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Item Ships From: Tri-State Area
Rhythmic Movements
By Lilian R. Engel
Located in New York, NY
Marble
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Marble
$7,360 Sale Price
20% Off
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 Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Terracotta
$7,000 Sale Price
20% Off
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 Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
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 Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Paper
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 Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Clay
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 Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Clay
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 Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
"Pages" Large-Scale, Abstract Aluminum Metal Sculpture in White
By Richard Pitts
Located in New York, NY
"Pages" by Richard Pitts
Powder-coated aluminum
Richard Pitts works in many media, from steel to wood to bronze to aluminum, not to mention his paintings. His often colorful, abstra...
Category
2010s Abstract Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
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 Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
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 Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Paint, Found Objects
"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 Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Fabric, Textile, Tapestry, Wool, Thread
The Other Side of the Moon
By John McQueen
Located in Wilton, CT
white pine bark and vine
Category
1990s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood
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 Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Tape
Jose Soto, FOCUS II, 2016, Birch, Paint
By Jose Soto
Located in Darien, CT
FOCUS is a public art sculpture about the viewer’s growing visual perception and bodily experience. It consists of two large rectangular-shaped pieces, one placed in a vertical posit...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Birch, Paint
Liz Sweibel, Untitled (Splinter 2 ), 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 Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Paint, Found Objects
Andra Samelson, Microcosm 2, 2016, Canvas, Wood, Found Objects, Acrylic Paint
By Andra Samelson
Located in Darien, CT
Andra Samelson’s work explores the relationship of microcosm and macrocosm, the celestial and terrestrial. Her imagery is often associated with molecular and galactic systems. Combin...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Found Objects, Acrylic
Patricia Miranda, Sentinella, 2020, Battinger lace, synthetic dyes, cast plaster
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 Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Fabric, Dye, Plastic
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 Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Blown Glass
Jo Yarrington, See-matics - Voice, 2019, acrylic, 9 x 22 inches
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 Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Plexiglass
Patricia Miranda, Lamentations for Rebecca; 2020, lace, cochineal dye, thread
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 Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Fabric, Thread, Dye, 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 Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Foam, Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Polyurethane
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 Tri-State Area - 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 Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
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 Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas, Wood
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 Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Patricia Miranda, Lamentations for Ermenegilda; 2020, lace, cochineal dye, thread
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 Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Fabric, Thread, Dye, Found Objects
Yvette Cohen, Thin Air 2
3, 2011, oil, shaped canvas, wood dowel, Minimalist
By Yvette Cohen
Located in Darien, CT
Yvette Cohen’s oil paintings of geometric masses of color on shaped canvas become objects that fluctuate between two and three dimensions, bridging the divide between sculpture and ...
Category
2010s Minimalist Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Oil
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 Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Diane Englander, White Form on Red Wood, 2018, scrapwood and acrylic, 12 x 13 in
By Diane Englander
Located in Darien, CT
Diane Englander uses formal means to create a place between discord and tranquility, a zone with a charged harmony that energizes as it also provides refuge. That often requires that the prettiness of an initial surface is made ugly, or there’s a conscious choice to avoid balance in the composition.
Hers is a largely intuitive process, the materials entice her. Inspiration from the world that we don't call “art” is where she finds her muse: a wall, a landscape, a window shade transfused with light, a stretch of sand and shadow. Most influential are predecessors like Burri, Vicente, Tapies, Motherwell, Rauschenberg, medieval cloisonné, Vermeer, Breughel, and many, many more.
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 government; and several years as a lawyer at a large NYC law firm.
“I was brought up going to galleries and museums, a sometimes reluctant attendant to my parents’ passion for looking and for collecting. My own expressive energy must have simmered internally for years, occasionally emerging in photography, in quilt-making, in other tentative explorations, and certainly in providing opportunity and materials for my children to create. Not until those children were nearly grown did I come unequivocally to the need to make art myself.”
In late 2006 Diane began making collages that started her on her current path; in late 2007 she left her consulting job to focus on her artwork full-time.
She has studied with Bruce Dorfman at the Art Students League in New York, and has had solo exhibits at the Alexey von Schlippe...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic, Wood
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 Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Maple, Latex
Gil Scullion, You Forget, 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 Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Paper
Karen Schiff, Space Eyes, 2016, Wood, Gouache
By Karen Schiff
Located in Darien, CT
Karen Schiff is an artist and wordsmith based in New York; she has always been a reader as well as a visual artist. Her drawings, paintings, installations, and performances combine t...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Gouache
Cabinet of Wonders, Persistence and the Fugitive
By Greg Garvey
Located in Darien, CT
This flat file installation is a kind of Wunderkammer – a Cabinet of Wonder or Curiosity containing a small idiosyncratic collection of select wonders and oddities of the natural wor...
