Conceptual Sculptures
CONCEPTUAL STYLE
In 1967, artist Sol LeWitt wrote that in “Conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work.” He was giving a name to an art movement that had emerged in the 1960s in which artists were less focused on their medium being something traditionally “artistic” and instead engaged in using any object, movement, form, action or place to express an idea.
LeWitt’s work was featured alongside an assemblage of notes, drawings and outlines by other artists in “Working Drawings and Other Visible Things on Paper Not Necessarily Meant to Be Viewed as Art,” a groundbreaking show at New York City’s School of Visual Arts curated by Mel Bochner, another leading exponent of Conceptualism. Building on radical 20th-century statements, like Fountain (1917) by French artist Marcel Duchamp, Conceptual artists around Europe and North and South America were not interested in the commercial art scene and rather directly challenged its systems and values.
Stretching into the 1970s, this movement has also been called Post-Object art and Dematerialized art. Conceptual art reflected a larger era of social and political upheaval. Pieces associated with the style range from Roelof Louw’s Soul City (Pyramid of Oranges) (1967) — a work of installation art that sees fresh oranges stacked into a pyramid from which visitors are allowed to take one orange away — to On Kawara’s “Today” series, which saw the Japanese artist carefully painting a date in white acrylic on canvases consisting of a single color from 1966 to his death in 2014. Artists such as Ed Ruscha, who created the Twentysix Gasoline Stations book — a collection of photos of gas stations that is widely said to be the first modern artists’ book — made photography a major platform for Conceptual art, as did Bruce Nauman, who burned one of Ruscha's books and then photographed it for his own.
Conceptual art’s legacy of questioning artistic authorship, ownership and how to work with complex ideas of space and time had a significant influence on the decades of culture that followed, and it continues to inform art today.
The collection of Conceptual photography, paintings and sculptures on 1stDibs includes artworks by John Baldessari, Jenny Holzer, Lawrence Weiner, Joseph Kosuth and others.
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Style: Conceptual
The Time of Our Time Has Come and Gone, 2018, Gaffer tape on floor
Located in Darien, CT
David Borawski lives and works in Hartford, Connecticut, and received his BFA from the Hartford Art School of the University of Hartford.
A multi-media installation artist, his work...
Category
2010s Conceptual Sculptures
Materials
Tape
Jo Yarrington, Mute-Ability_Composition 1, 2019_acrylic, steel, player piano rol
Located in Darien, CT
Jo Yarrington’s photographs, prints, works on paper, glass sculptures and architecturally-based installations have been shown in exhibitions at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Yale University, Cornell University, the Museum of Glass, the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Artists Space, St. John the Divine Cathedral, Grounds for Sculpture, the Museum of American Glass and ODETTA, among others.
International exhibitions have included Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow Cathedral, Glasgow University, Galeria Sala Uno and Centro de las Artes de Guanajuato. She represented the United States at the Sharjah Biennial, United Arab Emirates and participated in the Berlin Biennial. in 2010 she received the Bronze Prize, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia.
Yarrington is a recipient of artist grants and Fellowships from the Pollock Krasner Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism. She has received Residency Fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Museum of Glass, the Museum of American Glass, the Bridge Virtual Residency/ SciArt Center, the Lucile Walton Fellow/Mountain Lake Biological Station, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, the Anderson Center and the Ucross Foundation, among others.
International grants and fellowships have included the Banff Center for Arts and Creativity/Canada, SIMS Residency/ Iceland, Cill Rialaig Artists Residency/Ireland, the Burren College of Art Residency/Ireland and the American Scandinavian Foundation. She is a Professor of Visual and Performing Arts at Fairfield University and lives and works in New York City.
STATEMENT
In site-specific exhibitions, public art commissions, collaborative and individual projects Jo Yarrington has used varied combinations of glass, waxed surfaces, found artifacts and experimental analog photography to investigate the way we perceive – searching for, experimenting with and developing throughout a sensory-based vernacular. Her mostly translucent materials function as physical framework and symbolic membrane. Light, both natural and ambient, provides a kinetic or time-based element to her work. Scale and the integration of architecture are also pivotal components.
