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Mini Portal
By Hans Van de Bovenkamp
Located in Greenwich, CT
Dutch, b. 1938
Renowned for his monumental sculpture created primarily for open-air public locales, Hans Van de Bovenkamp has been described as an artist-mystic whose work -- with i...
Category
2010s Abstract Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"The Space Between", An Original Thickly Textured Abstract Painting
By Teodora Guererra
Located in Westport, CT
This abstract painting by Teodora Guererra features a dynamic palette of soft icy blues, silvery grays, and subtle hints of beige layered in a complex web of thick palette knife stro...
Category
2010s Abstract Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Santiago Medina - COSMOS TABLE TOP, Sculpture 2022
By Santiago Medina
Located in Greenwich, CT
Italian Stainless Steel With Hyperthermal Prismatic Patina
This sculpture will be shipped directly from the artist's studio.
Category
2010s Abstract Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Stainless Steel
Santiago Medina - ENIGMA BLUE, Sculpture 2022
By Santiago Medina
Located in Greenwich, CT
Edition of 7
Sculptor Santiago Medina Italian stainless steel sculptures are at marquee public art venues worldwide such as Harvard, Stanford University, City of Miami-Pinecrest Circ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Don Frost, Rheann, Sculpture 2019
By Don Frost
Located in Greenwich, CT
Rheann
Fiberglass / Carbon Fibre impregnated with catalysed polyester resin Powder filled acrylic lacquer on filled polyester resin base
35" x 6" x 5"
"I am an artist, a sculptor no...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Fiberglass, Polyester, Lacquer
Spring Beauty
Located in Westport, CT
Steve Bickley creates beautiful metal sculpture and wall reliefs, as well as color prints. In addition, he makes large outdoor sculpture in stainless steel and aluminum.
He has bee...
Category
2010s Abstract Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Enamel
$12,500
Don Frost, Seeker, Sculpture 2018
By Don Frost
Located in Greenwich, CT
Seeker
Fiberglass / Carbon Fibre impregnated with catalysed polyester resin Graphite filled acrylic laquor on filled polyester resin base
35 x 10 x 12
"I am an artist, a sculptor n...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Fiberglass, Polyester, Lacquer
"Queen Santorini" Ceramic Vessel Sculpture
Located in Westport, CT
This glazed porcelain vase sculpture by Jon Puzzuoli features a burnt umber and white body and a wide neck finished with 18K gold luster. The artist's stamp is located at the base of...
Category
2010s Abstract Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Gold
Ricahard Bottwin, 'Lily Leaping', 2016, Wood
By Richard Bottwin
Located in Darien, CT
Architecture and functional objects inform the vocabulary of Richard Bottwin’s sculpture. The plywood surfaces, laminated with wood veneers or painted with acrylic colors, are confi...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Traveler
Located in Westport, CT
Steve Bickley creates beautiful metal sculpture and wall reliefs, as well as color prints. In addition, he makes large outdoor sculpture in stainless steel and aluminum.
He has bee...
Category
2010s Abstract Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Enamel
Jo Yarrington, Mute-Ability_Composition 3, 2019_acrylic, steel, player piano rol
By Jo Yarrington
Located in Darien, CT
Jo Yarrington’s photographs, prints, works on paper, glass sculptures and architecturally-based installations have been shown in exhibitions at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Y...
Category
2010s Conceptual Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Yellow Disc on Two Squares, kinetic sculpture
By Roger Phillips
Located in Greenwich, CT
These sculptures are automatic room changers. They bring playfulness, sophistication and a slightly more structured "Calder type" Contemporary classiness to an environment. Kinetic ...
Category
2010s Kinetic Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Enamel, Stainless Steel
Strong Female Form
Located in Greenwich, CT
This is a great sculpture with real gravitas and elegance. A great conception in terms of the forms and planes. Can be a star piece in a room - stone and surface are very attractive! Active primarily in the mid to late 20th century, Leo De Beer...