Category
2010s Conceptual Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Video, Found Objects
Infinite Drifter 1
By Lizzie Scott
Located in Dallas, TX
textile & mixed media
Category
2010s Abstract Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Muslin, Silk, Nylon
"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 Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Slip, Glaze
Jo Yarrington, Mute-Ability_Composition 2, 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 Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Andra Samelson, Microcosm 3, 2016, Canvas, Found Objects, Acrylic Paint
By Andra Samelson
Located in Darien, CT
Andra Samelson’s work explores the relationship of microcosm and macrocosm, the celestial and terrestrial. Her imagery is often associated with molecular and galactic systems. Combin...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Canvas, Found Objects, Acrylic
Fritz Horstman, Formwork for a Rectangle 2, 2014, Wood, Plywood
By Fritz Horstman
Located in Darien, CT
While working on a large building project several years ago the artist, Fritz Horstman was struck by the poetry in the unfinished state of the construction site. He was drawn specifically to the space between the plywood walls that were raised as formworks for the pouring of cement. That space could only exist for a few hours before the cement truck...
Category
2010s Conceptual Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Plywood
"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 Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Steel, Stainless Steel
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 Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Paint, Found Objects
"Wild in the Woods" abstract horse, mixed media textile sculpture
By Norma Minkowitz
Located in Wilton, CT
"Wild in the Woods" fiber, wood, mixed media, 40 x 11 x 16, 1997.
This mixed media textile sculpture was done by American fiber artist, Norma Minkowitz (b. 1937). The interlacing te...
Category
1990s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Textile, Thread, Mixed Media, Wood
Dorothy Mayhall, Monument 4, 1994, Terracotta, Acrylic Paint
By Dorothy Mayhall
Located in Darien, CT
Dorothy Mayhall's small sculptures are little monuments to be toyed with and handled. They should be picked up, fondled, and examined like a rock or shell you collect on the beach be...
Category
1990s Abstract Geometric Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta, Acrylic
Mary Schiliro, Cat
s Cradle 6, 2006, acylic on Mylar, 36 x 18 in, Abstraction
By Mary Schiliro
Located in Darien, CT
Mary Schiliro’s work with acrylic paint on Mylar is process based, and expands the boundaries of painting by exploring alternative presentation methods. Using a dipping process wher...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Mylar, Plexiglass, Acrylic
Richard Bottwin, Mike
s Arm, 2018, poplar, plywood, acrylic paint
By Richard Bottwin
Located in Darien, CT
Architecture, functional objects and the human gestures that occur when interacting with these structures inform the vocabulary of Richard Bottwin’s sculpture. The plywood surfaces,...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Poplar, Plywood, Acrylic
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 Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Blown Glass
Norma Márquez Orozco, The Sun, 2016, Translucent Paper, 30 x 30, Minimalist
By Norma Marquez Orozco
Located in Darien, CT
Norma Marquez Orozco explores concepts of impermanence, perception, form and balance through physical movement of the work itself in a lucid, game-like context, like puzzles. All the elements are made of paper, molded into three-dimensional forms. The repetitive geometric shapes are assembled inside boxes built out of translucent paper. The arrangement is random and unfixed to allow movement and unpredictable composition.
The harmonies and tensions in the work arise from different exchanges between the colors, the patterns, and the geometric and organic shapes, as well as the sense that change is constantly occurring as the elements shift and move.
When one looks at these compositions, you see them for the first time, every time, because what is creating and completing the artwork is always changing; such as light, weather and forms merge and interact. As a result of these dynamic relationships, the work extends beyond her personal hand, sustaining an appearance and composition entirely of its own.
Norma Márquez Orozco was
born
in
Chicago,
Illinois,
and
raised
in
Guadalajara,
Jalisco,
Mexico.
Her work can be seen as an investigation into the way relationships emerge and evolve when elements like color, form, shape, lines, angle and pattern are blended, shifted and layered.