In the 6-part installation for the two-person exhibition Illuminated, Yarrington continues her interest in the connections between vision, sound and language. In Mute-ability: Compositions 1 – 6, her title for this light-based comprehensive work, she combines the words mute and malleability. The work focuses on found piano rolls, a music storage medium, originally conceived as coded notations or ‘note control data’ for music produced in pneumatic player pianos...
Category
2010s Conceptual Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Jo Yarrington, Mute-Ability_Composition 3, 2019_acrylic, steel, player piano rol
Located in Darien, CT
Jo Yarrington’s photographs, prints, works on paper, glass sculptures and architecturally-based installations have been shown in exhibitions at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Y...
Category
2010s Conceptual Sculptures
Materials
Steel
"Do Your Best" - Contemporary Street Sign Sculpture
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Scott Froschauer is an experimental artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, where his primary focus is exploring new spaces and techniques for comm...
Category
2010s Conceptual Sculptures
Materials
Metal
"Infinite Clearance" - Contemporary Street Sign Sculpture
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Scott Froschauer is an experimental artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, where his primary focus is exploring new spaces and techniques for communication.
This series "Word on ...
Category
2010s Conceptual Sculptures
Materials
Metal
"Shred" - Contemporary Street Sign Sculpture
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Scott Froschauer is an experimental artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, where his primary focus is exploring new spaces and techniques for communication.
This series "Word on ...
Category
2010s Conceptual Sculptures
Materials
Metal
"Yield Heart" - Contemporary Street Sign Sculpture
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Scott Froschauer is an experimental artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, where his primary focus is exploring new spaces and techniques for communication.
This series "Word on ...
Category
2010s Conceptual Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Jo Yarrington, Ghost Girls, Camel Hair Brush Display, 2018, Found Objects, Metal
Located in Darien, CT
Radioluminescence is the phenomenon by which light is produced in a material by bombardment with ionizing radiation and can be used as a low-level light source for night illumination of instruments or signage or other applications where light must be produced for long periods without external energy sources. Radioluminescent paint used to be used for clock hands and instrument dials...
Category
2010s Conceptual Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Jo Yarrington, See-matics - Voice, 2019, acrylic, 9 x 22 inches
Located in Darien, CT
Jo Yarrington’s photographs, prints, works on paper, glass sculptures and architecturally-based installations have been shown in exhibitions at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Y...
Category
2010s Conceptual Sculptures
Materials
Plexiglass
Gil Scullion, You Forget, 2017, 20 sheets of stacked hand-cut paper
By Gil Scullion
Located in Darien, CT
Where do we come from? Where are we going? What the hell is going on here? 2017-2018 Hand cut paper in wood box
Gil Scullion’s conceptual text-based work has been featured in exhibi...
Category
2010s Conceptual Sculptures
Materials
Paper
Fins Ap
By Ap Verheggen
Located in Brecon, Powys
Title: Fins Ap
Type: Laughing Wall Shark
Another wall creation from this much acclaimed Dutch artist.
Epoxy, painted White Length
59", Height 1...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic Polymer
Cabinet of Wonders, Persistence and the Fugitive
By Greg Garvey
Located in Darien, CT
This flat file installation is a kind of Wunderkammer – a Cabinet of Wonder or Curiosity containing a small idiosyncratic collection of select wonders and oddities of the natural wor...
Category
2010s Conceptual Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Video, Found Objects
Fritz Horstman, Formwork for a Rectangle 2, 2014, Wood, Plywood
Located in Darien, CT
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...
Category
2010s Conceptual Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Plywood
Jo Yarrington, Mute-Ability_Composition 2, 2019_acrylic, steel, player piano rol
Located in Darien, CT
Jo Yarrington’s photographs, prints, works on paper, glass sculptures and architecturally-based installations have been shown in exhibitions at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Yale University, Cornell University, the Museum of Glass, the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Artists Space, St. John the Divine Cathedral, Grounds for Sculpture, the Museum of American Glass and ODETTA, among others.
International exhibitions have included Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow Cathedral, Glasgow University, Galeria Sala Uno and Centro de las Artes de Guanajuato. She represented the United States at the Sharjah Biennial, United Arab Emirates and participated in the Berlin Biennial. in 2010 she received the Bronze Prize, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia.
Yarrington is a recipient of artist grants and Fellowships from the Pollock Krasner Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism. She has received Residency Fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Museum of Glass, the Museum of American Glass, the Bridge Virtual Residency/ SciArt Center, the Lucile Walton Fellow/Mountain Lake Biological Station, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, the Anderson Center and the Ucross Foundation, among others.
International grants and fellowships have included the Banff Center for Arts and Creativity/Canada, SIMS Residency/ Iceland, Cill Rialaig Artists Residency/Ireland, the Burren College of Art Residency/Ireland and the American Scandinavian Foundation. She is a Professor of Visual and Performing Arts at Fairfield University and lives and works in New York City.
STATEMENT
In site-specific exhibitions, public art commissions, collaborative and individual projects Jo Yarrington has used varied combinations of glass, waxed surfaces, found artifacts and experimental analog photography to investigate the way we perceive – searching for, experimenting with and developing throughout a sensory-based vernacular. Her mostly translucent materials function as physical framework and symbolic membrane. Light, both natural and ambient, provides a kinetic or time-based element to her work. Scale and the integration of architecture are also pivotal components.
In the 6-part installation for the two-person exhibition Illuminated, Yarrington continues her interest in the connections between vision, sound and language. In Mute-ability: Compositions 1 – 6, her title for this light-based comprehensive work, she combines the words mute and malleability. The work focuses on found piano rolls, a music storage medium, originally conceived as coded notations or ‘note control data’ for music produced in pneumatic player pianos...
Category
2010s Conceptual Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Katherine Jackson, Necropolis, 2020, Photographic print on aluminum
Located in Darien, CT
Katherine Jackson lives and works in Brooklyn.
Necropolis is a print of a painting inspired by a map of the necropolis where the terra cotta soldiers...
Category
2010s Conceptual Sculptures
Materials
Glass, LED Light, Pigment
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 Sculptures
Materials
Wire
Gil Scullion, You Walk, 2017, 20 sheets stacked hand-cut paper
By Gil Scullion
Located in Darien, CT
Where do we come from? Where are we going? What the hell is going on here? 2017-2018 Hand cut paper in wood box
Gil Scullion’s conceptual text-based work has been featured in exhibi...
Category
2010s Conceptual Sculptures
Materials
Paper
"Mystery Box (Boîte mystère)" Ben Vautier, Fluxus Movement Conceptual Sculpture
By Ben Vautier
Located in New York, NY
Ben Vautier
Mystery Box (Boîte mystère), 1965
Painted wood with letterpress label
3 13/16 × 2 3/4 × 2 7/16 inches
Ben Vautier was a French artist known for his text-based paintings...
Category
1960s Conceptual Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Paper
Katherine Jackson, Suspension of Disbelief, 2015, Graphite, Paper, Framed
Located in Darien, CT
Drawing, glass, and light: these three ingredients are the basis of Katherine Jackson’s work. She begins with drawing, which sometimes becomes an end...
Category
2010s Conceptual Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Graphite
Fritz Horstman, Formwork for Branching Stream, 2017, Wood, Walnut
Located in Darien, CT
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...
Category
2010s Conceptual Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Walnut
Gil Scullion, You Need, 2017, 20 sheets of stacked hand-cut paper
By Gil Scullion
Located in Darien, CT
Where do we come from? Where are we going? What the hell is going on here? 2017-2018 Hand cut paper in wood box
Gil Scullion’s conceptual text-based work has been featured in exhibi...
Category
2010s Conceptual Sculptures
Materials
Paper
Jo Yarrington, Ghost girls_Slide Carousel, 2018, Photographic Film, Found Object
Located in Darien, CT
Radioluminescence is the phenomenon by which light is produced in a material by bombardment with ionizing radiation and can be used as a low-level light source for night illumination of instruments or signage or other applications where light must be produced for long periods without external energy sources. Radioluminescent paint used to be used for clock hands and instrument dials...
