IL
Jesús Curiá Perez
Arco II, ed. 3/8
iron and bronze
26h x 17.75w x 7.75d in
116.84h x 45.09w x 17.14d cm
JCP055
It is seemingly easier to identify with the ideas and thoughts of an ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Chicago - Sculptures
Materials
Bronze, Steel
untitled sculpture by Richard DeVore
By Richard DeVore
Located in Morton Grove, IL
Untitled Vessel (INV# NP3503)
Richard DeVore
stoneware and glaze
3.25 x 5.75 x 6”
date unknown
mid century modern
Provenance- "ACCUMULATIONS: NOW" at the LongHouse Reserve
Richard ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Chicago - Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware, Glaze
Jump by Kostis Georgiou - Decorative Figurative Sculpture - Yoga
By Kostis Georgiou
Located in Chicago, IL
Pair of Bronze Sculptures
RED: 13.5 x 3.25 x 5 in (35 x 8.25 x 12.7 cm)
BLACK: 13.5 x 2.75 x 1 in (35 x 2.5 x 7 cm)
Born in Thessaloniki, Greece, Kostis Georgiou studied s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Chicago - Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Oblong Mug (INV# NP3732)
By John Gill
Located in Morton Grove, IL
John Gill
Oblong Mug (INV# NP3732)
stoneware and glaze
2002
signed by artist
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Chicago - Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware, Glaze
Horse I - Horse and Rider, Bronze and Artificial Stone on Steel Base
By Jesus Curia Perez
Located in Chicago, IL
Jesús Curiá Perez
Horse I
bronze and artificial stone
23h x 19.75w x 8.25d in
58.42h x 50.16w x 20.95d cm
JCP061
It is seemingly easier to identify with the ideas and thoughts of a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Chicago - Sculptures
Materials
Bronze, Steel
"Beach-Combed Mochaware, " Mixed Media Sculpture
By Michael Thompson
Located in Chicago, IL
Based in Chicago, IL, contemporary artist Michael Thompson creates unique kites, collages and mixed media works assembled from material fragments of past and present collected in his travels. In his ongoing series of memory jugs, Thompson adorns stoneware vessels with a kaleidoscope of ceramic shards, found objects, and pocket-sized trinkets he collected over the course of his life.
Also known as forget-me-not jugs or spirit jars, memory jugs are African American folk art objects that honor a loved one who has recently passed. Small tokens and mementos of the deceased are gathered and affixed to the exterior of a jug or vase, an abundance of memories that celebrates a life lived to the fullest.
Michael Thompson applies this tradition to his own practice, creating tactile assemblages of this and that. Formed in the manner of collage, each jug honors the lost memories of generations past and his own memories of personally discovering each item. With varied sources for materials including Kyoto, Turkey, and Mexico, a great number of the found shards are 18th and 19th century ceramics...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Chicago - Sculptures
Materials
Stone
High Desert Composition - 3-D Steel Wall Sculpture, Linear Geometric Form
By Chris Hill
Located in Chicago, IL
"High Desert Composition" is a welded steel wall sculpture where the lines between two- and three-dimensional art are blurred. The viewer has a variety of experiences from multiple vantage points where volumes and angles disconnect and reconnect as one moves around the piece. The hand welded steel is painted with acrylic paint in a kaleidoscope of color tones.
Chris Hill
High Desert Composition
welded steel, acrylic paint
80h x 48w x 7d in
203.20h x 121.92w x 17.78d cm
CHI024
Chris Hill is a Santa Fe based sculptor. Chris was born in Port Arthur, Texas but grew up in small town North Mississippi.
He began welding at age 18 at the Tennessee Valley Authority...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Chicago - Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Lichtenstein's OHH. .ALRIGHT - Pop Art Ode to Roy Lichtenstein Ceramic Sculpture
By Sandy Kaplan
Located in Chicago, IL
Roy Lichtenstein's works were often inspired by comic characters. They were angsty women, often appearing to be in distress. In this particular work, a beautiful, fraught woman with a furrowed brow grasps a telephone in both hands as she says "Ohh ... Alright ..." Lichtenstein lets us imagine the back story - and what might happen next. Kaplan's sculpture is a direct reference to this Lictenstein's iconic pop art painting of 1964.
