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Untitled #3/ Tied series (Black and white), Handmade Abstract Sculpture, 2018
By Yoonshin Park
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
“Tied”, the title of the installation, is a phonetic pun on the rising tides and the paper pages bound by threads.
As the water rises and falls, pages of our daily...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Illinois - Sculptures
Materials
Fabric, Thread, Ink, Handmade Paper
Marat/Apollo
By Christine Perri
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
This sculpture was inspired by David's late eighteenth-century painting, The Death of Marat. It is carved from various woods and cont...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Illinois - Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Woodcutter and Runaway
By Christine Perri
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
Woodcutter and Runaway consists of three carved log figures in a rectangular wood structure. There is a male log figure (the woodcutter) on tree stump pedestal...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Illinois - Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Blue Book
By Christine Perri
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
This sculpture is as close to a self portrait as I've ever done. The head and legs of the figure have references to books, and the figure carries a carved wood boo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Illinois - Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Seeking Arrangement
By Bobbi Meier
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
This soft, pepto-bismol pink sculpture intertwined around a found traditional lamp and wrapped around the table it is sitting on reminded me of people who are look...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Illinois - Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects, Other Medium, Oak
Untitled Flotsam
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
In my sculpture, I have always combined unrelated materials to represent oppositions such as hard and soft, ephemeral and enduring, open and closed, and natural an...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Illinois - Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
Untitled PB3
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
In my sculpture, I have always combined unrelated materials to represent oppositions such as hard and soft, ephemeral and enduring, open and closed, and natural an...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Illinois - Sculptures
Materials
Plastic
"Neapolitan Car, " Mixed-Media Sculpture
Located in Chicago, IL
To Chicago-based artist Patrick Fitzgerald, his miniature car sculptures are a means of traveling through time. Born from a fascination with the soap box...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Outsider Art Illinois - Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Paper, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic, Fabric
Untitled #2/ Tied series, Handmade Abstract Sculpture
By Yoonshin Park
Located in Boston, MA
Untitled #2/ Tied series
10.0 x 16.0 x 0.5, 1.0 lbs
Handmade paper
Hand signed by artist
Artist's Commentary:
"'Tied', the title of the installation series, is a phonetic pun on the rising tides and the paper pages bound by threads.
As the water rises and falls, pages of our daily experience add and subtract to and from our memory. Our daily life permeates our memory just as the ink is absorbed into each page and create new shapes and patterns onto what once was a clean slate of a blank page."
About the Artist:
Yoonshin Park is a Chicago based multimedia artist, curator, and educator working with sculptural papers, artist books, and installations. Her interest in the comprehensive process of papermaking and bookbinding caters her work to encompass various elements woven into complete objects. She often uses her experience as a foreign transplant to question space and its implications in defining one's identity as the inspiration behind her work. Park has shown at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Hyde Park Art Center...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Illinois - Sculptures
Materials
Handmade Paper
Remnants, Abstract Paper Sculpture, 2018
By Yoonshin Park
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
Remnants is a 3-part series with relief-like, sculptural pulp figures. Evolved from Finding Space, Remnants brings personal experience in unexpected incidents and uncontrollable situations into focus. This series narrates fragility and vulnerability. Handmade papers are layered as the accumulations of life and the traces of time. Stories from the past and the reminiscences are layered with another folds.
Please reach out to us about purchasing 1 part of the series.
Keywords: abstract, white, thread
Artist Biography:
Yoonshin Park is a Chicago based multimedia artist, curator, and educator working with sculptural papers, artist books, and installations. Her interest in the comprehensive process of papermaking and bookbinding caters her work to encompass various elements woven into complete objects. She often uses her experience as a foreign transplant to question space and its implications in defining one's identity as the inspiration behind her work.
Park has shown at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Hyde Park Art Center...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Illinois - Sculptures
Materials
Thread, Other Medium
Concrete form tube series #2, Original Abstract Sculpture, 2020
By Mia Capodilupo
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
This is from a series of sculptures created by casting different materials into a concrete form tube (sonotube) and combining that wit...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Illinois - Sculptures
Materials
Wire
Tablescape
By Bobbi Meier
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
This piece is constructed from my grandmother's dressing table mirror, a found table base, and dismembered segments of a soft sculpture I had previously made and n...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Illinois - Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects, Other Medium, Glass, Mirror, Spray Paint
Heartcarver
By Christine Perri
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
This sculpture is a classically carved walnut bas-relief of a female woodworker dressed in contemporary commercial materials: vinyl cloth stitched with tactical co...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Illinois - Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Planter
By Christine Perri
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
The main log of this sculpture was gotten through Chicago's Streets and Sanitation Department. It was from a catalpa tree that once grew in the city.
