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Item Ships From: Tri-State Area
Loops (Sky Blue)
Located in New York, NY
Jonas Noël Niedermann LOOP (Sky Blue), 2022 Blown glass 11.50 x 8.50 x 4 in.
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2010s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Blown Glass

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 Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Acrylic Polymer

Fleurus : contemporary modern abstract geometric sculpture
Located in New York, NY
Greg Chann creates contemporary modern abstract geometric sculptures. His constructions are complex interwoven systems of physical elements varying in size,...
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2010s Abstract Geometric Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Steel

Modular Shapes (Or, Rose et Bleu)
Located in New York, NY
Jonas Noël Niedermann Modular Shape (Gold, Pink + Blue), 2020 11h x 8.25w x 3.75d in 27.94h x 20.95w x 9.53d cm
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2010s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures

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Brass

Adam Kadmon ("Vision"), Kabbalistic Jewish Russian sculpture signed & inscribed
By Grisha Bruskin
Located in New York, NY
Grisha Bruskin Adam Kadmon (Vision), Signed and signed dedicated to art historian and collector Jacob Baal Teshuva), 1992 Steel Sculpture (Signed, Dated & Dedicated) 6 × 6 × 3 inche...
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1990s Surrealist Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Steel

Joan Grubin, Air Net, 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...
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2010s Abstract Geometric Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Mylar, Paper, Acrylic

"Portal to the 8th Dimension", Abstract Outdoor Metal Sculpture, Welded Aluminum
By Steven Zaluski
Located in New York, NY
"Portal to the 8th Dimension" by Steven Zaluski Abstract, Large-Scale Outdoor Sculpture in welded aluminum Steve Zaluski’s kinetic sculptures in welded bronze or aluminum have been ...
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2010s Abstract Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Metal

Vesica
By Lyndi Sales
Located in New York, NY
Vesica 2021 Laser cut acrylic Natural wood and glass frame 71" x 54" x 2" $12,000 Lyndi Sales is an artist based in Cape Town, South Africa. She has been creating a series of ins...
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2010s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Glass, Lucite, Plexiglass, Acrylic Polymer

"White Construction, " 1960s Modern Abstract Wall Sculpture
By Stanley Bate
Located in Westport, CT
This Modern abstract piece by Stanley Bate is a wood panel sculpture that has been painted white. Three-dimensional that are reminiscent of architectural pieces are tightly stacked w...
Category

1960s Modern Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Oil, Wood

Henri's Derain : contemporary modern abstract geometric sculpture
Located in New York, NY
Greg Chann creates contemporary modern abstract geometric sculptures. His constructions are complex interwoven systems of physical elements varying in size,...
Category

2010s Abstract Geometric Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Steel

Gaston Lachaise "La Montagne" Bronze Sculpture
By Gaston Lachaise
Located in Astoria, NY
Gaston Lachaise (French, 1882-1935) "La Montagne" [The Mountain, LF 45], Patinated Bronze Sculpture, posthumously cast later, stamped "Lachaise Estate" and numbered edition "2/11", m...
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1920s Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

White Figure 8 kinetic sculpture
By Roger Phillips
Located in Greenwich, CT
A favorite amongst collectors to bring a contemporary and playful feel to a room. Very hard to get white with a Phillips and it lends a cool and elegant feel to these playful and in...
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2010s Kinetic Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Enamel, Stainless Steel

Extroverre Purple and Green Wall Piece
By Joshua Bernbaum
Located in New York, NY
Joshua Bernbaum Extroverre Purple and Green Wall Piece, 2015 Cut, wheel-carved and polished blown glass 13.50h x 11w x 2.88d in $ 3,500
Category

2010s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Blown Glass

Abstract Form Study in Bronze V
Located in New York, NY
George William Bell Abstract Form Study in Bronze V, 2022 Blown glass, mirrored 8 x 8.50 x 6.75 in.
Category