Sandy Kaplan
Lichtenstein's OHHH...ALRIGHT
ceramic
16h x 12w x 13d in
40.64h x 30.48w x 33.02d cm
SAK012
Sandy Kaplan
b. 1943, St. Louis, MO
2021 Maturity and Its Muse, Art Saint Louis
2020 Storytellers Exhibit, Art Saint Louis
2019 SOFA Chicago, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
Honors Exhibit, Art Saint Louis
Anthony Bourdain - Parts Unknown: Ceramic Centric, Foundry Arts Ctr, St. Charles, MO
Current Profiles, Craft Alliance Center, St. Louis, MO
2018 SOFA Chicago, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
Maturity and Its Muse, Art Saint Louis
Works from the Studios, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO
Drawn From Life: Artful Aging, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
2017 3-D, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL
SOFA Chicago, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
2016 Works from the Studio, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO
A Moveable Feast Exhibit, Oak Park Art League, Oak Park, IL
Maturity and Its Muse, Art Saint Louis
2015 Writers Round Table, Craft Alliance Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2014 Save the Last Dance for Me, Art Saint Louis XXX...
Category
2010s Contemporary Chicago - Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Mug by John Gill (INV# NP3731)
By John Gill
Located in Morton Grove, IL
John Gill
Mug (INV# NP3731)
stoneware and glaze
4.75 x 5.5 x 4.25
2015
signed by artist
Category
2010s Contemporary Chicago - Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware, Glaze
Free Flow - Abstract Geometric Form, Hand Painted Welded Steel Sculpture
By Chris Hill
Located in Chicago, IL
This dynamic table sized sculpture is created from sheets of steel and rods, welded together in an abstract geometric pattern. While the work adheres to a rigid, rational geometry, this sculptures suggest lyrical movement, apparent weightlessness and improvisation as the title suggests.
Chris Hill
Free Flow
welded steel, acrylic paint
21.5h x 11w x 5d in
43.18h x 20.32w x 12.70d cm
CHI020
Chris Hill is a Santa Fe based sculptor. Chris was born in Port Arthur, Texas but grew up in small town North Mississippi.
He began welding at age 18 at the Tennessee Valley Authority...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Chicago - Sculptures
Materials
Steel
"Grocery Getter, " Mixed-Media Sculpture
Located in Chicago, IL
To Chicago-based artist Patrick Fitzgerald, his sculptures are a means of traveling through time. Working from found materials, Fitzgerald constructs miniature soap box cars...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Outsider Art Chicago - Sculptures
Materials
Wire
"Ghost (Waiting for Friends), " Mixed Media Mosaic, 2022
Located in Chicago, IL
Intricate, ethereal and highly textured, the abstract compositions of Japanese mosaic artist Toyoharu Kii reflect a sophisticated approach to the technical art of mosaic making. Clas...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Chicago - Sculptures
Materials
Marble
"XMITTER" Helmet & Jacket Sculpture
Located in Chicago, IL
To Chicago-based artist Patrick Fitzgerald, his sculptures are a means of traveling through time. Working from found materials, Fitzgerald constructs miniature soap box cars...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Outsider Art Chicago - Sculptures
Materials
Wire
"Pexto Car, " Mixed-Media Sculpture
Located in Chicago, IL
To Chicago-based artist Patrick Fitzgerald, his miniature car sculptures are a means of traveling through time. Born from a fascination with the soap box derby cars of his youth, eac...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Outsider Art Chicago - Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Paper, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic
Zia Rising - Geometric Steel Sculpture, Welded Steel, Hand Painted Acrylic
By Chris Hill
Located in Chicago, IL
This dynamic table sized sculpture is created from sheets of steel welded together in an abstract geometric pattern. While the work adheres to a rigid, rational geometry, this sculptures suggest lyrical movement, apparent weightlessness and improvisation as the title suggests.
