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Santiago Medina - FUTURA SUSPENDED, Sculpture 2023
By Santiago Medina
Located in Stamford, CT
FUTURA SUSPENDED
Santiago Medina
ITALIAN STAINLESS STEEL
68 x 5 x 2 IN
Edition of 5
All sculptures are made with the highest quality Italian stainless steel available and imported f...
Category
2010s Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Emily Feinstein, Barge, 2015, Wood, Paint
By Emily Feinstein
Located in Darien, CT
Emily Feinstein grew up with a father who was a cabinetmaker with a shop in the basement. She spent a lot of time making things and constructing with wood. Her ongoing interest in r...
Category
2010s Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Paint
"Ocean Swirl 3" Small Ceramic Sculptural Vase
Located in Westport, CT
This small glazed porcelain sculptural vessel by Jon Puzzuoli features a light blue-green palette and a wave pattern over the surface of the piece. The flared neck is finished with 1...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Gold
Santiago Medina - FLAME OF GENESIS, Sculpture 2020
By Santiago Medina
Located in Stamford, CT
Italian stainless steel that shows the genesis of sculpture from rough unfinished at the bottom to highly polished at the top (unique piece).
Sculptor Santiago Medina Italian stainl...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Santiago Medina - UNITY ( OUTDOOR MONUMENTAL), Sculpture 2021
By Santiago Medina
Located in Stamford, CT
Marine outdoor Italian stainless steel with turquoise tint.
Sculptor Santiago Medina Italian stainless steel sculptures are at marquee public art venues worldwide such as Harvard, S...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Santiago Medina - TIME AND SPACE (WALL PIECE), Sculpture 2021
By Santiago Medina
Located in Stamford, CT
Printed on Italian stainless steel.
Sculptor Santiago Medina Italian stainless steel sculptures are at marquee public art venues worldwide such as Harvard, Stanford University, City...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Santiago Medina - ENCANTO INDOOR MONUMENTAL, Sculpture 2023
By Santiago Medina
Located in Stamford, CT
ENCANTO INDOOR MONUMENTAL
Santiago Medina
ITALIAN STAINLESS STEEL
99 x 10 x 6 in WITH BASE
Edition of 5
All sculptures are made with the highest quality Italian stainless steel ava...
Category
2010s Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Santiago Medina - INNER STRENGTH (TABLE TOP), Sculpture 2022
By Santiago Medina
Located in Stamford, CT
Italian stainless steel with a special high-temperature patina.
Sculptor Santiago Medina Italian stainless steel sculptures are at marquee public art venues worldwide such as Harvar...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Santiago Medina - RED ECLIPSE, Sculpture 2020
By Santiago Medina
Located in Stamford, CT
Italian stainless steel with red tint.
Sculptor Santiago Medina Italian stainless steel sculptures are at marquee public art venues worldwide such as Harvard, Stanford University, C...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Santiago Medina - PERSEVERANCE, Sculpture 2021
By Santiago Medina
Located in Stamford, CT
Two-piece Italian stainless steel with a blue tint. Allows the collector to change the position of the pieces so the collector can become part of the artistic expression.
Sculptor S...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
"Queen Santorini" Ceramic Vessel Sculpture
Located in Westport, CT
This glazed porcelain vase sculpture 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...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Gold
"Queen Charlotte" Glazed Porcelain Vessel Sculpture
Located in Westport, CT
This crystalline glazed porcelain vase by Jon Puzzuoli features a white and cream-toned palette with a narrow neck and lip finished in 18K gold luster.
