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Medium: Found Objects
At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites 13 (texture, organic, biophilic, sand)
At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites 13 (texture, organic, biophilic, sand)

At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites 13 (texture, organic, biophilic, sand)

By Melisa Taylor Metzger

Located in Quebec, Quebec

At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites 13 (horizontal) is a vivid mixed-media painting by Melisa Taylor Metzger from her long-term series At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites (2015–2...

Category

2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic

Richard Klein, Holiday Inn Nocturne, 2020, Found and altered objects assemblage
Richard Klein, Holiday Inn Nocturne, 2020, Found and altered objects assemblage

Richard Klein, Holiday Inn Nocturne, 2020, Found and altered objects assemblage

By Richard Klein

Located in Darien, CT

In the mid 1990s Richard Klein started working with found glass objects, including bottles, drinking glasses, ashtrays, and eyeglasses. Initially, Klein rejected any object with commercial or advertising content, but in 2015 he became fascinated with the promotional content that was screen printed on ashtrays from the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s. This period was before smoking was looked at as being primarily a negative habit, and iconic American businesses, including Howard Johnson’s, International House of Pancakes (iHop) and Holiday Inn, all produced promotional ashtrays printed with their graphic identity. By the time Klein became interested in these objects, the businesses had either ceased to exist, or had changed their logos, and many of their signature buildings, which where examples of classic, “Pop” roadside architecture, has been torn down or repurposed. The artist wanted to connect the glass objects with the business’s sites that were still recognizable and spoke of their history, so he began researching where original buildings still stood. Klein then embarked on a series of road trips to photograph these sites with the intention of combining the photographs with the promotional glass objects. This led him to as far south as Maryland and as far north as upstate New York from his home in Connecticut. In the case of Holiday Inn, it wasn’t their buildings, but their iconic illuminated sign that appeared on ashtrays, so he sought out a standing example of the sign he could photograph. As it turned out all had been removed years before from the hotels' properties and the only working example was indoors at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. He did, however, find out that there was one still standing, surprisingly, in Beruit, Lebanon. He found an image of it on the web and used it to make Holiday Inn (Beruit). In 1973 Holiday Inn changed their tagline from “The Nations Innkeeper” to “The World’s Innkeeper” as they expanded overseas, including the Mideast. For the hotel chain it was bad timing: the disastrous Lebanese civil war began in 1975. In the war, the different Lebanese militias involved in the conflict, including the Nasserites, Christian Phalangists, and the Lebanese National Movement engaged in what came to be called “The Battle of the Hotels” where they each occupied a major high-rise hotel in central Beruit. The Phalangists commanded the Holiday Inn, which they used to fire with both light arms and heavier weapons at the militias in neighboring hotels. Klein used the photo of the heavily damaged Holiday Inn sign as I thought it spoke in a curious, offhanded way about American cultural imperialism in juxtaposition with an ashtray that proclaimed Holiday Inn to be “The World’s Innkeeper.” In the work Holiday Inn (Nocturne) the artist utilized a found, 35mm slide of a Holiday Inn sign at night at an unknown location as the basis of the photograph in the work. Richard Klein is a Connecticut-based artist, independent curator and writer. As an artist, he has exhibited widely, including the Neuberger Museum of Art at SUNY Purchase; Caren Golden Fine Art, New York; the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI; Hales Gallery, London; Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach, FL; deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA; James Barron Art, Kent, CT; The Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA), Portland, OR; Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA; Stephan Stoyanov Gallery, NY; Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY; Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT; Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY; Exhibit by Alberson Tulsa, OK; Incident Report/Flow Chart Foundation, Hudson, NY; ICEHOUSE Project Space, Sharon, CT; Kenise Barnes Fine Art in Kent, CT and with ODETTA Gallery at the Equity Gallery in New York City.. Reviews of his work have appeared in Two Coats of Paint, Whitehot Magazine, The New York Times, Sculpture Magazine, Art in America, and The New Yorker. In the summer of 2024 he will be the first Artist-In-Residence at Peck Ledge Light...