Category
2010s Conceptual Sculptures
Materials
Photographic Film, Found Objects
Gil Scullion, Your Convictions, 2017, 20 sheets of stacked hand-cut paper
By Gil Scullion
Located in Darien, CT
Where do we come from? Where are we going? What the hell is going on here? 2017-2018 Hand cut paper in wood box
Gil Scullion’s conceptual text-based work has been featured in exhibi...
Category
2010s Conceptual Sculptures
Materials
Paper
Jo Yarrington, Ghost Girls, 2018, Organic Material, Photographic Film, Plastic
Located in Darien, CT
Radioluminescence is the phenomenon by which light is produced in a material by bombardment with ionizing radiation and can be used as a low-level light source for night illumination of instruments or signage or other applications where light must be produced for long periods without external energy sources. Radioluminescent paint used to be used for clock hands and instrument dials...
Category
2010s Conceptual Sculptures
Materials
Pins, Organic Material, Plastic, Photographic Film, Acrylic Polymer, Fou...
Jo Yarrington, Ghost Girls_Brushes, 2017, Organic Material, Found Objects, Pins
Located in Darien, CT
Radioluminescence is the phenomenon by which light is produced in a material by bombardment with ionizing radiation and can be used as a low-level light source for night illumination of instruments or signage or other applications where light must be produced for long periods without external energy sources. Radioluminescent paint used to be used for clock hands and instrument dials...
Category
2010s Conceptual Sculptures
Materials
Organic Material, Found Objects, Pins
Fritz Horstman, Formwork for a Rectangle, 2015, Plywood, Wood
Located in Darien, CT
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...
Category
2010s Conceptual Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Plywood
Heirloom
By Nancy Larrew
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Wood, mirrors, wire, plastic, LED lights.
Artist statement:
"Behind the doors of this cabinet/tower is an infinity mirror and a DNA double helix branded with the word “trauma.” The...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Sculptures
Materials
Wire
$2,592 Sale Price
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Katherine Jackson, Suspension of Disbelief II, 2015, Graphite, Paper, Framed
Located in Darien, CT
Drawing, glass, and light: these three ingredients are the basis of Katherine Jackson’s work. She begins with drawing, which sometimes becomes an end...
Category
2010s Conceptual Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Graphite
Jo Yarrington, Mute-Ability_Composition 6, 2019_acrylic, steel, player piano rol
Located in Darien, CT
Jo Yarrington’s photographs, prints, works on paper, glass sculptures and architecturally-based installations have been shown in exhibitions at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Yale University, Cornell University, the Museum of Glass, the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Artists Space, St. John the Divine Cathedral, Grounds for Sculpture, the Museum of American Glass and ODETTA, among others.
International exhibitions have included Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow Cathedral, Glasgow University, Galeria Sala Uno and Centro de las Artes de Guanajuato. She represented the United States at the Sharjah Biennial, United Arab Emirates and participated in the Berlin Biennial. in 2010 she received the Bronze Prize, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia.
Yarrington is a recipient of artist grants and Fellowships from the Pollock Krasner Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism. She has received Residency Fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Museum of Glass, the Museum of American Glass, the Bridge Virtual Residency/ SciArt Center, the Lucile Walton Fellow/Mountain Lake Biological Station, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, the Anderson Center and the Ucross Foundation, among others.
International grants and fellowships have included the Banff Center for Arts and Creativity/Canada, SIMS Residency/ Iceland, Cill Rialaig Artists Residency/Ireland, the Burren College of Art Residency/Ireland and the American Scandinavian Foundation. She is a Professor of Visual and Performing Arts at Fairfield University and lives and works in New York City.
STATEMENT
In site-specific exhibitions, public art commissions, collaborative and individual projects Jo Yarrington has used varied combinations of glass, waxed surfaces, found artifacts and experimental analog photography to investigate the way we perceive – searching for, experimenting with and developing throughout a sensory-based vernacular. Her mostly translucent materials function as physical framework and symbolic membrane. Light, both natural and ambient, provides a kinetic or time-based element to her work. Scale and the integration of architecture are also pivotal components.
