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Item Ships From: Connecticut
Sunshine and Shadow - Reclaimed Colorful Wood Square Wall Sculpture, 2024
Located in Kent, CT
A striking wall sculpture composed of salvaged wood, Sunshine and Shadow exemplifies Laura Petrovich-Cheney’s signature fusion of craft, memory, and resilience. Drawing from the trad...
Category
2010s Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood
"Vortex, " Abstract Steel Sculpture
Located in Westport, CT
This abstract sculpture by Joe Sorge is made with steel and blue wax. A single strip of steel extends up from a small steel base, spiraling several times and then extending out strai...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Four Columns #1497
By Vasa Velizar Mihich
Located in New York, NY
An exceptional 4 column tower work by Vasa Mihich. Great colors used on this piece which tend toward the pastel. Great for an entryway or room that has a lot of natural light. On ...
Category
1980s Minimalist Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic Polymer
"Alpine View II" Porcelain Pedestal Bowl
Located in Westport, CT
This glazed ceramic bowl with pedestal base features a multi-colored palette with muted grey, blue, and sepia tones. It has a wide, shape with crimped rim. The artist's stamp is loca...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain, Glaze
Elemental - Neon Yellow Pink Colorful Acorns Mixed Media Wall Sculpture, 2024
By Julie Maren
Located in Kent, CT
This contemporary sculptural wall installation consists of more than 270 individual acorn caps mounted on brass pins - each cap is filled with plaster and paint in bright hues of pin...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Brass
Santiago Medina - SUBLIME, Sculpture 2025
By Santiago Medina
Located in Stamford, CT
New Sculpture Collection Vanguard: Italian Stainless Steel with Special Splashed Electrostatic Paint.
This sculpture will be shipped directly from the artist's studio.
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Bouquet - Colorful Acorns Mixed Media Wall Sculpture Neon Yellow Pink Orange
By Julie Maren
Located in Kent, CT
This contemporary sculptural wall installation is comprised of more than 275 individual acorn caps mounted on brass pins - each cap is filled with plaster and paint in bright hues of...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Brass
Pair, Red Woven Abstract Tapestry of Figures, Textile Sculpture
By Lilla Kulka
Located in Wilton, CT
Pair, sisal, wool, stilon, 125" x 77", 1989.
This large figurative, abstract tapestry was done by textile artist, Lilla Kulka (b. 1946, Krakow, Poland).
Artist Statement: "I creat...
Category
1980s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Fabric, Textile, Tapestry, Wool, Thread
Jesse Hickman, Note Four Twenty Seven Sixteen, 2016, Enamel, Wood
By Jesse Hickman
Located in Darien, CT
Over the past few years, Jesse Hickman has been making minimal abstract paintings on wood with few constraints. He calls this series Notes, thinking of these pieces as drawn sketches...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Enamel
Thin Green Horizon, Contemporary Geometric Tapestry by Gudrun Pagter
By Gudrun Pagter
Located in Wilton, CT
Thin Green Horizon, sisal, linen and flax, 45.5” x 55.5”, 2017.
Gudrun Pagter is a Denmark-based artist that is known for creating exquisite woven tapestries. Pagter creates strong...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Fabric, Textile, Tapestry, Linen, Thread, Dye
Specimen 21 - Framed Sea Nature Hand-dyed Violet Purple Fiber Sculpture, 2020
By Catherine Latson
Located in Kent, CT
This contemporary wall mounted fiber sculpture, Catherine Latson's Specimen 21 reads as an artistic rendition of a beautiful sea specimen. Rich, jewel-toned purple hand-dyed cotton t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wire
Goddess Ethereal
By Kevin Kelly
Located in Westport, CT
This aqua resin and acrylic sculpture is an abstract female for created by Kevin Kelly. The dimensions are noted include a 3 1/2 inch high base.