Chris Hill
Zia Rising
welded steel, acrylic paint
14.50h x 13w x 5d in
36.83h x 33.02w x 12.70d cm
CHI022
Chris Hill is a Santa Fe based sculptor. Chris was born in Port Arthur, Texas but grew up in small town North Mississippi.
He began welding at age 18 at the Tennessee Valley Authority...
Category
2010s Abstract Chicago - Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Wet Dreams (INV# NP3775) by Sunkoo Yuh
By SunKoo Yuh
Located in Morton Grove, IL
Untitled Sculpture (INV# NP3775)
Sunkoo Yuh
clay and glaze
19.75 x 19 x 10”
2010
signed
Category
2010s Contemporary Chicago - Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Walking Cat - Large Scale Bronze Animal Sculpture with Mosaic Patterned Surface
By Mary Block
Located in Chicago, IL
Mary Block
Walking Cat
bronze
39h x 65w x 15d in
99.06h x 165.10w x 38.10d cm
MBK001
Mary Block
b. 1951, St. Louis, MO
Education
1975 Mechanical Engineering Department, Stainless Steel Casting in Cooperation with Alloy Casting Corporation.
University of Illinois - Champaign
1974 Master of Fine Arts Candidate. School of Fine Arts. University of Iowa.
1973 Bachelor of Fine Arts. College of Fine Arts. University of Illinois – Champaign
Exhibitions
2022 Kiss Me, Its Snowing, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL
Illinois Artists’ List, Curator: K. Eaton.
Mary Block Sculpture and Print: A Dialogue Between Form and Image. University of Illinois.
School of Art and Design, Link Gallery. Champaign/Urbana.
1996 ASID Showcase, Chicago, IL
1995 New Glass Review, Corning Museum. Corning, NY. International Exhibition/Catalog featuring innovative glass
sculpture.
1996 Solo Exhibition, Nina Own Gallery, Chicago, IL
1996 Gallery Artists, Nina Owen Gallery. Chicago, IL
1995 Gallery Artists, Nina Owen Gallery. Chicago, IL
1995 Sandy and Dave, Group Exhibition. North Shore/Skokie Sculpture Park. Skokie, IL
1994 Sandy and Dave, Group Exhibition. North Shore/Skokie Sculpture Park. Skokie, IL
1992 Twenty Women, Adler Cultural Center. Libertyville, IL
1991 The Discerning Eye-National Exhibition, Charles A. Wustum Museum. Racine, WI
1988 North Shore Skokie Sculpture Walk, Curator: J. Folise. McCormick Blvd, Skokie, IL
Public Commissions
2022 Skyway Prints, Delta Airlines. Skyway Lounge, O’Hare Airport, Chicago, IL
2018 Mindfulness Center Sculpture, Roslyn Road School, Barrington. IL
2011 Grove School Children’s Amphitheater, Ft. Grove School, Barrington, IL
2007 Generations, Village Hall of Deerfield, Deerfield, IL
1999 Lifetime Learners, Danville Community College. Danville, IL
1997 Heroic Women Collection, Las Sendes Sculpture Park, Phoenix, AZ
1996 Wrapped Figure, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
Book With Hands Memorial, Oak Grove...
