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Medium: Found Objects
"Cream Wall Phone", Fruit still life embroidery covering
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Cream Wall Phone" is an original piece by Ulla-Stina Wikander that can be wall-mounted or be free standing. This piece is made from sourcing vintage needlepoint embroidery and exper...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Thread, Found Objects, Textile
Cabinet of Curiosities - Contemporary salvaged wood found objects Sculpture
Located in DE
Lesley Hilling is a self-taught English artist known for her intricate constructions made entirely from salvaged wood and found objects. Her work reflects a deep connection to the pa...
Category
2010s Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Found Objects
Girl / Boy (diptych)
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Girl / Boy (diptych)" is an original artwork by Hyland Mather made of lost objects, acrylic, aerosol, abandoned papers, laser engraving, string, nails, wood box frame measuring appr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Thread, Wood, Paper, Found Objects, Acrylic, Engraving
"Edwards" - Found Object Assemblage Robot Sculpture, 2025
By David Lipson
Located in Denver, CO
David Lipson's "Edwards" (2025) is a striking found-object assemblage sculpture that reimagines mechanical components into a humanoid form. Standing 26.5 inches tall, this meticulously crafted piece fuses vintage industrial elements, including a repurposed electrical meter as the torso, metallic coils forming the limbs, and canisters elegantly supporting the figure. The sculpture embodies a nostalgic yet futuristic aesthetic, reminiscent of early robotics and steampunk influences.
David Lipson assembles robot sculptures...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects, Mixed Media
"We
re All Just Taller Children"Artist Self Portrait in Acrylic
Colored Pencil
By Kelly Kozma
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This sculpture titled "We're All Just Taller Children" is an original artwork by Kelly Kozma made of colored pencil, ink & acrylic on paper, wood, chain and handmade origami wishing ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects, Acrylic, Wood, Paper, Ink, Color Pencil
American Surrealist pipes and playing cards spirit of Magritte abstract Montage
Located in Norwich, GB
I love this extraordinary American surrealist piece - a collage/montage, an assembly of objects in a velvet-clad box/frame - for a number of reasons reasons.
I love the fact that it depicts pipes, among the most iconic images of the surrealist movement, rooted in Magritte’s famous 1929 painting which depicts a pipe accompanied by the caption “Ceci n'est pas une pipe” (This is not a pipe). Marcel Duchamp loved using pipes...
Category
1930s Surrealist Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Clay, Glass, Paper, Found Objects, Wood
"Fault Lines: Bantam #B8", Found Object Sculpture, Egg Motif
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Fault Lines: Bantam #B8" is an original piece by Kate VanVliet and is made from eggshells, mica, and PVA. This piece measures 2”h x 1.5”w x 1.5”d and ships with th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Glue, Found Objects, Mica, Organic Material
Noir - Contemporary salvaged wood Sculpture
Located in DE
Lesley Hilling is a self-taught English artist known for her intricate constructions made entirely from salvaged wood and found objects. Her work reflects a deep connection to the pa...
Category
2010s Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Found Objects
"Fault Lines: Bantam #B10", Found Object Sculpture, Egg Motif
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Fault Lines: Bantam #B10" is an original piece by Kate VanVliet and is made from eggshells, mica, and PVA. This piece measures 2”h x 1.5”w x 1.5”d and ships with t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Glue, Found Objects, Mica, Organic Material, Acrylic
Memo (Twilight)
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: aluminum (found cans), wire, blue Flashe paint
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 bicycles...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Wire
Persephone
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 Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Fabric, Wood, Found Objects
"Crossing Paths: Sunset" Hand-Crafted Origami Stars in Wall-Hanging Sculpture
By Kelly Kozma
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This sculpture titled "Crossing Paths: Sunset" is an original artwork by Kelly Kozma as part of her newest exhibition, "Watch Me Backflip." This collection is made up of meticulously...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Song from my Father by Lesley Hilling - Contemporary salvaged wood Sculpture
Located in DE
This tower is a deeply personal piece for Lesley Hilling, dedicated to the memory of her father, Pete Hilling (1926–2016), and men like him—those who worked with their hands, repaire...
Category
2010s Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Found Objects
"Badass with a Needle"
By Kelly Kozma
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This sculpture titled "Badass with a Needle" is an original artwork by Kelly Kozma as part of her newest exhibition, "Watch Me Backflip." This exhibition is made up of meticulously ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Paper, Found Objects, Acrylic, Panel
Two Hours at the Beach
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
During the spring of 2011, Columbia fiber and installation artist Susan Lenz spent a mere two hours along South Carolina’s coastline coll...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media, Found Objects
"Mustard Wall Phone", Vintage needlepoint embroidery covering telephone cradle
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Mustard Wall Phone" is an original piece by Ulla-Stina Wikander that can be wall-mounted or be free standing. This piece is made from sourced vintage needlepoint embroidery and expe...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Thread, Found Objects, Textile
Highly conceptual mixed media wall sculpture Contemporary Cat charm rabbit foot
Located in Buffalo, NY
No Fear (Trapper Keeper)
UV print on aluminum, chain, jewelry, keychain, sticker,
Croc Jibbitz, rabbit’s foot, Tamagotchi
18x48”
2019
$975
Eternal Flame i...
Category
2010s Conceptual Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Metal
"TV", needlepoint woman on horseback wrapped around vintage television with plug
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"TV" is an original piece by Ulla-Stina Wikander is a free standing sculpture. This piece is made from sourcing vintage needlepoint embroidery featuring a woman on vintage television...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Thread, Found Objects, Textile
Sweet Confection Finale, John Garrett, 2023, Wall Hanging Installation Sculpture
By John Garrett
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Metal
"Beach-Combed Mochaware, " Mixed Media Sculpture
Located in Chicago, IL
Based in Chicago, IL, contemporary artist Michael Thompson creates unique kites, collages and mixed media works assembled from material fragments of past and present collected in his travels. In his ongoing series of memory jugs, Thompson adorns stoneware vessels with a kaleidoscope of ceramic shards, found objects, and pocket-sized trinkets he collected over the course of his life.
Also known as forget-me-not jugs or spirit jars, memory jugs are African American folk art objects that honor a loved one who has recently passed. Small tokens and mementos of the deceased are gathered and affixed to the exterior of a jug or vase, an abundance of memories that celebrates a life lived to the fullest.
Michael Thompson applies this tradition to his own practice, creating tactile assemblages of this and that. Formed in the manner of collage, each jug honors the lost memories of generations past and his own memories of personally discovering each item. With varied sources for materials including Kyoto, Turkey, and Mexico, a great number of the found shards are 18th and 19th century ceramics...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Stone
"Crossing Paths: Rainbow I" Hand-folded and Threaded Origami Stars Wall-Hanging
By Kelly Kozma
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This sculpture titled "Crossing Paths: Rainbow I" is an original artwork by Kelly Kozma as part of her newest exhibition, "Watch Me Backflip." This collection is made up of meticulou...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Metal
"J.P.
s Trip", Abstract Patterns, Geometric Abstraction, Woodcut Monoprint
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "J.P.'s Trip" is an original piece by Alexis Nutini and is made from a woodcut and and found object stencil monoprint mounted on panel ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects, Panel, Monoprint, Woodcut, Paper
Vintage 1970s Pop Art Americana Patriotic American Flag Denim Jeans Hand Sewn
By Jean Jacques de la Verriere
Located in Surfside, FL
Pop Art American Flag in Handsewn Patchwork Denim.
I had another with a label from OK Harris Gallery verso. This one does not have that label or the label Label from Pratt verso (Pratt MFA '75)
Not positive of the year
Hand signed
Genre: Modern
Medium: Denim Jean Textile Fabric, Mixed Media
Country: United States
Dimensions: 14 X 28 inches
This is a textile wall hanging tapestry "painting" made from vintage jeans.
JJ had a masters (MFA) from Prat and studied at Hunter college for many years. He was a master jeweler and goldsmith for 50 years, a musician and a photographer. He made a living working with photography, jewelry, bronze sculpture and antique restoration. An artwork in denim fabric by a French Post War & Contemporary artist living in New York City, Jean de la Verrière, An untrained, art brut, 'outsider' artist, now 85. He sold some of his denim patriotic flag works through OK Harris gallery in Soho in the 1980s, one went directly to Ralph Lauren, according to the artist. He is also known for sculpture. particularly his working model, fully functional guillotine sculptures. Artist says he was influenced by Pop Art particularly Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns works. He was in the New York art world along with his artist friends Bernar Venet, Arman and Claude Gillie. He fabricated and cast jewelry for some of his friends. This has a Sterling Ruby feel to it but was done a generation earlier. This is assembled like a quilt and was influenced by early American folk art. Jean Jacques De La...
Category
20th Century Pop Art Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Cotton, Cotton Canvas, Found Objects, Mixed Media
"Pink Kobra", Floral needlepoint embroidery wrapped around vintage rotary phone
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Pink Kobra" is an original piece by Ulla-Stina Wikander as a free standing sculpture. This piece is made from sourced cherry blossom tree vintage needlepoint embroidery and expertly...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Thread, Found Objects, Textile
"How Does My Hair Look?" Assembled hair scrunchies, vibrant, synthetic fibers
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"How does my hair look?" is an original piece by Sarah Detweiler made from scrunchies, synthetic hair, and yarn. This piece measures 32" diameter.
Detweiler has found catharsis and joy in recalling her own experiences as a child of the 80s and a teen of the 90s, during what seemed like a simpler time. Likewise, the "Memory Palace" collection offers a reprieve from the strange and complex reality of life in the 21st Century, for adults and children alike, inviting viewers to fall “down the rabbit hole” into a warped reimagination of vignettes from Detweiler’s youth.
The exhibition title refers to a mnemonic memorization technique known as the “Method of Loci” through which information is retained and retrieved by conscious mental association with a specific physical location. In the context of Detweiler’s work, each painting, object, and installation functions as a “room” in the artist’s “memory palace,” with specific memories encapsulated therein. The visual representations of Detweiler’s memories are skewed from reality, like the memories themselves, from super-sized silly putty to hand-stitched static from the late-night glow of a television set.
About Sarah Detweiler
Sarah Detweiler is a Philadelphia area-based visual artist translating her experiences into figurative and narrative mixed media paintings. She has a BFA in Visual Communications from University of Delaware and a master's degree in Art Therapy from Pratt.
Sarah is an award-winning artist who has shown her work in solo and group exhibitions in galleries across the country and virtually. She exhibits regularly at Paradigm Gallery in Philadelphia where she has had 2 sold out solo exhibitions. Her work has also been seen on television and film...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Textile, Synthetic, Yarn, Found Objects
"Matrescence" found textiles, animalia, patterns, fabric, wall hanging
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Matrescence" is an original artwork by Crystal Stokowski and is made from upcycled mixed media. This piece measures 16” diameter.
About Space 1026...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Fabric, Found Objects
Bronze Sculpture, Brass, Metal, Iron found objects by Indian Artist "In stock"
By Narayan Sinha
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Narayan Sinha - Ganesha - 30 x 14 x 4 inches
Brass, Iron, Metal and Found Objects.
The artist uses discarded materials such as automobile parts, utensils, latches, locks, keys, wood, nuts and metal scrap to create sculptures and installations that tell the story.
Style : For sculptor, Narayan Sinha, art is all about celebrating beauty. Sinha is mostly known for his installations created with junk automobile parts, metal drums, fuel tanks of kerosene stoves...
Category
2010s Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Brass, Iron
Diary 2 by John Garrett, 2017, Mixed Media Wall Hanging Sculpture, Contemporary
By John Garrett
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Fabric, Plaster, Wood, Found Objects, Mixed Media, Other Medium
"WELCOME TO MY BOOK COLLECTION" Vibrant Assemblage, Still life sculpture
By Jim Houser
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "WELCOME TO MY BOOK COLLECTION" is an original artwork by Jim Houser and is made of assembled objects. This piece measures approximately 2...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects, Acrylic
"Forager" Single day found object assemblages, copper, wood, wax, stone, paper
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Mixed media, collage. This piece titled "Forager" is an original artwork made from mixed media: cut prints, maquettes and single day sculptures, found objects in vintage frame by Katie VanVliet. This piece measures 24"h x 60"w x 4"d. This piece was debuted during the artist's solo exhibition, "Forager" displayed at Awbury Arboretum.
Katie VanVliet (she/her) is a sculptor and printmaker practicing from her home studio in Elkins Park...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects, Mixed Media, Color
Lady Gaga
By Pablo Cano
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
This Lady Gaga marionette sculpture is made of found objects in Pablo Cano's signature style. Some of the elements include: plastic bowl, a metal candy dish, soda cans plastic credit cards, and a potato masher among other found objects.
Born in Havana, Cuba in 1961, Pablo Cano was on the last flight out of the country before the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. He has since been a resident of Miami’s Little Havana, and is regarded by art patrons and critics alike as one of Florida’s premier contemporary fine artists.
Since childhood, marionettes have fascinated Pablo. At the age of ten, he was mounting elaborate plays for his family featuring puppets constructed of household bric-a-brac. His primary work today continues to center around the marionettes that he fashions from found objects, and the performance pieces he composes to showcase these protagonists.
Cano reveals, “I create a dream world where inanimate objects come to life – springing from my imagination in the Surrealist tradition. But my work is founded on Dada ideals. The Dadaists used chance, spontaneity, and childlike innocence in order to create their statement. Their intention, as is mine, was to break with tradition and painting technique and to return to the elemental basics of art; to start from scratch; to allow the process of imagination to unfold and begin anew each time I create.”
Influences from the color palette of Russian Constructivist Alexandra Exter...
Category
2010s Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects
$5,600 Sale Price
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Conny Goelz Schmitt "Coast To Coast" 2024, wall object of vintage book parts
Located in New York, NY
Conny Goelz Schmitt
Coast To Coast, 2024
wall object of vintage book parts
26 x 20 x 6 in.
(schm080)
"I create geometric collages, assemblages and sculptures with vintage book parts...
Category
2010s Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects
"LA ROC Cat Woman" Decorated Graffiti Street Art Mannequin Bust Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful street art, abstract Mannequin Bust decorated by artist Angel Ortiz. Here we find this stylish bust figure with the artist signature tag...
Category
2010s Pop Art Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects, Spray Paint, Acrylic
"Orange Kobra", needlepoint embroidery, vintage telephone
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Yellow Kobra" is an original piece by Ulla-Stina Wikander as a free standing sculpture. This piece is made from sourced forest landscape vintage needlepoint embroidery and expertly ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Thread, Found Objects, Textile
Chiaroscuro
Located in New Orleans, LA
Paul Villinski's "Chiaroscuro" incorporates his signature butterfly motif with a found antique frame. This unique piece dazzles with its shimmering gold leaf finish, with the bespoke...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Wire, Gold Leaf
"Wedding Boar", Taxidermy, Sculpture, Dimensional Paint, Puff Paint, Dot Pattern
By PJ Linden
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This pink, blue and green artwork titled "Wedding Boar" is an original sculpture on found object (taxidermy wild boar head) by PJ Linden measuring 20”h x 27”...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Paint, Found Objects
Ubik by Lesley Hilling - Contemporary salvaged wood Sculpture
Located in DE
This piece gradually transitions in tone from white through grey into black, creating a delicate and intricate structure that houses small artifacts of memory. The found objects and ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Found Objects
"Caress of Water, " Mixed Media Sculpture
Located in Chicago, IL
Based in Chicago, IL, contemporary artist Michael Thompson creates unique kites, collages and mixed media works assembled from material fragments of past and present collected in his...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Stone
"Bouquet, " Mixed Media Sculpture
Located in Chicago, IL
Based in Chicago, IL, contemporary artist Michael Thompson creates unique kites, collages and mixed media works assembled from material fragments of past and present collected in his travels. In his ongoing series of memory jugs, Thompson adorns stoneware vessels with a kaleidoscope of ceramic shards, found objects, and pocket-sized trinkets he collected over the course of his life.
Also known as forget-me-not jugs or spirit jars, memory jugs are African American folk art objects that honor a loved one who has recently passed. Small tokens and mementos of the deceased are gathered and affixed to the exterior of a jug or vase, an abundance of memories that celebrates a life lived to the fullest.
Michael Thompson applies this tradition to his own practice, creating tactile assemblages of this and that. Formed in the manner of collage, each jug honors the lost memories of generations past and his own memories of personally discovering each item. With varied sources for materials including Kyoto, Turkey, and Mexico, a great number of the found shards are 18th and 19th century ceramics...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Stone
High Density by Lesley Hilling - Contemporary salvaged wood Sculpture
Located in DE
About the Artist:
Lesley Hilling is a self-taught English artist known for her intricate constructions made entirely from salvaged wood and found objects. Her work reflects a deep c...
Category
2010s Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Found Objects
Waiting to Exhale, Accumulation Cigar Sculpture by Arman
Located in Long Island City, NY
A unique sculpture by the French artist, Arman. This collection of world-class cigars encased in clear resin is a quintessential piece from Arman's 'Accumulations' period in which he...
Category
1990s Modern Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Epoxy Resin, Mixed Media, Found Objects
Biography of a Drive-By: wall sculpture by Black African-American artist
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This is a two-part wall mounted painting / sculpture this integrates found objects and photographs into an acrylic painting on the top, and a wooden shelf with bullet casings and coins below. This is a conceptual, abstract work of art that is a powerful homage to lives lost through calculated gun violence in American cites. signed by the artist.
PROVENANCE: Exhibited in "Portals + Revelations: Richard J. Watson," the African American Museum in Philadelphia, Oct 2021 - Mar 2022.
"Most of my works are supported by memories of the past and suggested realities. Issues of social politics, ancestral references, and astral projections are presented with fragmented elements...
Category
2010s Abstract Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic, Panel, Found Objects, Mixed Media
"Egg Canoes: Duck #12-15", Found Object Sculptures, Egg Motif
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Egg Canoes: Duck #12-15" is an original piece by Kate VanVliet and is made from eggshell, mica, 3-D printed PETG, acrylic, and pine. This piece measures 4”h x 10”w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Found Objects, Acrylic, Mica, Organic Material
"Petroleum Bubble Sunsets" Custom ALIFE sneakers, Abstract dimensional paint
By PJ Linden
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Petroleum Bubble Sunsets (pair)" is an original artwork by PJ Linden and is made from dimensional paint on ALIFE Leather Suede Sneakers. This piece measures 6.5"h x 8.5'w 11"d each shoe.
Linden uniquely refines the use of non-traditional mediums, such as the kitschy, dimensional fabric paint, oft-referred to as puff paint, seeking to transfigure the biological into the supernatural, as filtered through the prism of a consumerist culture predicated upon the synthetic and the mass-produced.
Born 1985 Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. PJ Linden is a New York City and Pennsylvania-based fine artist known for her abstract, three-dimensional work. She paints with machine-like precision, creating microscopic patterns on found objects, fashion, and technology. Linden got her start working with Patricia Field, creating custom, one-of-a-kind art and fashion under the name Wonderpuss Octopus. At Field's iconic, namesake boutique, Linden's work caught the eye of celebrity clients including Beyonce, Willow Smith, Kelly Osborne, and Solange Knowles...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Leather, Paint, Found Objects, Textile
"Egg Canoes: Duck, Duck, Goose", Found Object Sculpture, Egg Motif
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Egg Canoes: Duck, Duck, Goose" is an original piece by Kate VanVliet and is made from eggshell, mica, 3-D printed PETG, acrylic, and pine. This piece measures 4”h ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Found Objects, Acrylic, Mica
"Pelvic Pelt" Abstract, dimensional paint on found object
By PJ Linden
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Pelvic Pelt" is an original artwork by PJ Linden and is made from dimensional paint on found object. This piece measures 22”h x 25”w x 6”d.
Born 1985 Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. PJ Linden is a New York City and Pennsylvania-based fine artist known for her abstract, three-dimensional work. She paints with machine-like precision, creating microscopic patterns on found objects, fashion, and technology. Linden got her start working with Patricia Field, creating custom, one-of-a-kind art and fashion under the name Wonderpuss Octopus. At Field's iconic, namesake boutique, Linden's work caught the eye of celebrity clients including Beyonce, Willow Smith, Kelly Osborne, and Solange Knowles...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Paint, Found Objects
Catching Blessings: shadow box painting
collage w/ figures
found objects
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This is a shadow box construction approx. 13" x 9" x 2.5" with painted and collaged materials including historic photographs of Black figures and other found objects. Encased in a dark wood frame under glass. It is signed and dated along the lower edge.
PROVENANCE: Exhibited in "Portals + Revelations: Richard J. Watson," the African American Museum in Philadelphia, Oct 2021 - Mar 2022.
"Most of my works are supported by memories of the past and suggested realities. Issues of social politics, ancestral references, and astral projections are presented with fragmented elements...
Category
2010s Abstract Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects, Acrylic, Glass
"Wire Songs", Contemporary, Mixed Media, Sculpture, Plied Wire, Aluminum, Metal
By John Garrett
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Wire
"A FLATNESS IN THE EYES", Assemblage Wall-Hanging, Found Objects, Threat, Paint
By Jim Houser
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This artwork "A FLATNESS IN THE EYES" is an original assemblage artwork by Jim Houser. Incorporating various dimensional elements and techniques, such as painting and found objects, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Thread, Found Objects, Acrylic
"Superpowers" Hand embroidery, Collage, and Embellished Paper by Kelly Kozma
By Kelly Kozma
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This fabric work titled "Superpowers" is an original artwork by Kelly Kozma made of hand embroidery, stickers, glitter paper and acrylic paint on paper. The piece measures 13”h by 13...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Fabric, Thread, Found Objects
Surreal Contemporary Figurative Mixed-Media Sculpture Found-Object American
Located in Buffalo, NY
One of a kind mixed-media sculpture by Philip Kuznicki from the Spirit exhibition. Comes in its original frame. Born in Dunkirk NY, Kuznicki started his career working for artists su...
Category
2010s Surrealist Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects, Mixed Media
Death of a Spirit Guide
By Kat Flyn
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 Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Found Objects, Mixed Media
Contemporary, Mixed Media, Hanging, Sculpture, Wood, Metal, Glass, Found Objects
By John Garrett
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Contemporary, Mixed Media, Hanging, Sculpture, Wood, Metal, Glass, Found Objects
By John Garrett
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Steel
“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 Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Concrete
"Vagabond", Miniature Paper and Found object Sculpture, Rusted Camper Truck
By Drew Leshko
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This miniature paper sculpture titled "Vagabond" is an original artwork by Drew Leshko made of paper, PVC, basswood, acrylic, enamel, pastel, watercolor, inkjet prints, aluminum. The...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Enamel
“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 Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Concrete
Lobster
By Leo Sewell
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media, Found Objects
$6,000
Paintbrushes I
By Arman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Arman, French/American (1929 - 2005)
Title: Paintbrushes I
Year: 1991
Medium: Paintbrushes and Oil Paint in Epoxy Resin Sculpture, Signature and number inscribed
Edition: 20,...
Category
1990s Dada Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Epoxy Resin, Found Objects, Mixed Media, Oil
$15,000
"Love for Ten Thousand Years"Hand Folded Origami Paper Star in Pendant Sculpture
By Kelly Kozma
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This sculpture titled "Love for Ten Thousand Years" is an original artwork by Kelly Kozma made of handmade origami wishing stars strung on embroidery thread. Kozma's work is supporte...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Paper, Found Objects, Acrylic, Panel, Thread, Lucite
Found Objects sculptures for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Found Objects sculptures 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 sculptures 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 orange, blue, pink, 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 Katie VanVliet, Kat Flyn, Kelly Kozma, and Ulla-Stina Wikander. 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 sculptures, so small editions measuring 0.12 inches across are also available
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