Kelly works out of his Brooklyn studi...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Acrylic
A Star is Born - Reclaimed Colorful Wood Geometric Wall Sculpture, 2022
Located in Kent, CT
A striking wall sculpture composed of salvaged wood, A Star is Born exemplifies Laura Petrovich-Cheney’s signature fusion of craft, memory, and resilience. Drawing from the tradition...
Category
2010s Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Santiago Medina - INFINITY (OUTDOOR MONUMENTAL), Sculpture 2022
By Santiago Medina
Located in Stamford, CT
This sculpture is made out of Outdoor Marine Italian Stainless Steel.
This sculpture will be shipped directly from the artist's studio.
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Triumph
By John Henry
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
15 feet X 8 feet X 5 feet
Machined aluminum
John Raymond Henry (1943-2022) is an internationally renowned sculptor. Since 1971, Henry produced many...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Geometric Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
$220,000 Sale Price
21% Off
Record, Blair Tate, Geometric woven textile wall sculpture
By Blair Tate
Located in Wilton, CT
Record, woven linen, cotton cord, 102" x 27", 2020.
This abstract, geometric woven textile wall sculpture is by contemporary American fiber artist, Blair Tate.
"In weaving there i...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Fabric, Textile, Tapestry, Cotton, Linen
Santiago Medina - NIRVANA (OUTDOOR MONUMENTAL), Sculpture 2021
By Santiago Medina
Located in Stamford, CT
Marine outdoor Italian stainless steel. From this edition, there is one in the permanent collection of the CES University Museum in Columbia.
This sculpture will be shipped directl...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Specimen 25 - Framed Sea Nature Inspired Hand-dyed Teal Blue Fiber Sculpture
By Catherine Latson
Located in Kent, CT
Framed in a clear acrylic shadowbox, Catherine Latson's contemporary wall-mounted fiber sculpture Specimen 25 reads as an artistic rendition of a beautiful sea specimen. Rich, jewel-...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wire
Ceramic 13, Japanese Ceramic Sculpture by Yasuhisa Kohyama
By Yasuhisa Kohyama
Located in Wilton, CT
Yasuhisa Kohyama shapes his asymmetrical forms using piano wire, creating distinctive rough surfaces. The clay with its feldspar nuggets creates a tac...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Clay
Irregular Shape #1, Color Sculpture in Resin
By Vasa Velizar Mihich
Located in New York, NY
This amazing Triangular sculpture by Vasa Mihich can completely transform any spot and be future forward as well in the vision of what sculpture and 3 dimensional form can do in spac...
Category
2010s Minimalist Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic Polymer
"Wandering Around" Abstract Diptych Painting
By Teodora Guererra
Located in Westport, CT
This textured abstract diptych by Teodora Guererra features a light blue-green palette with warm yellow accents throughout. The artist layers thick strokes of paint using a palette k...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic, Board
"White Construction, " 1960s Modern Abstract Wall Sculpture
By Stanley Bate
Located in Westport, CT
This Modern abstract piece by Stanley Bate is a wood panel sculpture that has been painted white. Three-dimensional that are reminiscent of architectural pieces are tightly stacked w...
Category
1960s Modern Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Oil, Wood
"I Like Options" Textured Abstract Painting
By Teodora Guererra
Located in Westport, CT
This abstract painting by Teodora Guererra features a teal, pink, and white palette. The artist layers thick strokes of paint using a palette knife in broad, horizontal sweeping stro...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Santiago Medina - FOREVER (INDOOR MONUMENTAL), Sculpture 2021
By Santiago Medina
Located in Stamford, CT
Italian stainless steel with a turquoise tint.
This sculpture will be shipped directly from the artist's studio.
