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Item Ships From: Connecticut
Rigoletto, Erté
By Erté
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Erte, Romain de Tirtoff (1892-1990)
Title: Rigoletto
Year: 1988
Medium: Bronze
Edition: 145/375
Size: 19.75 x 18.13 x 5.75 inches
Condition: Excellent
Inscription: Incised wi...
Category
1980s Art Deco Connecticut - Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Fire Plug Souvenir - "Chicago August 1968" (P. 10), Claes Oldenburg
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Claus Oldenburg (1929)
Title: Fire Plug Souvenir - "Chicago August 1968" (P. 10)
Year: 1968
Medium: Cast plaster multiple with acrylic paint
Ed...
Category
1960s Pop Art Connecticut - Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Plaster, Acrylic
"Excavation" Contemporary mixed media sphere, textile sculpture
By Norma Minkowitz
Located in Wilton, CT
Excavation, mixed media, 25" round, 2009-11.
This mixed media sculpture was done by American fiber artist, Norma Minkowitz (b. 1937). Minkowitz utili...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
Graffiti Train, PHASE 2
By Lonny Wood (aka Phase 2)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: PHASE 2 (1955-2019)
Title: Graffiti Train
Year: circa 1980
Medium: Aerosol paint and collage on plastic model train
Size: 4.5 x 20.5 inches
Condition: Excellent
Inscription: ...
Category
1980s Pop Art Connecticut - Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Plastic, Acrylic
La Femme A La Panthere, Erté
By Erté
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Erte, Romain de Tirtoff (1892-1990)
Title: La Femme A La Panthere
Year: 1981
Medium: Bronze
Edition: 43/250 Numbered, 12 AP, 9 HC
Size: 15 inches
Condition: Excellent
Inscrip...
Category
1980s Art Deco Connecticut - Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Original 1960s Claricon 38-503 Dynamic Microphone Repurposed Lamp Sculpture
By Chuck Krause
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Chuck Krause (1949)
Title: 1960’s Claricon 38-503 Dynamic Microphone Repurposed Lamp Sculpture
Year: Repurposed in 2019
- original vintage, repurposed, non-audible microphone
- overall height (includes stand): 11”
- microphone head: 1-3/4" x 2" x 3-1/2"
- includes black base (diameter: 6")
- total weight: 3 lbs.
- on/off switch on microphone controls lamp
- re-wired power cord with wall plug
- wear consistent with age and use
- low voltage, led, cool to the touch
- artist’s signature hand incised on base
Notes: Condition of this over 50 year old...
Category
2010s Pop Art Connecticut - Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Sentinel
Located in Greenwich, CT
Peter Kirkiles Biography
American, b. 1966
Sculptor Peter Kirkiles stresses that the inspiration for his metal sculptures comes from the satisfaction of the process of fabricating a piece in a skilled manner and from his attraction to everyday objects and their relationship to humans. He finds beauty in the utilitarian tools, and objects that we may not notice in our day to day lives. By playing with their size and their proportion to human scale, he forces the viewer to examine more closely the object’s construction and its overall design importance. He has a nostalgia for well designed, well used, history laden objects.
“I’m a maker; I’m also an admirer of things well made. Over the years, I’ve chosen to make things that I love. I find the subjects of my sculpture in real life; a shoe, a camera, a clock, a ruler…made to scale, as sculpture.” –Peter Kirkiles
Kirkiles holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Tufts University, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts and a Masters of Fine Arts from Cranbrook Academy in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. He has exhibited nationally including a 2021 solo exhibition “At Scale” at the Shelburne Museum, Shelburne Vermont. His work is held by The Shelburne Museum, The New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT and by private collectors throughout the US.
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Peter Kirkiles’ sculptures are visual odes to everyday objects. He is a maker’s maker, a master craftsman, a lover of well-constructed things. He has a special affinity for things well-used, that have stood the test of time and remain steadfast in their intended purpose, that bear the marks of labor and living, that contain echoes of humanity: an antique chest of drawers, a well-worn...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Bronze, Stainless Steel
Thumbprint (Gray), original three dimensional geometric design wall relief
By Chuck Krause
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Chuck Krause (1949)
Title: Thumbprint (Gray)
Year: 2020
Medium: Acrylic paint on sculpted composite board
Size: 23 x 18 inches
Condition: Excellent
Inscription: Signed by the...
Category
2010s Pop Art Connecticut - Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Board
15 Black Boxes, Wall Sculpture by Jin-Sook So
By Jin-Sook So
Located in Wilton, CT
This abstract geometric wall sculpture was done by fiber artist, Jin-Sook So (b. 1950, Korea).