In the 6-part installation for the two-person exhibition Illuminated, Yarrington continues her interest in the connections between vision, sound and language. In Mute-ability: Compositions 1 – 6, her title for this light-based comprehensive work, she combines the words mute and malleability. The work focuses on found piano rolls, a music storage medium, originally conceived as coded notations or ‘note control data’ for music produced in pneumatic player pianos...
Category
2010s Conceptual Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Jo Yarrington, See-matics - Answer, 2019, acrylic, 9 x 22 inches
Located in Darien, CT
Jo Yarrington’s photographs, prints, works on paper, glass sculptures and architecturally-based installations have been shown in exhibitions at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Y...
Category
2010s Conceptual Sculptures
Materials
Plexiglass
David Borawski, The First Act of Violence, 2019, Gaffers tape, dimensions vary
Located in Darien, CT
David Borawski lives and works in Hartford, Connecticut, and received his BFA from the Hartford Art School of the University of Hartford.
A multi-media installation artist, his work...
Category
2010s Conceptual Sculptures
Materials
Tape
Bars and Stripes, 2017, Nylon flag, Aluminum flag pole
Located in Darien, CT
David Borawski lives and works in Hartford, Connecticut, and received his BFA from the Hartford Art School of the University of Hartford.
A multi-media installation artist, his work...
Category
2010s Conceptual Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Gil Scullion, Your Existence, 2017, 20 sheets of stacked hand-cut paper
By Gil Scullion
Located in Darien, CT
Where do we come from? Where are we going? What the hell is going on here? 2017-2018 Hand cut paper in wood box
Gil Scullion’s conceptual text-based work has been featured in exhibi...
Category
2010s Conceptual Sculptures
Materials
Paper
John Morton, Fever Songs, 2018, site specific sound installation
By John Morton
Located in Darien, CT
Fever Songs is an interactive public sound installation project that brings together the vocal traditions of many religions, creating an active sonic experience that explores spiritu...
Category
2010s Conceptual Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Fritz Horstman, Formwork for a Square Pad, 2015, Steel, Wood, Maple
Located in Darien, CT
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...
Category
2010s Conceptual Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Contemporary Porcelain Sculpture White Skull Animal Bethany Krull Female Artist
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original sculptural installation by contemporary conceptual American artist Bethany Krull.
This work titled The Swamp features a series of individual concrete cups each with a se...
Category
2010s Conceptual Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Conceptual House Shovel Wall Sculpture Wood Metal Tape Grey White Neutral Unique
Located in Buffalo, NY
Robert Booth is a visionary conceptual sculpture artist known for his haunting and thought-provoking creations. His work takes viewers on a journey into t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Conceptual House Sculpture Dark Blue Unique Moody Conversational Textured
Located in Buffalo, NY
Robert Booth is a Western New York visionary conceptual sculpture artist known for his haunting and thought-provoking creations. His work takes viewers on...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Mixed Media
"Vintage Alarm Clock in Custom Vinyl Slipcover"
Located in New York, NY
“My art explores the similarity between seemingly disparate cultures through the lens of my African American ancestry. I examine my family’s plight shaped by the history of racism a...
Category
2010s Conceptual Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
Bottles, Ceramic Sculpture with Lighting by Ilena Finocchi
By Ilena Finocchi
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Ilena Finocchi
Title: Bottles
Year: circa 2009
Medium: Plaster-Cast Ceramic Molds, Lights, Wooden Display Light Box
Size: 16 x 20 x 20 in. (40.6...
Category
Early 2000s Conceptual Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Conceptual House Wall Sculpture Wood Chair Ladder Dark Moody Match Brown Unique
Located in Buffalo, NY
Robert Booth is a visionary conceptual sculpture artist known for his haunting and thought-provoking creations. His work takes viewers on a journey into t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Mixed Media
"Make 300 Holes with Any Implement: This Is My Gift" Takako Saito, Concept Art
Located in New York, NY
Takako Saito
Make 300 Holes with Any Implement: This Is My Gift , 1965
Wood box containing wood frame with paper and stamped ink
3 3/8 × 3 3/8 × 1 1/4
Takako Saito is a Japanese ar...
