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Item Ships From: New York City
Brown Bowl, Hand-Blown Glass Sculpture by Ira Sapir
Located in Long Island City, NY
Glass Bowl
Ira Sapir, American (1955)
Hand-Blown Glass
Size: 4 x 7.63 x 7.63 in. (10.16 x 19.37 x 19.37 cm)
Category
1980s Abstract New York City - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Blown Glass
Armadura Terrestre II, Aluminum and Oxidized Steel Sculpture by Amadeo Gabino
Located in Long Island City, NY
Armadura Terrestre II
Amadeo Gabino, Spanish (1922–2004)
Date: circa 1974
Oxidized Steel and polished aluminum sculpture
Size: 19.75 x 19.75 x 2.25 in. (50.17 x 50.17 x 5.72 cm)
Category
1970s Modern New York City - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Steel
Wood, Metal, Stone, Mixed Media Contemporary Sculpture - Dream Scepter 159
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Dream Scepter 159 - Wood, Metal, Stone, Mixed Media Contemporary Sculpture
In the 1980s, Linda Stein began a series called Ceremonial Scepters, where she imagined an ex...
Category
1980s Contemporary New York City - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stone, Metal
Wood, Metal, Mixed Media Contemporary Art Sculpture - Afterlife 164
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Afterlife 164 - Wood, Metal, Stone, Mixed Media Contemporary Sculpture
In the 1980s, Linda Stein began a series called Ceremonial Scepters, where she imagined an exca...
Category
1980s Contemporary New York City - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Wood, Metal, Stone, Mixed Media Contemporary Sculpture - Rocking Staff 171
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Rocking Staff 171 - Wood, Metal, Stone, Mixed Media Contemporary Sculpture
In the 1980s, Linda Stein began a series called Ceremonial Scepters, where she imagined an ...
Category
1980s Contemporary New York City - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stone, Metal
Wood, Metal, Stone, Mixed Media Contemporary Sculpture - Easel Scepter 167
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Easel Scepter 167 - Wood, Metal, Stone, Mixed Media Contemporary Sculpture
In the 1980s, Linda Stein began a series called Ceremonial Scepters, where she imagined an e...
Category
1980s Contemporary New York City - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stone, Metal
Bruce # 9
By Ray Geary
Located in New York, NY
Ray Geary
Bruce #9, 2016
Steel
Incised signature, title and date on the underside
10 x 7 inches
Bruce # 9 is one of ten unique sculptures that popular young sculptor Ray Geary made exclusively for the Whitney Museum. Below is how the Museum described the series:
These fanciful totemic objects, lovingly named Bruce, are made of steel purchased from a scrap metal yard in the Meatpacking District...
Category
2010s Abstract New York City - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
$1,500
"Magic Circle Deep Color", Hand
Laser Cut Paper Wall Relief Sculpture
By Rogan Brown
Located in New York, NY
"Magic Circle Deep Color" by Rogan Brown
Laser and hand cut paper, hand-painted, framed in plexiglass shadowbox
Available by commission. Please allow 12-14 weeks production time.
R...
Category
2010s Abstract New York City - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Paper, Paint
"Ethereal Oracle" Abstract, Metal Sculpture, Large-Scale, Outdoors, Silver
By Hans Van de Bovenkamp
Located in New York, NY
"Ethereal Oracle" by Hans van de Bovenkamp
Stainless steel
Renowned for his monumental sculpture created primarily for open-air public locales, Hans Van de Bovenkamp has been descri...
Category
2010s Abstract New York City - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Steel, Stainless Steel
"Dancer II" Large Abstract Welded Steel Sculpture, Figurative, Metal, Outdoor
By Isobel Folb Sokolow
Located in New York, NY
"Dancer II" by Isobel Folb Sokolow
Welded steel, found metal, automotive metal, welding rod
Sokolow directly welds found metals creating both purely abstract and abstract figurative...
Category
1980s Abstract New York City - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel, Metal
Epiphany
By Stefan Matty Vladescu
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Stefan Vladescu, Romanian/American (1952 - )
Title: Epiphany
Year: 1994
Medium: Bronze Sculpture, signature and date inscribed
Size: 25 inch diameter x 1.5 wide
Base 3 x 8...