So’s work is informed by her time spent in Korea, Sweden and Japan. She uses transpar...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Silver, Steel, Gold Leaf
Thumbprint (Red), original three dimensional geometric design wall relief
By Chuck Krause
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Chuck Krause (1949)
Title: Thumbprint (Red)
Year: 2020
Medium: Acrylic paint on sculpted composite board
Size: 23 x 18 inches
Condition: Excellent
Inscription: Signed by the ...
Category
2010s Pop Art Connecticut - Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Board
Jim Perry - Totem No. 10, Sculpture 2015
Located in Greenwich, CT
Medium:
Sapele Wood
Jim Perry’s sculpture has been included in the Whitney Biennial as well as solo exhibitions at Calloway Fine Art & Consulting, Washington, DC (2018); The Center ...
Category
2010s Connecticut - Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Wood
"Three Chairs" Mixed Media Triptych, Modern Textile Wall Hangings
By Jin-Sook So
Located in Wilton, CT
"Three Chairs" (Triptych) steel mesh, gold, silver and background rust steel board, 35" x 42 1/2" x 2", 2010.
This three-piece mixed media textile work was done by artist, Jin-Sook ...
Category
2010s Modern Connecticut - Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Gold, Silver, Steel
Black Marble Chanel Bag / Women's Fashion / "Amour De Paris"
Located in Greenwich, CT
Amour De Paris
12 x 9 x 4 inches
Edition of 25
Black marble sculpture of women's chanel bag
Authenticity Certificate, acquired from artist's studio
Frank Hollywood...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Connecticut - Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Guidance
By Ben Young
Located in New York, NY
Ben Young’s sculpture fluidly blends glass, concrete, bronze, steel, and light to depict romantic and pensive imagery highlighting the fragility of our climate and its most precious resource – water. Born in Australia and raised in New Zealand, Young is an avid surfer and environmentalist, inspired by a lifetime on and around oceans, bays, and reefs, with an intimate understanding of the challenges our precious ecosystems face.
Young’s thought-provoking sculpture shows great range, portraying the beauty and solitude of life on the ocean, haunting depths of the deep sea, and stunning and relaxing upside of island life. Water is many things to many people, which Young encapsulates brilliantly in his work, encompassing themes of sustainability throughout.
Using concrete to create mountains, crevasses, sand bars, and cliffs, Young’s innovative use of materials is transportative. With hand-carved glass as his guiding medium, Young amplifies light and its relationship with water – our most sacred element – to create a glowing unity that people from around the world connect with on a personal level, whether they are beachside or in the Desert.
Ben Young’s exhibition Delicate Space at Chesterfield Gallery...
Category
2010s Realist Connecticut - Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Concrete, Bronze, Stainless Steel
"El abrazo" Carolina Yrarrázaval, Contemporary woven textile wall sculpture
Located in Wilton, CT
"El abrazo" Carolina Yrarrázaval, jute, linen, 40" x 14" x 7", 2017.
This woven Contemporary textile sculpture was done by Chilean fiber artist, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Fabric, Textile, Jute, Linen
"Shop" James Bassler, Contemporary Woven Shopping Bag Sculpture
Located in Wilton, CT
"Shop" James Bassler, brown paper Trader Joe's shopping bags, cut and twisted, with yellow and red waxed linen thread, 16" x 11" x 5", 2009.
"Shop", by ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Connecticut - Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Textile, Thread, Paper, Found Objects, Mixed Media
Black Shell, woven abstract wall sculpture by Federica Luzzi
Located in Wilton, CT
Black Shell, Federica Luzzi, cotton, wool, 60” x 49” x 9”, 2009
Federica Luzzi (b. 1970, Italy) is known for her woven sculptures, which she creates using her own personal knotting ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Connecticut - Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Textile, Cotton, Wool
Soul of a Big Blue Bowl, Contemporary Wall Sculpture by Jin-Sook So
By Jin-Sook So
Located in Wilton, CT
Jin-Sook So’s work is informed by her time spent in Korea, Sweden and Japan. She uses transparent steel mesh cloth, which she burns, paints, electroplates in gold or silver, sews an...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Silver, Steel, Gold Leaf
Miles Jaffe - Woodstock, Sculpture 2023
By Miles Jaffe
Located in Greenwich, CT
metal, polymer, pigment, wood
Edition of 20
From NOTE Prime Cuts
This sculpture will be shipped directly from the artist's studio.
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Stainless Steel
Miles Jaffe - Emphasis, Sculpture 2023
By Miles Jaffe
Located in Greenwich, CT
metal, polymer, pigment, wood
Edition of 20
"Label text: Becoming an artist is a polite way of saying you've chosen alcoholism as a career.
From NOTE Emphasis
This sculpture will ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Stainless Steel
Magnificent Seven, Damien Hirst
By Damien Hirst
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Damien Hirst (1965)
Title: The Magnificent Seven
Year: 2000
Medium: Pingpong balls in original cardboard box
Edition: 940/1500
Size: 2 3/8 x 13 1/4x2 3/8 inches
Condition: Excellent
Inscription: Signed and ink stamp numbered on the base of the box.
Notes: Published by Gagosian Gallery, New York, for the exhibition "Theories, Models, Methods, Approaches, Assumptions, Results and Findings.
DAMIEN HIRST (1965- ) Macabre bad-boy Damien Hirst, one of the most prominent and notorious British artists was catapulted to international art stardom with his a 14-foot tiger shark...
Category
Early 2000s New Media Connecticut - Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
Medium Sail Boat
Located in Fairfield, CT
Pedro's sculpture's are whimsical and sophisticated. The sailboat series is affordable for the work involved in creating them. His use of mixed media gives the sculptures a unique ...
Category
2010s Realist Connecticut - Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Joel Urruty - A Young Man, Sculpture
By Joel Urruty
Located in Greenwich, CT
Maplewood Bust
19" x 7" x 8.5"
This sculpture will be shipped directly from the artist's studio.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Connecticut - Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Maple
Sculpture of "A Rearing Bull" by animalier Antoine-Louis Barye
By Antoine-Louis Barye
Located in Greenwich, CT
Antoine-Louis Barye was acclaimed as the finest sculptor of the French Animaliers School. As a 19th century sculptor he was an advocate for both naturalism and romanticism. This rear...
Category
19th Century Academic Connecticut - Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Jo Yarrington, Ghost Girls_Brushes, 2017, Organic Material, Found Objects, Pins
By Jo Yarrington
Located in Darien, CT
Radioluminescence is the phenomenon by which light is produced in a material by bombardment with ionizing radiation and can be used as a low-level light source for night illumination of instruments or signage or other applications where light must be produced for long periods without external energy sources. Radioluminescent paint used to be used for clock hands and instrument dials...
Category
2010s Conceptual Connecticut - Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Organic Material, Found Objects, Pins
Miles Jaffe - Kitsch, Sculpture 2023
By Miles Jaffe
Located in Greenwich, CT
Edition 20
archival digital print mounted on aluminum with 3D printed push pin
This sculpture will be shipped directly from the artist's studio.
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Stainless Steel
Miles Jaffe - Burn Baby Burn, Sculpture 2023
By Miles Jaffe
Located in Greenwich, CT
metal, polymer, pigment, wood
Edition of 8
From MB HOT Burn Baby Burn
This sculpture will be shipped directly from the artist's studio.
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Stainless Steel
Miles Jaffe - On A Roll, Sculpture 2023
By Miles Jaffe
Located in Greenwich, CT
metal, polymer, pigment, wood
Edition 20
This sculpture will be shipped directly from the artist's studio.
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Stainless Steel
Miles Jaffe - Agave Blue, Sculpture 2023
By Miles Jaffe
Located in Greenwich, CT
metal, polymer, pigment, wood
"Label text: Becoming an artist is a polite way of saying you've chosen alcoholism as a career.
The numeric code stamped into the tube spells AGAVE."
...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Stainless Steel
Miles Jaffe - Hirst Taxidermy, Sculpture 2023
By Miles Jaffe
Located in Greenwich, CT
digital print on aluminum, wood, 3D print, paint, stainless steel
Edition of 8
From MB DAY JOB Hirst Taxidermy
This sculpture will be shipped directly from the artist's studio.
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Stainless Steel
Miles Jaffe - Put the Soup On, Sculpture 2023
By Miles Jaffe
Located in Greenwich, CT
metal, polymer, pigment, wood
Edition of 20
From NOTE Put the Soup On
This sculpture will be shipped directly from the artist's studio.
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Stainless Steel
Miles Jaffe - Conceptual Artist's Brush Set (v. 4), Sculpture 2023
By Miles Jaffe
Located in Greenwich, CT
metal, polymer, pigment, wood
"This set includes the following conceptual brushes: dry, hare, hair, air, shaving, and feather."
This sculpture will be shipped directly from the art...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Stainless Steel
Miles Jaffe - Pill Blue, Sculpture 2023
By Miles Jaffe
Located in Greenwich, CT
metal, polymer, pigment, wood
"Label text: Go back to sleep, it's just a dream.
Companion piece to Pill Red."
This sculpture will be shipped directly from the artist's studio.