All sculptures are made with the highest quality Italian stainless ...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Tower #1342
By Vasa Velizar Mihich
Located in New York, NY
This spectacular and important column by Vasa Mihich has a lovely color palette and complexity of geometric design that affords endless interest. Mihich is the master of acrylic res...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic Polymer
Don Frost, BM, Sculpture, 2018
By Don Frost
Located in Stamford, CT
BM
Fiberglass / Carbon Fibre impregnated with catalysed polyester resin Powder filled acrylic lacquer on filled polyester resin base
27" x 10" x 11"
"I am an artist, a sculptor not ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Fiberglass, Polyester, Lacquer
Triangular color Column
By Vasa Velizar Mihich
Located in New York, NY
Delightful and fabulous to live with - great to put on tables, shelves, mantles, desks and even better if they can be near natural light coming in. Amazing to turn and see the diffe...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic Polymer
Untitled Watertower, Glass Wall Sculpture, White Gold Metal Plated Jug, Bottles
Located in Kent, CT
In this wall-mounted sculpture, glass bottles and a round, cylindrical jug are mirrored with white gold leaf on half the inside, creating a reflective inner side visible through the ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Gold Leaf
"Sailing Off, " Abstract Stainless Steel Sculpture
Located in Westport, CT
This mid-sized abstract contemporary sculpture by artist Joe Sorge is made with stainless steel. The strips of steel that compose this piece have a curved, concave shape and a beautiful texture. The piece casts unique shadows on its surroundings. Please note that the white pedestal base pictured is not included.
Connecticut-based sculptor Joe Sorge studied at the School of Visual Art (SVA) in New York City. While Joe's body of work is most often made with stainless steel which he sometimes dyes to give the forms bold, solid colors, he also experiments with stone carving, genesa crystals, tiger eye alabaster and others. He works with a variety of colors, finishes, and textures, to create the final piece.
Joe's sculptures express the fluidity and tension inherent in the material he uses. His work draws on a modernist vocabulary to create abstract, often whimsical objects...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
En Face, Mica and Steel Woven Wall Hanging and Installation, Agneta Hobin
By Agneta Hobin
Located in Wilton, CT
En Face, Agneta Hobin, mica and steel, 70" x 48", 2007.
This 7-piece mica and steel hanging installation and sculpture is by Finnish artist, Agneta Hobin...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Fritz Horstman, Formwork for the East River, 2017, Wood, Latex Paint, Wood Panel
By Fritz Horstman
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 arrived, but in that moment it was a revolving abstraction of potential, delineation, growth, and destruction. Once filled it was gone: the plywood was stripped away, the earth was backfilled. To suspend that moment he began building models of formworks. Leaving them unfilled, they are perpetually unfinished.
From models based directly on architecture, Horstman expanded to forms found in the landscape. Making a formwork that depicts constraint upon the landscape is not exactly a reversal of the formwork’s function, but it asks different questions than a formwork designed for a building would. Why would you make a cement creek? What is the relationship between a flowing creek and poured cement? Is this a barrier or just delineation?
For River Woman ODETTA, in addition to several small sculptures in the Flat File, Horstman will install Formwork for the East River, which describes that river’s shape as it flows from Rikers Island to the tip of Manhattan. The 3 x 18 x 7 foot sculpture...
Category
2010s Conceptual Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Latex, Wood Panel
Jo Yarrington, Mute-Ability_Composition 4, 2019_acrylic, steel, player piano rol
By Jo Yarrington
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.
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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 Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Sai, Japanese Ceramic Sculpture by Yasuhisa Kohyama
By Yasuhisa Kohyama
Located in Wilton, CT
Yasuhisa Kohyama shapes his asymmetrical forms using piano wire, creating distinctive rough surfaces. The clay with its feldspar nuggets creates a tac...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Clay
"Scarlet Dream" Abstract Steel Sculpture
Located in Westport, CT
This large abstract contemporary sculpture by Joe Sorge is made with carbon steel with and red dye. The abstract sculpture is composed of curved strips of steel, which curve around o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Biagga (Sea Wind), Contemporary Abstract Tapestry Painting, Wall Sculpture
Located in Wilton, CT
Biagga (Sea Wind), painted viscose and linen, 67" x 71", 2010. Contemporary Abstract Tapestry Painting, Wall Sculpture.
