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Medium: Found Objects
"BEACH CIGS" Assemblage cigarette sculpture
By Jim Houser
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "BEACH CIGS" is an original painted sculpture by Jim Houser made of assembled objects. This piece measures approximately 7”h x 12”w x 3.5”d. It includes the pictured cigarette...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects, Acrylic
"NOCTURNE" Assemblage, Acrylic paint and found object
By Jim Houser
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "NOCTURNE" is an original artwork by Jim Houser and is made of acrylic paint and assembled foud objects. This piece measures approx. 12.5”h x 9.5”w x 7”d and is fre...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects, Acrylic
Liz Sweibel, Untitled (Splinter 2 ), 2014, Wood, Paint, Found Objects
By Liz Sweibel
Located in Darien, CT
Liz Sweibel primarily makes sculpture, installations, and drawings. She uses a spare, personal language of abstraction to explore liminal spaces and unseen forces: wind, history, va...
Category
2010s Minimalist Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Paint, Found Objects
"Chimaera: Green #15", reconstructed egg sculpture
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Chimaera: Green #15" is an original piece by Kate VanVliet and is made from eggshells, mica, and PVA. This piece measures 2.25”h x 2”w x 2”d and ships with the pic...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Glue, Found Objects, Mica, Organic Material, Acrylic
"*69" Vintage found object assemblage, aerosol, telephone cord, hanging ornament
Located in Philadelphia, PA
" *69 " is an original piece by Sarah Detweiler is made from curly phone cords, repurposed decoration-only chandelier, spray paint. This piece measures 36”h x 15”w x 15”d.
Watching ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects, Mixed Media, Spray Paint
"Day in the Life: Green #49", Reconstructed egg sculpture
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "This piece titled "Day in the Life: Chimaera #12" is an original piece by Kate VanVliet and is made from eggshell, mica, and acrylic. This piece measures 4”h x 2.5...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Glue, Found Objects, Acrylic, Mica, Organic Material
Cave Branch (self portrait)
By Eric Rhein
Located in New York, NY
Eric Rhein “Cave Branch (self portrait)”
2010
Signed, verso
Silver gelatin print, sterling silver, bronze, and found objects
25 x 24 x 4 inches (63.5 x 61 x 10.2 cm), framed
Thi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Silver, Bronze
"Chimaera: Green #11", Reconstructed egg sculpture
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Chimaera: Green #11" is an original piece by Kate VanVliet and is made from eggshells, mica, and PVA. This piece measures 2.5”h x 2”w x 2”d ands with the pictured ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Glue, Found Objects, Mica, Organic Material, Acrylic
"Day in the Life: Green #90", Found Object Sculpture, Egg Motif
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Day in the Life: Green #90" is an original piece by Kate VanVliet and is made from eggshell, mica, and acrylic. This piece measures 4”h x 2.5”w x 2.5”d, and is shi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Glue, Found Objects, Acrylic, Mica, Organic Material
"Day in the Life: Double Yolk #1", Found Object Sculpture, Egg Motif
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Day in the Life: Double Yolk #1" is an original piece by Kate VanVliet and is made from eggshell, mica, and acrylic. This piece measures 4”h x 2.5”w x 2.5”d, and i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Glue, Found Objects, Acrylic, Mica, Organic Material
"Egg Canoes: Duck #9-11", Found Object Sculpture, Egg Motif
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "SEgg Canoes: Duck #9-11" is an original piece by Kate VanVliet and is made from eggshell, mica, 3-D printed PETG, acrylic, pine. This piece measures 4”h x 10”w x 2...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Found Objects, Acrylic, Mica
"Chimaera: Green #14", Reconstructed egg sculpture
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Chimaera: Green #14" is an original piece by Kate VanVliet and is made from eggshells, mica, and PVA. This piece measures 2.75”h x 2”w x 2”d and ships with the pic...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Glue, Found Objects, Mica, Organic Material, Acrylic
"Chimaera: Green #13", Found Object Sculpture, Egg Motif
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Chimaera: Green #13" is an original piece by Kate VanVliet and is made from eggshells, mica, and PVA. This piece measures 3.5”h x 2.5”w x 2.5”d and ships with the ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Glue, Found Objects, Mica, Organic Material, Acrylic
"Oldies Swing", Abstract Patterns, Geometric Abstraction, Woodcut, Monoprint
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Oldies Swing" is an original piece by Alexis Nutini and is made from a woodcut and and found object stencil monoprint mounted on panel. This piece measures 19"h x ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects, Wood Panel, Monoprint, Woodcut
"Lisa
s Trip", Abstract Patterns, Geometric Abstraction, Woodcut Monoprint
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Lisa's Trip" is an original piece by Alexis Nutini and is made from a woodcut monoprint mounted on panel. This piece measures 14.5"h x 19"w.
Born in Mexico City,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects, Panel, Monoprint, Woodcut
"Diptych: Egg Bag
Insect Net" framed found object assemblage, hanging maquette
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Diptych: Egg Bag & Insect Net" is an original artwork made from beeswax, quail eggs, mica, plastic, copper, linen, and silverpoint, mounted ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Copper
Kathleen Vance, Newtown Creek Waterway, 2017, Found Objects, Acrylic Paint, Wood
Located in Darien, CT
Kathleen Vance explores environmental issues such as water conservation and protection through positive stewardship of the land. She looks to convey an appreciation of nature and tra...
Category
2010s Conceptual Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Wire
"CELLAR MUSIC" Wall hanging assemblage by Jim Houser
By Jim Houser
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "CELLAR MUSIC" is an original artwork by Jim Houser and is made of assembled objects. This piece measures approximately 9.5”h x 8”w x 5.5”...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects, Acrylic
Diptych: Quiver
Multi-Cut Tool
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Diptych: Quiver & Multi-Cut Tool" is an original artwork made from Mixed media: #11 steel blades, sinew, copper, and hardwoods (Multi-Cut Tool). Horsehair, plastic vials, sinew, copper, brass, hardwoods (Quiver) by Katie VanVliet. This piece measures 24"h x 60"w x 7"d.
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
Brass, Copper, Steel
"Mystery Friends" Deconstructed and Reimagined Secondhand Ceramic Figurines
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This figurative sculpture titled "Mystery Friends" is an original artwork by Debra Broz made of secondhand ceramics and mixed media. The individual sculptures measure 3.5"h x 2.5"w x...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Found Objects
"Persian Spaniels" Repurposed Vintage Ceramic Cat and Dog, Artist Recreation
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This figurative sculpture titled "Persian Spaniels" is an original artwork by Debra Broz made of secondhand ceramics and mixed media. The sculptures measure...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Found Objects
Small Fruit Press
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This sculpture titled "Small Fruit Press" is an original artwork by Ulla-Stina Wikander made of needlepoint embroidery and vintage object. This piece measu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Textile, 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 Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Plaster, Found Objects, Acrylic, Mulberry Paper
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 Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Fabric, Thread, Found Objects
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 Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Textile, Thread, 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 Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Thread, Found Objects
"Thinking About the Old Carpet
the Air Hockey Table" Hand Embroidery
Collage
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 photogr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Fabric, Thread, Found Objects, Paper, Photographic Paper
"New Address" Contemporary Hand Embroidery and Collage
By Kelly Kozma
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This fabric work titled "New Address" 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 Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Fabric, Thread, Found Objects
"Soft Swirl" Vibrant Hand Embroidery and Color Pencil on Paper
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 Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Fabric, Thread, Found Objects
"Squeaking By" by Kelly Kozma
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 Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Fabric, Thread, Found Objects, Paper
"Siamese Horse Cat with Foal Kitten" Found vintage ceramic animals
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This figurative sculpture titled "Siamese Horse Cat with Foal Kitten" is an original artwork by Debra Broz made of secondhand ceramics and mixed media. The ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, 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 Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Plaster, Paint, Wax, Epoxy Glue, Found Objects
"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 Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects
"ELLA" Assemblage
By Jim Houser
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"ELLA" is an original assemblage artwork by Jim Houser measuring 10" x 10".
Jim Houser was born in 1973 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the city where he currently resides. He is a s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Found Objects, Acrylic
Margaret Roleke, Pop pop, 2018, spent shot gun shells, wire, zipties, steel box
Located in Darien, CT
Margaret Roleke has created the sculpture “Pop,pop” specifically for the Las Gravitas exhibition at ODETTA. The title refers both to the fun and colorful hues of the piece that pop ...
Category
2010s Pop Art Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Steel, Wire
"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 Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Plastic, Wood, Pastel, Found Objects, Inkjet
Leslie Fry_Held_2014_glazed vitreous china, pigment_Feminist Figurative_Kohler
Located in Darien, CT
Leslie's public projects respond to site, history and the body. Figures are female or hermaphroditic, of imaginary descent, often melded with animal, architecture and plant forms. I ...
Category
2010s Feminist Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Iron
Clarrisa
By Eric Rhein
Located in New York, NY
Eric Rhein “Clarrisa”
1989
Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity
Wire, suede, brocade fabric, and found objects
16.5 x 17.5 x 8.5 inches (41.9 x 44.5 x 21.6 cm)
This work...
Category
1980s Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Wire
$22,500
"Internal Release" Abstract Relief Sculpture
Located in Soquel, CA
"Internal Release" Abstract Relief Sculpture.
Carved sculpture and painting by Mickey "Kano" Kane (American, 20th century). This large-scal...
Category
1990s Other Art Style Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Found Objects, Acrylic, Wood Panel, Handmade Paper
$2,400 Sale Price
50% Off
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 Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Metal
"Untitled - Face" Lonnie Holley, Mixed Media, Found and Assembled Objects
Located in New York, NY
Lonnie Holley
Untitled - Face , circa 1989
Mixed media sculpture, found and assembled objects
25 x 16 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches
Since 1979, Holley has dedicated his life to the realm of improvisational creativity. His artistic expressions and musical works, emerging from adversity and challenges, but even more so from a relentless curiosity and innate need, have taken form in various mediums such as drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, performance, music, and filmmaking. Holley’s sculptures are crafted from found objects, reflecting the ancient traditions of African American sculpture...
Category
1980s American Modern Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Paint, Found Objects, Mixed Media
"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 Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Acrylic, Wood Panel, Handmade Paper, Found Objects
$2,400 Sale Price
50% Off
"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 Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Found Objects, Acrylic, Wood Panel, Handmade Paper
$2,000 Sale Price
58% Off
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 Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Metal
3-part painting construction by Black African American artist, w/ found objects
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This is an 3-part painting / construction (assemblage) created from acrylic paint, wood, glass, and found objects. It includes several historic photograph of figures as well as many scenes from Black African American cultural history. Each piece measures 23" x 7.75" x 2.5", and they can be hung close together or far apart, depending on the buyer's preference. All pieces are wired with the appropriate hanging hardware and are ready to install, no additional framing needed.
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 of 'real life' collaged and collapsed, as dreams are prone to do. If connections are made, all the better. I feel that life should remind us of our dreams." - Richard J. Watson
Richard J. Watson is an icon in the Philadelphia art world. Much of his work relates to his experiences as a Black African American man. He is a graduate of Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1968), has taught at his alma mater, and has served in the Exhibitions Department at the African American Museum in Philadelphia since the 1980s. He has been exhibiting his work for decades, and has an extensive bibliography. His work is held in the Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art; the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; the Uniworld Corporation; Sony; the Federal Reserve Bank; the City of Philadelphia; Sprint; the Church of the Advocate; the poet Dr. Sonia Sanchez; and the Woodmere Museum...
Category
2010s Abstract Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Glass, Wood
Leslie Fry_Stand_2025_ceramic, cast iron base, pigments_Feminist Figurative
Located in Darien, CT
Leslie's public projects respond to site, history and the body. Figures are female or hermaphroditic, of imaginary descent, often melded with animal, architecture and plant forms. I ...
Category
2010s Feminist Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Iron
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 Found Objects Sculptures
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 Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects
Liz Sweibel, Untitled (Scrapings #2), 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 Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Paint, Found Objects
Trapped in History
By Tony Dagradi
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 ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Paper, Varnish, Found Objects
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 Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects
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 Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects
American Story No.1875
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 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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Found Objects, Mixed Media
"Deviation (OY)" Gyöngy Laky, Contemporary Mixed Media Textual Sculpture
By Gyöngy Laky
Located in Wilton, CT
"Deviation" Gyöngy Laky, apple, acrylic paint, screws, 30" x 60" x 2.5" (installed), 2020.
This contemporary mixed media wall sculpture was done by San Fr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Organic Material, Wood, Paint, Found Objects
Packing, 2017, paintings on both sides of reclaimed attaché case, sculpture
By RU8ICON1
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Packing" (2017) by Ru8icon1
Acrylic on reclaimed attaché case, figurative paintings on both sides of vintage briefcase
Category
2010s Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic, Found Objects
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 Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Felt, Found Objects, Acrylic, Polymer
Rafael - 21st Century, Contemporary Sculpture, Figurative, Recycling
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Aparici's work is characterized by simplicity, since most of his pieces bring together few elements, resulting in very elegant compositions with simple lines, which together with his...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects
Inside Out - abstracted, repurposed metal, gothic, figurative, steel sculpture
By Dale Dunning
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This contemporary metal sculpture of a mask is kinetic and was created by a Canadian artist.
This unique, one-of-a-kind ethereal sculpture was hand-forged by the masterful sculptor...
Category
2010s Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Steel, Stainless Steel
"His Name Was Writ in Acrylic Paint" - Abstract Assemblage
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract expressionist oil painting with assembled objects by Bay Area artist Michael Pauker (American, b. 1957). Splashes of gold paint are applied to a wood panel, with a few bits of burnt umber. Several objects - including a paint tube, cotton balls, and a miniature painting - are attached to the panel.
Signed "Michael Pauker", titled "His Name Was Writ in Acrylic Paint", and dated "2017" on verso.
There is a note from the artist that this is the top of a two-part piece, but the whereabouts of the bottom half are unknown.
Unframed.
Image size: 20"H x 24"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 Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Plastic, Paper, Found Objects, Cotton, Wood Panel
Eastern Puma - Contemporary Mixed Media Animal Sculpture (Yellow+Red)
By Yulia Shtern
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Found Objects Sculptures
Materials
Adhesive, Varnish, Found Objects, Mixed Media, Newsprint, Papier Mâché, ...
$234 Sale Price
25% Off
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