Wood Sculptures

Over many decades Loren Eiferman has created and mastered a unique technique of working with wood—her primary material. First, she begins with a drawing of an idea. Then she takes a daily walk in the woods surrounding her studio and collects tree limbs and long sticks that have fallen to the ground. She never chops down a living tree or uses green wood. Eiferman allows the wood time to cure in the studio to make sure it won’t check or crack. Next, she debarks the branch and looks for shapes found within each piece of wood. Using a Japanese hand saw, she cuts and connect these small shapes together using dowels and wood glue. Then, all the open joints get filled with a home made putty, which is then sanded so she can see the newly formed shapes. This process is until the new sculpture appears like the original line drawing but in space. She wants the work to appear as if it grew in nature, when in fact each sculpture is composed of over 100 small pieces of wood that are seamlessly jointed together. Her work can be called the ultimate recycling: taking the detritus of nature and giving it a new life. We have all at one point or another picked up a stick from the ground—touched the wood, peeled the bark off with our fingernails. Her work taps into that same primal desire of touching nature and being close to it. Trees connect us back to nature, back to this Earth. Her work has a meditative quality to it—a quiet, calming energy. Her influences are many; from looking at nature and plant life on this Earth to researching the heavenly bodies in the images beamed back from the Hubble Telescope. From studying ancient Buddhist mandalas and designs to delving deeper into quantum physics. And from researching mysterious manuscripts to studying the patterns inside our brains. Her newest body of work is inspired by the illustrations found in the Voynich Manuscript. This 250-page book, is believed to have been written in the early 15th century, of a mysterious origin and purpose. Written in an unknown language and currently housed at Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book Library, the manuscript has eluded all attempts in the intervening centuries to decode or decipher its purpose and meaning. This enigmatic book is divided into 6 different sections (herbal, astronomical, biological, cosmological, pharmaceutical and recipes). Having discovered the images contained in this codex over the Internet, Eiferman felt an immediate, profound and inexplicable connection to this manuscript and its creator. The artist is currently transposing the “herbal” section of manuscript into sculptures. This section has drawings in it of plants and flowers that do not really exist in nature—past or present. These aren’t just pretty images of flowers—they also contain the wacky root systems and seemingly out of proportion leaves, stamens and pistils. Loren Eiferman was born in Brooklyn, NY. She received her BFA from SUNY Purchase. Her work has been exhibited extensively throughout the Tri-State region including gallery and museum exhibitions in the Hudson Valley and Connecticut. Her work is included in numerous corporate and private art collections. In 2014 she was awarded a NYC MTA Arts & Design art commission to produce steel railings...

Diane Englander uses formal means to create a place between discord and tranquility, a zone with a charged harmony that energizes as it also provides refuge. That often requires tha...

"The Sommeliers" by Jack Hill Bas Relief, hand-painted cast resin mounted on wood 12x10" each, set of 4 Whimsical wall art for the wine lovers in your life...

Magda Watts (Israeli, b.1928) Handmade Folk Art Sculpture Tourists. Hand signed to underside, Dimensions: 12"h x 14.5" l x 7.5"d. Magda Watts, Holocau...

Diane Baker is a mixed media and fiber-related sculptor working out of Buffalo, NY. She has exhibited throughout the United States and in Canada and is included in several public and...

Where am I going? They offer us no clues that might help us answer these questions. Instead, they give us all the more scope for associations and imagination. They appeal to our subc...

Processing Venice is a unique contemporary modern painting relief by renowned Polish-Dutch artist Eliza Kopec. This painting relief is a typical exampl...

Achtung25 (Not the 25th version, but when it was made) is a vibrant large-scale mixed media wall sculpture. It is made from birch panels, stain and pigmented lacquer on MDF with a s...

"Blue Zebra" is a minimalist and modernist wood wall sculpture reminiscent of both mid century modern forms and bold graphic design. Blue Zebra is part of my "Small Pops" Series whic...