Category
1960s Abstract Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stone
Return Wind, contemporary paper sculpture by Mutsumi Iwasaki
By Mutsumi Iwasaki
Located in Wilton, CT
Materials: Handmade paper, paper string, wax
After working as a textile artist for nearly two decades, in 1998, Iwasaki began making both baskets and her own paper. In 2000, her new...
Category
2010s Contemporary Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Paper, Wax
Big Yellow Poppies, 2015
By Donald Sultan
Located in Fairfield, CT
Donald Sultan (born 1951), is one of the leading American contemporary still life artists. He currently lives and works in New York.
Sultan has been given numerous exhibitions dedica...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Splash
By Robert Cook
Located in Greenwich, CT
Robert Cook’s Splash sculpture draws inspiration from the iconic photograph of a drop of milk creating a circle and splash in a pool of milk. This fleeting moment of suspended motion sparked Cook’s exploration of how to capture such dynamic energy in a static form.
Robert Cook was a great American sculptor and his works are in many museums and his iconic Dinoseras piece commands a spot on the street of New York at 51st Street.
Important to note with this work that it is unique and there are no other casts. Cook sculpted in wax and when he cast this destroyed the wax and there was no mould. Very few sculptors work in this manner and it speaks to a very pure and altruistic form of sculpture. If perhaps he had been more commercially minded he would have done large editions but instead he valued singularity as in nature.
In Splash, Cook freezes a moment of kinetic energy, capturing the elegant tension between impact and expansion. The sculpture embodies both grace and chaos, with a fluidity that suggests movement at the very instant it’s frozen in time. Cook’s mastery of his medium allows this dynamic moment to be immortalized in bronze, creating a powerful and emotional resonance that transcends the physical form, making Splash both a formal and philosophical exploration of time, space, and motion.
Signed: R Cook...
Category
1960s Abstract Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stone, Bronze
"Queen Charlotte" Glazed Porcelain Vessel Sculpture
Located in Westport, CT
This crystalline glazed porcelain vase by Jon Puzzuoli features a white and cream-toned palette with a narrow neck and lip finished in 18K gold luster.
Crystalline glazes are speci...
Category
2010s Abstract Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain
Jo Yarrington, Mute-Ability_Composition 1, 2019_acrylic, steel, player piano rol
By Jo Yarrington
Located in Darien, CT
Jo Yarrington’s photographs, prints, works on paper, glass sculptures and architecturally-based installations have been shown in exhibitions at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Yale University, Cornell University, the Museum of Glass, the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Artists Space, St. John the Divine Cathedral, Grounds for Sculpture, the Museum of American Glass and ODETTA, among others.
International exhibitions have included Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow Cathedral, Glasgow University, Galeria Sala Uno and Centro de las Artes de Guanajuato. She represented the United States at the Sharjah Biennial, United Arab Emirates and participated in the Berlin Biennial. in 2010 she received the Bronze Prize, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia.
Yarrington is a recipient of artist grants and Fellowships from the Pollock Krasner Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism. She has received Residency Fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Museum of Glass, the Museum of American Glass, the Bridge Virtual Residency/ SciArt Center, the Lucile Walton Fellow/Mountain Lake Biological Station, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, the Anderson Center and the Ucross Foundation, among others.
International grants and fellowships have included the Banff Center for Arts and Creativity/Canada, SIMS Residency/ Iceland, Cill Rialaig Artists Residency/Ireland, the Burren College of Art Residency/Ireland and the American Scandinavian Foundation. She is a Professor of Visual and Performing Arts at Fairfield University and lives and works in New York City.
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In site-specific exhibitions, public art commissions, collaborative and individual projects Jo Yarrington has used varied combinations of glass, waxed surfaces, found artifacts and experimental analog photography to investigate the way we perceive – searching for, experimenting with and developing throughout a sensory-based vernacular. Her mostly translucent materials function as physical framework and symbolic membrane. Light, both natural and ambient, provides a kinetic or time-based element to her work. Scale and the integration of architecture are also pivotal components.
In the 6-part installation for the two-person exhibition Illuminated, Yarrington continues her interest in the connections between vision, sound and language. In Mute-ability: Compositions 1 – 6, her title for this light-based comprehensive work, she combines the words mute and malleability. The work focuses on found piano rolls, a music storage medium, originally conceived as coded notations or ‘note control data’ for music produced in pneumatic player pianos...
Category
2010s Conceptual Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Santiago Medina - UNITY ( OUTDOOR MONUMENTAL), Sculpture 2021
By Santiago Medina
Located in Greenwich, CT
Marine outdoor Italian stainless steel with turquoise tint.
Sculptor Santiago Medina Italian stainless steel sculptures are at marquee public art venues worldwide such as Harvard, S...
Category
2010s Abstract Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Santiago Medina - RED ECLIPSE, Sculpture 2020
By Santiago Medina
Located in Greenwich, CT
Italian stainless steel with red tint.
Sculptor Santiago Medina Italian stainless steel sculptures are at marquee public art venues worldwide such as Harvard, Stanford University, C...
Category
2010s Abstract Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Santiago Medina - ZEN SUSPENDED, Sculpture 2023
By Santiago Medina
Located in Greenwich, CT
ZEN SUSPENDED
Santiago Medina
ITALIAN STAINLESS STEEL
71 x 5.5 x 4.5 in
Edition of 5
All sculptures are made with the highest quality Italian stainless steel available and imported ...
Category
2010s Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Santiago Medina - INNER STRENGTH (TABLE TOP), Sculpture 2022
By Santiago Medina
Located in Greenwich, CT
Italian stainless steel with a special high-temperature patina.
Sculptor Santiago Medina Italian stainless steel sculptures are at marquee public art venues worldwide such as Harvar...
Category
2010s Abstract Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Hajibito (Ceramic 53), by Yasuhisa Kohyama
By Yasuhisa Kohyama
Located in Wilton, CT
Yasuhisa Kohyama shapes his asymmetrical forms using piano wire, creating distinctive rough surfaces. The clay with its feldspar nuggets creates a tac...
Category
1990s Abstract Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Clay
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 Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Jesse Hickman, Note Three Twenty Seven Sixteen F, 2016, Enamel, Wood, Glue
By Jesse Hickman
Located in Darien, CT
Over the past few years, Jesse Hickman has been making minimal abstract paintings on wood with few constraints. He calls this series Notes, thinking of these pieces as drawn sketches...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Enamel
Don Frost, Now, Sculpture 2018
By Don Frost
Located in Greenwich, CT
Now
Fiberglass / Carbon Fibre impregnated with catalysed polyester resin Powder filled acrylic lacquer on filled polyester resin base
22 x 36 x 22 in
"I am an artist, a sculptor not...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Fiberglass, Polyester, Lacquer
Honfleur
By Donald Martiny
Located in Westport, CT
Donald Martiny’s signature work is composed of dispersed pigment on aluminum. He creates immediately frozen brushstrokes that are made from his own movements. They are defined by the...
Category
2010s Abstract Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Pigment
$33,250
Don Frost, Archer, Sculpture, 2019
By Don Frost
Located in Greenwich, CT
Archer
Fiberglass / Carbon Fibre impregnated with catalysed polyester resin Powder filled acrylic lacquer on filled polyester resin base
58" x 10" x 14"
"I am an artist, a sculptor ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Fiberglass, Polyester, Lacquer
"#LayersOnLayers" Abstract Painting
By Teodora Guererra
Located in Westport, CT
This large abstract statement painting by Teodora Guererra features a light, coastal palette of blue, light grey and white. The artist applies thick layers of paint in wide horizonta...
Category
2010s Abstract Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"No Place Like Chrome" Metallic Abstract Painting
By Teodora Guererra
Located in Westport, CT
This abstract painting by Teodora Guererra features a metallic silver palette. The paint is layered thickly on canvas in wide, gestural strokes, creating a highly textured surface. I...