Crystalline glazes are speci...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain
"Queen Neptune Rain" Porcelain Vessel Sculpture
Located in Westport, CT
This large crystalline glazed porcelain vase by Jon Puzzuoli features a vibrant blue and teal palette and a wide neck. Crystalline glazes are special ceramic glazes in which zinc-sil...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain
"Golden Girls I
II" Metallic Gold Abstract Paintings
By Teodora Guererra
Located in Westport, CT
This pair of abstract paintings by Teodora Guererra features a metallic gold palette. The paint is layered on canvas in thick strokes for a highly textured surface. These two paintin...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Eclate de Braise, Mid-Century Abstract Woven Tapestry
By Mariette Rousseau-Vermette
Located in Wilton, CT
Eclate de Braise, wool, 33" x 24", 1966.
This mid-century abstract woven tapestry was done by Canadian textile artist, Mariette Rousseau-Vermet...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Fabric, Textile, Tapestry, Wool
"Queen Snowfish" Ceramic Vessel Sculpture
Located in Westport, CT
This glazed porcelain vase sculpture by Jon Puzzuoli features a white body with a textured lower half and a neck finished with 18K gold luster. The artist's stamp is located at the b...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Gold
"Queen Stingray" Ceramic Vessel Sculpture
Located in Westport, CT
This glazed porcelain vase sculpture 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...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Gold
Copper Rings Mesh
Located in New York, NY
Daniela Cutait studied fine arts at FAAP in Sao Paulo in the early 1990s and has always been curious, creative, communicative and restless. The artist orbited through the universe of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Copper
"Queen Ellsworth, " Abstract Porcelain Sculpture
Located in Westport, CT
This porcelain vessel sculpture by Jon Puzzuoli is made with glazed porcelain and 14K gold luster. The round body is a light blue color with white crystals formed along the surface. ...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain, Glaze, Luster
"Queen Enceladus, " Abstract Porcelain Sculpture
Located in Westport, CT
This raku ceramic vessel sculpture by Jon Puzzuoli is made with glazed porcelain. The base of the round body is a deep umber color with at texture and matte finish, while the top por...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain, Glaze
"Ocean Swirl 2" Small Green and Gold Wave Ceramic Sculptural Vase
Located in Westport, CT
This small glazed porcelain sculptural vessel by Jon Puzzuoli features a light green palette with a sandy beige accent applied in a wave pattern over the surface of the piece. The fl...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Gold
"Queen Pluto" Porcelain Vessel Sculpture
Located in Westport, CT
This large crystalline glazed porcelain vase by Jon Puzzuoli features a deep blue palette at its base, which fades to a more vibrant blue tone and blends up to a wide, white neck and...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain
"Alpine View" 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
Ceramic, Porcelain
Jo Yarrington, Mute-Ability_Composition 5, 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.
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 Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Untitled abstraction
By Bill Barrett
Located in New York, NY
Bill Barrett is one of today’s foremost sculptors, exhibiting his unique metal and bronze sculptures in numerous exhibitions since the mid 1960’s. Barrett’s sculptures are predicate...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
24 inch Red Figure Eight on Column
By Roger Phillips
Located in New York, NY
Roger Phillips (American, 1930-2022)
Figure Eight on Open Rectangle, 2006
Signed: Roger Phillips 2006 #2/6 on edge of base
Stainless steel and painted aluminum
90 x 33 x 47 1/2 inche...