Category
1990s Surrealist New York City - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Spiral#1-Blue, large maple sculpture
By Eric Pesso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Large maple abstract sculpture, geometric spiral, created from one tree trunk. This sculpture is subtracted from the single block using primarily hand tools, not an assembled constru...
Category
2010s Abstract New York City - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Maple, Latex
Balloon Dog (Orange)
By Jeff Koons
Located in New York, NY
Jeff Koons' Balloon Dog (Orange) is widely regarded as the quintessential work within his celebrated Celebration series of paintings and sculptures, which Koons' first began developi...
Category
2010s Pop Art New York City - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
$16,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Copper Plate Bruce Shadow Box Sculpture
By The Bruce High Quality Foundation
Located in New York, NY
The Bruce High Quality Foundation
Copper Plate Bruce Shadow Box Sculpture, 2017
Customized wooden shadow box featuring a copper printmaking plate with hand-painted Bruce face.
Accomp...
Category
2010s Pop Art New York City - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Copper
Pluck and Play 355 -Mixed Media Metal Wood Stone Contemporary Art Wall Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Hop and Skip 355 - Mixed Media Metal Wood Stone Contemporary Art Wall Sculpture
In the 1990s Linda Stein began to work on a series called Blades, sculptural works that ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary New York City - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stone, Metal
Thinking Figure, Modern Bronze sculpture with gold patina by Georges Charpentier
By Georges Charpentier
Located in Long Island City, NY
Georges Charpentier, French (1937 - 2024) - Thinking Figure, Year: circa 1980, Medium: Bronze sculpture with gold patina on wooden base, signature and numbering inscribed, Edition:...
Category
1980s Modern New York City - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Winter
s Cub
By Lilian R. Engel
Located in New York, NY
Alabaster and wood
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New York City - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Alabaster
$4,600 Sale Price
20% Off
Rhythmic Movements
By Lilian R. Engel
Located in New York, NY
Marble
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New York City - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Marble
$7,360 Sale Price
20% Off
Carol Salmanson, Double Diamonds, 2018, LED, plexiglas, gels, irridescent paint
By Carol Salmanson
Located in Darien, CT
Memory is at its most magical when it conjures up not the event, but its surrounding perceptual and emotional space. Flashes of reflected light, movement seen out of the corner of eye, bits of sound or feeling – these are what ignite memory, giving it form and bringing it to life.
Light both beams into and envelops you. Carol Salmanson started working with it in 2003 after painting for many years because of these singular spatial qualities. They enable herto build whole worlds with color and shape, ones that resonate with memory and experience. Painters have often talked about depicting light. Today’s technology allows me to use light as medium as well as subject.
Double Diamond is made with layers of light that beam onto reflective material; its two different configurations of diamonds are mounted on a strip that also layers light. The location in the beams creates a glowing frieze that radiates outwards, giving the viewer a first a sense of surprise, and then wonder.
Carol Salmanson is an artist working with light and reflective materials to create installations, sculptures, and wall pieces. She received a B.S. in Biological Psychology from Carnegie-Mellon University and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago. She attended the Arts Students League, the School of Visual Arts as a Public Art Resident, and the National Academy of Fine Arts as an Abbey Mural Workshop Fellow.
Public art projects include Water Bubbles, an installation in twenty windows of the abandoned landmark Constructivist White Tower in Yekaterinburg, Russia. Other window installations include the venues Station Independent Projects, Time Equities’ Art-in-Buildings program, OK Harris Works of Art, 254 Park Avenue South, and Mixed Greens Gallery, all in New York. Her outdoor sculptures include Tri-Quadular Cone in Summit, NJ, and Lot’s Ex-Wife in Brooklyn. She will have an installation, Crown Colony, in the window at 266 W. 37th St, in September of this year.
Solo and two-person exhibition venues include SL Gallery (NY), Slag Contemporary (Brooklyn), Station Independent Projects (NY), Brian Morris...