She currently lives and works in New York City. Marquez Orozco
has
curated
exhibitions throughout
New
York
and
has hosted
lectures
and
artist
talks
for
the
public. In
2001
she founded
Floor4Art, an
alternative
space
in
West
Harlem
that
houses
artist’s
studios
and
exhibition
space
aimed
at
producing,
promoting
and
connecting
artists.
Exhibition venues include: ODETTA, Brooklyn, NY, Longwood Art Gallery, Queens Museum, The (S)Files 007/ El Barrio...
Category
2010s Minimalist Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Archival Paper
Katherine Jackson, Suspension of Disbelief, 2015, Graphite, Paper, Framed
By Katherine Jackson
Located in Darien, CT
Drawing, glass, and light: these three ingredients are the basis of Katherine Jackson’s work. She begins with drawing, which sometimes becomes an end...
Category
2010s Conceptual Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Graphite
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 Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Copper, Enamel
Jesse Hickman, Note Three Twelve Sixteen (Nebraska), 2016, Wood, Enamel
By Jesse Hickman
Located in Darien, CT
Over the past few years, Jesse Hickman has been making minimal abstract paintings on wood with few constraints. He calls this series Notes, thinking of these pieces as drawn sketches...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Enamel
"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 Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Enamel
Loren Eiferman, 5r, 146 Pieces of Wood with Rope and Wax, 2016, Wood Sculpture
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...
Category
2010s Abstract Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Sylvia Schwartz,
Brush Stroke, sculptural element in Red Plane
, 2016, Resin
By Sylvia Schwartz
Located in Darien, CT
Sylvia Schwartz
In her structures, silicone molds are cast from both natural and hand-made forms, including clay coils, volcanic rock patterns, seaweed, and the artist’s own fingerprints. Leaving the human trace evident through the repetition of shapes and textures in both the natural and man-made elements, provides a measure of stability, a reference point. These manmade and natural forms merge, revealing our inexplicable dependence on nature. Through this melding of two entities, new life is breathed into the art object.
Paper as a primary medium allows Schwartz to sculpt, draw and paint simultaneously. The flow of the pulp (a natural phenomenon in itself) meshes with the molded forms creating a structure that seems to rest on the edge between painting and sculpture. The duality between light and heavy, interior and exterior, planned and accidental, order and chaos, leading ultimately to a sense of life.
Red...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Handmade Paper
"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 Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel, Metal
Gil Scullion, You Walk, 2017, 20 sheets 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 Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Paper
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 Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Joseph Fucigna, Green/Red Putty Drip, 2018, Silicone, House Paint, Wood Panel
By Joseph Fucigna
Located in Darien, CT
Joseph Fucigna is a multi-media artist whose work is rooted in process, play and the innate qualities of the materials used. Through experimentation, play and innovation he creates sculptures, paintings and drawings that are known for their power to transform materials, inventiveness and odd but suggestive subject matter. The ultimate goal is to create an artwork that is a perfect balance between suggestive content, and the formal qualities of the material that allow both to be active participants.
Joseph Fucigna received his Masters of Fine Arts degree from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. He also attended the Triangle Workshop in Pine Plains, NY and worked with the renowned sculptor Sir Anthony Caro and critic Clement Greenberg.
Fucigna is a full-time Professor of Art at Norwalk Community College and is the Chair of the Studio Arts Program. Fucigna has also taught in the Art Department at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. Presently, he resides and works in Weston, CT.
Fucigna has exhibited nationally including shows at the Fitchburg Art Museum in Massachusetts, Real Art Ways in Connecticut, the United Nations, Grounds for Sculpture in New Jersey, the Lyman Allyn Art Museum in Connecticut, the New York State Museum in Albany, NY and the Burchfield Art Center in Buffalo NY.
He has had one-person exhibitions at the Fred Giampietro Gallery, Sculpture Barn, Norwalk Community College Art Gallery, Artist Space New Haven and the Bannister...
Category
2010s Arte Povera Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Silicone, House Paint, Wood Panel, Putty
"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 Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Steel
Yvette Cohen, 3+2, Triptych_2011_oil, shaped canvas, wood dowel, Minimalist
By Yvette Cohen
Located in Darien, CT
Yvette Cohen’s oil paintings of geometric masses of color on shaped canvas become objects that fluctuate between two and three dimensions, bridging the divide between sculpture and ...
Category
2010s Minimalist Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Oil
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 Tri-State Area - 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 Tri-State Area - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