Category
2010s Kinetic Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Enamel, Stainless Steel
Jesse Hickman, Note Three Twenty Seven Sixteen F, 2016, Enamel, Wood, Glue
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 Minimalist Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Enamel
"Queen Glinda, " Abstract Porcelain Sculpture
Located in Westport, CT
This ceramic vessel by Jon Puzzuoli is made with porcelain and a crystalline glaze. It features a light, neutral palette of creme, white, and gold. The bottom portion of the round, c...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Gold
"Blending In" Textured Abstract Painting
By Teodora Guererra
Located in Westport, CT
This abstract painting by Teodora Guererra features a deep teal and pink palette. The artist layers thick strokes of paint using a palette knife in broad, horizontal sweeping strokes...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Curves Ahead
Located in Westport, CT
Angela Lane’s three-dimensional abstract works are organic structures that synthesize distinct elements. The core of the work is the painter’s pursuit of ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel
"Plum Neutral I
II " A Pair of Textured Abstract Paintings
By Teodora Guererra
Located in Westport, CT
This pair of textured abstract paintings by Teodora Guererra features a light, greyscale palette with subtle warm accents throughout the composition. The artist layers thick strokes ...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic, Board
Patricia Miranda, Florilegium Series, 2016, cochineal dyes, antique books, pearl
By Patricia Miranda
Located in Darien, CT
Patricia Miranda's work includes interdisciplinary installation, textile, paper and books. The textiles incorporated in these new pieces are vintage linens from her Italian and Irish grandmothers and sourced from friends and strangers around the country. Each donation is documented and integrated into the work. Textile as a form that wraps the body from cradle to grave. The role of lacemaking in the lives of women both economically and historically is packed with metaphorical potential. The relationship of craft and women’s work (re)appropriated by artists today to environmental and social issues is integral to the artist's research.
Her work is process oriented; materials are submerged in natural dyes from oak gall wasp nests, cochineal insects, turmeric, indigo, and clay. She forages for raw materials, cook dyes, grind pigments, ecofeminist actions that consider environmental impacts of objects. The process is left visible as dyestuff is unfiltered in the vat and finished work. Sewn into larger works, Miranda incorporates hair, pearls, bone beads, Milagros, cast plaster. The distinct genetics and environmental and cultural history of each material asserts its voice as collaborator rather than medium.
The lace inserts a visceral femininity into the pristine gallery, and exerts a ghostly trace of the history of domestic labor. The combination of earth and lace references human and environmental devastation and the conflation of nature and women’s bodies as justifications for exploitation. Mournful and solastalgic, they are lamentations to the violence against women and the earth.
Patricia Miranda is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, educator, and founder of The Crit Lab, graduate-level critique seminars and Residency for artists, and MAPSpace project space. She has been Visiting Artist at Vermont Studio Center, the Heckscher Museum, and University of Utah; and been awarded residencies at I-Park, Weir Farm, Vermont Studio Center, and Julio Valdez Printmaking Studio.
She received an Anonymous Was a Woman Covid19 Artist Relief Grant, an artist grant from ArtsWestchester/New York State Council on the Arts, and was part of a year-long NEA grant working with homeless youth.
Miranda currently teaches graduate curatorial studies at Western Colorado University, and develops programs for K-12, museums, and institutions such as Franklin Furnace.
Her work has been exhibited at ODETTA, NYC; ABC No Rio, NYC; Alexey von...
Category
2010s Feminist Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Fabric, Thread, Plaster, Dye, Found Objects
"Queen Sahara, " Abstract Porcelain Vase
Located in Westport, CT
This ceramic vessel sculpture by Jon Puzzuoli is made with glazed porcelain. It has a vibrant red and cream palette, with a round body and a fluted neck. The piece has a raku finish,...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain, Glaze
Santiago Medina - GEMINI, 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
"Endless Sky" Textured Abstract Painting
By Teodora Guererra
Located in Westport, CT
This horizontal abstract painting by Teodora Guererra features a blue, teal, lavender and white palette. The artist layers thick strokes of paint using a palette knife in broad, hori...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Orange Skyline, " Stainless Steel Sculpture
Located in Westport, CT
Orange Skyline is an abstract sculpture by Joe Sorge, made from stainless steel with an orange dye and clear coat. The white pedestal pictured beneath the sculpture base is not included.
Connecticut sculptor Joe Sorge says about his work, "The works express fluidity and the resulting tension inherent in the material is balanced by the ensuing harmony of the sculptural object. The result is an expression that comes from a comprehensive understanding of the material and method. The work draws from the modernist vocabulary to create abstract, sometimes whimsical objects...