Untitled 1982 Young Man With Closed Eyes Artist signed, and dated. WILLIAM LUDWIG (1935-2011) Education: University of Connecticut, 1957-1961 Hartford Art School, University of Har...

The Key is a wooden sculpture realized Ferdinando Codognotto in 2023. Realized in swiss pine expertly carved in the shape of a key ending with a heart. 10x25 cm. Carved signature...

Abstracted, Judaica Maple Sculpture based upon Jewish Star Eric Pesso is recognized for his mind-bending carved creations, created from single trunks of neighborhood trees. In 2012...

Sculpture art using Ping Pong balls and color markers by Roger Coast (American, 20th Century), circa 1970's. Size 11"H x 11"W, x .5"D lacquer ping-pon...

"UPWARD" Golden Nanmu Sculpture 43 x 18 x 15 in Edition of 8 by Huang Yulong ABOUT THE ARTIST Huang Yulong was born in 1983 in Anhui Province, China. In 2007 he graduated with a Bac...

Contemporary Mixed Media Sculpture, Framed Hand Made Paper with Gold Leafing Glover did not begin her career as an artist. After receiving an MBA from Harvard Business School, she s...

Rolf Hans Frankfurt 1938 - 1996 Basel Set of 4 bird sculptures, 1990 Wood, paint Each signed on the underside 131/121 x 20 x 11.5cm The sculpture comes with a catalog about the artist. Provenance: Estate of the artist Authenticity confirmed in writing At the beginning of the 1970s, Rolf Hans began designing objects for the first time. These were small sculptures that he assembled from iron pipes with round or square profiles. With these, he sought to create a new, three-dimensional reality of experience, parallel to his paintings, which he was creating at the same time. In 1987, Hans returned to the medium of sculpture. He no longer regarded the working process as conscious construction, but rather as allowing himself to be guided by what was already there. And as with his paintings, his objects now arose from an inner necessity, not to fill an intellectual vacuum. "This compulsion has had a hold on me for decades, and for a few years now I have been trying to appease it with the cycle 'Poesie der Dinge' (Poetry of Things). The intellectual climate was ripe." So Hans concentrated on working on the sculpture cycle in the last decade of his life. And as if in a frenzy, he drew on the new possibilities offered to him by the design of the objects: "The poetry of things grows, it swallows up all my time, many things are neglected, hardly any letters, the diary is largely silent, concert visits are limited to the essentials. A compulsion arises, and yet it began as a game, but experiments were always a serious matter that demanded the whole man. [...] The objects have crept into my rational mind, cautiously and unnoticed, claiming their place, taking it, becoming part of myself." "It's a difficult thing with art. Looking at your predecessors, you try to find your way, the spirit of the times and its aesthetics influence the direction, you know about the dissatisfaction in which you move. Now, in the midst of the 'poetry of things', there is a feeling of freedom, yet closely connected to much that came before. There is no program, only a title that allows each work its freedom." But despite the role models before his eyes, Hans succeeds from the outset in finding his own unique ways of expression with his object cycle. What connects him to Max Ernst, Brancusi, and Duchamp is solely the source material: found objects. These are very mundane things from everyday life—once necessary, useful, and practical items such as tools, utensils, and devices—that have been stripped of their function and now serve as a gateway to the artist's imagination. In this way, Hans strips things of their previous, traditional function or archaic purpose and transports them into a different, new reality in order to breathe new life into them. In doing so, he does not want to deny the found form without aestheticizing it. By making only minor changes to their 'innate' structure, signs of wear, and color, he seeks to emphasize their meaning and purpose as form and to redefine their inherent charisma. The objects are worked on, forced to reveal their unique characteristics in their struggle with the artist and to make new statements in connection with other objects. In this way, Hans presents the abstract symmetries of the wood and metal objects without any artificiality and places them on a pedestal in accordance with artistic tradition. Furthermore, he integrates the pedestal into the work. As the lowest component, the pedestal not only prepares the viewer for the sculpture, but also loosens, loosens, or strengthens its connection to the earth. By raising them up, he gives the sculptures a further life of their own, a second existence, so to speak, and also gives them a new identity with a new name. "They show their personality, some more, some less, as is the case in life, or in art." What they all have in common is their influence from the past into the here and now. In doing so, they reveal their original beauty and the mysticism that fires our imagination. However ambivalent the sculptures and objects by Rolf Hans may appear to us, they never do so in a loud or exalted manner. With their balanced and simple appearance, they quietly and calmly, but decisively, enter into contact with us. In an unsettling way, they repeatedly prompt us to ask questions: Who am I? Where do I come from? Where am I going? They offer us no clues that might help us answer these questions. Instead, they give us all the more scope for associations and imagination. They appeal to our subconscious. They invite us to linger and meditate: it is the familiar beginning and the unconscious departure into the mysteries of creation. Exhibitions (selection) 2023 Kunsthandel Draheim, position berlin art fair 2023 Galerie Jörg Schuhmacher, Frankfurt am Main "Rolf Hans-Farbenspiel" 2022 Galerie Michael Blaszczyk, Bad Homburg, Rolf Hans, "Einblicke Hommage Reflexion" 2021 Jörg Schumacher Gallery, Frankfurt am Main "Rolf Hans-Farbwelten" 2021 Michael Blaszczyk Gallery, Bad Homburg "Sprache der Farben-Das Baseler Kabinett" 2020 Malte Ueckermann Art Dealers, Berlin, Kanalidarte, Brescia "Che cosa avrebbe detto Hegel_ROLF HANS... e la Poesia della cose," Italy Kunsthandel Draheim "art Karlsruhe," "Poesie der Dinge" 2019 Jörg Schuhmacher Gallery, Frankfurt am Main, Blaszczyk Gallery, Bad Homberg 2018 Art Karlsruhe, Kunsthandel Draheim, Wiesbaden, Color Fields 2018 Galerie Dekker, Baden-Baden, Retrospective Galerie Blaszczyk, Bad Homburg 2017 Gallery Eklektik, Monte Carlo, Monaco 2016 Galerie Schuhmacher, Frankfurt am Main 2016 Galerie Cerny Partner, Wiesbaden (Language of Colors) Art Karlsruhe, Kunsthandel Draheim, Wiesbaden (Tachist Painting + Iron Sculptures) Galerie Rainer Klimczak, Viersen Galerie Schuhmacher, Frankfurt am Main (Black on White) 2015 Galerie Blaszczyk, Bad Homburg art Karlsruhe, one Artist show (Galerie Cerny und Partner) Gallery Eklektik, Monte Carlo, Monaco 2014 Jörg Schuhmacher Gallery, Frankfurt am Main (A Retrospective-1) Tristan Lorenz Gallery, Frankfurt am Main (A Retrospective-2) Hellhof Gallery, Kronberg im Taunus (Works from 1960–1980) Art Fair, Cologne, Monochrome Painting (Draheim Gallery Art Dealers, Wiesbaden) 2013 Kunsthandel Thole Rotermund, Hamburg (In the Force Field of Color) + catalog Galerie Kunsthandel Draheim, Wiesbaden (Painting Sculpture 1970–1990) 2012 art KARLSRUHE, one Artist show (Galerie Art Dealers Draheim, Wiesbaden) 2011 Gallery Art Dealers Draheim, Wiesbaden (In the Rush of Colors – Works from the 1960s) 2009 Ketterer Kunst, Berlin (Rolf Hans – Painting and Sculpture) Art Dealers Michael Draheim, Wiesbaden (Rolf Hans – Poetry of Things) 2008 Galerie Art Mayence, Mainz (Rolf Hans – Language of Colors) Galerie Jörg Schuhmacher, Frankfurt am Main (Rolf Hans) Galerie Winterberg, Munich (Rolf Hans – The Language of Colors) Galerie Jörg Schuhmacher, Frankfurt am Main, Art Karlsruhe (Rolf Hans – One Artist Show) 2007 Galerie Jörg Schuhmacher, Frankfurt am Main ("Rolf Hans in the Field of Tension of the 'Quadriga'") 2001 Kunstraum Aare, Olten ("Rolf Hans – Paintings, Sculptures, Photographs") 1999 'Kunst im Liebrüti', Kaiseraugst ("Martin Frigg and Rolf Hans") 1992 Kommunale Galerie, Schlangenbad ("Gabriele Schmolk-Hieber, Paintings – Rolf Hans, Objects") 1991 Museum Schloß Salder, Salzgitter ("Poetry of Things") 1990 Galerie Brechbühl, Grenchen ("Poetry of Things") 1985 1985 Toni Brechbühl Gallery, Grenchen ("Two Friends, Ho-Kan, Milan – Rolf Hans, Basel") Toni Brechbühl Gallery, Grenchen ("Rolf Hans – Oil...

Artist: Leonardo Nierman Title: Untitled (Sculpture A) Year: circa 1968 Medium: Bronze Sculpture, raised on Wood Base, signed Size: 41.25 x 14 x 15 inches (including base)

While working on a large building project several years ago the artist, Fritz Horstman was struck by the poetry in the unfinished state of the construction site. He was drawn specifically to the space between the plywood walls that were raised as formworks for the pouring of cement. That space could only exist for a few hours before the cement truck...

Karen Schiff is an artist and wordsmith based in New York; she has always been a reader as well as a visual artist. Her drawings, paintings, installations, and performances combine t...

Extraordinary garden torch with one burner insert on an untreated oak spot. If the spot is set up outside, she develops a gray patina. There are already individual lava stones in th...

tabletop sculpture, indoor sculpture, metal sculpture, wood sculpture, rusted steel; My series of "Gathering" sculptures are table-top pieces made from laminated plywood and rusted s...

BRILLO (RED BLUE WHITE) Acrylic on canvas with leather and brass fittings over wood. 17 x 17 x 14" (43.18 x 43.18 x 35.56 cm.) 2019 The series Lutz refers to as "Luxury Sculptures" are based on the forms of Louis Vuitton trunks in combination with the box sculptures of Andy Warhol. Lutz began this series in 2008. The works aim to create a feedback loop. Where Warhol elevated consumer products like Brillo and Heinz Ketchup...

Karen Schiff is an artist and wordsmith based in New York; she has always been a reader as well as a visual artist. Her drawings, paintings, installations, and performances combine t...

Spray acrylic on solid maple with gloss clearcoat Scott Troxel has exhibited his work at numerous fairs and exhibitions across the United States, including The Other Art Fair in NY...

Karen Schiff is an artist and wordsmith based in New York; she has always been a reader as well as a visual artist. Her drawings, paintings, installations, and performances combine t...

Extraordinary garden torch with one burner insert on an untreated oak spot. If the spot is set up outside, she develops a gray patina. Unique, handcrafte...

Fear and insecurity came uninvited to keep the artist company. Suddenly it became necessary to release the sensations that surrounded him day and night. At times the artist felt as i...

The Big Door 3 is a Contemporary artwork realized in 1986 by the italian Contemporary artist Leo Guida (1992 - 2017). Hand carved relief in mahogany woo...

Architecture and functional objects inform the vocabulary of Richard Bottwin’s sculpture. The plywood surfaces, laminated with wood veneers or painted with acrylic colors, are confi...

Seahorse is an original decorative object realized in the 2010s by Ferdinando Codognotto. Original wood sculpture realized in swiss pine expert...

Grayson Perry Kate Board, 2017 Screenprint on skateboard Made of 7-ply Grade A Canadian Maple wood 31 1/2 × 7 9/10 in 80 × 20 cm Edition of 999 co-published by the artist and The Sk...

Made to order. Requires 4-8 weeks processing time depending on the request and the artist's current waitlist. Please contact the gallery, TurningArt, for more information. These wall sculptures created by artist Nikki Rudolph...

