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Style: Contemporary
Medium: Found Objects
After 77 Years, Again in Fear? - Mixed Media Assemblage on Canvas
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Title: "After 77 Years, Again in Fear?" - Mixed Media Assemblage on Canvas Discover the powerful and thought-provoking artwork "After 77 Years, Again in Fear?" by acclaimed contemporary artist Irena Orlov. This original mixed media assemblage, measuring H34" x W57", masterfully incorporates various dimensional elements and techniques, including painting and found objects, to create a captivating abstract piece with a profound global message. Medium and Materials: This extraordinary artwork is a mixed media assemblage on fine art canvas, skillfully hand-stretched over 1" deep wood stretched bars. The artist's creative vision weaves together an intriguing combination of materials, including plastic, original World War 2 chemical gas masks, copper mesh, and small metal round container...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

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Bronze

"Keeping Time" Contemporary Pastel Pink Yellow Abstract Expressionist Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Exhibited in "Benji Stiles: A Human Day" at Reeves Art + Design. In “A Human Day,” a solo show dedicated to the work of contemporary multidisciplinary artist Benji Stiles, we explor...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

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Canvas, Gesso, Textile, Oil Crayon, Found Objects, Acrylic

After 77 Years, Again in Fear? - Mixed Media Assemblage on Canvas
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Title: "After 77 Years, Again in Fear?" - Mixed Media Assemblage on Canvas Discover the powerful and thought-provoking artwork "After 77 Years, Again in Fear?" by acclaimed contempo...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

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Bronze

"Wire Songs", Contemporary, Mixed Media, Sculpture, Plied Wire, Aluminum, Metal
Located in St. Louis, MO
John Garrett was raised in southern New Mexico by parents who were both educators. They instilled in him an appreciation for the handmade with their collections of Native American a...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

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Metal, Wire

American Story No.1776
Located in New Orleans, LA
KAT FLYN is a self-taught assemblage artist working presently out of San Diego. She began her career as a costume designer in Southern California. Over the years she amassed a trove of artifacts and collectables which she began using to create assemblage art in the 1990’s. In 2000 she sold her business and moved to Cuyamaca, a remote community in the mountains outside of San Diego to devote herself exclusively to her artwork. In 2003 her work was interrupted when the Cedar Fire swept through San Diego county and destroyed the forest, her home & studio along with almost all of her collections and works of art. Following the fire she relocated to San Francisco, where she spent a decade concentrating on her art in her studio in SOMA and exhibiting at galleries in the Bay Area. In 2015 she returned to San Diego and now works out of her studio in La Jolla, exhibiting there and in Los Angeles. Kat Flyn refers to herself as an Assemblage Sculptor and her works as Political Art or Protest Art. She separates herself from other assemblage artists in that she only employs “saved” as opposed to “found” objects in her work; and her pieces always have a political or cultural narrative to them rather than being surreal or abstract. She also constructs or refashions many of the pieces which she uses in her art, for example she turns a soft drink box...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Wood, Found Objects, Mixed Media

"Taahhutlu" Monotype with Chine Colle and Watercolor, Found Object Collage
Located in Soquel, CA
Contemporary abstract painting and found object collage composition with stamps, money, various types of paper, and watercolor by Michael Pauker (...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

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Paper, Watercolor, Found Objects

"Son Temps", Contemporary Abstract Found Object Collage with Watercolor
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful contemporary abstract expressionist collage/oil painting by Bay Area artist Michael Pauker (American, b.1957). Antique stamps, currency, and letters from different places a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

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Paper, Watercolor, Found Objects

"Saved from the Cannibals" Contemporary Abstract Painting w Found Object Collage
Located in Soquel, CA
A unique contemporary abstract expressionist painting with collaged found object elements, including a torn page from Robinson Crusoe, vintage stamps, and old letters by Bay Area art...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

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Wood, Mixed Media, Oil, Magazine Paper, Found Objects

Woke
Located in New Orleans, LA
KAT FLYN is a self-taught assemblage artist working presently out of San Diego. She began her career as a costume designer in Southern California. Over the years she amassed a trove of artifacts and collectables which she began using to create assemblage art in the 1990’s. In 2000 she sold her business and moved to Cuyamaca, a remote community in the mountains outside of San Diego to devote herself exclusively to her artwork. In 2003 her work was interrupted when the Cedar Fire swept through San Diego county and destroyed the forest, her home & studio along with almost all of her collections and works of art. Following the fire she relocated to San Francisco, where she spent a decade concentrating on her art in her studio in SOMA and exhibiting at galleries in the Bay Area. In 2015 she returned to San Diego and now works out of her studio in La Jolla, exhibiting there and in Los Angeles. Kat Flyn refers to herself as an Assemblage Sculptor and her works as Political Art or Protest Art. She separates herself from other assemblage artists in that she only employs “saved” as opposed to “found” objects in her work; and her pieces always have a political or cultural narrative to them rather than being surreal or abstract. She also constructs or refashions many of the pieces which she uses in her art, for example she turns a soft drink box...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

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Wood, Found Objects, Mixed Media

Garden Variety
Located in New York, NY
Recycled textiles, thread, batting, glazed ceramic, metal table, spray paint 34 x 22 x 18 inches Artist Statement I hand-sew compound sculptural forms that are constructed from clot...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

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Ceramic, Textile, Thread, Found Objects, Spray Paint

Garden Variety
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Cloud
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: found aluminum cans, wire Available in multiple color/finish options (inquire with gallery). Installations are made to order, sizes and shapes of butterflies vary. Unique, ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

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Stainless Steel

Diary 2 by John Garrett, 2017, Mixed Media Wall Hanging Sculpture, Contemporary
Located in St. Louis, MO
John Garrett was raised in southern New Mexico by parents who were both educators. They instilled in him an appreciation for the handmade with their collections of Native American a...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

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Fabric, Plaster, Wood, Found Objects, Mixed Media, Other Medium

Eastern Puma - Contemporary Mixed Media Animal Sculpture (Yellow+Red)
Located in Gilroy, CA
"Eastern Puma" is a wonderfully morbid sculpture created by the Canadian artist Yulia Shtern. This piece is part of her Mini Zoo Series depicting beautifully decaying remnants of species on our planet that are currently endangered. An unfortunate truth of our current society that is often forgotten. Shtern creates these beautiful pieces to draw the viewer in and force them to engage with reality head-on. Follow our gallery, or message us for more works by Yulia Shtern and special pricing. From the artist "My new series of sculptures Magical Zoo observes this calamity through the prism of the wonder and playfulness of the natural world, through the miracle and majesty that is found in each and every animal, big and small, aquatic and land. The medium of the series consists of post mass consumption up-cycled material: paper products, packaging, non-recyclable plastics, fabric leftovers, other items that would have otherwise gone to a landfill. All the color on the finished sculptures comes from swatches of the up-cycled material itself. The only other substance added to the work is the transparent varnish glue. The pieces in the series are produced in an environmentally sustainable manner. Magical Zoo creates its own reality through the dualism of a colorful, whimsical representation of an animal whose habitat has been destroyed by industrial expansion or deforestation. Or an animal that was a hair away from going extinct, or an animal that could be next unless we do something today to stop this tragedy. The element of magic makes it easier to cope with the fact that our planet is dying...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

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Adhesive, Varnish, Found Objects, Mixed Media, Newsprint, Papier Mâché, ...

Lobster
Located in Greenwich, CT
Leo Sewell Biography American, b. 1945 Leo Sewell (b. 1945) is an American "found object" artist. His assemblages of recycled material are in over 40 museums and in private collecti...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

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Mixed Media, Found Objects

Contemporary, Mixed Media, Hanging, Sculpture, Wood, Metal, Glass, Found Objects
Located in St. Louis, MO
Contemporary, Mixed Media, Hanging, Sculpture, Wood, Metal, Glass, Found Objects John Garrett was raised in southern New Mexico by parents who were both educators. They instilled i...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

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Metal, Steel

Bronze Relief of Construction Blocks in Wooden Cart, 2025 - Big Set
Located in Bruxelles, BE
Conrad Willems’ “Big Set” is a bronze sculpture that reimagines the wooden construction blocks central to his artistic practice. Encased in one of the small wooden carts the artist u...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

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Bronze

Cat Is Very Smart, Contemporary Mixed Media Painting by Konstantin Bokov
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Konstantin Bokov, Ukrainian/American (1940 - ) Title: Cat is Very Smart Year: 1999 Medium: Acrylic on Board and Found Art Collage, Signed and dated Size: 20 x 16 in. (50....
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1990s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

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Found Objects, Acrylic, Board

"Psalm 63:4...While I Live, " Oil Pastel signed by Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Psalm 63:4...While I Live" is a religious original oil pastel drawing on a grocery bag by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed and titled the piece lower right. This piece illustrates...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

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Oil Pastel, Found Objects

Vector (right)
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: found aluminum cans, wire, Flashe paint Available in multiple color/finish options (inquire with gallery). Installations are made to order, sizes and shapes of butterflies v...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

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Metal, Wire

"Old Glory" Hand Embroidery with French Knots and Historical Imagery
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Old Glory" is an original piece by Han Cao and is made from hand embroidery on found vintage postcard from 1924, with cotton thread. This piece measures 11.25" x ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

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Thread, Found Objects, Photographic Paper

Stephanie Todhunter, Donna, Mixed Media, 2019
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Stephanie Todhunter Title: Donna Year: 2019 Size: 8"x7"x4" Material: Plaster of paris, found objects, spraypaint, alcohol inks
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

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Plaster, Found Objects, Ink, Spray Paint

It s Only a Game
Located in New Orleans, LA
Medium: very old hand-carved bat, old handmade ball, hand-carved wood toy plane, Old wood handmade toolbox, one photo of young men gathered to play baseball ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

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Found Objects, Mixed Media

Contemporary modern art figurative still life 1st supermodel NYC collage glass
By Michael Mapes
Located in New York, NY
mixed media - giclee prints, photographic prints, painted paper, fabric, costume jewelry, glass All secure. Pieces won’t move in transport 2025 12x12x3.5" inches The NY artist exa...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

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Fabric, Thread, Plastic, Found Objects, Archival Paper, Photographic Pap...

"Everlast" Contemporary Pastel Abstract Boxing Glove Wall Sculpture
Located in Houston, TX
Exhibited in "Benji Stiles: A Human Day" at Reeves Art + Design. In “A Human Day,” a solo show dedicated to the work of contemporary multidisciplinary artist Benji Stiles, we explor...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

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Plaster, Wood, Found Objects, Acrylic

"Fiber Truck - PHD Edition" Dimensional Embroidered Vehicle
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Fiber Truck - PHD Edition" is an original piece by Han Cao and is made from cotton embroidery thread, plastic stitching canvas, painted wooden spools, acrylic disp...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

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Thread, Found Objects, Canvas, Cotton, Plastic, Wood

Memo (Night)
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: aluminum (found cans), wire, soot Unique, open edition Available in multiple color/finish options (see second image on listing for options). Installations are made to order, sizes and shapes of butterflies vary and can be oriented leftward or rightward. Ships with installation template and loaner tool kit. Installation can be arranged with JONATHAN FERRARA GALLERY. Paul Villinski is a professional visual artist who has created studio and large-scale artworks for more than three decades. Villinski was born in York, Maine, USA, in 1960, son of an Air Force navigator. He has lived and worked in New York City since 1982. A scenic route through the educational system included stops at Phillips Exeter Academy and the Massachusetts College of Art, and a BFA with honors from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 1984. He lives with his partner, the painter Amy Park, and their son, Lark, in their studios in Long Island City, NY. His work has been included in numerous exhibitions nationally, recently including the solo exhibition “Passage: A Special Project,” at the Blanton Museum, University of Texas, Austin; “Making Mends,” at the Bellevue Museum of Arts, Bellevue, WA; “Second Lives: Re-purposing the Ordinary,” at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY; and “Prospect .1,” an international Biennial in New Orleans, LA. “Emergency Response Studio,” a FEMA trailer redesigned and rebuilt into a solar-and wind-powered mobile artist’s studio, was the subject of a solo exhibition at Rice University Art Gallery, Houston, TX; the exhibition also travelled to Ballroom Marfa, in Marfa, TX; Wesleyan University’s Zilkha Gallery, Middletown, CT; and the trailer was featured in the New Museum’s “Festival of Ideas for the New City”, in New York, NY. Villinski’s work is widely collected, including major public works created by commission. His studio is currently at work on “SkyCycles,” three full-scale “flying...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

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Wire, Metal

Everyone gets Due Process, Right?
Located in New Orleans, LA
KAT FLYN is a self-taught assemblage artist working presently out of San Diego. She began her career as a costume designer in Southern California. Over the years she amassed a trove ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

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Wood, Found Objects, Mixed Media

"Mandala CXCII" - mixed media, assemblage, pattern, circle, found objects, color
Located in Atlanta, GA
This work features hues of orange, yellow, and red. Columbia, South Carolina-based artist, Susan Lenz uses needle and thread for self-expression. Her ongoing series Found Object Man...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

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Fabric, Found Objects

Frankenstein
Located in New Orleans, LA
"Trans Youth - Body of a boy/girl, mind of a monster, soul of an unearthly thing. Prejudice against transgender people is widespread." KAT FLYN is a self-taught assemblage artist working presently out of San Diego. She began her career as a costume designer in Southern California. Over the years she amassed a trove of artifacts and collectables which she began using to create assemblage art in the 1990’s. In 2000 she sold her business and moved to Cuyamaca, a remote community in the mountains outside of San Diego to devote herself exclusively to her artwork. In 2003 her work was interrupted when the Cedar Fire swept through San Diego county and destroyed the forest, her home & studio along with almost all of her collections and works of art. Following the fire she relocated to San Francisco, where she spent a decade concentrating on her art in her studio in SOMA and exhibiting at galleries in the Bay Area. In 2015 she returned to San Diego and now works out of her studio in La Jolla, exhibiting there and in Los Angeles. Kat Flyn refers to herself as an Assemblage Sculptor and her works as Political Art or Protest Art. She separates herself from other assemblage artists in that she only employs “saved” as opposed to “found” objects in her work; and her pieces always have a political or cultural narrative to them rather than being surreal or abstract. She also constructs or refashions many of the pieces which she uses in her art, for example she turns a soft drink box...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

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Wood, Mixed Media, Found Objects

"Deliverance" -- Assemblage by Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
KAT FLYN is a self-taught assemblage artist working presently out of San Diego. She began her career as a costume designer in Southern California. Over the years she amassed a trove ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

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Wood, Found Objects, Mixed Media

"Thinking it Through, " Oil Pastel on Grocery Bag signed by Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Thinking It Through" is an original oil pastel drawing on a grocery bag by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece lower left. This artwork features a man seated on stairs, dee...
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1990s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

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Oil Pastel, Found Objects

American Story No.1921
Located in New Orleans, LA
KAT FLYN is a self-taught assemblage artist working presently out of San Diego. She began her career as a costume designer in Southern California. Over the years she amassed a trove of artifacts and collectables which she began using to create assemblage art in the 1990’s. In 2000 she sold her business and moved to Cuyamaca, a remote community in the mountains outside of San Diego to devote herself exclusively to her artwork. In 2003 her work was interrupted when the Cedar Fire swept through San Diego county and destroyed the forest, her home & studio along with almost all of her collections and works of art. Following the fire she relocated to San Francisco, where she spent a decade concentrating on her art in her studio in SOMA and exhibiting at galleries in the Bay Area. In 2015 she returned to San Diego and now works out of her studio in La Jolla, exhibiting there and in Los Angeles. Kat Flyn refers to herself as an Assemblage Sculptor and her works as Political Art or Protest Art. She separates herself from other assemblage artists in that she only employs “saved” as opposed to “found” objects in her work; and her pieces always have a political or cultural narrative to them rather than being surreal or abstract. She also constructs or refashions many of the pieces which she uses in her art, for example she turns a soft drink box...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

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Wood, Found Objects, Mixed Media

"Lady Liberty" Hand Sewn and Fibers on Vintage Americana by Han Cao
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Lady Liberty is an original piece by Han Cao and is made from hand embroidery on found vintage postcard from the 1960s, with cotton thread. This piece measures 11...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

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Thread, Found Objects, Postcard

American Story, Tulsa May 30, 1921
Located in New Orleans, LA
KAT FLYN is a self-taught assemblage artist working presently out of San Diego. She began her career as a costume designer in Southern California. Over the years she amassed a trove of artifacts and collectables which she began using to create assemblage art in the 1990’s. In 2000 she sold her business and moved to Cuyamaca, a remote community in the mountains outside of San Diego to devote herself exclusively to her artwork. In 2003 her work was interrupted when the Cedar Fire swept through San Diego county and destroyed the forest, her home & studio along with almost all of her collections and works of art. Following the fire she relocated to San Francisco, where she spent a decade concentrating on her art in her studio in SOMA and exhibiting at galleries in the Bay Area. In 2015 she returned to San Diego and now works out of her studio in La Jolla, exhibiting there and in Los Angeles. Kat Flyn refers to herself as an Assemblage Sculptor and her works as Political Art or Protest Art. She separates herself from other assemblage artists in that she only employs “saved” as opposed to “found” objects in her work; and her pieces always have a political or cultural narrative to them rather than being surreal or abstract. She also constructs or refashions many of the pieces which she uses in her art, for example she turns a soft drink box...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

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Wood, Found Objects, Mixed Media

"As the Crow Flies" -- Assemblage by Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
KAT FLYN is a self-taught assemblage artist working presently out of San Diego. She began her career as a costume designer in Southern California. Over the years she amassed a trove ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

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Wood, Found Objects, Mixed Media

Death of a Spirit Guide
Located in New Orleans, LA
"This narrative questions the storyline that the wolf was the threat; but rather the Huntsman was the predator." KAT FLYN is a self-taught assemblage artist working presently out of San Diego. She began her career as a costume designer in Southern California. Over the years she amassed a trove of artifacts and collectables which she began using to create assemblage art in the 1990’s. In 2000 she sold her business and moved to Cuyamaca, a remote community in the mountains outside of San Diego to devote herself exclusively to her artwork. In 2003 her work was interrupted when the Cedar Fire swept through San Diego county and destroyed the forest, her home & studio along with almost all of her collections and works of art. Following the fire she relocated to San Francisco, where she spent a decade concentrating on her art in her studio in SOMA and exhibiting at galleries in the Bay Area. In 2015 she returned to San Diego and now works out of her studio in La Jolla, exhibiting there and in Los Angeles. Kat Flyn refers to herself as an Assemblage Sculptor and her works as Political Art or Protest Art. She separates herself from other assemblage artists in that she only employs “saved” as opposed to “found” objects in her work; and her pieces always have a political or cultural narrative to them rather than being surreal or abstract. She also constructs or refashions many of the pieces which she uses in her art, for example she turns a soft drink box into a tenement building in Affordable Housing 2017, a jewelry box into a wheelchair in Last Lily Foot 2016, an old shoe shine box...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

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Wood, Found Objects, Mixed Media

The Last Stand
Located in New Orleans, LA
assemblage sculpture: wood stadium-like stands with 13 hand-carved & painted people, 1 resin & wood figure, painted reversible wood carnival game clown with one side a smile and the reverse a frown, hand-painted wood flag...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

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Found Objects, Mixed Media

"Fiber Truck - Pride Edition", Full Color Spectrum in Dimensional Embroidery
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Fiber Truck - PHD Edition" is an original piece by Han Cao and is madecotton embroidery thread, plastic stitching canvas, painted wooden spools, acrylic display ca...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

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Thread, Found Objects, Canvas, Cotton, Plastic, Wood, Paint

"Smile Park, " Oil Pastel on Grocery Bag signed by Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Smile Park" is an original oil pastel drawing on a grocery bag by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece lower right and dated it on the back. It features fall foliage on the ...
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1990s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

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Oil Pastel, Found Objects

Compass
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: found aluminum cans, wire, Flashe paint Available in right and left orientations. Available in multiple color/finish options (inquire with gallery). Installations are made t...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

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Metal, Wire

Collective Liberation
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Collective Liberation is comprised of a photograph, acrylic paint and resin. The base materials for the work are a wooden paneled canvas that supports the adhesion of a rolled photog...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

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Resin, Found Objects, Acrylic, Wood Panel, Photographic Paper

Ghost Gear (diptych)
Located in New Orleans, LA
KX2 is a collaboration combining the strengths of artists and sisters Ruth Avra and Dana Kleinman who create mathematically inspired sculpture merging metal and painting. From a dist...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

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Enamel, Stainless Steel

Remington Rand A, Vintage Typewriter Machine Gun, conceptual wall sculpture
By Éric Nado
Located in Dallas, TX
Typewriter Machine Guns by Eric Nado - "Remington Rand A - Mitra Lettres" is created from very unusual material - a vintage typewriter. The series ...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

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Metal

Herbario de plantas artificiales. Expedición México (Floripondio)
By Alberto Baraya
Located in Mexico City, MX
Alberto Baraya’s work resonates within the relation men-science-nature, and deals more specifically with the aesthetics of the naturalists’s journeys and the concept of exotism. His practice involves long trips that replicate some of the mechanisms of Eurocentric colonization such as making inventories of nature or of the population’s physical features. On his work he re-contextualizes those methodologies highlighting the ideological and aesthetical choices which give them form. In the ongoing series Artificial Plant...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

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Found Objects, Cardboard, Pencil

"Lounging Reader" Oil Pastel Portrait on Grocery Bag signed by Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Lounging Reader" is an original oil pastel drawing on a Safeway grocery bag by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece lower right and signed & dated it on the verso. This piec...
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1990s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

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Oil Pastel, Found Objects

"American" Hand Crafted French Knot Embroidery on American Gothic Poster
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "American" is an original piece by Han Cao and is made hand embroidery on found vintage art print from 1979, with cotton and silk thread. This piece measures 25.25...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

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Thread, Found Objects, Photographic Paper

"Class War" Hidden Embroidered Text by Han Cao
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Class War" is an original piece by Han Cao and is made from hand embroidery on found vintage class photograph from 1958, with cotton and silk thread. This piece m...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

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Thread, Found Objects, Photographic Paper

Alight
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: aluminum (found cans), wire Available in multiple color/finish options (inquire with gallery). Installations are made to order, sizes and shapes of butterflies vary. Unique...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Stainless Steel

"No War But" Hidden Message in Cross Stitch Pattern on Vintage Photo
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "No War But is an original piece by Han Cao and is made from hand embroidery on found vintage class photograph from 1958, with cotton and silk thread. This piece m...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

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Thread, Found Objects, Photographic Paper

"Black Gold" Hand Embroidery on Vintage Oil Rig Postcard
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Black Gold" is an original piece by Han Cao and is made from hand embroidery on found vintage postcard from the 1940s, with cotton thread. This piece measures 16....
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

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Thread, Found Objects, Photographic Paper

"Great Texas Oil Fire" Hand Sewn and Embroidered Detail on Postcard
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Great Texas Oil Fire" is an original piece by Han Cao and is made from hand embroidery on a found antique postcard from the 1910s, with cotton thread. This piece m...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

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Thread, Found Objects, Photographic Paper

"Crumbelievable" Vintage Postcard with Statue of Liberty and Abstract Embroidery
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Crumbelievable" is an original piece by Han Cao and is made from hand embroidery on found vintage postcard from 1979, with cotton thread. This piece measures 11.2...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

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Thread, Found Objects, Postcard

Manifest Destiny
Located in New Orleans, LA
TONY DAGRADI is an internationally recognized jazz performer, artist, composer, author, and educator. For over three decades he has made his home in New Orleans, performing on tenor ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

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Paper, Varnish, Found Objects

Reach
Located in New Orleans, LA
Available in multiple color/finish options (inquire with gallery). Installations are made to order, sizes and shapes of butterflies vary. Unique, open edition. Ships with installation template and loaner tool kit. Installation can be arranged with JONATHAN FERRARA GALLERY. *Reach is a series of pieces with the same composition and butterfly elements. Variations in the materials (found aluminum cans) and in the finishes result in subtle differences making each Reach piece unique within the series. PAUL VILLINSKI has created studio and large-scale artworks for more than three decades. Villinski was born in York, Maine, USA, in 1960, son of an Air Force navigator. He has lived and worked in New York City since 1982. A scenic route through the educational system included stops at Phillips Exeter Academy and the Massachusetts College of Art, and a BFA with honors from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 1984. He lives with his partner, the painter Amy Park, and their son, Lark, in their studios in Long Island City, NY. His work has been included in numerous exhibitions nationally. A mid-career retrospective, “Farther,” is currently on view at The Taubman Museum of Art in Roanoke, VA, through July, 2018. Recent solo exhibitions include “Paul Villinski: Burst” at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, TX and “Passage: A Special Installation,” at the Blanton Museum, University of Texas, Austin. Recent group shows include “Material Transformations” at the Montgomery Museum of Art, Montgomery, AL; “Re: Collection,” at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY; “Making Mends,” at the Bellevue Museum of Arts, Bellevue, WA; and “Prospect .1,” an international Biennial in New Orleans, LA. “Emergency Response Studio,” a FEMA trailer transformed into an off-the-grid mobile artist’s studio, was the subject of a solo exhibition at Rice University Art Gallery, Houston, TX; the exhibition also travelled to Ballroom Marfa, in Marfa, TX; Wesleyan University’s Zilkha Gallery, Middletown, CT; and the trailer was featured in the New Museum’s “Festival of Ideas for the New City”, in New York, NY. Villinski’s work is widely collected, including major public works created by commission. “SkyCycles,” three full-scale “flying bicycles...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Metal, Wire

Rainbow Found Object Composition
Located in Astoria, NY
Elfi Schuselka (Austrian, b. 1940), Rainbow Found Object Composition, Mixed Media, dried paint and painted sticks on twine grid, apparently unsigned. 31.5" H x 32" W. Provenance: Fro...
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20th Century Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

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Textile, Found Objects, Acrylic

"Was Happy Cancelled?", Wall-Hanging Sculpture, Rainbow, Bright Colors, Smile
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This wall-hanging sculpture titled "Was Happy Cancelled?" is an original artwork by Kelly Kozma made of assorted & repurposed punched paper, hand-stitched ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

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Thread, Paper, Found Objects

Bus to Safe Harbor
Located in New Orleans, LA
"With the Supreme Court's repeal of Roe v. Wade many women & girls now have to travel across state lines to exercise their reproductive rights." KAT FLYN is a self-taught assemblage artist working presently out of San Diego. She began her career as a costume designer in Southern California. Over the years she amassed a trove of artifacts and collectables which she began using to create assemblage art in the 1990’s. In 2000 she sold her business and moved to Cuyamaca, a remote community in the mountains outside of San Diego to devote herself exclusively to her artwork. In 2003 her work was interrupted when the Cedar Fire swept through San Diego county and destroyed the forest, her home & studio along with almost all of her collections and works of art. Following the fire she relocated to San Francisco, where she spent a decade concentrating on her art in her studio in SOMA and exhibiting at galleries in the Bay Area. In 2015 she returned to San Diego and now works out of her studio in La Jolla, exhibiting there and in Los Angeles. Kat Flyn refers to herself as an Assemblage Sculptor and her works as Political Art or Protest Art. She separates herself from other assemblage artists in that she only employs “saved” as opposed to “found” objects in her work; and her pieces always have a political or cultural narrative to them rather than being surreal or abstract. She also constructs or refashions many of the pieces which she uses in her art, for example she turns a soft drink box...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Wood, Found Objects, Mixed Media

Noah s Slaughterhouse
Located in New Orleans, LA
assemblage sculpture: painted wood building refashioned out of an old seed box, constructed old wood toy boat to resemble the Ark, vintage carved & painted an...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

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Found Objects, Mixed Media

Vase with Roses, Honeysuckle, and Pheasant s Eye
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: reclaimed button-down, wire, floral tape, metal vase Born in 1971 in Cincinnati, Ohio, CARLTON SCOTT STURGILL received his Masters of Arts (Fine Art) from London’s Chelsea C...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Metal, Wire

Arrangement in Sunflowers, Anemones, and Cornflowers
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: reclaimed button-down shirts on birch plywood panel Born in 1971 in Cincinnati, Ohio, CARLTON SCOTT STURGILL received his Masters of Arts (Fine Art) from London’s Chelsea Co...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Metal, Wire

Found Objects art for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Found Objects art available on 1stDibs. While artists have worked in this medium across a range of time periods, art made with this material during the 21st Century is especially popular. If you’re looking to add art created with this material to introduce a provocative pop of color and texture to an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, orange, green, purple and other colors. There are many well-known artists whose body of work includes ceramic sculptures. Popular artists on 1stDibs associated with pieces like this include Reginald K. Gee, Katie VanVliet, Melisa Taylor Metzger, and Kat Flyn. Frequently made by artists working in the Contemporary, Abstract, all of these pieces for sale are unique and many will draw the attention of guests in your home. Not every interior allows for large Found Objects art, so small editions measuring 0.01 inches across are also available

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