Category
2010s Color-Field New York City - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Plexiglass, Polyester, LED Light, Acrylic
Meteoric Rainbow
By Lyndi Sales
Located in New York, NY
Meteoric Rainbow
2021
Embroidery thread, acrylic and wool on wood
dimensions variable
$300 per stick
Lyndi Sales is an artist based in Cape Town, South A...
Category
2010s Contemporary New York City - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wool, Thread, Plastic, Wood
Kiss, Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture by Mirkò Guida
By Mirko Guida
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Mirkò Guida (Italian, b. 1980)
Title: Kiss
Year: 2006
Medium: Painted terracotta artistic vase, signed and dated
Size: 31 x 19 x 13 in. (78.74 x 48.26 x 33.02 cm)
Category
Early 2000s Cubist New York City - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Terracotta
$7,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Lapis 177 - white blue 3D abstract floral geometric ceramic wall composition
By Marie Laforey
Located in New York, NY
Marie Laforey is a self-taught artist based in New York, US who maintains a sustainable art practice using primarily organic material. Laforey enjoys the tactility of working with or...
Category
2010s Contemporary New York City - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Clay
The cover of Newsweek - 2
Located in New York, NY
Title: The cover of Newsweek - 2
Materials: Magazines, Books, Iron Mesh, Transparent sealing materials
Size: 31.4 × 33.4 × 1 inches
Rarity: Unique
Medium: Mixed Media
Signature: Can ...
Category
2010s Contemporary New York City - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Iron
Squamae V - red, silver and white 3D abstract geometric ceramic wall composition
By Marie Laforey
Located in New York, NY
Marie Laforey is a self-taught artist based in New York, US who maintains a sustainable art practice using primarily organic material. Laforey enjoys the tactility of working with or...
Category
2010s Contemporary New York City - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Clay
Charles Birnbaum, 371_Wall Piece No.19_2017_porcelain_19x13x5 in_Visionary
By Charles Birnbaum
Located in Darien, CT
Charles Birnbaum is a sculptor and a self-taught photographer. He graduated from Kansas City Art Institute where he studied ceramics and was one of a select group of the esteemed Ken...
Category
2010s Baroque New York City - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
LXXV, Abstract Marble Sculpture by Domenico Casasanta
By Domenico Casasanta
Located in Long Island City, NY
This piece is a unique hand-carved white marble Modern sculpture by Spanish-Venezuelan artist, Domenico Casasanta. The artist uses simple...
Category
2010s New York City - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Liz Sweibel, Untitled (Scrapings #2), 2016, Wood, Paint, Found Objects
By Liz Sweibel
Located in Darien, CT
The freestanding sculptures in this portfolio are made from the “sticks”: a pile of found wood that Sweibel has been pulling from to make new works since about 2002. The pile consisted of more than a dozen four- to seven-foot lengths of hardwood, each an uneven inch in depth and width. The sticks were warped, with worn yellow paint on one side and raw wood on the other three. Over the years she has painted the raw sides of the sticks, cut the wood into shorter lengths, and sliced paint off – and kept the residue from these actions. Sweibel has also made sculptures ranging from full-length sticks to tiny stick splinters. She built these sculptures using sliced-off paint.
Timeworn materials and objects have an intelligence that the artist looks for and listens to. Shaping and reshaping material to find new form and elicit new insights in the material itself is the territory she is mining. The limitations of the process are its strengths. Her work is concerned with fragility, precariousness, adaptability, and strength. It is a visual response to powerful yet unseen forces - like wind and thoughts - that threaten, propel, ruin, and protect.
Liz Sweibel is a multidisciplinary artist working in drawing, sculpture, installation, and digital photography and video. Her spare, personal language of abstraction transforms ordinary materials into statements about connectedness and responsibility: every action has an impact, the effects persist in space and over time, and we are accountable. By drawing attention to simple, ordinary “stuff of life” and referencing both shared and personal history, Sweibel’s work explores and reflects back fundamental experiences in response to our world and relationships. Her intention is to reinvigorate viewers’ awareness of the everyday – in its raw beauty and precariousness – in hopes that they might bring heightened senses of sight and care to their daily lives.