Keywords: fi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Illinois - Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Diver (Bronze) Carole Feuerman
By Carole A. Feuerman
Located in Chicago, IL
"Diver"
Medium: Patinated Bronze with Polished Bronze Cap
Edition of 8
Provenance: From the collection of the artist.
Dimensions of Male Figure: 100" x 32.5" x 14" in
-Dedicated ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Illinois - Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Price Upon Request
Spherification of the Line
Located in Chicago, IL
"Spherification of the Line" /"Esferificación de la Línea"
Available in Red, Yellow, and Blue
Year: 2021
Medium: Wood Laqued, Optic Fiber, Leeds
Provenance: From the collection of t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Illinois - Sculptures
Materials
Wood, LED Light
Price Upon Request
Estelar Geometric
Located in Chicago, IL
"Estelar Geometric"
Year: 2021
Medium: Wood Laqued, Optic Fiber, Leeds
Provenance: From the collection of the artist.
145 x 44 x 36 cm
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Illinois - Sculptures
Materials
Wood, LED Light
Price Upon Request
Estelar Warm
Located in Chicago, IL
"Estelar Warm"
Year: 2022
Medium: Wood Laqued, Optic Fiber, Leeds
Provenance: From the collection of the artist.
145 x 44 x 36 cm
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Illinois - Sculptures
Materials
LED Light, Wood
Price Upon Request
Nova 271
Located in Chicago, IL
"NOVA 271"
Year: 2019
Medium: Wood Laqued, Optic Fiber, Leeds
Provenance: From the collection of the artist.
120 x 120 x 120 x cm
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Illinois - Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Price Upon Request
...But I Love Her - Neon Light Installation
By David Drebin
Located in Chicago, IL
...But I Love Her, 2017
Neon Light
Edition of 9 + 1 AP (Artist's Proof)
40.5" x 53.5" x 6
Disarmingly blunt and intensely intimate, Drebin's neon light installations illuminate hi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Illinois - Sculptures
Materials
Neon Light
Price Upon Request
...But I Love Him - Neon Light Installation
By David Drebin
Located in Chicago, IL
...But I Love Him, 2017
Neon Light
Edition of 9 + 1 AP (Artist's Proof)
40.5" x 53.5" x 6
Disarmingly blunt and intensely intimate, Drebin's neon light installations illuminate hi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Illinois - Sculptures
Materials
Neon Light
Price Upon Request
Swept Away- Lenticular by David Drebin, 2023
By David Drebin
Located in Chicago, IL
Swept Away, 2023
Lenticular
Edition of 9
Size: 60" x 43"
New York City based multidisciplinary artist David Drebin is celebrated for creating spectacular images of dazzling subjec...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Illinois - Sculptures
Materials
Lenticular
Price Upon Request
...But I Love Her by David Drebin - 2017
By David Drebin
Located in Chicago, IL
...But I Love Her by David Drebin - 2017
Neon
Edition of 9 + 1 Artist's Proof
Size: 40.5" x 53.5" x 6"
New York City based multidisciplinary artist David Drebin is celebrated for c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Illinois - Sculptures
Materials
Neon Light
Price Upon Request
...But I Love Him by David Drebin - 2017
By David Drebin
Located in Chicago, IL
...But I Love Him by David Drebin - 2017
Neon
Edition of 9 + 1 Artist's Proof
Size: 40.5" x 53.5" x 6"
New York City based multidisciplinary artist David Drebin is celebrated for c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Illinois - Sculptures
Materials
Neon Light
Price Upon Request
Big Heart - Neon Light Installation
By David Drebin
Located in Chicago, IL
Big Heart, 2013
Edition of 9 + 1 AP (Artist's Proof)
40" x 30" x 7.5
Disarmingly blunt and intensely intimate, Drebin's neon light installations illuminate hidden aspirations and s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Illinois - Sculptures
Materials
Neon Light
Price Upon Request
Serenity
By Carole Feuerman
Located in Chicago, IL
Serenity by Carole Feuerman
Dimensions: 48" x 18" x 26"
About the artist:
Carole A. Feuerman (born 1945) is an American sculptor and author working in Hyperrealism. She is one of ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Illinois - Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Epoxy Resin
Price Upon Request
Miniature Quan
By Carole Feuerman
Located in Chicago, IL
Miniature Quan
Oil on Resin with Stainless Steel and 24k Gold Leaf
Purple Suit, 24k gold leaf cap, polished Stainless Steel Sphere
Variant 4 of 28
11” x 11” x 7”
Carole A. Feuerma...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Illinois - Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel, Gold Leaf
Price Upon Request
Life, 2023 by Henrik Abedian - Sometime Someone Somewhere Will Call
Located in Chicago, IL
"Life"
Framed digital composite.