Chester L. Williams Label on bottom, signed. Title: Promethium Medium: Bronze, Aluminum and wood. Approx. dimensions: 12 X 11 X 4 inches. Chester Lee Williams (1944-1919) was born in 1944, in Durham, North Carolina. Chester cultivated a creative mind that eventually led him to pursue an education in fine arts and sculpture at North Carolina Central University (BA) and the University of Michigan (MFA). In 1974, he made his way to Tallahassee and started instructing at FAMU. Students at the university have a deep appreciation for the jazz lover’s insight and skill. A lifelong artist, Chester's work has been featured in galleries and publications across the country. The body of his work produced over 45 years has evolved from smooth and supple sculptures into the more angular and defiant shapes seen in his later works. Chester has said: "All of the works are me. I still embrace every one of them." Chester enjoyed traveling and exploring different cultures. His art was influenced by his travel and knowledge of African culture. He was an educator for 37 years, teaching at Voorhees College, North Carolina Central University and Florida A&M University before retiring in 2011. He sold his first piece of art in the ninth grade to his homeroom teacher. (That early sale paid off — years later, that teacher’s husband, the president of a bank, commissioned Williams to create a sculpture for the bank’s lobby...

"RAKU RED AND WHITE", 2019, in wheel-formed white glaze with copper red blush, sprig, stamp, gold leaf and raku fired with kintsuji gold by artist Andrew Cornell Robinson, is one of a series of sculptural objects that include ceramic, glass and mixed media grottoes and containers. A project exploring the vessel form and notions of gratitude, plenty, poverty in material or humanity. Robinson has led artists to explore tableware as sculptural form – "Changing attitudes and emerging social behaviors in food preparation and the social and cultural rituals of eating have lead to changes in the way tableware is made and used." Andrew Cornell Robinson is an interdisciplinary artist working across media (ceramics, textiles, painting, prints, etc.). His work is influenced by collaborative craft communities, traditions, and the performative qualities of cultural production. The underlying ideas exploring identity, histories, rituals, and power in his work aim to create a space for intimate experiences and open narratives. He studied ceramic sculpture at the Glasgow School of Art and the Maryland Institute College of Art where he received a BFA. He was awarded an MFA from the School of Visual Arts, where he became interested in the intersection of memory, identity, politics, and power. He has been featured in many publications including Sculpture Magazine, Huffington Post, Hyperallergic, Art Info, et al. He has participated in curatorial and research projects and recently was a participating artist in Debtfair a project in the Whitney Biennial. Andrew has also worked on collaborations with designers such as Donna Karan’s Urban Zen project where his work in ceramics led to workshops with artisans in Haiti and the creation of a ceramic studio in Port-au-Prince. He is currently working with The Powerhouse Arts Workshop and their design team from the Pritzker-prize winning architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron in the design and development of a contemporary industrial fabrication center established to serve the working needs of artists in New York City. He is currently a member of the faculty at Parsons School of Design and Greenwich House Pottery in New York City. His work has been presented extensively throughout the world with the Anna Kustera Gallery, David & Schweitzer Contemporary, Christopher Stout...

Artwork made by acrylic on birch, satin lacquer finish Scott Troxel has exhibited his work at numerous fairs and exhibitions across the United States, including The Other Art Fair i...

Intimate Sculpture, in Excellent Condition, created in Hand-painted Wood by Sculptor Lorenzo Servalli in the year 1998, to quietly share The Experienc...

Edition 28/50. Stainless Steel outline of cocktail glass on a black acrylic base with painted wood olive and toothpick.

This solid accent portrays a primordial form. Tucker Robbins, inspired to bring his designs back to basics, worked with the Ifugao (Mountains of the Phi...

“Parlour“ is a wall relief panel by artist Heather Nicol, and measures 17x19x4“. Part of a body of work known as Brief Lives, this particular piece is comprised of wallpaper, fabric, wood, nails, glass, silver platter, plastic wrap, butterfly specimen, 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, Parlour 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...

This torch is the eye-catcher in your garden. Customization possible and designed in 2010. Also available to order in stainless steel. The included burner already contains individua...

Extraordinary garden torch with one burner insert on an untreated oak spot. If the spot is set up outside, she develops a gray patina. There are already individual lava stones in th...

This piece was created expressly for the purpose of being photographed for a photo series. Created of a sculpted brass metal mesh screen material mounted upon a solid wood base and c...

This masterpiece is exhibited in the Zimmerman Gallery, Carmel CA. Dive into the whimsical realm of mystique with this utterly enchanting totem. Crafted with meticulous detail, this...

This torch is the eye-catcher in your garden. Customization possible and designed in 2010. Also available to order in stainless steel. The included burner already contains individua...

Extraordinary garden torch with one burner insert on an untreated oak spot. If the spot is set up outside, she develops a gray patina. There are already individual lava stones in th...

The extraordinary polygon sculpture "Mask I" on a pedestal of oxidised oak for our garden, is available in 2 different sizes, in the overall sizes 110 cm and 130 cm. The burner alre...

From the Apathy Series, Andrew Smenos' recent body of ceramic sculptures, comes "DESTROYER" – the rusted hulk of a ship is sinking however, itself destro...

Extraordinary wire sculpture "Mask" on a quadratic oxidised oak pedestal for your garden. The eyes are made of stainless steel. We produce this object in our own locksmith's shop, ...

"Bambara Queen, Rep. Mali" is a carved wood sculpture with abstracted human and animal figures. 20" x 6" x 3" The Bambara are a Mande ethnic group native to West Africa, primarily ...

David E. Peterson – Puzzle #120 (2022) Acrylic, Koa wood, Art Resin 23 x 44 x 3 inches Dynamic, architectural, and deeply textural, "Puzzle #120" by David E. Peterson seamlessly b...

Lion is a wonderful contemporary wooden sculpture realized in 1968 by Anne and Patrick Poirier. Signed on the back. Includes authenticity certificate. The passage of time, the trac...

"Waikiki" is a minimalist and modernist, solid wood wall sculpture that brings bold statement to wherever it is placed. Artist Scott Troxel says "The piece is part of my popular "S...

The extraordinary polygon sculpture "Mask II" on a pedestal of oxidised oak for our garden, is available in 3 different sizes, in the overall sizes 97 cm, 117 cm and 147 cm. The bur...

Artist Mark Knoerzer is best known for his abstract paintings, light installations and hand painted wooden sculptures. Using color and extensive layering to create geometric images and emergent symbols, Knoerzer has developed a unique visual language that, while often highly formal and even symmetrical, nevertheless reflects an intense commitment to beauty and the sheer pleasure of seeing. Knoerzer’s 2019 solo show Half-Life was reviewed by Cate McQuaid in The Boston Globe. His work has also appeared in documentaries as diverse as Evocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie, which was selected for the Tribeca Film...

EMERSON WOELFFER Abstract Form No. 1 1979 Porcelain on wooden plinth 3.5 x 3.5 x 11.5 inches

Amusing pair of antique anglo Indian birds with a folky charm that have been carved from indigenous hardwood and painted a long ago, now with a rustic patina. Presented on custom sta...

EMERSON WOELFFER Abstract Form No. 2 1979 Terra cotta on wooden plinth 3.5 x 5.5 x 8.5 inches

Eternity is one of the best artworks realized by LisArtventure in 2015. The work is realized on a worm-eaten wooden tablet. The ancient material testifi...

"Relic" is a sculpture of geometric abstraction by Stan Olthuis composed of fire-torched pine wood, plywood, and reclaimed bicycle inner tube, mounted wit...

"Ziggurat"- From the Small Pops Collection "Ziggurat" is a minimalist and modernist solid wood wall sculpture that brings bold statement to wherever it is placed. The piece was insp...