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Style: Contemporary
Medium: Ink
Beacon of Time
Located in Detroit, MI
An extremely bitter evening in the Grand Teton National Park, outside of Jackson Hole, Wyoming with temperatures hovering around -30°F gave rise to this surreal experience. T.A. Moulton barn, built by Thomas Alma and Lucille Moulton, took over 30 years to build and is on the National Register of Historic Places. This iconic barn mimics the uniquely shaped Grand Teton mountain...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ink Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Diffracted Space
Located in Detroit, MI
Fantastical dreamy spaces are conjured in this work, at the intersection of science + art, allowing one's mind to roam free. The work began with photographic images of an extraordina...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ink Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Comfort Zone
Located in Detroit, MI
Comfy cozy is conjured by this wondrous work, but what is it? A flower, an abstraction or something unique in nature? It's a delightful caterpillar curled up into a ball resting on t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ink Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Vertical Lift
Located in Detroit, MI
The iconic bridges of Jacksonville, FL, spanning the historic St. Johns River, served as inspiration for this work, which gracefully straddles abstraction and representation. The art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ink Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Still Emotion
Located in Detroit, MI
Black sand glacier ice pieces on Diamond Beach, Iceland inspired this fantastical work where both primal and otherworldly feelings can be felt. Sublime feelings - when generated - sp...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ink Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Around The Bend
Located in Detroit, MI
Before the first light of dawn, the artists sought the perfect dance partners for the sun and water at the rim of Horseshoe Bend. Located just outside Page, AZ, this iconic landmark ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ink Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Fortune Found
Located in Detroit, MI
You too can chase the double rainbow in search of that elusive pot of gold—just as the artists found their inspiration. At Horsetail Falls on El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, CA...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ink Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Match Point
Located in Detroit, MI
This work nails the feeling one realizes when scoring the decisive point cinching a match. Sunrise on Isle Royale National Park, in the middle of Lake Superior bordering Canada, Wisc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ink Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Frozen Over
Located in Detroit, MI
It was one of those rare days with sheets of ice simultaneously creating treacherous conditions and stunningly out-of-this-world experiences. The artist braved the weather firmly com...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ink Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Son of Twilight
Located in Detroit, MI
Inspired by a photographic image made by the artists from behind the Seljalandsfoss waterfall in Iceland, this work generates feelings of flowing love and emotion. Affection is conta...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ink Sculptures
Materials
Metal
WWW, Dark
Located in Detroit, MI
A faintly discernible globe of planet Earth can be found in this work inspiring dialog on where one might traverse via the world wide web. The original image, inspired by the Port of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ink Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Miami Beaux
Located in Detroit, MI
Beaux or bows, which is it? Can a bow be found? Does the work conjure beaux or a beau in particular? This playful work at the intersection of saucy and sweet evokes wistful longing a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ink Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Next Day Rising
Located in Detroit, MI
Moments before the sun began to warm and illuminate planet Earth, the artists wearing waders, were thigh deep in water. An extremely wet spring provided a fleeting opportunity - whic...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ink Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Animus
Located in Detroit, MI
Right brain left brain energies and the male and female components within inspired this series of two. This work in Jungian psychology represents the divine masculine component as on...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ink Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Stephanie Todhunter, Ellie, Mixed Media, 2019
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Stephanie Todhunter
Title: Ellie
Year: 2019
Size: 8.5"x7"x4"
Material: Plaster of Paris found objects, Spray Paint, alcohol inks
Each piec...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ink Sculptures
Materials
Plaster, Found Objects, Ink
Osprey
By Shawn Smith
Located in PARIS, FR
Unique piece
Created in 2015
89 x 155 x 43 cm
" My work investigates the slippery intersection between the digital world and reality. Specifically, I am interested in how we experie...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ink Sculptures
Materials
Plywood, Ink, Acrylic
$17,000
Atlas Moth
By Shawn Smith
Located in PARIS, FR
Unique piece
Created in 2015
94 x 49 x 8 cm
" My work investigates the slippery intersection between the digital world and reality. Specifically, I am interested in how we experienc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ink Sculptures
Materials
Plywood, Ink, Acrylic
$12,800
Wall Sculpture:
Cerise
By Terri Fraser
Located in New York, NY
As an artist, I am a storyteller wielding visual art as my medium. My creative journey is fueled by a relentless thirst for knowledge acquired through both hands-on experience and ke...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ink Sculptures
Materials
Steel, Wire
Sculpture of birds on wood plank:
Shanghaied
Located in New York, NY
Elizabeth Jordan is an artist working primarily in sculpture and whose work uses multiple materials to produce unique, organic forms. In addition to a solo and group shows at Ivy Brown Gallery, she has exhibited at The American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Nassau County Museum of Art, The Cornell Art Museum in Delray Beach, Florida and the New York Artists Equity Gallery. In 2023, she received a 2023 Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts in sculpture, and in 2022 was awarded the Alex J...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ink Sculptures
Materials
Wire
White Flag for Franklin Rosemont (small)
By Skylar Fein
Located in New Orleans, LA
SKYLAR FEIN was born in Greenwich Village and raised in the Bronx. He has had many careers including teaching nonviolent resistance under the umbrella of the Quakers, working for a g...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ink Sculptures
Materials
Plaster, Wood, Ink, Encaustic, Acrylic
Green Heron
By Shawn Smith
Located in PARIS, FR
Unique piece
Created in 2015
49 x 28 x 29 cm
" My work investigates the slippery intersection between the digital world and reality. Specifically, I am interested in how we experien...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ink Sculptures
Materials
Plywood, Ink, Acrylic
Nest
By Shawn Smith
Located in PARIS, FR
Unique piece
Created in 2015
38 x 23 x 33 cm
" My work investigates the slippery intersection between the digital world and reality. Specifically, I am interested in how we experie...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ink Sculptures
Materials
Plywood, Ink, Acrylic
$14,300
Fire Kudo
By Shawn Smith
Located in PARIS, FR
Unique piece
Created in 2015
112 x 65 x 48 cm
" My work investigates the slippery intersection between the digital world and reality. Specifically, I am interested in how we experi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ink Sculptures
Materials
Plywood, Ink, Acrylic
$12,800
RGB Kudu
By Shawn Smith
Located in PARIS, FR
Unique piece
Created in 2015
109 x 61 x 48 cm
" My work investigates the slippery intersection between the digital world and reality. Specifically, I am interested in how we experie...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ink Sculptures
Materials
Plywood, Ink, Acrylic
$12,800
Blue-bearded Helmet crest
By Shawn Smith
Located in PARIS, FR
Unique piece
Created in 2015
39 x 28 x 41 cm
" My work investigates the slippery intersection between the digital world and reality. Specifically, I am interested in how we experien...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ink Sculptures
Materials
Plywood, Ink, Acrylic
Blackbumian Warbler
By Shawn Smith
Located in PARIS, FR
Unique piece
Created in 2015
40 x 28 x 23 cm
" My work investigates the slippery intersection between the digital world and reality. Specifically, I am interested in how we experien...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ink Sculptures
Materials
Plywood, Ink, Acrylic
Padawan Guidance
Located in Detroit, MI
While scouting in Death Valley, CA, the artists strongly sensed Yoda’s presence. This piece, inspired by the experience of a Padawan Jedi in training, evokes the guiding influence of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ink Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Nightscape
Located in Detroit, MI
Gaze upon the swirling starry sky as it orbits the North Star, unveiling a portal to the galaxies. Trekking three miles up a mountain in snowshoes, guided by headlamps, the artists e...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ink Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Darkness Falls
Located in Detroit, MI
Stumbling upon a haunting "graveyard" of dead trees, the artists' were captivated by its surreal beauty deep within Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, MI. The following day, as ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ink Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Navajo Way
Located in Detroit, MI
Ascending from the depths of darkness a Navajo shaman led the artists to this secret sacred location. There once the sun began to rise the artists experienced ancient wisdom from wor...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ink Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Moon Child
Located in Detroit, MI
Gravity, the greatest invisible force on planet Earth, sets the course for the moon and the rites of spring on planet Earth. Magnolia blossoms, harbingers of springtime, rely on forc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ink Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Winter
s Gems
Located in Detroit, MI
It was one of those rare days when sheets of ice simultaneously creating treacherous conditions and stunningly out-of-this-world experiences. The artist braved the weather firmly com...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ink Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Night Vision
Located in Detroit, MI
This surrealistic yet representational work with abstracted elements invites viewers to come along on an exploration of what's seen, symbolic and hidden. An all night photography sho...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ink Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Moon Children
Located in Detroit, MI
This work, deeply interwoven with the moon, nurtures miraculous springtime bounty. Embracing all that nature provides, lunar movements regulating life's rhythms are seen and felt he...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ink Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Spirit Dancing
Located in Detroit, MI
Spirits danced while the artists took in magical force fields during a trip throughout Iceland. This palpable energy comes alive through the artist's 2D sculptural work created by ha...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ink Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Anima
Located in Detroit, MI
Right and left brain duality together with the male and female dichotomy inspired this series of two. In Jungian psychology the divine feminine component is depicted in this work, sh...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ink Sculptures
Materials
Metal
James Clerk Maxwell
By Shawn Smith
Located in PARIS, FR
Unique piece
Created in 2015
33 x 28 x 43 cm
" My work investigates the slippery intersection between the digital world and reality. Specifically, I am interested in how we experie...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ink Sculptures
Materials
Plywood, Ink, Acrylic
Hawk Moth
By Shawn Smith
Located in PARIS, FR
Unique piece
Created in 2015
73 x 13 x 73 cm
" My work investigates the slippery intersection between the digital world and reality. Specifically, I am interested in how we experien...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ink Sculptures
Materials
Plywood, Ink, Acrylic
$12,800
Acorn Woopeker
Located in PARIS, FR
Unique piece
Created in 2015
28 x 23 x 44 cm
" My work investigates the slippery intersection between the digital world and reality. Specifically, I am interested in how we experien...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ink Sculptures
Materials
Plywood, Ink, Acrylic
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By Lesley Dill
Located in New York, NY
This large bronze sculpture is perfect for outdoors, over time can be sandblasted and repainted. The language on the ribbon at his feet reads "Dust is the only secret" - Emily Dickinson
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Ink Sculptures
Materials
Bronze, Wire
Price Upon Request
Ink sculptures for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Ink 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, yellow, blue, green 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 Shawn Smith, Charles Clary, Katharine Morling, and Magda Von Hanau. 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 Ink sculptures, so small editions measuring 0.12 inches across are also available
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