Category
1960s Conceptual Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Paper, Ink
Broken Wall, Conceptual Acrylic, Plaster, and Resin Painting by Curtis Mitchell
By Curtis Mitchell
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Curtis Mitchell, American (1954 - )
Title: Broken Wall
Year: 1989
Medium: Mixed Media Wall Sculpture (Plaster, Resin, Acrylic), signed and dated ...
Category
1980s Conceptual Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Plaster, Acrylic
Conceptual Shovel Wall Sculpture Frame Chair Chalk Brown Black
Located in Buffalo, NY
Robert Booth is a visionary conceptual sculpture artist known for his haunting and thought-provoking creations. His work takes viewers on a journey into t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Sculptures
Materials
Slate, Steel
Conceptual Dark Wood House Sculpture Unique Dynamite Green Grass
Located in Buffalo, NY
Robert Booth is a Western New York visionary conceptual sculpture artist known for his haunting and thought-provoking creations. His work takes viewers on...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Mixed Media
Fingerprint
By Jozef Bajus
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original mixed media woven paper and staple wall sculpture by Jozef Bajus.
This work can be acquired in a shadow box frame presentation for an additional $350.
Category
2010s Conceptual Sculptures
Chimera Bad
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Acrylic, oil, paper collage, car side mirror, branches, chimes, rag,
clock radio
(Instructions: Press “on” button on side of radio to turn on. Tune to suitable station)
A pa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic, Mirror, Mixed Media, Oil, Rag Paper
Russian Samizdat Art Conceptual Photo Sculpture Assemblage Gerlovin
Gerlovina
Located in Surfside, FL
Rimma Gerlovina and Valeriy Gerlovin
Clock, 1987-94
Aluminum sculpture, mixed media and c-print photograph construction, c-print, felt tip marker
13 h × 13 w × 4 d in (30 × 30 × 6 cm)
Rimma Gerlovina and Valeriy Gerlovin were founding members of the underground conceptual movement Samizdat in the Soviet Union, described in their book Russian Samizdat Art. Based on a play of paradoxes, their work is rich with philosophic and mythological implications, reflected in their writing as well. Their book Concepts was published in Russia in 2012. The work by Rimma Gerlovina and Valeriy Gerlovin is emphatically contemporary. The artist couple were part of the Moscow Conceptualists, their performance Costumes, from 1977, deepened their ongoing work with linguistic semiotic systems and their own bodies. Considering the context in which Gerlovina and Gerlovin made their work—that of political restrictions on public life, of unfreedom, and censorship—their collaborative togetherness must also be read as a space of possibility for political community and resistance. Rimma Gerlovina’s hair is featured prominently in the art of the Gerlovins as a constructing element of the body. Used for the linear drawings her braids transmit transpersonal waves reminiscent of an aura of live filaments. Long loose hairs function as threads of life; streaming in abundance, they allude to Aphrodisiac vitality and Samsonian strength. On the other hand, they are the haircloth worn during mourning and penitence. In New York they continued to make sculptural objects, and their photographic projects grew into an extended series called Photoglyphs. In their photographs, they use their own faces to explore the nature of thought and what lies beyond it. Since coming to the United States in 1980, they had many exhibitions in galleries and museums including the Art Institute of Chicago. The New Orleans Museum of Art launched a retrospective of their photography, which traveled to fifteen cities. Group exhibitions include the Venice Biennale, the Guggenheim Museum, New York, Smithsonian National Museum of American Art, Washington D.C., Bonn Kunsthalle, Germany, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, and others.
Samizdat or “self-published” began in the Soviet Union, and Samizdat art consists mainly of books and magazines published and distributed by the artists who made them. Samizdat art has sources in the innovative books and magazines turned out by the early 20th century Russian avant-garde—artists and writers like Olga Rozanova, Vladimir Mayakovsky, El Lissitzky, and Alexander Rodchenko.
Artists as varied as Alexander Archipenko, Leon Bakst, Marc Chagall, Naum Gabo, Alexandra Exter...