2010s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Blown Glass

Carnaby Street Shoes
Located in New York, NY
This piece catches the attention of the viewer with its colorful, geometric, and abstract design.
Category

2010s Abstract Geometric Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Acrylic

Medium Abstract Ceramic Sculpture with Textile: 'Tijme'
By Ak Jansen
Located in New York, NY
This is part of a new collection work that encompasses ceramics and textiles by Ak Jansen. Born in the Netherlands, Jansen’s work occupies queerness on both poetic and political term...
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2010s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Gold

Yellow is the Color of my Dead Bird's Tail, Neon Sculpture by William Landwehr
By William Landwehr
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: William Landwehr (American, b. 1941) Title: Yellow is the Color of my Dead Bird's Tail Year: circa 1980 Medium: Mixed Media Construction with Neon Size: 68 in. x 63 in. x 8 i...
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1980s Pop Art Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Neon Light, Mixed Media

Meteoric Rainbow
By Lyndi Sales
Located in New York, NY
Meteoric Rainbow 2021 Embroidery thread, acrylic and wool on wood dimensions variable $300 per stick Lyndi Sales is an artist based in Cape Town, South A...
Category

2010s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Wool, Thread, Plastic, Wood

Transblue : contemporary modern abstract geometric sculpture
Located in New York, NY
Greg Chann creates contemporary modern abstract geometric sculptures. His constructions are complex interwoven systems of physical elements varying in size,...
Category

2010s Abstract Geometric Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Steel

Migrant
By Lucio Pozzi
Located in New York, NY
A piece of plywood painted in two kinds of yellow in different tones. A triangle is cut from the bottom of the wood and being layered on the top of the plywood. Acrylic on plywood Lucio Pozzi (b. 1935) was born in Milan and moved to the United States in 1962 as a guest of the Harvard International Summer Seminar. His first of many exhibitions at Hal Bromm Gallery was in 1976. Though foremost a painter, Pozzi considers writing, drawing, and sculpture to be valuable tools to his art. He has an extensive teaching career as well, having lectured at Cooper Union, Yale Graduate Sculpture...
Category

2010s Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Plywood, Acrylic

Upcycled wall sculpture: 'Coral #5'
By Federica Patera and Andrea Sbra Pereg
Located in New York, NY
In the Corals Series, the potential for misunderstanding lies in the form of the works, which resemble corals: they might look like plants or stone, but they are actually animals liv...
Category

2010s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Mixed Media

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 Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Steel, Wire

"#Spring" Abstract Painting
By Teodora Guererra
Located in Westport, CT
This abstract painting by Teodora Guererra features a light palette with light, muted green at the top and bottom, and other accent colors toward the center of the composition includ...
Category

2010s Abstract Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Thinking Figure, Modern Bronze sculpture with gold patina by Georges Charpentier
By Georges Charpentier
Located in Long Island City, NY
Georges Charpentier, French (1937 - 2024) - Thinking Figure, Year: circa 1980, Medium: Bronze sculpture with gold patina on wooden base, signature and numbering inscribed, Edition:...
Category

1980s Modern Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

"Late Night Drive, " Abstract Steel Sculpture
Located in Westport, CT
This large, abstract sculpture by Joe Sorge is made with steel and black dye. Two strips of steel curl upward from a round, circular base, twisting through and around one another. The sculpture casts unique and intricate shadows on its surrounding environment. The white pedestal 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 Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Steel

CC 102 - Blue green abstract geometric 3D wall circular sculpture
Located in New York, NY
Anna Kruhelska is a visual artist and architect working across fields of art and design. She creates abstract, three-dimensional paper wall reliefs that startle in their intricacy an...
Category

2010s Abstract Geometric Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Plywood, Acrylic

Squamae S 4 - pink, green, white 3D abstract geometric ceramic wall composition
By Marie Laforey
Located in New York, NY
Marie Laforey is a self-taught artist based in New York, US who maintains a sustainable art practice using primarily organic material. Laforey enjoys the tactility of working with or...
Category