Category
2010s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
"Blueberry Shortcake Mini I and II" Abstract Painting Diptych
By Teodora Guererra
Located in Westport, CT
This textured abstract diptych by Teodora Guererra features a light blue, grey, and white palette. The artist layers thick strokes of paint using a palette knife over board, creating...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic, Board
"Princess Aspen, " Ceramic Vessel
Located in Westport, CT
This glazed porcelain vessel by Jon Puzzuoli features a warm earth-toned palette with a crystalline glaze which creates the aesthetic of light blue "crystals" over the surface of the piece. It has a wide, curved, dark umber-toned neck. The artist's stamp is located at the base of the vessel.
Crystalline glazes are special ceramic glazes in which zinc-silicate crystals grow inside the glaze while it is still very hot. The crystals begin as microscopic seeds in the glaze, which form in random numbers and locations. When the kiln is cooled to the proper temperature, crystals start to grow. In order for crystals to grow, the glaze must be very fluid. Much of the glaze runs off the vessel during the firing into a catch basin...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain
"Queen Capricorn, " Abstract Ceramic Vessel
Located in Westport, CT
This glazed porcelain vessel by Jon Puzzuoli features blue, cream and white palette. The crystalline glaze applied over the ceramic creates small, organic, crystal-like elements in t...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain
"Queen Amazon, " Ceramic Vessel
Located in Westport, CT
This crystalline glazed porcelain vessel by Jon Puzzuoli features an earthy green and sand-toned palette and a dark, narrow neck. The crystalline glaze over the surface creates the aesthetic of green "crystals" which form along the the surface of the piece. The artist's stamp can be found at the base of the vessel.
Crystalline glazes are special ceramic glazes in which zinc-silicate crystals grow inside the glaze while it is still very hot. The crystals begin as microscopic seeds in the glaze, which form in random numbers and locations. When the kiln is cooled to the proper temperature, crystals start to grow.
In order for crystals to grow, the glaze must be very fluid. Much of the glaze runs off the vessel during the firing into a catch basin...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain
Steven Baris, Ruse Of Transparency 13, 2014, plexiglass, acrylic paint
By Steven Baris
Located in Darien, CT
Steve Baris is interested in the interconnections of the built environment and spatial experience.
His artwork is a response to a largely overlooked type of landscape that is emerg...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Plexiglass, Acrylic
Estate of David Hayes_Form Study_carved plaster of paris_1970_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..
Hayes received a...
Category
1970s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
"Queen Florence, " Abstract Ceramic Vessel
Located in Westport, CT
This glazed porcelain vessel features a bright turquoise form which fades to a white crystalline drip, and cascades over a faded blue base. The wide neck and lip are charcoal grey.
Jon Puzzuoli...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain
Liz Sweibel, Untitled (Splinter 8 ), 2014, Wood, Paint, Found Objects
By Liz Sweibel
Located in Darien, CT
Liz Sweibel primarily makes sculpture, installations, and drawings. She uses a spare, personal language of abstraction to explore liminal spaces and unseen forces: wind, history, va...
Category
2010s Minimalist Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Paint, Found Objects
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
Estate of David Hayes_Form Study_carved plaster of paris_1970_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..
Hayes received a...
Category
1970s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
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
Plaster
Diane Englander, White and Wood XVI, 2015, Wood, Mixed Media
By Diane Englander
Located in Darien, CT
A native New Yorker, Diane had an earlier career including 17 years as a management consultant to local nonprofits concerned with poverty or disenfranchisement; work in NYC governmen...
Category
2010s Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Jose Soto, Focus, 2017, Steel, Mirror, Plexiglass, Wood, Adhesive
By Jose Soto
Located in Darien, CT
FOCUS is a public art sculpture about photographic vision and how it shapes the way we see the world. It is concerned with the viewer’s growing visual perception and bodily experienc...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Jo Yarrington, Orchestrations, 2016, Found Objects, Plexiglass
By Jo Yarrington
Located in Darien, CT
The installation, Orchestrations, explores the vernacular in vintage piano roles. The physical perforations in the piano roll paper, coded notations for sound, act as a vehicle for l...
Category
2010s Post-Minimalist Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Plexiglass, Found Objects
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
Plaster, Polystyrene, Acrylic
Estate of David Hayes_Form Study_carved plaster of paris_1970_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..
Hayes received a...
Category
1970s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
"Queen Elizabeth, " Abstract Ceramic Vase
Located in Westport, CT
This small abstract vessel by Connecticut-based ceramicist, Jon Puzzuoli, is made with glazed ceramic and 18k gold luster. The bottom, matte white base of the vessel is exposed under...
Category
2010s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Gold
Patricia Miranda, Pearls Before Swine 2020, cochineal dyes, pages, sewn pearls
By Patricia Miranda
Located in Darien, CT
Patricia Miranda's work includes interdisciplinary installation, textile, paper and books. The textiles incorporated in these new pieces are vintage linens from her Italian and Irish grandmothers and sourced from friends and strangers around the country. Each donation is documented and integrated into the work. Textile as a form that wraps the body from cradle to grave. The role of lacemaking in the lives of women both economically and historically is packed with metaphorical potential. The relationship of craft and women’s work (re)appropriated by artists today to environmental and social issues is integral to the artist's research.
Her work is process oriented; materials are submerged in natural dyes from oak gall wasp nests, cochineal insects, turmeric, indigo, and clay. She forages for raw materials, cook dyes, grind pigments, ecofeminist actions that consider environmental impacts of objects. The process is left visible as dyestuff is unfiltered in the vat and finished work. Sewn into larger works, Miranda incorporates hair, pearls, bone beads, Milagros, cast plaster. The distinct genetics and environmental and cultural history of each material asserts its voice as collaborator rather than medium.
The lace inserts a visceral femininity into the pristine gallery, and exerts a ghostly trace of the history of domestic labor. The combination of earth and lace references human and environmental devastation and the conflation of nature and women’s bodies as justifications for exploitation. Mournful and solastalgic, they are lamentations to the violence against women and the earth.
Patricia Miranda is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, educator, and founder of The Crit Lab, graduate-level critique seminars and Residency for artists, and MAPSpace project space. She has been Visiting Artist at Vermont Studio Center, the Heckscher Museum, and University of Utah; and been awarded residencies at I-Park, Weir Farm, Vermont Studio Center, and Julio Valdez Printmaking Studio.
She received an Anonymous Was a Woman Covid19 Artist Relief Grant, an artist grant from ArtsWestchester/New York State Council on the Arts, and was part of a year-long NEA grant working with homeless youth.
Miranda currently teaches graduate curatorial studies at Western Colorado University, and develops programs for K-12, museums, and institutions such as Franklin Furnace.
Her work has been exhibited at ODETTA, NYC; ABC No Rio, NYC; Alexey von...
Category
2010s Feminist Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Thread, Dye, Found Objects
Azul, Carolina Yrarrázaval, handwoven textile
Located in Wilton, CT
This handwoven contemporary textile sculpture, Azul, was done by Chilean fiber artist, Carolina Yrarrázaval (b. 1960). Yrarrázaval explains her in...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Fabric, Textile, Linen
Gil Scullion, You First, 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 Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Paper
Jo Yarrington, Mute-Ability_Composition 1, 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.
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 Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Jo Yarrington, Mute-Ability_Composition 3, 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, Y...
Category
2010s Conceptual Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
"Traces" Mid Century Woven Polish Tapestry, Figurative Textile Wall Sculpture
By Lilla Kulka
Located in Wilton, CT
Traces, sisal and hand spun wool, 108" x 42", 1979.
This large, figurative, mid-century modern tapestry was done by Polish textile artist, Lilla Kulka...
Category
1970s Abstract Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Fabric, Textile, Tapestry, Wool, Thread
The Time of Our Time Has Come and Gone, 2018, Gaffer tape on floor
By David Borawski
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 Connecticut - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Tape