Category
2010s Contemporary Chicago - Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Man with Cup, " Painted Ceramic Figure
Located in Chicago, IL
Although this whimsical sculpture by Allan Winkler has the look of outsider art, this ceramic work stems from the art school-trained artist’s interest in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Chicago - Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Acrylic
"Ghost (Get Out of Town), " Mixed Media Mosaic, 2022
Located in Chicago, IL
Intricate, ethereal and highly textured, the abstract compositions of Japanese mosaic artist Toyoharu Kii reflect a sophisticated approach to the technica...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Chicago - Sculptures
Materials
Marble
DAS ICH UND DAS ES (The Ego and the Id)
By Boky Hackel-Ward
Located in Chicago, IL
DAS ICH UND DAS ES
(The Ego and the Id)
Bronze with 24k Gold Leaf
Dimensions:
9.4" x 5.1" x 5.1" (24 x 13 x 13 cm)
Edition Size: 6
This sculpture was inspired by Freud’s paper b...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Chicago - Sculptures
Materials
Bronze, Gold Leaf
As seen in ~DARK MATTER~ Losing Myself In You (Gold Leaf) - Bronze Sculpture
By Boky Hackel-Ward
Located in Chicago, IL
Bronze with Gold Leaf
Based on Boky Hackel-Ward’s self-portrait, this sculpture is not only about what can happen to us when we get lost in a love that seems to be grander than gran...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Chicago - Sculptures
Materials
Bronze, Gold Leaf
As Seen in ~DARK MATTER~ Losing Myself In You (Platinum Leaf) - Bronze Sculpture
By Boky Hackel-Ward
Located in Chicago, IL
Bronze with Platinum Leaf
Based on Boky Hackel-Ward’s self-portrait, this sculpture is not only about what can happen to us when we get lost in a love that seems to be grander than ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Chicago - Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Phylax by Kostis Georgiou - Figurative Sculpture
By Kostis Georgiou
Located in Chicago, IL
Aluminum sculpture
54 x 25 x 16 cm
Born in Thessaloniki, Greece, Kostis Georgiou studied stage scenery in Florence (1981-1982), painting and sculpture in the School of Fine Arts, Athens (1982-1986) with Dimitris Mitaras and Dimosthenis Kokinidis, as well as at the Royal College of Fine Arts, London (1985-1986) with Peter de Francia...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Chicago - Sculptures
Materials
Other Medium
Figure Buffeted by Wind - Paper Sculpture, Male Swept Up in a Gust of Wind
By Ivan Markovic
Located in Chicago, IL
The male figure, catching himself before tumbling to the ground in Ivan Markovic's paper sculpture, "Figure Buffeted by Wind" is deceptively fluid and light. The viewer senses the w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Chicago - Sculptures
Materials
Wire
Archimedes Vortex
By Terry Poulos
Located in Chicago, IL
Modern-day 3-dimensional facsimile of the 1-dimensional mathematical axis spiral found in the ancient manuscript titled the "Archimedes Palimpsest." Sculpture conveys a double entendre with its proprietary version of the universe spiraling through space, evoking Archimedes’ effort to calculate the volume of the universe. The universe is depicted via the vortex spiral and globe as supercooled and superheated, a polar opposite electrical balance of nature. An armillary sphere conveys Archimedes' math treatises on the circle, sphere and cylinder. Included are one vintage pulley and corkscrew (representing the water screw), both honoring Archimedes inventions, and one valve handle.
SPECS: Spot-welded seven-foot long vintage iron chain, vintage armillary sphere...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Chicago - Sculptures
Materials
Aluminum, Metal
Thesis by Kostis Georgiou - Yoga - Figurative Sculpture
By Kostis Georgiou
Located in Chicago, IL
Pair of Bronze sculptures
7 x 9.5 x 2 in
18 x 24 x 5 cm
Available in RED & BLACK painted patinas
Born in Thessaloniki, Greece, Kostis Georgiou studied stage scenery in Floren...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Chicago - Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Nightfall - Highly Detailed Paper Sculpture of Sleeping Figure & Bicycle
By Ivan Markovic
Located in Chicago, IL
This realistic sculpture is created from scraps of paper and glue. The sculpture is inspired by the characters found in cities around the world. In this case, a figure sleeps beside a bicycle. A backpack is used as a pillow and shoes has been kicked off. Every attention has been paid to the smallest of details in this truly amazing paper sculpture. This sculpture is presented in a custom acrylic display case...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Chicago - Sculptures
Materials
Copper, Wire
Pile-up at The Gates of Hell
By Bobbi Meier
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
Abstract forms emerge from remembrances of disco dancing, Earth Wind & Fire, darkness, heat, perspiration and glitz. Materials are twisted into ambiguous shapes, s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Chicago - Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Found Objects, Other Medium
Falling Up - Highly Detailed Paper Sculpture of Woman Falling Off a Bicycle
By Ivan Markovic
Located in Chicago, IL
A split second moment is frozen in time as a rider falls from her bike, just barely making contact with the ground. The fluidity with which the artist is able to capture this specifi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Chicago - Sculptures
Materials
Wire
"Iridescence, " Mixed Media Sculpture
By Michael Thompson
Located in Chicago, IL
Based in Chicago, IL, contemporary artist Michael Thompson creates unique kites, collages and mixed media works assembled from material fragments of past and present collected in his travels. In his ongoing series of memory jugs, Thompson adorns stoneware vessels with a kaleidoscope of ceramic shards, found objects, and pocket-sized trinkets he collected over the course of his life.
Also known as forget-me-not jugs or spirit jars...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Chicago - Sculptures
Materials
Stone
Lovesuite
By Bobbi Meier
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
An interactive hybrid of social experiment and sculptural object, envelopes the sitter into it’s cushiony softness, referencing a Victorian courting chair...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Chicago - Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects, Other Medium
"Retablo No. 5 (An Attic of Records)", Mixed Media Sculpture
Located in Chicago, IL
The intricate retablos of contemporary artist Patrick Fitzgerald are his means of paying homage to the musicians that inspired him throughout his life. Derived from Mexican votive...
Category
2010s Surrealist Chicago - Sculptures
Materials
Paper, Oil, Found Objects, Mixed Media, Wood Panel
"Bouquet, " Mixed Media Sculpture
By Michael Thompson
Located in Chicago, IL
Based in Chicago, IL, contemporary artist Michael Thompson creates unique kites, collages and mixed media works assembled from material fragments of past and present collected in his travels. In his ongoing series of memory jugs, Thompson adorns stoneware vessels with a kaleidoscope of ceramic shards, found objects, and pocket-sized trinkets he collected over the course of his life.
Also known as forget-me-not jugs or spirit jars, memory jugs are African American folk art objects that honor a loved one who has recently passed. Small tokens and mementos of the deceased are gathered and affixed to the exterior of a jug or vase, an abundance of memories that celebrates a life lived to the fullest.
Michael Thompson applies this tradition to his own practice, creating tactile assemblages of this and that. Formed in the manner of collage, each jug honors the lost memories of generations past and his own memories of personally discovering each item. With varied sources for materials including Kyoto, Turkey, and Mexico, a great number of the found shards are 18th and 19th century ceramics...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Chicago - Sculptures
Materials
Stone
Cream Calabash by Michael Frimkess (INV# NP3996)
By Magdalena and Michael Frimkess
Located in Morton Grove, IL
Michael Frimkess
Cream Calabash (INV# NP3996)
stoneware and glaze
8.5 x 5"
date unknown
provenance - The Nevica Project
Magdalena Suarez Frimkess and Michael Frimkess began workin...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Chicago - Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware, Glaze
Geroge, Raku Fired Ceramic
By Pavel Amromin
Located in Chicago, IL
Pavel G. Amromin
EXHIBITIONS
2017 SOFA: Sculpture, Objects, Functional Art, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
2009 Pavel Amromin: Adventure Bound, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
SOFA: Sculpture, Objects, Functional Art, New York, NY
2008 SOFA: Sculpture, Objects, Functional Art, New York, NY
38th Annual Ceramics Exhibition, Crossman Gallery, UW Whitewater, WI
2007 SOFA: Sculpture, Objects, Functional Art, Chicago, IL
SOFA: Sculpture, Objects, Functional Art, New York, NY
2006 SOFA: Sculpture, Objects, Functional Art, Chicago, IL
The Toy Soldier Collection - MFA Thesis Exhibition, University Gallery, University of Florida...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Chicago - Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Untitled #2/ Tied series, Handmade Abstract Sculpture
By Yoonshin Park
Located in Boston, MA
Untitled #2/ Tied series
10.0 x 16.0 x 0.5, 1.0 lbs
Handmade paper
Hand signed by artist
Artist's Commentary:
"'Tied', the title of the installation series, is a phonetic pun on the rising tides and the paper pages bound by threads.