2010s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Clay, Acrylic, Wood Panel

Rock Wall – Vibrant Painted Sculptural Wall Installation of Organic Shapes
Located in New York, NY
“Rock Wall” is a vibrant wall-mounted installation by contemporary artist Ray Beldner. Each of the 18 sculptural forms—resembling abstract, painted rocks—is individually crafted from...
Category

2010s Modern Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Foam, Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Polyurethane

Squamae S 5 - orange, grey, white 3D abstract geometric ceramic wall composition
By Marie Laforey
Located in New York, NY
Marie Laforey is a self-taught artist based in New York, US who maintains a sustainable art practice using primarily organic material. Laforey enjoys the tactility of working with or...
Category

2010s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Clay, Acrylic, Wood Panel

Layered Cube Votive Sculpture, pink, grey, black concrete votive candle holder
By Dena Paige Fischer
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Biomorphic yet industrial style to Dena Paige Fischer's sculptural votive candle holder. The stacked cubes are painted and smooth, piled upon one another into a column, or as the artist calls it, a totem. The pastel pigmented concrete in peach and lavender looks almost soft. This sculptural votive candle holder is a functional and decorative tabletop art...
Category

2010s Abstract Geometric Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Concrete

Jazz Musicians, Terracotta Vase by Mirkò Guida
By Mirko Guida
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Mirkò Guida (Italian, b. 1980) Title: Jazz Musicians Year: circa 2007 Medium: Painted terracotta jug, signed Size: 27.5 x 9 x 9 in. (69.85 x 22.86 x 22.86 cm)
Category

Early 2000s Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Terracotta

Conny Goelz Schmitt "Beyond" Vintage Book Parts Sculpture
By Conny Goelz Schmitt
Located in New York, NY
"I create geometric collages, assemblages and sculptures with vintage book parts. My work is a never-ending story where I play with deconstruction and reconstruction, and changing di...
Category

2010s Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Found Objects

Conny Goelz Schmitt "Infolding" Vintage Book Parts Sculpture
By Conny Goelz Schmitt
Located in New York, NY
"I create geometric collages, assemblages and sculptures with vintage book parts. My work is a never-ending story where I play with deconstruction and reconstruction, and changing di...
Category

2010s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Found Objects

"Queen Stingray" 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...
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2010s Abstract Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Gold

Belly
Located in New York, NY
Abstract sculpture made with paper packaging and painted with acrylic paint. Jean Foos is a visual artist whose practice centers on richly painted and patt...
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2010s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Acrylic

Jaff_Little Swivel._2022_hand cut paper_minimalism
By Liz Jaff
Located in Darien, CT
Liz Jaff creates intricate constructions which use repetition, patterns and forms from nature and architecture to explore ideas of love, commitment, sacrifice and memory of time and ...
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2010s Abstract Geometric Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Archival Paper

Conny Goelz Schmitt "Flyover" Vintage Book Parts Sculpture
By Conny Goelz Schmitt
Located in New York, NY
"I create geometric collages, assemblages and sculptures with vintage book parts. My work is a never-ending story where I play with deconstruction and reconstruction, and changing di...
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2010s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Found Objects

"Magic Circle in Green", Organic Hand Cut, Laser Cut, Paper Wall Sculpture
By Rogan Brown
Located in New York, NY
"Magic Circle in Green" by Rogan Brown Laser and hand cut paper, framed in a plexiglass shadow box Available by commission. Please allow 8-12 weeks production time. Rogan Brown cre...
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2010s Abstract Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Paper

Lapis 281 - white blue 3D abstract floral geometric ceramic wall composition
By Marie Laforey
Located in New York, NY
Marie Laforey is a self-taught artist based in New York, US who maintains a sustainable art practice using primarily organic material. Laforey enjoys the tactility of working with or...
Category