Category
1980s Conceptual Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Conceptual Lawn Mower Sculpture Grass Unique Large White Green Large Cut
Located in Buffalo, NY
Robert Booth is a Western New York visionary conceptual sculpture artist known for his haunting and thought-provoking creations. His work takes viewers on...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
$6,400 Sale Price
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Conceptual Bronze Sculpture, "Don
t Cry!"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a limited edition conceptual bronze sculpture made by San Diego artist, Maidy Morhous. Its dimensions are 12" x 8" x 14". A certificate of authenticity will follow its delive...
Category
2010s Conceptual Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Vessel: Pierced III, Unique Wall and Table Art Sculpture by Sylvia Seventy
By Sylvia Seventy
Located in Long Island City, NY
This mixed media sculpture by Sylvia Seventy, from 1986, is a conceptual work in neutral tones. Materials include handmade paper, Apple Wood, Willow, Paint, Oil Pastel, Wax, Cotton ...
Category
1980s Conceptual Sculptures
Materials
Cotton, Handmade Paper, Oil Pastel, Paint, Wood
Nonsense (Gas Mask), Unique Bronze Sculpture by Mark Eastridge
By Mark Eastridge
Located in Long Island City, NY
A bronze sculpture by Mark Eastridge. A surrealist composition of a bronze case gas mask sitting atop a glove.
Artist: Mark Eastridge, American
Title: Nonsense (Gas Mask)
Medium: Br...
Category
Late 20th Century Conceptual Sculptures
Materials
Granite, Bronze
Paintbrushes III
By Arman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Arman, French/American (1929 - 2005)
Title: Paintbrushes III
Year: 1991
Medium: Paintbrushes and Oil Paint in Epoxy Resin Sculpture, Signature and number inscribed
Edition: 2...
Category
1990s Conceptual Sculptures
Materials
Epoxy Resin, Oil
$18,000
Feather
By Allison Frey
Located in Buffalo, NY
A functional sculpture (Bench and Planter) created with black walnut, bent italian maple and black walnut veneer.
This work was part of a recent pop up exhibition The Dreamer Who Dr...
Category
2010s Conceptual Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Shaman
By John Petrey
Located in Rye, NY
John Petrey’s Shaman is a striking mixed-media sculpture that merges mythology, ritual, and contemporary artistry. The figure wears a robe of richly patterned patchwork, assembled fr...
Category
2010s Conceptual Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Leather, Fabric, Found Objects, Mixed Media
$21,000
Contemporary Porcelain Sculpture White Skull Animal Bethany Krull Female Artist
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original hand built porcelain sculpture by contemporary conceptual American artist Bethany Krull.
This work titled Extinction Stack is a prime example of the artist's commentary ...
Category
2010s Conceptual Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Keynote XIV
By Dianne Baker
Located in Buffalo, NY
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects, Tape, Wood
Reggae Curve, Painted Hanging Sculpture by Kevin Cole
By Kevin Cole
Located in Long Island City, NY
This hanging sculpture by the American artist Kevin Cole, is a modern conceptual work. It is constructed of painted rubber and wood. Cole was quoted, "Throughout all of my work, I ...
Category
20th Century Conceptual Sculptures
Materials
Rubber, Wood, Paint
Conceptual Sculpture Titled, "Weighed Down By Public Opinion No. 2"
Located in San Diego, CA
One of a kind original sculpture by local San Diego artist, Duke Windsor. This sculpture depicts a figure facedown with gold bricks on their backs. The artist uses gold leaf to highl...
Category
2010s Conceptual Sculptures
Materials
Concrete, Gold Leaf
Bethany Krull Cat Tree Ceramic Paper Clay Green Conceptual Modern Sculpture
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original hand built porcelain and paper sculpture by contemporary conceptual American artist Bethany Krull.
Cattree, 2019
Paper, paint, wire, soil, found table
This work is currently featured in the artist's solo exhibition inside The Corridors Gallery at Hotel Henry...
Category
2010s Conceptual Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain, Clay, Found Objects, Handmade Paper
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