Ulla-Maija Vikman (b. 1943, Oulu, Finland) is a fiber artist w...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Fabric, Textile, Tapestry, Paint
"#Spring" Abstract Painting
By Teodora Guererra
Located in Westport, CT
This abstract painting by Teodora Guererra features a light palette with light, muted green at the top and bottom, and other accent colors toward the center of the composition includ...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Splash
By Robert Cook
Located in New York, NY
Robert Cook’s Splash sculpture draws inspiration from the iconic photograph of a drop of milk creating a circle and splash in a pool of milk. This fleeting moment of suspended motion sparked Cook’s exploration of how to capture such dynamic energy in a static form.
Robert Cook was a great American sculptor and his works are in many museums and his iconic Dinoseras piece commands a spot on the street of New York at 51st Street.
Important to note with this work that it is unique and there are no other casts. Cook sculpted in wax and when he cast this destroyed the wax and there was no mould. Very few sculptors work in this manner and it speaks to a very pure and altruistic form of sculpture. If perhaps he had been more commercially minded he would have done large editions but instead he valued singularity as in nature.
In Splash, Cook freezes a moment of kinetic energy, capturing the elegant tension between impact and expansion. The sculpture embodies both grace and chaos, with a fluidity that suggests movement at the very instant it’s frozen in time. Cook’s mastery of his medium allows this dynamic moment to be immortalized in bronze, creating a powerful and emotional resonance that transcends the physical form, making Splash both a formal and philosophical exploration of time, space, and motion.
Signed: R Cook...
Category
1960s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stone, Bronze
"City Lights, " Abstract Stainless Steel Sculpture
Located in Westport, CT
This mid-sized abstract sculpture by artist Joe Sorge is made with stainless steep, orange dye, and a clear coat. It features a thin strip of steel that appears to curl upwards, looping around itself in loose knots. This flowing form creates unique shadows in its environment. Please note that the white pedestal base pictured is not included.
Connecticut-based sculptor Joe Sorge studied at the School of Visual Art (SVA) in New York City. While Joe's body of work is most often made with stainless steel which he sometimes dyes to give the forms bold, solid colors, he also experiments with stone carving, genesa crystals, tiger eye alabaster and others. He works with a variety of colors, finishes, and textures, to create the final piece.
Joe's sculptures express the fluidity and tension inherent in the material he uses. His work draws on a modernist vocabulary to create abstract, often whimsical objects...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Chi
By Donald Martiny
Located in Westport, CT
Donald Martiny’s signature work is composed of dispersed pigment on aluminum. He creates immediately frozen brushstrokes that are made from his own movements. They are defined by the...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Pigment
$10,000
Jim Perry - Totem No. 10, Sculpture 2015
Located in Stamford, CT
Medium:
Sapele Wood
Jim Perry’s sculpture has been included in the Whitney Biennial as well as solo exhibitions at Calloway Fine Art & Consulting, Washington, DC (2018); The Center ...
Category
2010s Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood
I/O led light box, wall mount
By Mads Christensen
Located in New York, NY
This LED light box by Mads Christensen creates mood oriented and color changing variations that brings a subtle and enhancing sensory experience to a room. Easily installed as it ha...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
LED Light
Meeting Point, Caroline Bartlett, Contemporary Abstract Textile Wall Sculpture
Located in Wilton, CT
Meeting Point by Caroline Bartlett, Mono-printed, stitched and manipulated linen, cotton threads 60” x 16.5,” 2020.
UK fiber artist, Caroline Bartle...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Fabric, Tapestry, Cotton, Thread, Monoprint
Triangular Corner
By Roger Phillips
Located in New York, NY
Central to Phillips's artistic ethos is the pursuit of simplicity and purity, a quest manifest in his meticulous engineering and unwavering dedication to craftsmanship. His sculpture...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Point Out
By Bill Barrett
Located in New York, NY
Barrett is a large scale and well known American sculptor. Point Out is a superb small scale maquette and it a great piece on many levels. These works have movement, delicacy and s...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$12,000
"Princess Scarlet, " Abstract Porcelain Vase
Located in Westport, CT
This ceramic vessel sculpture by Jon Puzzuoli is made with glazed porcelain and 18K gold luster. The bottom portion is a deep, earthy purple color, which ...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Luster, Porcelain, Glaze
Angled Blue, Contemporary Geometric Tapestry by Adela Akers
By Adela Akers
Located in Wilton, CT
Adela Akers (b. 1933, Santiago de Compostela, Spain) is a Spanish-born textile and fiber artist. She is Professor Emeritus (1972 to 1995) at the Tyler Scho...