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Stainless Steel
Colorburst Pinwheels, Pinned Paper Flowers in Green, Pink, Yellow, Purple
By Jill Parisi
Located in Kent, CT
In this framed wall sculpture, digital prints and hand-colored lithography on hand-cut tissue weight kozo and gampi paper are cut to mimic botanical shapes and pinned with entomology...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Foam Board, Tissue Paper, Pins, Digital, Lithograph
Jim Perry - Sabi No. 8, Sculpture 2023
Located in Greenwich, CT
Medium:
Sapele Wood
Jim Perry’s sculpture has been included in the Whitney Biennial as well as solo exhibitions at Calloway Fine Art & Consulting, Washington, DC (2018); The Center ...
Category
2010s Connecticut - Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Richard Klein, Holiday Inn Beirut, 2017, Found and altered objects assemblage
Located in Darien, CT
In the mid 1990s Richard Klein started working with found glass objects, including bottles, drinking glasses, ashtrays, and eyeglasses. Initially, Klein rejected any object with commercial or advertising content, but in 2015 he became fascinated with the promotional content that was screen printed on ashtrays from the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s. This period was before smoking was looked at as being primarily a negative habit, and iconic American businesses, including Howard Johnson’s, International House of Pancakes (iHop) and Holiday Inn, all produced promotional ashtrays printed with their graphic identity.
By the time Klein became interested in these objects, the businesses had either ceased to exist, or had changed their logos, and many of their signature buildings, which where examples of classic, “Pop” roadside architecture, has been torn down or repurposed. The artist wanted to connect the glass objects with the business’s sites that were still recognizable and spoke of their history, so he began researching where original buildings still stood.
Klein then embarked on a series of road trips to photograph these sites with the intention of combining the photographs with the promotional glass objects. This led him to as far south as Maryland and as far north as upstate New York from his home in Connecticut.
In the case of Holiday Inn, it wasn’t their buildings, but their iconic illuminated sign that appeared on ashtrays, so he sought out a standing example of the sign he could photograph.
As it turned out all had been removed years before from the hotels' properties and the only working example was indoors at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. He did, however, find out that there was one still standing, surprisingly, in Beruit, Lebanon. He found an image of it on the web and used it to make Holiday Inn (Beruit).
In 1973 Holiday Inn changed their tagline from “The Nations Innkeeper” to “The World’s Innkeeper” as they expanded overseas, including the Mideast. For the hotel chain it was bad timing: the disastrous Lebanese civil war began in 1975. In the war, the different Lebanese militias involved in the conflict, including the Nasserites, Christian Phalangists, and the Lebanese National Movement engaged in what came to be called “The Battle of the Hotels” where they each occupied a major high-rise hotel in central Beruit. The Phalangists commanded the Holiday Inn, which they used to fire with both light arms and heavier weapons at the militias in neighboring hotels.
Klein used the photo of the heavily damaged Holiday Inn sign as I thought it spoke in a curious, offhanded way about American cultural imperialism in juxtaposition with an ashtray that proclaimed Holiday Inn to be “The World’s Innkeeper.” In the work Holiday Inn (Nocturne) the artist utilized a found, 35mm slide of a Holiday Inn sign at night at an unknown location as the basis of the photograph in the work.
Richard Klein is a Connecticut-based artist, independent curator and writer. As an artist, he has exhibited widely, including the Neuberger Museum of Art at SUNY Purchase; Caren Golden Fine Art, New York; the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI; Hales Gallery, London; Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach, FL; deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA; James Barron Art, Kent, CT; The Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA), Portland, OR; Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA; Stephan Stoyanov Gallery, NY; Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY; Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT; Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY; Exhibit by Alberson Tulsa, OK; Incident Report/Flow Chart Foundation, Hudson, NY; ICEHOUSE Project Space, Sharon, CT; Kenise Barnes Fine Art in Kent, CT and with ODETTA Gallery at the Equity Gallery in New York City..
Reviews of his work have appeared in Two Coats of Paint, Whitehot Magazine, The New York Times, Sculpture Magazine, Art in America, and The New Yorker. In the summer of 2024 he will be the first Artist-In-Residence at Peck Ledge Light...
Category
2010s Assemblage Connecticut - Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Jim Perry - Emerging, Sculpture 2022
Located in Greenwich, CT
Medium:
Sapele Wood
Jim Perry’s sculpture has been included in the Whitney Biennial as well as solo exhibitions at Calloway Fine Art & Consulting, Washington, DC (2018); The Center ...