Archival pigment print on acrylic glass
Size: 36" x 36" x 4"
Edition Size: 10
From the artist's "Life" series.
LIFE directly confronts the viewer...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Illinois - Sculptures
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Teardrop Vessel by Beatrice Wood (INV# NP4054)
By Beatrice Wood
Located in Morton Grove, IL
Beatrice Wood
Teardrop Vessel (INV# NP4045)
stoneware and glaze
6.25 x 4.5"
signed by artist
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Illinois - Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware, Glaze
Price Upon Request
The River of Life
Located in Chicago, IL
Unique
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Illinois - Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Price Upon Request
Magic Form 1
Located in Chicago, IL
Magic Form 1
2015
Stainless Steel
Enamel painted high-gloss lacquered -mirror finished
13.2283 in x 22.9134 in x 25.6693 in
(336 mm x 582 mm x 652 mm)
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Illinois - Sculptures
Materials
Enamel, Stainless Steel
Price Upon Request
Magic Cube 3.1.1
Located in Chicago, IL
Magic Form 3.1.1
2015
Stainless Steel
Enamel painted high-gloss lacquered -mirror finished
42.32283 in x 41.06299 in x 20.4724 in
(1075 mm x 1043 mm x 520 mm)
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Illinois - Sculptures
Materials
Enamel, Stainless Steel
Price Upon Request
Magic Cube 3.1.2
Located in Chicago, IL
Magic Form 3.1.2
2015
Stainless Steel
Enamel painted high-gloss lacquered -mirror finished
41.73228 in x 36.063 in x 47.87402 in
(1060 mm x 916mm x 1216 mm)
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Illinois - Sculptures
Materials
Enamel, Stainless Steel
Price Upon Request
Magic Form 2
Located in Chicago, IL
Magic Form 2
2015
Stainless Steel Enamel painted high-gloss lacquered - mirror finished
29.9213 in x 29.9213 in x 17.9528 in
(760 mm x 760mm x 456 mm)
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Illinois - Sculptures
Materials
Enamel, Stainless Steel
Price Upon Request
Perseverance
By Carole Feuerman
Located in Chicago, IL
"Perseverance "
Year: 2024
Medium: Oil on Resin with 24K Gold Leaf Cap
Dimensions: 35” x 12” x 12” in
Edition: 1/8
About the artist:
Carole A. Feuerman (born 1945) is an American...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Illinois - Sculptures
Materials
Gold Leaf
Price Upon Request
Serena by Carole Feuerman - Swimmer Sculpture
By Carole Feuerman
Located in Chicago, IL
Serena
Resin, Laquer, 24K Gold Leaf Cap
8" x 17" x 9
Carole A. Feuerman (born 1945) is an American sculptor and author working in Hyperrealism. She is one of the three artists ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Illinois - Sculptures
Materials
Resin
Price Upon Request
Contemplation
By Carole Feuerman
Located in Chicago, IL
Contemplation
Epoxy and Laquer
34" x 42" x 22"
Carole A. Feuerman (born 1945) is an American sculptor and author working in Hyperrealism. She is one of the three artists credit...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Illinois - Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Epoxy Resin
Price Upon Request
Plank of Water
By Sophia Collier
Located in Chicago, IL
Carved Acrylic Sculpture (Green)
48 x 15 x 2 inches
Edition 1 of 5
When Collier creates a new water surface she starts with a brush that she ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Illinois - Sculptures
Materials
Plastic
Price Upon Request
Honu
By Sophia Collier
Located in Chicago, IL
Carved Acrylic Sculpture (Blue)
48 x 15 x 2 inches
Edition 1 of 5
When Collier creates a new water surface she starts with a brush that she b...
Category
2010s Contemporary Illinois - Sculptures
Materials
Plastic
Price Upon Request
Sea Change
By Sophia Collier
Located in Chicago, IL
Carved Acrylic Sculpture (Clear)
72 x 16 x 2 inches
Edition 1 of 3
When Sophia Collier creates a new water surface she starts with a brush th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Illinois - Sculptures
Materials
Plastic
Price Upon Request
Pegnion (Equus with Acrobats)
By Kostis Georgiou
Located in Chicago, IL
Pegnion (Equus with Acrobats)
Bronze sculpture
300 x 32 x 140 cm
118.11" x 12.60” x 55.12”
Available in Blue, Red, Gold, and Silver painted patinas
Born in Thessaloniki, Greece, ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Illinois - Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Price Upon Request
Ship Vessel by Ron Nagle
By Ron Nagle
Located in Morton Grove, IL
Ron Nagle
Ship Cup
porcelain, glaze and red enamel overglaze
2015
Ron Nagle is one of the most important sculptors in the United States. He work is highly collected and included in museum collections such as Shigaraki Museum, Japan; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Musée de Plastique, Paris; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Stedelijk Museum in the Netherlands. He was born in San Francisco and began working with ceramics during the 1950s as a high school student. In 1961 he apprenticed to Peter Voulkos at the University of California, Berkeley, and later exhibited his work alongside Voulkos, Ken Price, and other innovative West Coast artists working in clay. His work is inspired by such artists as Giorgio Morandi, Phillip Guston, and George Herriman...
Category
2010s Contemporary Illinois - Sculptures
Materials
Enamel
Price Upon Request
Euphoria
By Kostis Georgiou
Located in Chicago, IL
Euphoria
Bronze sculpture
275 x 106 x 83 cm
108.3" x 41.73” x 32.7”
Available in RED & BLACK painted patinas
Born in Thessaloniki, Greece, Kostis Georgiou studied stage scenery...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Illinois - Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Price Upon Request
Epiphanion
By Kostis Georgiou
Located in Chicago, IL
Epiphanion
Bronze sculpture
145 x 130 x 80 cm
57.1” x 51.2” x 31.5”
Available in RED & BLACK painted patinas
Born in Thessaloniki, Greece, Kostis Georgiou studied stage scenery in Florence (1981-1982), painting and sculpture in the School of Fine Arts, Athens (1982-1986) with Dimitris Mitaras and Dimosthenis Kokinidis, as well as at the Royal College of Fine Arts, London (1985-1986) with Peter de Francia...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Illinois - Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Price Upon Request
Meteoron
By Kostis Georgiou
Located in Chicago, IL
Meteoron
Bronze sculpture
205 x 100 x 70 cm
80.7” x 39.4” x 27.6”
Available in RED & BLACK painted patinas
Born in Thessaloniki, Greece, Kostis Georgiou studied stage scenery in Florence (1981-1982), painting and sculpture in the School of Fine Arts, Athens (1982-1986) with Dimitris Mitaras and Dimosthenis Kokinidis, as well as at the Royal College of Fine Arts, London (1985-1986) with Peter de Francia...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Illinois - Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Price Upon Request
Diver
By Kostis Georgiou
Located in Chicago, IL
Diver
Bronze sculpture
240 x 100 x 60 cm
94.5” x 39.4” x 23.62”
Available in RED & BLACK painted patinas
Born in Thessaloniki, Greece, Kostis Georgiou studied stage scenery in Florence (1981-1982), painting and sculpture in the School of Fine Arts, Athens (1982-1986) with Dimitris Mitaras and Dimosthenis Kokinidis, as well as at the Royal College of Fine Arts, London (1985-1986) with Peter de Francia...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Illinois - Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Price Upon Request
Diver
By Kostis Georgiou
Located in Chicago, IL
Diver
Bronze sculpture
230 x 100 x 50 cm
90.6” x 39.4” x 19.7”
Available in RED & BLACK painted patinas
Born in Thessaloniki, Greece, Kostis Georgiou studied stage scenery in Florence (1981-1982), painting and sculpture in the School of Fine Arts, Athens (1982-1986) with Dimitris Mitaras and Dimosthenis Kokinidis, as well as at the Royal College of Fine Arts, London (1985-1986) with Peter de Francia...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Illinois - Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Price Upon Request
Phantom Anima (The Spirit Phantom)
By Blake Ward
Located in Chicago, IL
The Spirit Phantom. Defined as “an individual's true inner self” referring to “the unconscious mind” or “the undiscovered self” in the analytic psychology of Carl Jung. It can also “...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Illinois - Sculptures
Materials
Bronze, Gold Leaf
Price Upon Request
Angel Bahram (Angel of Victory)
By Blake Ward
Located in Chicago, IL
Angel of Victory. Bahram reveals inner strength and complexity of character. She stands tall in the face of danger. Her coiled interior is firmly gr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Illinois - Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Price Upon Request
Angel Hamael (Angel of Dignity)
By Blake Ward
Located in Chicago, IL
Angel of Dignity. Hamael encourages us to persist and be practical.
Bronze
Monaco 2012
Unique Piece
29.1 x 7.5 x 13.4 inches
ARTIST STATEMENT:
"The beauty, grace and symmetry of traditional figurative sculpture has always called to me. It is my school and my obsession. My language is the figure and I feel the need to comment on the human condition, sometimes distorted by demons, and other times enchanted by all that is pure within us.
I have renewed my relationship to the human form. It has undergone a metamorphosis from silent conformity, where the rules and proportions are tantamount to a partial figure where the human condition becomes of primary importance. I want to stretch the canons of classical realism by giving beauty another voice that challenges socio-political norms. I speak of spirit and courage, of heritage and of imperishable strength.
Today I challenge the traditional figure, creating a characterization of the Spirit; a metaphor to our inner world that might encourage us to seek a deeper understanding of ourselves. Consciousness, as a philosophical concept, can lead us many places, from the empirical world of the cognitive sciences to a theoretical one, where psychology attempts to provide the answers. It is my intention to reach into the 21st. century using sculpture to transcend disciplinary boundaries between the physical bodies in bronze and the self-knowledge and understanding of the ethereal realm that is our internal landscape."
~ Blake Ward...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Illinois - Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Price Upon Request
Andromeda: Devorah
By Blake Ward
Located in Chicago, IL
Andromeda Series: Devorah 62
Digital 3D Printed in wax polymer Cast
Final bronze case produced at ArtCast Georgetown Ontario, Canada 2018
Bronze
Monaco 2013
24.4 x 4.7 x 7.9 inches
Edition size: 3 plus 1 AP
ARTIST STATEMENT:
"The beauty, grace and symmetry of traditional figurative sculpture has always called to me. It is my school and my obsession. My language is the figure and I feel the need to comment on the human condition, sometimes distorted by demons, and other times enchanted by all that is pure within us.
I have renewed my relationship to the human form. It has undergone a metamorphosis from silent conformity, where the rules and proportions are tantamount to a partial figure where the human condition becomes of primary importance. I want to stretch the canons of classical realism by giving beauty another voice that challenges socio-political norms. I speak of spirit and courage, of heritage and of imperishable strength.
Today I challenge the traditional figure, creating a characterization of the Spirit; a metaphor to our inner world that might encourage us to seek a deeper understanding of ourselves. Consciousness, as a philosophical concept, can lead us many places, from the empirical world of the cognitive sciences to a theoretical one, where psychology attempts to provide the answers. It is my intention to reach into the 21st. century using sculpture to transcend disciplinary boundaries between the physical bodies in bronze and the self-knowledge and understanding of the ethereal realm that is our internal landscape."
~ Blake Ward...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Illinois - Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Price Upon Request
Babylonian Marut (Angel of Babylon)
By Blake Ward
Located in Chicago, IL
Babylonian Marut (Angel of Babylon). The Qur’an (2:102) relates an account of two angels named Harut and Marut who were sent to the people of Babylon to test their faith by teaching ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Illinois - Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Price Upon Request
Babylonian Harut (Angel of Babylon)
By Blake Ward
Located in Chicago, IL
Babylonian Harut (Angel of Babylon). The Qur’an (2:102) relates an account of two angels named Harut and Marut who were sent to the people of Babylon to test their faith by teaching them magic.
Bronze
Monaco 2014
Unique Piece
29.9 x 10.2 x 17.3 inches
ARTIST STATEMENT:
"The beauty, grace and symmetry of traditional figurative sculpture has always called to me. It is my school and my obsession. My language is the figure and I feel the need to comment on the human condition, sometimes distorted by demons, and other times enchanted by all that is pure within us.
I have renewed my relationship to the human form. It has undergone a metamorphosis from silent conformity, where the rules and proportions are tantamount to a partial figure where the human condition becomes of primary importance. I want to stretch the canons of classical realism by giving beauty another voice that challenges socio-political norms. I speak of spirit and courage, of heritage and of imperishable strength.
Today I challenge the traditional figure, creating a characterization of the Spirit; a metaphor to our inner world that might encourage us to seek a deeper understanding of ourselves. Consciousness, as a philosophical concept, can lead us many places, from the empirical world of the cognitive sciences to a theoretical one, where psychology attempts to provide the answers. It is my intention to reach into the 21st. century using sculpture to transcend disciplinary boundaries between the physical bodies in bronze and the self-knowledge and understanding of the ethereal realm that is our internal landscape."
~ Blake Ward...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Illinois - Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Price Upon Request
Angel Inanna (Sumerian Goddess of Love and War)
By Blake Ward
Located in Chicago, IL
Sumerian Goddess of Love & War. Inanna was also associated with rain and storms and with the planet Venus.
Her name is commonly derived from Nin-anna "...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Illinois - Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Price Upon Request
August
By Sophia Collier
Located in Chicago, IL
Carved Acrylic Sculpture (Green)
48 x 15 x 2 inches
Edition 1 of 5
When Collier creates a new water surface she starts with a brush that ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Illinois - Sculptures
Materials
Plastic
Price Upon Request
Phantom Zella (The Shadow Phantom)
By Blake Ward
Located in Chicago, IL
The Shadow Phantom. The Egyptians believed that a person’s shadow was an important element of that person as it is formed by the sun; a sacred symbol in their faith. An individual’s ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Illinois - Sculptures
Materials
Gold, Bronze
Price Upon Request
Angel Muriel
By Blake Ward
Located in Chicago, IL
Angel of Emotional Awareness
Bronze
23.3 x 8 x 7.5 inches
58.9 × 21.1 × 19.1 cm
This sculpture is from THE SPIRIT COLLECTION and was featured in Blake Ward...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Illinois - Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Price Upon Request
Angel Perpetiel (Angel of Success)
By Blake Ward
Located in Chicago, IL
Angel of Success. Considered an archangel by some, Perpetiel encourages our dreams and aspirations and assists by bring our awareness to the diligence and focus required to be succes...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Illinois - Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Price Upon Request
Ushabti Hathor (Goddess of Love)
By Blake Ward
Located in Chicago, IL
Goddess of Love.
Bronze
28.7 x 3.5 x 6.7 in
73 x 9 x 17 cm
Hathor is a solar deity, the goddess of beauty, music, dance, joy, motherhood, and love....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Illinois - Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Price Upon Request
Ushabti Hetheru (Goddess of Creation)
By Blake Ward
Located in Chicago, IL
Goddess of Creation.
Bronze
31.5 x 6.7 x 6.3 inches
80 × 17 × 16 cm
Hathor, meaning “the house of Horus” referring to the sky. She is the Goddess associated with creation and fertility.
This sculpture is from THE SPIRIT COLLECTION and was featured in Blake Ward's most recent exhibition "INNER PERCEPTIONS, OUTER REFLECTIONS" at Hilton Asmus...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Illinois - Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Price Upon Request
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How the Chunky, Funky Ceramics of 5 Mid-Century American Artists Balanced Out Slick Modernism
Get to know the innovators behind the pottery countercultural revolution.
Art Brings the Drama in These Intriguing 1stDibs 50 Spaces
The world’s top designers explain how they display art to elicit the natural (and supernatural) energy of home interiors.
Chryssa’s 1962 Neon Sculpture Was Way ahead of the Art-World Curve
By working with lettering, neon and Pop imagery, Chryssa pioneered several postmodern themes at a time when most male artists detested commercial mediums.
How to Spot a Fake KAWS Figure
KAWS art toys have developed an avid audience in recent decades, and as in any robust collectible market, counterfeiters have followed the mania. Of course, you don’t have to worry about that on 1stDibs, where all our sellers are highly vetted.
A Giant Wedding Cake Has Us Looking at Portuguese Tiles in a New Light
At Waddesdon Manor, artist Joana Vasconcelos has installed a three-tiered patisserie inspired by the narrative tile work of her homeland. We take a look at the cake sculpture and how Portuguese tiles have been used in architecture from the 17th century to today.
These Soft Sculptures Are Childhood Imaginary Friends Come to Life
Miami artist and designer Gabriela Noelle’s fantastical creations appeal to the Peter Pan in all of us.