Category
1980s Abstract Geometric Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Fabric, Textile, Tapestry, Linen, Wool
Margaret VIII, Mid-Century Abstract Woven Tapestry, Textile Wall Sculpture
By Jolanta Owidzka
Located in Wilton, CT
Margaret VIII, flax, sisal and wool, 57" x 39", 1977.
This Mid-Century Modern abstract woven tapestry was done by Postwar and Contemporary Polish textile...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Fabric, Textile, Tapestry, Wool, Thread
"Princess February" Ceramic Vessel Sculpture
Located in Westport, CT
This glazed porcelain vase by Jon Puzzuoli features a burnt umber and white body and a wide neck finished with 18K gold luster. The artist's stamp is located at the base of the sculp...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Gold
Lu
By Donald Martiny
Located in Westport, CT
Donald Martiny’s signature work is composed of dispersed pigment on aluminum. He creates immediately frozen brushstrokes that are made from his own movements. They are defined by the...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Pigment
$18,000
"Vibrant Conversation", Contemporary Abstract Textile Wall Sculpture
By Marianne Kemp
Located in Wilton, CT
Vibrant Conversation, horsehair, cotton, linen, 49” x 70” x 6", 2018.
This vibrant contemporary abstract textile wall sculpture was done by textile artist, Marianne Kemp (b. 1976, W...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Fabric, Textile, Cotton, Tapestry, Linen
Kasuri Panel 145, Japanese Silk Textile Wall Hanging by Jun Tomita
Located in Wilton, CT
This silk ikat textile wall hanging is by Japanese fiber artist, Jun Tomita.
Category
1990s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Fabric, Textile, Tapestry, Silk
"Early Light" Textured Abstract Painting
By Teodora Guererra
Located in Westport, CT
This abstract painting by Teodora Guererra features a deep green and light pink palette. The artist layers thick strokes of paint using a palette knife in broad, horizontal sweeping ...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Suzanne Benton, Becoming, 1975, Copper, Coated Steel
By Suzanne Benton
Located in Darien, CT
In 1972, the women’s movement was in full flower. Suzanne Benton had been an early activist, a founder and organizer of NOW Chapters, CT Feminists in the Arts, Women, Metamorphosis 1 (in New Haven, CT, the first women’s art festival in the USA). She'd already been creating metal sculpted masks and working with them in mask tale performances of Women of Myth and Heritage. Her inaugural performance of Sarah and Hagar n 1972 took place at Lincoln Center in NYC.
Benton then became the artistic director and producer of an evening on Broadway, Four Chosen Women (performers included herself as mask tale performer, author Anais Nin, actress Vinie Burroughs and dancer Joan Stone). The evening took place at the Edison Theatre, November 22, 1972. While developing the evening on Broadway, Benton met renowned Swedish actress and Hollywood star, Viveca Lindfors.
Viveca was then working on her solo performance, I AM A WOMAN, and was looking for a unique theatre set for the show. The happenstance that brought Viveca and Suzanne together. At that same time, recent travel to Macchu Picchu inspired her with the mountain’s great stones sitting on the edge of precipices. These vast stones led her to create welded steel Seated Sculpture Works. Viveca was intrigued by the concept and let her own imagination fly. Imagining a set of welded steel sculpture, she took the leap in commissioning Suzanne with complete faith in artist's ability to fulfill her mandate. Benton created groups of welded sculptures for two theater sets.