Category
2010s Connecticut - Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Jim Perry - Sabi No. 4, Sculpture 2022
Located in Greenwich, CT
Medium:
Sapele Wood
Jim Perry’s sculpture has been included in the Whitney Biennial as well as solo exhibitions at Calloway Fine Art & Consulting, Washington, DC (2018); The Center ...
Category
2010s Connecticut - Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Jim Perry - Living Free, Sculpture 2013
Located in Greenwich, CT
Medium:
Sapele Wood
Jim Perry’s sculpture has been included in the Whitney Biennial as well as solo exhibitions at Calloway Fine Art & Consulting, Washington, DC (2018); The Center ...
Category
2010s Connecticut - Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Jim Perry - Ebb and Flow, Sculpture 2018
Located in Greenwich, CT
Medium:
Sapele Wood
Jim Perry’s sculpture has been included in the Whitney Biennial as well as solo exhibitions at Calloway Fine Art & Consulting, Washington, DC (2018); The Center ...
Category
2010s Connecticut - Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Jim Perry - Tango, Sculpture 2015
Located in Greenwich, CT
Medium:
Sapele Wood
Jim Perry’s sculpture has been included in the Whitney Biennial as well as solo exhibitions at Calloway Fine Art & Consulting, Washington, DC (2018); The Center ...
Category
2010s Connecticut - Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Jim Perry - Then and Now, Sculpture 2023
Located in Greenwich, CT
Medium:
Spanish Cedar Woord
Jim Perry’s sculpture has been included in the Whitney Biennial as well as solo exhibitions at Calloway Fine Art & Consulting, Washington, DC (2018); The...
Category
2010s Connecticut - Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Katherine Jackson, Suspension of Disbelief, 2015, Graphite, Paper, Framed
By Katherine Jackson
Located in Darien, CT
Drawing, glass, and light: these three ingredients are the basis of Katherine Jackson’s work. She begins with drawing, which sometimes becomes an end...
Category
2010s Conceptual Connecticut - Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Graphite
Jim Perry - Glissade No. 6, Sculpture 2023
Located in Greenwich, CT
Medium:
Cherryn wood
Jim Perry’s sculpture has been included in the Whitney Biennial as well as solo exhibitions at Calloway Fine Art & Consulting, Washington, DC (2018); The Center...
Category
2010s Connecticut - Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Jo Yarrington, Ghost Girls, Camel Hair Brush Display, 2018, Found Objects, Metal
By Jo Yarrington
Located in Darien, CT
Radioluminescence is the phenomenon by which light is produced in a material by bombardment with ionizing radiation and can be used as a low-level light source for night illumination of instruments or signage or other applications where light must be produced for long periods without external energy sources. Radioluminescent paint used to be used for clock hands and instrument dials...
Category
2010s Conceptual Connecticut - Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Richard Klein, iHop II, 2018, Found and altered objects assemblage
Located in Darien, CT
In the mid 1990s Richard Klein started working with found glass objects, including bottles, drinking glasses, ashtrays, and eyeglasses. Initially, Klein rejected any object with commercial or advertising content, but in 2015 he became fascinated with the promotional content that was screen printed on ashtrays from the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s. This period was before smoking was looked at as being primarily a negative habit, and iconic American businesses, including Howard Johnson’s, International House of Pancakes (iHop) and Holiday Inn, all produced promotional ashtrays printed with their graphic identity.
By the time Klein became interested in these objects, the businesses had either ceased to exist, or had changed their logos, and many of their signature buildings, which where examples of classic, “Pop” roadside architecture, has been torn down or repurposed. The artist wanted to connect the glass objects with the business’s sites that were still recognizable and spoke of their history, so he began researching where original buildings still stood.
Klein then embarked on a series of road trips to photograph these sites with the intention of combining the photographs with the promotional glass objects. This led him to as far south as Maryland and as far north as upstate New York from his home in Connecticut.
In the case of Holiday Inn, it wasn’t their buildings, but their iconic illuminated sign that appeared on ashtrays, so he sought out a standing example of the sign he could photograph.
As it turned out all had been removed years before from the hotels' properties and the only working example was indoors at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. He did, however, find out that there was one still standing, surprisingly, in Beruit, Lebanon. He found an image of it on the web and used it to make Holiday Inn (Beruit).
In 1973 Holiday Inn changed their tagline from “The Nations Innkeeper” to “The World’s Innkeeper” as they expanded overseas, including the Mideast. For the hotel chain it was bad timing: the disastrous Lebanese civil war began in 1975. In the war, the different Lebanese militias involved in the conflict, including the Nasserites, Christian Phalangists, and the Lebanese National Movement engaged in what came to be called “The Battle of the Hotels” where they each occupied a major high-rise hotel in central Beruit. The Phalangists commanded the Holiday Inn, which they used to fire with both light arms and heavier weapons at the militias in neighboring hotels.
Klein used the photo of the heavily damaged Holiday Inn sign as I thought it spoke in a curious, offhanded way about American cultural imperialism in juxtaposition with an ashtray that proclaimed Holiday Inn to be “The World’s Innkeeper.” In the work Holiday Inn (Nocturne) the artist utilized a found, 35mm slide of a Holiday Inn sign at night at an unknown location as the basis of the photograph in the work.
Richard Klein is a Connecticut-based artist, independent curator and writer. As an artist, he has exhibited widely, including the Neuberger Museum of Art at SUNY Purchase; Caren Golden Fine Art, New York; the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI; Hales Gallery, London; Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach, FL; deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA; James Barron Art, Kent, CT; The Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA), Portland, OR; Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA; Stephan Stoyanov Gallery, NY; Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY; Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT; Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY; Exhibit by Alberson Tulsa, OK; Incident Report/Flow Chart Foundation, Hudson, NY; ICEHOUSE Project Space, Sharon, CT; Kenise Barnes Fine Art in Kent, CT and with ODETTA Gallery at the Equity Gallery in New York City..
Reviews of his work have appeared in Two Coats of Paint, Whitehot Magazine, The New York Times, Sculpture Magazine, Art in America, and The New Yorker. In the summer of 2024 he will be the first Artist-In-Residence at Peck Ledge Light...
Category
2010s Assemblage Connecticut - Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Richard Klein, American Glassware, 2010-2024, Found and altered objects
Located in Darien, CT
In the mid 1990s Richard Klein started working with found glass objects, including bottles, drinking glasses, ashtrays, and eyeglasses. Initially, Klein rejected any object with commercial or advertising content, but in 2015 he became fascinated with the promotional content that was screen printed on ashtrays from the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s. This period was before smoking was looked at as being primarily a negative habit, and iconic American businesses, including Howard Johnson’s, International House of Pancakes (iHop) and Holiday Inn, all produced promotional ashtrays printed with their graphic identity.
By the time Klein became interested in these objects, the businesses had either ceased to exist, or had changed their logos, and many of their signature buildings, which where examples of classic, “Pop” roadside architecture, has been torn down or repurposed. The artist wanted to connect the glass objects with the business’s sites that were still recognizable and spoke of their history, so he began researching where original buildings still stood.
Klein then embarked on a series of road trips to photograph these sites with the intention of combining the photographs with the promotional glass objects. This led him to as far south as Maryland and as far north as upstate New York from his home in Connecticut.
American Glassware (2010-present) which is presented in a small, wall-mounted vitrine. American Glassware is composed of three glass objects: a “souvenir” Walden Pond ashtray made by me as a multiple; a real souvenir ashtray from the 1964-65 New York World’s Fair; and an authentic “Happy Face” drinking glass from the same era. They are all nestled in crumpled, vintage newspaper from 1967, and are presented together in a dilapidated cardboard box, as if they have been found in someone’s attic or basement. Once again, in a similar manner to the Glass House Ashtray, versions of his Walden Pond ashtray (Walden Pond Souvenir) have been injected into the collectable stream of tag sales and flea markets, creating a souvenir that never existed. The ashtray is screenprinted with an image of Thoreau’s cabin on Walden Pond as pictured on the title page of his book Walden, or Life in the Woods (1854). (The original illustration was created by Thoreau’s sister, Sophia.) Walden Pond Souvenir was originally produced for the 2010 exhibition Renovating Walden at the Tufts University Art Gallery in Medford, MA.
Richard Klein is a Connecticut-based artist, independent curator and writer. As an artist, he has exhibited widely, including the Neuberger Museum of Art at SUNY Purchase; Caren Golden Fine Art, New York; the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI; Hales Gallery, London; Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach, FL; deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA; James Barron Art, Kent, CT; The Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA), Portland, OR; Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA; Stephan Stoyanov Gallery, NY; Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY; Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT; Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY; Exhibit by Alberson Tulsa, OK; Incident Report/Flow Chart Foundation, Hudson, NY; ICEHOUSE Project Space, Sharon, CT; Kenise Barnes Fine Art in Kent, CT and with ODETTA Gallery at the Equity Gallery in New York City..
Reviews of his work have appeared in Two Coats of Paint, Whitehot Magazine, The New York Times, Sculpture Magazine, Art in America, and The New Yorker. In the summer of 2024 he will be the first Artist-In-Residence at Peck Ledge Light...
