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Medium: Found Objects
Clara - Voyant
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Clara - Voyant" is an original artwork made from paper, resin, and quartz on wood by Danielle Krysa. This piece is shipped with the pictured wooden frame and measu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Resin, Wood, Paper, Found Objects
Iron Candle
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Iron Candle" is an original needlepoint embroidery and vintage object artwork measuring approx. 9"h x 5"w x 4.5"d made by Ulla-Stina Wikander.
Ulla-Stina...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Thread, Found Objects
Jabón Azul. From The Composition with Tools series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The “Composition with Tools” series engages observers with quirky and playful truisms, gently leading them toward deeper reflections. Jose Ricardo Contreras...
Category
2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Found Objects, Acrylic, Oil
Grounding
By Kelly Kozma
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This sculpture titled "Grounding" is an original artwork by Kelly Kozma made of punched paper and photographs hand-stitched together with embroidery thread...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Metal
Cutting Machine
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This sculpture titled "Cutting Machine" is an original artwork by Ulla-Stina Wikander made of needlepoint embroidery and vintage object. This piece measures approximately approx. 11....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Textile, Thread, Found Objects
Right On
By Kelly Kozma
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This fabric work titled "Right On" is an original artwork by Kelly Kozma made of hand embroidery and collage on rag paper. The piece measures 13”h by 13”w framed.
Kelly Kozma is a m...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Fabric, Thread, Found Objects
Ten Milkweed Pods
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Ten Milkweed Pods" is an original artwork made from Plaster, acrylic paint pens, milk, relief on mulberry paper, and silverpoint, moun...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Plaster, Found Objects, Acrylic, Mulberry Paper
"Marginal Madonna" Abstract Relief with Rorschach Patterns Sculpture
Located in Soquel, CA
"Marginal Madonna" Abstract Relief Sculpture
Carved sculpture and painting by Mickey "Kano" Kane (American, 20th century). This large-scale relief sculpture features The central fig...
Category
1990s Other Art Style Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Resin, Found Objects, Acrylic, Wood Panel, Handmade Paper
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Baby
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This figurative painting titled "Baby" is an original artwork by André Schulze made of oil paint on a vintage found photograph. The piece measures 8"h x ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Oil, Found Objects, Photographic Paper
"Mind Your Manner" Abstract Relief Sculpture
Located in Soquel, CA
"Mind Your Manner" Abstract Relief Sculpture.
Carved sculpture and painting by Mickey "Kano" Kane (American, 20th century). This large-scal...
Category
1990s Outsider Art Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Resin, Acrylic, Wood Panel, Handmade Paper, Found Objects
"An Exact Record Of How It Happened", Green, Red, and White Sculpture
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This free-standing sculpture titled "An Exact Record Of How It Happened" is an original artwork by Jedediah Morfit made of plaster, paint, wax, thermoplastic, epoxy, wood, rope. This piece measures 33.25"h x 10"w x 14"d.
BIO Jedediah Morfit received his MFA in sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2005, where he was awarded the Sylvia Leslie Herman Young Scholarship and the Award Of Excellence. He was a Fellow at the Center For Emerging Visual Artists from 2007-2009, and received a New Jersey Council On the Arts Fellowship for sculpture in 2009. He received the Louise Kahn Award for Sculpture from the Woodmere Art Museum in 2006, and was awarded the Dexter Jones Award for Bas Relief from the National Sculpture Society in 2011 and 2012. In 2013, he was commissioned to create a series of new work for Artlantic:Wonder, which was named one of the 50 best...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Wood, Plaster, Paint, Wax, Epoxy Glue, Found Objects
"WAXED", Miniature paper and found object sculpture, rusted van, camper
By Drew Leshko
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This miniature paper sculpture titled "WAXED" is an original artwork by Drew Leshko made of inkjet prints, basswood, pastels, plastic, miniature flag on toy car. The artist is able to achieve the look of rust with his technique, in this sculpture featuring a VW van...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Plastic, Wood, Pastel, Found Objects, Inkjet
Soft Swirl
By Kelly Kozma
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This fibers, drawing, and sculptural work titled "Soft Swirl" is an original artwork by Kelly Kozma made of hand-embroidery, colored pencil, and acrylic paint on paper. The artist us...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Fabric, Thread, Found Objects
Squeaking By
By Kelly Kozma
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This fabric work titled "Squeaking By" is an original artwork by Kelly Kozma made of hand embroidery and photographs on paper. The piece measures 13”h by 13”w framed.
Kelly Kozma is...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Fabric, Thread, Found Objects
Dead of Night
By Kelly Kozma
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This fabric work titled "Dead of Night" is an original artwork by Kelly Kozma made of hand embroidery on paper. The piece measures 13”h by 13”w framed.
Kelly Kozma is a mixed media ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Fabric, Thread, Found Objects
Thinking About the Old Carpet
the Air Hockey Table
By Kelly Kozma
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This fabric work titled "Thinking About the Old Carpet & the Air Hockey Table" is an original artwork by Kelly Kozma made of hand embroidery and photographs...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Fabric, Thread, Found Objects
Patricia Miranda, Florilegium Series, 2016, cochineal dyes, antique books, pearl
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 Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Fabric, Thread, Plaster, Dye, Found Objects
"Flowering Ballerina" Artist-Repaired and Remixed Ceramic Sculptures
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This figurative sculpture titled "Flowering Ballerina" is an original artwork by Debra Broz made of secondhand ceramics and mixed media. The sculpture measu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Found Objects
Assembler Naranja N°1 and N°2. Abstract Mixed Media Wall Sculpture
Located in Miami Beach, FL
For many, rusty materials, pieces of glass or plastic fragments are not rubbish that should be left in the trash can.Finkelman's creative sensitivity has made these materials irrepla...
Category
2010s Minimalist Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Metal
Angel Delgado, ¨Halar la cadena¨, 2010, Silkscreen, 17.5x14.8 in
Located in Miami, FL
"Angel Delgado (Cuba, 1965)
'Halar la cadena', 2010
silkscreen on toilet cover
17.6 x 14.8 in. (44.5 x 37.5 cm.)
Edition of 10
ID: DEL-101"
Category
2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Found Objects, Screen
Vestiges spectrales II (texture, organic, biophilic, sand, pastels, mix-media)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
Vestiges spectrales II is a large-scale mixed-media painting on canvas that transforms the surface into a textured terrain where the visible and invisible intermingle. Built from lay...
Category
2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic
"Close Enough", Hand-Cut Paper Towel Sculpture, Text, Found Object, White
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This white wall-hanging artwork titled "Close Enough" is an original artwork by Rosa Leff made of hand-cut paper towel. This piece measures 12"h x 12"w fra...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Found Objects
Offerings
By Kelly Kozma
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This wall-hanging sculpture titled "Offerings" is an original artwork by Kelly Kozma made of credit card offer envelopes & assorted paper, hand-stitched together with embroidery thre...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Thread, Paper, Found Objects
"SOMEWHERE ELSE #2", Watercolor on Sal Leaf Plate, Black Frame, Green, Red, Tan
By Eva Ennist
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Eva Ennist, a mixed media and fiber artist, travels extensively through the Far East, gathering materials and techniques for her practice. The artwork "SOMETHING ELSE #2" uses materi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Naturalistic Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Watercolor, Organic Material, Wood, Found Objects, Mixed Media
"#70 – I AM TIRED", ink, pencil, gouache, collage, vintage, hemingway, poetry
By Amy Williams
Located in Toronto, Ontario
"#70 – I AM TIRED" is from Amy Williams' series "A Farewell to Arms" – wherein the artist works directly onto page 70 of a found copy of Ernest Hemingway'...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Paper, Found Objects, Ink, Gouache, Pencil
Margaret Roleke, Holy Torture, 2016, children
s toys, spray enamel, wood
Located in Darien, CT
In the body of work for “Child’s Play” Roleke has created diminutive worlds in which toys tell the story of consumption, consumerism, war, and the misuse of power and religion. The m...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Enamel
"Here We Go, Wait Where Are We" Layered Punched Paper in Abstract Composition
By Kelly Kozma
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This sculpture titled "Here We Go, Wait Where Are We" is an original artwork by Kelly Kozma as part of her newest exhibition, "Watch Me Backflip." This collection is made up of metic...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Found Objects, Acrylic, Panel, Paper
Richard Klein, iHop II, 2018, Found and altered objects assemblage
Located in Darien, CT
In the mid 1990s Richard Klein started working with found glass objects, including bottles, drinking glasses, ashtrays, and eyeglasses. Initially, Klein rejected any object with commercial or advertising content, but in 2015 he became fascinated with the promotional content that was screen printed on ashtrays from the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s. This period was before smoking was looked at as being primarily a negative habit, and iconic American businesses, including Howard Johnson’s, International House of Pancakes (iHop) and Holiday Inn, all produced promotional ashtrays printed with their graphic identity.
By the time Klein became interested in these objects, the businesses had either ceased to exist, or had changed their logos, and many of their signature buildings, which where examples of classic, “Pop” roadside architecture, has been torn down or repurposed. The artist wanted to connect the glass objects with the business’s sites that were still recognizable and spoke of their history, so he began researching where original buildings still stood.
Klein then embarked on a series of road trips to photograph these sites with the intention of combining the photographs with the promotional glass objects. This led him to as far south as Maryland and as far north as upstate New York from his home in Connecticut.
In the case of Holiday Inn, it wasn’t their buildings, but their iconic illuminated sign that appeared on ashtrays, so he sought out a standing example of the sign he could photograph.
As it turned out all had been removed years before from the hotels' properties and the only working example was indoors at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. He did, however, find out that there was one still standing, surprisingly, in Beruit, Lebanon. He found an image of it on the web and used it to make Holiday Inn (Beruit).
In 1973 Holiday Inn changed their tagline from “The Nations Innkeeper” to “The World’s Innkeeper” as they expanded overseas, including the Mideast. For the hotel chain it was bad timing: the disastrous Lebanese civil war began in 1975. In the war, the different Lebanese militias involved in the conflict, including the Nasserites, Christian Phalangists, and the Lebanese National Movement engaged in what came to be called “The Battle of the Hotels” where they each occupied a major high-rise hotel in central Beruit. The Phalangists commanded the Holiday Inn, which they used to fire with both light arms and heavier weapons at the militias in neighboring hotels.
Klein used the photo of the heavily damaged Holiday Inn sign as I thought it spoke in a curious, offhanded way about American cultural imperialism in juxtaposition with an ashtray that proclaimed Holiday Inn to be “The World’s Innkeeper.” In the work Holiday Inn (Nocturne) the artist utilized a found, 35mm slide of a Holiday Inn sign at night at an unknown location as the basis of the photograph in the work.
Richard Klein is a Connecticut-based artist, independent curator and writer. As an artist, he has exhibited widely, including the Neuberger Museum of Art at SUNY Purchase; Caren Golden Fine Art, New York; the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI; Hales Gallery, London; Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach, FL; deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA; James Barron Art, Kent, CT; The Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA), Portland, OR; Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA; Stephan Stoyanov Gallery, NY; Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY; Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT; Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY; Exhibit by Alberson Tulsa, OK; Incident Report/Flow Chart Foundation, Hudson, NY; ICEHOUSE Project Space, Sharon, CT; Kenise Barnes Fine Art in Kent, CT and with ODETTA Gallery at the Equity Gallery in New York City..
Reviews of his work have appeared in Two Coats of Paint, Whitehot Magazine, The New York Times, Sculpture Magazine, Art in America, and The New Yorker. In the summer of 2024 he will be the first Artist-In-Residence at Peck Ledge Light...
Category
2010s Assemblage Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Metal
Conny Goelz Schmitt "Flaming Buttress" Vintage Book Parts Sculpture
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 Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Found Objects
Conny Goelz Schmitt "Elsewhere in Space" Vintage Book Parts Sculpture
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 Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Found Objects
Hot Dog Man, Found Objects and Paper Mache by Kay Ritter
By Kay Ritter
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Kay Ritter
Title: Hot Dog Man
Medium: Papier-mache Figure Sculpture with Mixed Media Found Objects, signed
Year: 1981
Size: 48 x 16 x 15 in. (121.92 x ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Found Objects, Papier Mâché
Conny Goelz Schmitt "See Through" Vintage Book Parts Sculpture
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 Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Found Objects
Vestiges spectrales I (texture, organic, biophilic, sand, pastels, mix-media)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
Vestiges spectrales I is a large-scale mixed-media painting on canvas that conjures a ghostly seascape where traces of time and matter converge. Using collage, impasto, and embedded ...
Category
2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic
Assembler Violeta N: 3, and N: 1. Abstract Mixed Media Wall Sculpture
Located in Miami Beach, FL
For many, rusty materials, pieces of glass or plastic fragments are not rubbish that should be left in the trash can.Finkelman's creative sensitivity has made these materials irrepla...
Category
2010s Minimalist Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Metal
Assembler Violeta N° 1, 2 and 3 .Abstract Mixed Media Wall Sculpture
Located in Miami Beach, FL
For many, rusty materials, pieces of glass or plastic fragments are not rubbish that should be left in the trash can.Finkelman's creative sensitivity has made these materials irrepla...
Category
2010s Minimalist Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Metal
Conny Goelz Schmitt "Overhang" 2024, wall object of vintage book parts
Located in New York, NY
Overhang, 2024
wall object of vintage book parts
24 x 19 x 8 in.
(schm078)
"I create geometric collages, assemblages and sculptures with vintage book parts. My work is a never-endin...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Found Objects
Conny Goelz Schmitt "Flyover" Vintage Book Parts Sculpture
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 Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Found Objects
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Fabric, Thread, Plastic, Found Objects, Archival Paper, Photographic Pap...
Conny Goelz Schmitt "Out of This World" Vintage Book Parts Sculpture
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 Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Found Objects
"The Artist
s Floor" - Abstract Assemblage
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract expressionist assemblage with found objects typical of an artist's studio floor by Bay Area artist Michael Pauker (American, b. 1957). Applied paint brushes, caps and tubes of paint, a few letters, putty knife, with splashes of color on wood. Unsigned. From the collection of the artist's work. Unframed. Image size: 11.25"H x 25.75"W
Bay Area artist and art educator Michael Pauker was born in New York in 1957 and knew he wanted to be an artist from the age of 15. He earned a Bachelor’s in Fine Arts at SUNY Purchase in his native state of New York. In 1989 he went on to earn an M.F.A at Mills College in Oakland and was awarded the City of Oakland Artist Fellowship in Painting. He has been a Bay Area resident since 1988. His work has been exhibited widely across the U.S., as well as in Japan and Costa Rica, and is included in the collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
Exhibitions include:
2007 Contemporary Art Museum, San Jose, Costa Rica
2007 “The Ebay Art Project,” Works/San Jose, San Jose, CA
2003 “Found Imagery: The Art of Collage,” Fresno Art Museum,Fresno, CA
2003 “Cut, Copy, Paste,” De Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, CA
2003 “20th Annual Exhibition,” Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
2002 “40 by 40...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Glass, Plastic, Paper, Found Objects, Wood Panel, Wood, Oil
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Liz Sweibel, Untitled (Scrapings #10), 2016, Wood, Paint, Found Objects
By Liz Sweibel
Located in Darien, CT
The freestanding sculptures in this portfolio are made from the “sticks”: a pile of found wood that Sweibel has been pulling from to make new works since about 2002. The pile consisted of more than a dozen four- to seven-foot lengths of hardwood, each an uneven inch in depth and width. The sticks were warped, with worn yellow paint on one side and raw wood on the other three. Over the years she has painted the raw sides of the sticks, cut the wood into shorter lengths, and sliced paint off – and kept the residue from these actions. Sweibel has also made sculptures ranging from full-length sticks to tiny stick splinters. She built these sculptures using sliced-off paint.
Timeworn materials and objects have an intelligence that the artist looks for and listens to. Shaping and reshaping material to find new form and elicit new insights in the material itself is the territory she is mining. The limitations of the process are its strengths. Her work is concerned with fragility, precariousness, adaptability, and strength. It is a visual response to powerful yet unseen forces - like wind and thoughts - that threaten, propel, ruin, and protect.
Liz Sweibel is a multidisciplinary artist working in drawing, sculpture, installation, and digital photography and video. Her spare, personal language of abstraction transforms ordinary materials into statements about connectedness and responsibility: every action has an impact, the effects persist in space and over time, and we are accountable. By drawing attention to simple, ordinary “stuff of life” and referencing both shared and personal history, Sweibel’s work explores and reflects back fundamental experiences in response to our world and relationships. Her intention is to reinvigorate viewers’ awareness of the everyday – in its raw beauty and precariousness – in hopes that they might bring heightened senses of sight and care to their daily lives.
Sweibel has participated in solo, two-person, and group exhibits in New York, Massachusetts, Maine, Connecticut, Michigan, and Tennessee since 1998. In 2016, Sweibel’s work was in the group shows Lightly Structured at Sculpture Space NYC, Precarious Constructs at the Venus Knitting Art...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Wood, Paint, Found Objects
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 Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Wood, Paint, Found Objects
“Untitled”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original mixed media painting attributed to the French artist, Yvon Prevel. Composed of painted rope with oil paint and found wooden painted pieces attached to a painted wooden backi...
Category
1980s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Canvas, Found Objects, Oil
“Untitled”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original mixed media painting by the French artist, Yvon Prevel. Composed of painted fabric applied to canvas on a wooden stretcher. Signed verso and dated 1987. Condition is excel...
Category
1980s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Canvas, Found Objects, Oil
“Untitled”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original mixed media painting attributed to the French artist, Yvon Prevel. Composed of painted rope with oil paint attached to a textured painted canvas on a wooden stretcher. Uns...
Category
1980s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Canvas, Found Objects, Oil
Can Man (Make Graffiti Fun Again), animatronic dancing spray can, black
gray
By NTEL
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Animatronic spray can sculpture by NTEL that dances and shakes its hips when plugged in. Made with felt, polymer and acrylic and includes cardboard black and silver brick wall. Gen...
Category
2010s Street Art Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Felt, Found Objects, Acrylic, Polymer
"#51 – WE THINK", ink, pencil, gouache, vintage book page, hemingway, poetry
By Amy Williams
Located in Toronto, Ontario
"#51 – WE THINK" is from Amy Williams' series "A Farewell to Arms" – wherein the artist works directly onto page 51 of a found copy of Ernest Hemingway's ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Paper, Found Objects, Ink, Gouache, Pencil
USA (The Sciences): Abstract Colored Pencil
Postage Stamp
Located in Hudson, NY
USA (The Sciences), 2019 : Abstract Colored Pencil & Postage Stamp by Andrea Moreau
11" X 11" paper size
colored pencil and postage stamp on paper
15 x 15 x 1 inches framed
This co...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Found Objects, Archival Paper, Color Pencil
Feather Wall Art, Circular Nature-Inspired Tree Rings, Autumnal Palette, 2019
Located in San Francisco, CA
"Growth Rings II" by Spanish artist Henar Iglesias is a one of a kind circular shaped abstract partridge and magpie feather and gold leaf work. The uniqueness of Growth Rings lies in...
Category
2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Animal Skin, Organic Material, Found Objects
"Cordial", wallpaper, spray paint, aunt
s pearls, crystal, red resin, on board
Located in Toronto, Ontario
“Cordial“ is a wall relief panel by artist Heather Nicol, and measures 16x19x4“. Part of a body of work known as Brief Lives, this particular piece is comprised of wallpaper, spray paint, wood, the artist's aunt's pearls, crystal and red resin (solid), mounted on board. It fixes to the wall with a custom-fit wooden cleat. Reflecting on domestic materials and their relationships to display and social identity, Cordial celebrates and questions feminist reclamation, nostalgic tenderness and the histories embedded in the objects, while carrying on their aesthetic traditions through transformation into works of art.
Heather Nicol is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice includes immersive sound installation, small-scale discrete object making, and independent curating. Her large site-specific interventions explore the architectural, sonic, historic and operational conditions across a wide range of locations. These include concourse atriums, rail terminus, lobbies, a theatre, a public school building, a theme...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Assemblage Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Glass, Wood, Found Objects, Board, Resin, Spray Paint
Red and Green African Rusted Metal Composition "Green Wood Star"
Located in Cape Town, ZA
Nyasha Mashumba, having been the apprentice of Mark Hilltout, has now carved out a career for himself as artist and designer, utilizing the medium and craft he has mastered over the ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Metal, Steel, Iron
“Pen Decline 1 - 2 - 3 in Black” (Archeology series) Computer Keyboard Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
Daniel Fiorda in this new series of sculptures, continues in many ways the themes that have infused his previous work. For the last several years, Fiorda has dealt with technology, obsolescence, with the trail of discarded tech that humanity leaves behind and what it says about us. The new work takes this thematic one step further. These new wall pieces feature barely concealed found objects, almost fully engulfed by concrete, and yet still eerily discernible: industrial gears, computer keyboards, objects that evoke industrial post-digital eras. This piece is a set of 3 artworks...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Concrete
Portal II
Located in New Orleans, LA
Peyton Pickenpaugh says of her work…
In my work, I explore the hidden histories of women, feminist reinterpretations of myth, and the spiritual resonance of materiality. Through lay...
Category
2010s Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Fabric, Wood, Found Objects
Jo Yarrington, Orchestrations, 2016, Found Objects, Plexiglass
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...
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2010s Post-Minimalist Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Plexiglass, Found Objects
Republique du Congo (Wind): Pastel Blue Colored Pencil Drawing
Plane Stamp
Located in Hudson, NY
Detailed sky blue colored pencil landscape drawing of postage stamp with red plane
'Republique du Congo (Wind)' made by Andrea Moreau in 2012
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Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Found Objects, Archival Paper, Color Pencil
Yemen (Coffee Plant): Green Abstract Colored Pencil Drawing, Framed
Located in Hudson, NY
Green Abstract figurative drawing on paper with found postage stamp
'Yemen (Coffee Plant)' by Andrea Moreau, 2012
colored pencil and postage stamp on pape...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Found Objects, Archival Paper, Color Pencil
Pig
By Leo Sewell
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Leo Sewell (b. 1945) is an American "found object" artist. His assemblages of recycled material are in over 40 museums and in private collections worldwide. Sewell was born in Anna...
Category
20th Century Folk Art Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Found Objects
$9,800
Scottie
By Leo Sewell
Located in Greenwich, CT
Leo Sewell (b. 1945) is an American "found object" artist. His assemblages of recycled material are in over 40 museums and in private collections worldwide.
Sewell was born in Annap...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Found Objects, Mixed Media
$7,000
"Wrong Side of the Tracks" - Mixed Media Figurative Landscape Collage
Located in Soquel, CA
Mixed media figurative landscape collage of pen & ink, photographs and drawing titled "Wrong Side of Tracks" by California artist Arn Ghigliazza (American, b. 1937), 2009. Titled and...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Paper, Found Objects, Ink, Magazine Paper, Pen
“Pen Decline 1 - 2 - 3 in White” (Archeology series) Computer Keyboard Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
Daniel Fiorda in this new series of sculptures, continues in many ways the themes that have infused his previous work. For the last several years, Fiorda has dealt with technology, obsolescence, with the trail of discarded tech that humanity leaves behind and what it says about us. The new work takes this thematic one step further. These new wall pieces feature barely concealed found objects, almost fully engulfed by concrete, and yet still eerily discernible: industrial gears, computer keyboards, objects that evoke industrial post-digital eras. This piece is a set of 3 artworks that showcases a black computer keyboard on a white background and they can be arranged for display in a variety of layouts. They come ready to hang with hanging hardware and they are signed by the artist on verso.
Art measures 8.75 x 8.75 x 1.25 in (each)
The overall sense is dystopian rather than apocalyptic. In Fiorda’s previous work, found objects were displayed as if unearthed from a bed of clay by a tacit anthropologist, perhaps decades into the future. A typewriter would be partially buried by dry soil and weathered by the passing of time. The underlying narrative was that of a future civilization unearthing the objects left by ours. Destruction or extinction was implied. In the new work, the obsolete technology is not found but rather engulfed by a new technology. Concrete, as a material and as a technology, has the capabilities to fully encase and envelope. In Fiorda’s new work, uniformity and the appropriation of old/new technology into new structures suggests a historical and technological challenge right around the corner, mirroring the ones in our recent past: the digital age fully replacing the analog world. These astounding sculptures, with embedded objects, are here to examine closely, and make connections between theme, material, and shape.
Daniel Fiorda was born in 1963 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Of Italian ancestry, his lineage includes a grandfather highly respected as a wood craftsman, also his father was a craftsman in addition to being a musician and poet. Because a privileged life was not his, there was no university for Fiorda. In the Old World tradition of passing on knowledge from parent to child, he learned about machinery form his father, who recognized his son's talent and encouraged it. With some private tutoring, he began sculpting in high school using found objects.
The press reviews of his first exhibit, at age 20, stated that Fiorda had a definite “poetic feeling”. With this encouragement, he continued to pursue his art. After leaving Argentina, he arrived in Miami Beach via a circuitous route and set up his studio in the South Florida Art Center. He has exhibited widely throughout the US including the OK Harris Gallery, Allan Stone Gallery in New York as well as the Heriard Cimino Gallery in New Orleans, Lélia Mordoch Gallery in Paris France and Lilac Gallery in New York City. Daniel was one of the winners in the 7th Annual Sculptures Competition (2003) held at Washburn University in Topeka , Kansas.
Selected on the inaugural 2006 Palm Beach International Sculpture Biennale, and exhibited for the 3rd time in Sculpture Key West. He is an alumni Artist of ArtCenter/South Florida. Two Pieces from his “Convertible Couch projects...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects
Materials
Concrete
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