Protection is one of three sculptures in first set created in 1973. Mother and Child, Pelvic Woman, Facing Each Other are three of five works from the 1974 second set. The first toured with her shows throughout the East Coast and into Toronto, Canada. The second set, created to nest together could travel as checked baggage for international and domestic airline travel. They flew to Denmark in 1980 for her performance at the UN sponsored 1980 Women’s International Conference, Copenhagen.
In addition to creating the theatre sets, Benton mounted exhibitions of her masks and sculptures in the lobbies of theatres where she performed (NYC and Northampton). Continuing on with this theme, Becoming is her 1975 Seated Sculpture Work. The theatre sets were returned at the final end of its long run. These Seated Sculpture Works have often been featured in exhibitions, including both the 2003 and 2005 retrospectives. They are part of an oeuvre of 797 sculptures and masks.
What attracted her to welded sculpture? This excerpt from her book, The Art of Welded Sculpture, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1975 speaks of its lure:
"Early in my life, when I had decided to become an artist, I had had an inner vision of being able to hold the physical material of my art in such a way as to bring it into existence with my hands. In welding, I wear a mask, a heavy apron, and gloves. I heat the metal and make it bend so smoothly and gracefully; I cut the metal, rigid metal, into endless shapes; I join the pieces by causing them to flow together with the heat of the flame. Welding was a return to my adolescent vision. It was fulfillment. At that beginning time I felt that even if I went no further, this experience in itself gave me astounding satisfaction. It was as thrilling as the moment of birth. It was my birth."
(Pelvic Woman and Protection are illustrated in the book):
What began in 1965 became by 2017 an oeuvre of 797 sculptures and masks. The magic of the welding mask...
Category
1970s Feminist Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Copper, Steel
"No Place Like Chrome" Metallic Abstract Painting
By Teodora Guererra
Located in Westport, CT
This abstract painting by Teodora Guererra features a metallic silver palette. The paint is layered thickly on canvas in wide, gestural strokes, creating a highly textured surface. I...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Estate of David Hayes_Form Study_plaster coated cut styrofoam_abstract sculpture
By David Hayes
Located in Darien, CT
ODETTA is pleased to offer this important sculpture from the Estate of David Hayes.
David Vincent Hayes (March 15, 1931 – April 9, 2013) was an American sculptor..
These Form Studi...
Category
1970s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Polystyrene, Plaster, Acrylic
Sound of the Fjord, Contemporary Scandinavian Woven Textile, by Åse Ljones
By Åse Ljones
Located in Wilton, CT
Åse Ljones’ hand-embroidered tapestry Sound on the Fjord reflects Ljones’ upbringing on a small rural farm, where sea and nature were close by. Ljones start...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Fabric, Textile, Tapestry, Thread
Remind Me - Copper Metal Rectangular Grid Wall Sculpture, 2025
Located in Kent, CT
Remind Me is a striking mixed-metal composition by contemporary artist Carolyn Millstein, known for her innovative use of reclaimed materials. This piece features a grid of rectangul...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Copper, Wire
Palisades, Contemporary Abstract Textile Wall Sculpture, Woven Tapestry
Located in Wilton, CT
Palisades, wool and sisal, 55" x 70", 1992. Contemporary Abstract Textile Wall Sculpture, Woven Tapestry.
Anna Urbanowicz-Krowacka (b 1938, Poland) gra...
Category
1990s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Fabric, Textile, Tapestry, Wool, Thread
Ecdysis, Jiro Yonezawa, Abstract Bamboo Sculpture
By Jiro Yonezawa
Located in Wilton, CT
Ecdysis, Jiro Yonezawa, bamboo, urushi lacquer, 27" x 8" x 5.75", 2019.
This abstract bamboo sculpture is by Japanese artist, Jiro Yonezawa (b. 1956). Y...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Coating
Hajibito (Ceramic 53), by Yasuhisa Kohyama
By Yasuhisa Kohyama
Located in Wilton, CT
Yasuhisa Kohyama shapes his asymmetrical forms using piano wire, creating distinctive rough surfaces. The clay with its feldspar nuggets creates a tac...
Category
1990s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Clay