As the water rises and falls, pages of our daily experience add and subtract to and from our memory. Our daily life permeates our memory just as the ink is absorbed into each page and create new shapes and patterns onto what once was a clean slate of a blank page."
About the Artist:
Yoonshin Park is a Chicago based multimedia artist, curator, and educator working with sculptural papers, artist books, and installations. Her interest in the comprehensive process of papermaking and bookbinding caters her work to encompass various elements woven into complete objects. She often uses her experience as a foreign transplant to question space and its implications in defining one's identity as the inspiration behind her work. Park has shown at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Hyde Park Art Center...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Chicago - Sculptures
Materials
Handmade Paper
"Diary (2303), " Mixed Media Mosaic, 2023
Located in Chicago, IL
Intricate, ethereal and highly textured, the abstract compositions of Japanese mosaic artist Toyoharu Kii reflect a sophisticated approach to the technica...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Chicago - Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Untitled figure by Robert "BOB" Brady
By Robert Brady
Located in Morton Grove, IL
ROBERT BRADY
terracotta
20.75 x 5 x 7.5”
signed by artist
date unknown
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Chicago - Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
"China Cabinet, " Mixed Media Sculpture
By Michael Thompson
Located in Chicago, IL
Based in Chicago, IL, contemporary artist Michael Thompson creates unique kites, collages and mixed media works assembled from material fragments of past and present collected in his...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Chicago - Sculptures
Materials
Stone
"Retablo No. 4 (Blackbird)", Mixed Media Sculpture
Located in Chicago, IL
The intricate retablos of contemporary artist Patrick Fitzgerald are his means of paying homage to the musicians that inspired him throughout his life. Derived from Mexican votive...
Category
2010s Surrealist Chicago - Sculptures
Materials
Paper, Found Objects, Mixed Media, Oil, Wood Panel
Kansas City Water Tower by Dan Anderson
By Dan Anderson
Located in Morton Grove, IL
KANSAS CITY WATER TOWER (INV# NP5057)
Dan Anderson (1945 - 2023)
clay, glaze, and decals with metal base
woodfired ceramic!
11.5 x 8 x 8”
circa 2016
signed
RARE!
Category
2010s Contemporary Chicago - Sculptures
Materials
Steel
"Cut-Rate Liquor Car, " Mixed-Media Sculpture
Located in Chicago, IL
Chicago-based artist Patrick Fitzgerald uses his works as a means of resurrecting the idyllic worlds he once found in the industrial surroundings of his youth. Raised in Grand Rapids...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Outsider Art Chicago - Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Paper, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic
"Protector One" Folk Art Crow Sculpture
Located in Chicago, IL
Richly textured with whimsical appeal, this late 20th century wooden crow is a delightful example of naive American sculpture. Poised mid-caw, the crow's wings are outstretched, read...
Category
Late 20th Century Folk Art Chicago - Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Paint
"Maquette Car, " Mixed-Media Sculpture
Located in Chicago, IL
To Chicago-based artist Patrick Fitzgerald, his miniature car sculptures are a means of traveling through time. Born from a fascination with the soap box...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Outsider Art Chicago - Sculptures
Materials
Fabric, Wood, Paper, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic
"Man in Green Shirt, " Acrylic on Ceramic
Located in Chicago, IL
Although this whimsical sculpture by Allan Winkler has the look of outsider art, this ceramic work stems from the art school-trained artist’s interest in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Chicago - Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Acrylic
Watch-log
By Christine Perri
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
This sculpture is a combination of the natural (the standing walnut split log) and the classical (the cherry bas-relief face).
Keywords: figurative carved log and...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Chicago - Sculptures
Materials
Wood
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