Category
2010s Assemblage Connecticut - Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Katherine Jackson, Suspension of Disbelief II, 2015, Graphite, Paper, Framed
By Katherine Jackson
Located in Darien, CT
Drawing, glass, and light: these three ingredients are the basis of Katherine Jackson’s work. She begins with drawing, which sometimes becomes an end...
Category
2010s Conceptual Connecticut - Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Graphite
Loren Eiferman, Voynich #1, 124 Pieces of Wood, 2015, Wood, Putty, 54x30x20 in
By Loren Eiferman
Located in Darien, CT
Over many decades Loren Eiferman has created and mastered a unique technique of working with wood—her primary material.
First, she begins with a drawing of an idea. Then she takes a daily walk in the woods surrounding her studio and collects tree limbs and long sticks that have fallen to the ground. She never chops down a living tree or uses green wood. Eiferman allows the wood time to cure in the studio to make sure it won’t check or crack.
Next, she debarks the branch and looks for shapes found within each piece of wood. Using a Japanese hand saw, she cuts and connect these small shapes together using dowels and wood glue. Then, all the open joints get filled with a home made putty, which is then sanded so she can see the newly formed shapes. This process is until the new sculpture appears like the original line drawing but in space. She wants the work to appear as if it grew in nature, when in fact each sculpture is composed of over 100 small pieces of wood that are seamlessly jointed together. Her work can be called the ultimate recycling: taking the detritus of nature and giving it a new life.
We have all at one point or another picked up a stick from the ground—touched the wood, peeled the bark off with our fingernails. Her work taps into that same primal desire of touching nature and being close to it. Trees connect us back to nature, back to this Earth. Her work has a meditative quality to it—a quiet, calming energy.
Her influences are many; from looking at nature and plant life on this Earth to researching the heavenly bodies in the images beamed back from the Hubble Telescope. From studying ancient Buddhist mandalas and designs to delving deeper into quantum physics. And from researching mysterious manuscripts to studying the patterns inside our brains.
For Invocation, we are exhibiting her newest body of work, inspired by the illustrations found in the Voynich Manuscript. This 250-page book, is believed to have been written in the early 15th century, of a mysterious origin and purpose.
Written in an unknown language and currently housed at Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book Library, the manuscript has eluded all attempts in the intervening centuries to decode or decipher its purpose and meaning. This enigmatic book is divided into 6 different sections (herbal, astronomical, biological, cosmological, pharmaceutical and recipes).
Having discovered the images contained in this codex over the Internet, Eiferman felt an immediate, profound and inexplicable connection to this manuscript and its creator.
The artist is currently transposing the “herbal” section of manuscript into sculptures. This section has drawings in it of plants and flowers that do not really exist in nature—past or present. These aren’t just pretty images of flowers—they also contain the wacky root systems and seemingly out of proportion leaves, stamens and pistils.
Loren Eiferman was born in Brooklyn, NY. She received her BFA from SUNY Purchase. Her work has been exhibited extensively throughout the Tri-State region including gallery and museum exhibitions in the Hudson Valley and Connecticut. Her work is included in numerous corporate and private art collections.
In 2014 she was awarded a NYC MTA Arts & Design art commission to produce steel railings...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Putty
Large Bird Bronze Sculpture
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Secretary Bird Life Size
43H x45L x 11D Marble Base 24x16 inches Bronze sculpture indoor or outdoor.
Vintage Modern life size bronze sculpture...
Category
1990s Connecticut - Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Lisa Levy, Shut Up You Look Great, 2014, Mirror, Plastic, Marble, Found Objects
By Lisa Levy
Located in Darien, CT
Dr. Lisa's Ego Championship Trophies
Lisa Levy is a painter, conceptual artist, comedian and (self-proclaimed) psychotherapist.
Lisa's visual career started when she was 3 1/2 ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Assemblage Connecticut - Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Richard Klein, McDonalds (El Nino), 2024, Found and altered objects assemblage
Located in Darien, CT
In the mid 1990s Richard Klein started working with found glass objects, including bottles, drinking glasses, ashtrays, and eyeglasses. Initially, Klein rejected any object with commercial or advertising content, but in 2015 he became fascinated with the promotional content that was screen printed on ashtrays from the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s. This period was before smoking was looked at as being primarily a negative habit, and iconic American businesses, including Howard Johnson’s, International House of Pancakes (iHop) and Holiday Inn, all produced promotional ashtrays printed with their graphic identity.
By the time Klein became interested in these objects, the businesses had either ceased to exist, or had changed their logos, and many of their signature buildings, which where examples of classic, “Pop” roadside architecture, has been torn down or repurposed. The artist wanted to connect the glass objects with the business’s sites that were still recognizable and spoke of their history, so he began researching where original buildings still stood.