2010s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Clay

Yvette Cohen, Ara Pacis - Zen Corner, 2009, Minimalist sculpture
By Yvette Cohen
Located in Darien, CT
My work bridges the divide between sculpture and painting and drawing. Paintings are geometric masses of color in oil paint and wood dowels, on shaped canvas. Often grouped in d...
Category

2010s Minimalist Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas, Wood

Conny Goelz Schmitt "See Through" Vintage Book Parts Sculpture
By Conny Goelz Schmitt
Located in New York, NY
"I create geometric collages, assemblages and sculptures with vintage book parts. My work is a never-ending story where I play with deconstruction and reconstruction, and changing di...
Category

2010s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Found Objects

Untitled #1 - abstract geometric, organic pale green glazed porcelain sculpture
Located in New York, NY
Joan Lurie Untitled #1 Pale Green Glazed Porcelain 23" x 12" x 10" 2019 Artists Statement: My interest is in exploring ways of building structural forms in ceramics. Many ideas for ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Porcelain

Mirroire d'Artiste
By Jesús Rafael Soto
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Jesus Rafael Soto, Venezuelan (1923 - 2005) Title: Mirroire d'Artiste Year: 2005 Medium: Mirrored Glass and Silkscreened Plexiglass Wall Sculpture, signature and number ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Op Art Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Metal

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 Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Enamel, Stainless Steel

"Round Mountain Landscape", Industrial, Abstract Sculpture in Metal & Stone
By John Van Alstine
Located in New York, NY
"Round Mountain Landscape" by John Van Alstine Granite and steel The sculpture of John Van Alstine beautifully, and powerfully, balances the union of stone and metal, while explorin...
Category

2010s Abstract Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Stone, Granite, Metal, Steel

"Flash" Abstract, Cast Bronze Metal Sculpture by John Ruppert
By John Ruppert
Located in New York, NY
"Flash" by John Ruppert Cast bronze, stainless steel, from a fragment of a tree struck by lightning Edition of 3 Over the past 35 years, John Ruppert has been working in cast metals...
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2010s Abstract Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Metal, Bronze

LXXV, Abstract Marble Sculpture by Domenico Casasanta
By Domenico Casasanta
Located in Long Island City, NY
This piece is a unique hand-carved white marble Modern sculpture by Spanish-Venezuelan artist, Domenico Casasanta. The artist uses simple...
Category

2010s Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Marble

Locus 2- intricate white gold 3D abstract geometric drawing and collage on paper
Located in New York, NY
Finesse and delicacy are what characterize best Antonin Anzil’s artistic practice. Paper as a medium seems incompatible with the idea of engraving or sculpturing; and yet. Using a sh...
Category

2010s Abstract Geometric Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Archival Paper

Carillon L.O.V.E.
By Maurizio Cattelan
Located in New York, NY
Resin and music box mechanism multiple. Published by Seletti, Cicognara. With the original packaging box. This is a reproduction of Cattelan's monumental marble sculpture...
Category

2010s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Resin

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 Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Acrylic Polymer, Pigment

"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 Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Gold

Jo Yarrington, Mute-Ability_Composition 4, 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. STATEMENT 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 Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Steel

Liz Sweibel, Untitled (Splinter 8 ), 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 Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Wood, Paint, Found Objects

Medusa Large Plaster Sculpture by Brunelli
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
734 Hand made plaster Medusa with necklace. Designed and crafted by Brunelli
Category

1980s Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Plaster

"Mystery Box (Boîte mystère)" Ben Vautier, Fluxus Movement Conceptual Sculpture
By Ben Vautier
Located in New York, NY
Ben Vautier Mystery Box (Boîte mystère), 1965 Painted wood with letterpress label 3 13/16 × 2 3/4 × 2 7/16 inches Ben Vautier was a French artist known for his text-based paintings...
Category

1960s Conceptual Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Wood, Paper

Soft Curve 312, Signed unique sculpture (from the Estate of artist Will Barnet)
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein Soft Curve 312 (from the Estate of artist Will Barnet), 1998 Mixed media sculpture of wood, metal and stone Signed, titled and dated with additional sculpted text Unique ...
Category

1990s Abstract Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Stone, Metal

Maquette for Laureate (unique sculpture)
By Seymour Lipton
Located in New York, NY
Seymour Lipton Maquette for Laureate, ca. 1968-1969 Nickel silver on monel metal Unique 18 × 8 1/2 × 7 inches Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York Acquired from the above by the previous owner, 1969 thence by descent Christie's New York: Monday, June 30, 2008 [Lot 00199] Acquired from the above Christie's sale This unique sculpture by important Abstract Expressionist sculptor Seymour Lipton is a maquette of the monumental sculpture "Laureate" - one of Lipton's most iconic and influential works located on the Riverwalk in downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Laureate is a masterpiece that was commissioned by the Allen-Bradley Company in memory of Harry Lynde Bradley and as an enhancement for the newly constructed Performing Arts Center. It is located on the east bank of the Milwaukee River at 929 North Water Street. The Bradley family in Milwaukee were renowned patrons of modernist sculpture, known for their excellent taste who also founded an eponymous sculpture park. For reference only is an image of the monumental "Laureate" one of Milwaukee's most beloved public sculptures. According to the Smithsonian, which owns a different unique variation of this work, "The full-size sculpture Laureate was commissioned by the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts in Milwaukee. In the initial drawings, Seymour Lipton combined details from the architectural plan with a wide variety of images, ranging from musical instruments to a lighthouse on the island of Tobago. He transformed the basic shapes from these sketches into a welded sculpture, which evokes a figure composed of columns, harp strings, and coiled rope. Lipton created this piece to celebrate achievement in the arts. The dramatic silhouette commands your attention, reflecting the title Laureate, which means worthy of honor and distinction. The final version of the piece is over twelve feet high and stands out against the pale, flat buildings of the arts center.,," Provenance Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York Acquired from the above by the previous owner, 1969 thence by descent Christie's New York: Monday, June 30, 2008 [Lot 00199] Acquired from the above Christie's sale About Seymour Lipton: Born in New York City in 1903, Seymour Lipton (1903-1986) grew up in a Bronx tenement at a time when much of the borough was still farmland. These rural surroundings enabled Lipton to explore the botanical and animal forms that would later become sources for his work. Lipton’s interest in the dialogue between artistic creation and natural phenomena was nurtured by a supportive family and cultivated through numerous visits to New York’s Museum of Natural History as well as its many botanical gardens and its zoos. In the early 1920s, with the encouragement of his family, Lipton studied electrical engineering at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and pursued a liberal arts education at City College. Ultimately, like fellow sculptor Herbert Ferber, Lipton became a dentist, receiving his degree from Columbia University in 1927. In the late 1920s, he began to explore sculpture, creating clay portraits of family members and friends. In addition to providing him with financial security, dentistry gave Lipton a foundation in working with metal, a material he would later use in his artwork. In the early 1930s, though, Lipton’s primary sculptural medium was wood. Lipton led a comfortable life, but he was also aware of the economic and psychological devastation the Depression had caused New York. In response, he generally worked using direct carving techniques—a form of sculpting where the artist “finds” the sculpture within the wood in the process of carving it and without the use of models and maquettes. The immediacy of this practice enabled Lipton to create a rich, emotional and visual language with which to articulate the desperation of the downtrodden and the unwavering strength of the disenfranchised. In 1935, he exhibited one such early sculpture at the John Reed Club Gallery in New York, and three years later, ACA Gallery mounted Lipton’s first solo show, which featured these social-realist-inspired wooden works. In 1940, this largely self-taught artist began teaching sculpture at the New School for Social Research, a position he held until 1965. In the 1940s, Lipton began to devote an increasing amount of time to his art, deviating from wood and working with brass, lead, and bronze. Choosing these metals for their visual simplicity, which he believed exemplified the universal heroism of the “everyman,” Lipton could also now explore various forms of abstraction. Lipton’s turn towards increasing abstraction in the 1940s allowed him to fully develop his metaphorical style, which in turn gave him a stronger lexicon for representing the horrors of World War II and questioning the ambiguities of human experience. He began his metal work with cast bronze sculptures, but, in 1946, he started welding sheet metal and lead. Lipton preferred welding because, as direct carving did with wood, this approach allowed “a more direct contact with the metal.”