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Kat Flyn Figurative Sculptures

American, b. 1946

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 collectibles which she began using to create assemblage art in the 1990s. 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 and 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. 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, a soft drink box into a tenement building (Affordable Housing 2017), a jewelry box into a wheelchair (Last Lily Foot 2016), an old shoe shine box into a hearse (Katrina 2018). The result is her work is closer in appearance to Folk Art than Assemblage Art.

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Artist: Kat Flyn
Bride
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
assemblage sculpture: old wood mantle clock box refashioned to resemble a Morocco Riad mansion, 6 antique painted skittles pins, antique photo with ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Kat Flyn Figurative Sculptures

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Found Objects, Mixed Media

Noah s Slaughterhouse
By Kat Flyn
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Kat Flyn Figurative Sculptures

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Found Objects, Mixed Media

Fortress America
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assemblage sculpture: vintage wood fort with hand-painted graffiti, a vintage handmade wood carving of Uncle Sam & Trump, confederate flag scrap blindfold, metal chains, 4 vintage fl...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Kat Flyn Figurative Sculptures

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Mixed Media

The American Way
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
assemblage sculpture: vintage wood boxes containing 20 vintage handmade & painted wood toy game men, vintage handheld dexterity game that reads “The American Way – Liberty and Justice for All...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Kat Flyn Figurative Sculptures

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Mixed Media

Sentinel Species
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
It is now 2020 and Covid-19 is loose in the world. Medical personnel are our first line of defense against this out-of-control pandemic. We seem able to provide weapons and protective gear for the police as they battle protestors, who are marching against racial injustice, but not able to provide PPE clothing and other medical equipment...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Kat Flyn Figurative Sculptures

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Mixed Media

Visitors
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
assemblage sculpture: old wood dugout made from an antique stool, hand-painted graffiti on all sides & back & roof under old wood painted and distressed scoreboard with graffiti bench inside. "I like using baseball...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Kat Flyn Figurative Sculptures

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Mixed Media

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Find a wide variety of authentic Kat Flyn figurative sculptures available for sale on 1stDibs. You can also browse by medium to find art by Kat Flyn in mixed media, found objects and more. Much of the original work by this artist or collective was created during the 21st century and contemporary and is mostly associated with the contemporary style. Not every interior allows for large Kat Flyn figurative sculptures, so small editions measuring 9 inches across are available. Customers who are interested in this artist might also find the work of Gin Stone, Gary Sczerbaniewicz, and Phillip Shore. Kat Flyn figurative sculptures prices can differ depending upon medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $2,188 and tops out at $7,500, while the average work can sell for $3,438.