Category

2010s Assemblage Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Metal

Spirit of Ecstasy - Pop Art Sculpture
Spirit of Ecstasy - Pop Art Sculpture

Spirit of Ecstasy - Pop Art Sculpture

By Alben

Located in New York, NY

Cheeky references to pop culture and the societal context. Grounded in a postmodern vernacular, Alben’s paintings and sculptures are a pastiche of art historical moments including P...

Category

2010s Pop Art Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Epoxy Resin, Mixed Media, Found Objects

"Crimson Garden 02" Mixed Media Painting
"Crimson Garden 02" Mixed Media Painting

"Crimson Garden 02" Mixed Media Painting

By Patrick Burns

Located in Chicago, IL

"Concrete Gardens" is a body of work that translates Patrick Burns' deep love of the land and complicated past into richly textured, mixed-media paintings with reverberating, monochr...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Concrete

Jesse Hickman, Note Three Twenty Seven Sixteen F, 2016, Enamel, Wood, Glue
Jesse Hickman, Note Three Twenty Seven Sixteen F, 2016, Enamel, Wood, Glue

Jesse Hickman, Note Three Twenty Seven Sixteen F, 2016, Enamel, Wood, Glue

By Jesse Hickman

Located in Darien, CT

Over the past few years, Jesse Hickman has been making minimal abstract paintings on wood with few constraints. He calls this series Notes, thinking of these pieces as drawn sketches...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Enamel

"Halo #6" Contemporary Pastel Abstract Expressionist Sculptural Painting

"Halo #6" Contemporary Pastel Abstract Expressionist Sculptural Painting

By Benji Stiles

Located in Houston, TX

Exhibited in "Benji Stiles: A Human Day" at Reeves Art + Design. In “A Human Day,” a solo show dedicated to the work of contemporary multidisciplinary artist Benji Stiles, we explor...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Found Objects, Watercolor, Gouache, Cardboard

Light Blue and Brown Chine Colle Watercolor with Found Object Collage
Light Blue and Brown Chine Colle Watercolor with Found Object Collage

Light Blue and Brown Chine Colle Watercolor with Found Object Collage

By Michael Pauker

Located in Soquel, CA

Beautiful abstract expressionist collage by Bay Area artist Michael Pauker (American, b.1957). Composed of two contrasting sections of light blue and brown, this piece has layers of ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Paper, Watercolor, Found Objects

Surreal Contemporary Figurative Mixed-Media Sculpture Found-Object American
Surreal Contemporary Figurative Mixed-Media Sculpture Found-Object American

Surreal Contemporary Figurative Mixed-Media Sculpture Found-Object American

By Philip Kuznicki

Located in Buffalo, NY

One of a kind mixed-media sculpture by Philip Kuznicki from the Spirit exhibition. Comes in its original frame. Born in Dunkirk NY, Kuznicki started his career working for artists su...

Category

2010s Surrealist Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Found Objects, Mixed Media

"Crumbelievable" Vintage Postcard with Statue of Liberty and Abstract Embroidery
"Crumbelievable" Vintage Postcard with Statue of Liberty and Abstract Embroidery

"Crumbelievable" Vintage Postcard with Statue of Liberty and Abstract Embroidery

By Han Cao

Located in Philadelphia, PA

This piece titled "Crumbelievable" is an original piece by Han Cao and is made from hand embroidery on found vintage postcard from 1979, with cotton thread. This piece measures 11.2...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Thread, Found Objects, Postcard

STILL ALIVE

STILL ALIVE

By PEBEN

Located in Atlanta, GA

Artist

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Found Objects, Mixed Media

Margaret Roleke, War and Religion, 2016, children's toys, enamel, wood, LEDs
Margaret Roleke, War and Religion, 2016, children's toys, enamel, wood, LEDs

Margaret Roleke, War and Religion, 2016, children's toys, enamel, wood, LEDs

By Margaret Roleke

Located in Darien, CT

In the body of work for “Child’s Play” Roleke has created diminutive worlds in which toys tell the story of consumption, consumerism, war, and the misuse of power and religion. The m...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Enamel

"Grapes" antique dining tray, unique mini oil painting detail, still life, fruit
"Grapes" antique dining tray, unique mini oil painting detail, still life, fruit

"Grapes" antique dining tray, unique mini oil painting detail, still life, fruit

By Anthony Ackrill

Located in Sag Harbor, NY

An antique serving platter with a miniature realist painting by American surrealist artist, Anthony Ackrill. Tiny trompe l'oeil, still-life of loose red grapes and a daisy peeking ou...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Silver

Army Green, Black, & Blue Chine Colle Watercolor with Found Object Collage
Army Green, Black, & Blue Chine Colle Watercolor with Found Object Collage

Army Green, Black, & Blue Chine Colle Watercolor with Found Object Collage

By Michael Pauker

Located in Soquel, CA

Beautiful abstract expressionist collage by Bay Area artist Michael Pauker (American, b.1957). Composed of two contrasting sections; army green with orange and warm neutral found obj...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Paper, Found Objects, Watercolor

Linda Cunningham, 'Randall's Island Connector', Pastel, Found Objects, Canvas
Linda Cunningham, 'Randall's Island Connector', Pastel, Found Objects, Canvas

Linda Cunningham, 'Randall's Island Connector', Pastel, Found Objects, Canvas

By Linda Cunningham

Located in Darien, CT

canvas, collage, pastel, acrylic, photo transfers, 2016 Bifurcated sheets of canvas with torn edges suggest the beautiful open vistas now inaccessible to the residents of the Mott Haven and Port Morris areas of the South Bronx, abandoned and dominated by de-teriorating remains, rotting remnants of piers, New York State-owned power stations and City Waste transfer stations. The unusual materials and torn canvas edges convey with tactile sensibility the contradiction documented with photo-transferred images, layered with acrylic and pastel. Materials and image fuse revealing a broken South Bronx history, an urban renewal tragedy, an area once the retreat of choice for fresh air, heath and greenery. The shards of information and vistas evoke the former Port Morris harbor named after Governor Morris a signatory of the constitution. There barges once docked and youth once swam off a pier in the East River. Cunningham’s work centers upon time, transience and contradictions shown through images of the shifting urban present. Compelling environmental concerns juxtaposed against industry, ur-ban blight and the loss of the natural environment as well as her concern for her Bronx home area faced with gentrification drive her work. Linda Cunningham is a Bronx based artist with a long New York and international exhibition career. ODETTA, Bushwick, Brooklyn featured her work in a November two person exhibition and in the Harlem FLUX Art Fair, in 2015 and 2016. Her 2013 installation in No Longer Empty’s “This Side of Paradise,”at the Andrew Freedman House was installed at the Bronx Museum, 2014 in an exhibition sponsored by the Bronx Arts Alliance. The Bronx Museum displayed her sculptural installation ”Urban Regeneration” on its terrace, 2009/10. Exhibitions in Germany began with a Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship in Berlin and her monumental public sculptural installations & alternative memorials are permanently sited in Cologne, Kassel, Bad Hersfeld and Cornberg, Germany, Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, New Jersey and City of Sculpture, Hamilton, Ohio. Alternative memorials were sited at the CUNY Graduate Center across from Bryant Park, 1989-1995, in Tribeca and at UN Plaza, New York 1997-1998. Recent temporary public sculpture installations were at Westchester Sq., Bronx. NY, 2014 and Marcus Garvey...

Category

2010s Post-Modern Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Canvas, Pastel, Found Objects, Acrylic, Dye Transfer

Sway
Sway

Sway

By Paul Villinski

Located in New Orleans, LA

medium: aluminum (found cans), wire Unique, open edition Available in multiple color/finish options (see second image on listing for options). Installations are made to order, sizes...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Metal, Wire

Death of a Spirit Guide
Death of a Spirit Guide

Death of a Spirit Guide

By Kat Flyn

Located in New Orleans, LA

"This narrative questions the storyline that the wolf was the threat; but rather the Huntsman was the predator." KAT FLYN is a self-taught assemblage artist working presently out of San Diego. She began her career as a costume designer in Southern California. Over the years she amassed a trove of artifacts and collectables which she began using to create assemblage art in the 1990’s. In 2000 she sold her business and moved to Cuyamaca, a remote community in the mountains outside of San Diego to devote herself exclusively to her artwork. In 2003 her work was interrupted when the Cedar Fire swept through San Diego county and destroyed the forest, her home & studio along with almost all of her collections and works of art. