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Item Ships From: Fairfield County
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 Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Graphite
Santiago Medina - INSPIRATION OUTDOOR, Sculpture 2023
By Santiago Medina
Located in Greenwich, CT
INSPIRATION OUTDOOR
Santiago Medina
ITALIAN STAINLESS STEEL
80 X 10.6 X 8 IN WITH BASE. BASE HEIGHT 27 IN.
Edition of 5
All sculptures are made with the highest quality Italian stai...
Category
2010s Contemporary Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Santiago Medina - INSPIRATION INDOOR, Sculpture 2023
By Santiago Medina
Located in Greenwich, CT
INSPIRATION INDOOR
Santiago Medina
ITALIAN STAINLESS STEEL
80 X 10.6 X 8 IN WITH BASE. BASE HEIGHT 27 IN.
Edition of 5
All sculptures are made with the highest quality Italian stain...
Category
2010s Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Santiago Medina - FLAME, Sculpture 2021
By Santiago Medina
Located in Greenwich, CT
Italian stainless steel with blue tint.
Sculptor Santiago Medina Italian stainless steel sculptures are at marquee public art venues worldwide such as Harvard, Stanford University, ...
Category
2010s Abstract Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Santiago Medina - FLAME OF GENESIS, Sculpture 2020
By Santiago Medina
Located in Greenwich, CT
Italian stainless steel that shows the genesis of sculpture from rough unfinished at the bottom to highly polished at the top (unique piece).
Sculptor Santiago Medina Italian stainl...
Category
2010s Abstract Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Santiago Medina - ENCANTO INDOOR MONUMENTAL, Sculpture 2023
By Santiago Medina
Located in Greenwich, CT
ENCANTO INDOOR MONUMENTAL
Santiago Medina
ITALIAN STAINLESS STEEL
99 x 10 x 6 in WITH BASE
Edition of 5
All sculptures are made with the highest quality Italian stainless steel ava...
Category
2010s Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Santiago Medina - TIME AND SPACE (WALL PIECE), Sculpture 2021
By Santiago Medina
Located in Greenwich, CT
Printed on Italian stainless steel.
Sculptor Santiago Medina Italian stainless steel sculptures are at marquee public art venues worldwide such as Harvard, Stanford University, City...
Category
2010s Abstract Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Santiago Medina - PERSEVERANCE, Sculpture 2021
By Santiago Medina
Located in Greenwich, CT
Two-piece Italian stainless steel with a blue tint. Allows the collector to change the position of the pieces so the collector can become part of the artistic expression.
Sculptor S...
Category
2010s Abstract Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
"#LayingItOnThick" Textured Abstract Painting
By Teodora Guererra
Located in Westport, CT
This large abstract statement painting by Teodora Guererra features a palette that transitions from deep blue at the bottom of the canvas up to lighter blue followed by a lavender vi...
Category
2010s Abstract Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Karen Schiff, Space Eyes, 2016, Wood, Gouache
By Karen Schiff
Located in Darien, CT
Karen Schiff is an artist and wordsmith based in New York; she has always been a reader as well as a visual artist. Her drawings, paintings, installations, and performances combine t...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Gouache
Emily Feinstein, Stillwater, 2016, Poplar, Wood, Paint
By Emily Feinstein
Located in Darien, CT
Emily Feinstein grew up with a father who was a cabinetmaker with a shop in the basement. She spent a lot of time making things and constructing with wood. Her ongoing interest in r...
Category
2010s Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Paint, Poplar
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 Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Graphite
Margaret Roleke, Pop pop, 2018, spent shot gun shells, wire, zipties, steel box
By Margaret Roleke
Located in Darien, CT
Margaret Roleke has created the sculpture “Pop,pop” specifically for the Las Gravitas exhibition at ODETTA. The title refers both to the fun and colorful hues of the piece that pop ...
Category
2010s Pop Art Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel, Wire
Patricia Miranda, Lamentations for Rebecca; 2020, lace, cochineal dye, thread
By Patricia Miranda
Located in Darien, CT
Patricia Miranda's work includes interdisciplinary installation, textile, paper and books. The textiles incorporated in these new pieces are vintage linens from her Italian and Irish grandmothers and sourced from friends and strangers around the country. Each donation is documented and integrated into the work. Textile as a form that wraps the body from cradle to grave. The role of lacemaking in the lives of women both economically and historically is packed with metaphorical potential. The relationship of craft and women’s work (re)appropriated by artists today to environmental and social issues is integral to the artist's research.
Her work is process oriented; materials are submerged in natural dyes from oak gall wasp nests, cochineal insects, turmeric, indigo, and clay. She forages for raw materials, cook dyes, grind pigments, ecofeminist actions that consider environmental impacts of objects. The process is left visible as dyestuff is unfiltered in the vat and finished work. Sewn into larger works, Miranda incorporates hair, pearls, bone beads, Milagros, cast plaster. The distinct genetics and environmental and cultural history of each material asserts its voice as collaborator rather than medium.
The lace inserts a visceral femininity into the pristine gallery, and exerts a ghostly trace of the history of domestic labor. The combination of earth and lace references human and environmental devastation and the conflation of nature and women’s bodies as justifications for exploitation. Mournful and solastalgic, they are lamentations to the violence against women and the earth.
Patricia Miranda is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, educator, and founder of The Crit Lab, graduate-level critique seminars and Residency for artists, and MAPSpace project space. She has been Visiting Artist at Vermont Studio Center, the Heckscher Museum, and University of Utah; and been awarded residencies at I-Park, Weir Farm, Vermont Studio Center, and Julio Valdez Printmaking Studio.
She received an Anonymous Was a Woman Covid19 Artist Relief Grant, an artist grant from ArtsWestchester/New York State Council on the Arts, and was part of a year-long NEA grant working with homeless youth.
Miranda currently teaches graduate curatorial studies at Western Colorado University, and develops programs for K-12, museums, and institutions such as Franklin Furnace.
Her work has been exhibited at ODETTA, NYC; ABC No Rio, NYC; Alexey von...
Category
2010s Feminist Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Fabric, Thread, Dye, Found Objects
Orbit
By Jiro Yonezawa
Located in Wilton, CT
bamboo, urushi lacquer, Custom Tomobako box signed
Category
2010s Contemporary Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Lacquer, Bamboo Paper
$1,700
Richard Bottwin, Mike's Arm, 2018, poplar, plywood, acrylic paint
By Richard Bottwin
Located in Darien, CT
Architecture, functional objects and the human gestures that occur when interacting with these structures inform the vocabulary of Richard Bottwin’s sculpture. The plywood surfaces,...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Poplar, Plywood, Acrylic
"Early Light" Textured Abstract Painting
By Teodora Guererra
Located in Westport, CT
This abstract painting by Teodora Guererra features a deep green and light pink palette. The artist layers thick strokes of paint using a palette knife in broad, horizontal sweeping ...
Category
2010s Abstract Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Layers of Sweetness" Abstract Painting
By Teodora Guererra
Located in Westport, CT
This textured abstract painting by Teodora Guererra features a warm orange and red palette with subtle white accents. The artist applies paint in thick layers and wide, energetic str...
Category
2010s Abstract Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Blueberry Shortcake Mini I and II" Abstract Painting Diptych
By Teodora Guererra
Located in Westport, CT
This textured abstract diptych by Teodora Guererra features a light blue, grey, and white palette. The artist layers thick strokes of paint using a palette knife over board, creating...
Category
2010s Abstract Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic, Board
Joan Grubin, Partial Inventory of Totally Useless Objects, 2009-15, Paper, Mylar
By Joan Grubin
Located in Darien, CT
Weaving is a form of drawing, of plotting and connecting lines. Fabricating a three-dimensional, transparent object using thin strips of paper with differing colors on either side re...
Category
2010s Op Art Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Mylar
"Golden Girls I & II" Metallic Gold Abstract Paintings
By Teodora Guererra
Located in Westport, CT
This pair of abstract paintings by Teodora Guererra features a metallic gold palette. The paint is layered on canvas in thick strokes for a highly textured surface. These two paintin...
Category
2010s Abstract Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Porcelain Embracing Bowl
Located in Westport, CT
This glazed porcelain embracing bowl features a light green and beige palette with a subtle spiral embellishment in the interior base of each bowl. It measures 10” x 6” x 2.5". The a...
Category
2010s Abstract Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain
Carol Salmanson, Double Diamonds, 2018, LED, plexiglas, gels, irridescent paint
By Carol Salmanson
Located in Darien, CT
Memory is at its most magical when it conjures up not the event, but its surrounding perceptual and emotional space. Flashes of reflected light, movement seen out of the corner of eye, bits of sound or feeling – these are what ignite memory, giving it form and bringing it to life.
Light both beams into and envelops you. Carol Salmanson started working with it in 2003 after painting for many years because of these singular spatial qualities. They enable herto build whole worlds with color and shape, ones that resonate with memory and experience. Painters have often talked about depicting light. Today’s technology allows me to use light as medium as well as subject.
Double Diamond is made with layers of light that beam onto reflective material; its two different configurations of diamonds are mounted on a strip that also layers light. The location in the beams creates a glowing frieze that radiates outwards, giving the viewer a first a sense of surprise, and then wonder.
Carol Salmanson is an artist working with light and reflective materials to create installations, sculptures, and wall pieces. She received a B.S. in Biological Psychology from Carnegie-Mellon University and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago. She attended the Arts Students League, the School of Visual Arts as a Public Art Resident, and the National Academy of Fine Arts as an Abbey Mural Workshop Fellow.
Public art projects include Water Bubbles, an installation in twenty windows of the abandoned landmark Constructivist White Tower in Yekaterinburg, Russia. Other window installations include the venues Station Independent Projects, Time Equities’ Art-in-Buildings program, OK Harris Works of Art, 254 Park Avenue South, and Mixed Greens Gallery, all in New York. Her outdoor sculptures include Tri-Quadular Cone in Summit, NJ, and Lot’s Ex-Wife in Brooklyn. She will have an installation, Crown Colony, in the window at 266 W. 37th St, in September of this year.
Solo and two-person exhibition venues include SL Gallery (NY), Slag Contemporary (Brooklyn), Station Independent Projects (NY), Brian Morris...
Category
2010s Color-Field Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Plexiglass, Polyester, LED Light, Acrylic
Flight
By Bill Barrett
Located in Greenwich, CT
Barrett's Flight is a super mid-size sculpture that can sit on a table, console or coffee table. It can also be a feature piece on a pedestal. As its title conveys it brings a sens...
Category
2010s Abstract Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$29,000
Shadow Dancing
, Kinematic Sculpture with Animated Movement, Chuck Krause
By Chuck Krause
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Chuck Krause (1949)
Title: Shadow Dancing
Year: 2024
Size: 23 x 23 x 2 inches
Medium: Motorized curved arms on white archival museum board
Condition: Excellent condition
Not...
Category
2010s Kinetic Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
$1,996 Sale Price
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"Sailing Off, " Abstract Stainless Steel Sculpture
Located in Westport, CT
This mid-sized abstract contemporary sculpture by artist Joe Sorge is made with stainless steel. The strips of steel that compose this piece have a curved, concave shape and a beautiful texture. The piece casts unique shadows on its surroundings. Please note that the white pedestal base pictured is not included.
Connecticut-based sculptor Joe Sorge studied at the School of Visual Art (SVA) in New York City. While Joe's body of work is most often made with stainless steel which he sometimes dyes to give the forms bold, solid colors, he also experiments with stone carving, genesa crystals, tiger eye alabaster and others. He works with a variety of colors, finishes, and textures, to create the final piece.
Joe's sculptures express the fluidity and tension inherent in the material he uses. His work draws on a modernist vocabulary to create abstract, often whimsical objects...
Category
2010s Contemporary Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
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, Polystyrene, Acrylic
Karen Schiff, Hypercubic, 2016, Wood, Gouache
By Karen Schiff
Located in Darien, CT
Karen Schiff is an artist and wordsmith based in New York; she has always been a reader as well as a visual artist. Her drawings, paintings, installations, and performances combine t...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Gouache
Santiago Medina - RED PINNACLE TABLE TOP, 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
Santiago Medina - RED PINNACLE TABLE TOP, 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
Santiago Medina - GRAN SIGH, Sculpture 2021
By Santiago Medina
Located in Greenwich, CT
Edition of 5
Sculptor Santiago Medina Italian stainless steel sculptures are at marquee public art venues worldwide such as Harvard, Stanford University, City of Miami-Pinecrest Cir...
Category
2010s Contemporary Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Santiago Medina - MIRACLE (INDOOR MONUMENTAL), 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
Santiago Medina - Blue Secrets, Sculpture 2019
By Santiago Medina
Located in Greenwich, CT
Italian stainless steel with turquoise tinting.
This sculpture will be shipped directly from the artist's studio.
Category
2010s Abstract Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Slika #241 IN Painting
By Vasa Velizar Mihich
Located in Greenwich, CT
A great opportunity to own a painting by Vasa Mihich. These works are future forward as they are based on computer-generated programs with a focus on aesthetics. Meaning Vasa wante...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic Polymer
Santiago Medina - Red Fortitude, Sculpture 2018
By Santiago Medina
Located in Greenwich, CT
Italian stainless steel with red tinting.
This sculpture will be shipped directly from the artist's studio.
Category
2010s Abstract Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
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
Polystyrene, Plaster, Acrylic
Dorothy Mayhall, Monument #43, 1993, 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
Gil Scullion, Your Convictions, 2017, 20 sheets of stacked hand-cut paper
By Gil Scullion
Located in Darien, CT
Where do we come from? Where are we going? What the hell is going on here? 2017-2018 Hand cut paper in wood box
Gil Scullion’s conceptual text-based work has been featured in exhibi...
Category
2010s Conceptual Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Paper
Dishtowel Fold, 2018, polyester cord, PVC rod, stainless steel, 94.5 x 49 x26 in
By Daniel G. Hill
Located in Darien, CT
In recent years, Daniel G. Hill has been fixated on the work’s method of construction and its physical presence. During the winter of 2014, he began a new line of inquiry, translati...
Category
2010s Minimalist Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Flipside, 2018, polyester cord, PVC rod, stainless steel, 96 x 42.5 x 17.5 in
By Daniel G. Hill
Located in Darien, CT
In recent years, Daniel G. Hill has been fixated on the work’s method of construction and its physical presence. During the winter of 2014, he began a new line of inquiry, translati...
Category
2010s Minimalist Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Andra Samelson, Microcosm 2, 2016, Canvas, Wood, Found Objects, Acrylic Paint
By Andra Samelson
Located in Darien, CT
Andra Samelson’s work explores the relationship of microcosm and macrocosm, the celestial and terrestrial. Her imagery is often associated with molecular and galactic systems. Combin...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Found Objects, Acrylic
Joan Grubin, Amphibian, 2018, Mylar, Paper, Acrylic Paint
By Joan Grubin
Located in Darien, CT
Weaving is a form of drawing, of plotting and connecting lines. Fabricating a three-dimensional, transparent object using thin strips of paper with differing colors on either side re...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Mylar, Paper, Acrylic
Santiago Medina - LEVITATION, Photography 2021
By Santiago Medina
Located in Greenwich, CT
Suspended 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 availab...
Category
2010s Abstract Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Santiago Medina - MIRACLE (INDOOR MONUMENTAL), Sculpture 2022
By Santiago Medina
Located in Greenwich, CT
Italian stainless steel with a blue tint.
This sculpture will be shipped directly from the artist's studio.
All sculptures are made with the highest quality Italian stainless steel...
Category
2010s Abstract Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Santiago Medina - ETERNITY (OUTDOOR MONUMENTAL), Sculpture 2021
By Santiago Medina
Located in Greenwich, CT
Italian stainless steel.
Medina summarizes his artistic passion as “I bring inert stainless steel to life by creating sculptures full of light and movement”. Since studying at Harva...
Category
2010s Abstract Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Santiago Medina - MIGHTY (OUTDOOR MONUMENTAL), Photography 2021
By Santiago Medina
Located in Greenwich, CT
Marine outdoor 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 a...
Category
2010s Abstract Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Loren Eiferman, Winter Solstice, 2012, 165 Pieces of Wood, Putty, Wood Sculpture
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.
Her newest body of work is 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 Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Putty
"Queen Nieve, " 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
Luster, Porcelain, Glaze
Richard Bottwin, Parallel #6, 2006, Wood Veneers and Acrylic
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
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Minimalist Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
Jo Yarrington, Orchestrations, 2016, Found Objects, Plexiglass
By Jo Yarrington
Located in Darien, CT
The installation, Orchestrations, explores the vernacular in vintage piano roles. The physical perforations in the piano roll paper, coded notations for sound, act as a vehicle for l...
Category
2010s Post-Minimalist Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Plexiglass, Found Objects
"Queen Elizabeth, " Abstract Ceramic Vase
Located in Westport, CT
This small abstract vessel by Connecticut-based ceramicist, Jon Puzzuoli, is made with glazed ceramic and 18k gold luster. The bottom, matte white base of the vessel is exposed under...
Category
2010s Abstract Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Gold
"Lyric Space" Contemporary Korean Textile Wall Sculpture
Located in Wilton, CT
"Lyric Space" Korean silk fabric and handmade ramie threads, maple floater frame.
This contemporary silk textile piece is by Korean fiber artist, Shin You...
Category
2010s Contemporary Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Fabric, Textile, Silk, Thread
Suzanne Benton, 1974, Pelvic Woman, 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
Roses By The Sea, Plexiglass, Wall Sculpture, Colorful, Dimensional, Unique
Located in Riverdale, NY
Roses By The Sea by Neva Setlow is created with layered colored Plexiglass, both flat and round. It is 16x16x2filled with bright colors and dimension. It is on a wood frame and wi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Plexiglass
Jose Soto, FOCUS II, 2016, Birch, Paint
By Jose Soto
Located in Darien, CT
FOCUS is a public art sculpture about the viewer’s growing visual perception and bodily experience. It consists of two large rectangular-shaped pieces, one placed in a vertical posit...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Birch, Paint
Matti Havens & Gregory Kramer, Lovelace's Tribute, 2018, Sound Installation
By Matti Havens & Gregory Kramer
Located in Darien, CT
Lovelace’s Tribute
2018
sung by Christina Tsers
This installation is in honor of Ada Lovelace, generally recognized as the first computer programmer. Lovelace was the daughter of ...
Category
2010s New Media Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wire
Loren Eiferman, 2V, 180 Pieces of Wood with Celluclay, 2015, Polymer, Wood, Clay
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...
Category
2010s Abstract Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Clay, Wood, Polymer
Mary Schiliro, Cat's Cradle 6, 2006, acylic on Mylar, 36 x 18 in, Abstraction
By Mary Schiliro
Located in Darien, CT
Mary Schiliro’s work with acrylic paint on Mylar is process based, and expands the boundaries of painting by exploring alternative presentation methods. Using a dipping process wher...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Mylar, Plexiglass, Acrylic
Liz Sweibel, Untitled (Splinter 2 ), 2014, Wood, Paint, Found Objects
By Liz Sweibel
Located in Darien, CT
Liz Sweibel primarily makes sculpture, installations, and drawings. She uses a spare, personal language of abstraction to explore liminal spaces and unseen forces: wind, history, va...
Category
2010s Minimalist Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Paint, Found Objects
Norma Márquez Orozco, Purple Shapes, 2018, Translucent Paper, Minimalist, 31x31
By Norma Marquez Orozco
Located in Darien, CT
Norma Marquez Orozco explores concepts of impermanence, perception, form and balance through physical movement of the work itself in a lucid, game-like context, like puzzles. All the elements are made of paper, molded into three-dimensional forms. The repetitive geometric shapes are assembled inside boxes built out of translucent paper. The arrangement is random and unfixed to allow movement and unpredictable composition.
The harmonies and tensions in the work arise from different exchanges between the colors, the patterns, and the geometric and organic shapes, as well as the sense that change is constantly occurring as the elements shift and move.
When one looks at these compositions, you see them for the first time, every time, because what is creating and completing the artwork is always changing; such as light, weather and forms merge and interact. As a result of these dynamic relationships, the work extends beyond her personal hand, sustaining an appearance and composition entirely of its own.
Norma Márquez Orozco was
born
in
Chicago,
Illinois,
and
raised
in
Guadalajara,
Jalisco,
Mexico.
Her work can be seen as an investigation into the way relationships emerge and evolve when elements like color, form, shape, lines, angle and pattern are blended, shifted and layered.
She currently lives and works in New York City. Marquez Orozco
has
curated
exhibitions throughout
New
York
and
has hosted
lectures
and
artist
talks
for
the
public. In
2001
she founded
Floor4Art, an
alternative
space
in
West
Harlem
that
houses
artist’s
studios
and
exhibition
space
aimed
at
producing,
promoting
and
connecting
artists.
Exhibition venues include: ODETTA, Brooklyn, NY, Longwood Art Gallery, Queens Museum, The (S)Files 007/ El Barrio...
Category
2010s Minimalist Fairfield County - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Archival Paper