Sweibel has participated in solo, two-person, and group exhibits in New York, Massachusetts, Maine, Connecticut, Michigan, and Tennessee since 1998. In 2016, Sweibel’s work was in the group shows Lightly Structured at Sculpture Space NYC, Precarious Constructs at the Venus Knitting Art...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist New York City - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Paint, Found Objects
Rock Wall – Vibrant Painted Sculptural Wall Installation of Organic Shapes
Located in New York, NY
“Rock Wall” is a vibrant wall-mounted installation by contemporary artist Ray Beldner. Each of the 18 sculptural forms—resembling abstract, painted rocks—is individually crafted from...
Category
2010s Modern New York City - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Foam, Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Polyurethane
Multicolor Brown Vase, Contemporary Blown Glass Sculpture by David Ruth
By David Ruth
Located in Long Island City, NY
Multicolor Brown Vase
David Ruth, American
Date: circa 1981
Blown Glass, Signed
Size: 8.5 x 3.25 x 3.25 in. (21.59 x 8.26 x 8.26 cm)
Category
1980s Abstract New York City - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Blown Glass
Spoon to Shell 1003 - Mixed Media Shell Wood Contemporary Assemblage Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Spoon to Shell 1003 - Mixed Media Shell Wood Contemporary Assemblage Sculpture
Spoon to Shell 1003 is from Linda Stein's Holocaust Heroes: Fierce Females series, which ...
Category
2010s Contemporary New York City - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Spoon to Shell 1023 - Mixed Media Shell Wood Contemporary Assemblage Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Spoon to Shell 1023 - Mixed Media Shell Wood Contemporary Assemblage Sculpture
Spoon to Shell 1023 is from Linda Stein's Holocaust Heroes: Fierce Females series, which ...
Category
2010s Contemporary New York City - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Lip Service, Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture by Joe DiStefano
Located in Long Island City, NY
Lip Service
Joe DiStefano, American (1940–2020)
Ceramic Vase, Signed
Size: 8 x 14 x 6.5 in. (20.32 x 35.56 x 16.51 cm)
Category
1980s Abstract New York City - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
"JAMÓN JAMÓN VIII", glaze ceramic sculpture, table, food, bait, identity, vessel
By Andrew Cornell Robinson
Located in Toronto, Ontario
"JAMÓN JAMÓN VIII", 2019, in slipcast glazed ceramic by artist Andrew Cornell Robinson, is one of a series of sculptural objects that include c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New York City - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Slip, Glaze
Yvette Cohen, Ara Pacis - Zen Corner, 2009, Minimalist sculpture
By Yvette Cohen
Located in Darien, CT
My work bridges the divide between
sculpture and painting and drawing.
Paintings are geometric masses
of color in oil paint and wood dowels,
on shaped canvas. Often grouped in
d...
Category
2010s Minimalist New York City - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas, Wood
"Duke", Large-Scale, Abstract, Outdoor Steel Metal Sculpture in red
Located in New York, NY
"Duke" by John Clement
Abstract Metal Sculpture in red painted steel
In his sculptures, John Clement bends stainless steel into fanciful curvilinear forms focused on essential quest...
Category
Early 2000s New York City - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Steel
Untitled (0389), 2022, colorful, abstract collage
By Linda Schmidt
Located in New York, NY
Linda Schmidt’s fabric sculptures intertwine public and private, luxury and common. There is a sense of egalitarianism present in both the way Schmidt so...
Category
2010s Abstract New York City - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Fabric, Thread, Plastic, Pins
Pink Ice, Contemporary Cast Glass Sculpture by David Ruth
By David Ruth
Located in Long Island City, NY
Pink Ice
David Ruth, American
Portfolio: Sea Passage Series
Date: 1980
Cast Glass, Signed
Edition of AP
Size: 9 x 4 x 5 in. (22.86 x 10.16 x 12.7 cm)
Category
1980s Abstract New York City - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Glass
Infinite Drifter 1
By Lizzie Scott
Located in Dallas, TX
textile & mixed media
Category
2010s Abstract New York City - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Muslin, Silk, Nylon
"JAMÓN JAMÓN I (Reliquary Generalife)", ceramic sculpture, porcelain vessel, urn
By Andrew Cornell Robinson
Located in Toronto, Ontario
"JAMÓN JAMÓN I (Reliquary Generalife)", 2019, sold in the frame shown, is one in a series of ceramic sculptures by artist Andrew Cornell Robinson...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New York City - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Enamel
"Dark Star No. 1", Organic, Abstract Bronze Metal Sculpture, Tabletop Size
By Norman Mooney
Located in New York, NY
"Dark Star #1" by Norman Mooney
Edition of 10 + 2AP
Blackened bronze
In 1994 Mooney moved from Ireland to New York City and has been exhibiting locally and ...
Category
2010s Abstract New York City - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Bronze
Red and Black Vase, Contemporary Blown Glass Sculpture by David Ruth
By David Ruth
Located in Long Island City, NY
Red and Black Vase
David Ruth, American
Blown Glass, Signed
Size: 10 x 3.25 x 3.25 in. (25.4 x 8.26 x 8.26 cm)
Category
1980s Abstract New York City - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Blown Glass
Liz Sweibel, Untitled (Scrapings #1), 2016, Wood, Paint, Found Objects
By Liz Sweibel
Located in Darien, CT
The freestanding sculptures in this portfolio are made from the “sticks”: a pile of found wood that Sweibel has been pulling from to make new works since about 2002. The pile consisted of more than a dozen four- to seven-foot lengths of hardwood, each an uneven inch in depth and width. The sticks were warped, with worn yellow paint on one side and raw wood on the other three. Over the years she has painted the raw sides of the sticks, cut the wood into shorter lengths, and sliced paint off – and kept the residue from these actions. Sweibel has also made sculptures ranging from full-length sticks to tiny stick splinters. She built these sculptures using sliced-off paint.
Timeworn materials and objects have an intelligence that the artist looks for and listens to. Shaping and reshaping material to find new form and elicit new insights in the material itself is the territory she is mining. The limitations of the process are its strengths. Her work is concerned with fragility, precariousness, adaptability, and strength. It is a visual response to powerful yet unseen forces - like wind and thoughts - that threaten, propel, ruin, and protect.
Liz Sweibel is a multidisciplinary artist working in drawing, sculpture, installation, and digital photography and video. Her spare, personal language of abstraction transforms ordinary materials into statements about connectedness and responsibility: every action has an impact, the effects persist in space and over time, and we are accountable. By drawing attention to simple, ordinary “stuff of life” and referencing both shared and personal history, Sweibel’s work explores and reflects back fundamental experiences in response to our world and relationships. Her intention is to reinvigorate viewers’ awareness of the everyday – in its raw beauty and precariousness – in hopes that they might bring heightened senses of sight and care to their daily lives.
Sweibel has participated in solo, two-person, and group exhibits in New York, Massachusetts, Maine, Connecticut, Michigan, and Tennessee since 1998. In 2016, Sweibel’s work was in the group shows Lightly Structured at Sculpture Space NYC, Precarious Constructs at the Venus Knitting Art...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist New York City - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Paint, Found Objects
Pair of Chinese Cloisonne Tall Incense Urns (Censers)
Located in Long Island City, NY
Origin: Chinese
Artist: Unknown
Dates: Early-Mid 20th Century
Title: Pair of Cloisonne Tall Urns
Medium: Enameled Copper on Carved Wood base
Size: 56 in. x 26 in. x 26 in. (142.24 cm...
Category
20th Century Folk Art New York City - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Copper, Enamel
"PLUG-N-PLAY I", stoneware glazed sculpture, green, yellow, blue, white, wheel
By Andrew Cornell Robinson
Located in Toronto, Ontario
"PLUG-N-PLAY I (Yellow, Black and White)", 2019, in wheel-formed stoneware, glaze, stain and cork by artist Andrew Cornell Robinson, is one of ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New York City - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Glaze, Stoneware
"Roland, " George Sugarman, Abstract Steel Sculpture
By George Sugarman
Located in New York, NY
George Sugarman (1912 - 1999)
Roland, 1970
Patinated steel
17 3/8 x 16 x 5 1/4 inches
Incised with the artist's signature and numbered "15/17" on the underside
Manufactured by Lippin...
Category
1970s Abstract New York City - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Jazz Musicians, Terracotta Vase by Mirkò Guida
By Mirko Guida
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Mirkò Guida (Italian, b. 1980)
Title: Jazz Musicians
Year: circa 2007
Medium: Painted terracotta jug, signed
Size: 27.5 x 9 x 9 in. (69.85 x 22.86 x 22.86 cm)
Category
Early 2000s New York City - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Black Grey Vase Sculpture 1026 - Lathe-Turned
Sandblasted wood Oak
Located in New York, NY
Inspired by the effect nature has on materials, Pascal Oudet’s wood sculptures are intricate filled with complex yet simple details. Born in 1972 in Vesou...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New York City - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Oak
Glass Charger, Hand-Blown Glass Sculpture by Ira Sapir
Located in Long Island City, NY
Glass Charger
Ira Sapir, American (1955)
Hand-Blown Glass, signed
Size: 2 x 4.25 x 4.25 in. (5.08 x 10.8 x 10.8 cm)
Category
1980s Abstract New York City - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Blown Glass
"VERTICAL 1", sculpture, clay, ceramic, abstract, tribal, pattern, tower, column
By Harold Wortsman
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Vertical 1, a ceramic sculpture of wood-fired clay pigmented with oxides, is a work by New York artist Harold Wortsman. Vertical 1 was recently exhibited at "Harold Wortsman: Time and Space" at the Orange Art Foundation, February-March 2022, New York City.
Note the blending of geometric and organic forms in this work – it is characteristic of his practice – warm, contemporary, uniquely crafted, yet speaks to ancient, primitive traditions of art-making that cross cultures and histories. Highly attuned to the art of Africa, the Middle East, India and Asia, his forms are organic abstracts with masculine and feminine attributes that resonate together as a pleasing enigma. They make sense immediately, yet never give up all their secrets.
From Harold Wortsman – "With sculpture, my material of choice is high-fired clay. Pieces are first low-fired in an electric kiln. I do not use glazes. Instead, I use oxides applied to the bisqued (low-fired) clay. As with a tattoo, oxides permit the surface underneath to breathe. The work is then high-fired in a gas kiln with double reduction to cone 10. The final temperature is 2,300 degrees F. At a certain point, oxygen intake is reduced to the kiln. Because the fire has reached a critical mass, it needs oxygen and chemically takes it from the clay and the oxides. Like a jazz improvisation, each kiln load comes out slightly different."
From Jonathan Goodman – "Wortsman has increasingly moved into his own – a place in which the relations between the abstractions of volume and the intimations of very old culture are merged in a way that is new." – Essay, "Harold Wortsman: Time and Space", Orange Art Foundation, February 2022, New York City.
Harold Wortsman is a sculptor and printmaker based in Brooklyn, NY. He “creates forms that bring to mind archaic cult objects and exude a quiet concentrated strength.” (Argauer Zeitung, Switzerland). His work, an edgy mix of freedom and clarity, can be found in public and private collections in the US, including The Library of Congress, Yale University, The New York Public Library Print Collection, The New York Historical Society, Smith College, Indiana University’s Lilly Library, Brandeis University, The Newark Public Library Special Collections Division, and the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum Print Archive. Also in private and public collections in Europe, including the Municipal Collection of the City of Brugg, Switzerland.
Harold studied at the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, with sculptor George Spaventa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New York City - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Clay, Pigment, Other Medium
Large Abstract White Onyx Sculpture by Leonardo Nierman
By Leonardo Nierman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Leonardo Nierman (1932 - )
Title: Untitled
Year: circa 1979
Medium: White Onyx, signature engraved
Size: 24 x 43.5 x 7.25 inches
Base: 4 x 13.25 x 13.25 inches
Category
1970s Modern New York City - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stone, Marble
Spoon to Shell 916 - Mixed Media Shell Wood Contemporary Assemblage Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Spoon to Shell 916 - Mixed Media Shell Wood Contemporary Assemblage Sculpture
Spoon to Shell 916 is from Linda Stein's Holocaust Heroes: Fierce Females series, which hi...
Category
2010s Contemporary New York City - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Spoon to Shell 915 - Mixed Media Shell Wood Contemporary Assemblage Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Spoon to Shell 915 - Mixed Media Shell Wood Contemporary Assemblage Sculpture
Spoon to Shell 915 is from Linda Stein's Holocaust Heroes: Fierce Females series, which hi...
Category
2010s Contemporary New York City - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Spoon to Shell 833 - Mixed Media Shell Wood Contemporary Assemblage Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Spoon to Shell 833 - Mixed Media Shell Wood Contemporary Assemblage Sculpture
Spoon to Shell 833 is from Linda Stein's Holocaust Heroes: Fierce Females series, which hi...
Category
2010s Contemporary New York City - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stone, Metal
Four Earth Signs: Wingeo, Bronze Sculpture by Thom Cooney-Crawford
By Thom Cooney-Crawford
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Thom Cooney-Crawford, American (1944 - )
Title: Four Earth Signs: Wingeo
Medium: Bronze Sculpture, signature and number inscribed
Edition: 4/5
Size: 20.5 in. x 11 in. x 4 in....
Category
1990s Surrealist New York City - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Unique White Marble OP Art Sculpture by Domenico Casanta
By Domenico Casasanta
Located in Long Island City, NY
A unique carved marble sculpture by well-known Italian/Venezuelan Kinetic Artist, Domenico Casasanta (1935 - ). It is signed and dated 1972.
Artist: Domenico Casasanta, Italian (1...
Category
1970s Op Art New York City - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Chasse
By Lilian R. Engel
Located in New York, NY
Nude / Figure / Love
Marble
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New York City - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Marble
$6,400 Sale Price
20% Off
"MIDNIGHT BLUE", sculpture, clay, relief, abstract, contemporary, ceramic
By Harold Wortsman
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Midnight Blue, a ceramic relief sculpture of high-fired porcelain pigmented with oxides, paint and epoxy, is a recent work by New York artist Harold Wortsman. This sculpture is ready to be mounted to the wall. Note the artist's hand in the mark-making – cuts and radiating lines, the suggestion of maps, geometry and counting systems – it is characteristic of Wortsman's practice. Warm, contemporary, uniquely crafted, yet speaks to ancient, tribal traditions of art-making that cross cultures and histories. Highly attuned to the art of Africa, the Middle East, India and Asia, his forms are organic abstracts with masculine and feminine attributes that resonate together as a pleasing enigma. They make sense immediately, yet never give up all their secrets.
Midnight Blue was recently exhibited at Harold Wortsman: Time and Space, Orange Art Foundation, New York City, February 2022.
From Harold Wortsman – "With sculpture, my material of choice is high-fired clay. Pieces are first low-fired in an electric kiln. I do not use glazes. Instead, I use oxides applied to the bisqued (low-fired) clay. As with a tattoo, oxides permit the surface underneath to breathe—like naked skin. The work is then high-fired in a gas kiln with double reduction to cone 10. The final temperature is 2,300 degrees F. At a certain point, oxygen intake is reduced to the kiln. Because the fire has reached a critical mass, it needs oxygen and chemically takes it from the clay and the oxides painted on. Like a jazz improvisation, each kiln load comes out slightly different."
From Jonathan Goodman – "Wortsman has increasingly moved into his own – a place in which the relations between the abstractions of volume and the intimations of very old culture are merged in a way that is new." – Essay, "Harold Wortsman: Time and Space", Orange Art Foundation, February 2022, New York City.
Harold Wortsman is a sculptor and printmaker based in Brooklyn, NY. He “creates forms that bring to mind archaic cult objects and exude a quiet concentrated strength.” (Argauer Zeitung, Switzerland). His work, an edgy mix of freedom and clarity, can be found in public and private collections in the US, including The Library of Congress, Yale University, The New York Public Library Print Collection, The New York Historical Society, Smith College, Indiana University’s Lilly Library, Brandeis University, The Newark Public Library Special Collections Division, and the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum Print Archive. Also in private and public collections in Europe, including the Municipal Collection of the City of Brugg, Switzerland.
Harold studied at the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, with sculptor George Spaventa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New York City - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Clay, Pigment, Other Medium, Porcelain, Epoxy Resin
Loren Eiferman, Nature Will Heal, 108 Pieces of Wood, 2016, Wood, Found Objects
By Loren Eiferman
Located in Darien, CT
Over many decades Loren Eiferman has created and mastered a unique technique of working with wood—her primary material.
First, she begins with a drawing of an idea. Then she takes a daily walk in the woods surrounding her studio and collects tree limbs and long sticks that have fallen to the ground. She never chops down a living tree or uses green wood. Eiferman allows the wood time to cure in the studio to make sure it won’t check or crack.
Next, she debarks the branch and looks for shapes found within each piece of wood. Using a Japanese hand saw, she cuts and connect these small shapes together using dowels and wood glue. Then, all the open joints get filled with a home made putty, which is then sanded so she can see the newly formed shapes. This process is until the new sculpture appears like the original line drawing but in space. She wants the work to appear as if it grew in nature, when in fact each sculpture is composed of over 100 small pieces of wood that are seamlessly jointed together. Her work can be called the ultimate recycling: taking the detritus of nature and giving it a new life.
We have all at one point or another picked up a stick from the ground—touched the wood, peeled the bark off with our fingernails. Her work taps into that same primal desire of touching nature and being close to it. Trees connect us back to nature, back to this Earth. Her work has a meditative quality to it—a quiet, calming energy.
Her influences are many; from looking at nature and plant life on this Earth to researching the heavenly bodies in the images beamed back from the Hubble Telescope. From studying ancient Buddhist mandalas and designs to delving deeper into quantum physics. And from researching mysterious manuscripts to studying the patterns inside our brains.
For Invocation, we are exhibiting her newest body of work, inspired by the illustrations found in the Voynich Manuscript. This 250-page book, is believed to have been written in the early 15th century, of a mysterious origin and purpose.
Written in an unknown language and currently housed at Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book Library, the manuscript has eluded all attempts in the intervening centuries to decode or decipher its purpose and meaning. This enigmatic book is divided into 6 different sections (herbal, astronomical, biological, cosmological, pharmaceutical and recipes).
Having discovered the images contained in this codex over the Internet, Eiferman felt an immediate, profound and inexplicable connection to this manuscript and its creator.
The artist is currently transposing the “herbal” section of manuscript into sculptures. This section has drawings in it of plants and flowers that do not really exist in nature—past or present. These aren’t just pretty images of flowers—they also contain the wacky root systems and seemingly out of proportion leaves, stamens and pistils.
Loren Eiferman was born in Brooklyn, NY. She received her BFA from SUNY Purchase. Her work has been exhibited extensively throughout the Tri-State region including gallery and museum exhibitions in the Hudson Valley and Connecticut. Her work is included in numerous corporate and private art collections.
In 2014 she was awarded a NYC MTA Arts & Design art commission to produce steel railings...
Category
2010s Abstract New York City - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Found Objects
Spoon to Shell 880 - Mixed Media Shell Wood Contemporary Assemblage Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Spoon to Shell 880 - Mixed Media Shell Wood Contemporary Assemblage Sculpture
Spoon to Shell 880 is from Linda Stein's Holocaust Heroes: Fierce Females series, which hi...
Category
2010s Contemporary New York City - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Spoon to Shell 911 - Mixed Media Shell Wood Contemporary Assemblage Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Spoon to Shell 911 - Mixed Media Shell Wood Contemporary Assemblage Sculpture
Spoon to Shell 911 is from Linda Stein's Holocaust Heroes: Fierce Females series, which hi...
Category
2010s Contemporary New York City - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