Category
2010s Abstract Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Don Frost, Changing Seasons, Sculpture 2019
By Don Frost
Located in Greenwich, CT
Changing Seasons
Fiberglass / Carbon Fibre impregnated with catalysed polyester resin Powder filled acrylic lacquer on filled polyester resin base
108 x 20 x 20 in
"I am an artist, ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Fiberglass, Polyester, Lacquer
"Bunny" Abstract Steel Sculpture
Located in Westport, CT
This free-standing sculpture of a blue abstracted rabbit by Jeffie Brewer is made with powder coated steal. Two cut-out circular eyes are situated beneath two ears which extend upwar...
Category
2010s Contemporary Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
el Grande Model bronze sculpture
By Bill Barrett
Located in Greenwich, CT
In 1983, returning to one of his earliest concepts, the standing figure, Barrett cast five small upright pieces that would become the Grande series. Barrett’s work became more organ...
Category
1980s Abstract Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Queen Capricorn, " Abstract Ceramic Vessel
Located in Westport, CT
This glazed porcelain vessel by Jon Puzzuoli features blue, cream and white palette. The crystalline glaze applied over the ceramic creates small, organic, crystal-like elements in t...
Category
2010s Abstract Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain
Santiago Medina - Blue Serenity, Sculpture 2020
By Santiago Medina
Located in Greenwich, CT
Special suspended/hanging Italian stainless steel with turquoise tinting.
Category
2010s Abstract Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Santiago Medina - BLUE LIFE (INDOOR SCULPTURE), Photography 2020
By Santiago Medina
Located in Greenwich, CT
Italian stainless steel with blue tint and granite base. Harvard University has one of the editions permanently.
This sculpture will be shipped directly from the artist's studio.
A...
Category
2010s Abstract Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Santiago Medina - DESIRE (SUSPENDED), Photography 2022
By Santiago Medina
Located in Greenwich, CT
Italian stainless steel.
This sculpture will be shipped directly from the artist's studio.
All sculptures are made with the highest quality Italian stainless steel available and im...
Category
2010s Abstract Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Don Frost, BM, Sculpture, 2018
By Don Frost
Located in Greenwich, CT
BM
Fiberglass / Carbon Fibre impregnated with catalysed polyester resin Powder filled acrylic lacquer on filled polyester resin base
27" x 10" x 11"
"I am an artist, a sculptor not ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Fiberglass, Polyester, Lacquer
Santiago Medina - WAVE (TABLE TOP), Photography 2020
By Santiago Medina
Located in Greenwich, CT
Italian stainless steel with blue tinting.
This sculpture will be shipped directly from the artist's studio.
All sculptures are made with the highest quality Italian stainless ste...
Category
2010s Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Don Frost, Dreamer, Sculpture 2019
By Don Frost
Located in Greenwich, CT
Dreamer
Fiberglass / Carbon Fibre impregnated with catalysed polyester resin Powder filled acrylic lacquer on filled polyester resin base
51 x 13 x 12 in
"I am an artist, a sculptor...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Fiberglass, Polyester, Lacquer
"I Like Options" Textured Abstract Painting
By Teodora Guererra
Located in Westport, CT
This abstract painting by Teodora Guererra features a teal, pink, and white palette. The artist layers thick strokes of paint using a palette knife in broad, horizontal sweeping stro...
Category
2010s Abstract Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Pop" Abstract Steel Sculpture
Located in Westport, CT
This small free-standing sculpture of an abstracted magenta pink flower by Jeffie Brewer is made with powder coated steal. The sculpture features a simplified floral form with two cu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Santiago Medina - ECCENTRIC (INDOOR MONUMENTAL), Sculpture 2021
By Santiago Medina
Located in Greenwich, CT
Italian stainless steel.
This sculpture will be shipped directly from the artist's studio.
All sculptures are made with the highest quality Italian stainless steel available and im...
Category
2010s Abstract Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Estate of David Hayes_Form Study_carved plaster of paris_1970_abstract sculpture
By David Hayes
Located in Darien, CT
ODETTA is pleased to offer this important sculpture from the Estate of David Hayes.
David Vincent Hayes (March 15, 1931 – April 9, 2013) was an American sculptor..
Hayes received a...