[ii] From this, Lipton developed the technique he would use for the remainder of his career: “He cut sheet metal, manipulated it to the desired shapes, then joined, soldered, or welded the pieces together. Next, he brazed a metal coating to the outside to produce a uniform texture.”[iii] In 1950, Lipton arrived at his mature style of brazing on Monel metal. He also began to draw extensively, exploring the automatism that abstract expressionist painters were boasting at the time. Like contemporaries such as Jackson Pollock, Lipton was strongly influenced by Carl Jung’s work on the unconscious mind and the regenerative forces of nature. He translated these two-dimensional drawings into three-dimensional maquettes that enabled him to revise his ideas before creating the final sculpture.The forms that Lipton produced during this period were often zoomorphic, exemplifying the tension between the souls of nature and the automatism of the machine. In the years following the 1950s, Lipton’s optimism began to rise, and the size of his work grew in proportion. The oxyacetylene torch—invented during the Second World War—allowed him to rework the surfaces of metal sculptures, thus eliminating some of the risks involved with producing large-scale finished works. In 1958, Lipton was awarded a solo exhibition at the Venice Biennale and was thus internationally recognized as part of a small group of highly regarded avant-garde constructivist sculptors. In 1960, he received a prestigious Guggenheim Award, which was followed by several prominent public commissions, including his heroic Archangel, currently residing in Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall. A number of important solo exhibitions of his work followed at The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC (1964); the Milwaukee Art Center and University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (1969); the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond (1972); the Everson Museum in Syracuse, NY (1973); the Herbert E. Johnson Museum of Art of Cornell University in Ithaca, NY (1973); the National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution (now the Smithsonian American Art Museum) in Washington, DC (1978); and a retrospective in 1979 at The Jewish Museum in New York. In 1982 and 1984 alone, two exhibitions of his sculpture, organized respectively by the Mint Museum (Charlotte, NC) and the Hillwood Art Gallery of Long Island University (Greenvale, NY), traveled extensively across museums and university galleries around the nation. In 2000, the traveling exhibition An American Sculptor: Seymour Lipton was first presented by the Palmer Museum of Art of Pennsylvania State University in University Park. Most recently, in 2009, the Ackland Art Museum in Chapel Hill, NC mounted The Guardian and the Avant-Garde: Seymour Lipton’s Sentinel II in Context. Since 2004, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery has been the exclusive representative of the Estate of Seymour Lipton and has presented two solo exhibitions of his work—Seymour Lipton: Abstract Expressionist Sculptor (2005) and Seymour Lipton: Metal (2008). In 2013, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery presented Abstract Expressionism, In Context: Seymour Lipton, which included twelve major sculptures by the artist, along with works by Charles Alston, Norman Bluhm, Beauford Delaney, Willem de Kooning, Jay DeFeo, Michael Goldberg, Adolph Gottlieb, Hans Hofmann, Lee Krasner, Norman Lewis, Conrad Marca-Relli, Boris Margo, Alfonso Ossorio, Richard Pousette-Dart, Milton Resnick, Charles Seliger...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures

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1960s Minimalist Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures

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2010s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures

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Steel

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Located in New York, NY
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2010s Abstract Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures

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Metal

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