Klein then embarked on a series of road trips to photograph these sites with the intention of combining the photographs with the promotional glass objects. This led him to as far south as Maryland and as far north as upstate New York from his home in Connecticut.
In the case of Holiday Inn, it wasn’t their buildings, but their iconic illuminated sign that appeared on ashtrays, so he sought out a standing example of the sign he could photograph.
As it turned out all had been removed years before from the hotels' properties and the only working example was indoors at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. He did, however, find out that there was one still standing, surprisingly, in Beruit, Lebanon. He found an image of it on the web and used it to make Holiday Inn (Beruit).
In 1973 Holiday Inn changed their tagline from “The Nations Innkeeper” to “The World’s Innkeeper” as they expanded overseas, including the Mideast. For the hotel chain it was bad timing: the disastrous Lebanese civil war began in 1975. In the war, the different Lebanese militias involved in the conflict, including the Nasserites, Christian Phalangists, and the Lebanese National Movement engaged in what came to be called “The Battle of the Hotels” where they each occupied a major high-rise hotel in central Beruit. The Phalangists commanded the Holiday Inn, which they used to fire with both light arms and heavier weapons at the militias in neighboring hotels.
Klein used the photo of the heavily damaged Holiday Inn sign as I thought it spoke in a curious, offhanded way about American cultural imperialism in juxtaposition with an ashtray that proclaimed Holiday Inn to be “The World’s Innkeeper.” In the work Holiday Inn (Nocturne) the artist utilized a found, 35mm slide of a Holiday Inn sign at night at an unknown location as the basis of the photograph in the work.
Richard Klein is a Connecticut-based artist, independent curator and writer. As an artist, he has exhibited widely, including the Neuberger Museum of Art at SUNY Purchase; Caren Golden Fine Art, New York; the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI; Hales Gallery, London; Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach, FL; deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA; James Barron Art, Kent, CT; The Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA), Portland, OR; Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA; Stephan Stoyanov Gallery, NY; Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY; Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT; Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY; Exhibit by Alberson Tulsa, OK; Incident Report/Flow Chart Foundation, Hudson, NY; ICEHOUSE Project Space, Sharon, CT; Kenise Barnes Fine Art in Kent, CT and with ODETTA Gallery at the Equity Gallery in New York City..
Reviews of his work have appeared in Two Coats of Paint, Whitehot Magazine, The New York Times, Sculpture Magazine, Art in America, and The New Yorker. In the summer of 2024 he will be the first Artist-In-Residence at Peck Ledge Light...
Category
2010s Assemblage Connecticut - Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Lisa Levy, Didn't Have to Buy It, Mirror, Plastic, Marble, Found Objects
By Lisa Levy
Located in Darien, CT
Dr. Lisa's Ego Championship Trophies
Lisa Levy is a painter, conceptual artist, comedian and (self-proclaimed) psychotherapist.
Lisa's visual career started when she was 3 1/2 ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Assemblage Connecticut - Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Lisa Levy, You See Through Bullshit, 2014, Mirror, Plastic, Marble, Found Object
By Lisa Levy
Located in Darien, CT
Dr. Lisa's Ego Championship Trophies
Lisa Levy is a painter, conceptual artist, comedian and (self-proclaimed) psychotherapist.
Lisa's visual career started when she was 3 1/2 ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Assemblage Connecticut - Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Miles Jaffe - Your Ad here, Sculpture 2023
By Miles Jaffe
Located in Greenwich, CT
digital print on aluminum, wood, 3D print, paint, stainless steel
Edition of 8
From MB DAY JOB Your Ad here
This sculpture will be shipped directly from the artist's studio.
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Stainless Steel
Miles Jaffe - Red Orange, Sculpture 2023
By Miles Jaffe
Located in Greenwich, CT
metal, polymer, pigment, wood
"Quote on label from Alexander Calder: ""My fan mail is enormous. Everyone is under six.""
The numeric code on the crimped end of the tube spells CALD...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Stainless Steel
Miles Jaffe - Study of Paint Drips, Sculpture 2023
By Miles Jaffe
Located in Greenwich, CT
metal, polymer, pigment, wood
Edition of 20
From NOTE Study of Paint Drips
This sculpture will be shipped directly from the artist's studio.
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Stainless Steel
Miles Jaffe - Prime Cuts, Sculpture 2023
By Miles Jaffe
Located in Greenwich, CT
metal, polymer, pigment, wood
Edition of 20
From NOTE Prime Cuts
This sculpture will be shipped directly from the artist's studio.
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Stainless Steel