Category
1970s Abstract Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
"Framed & Draped: Material Collection" Lia Cook, Contemporary Wall Textile
By Lia Cook
Located in Wilton, CT
"Framed and Draped: Material Collection", acrylic on abaca, dyes on rayon; woven, 63" x 38", 1989.
This contemporary abstract mixed media tapestry was done by California-based Ameri...
Category
1980s Abstract Geometric Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Fabric, Tapestry, Thread, Dye, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Don Frost, Duchess, Sculpture 2018
By Don Frost
Located in Greenwich, CT
Duchess
Fiberglass / Carbon Fibre impregnated with catalysed polyester resin Powder filled acrylic lacquer on filled polyester resin base
53 x 15 x 16 in
"I am an artist, a sculptor...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Fiberglass, Polyester, Lacquer
Diane Englander, White and Wood XVI, 2015, Wood, Mixed Media
By Diane Englander
Located in Darien, CT
A native New Yorker, Diane had an earlier career including 17 years as a management consultant to local nonprofits concerned with poverty or disenfranchisement; work in NYC governmen...
Category
2010s Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Queen Aquifer" Porcelain Vessel Sculpture
Located in Westport, CT
This crystalline glazed porcelain vase by Jon Puzzuoli features a vibrant blue and cream-colored palette. Crystalline glazes are special ceramic glazes in which zinc-silicate crystal...
Category
2010s Abstract Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain
Estate of David Hayes_Form Study_plaster coated cut styrofoam_abstract sculpture
By David Hayes
Located in Darien, CT
ODETTA is pleased to offer this important sculpture from the Estate of David Hayes.
David Vincent Hayes (March 15, 1931 – April 9, 2013) was an American sculptor..
These Form Studi...
Category
1970s Abstract Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
"I Remember" Norma Minkowitz, Contemporary mixed media textile sculpture
By Norma Minkowitz
Located in Wilton, CT
This mixed media textile sculpture was done by American fiber artist, Norma Minkowitz (b. 1937). The interlacing technique that Minkowitz uses as seen ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Fritz Horstman, Formwork for a Rectangle 2, 2014, Wood, Plywood
By Fritz Horstman
Located in Darien, CT
While working on a large building project several years ago the artist, Fritz Horstman was struck by the poetry in the unfinished state of the construction site. He was drawn specifically to the space between the plywood walls that were raised as formworks for the pouring of cement. That space could only exist for a few hours before the cement truck...
Category
2010s Conceptual Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Plywood
Fritz Horstman, Formwork for Branching Stream, 2017, Wood, Walnut
By Fritz Horstman
Located in Darien, CT
While working on a large building project several years ago the artist, Fritz Horstman was struck by the poetry in the unfinished state of the construction site. He was drawn specifically to the space between the plywood walls that were raised as formworks for the pouring of cement. That space could only exist for a few hours before the cement truck...
Category
2010s Conceptual Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Walnut
"Princess Aspen, " Ceramic Vessel
Located in Westport, CT
This glazed porcelain vessel by Jon Puzzuoli features a warm earth-toned palette with a crystalline glaze which creates the aesthetic of light blue "crystals" over the surface of the piece. It has a wide, curved, dark umber-toned neck. The artist's stamp is located at the base of the vessel.
Crystalline glazes are special ceramic glazes in which zinc-silicate crystals grow inside the glaze while it is still very hot. The crystals begin as microscopic seeds in the glaze, which form in random numbers and locations. When the kiln is cooled to the proper temperature, crystals start to grow. In order for crystals to grow, the glaze must be very fluid. Much of the glaze runs off the vessel during the firing into a catch basin...
Category
2010s Abstract Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain
Estate of David Hayes_Form Study_carved plaster of paris_1970_abstract sculpture
By David Hayes
Located in Darien, CT
ODETTA is pleased to offer this important sculpture from the Estate of David Hayes.
David Vincent Hayes (March 15, 1931 – April 9, 2013) was an American sculptor..
Hayes received a...
Category
1970s Abstract Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
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 Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Jim Perry - Sabi No. 7, 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 Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Dorothy Mayhall, Monument 4, 1994, Terracotta, Acrylic Paint
By Dorothy Mayhall
Located in Darien, CT
Dorothy Mayhall's small sculptures are little monuments to be toyed with and handled. They should be picked up, fondled, and examined like a rock or shell you collect on the beach be...
Category
1990s Abstract Geometric Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta, Acrylic
"Queen Glinda, " Abstract Porcelain Sculpture
Located in Westport, CT
This ceramic vessel by Jon Puzzuoli is made with porcelain and a crystalline glaze. It features a light, neutral palette of creme, white, and gold. The bottom portion of the round, c...
Category
2010s Abstract Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Gold
Suzanne Benton, Becoming, 1975, Copper, Coated Steel
By Suzanne Benton
Located in Darien, CT
In 1972, the women’s movement was in full flower. Suzanne Benton had been an early activist, a founder and organizer of NOW Chapters, CT Feminists in the Arts, Women, Metamorphosis 1 (in New Haven, CT, the first women’s art festival in the USA). She'd already been creating metal sculpted masks and working with them in mask tale performances of Women of Myth and Heritage. Her inaugural performance of Sarah and Hagar n 1972 took place at Lincoln Center in NYC.
Benton then became the artistic director and producer of an evening on Broadway, Four Chosen Women (performers included herself as mask tale performer, author Anais Nin, actress Vinie Burroughs and dancer Joan Stone). The evening took place at the Edison Theatre, November 22, 1972. While developing the evening on Broadway, Benton met renowned Swedish actress and Hollywood star, Viveca Lindfors.
Viveca was then working on her solo performance, I AM A WOMAN, and was looking for a unique theatre set for the show. The happenstance that brought Viveca and Suzanne together. At that same time, recent travel to Macchu Picchu inspired her with the mountain’s great stones sitting on the edge of precipices. These vast stones led her to create welded steel Seated Sculpture Works. Viveca was intrigued by the concept and let her own imagination fly. Imagining a set of welded steel sculpture, she took the leap in commissioning Suzanne with complete faith in artist's ability to fulfill her mandate. Benton created groups of welded sculptures for two theater sets.
Protection is one of three sculptures in first set created in 1973. Mother and Child, Pelvic Woman, Facing Each Other are three of five works from the 1974 second set. The first toured with her shows throughout the East Coast and into Toronto, Canada. The second set, created to nest together could travel as checked baggage for international and domestic airline travel. They flew to Denmark in 1980 for her performance at the UN sponsored 1980 Women’s International Conference, Copenhagen.
In addition to creating the theatre sets, Benton mounted exhibitions of her masks and sculptures in the lobbies of theatres where she performed (NYC and Northampton). Continuing on with this theme, Becoming is her 1975 Seated Sculpture Work. The theatre sets were returned at the final end of its long run. These Seated Sculpture Works have often been featured in exhibitions, including both the 2003 and 2005 retrospectives. They are part of an oeuvre of 797 sculptures and masks.
What attracted her to welded sculpture? This excerpt from her book, The Art of Welded Sculpture, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1975 speaks of its lure:
"Early in my life, when I had decided to become an artist, I had had an inner vision of being able to hold the physical material of my art in such a way as to bring it into existence with my hands. In welding, I wear a mask, a heavy apron, and gloves. I heat the metal and make it bend so smoothly and gracefully; I cut the metal, rigid metal, into endless shapes; I join the pieces by causing them to flow together with the heat of the flame. Welding was a return to my adolescent vision. It was fulfillment. At that beginning time I felt that even if I went no further, this experience in itself gave me astounding satisfaction. It was as thrilling as the moment of birth. It was my birth."
(Pelvic Woman and Protection are illustrated in the book):
What began in 1965 became by 2017 an oeuvre of 797 sculptures and masks. The magic of the welding mask...
Category
1970s Feminist Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Copper, Steel
"Queen Pluto" Porcelain Vessel Sculpture
Located in Westport, CT
This large crystalline glazed porcelain vase by Jon Puzzuoli features a deep blue palette at its base, which fades to a more vibrant blue tone and blends up to a wide, white neck and...
Category
2010s Abstract Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain
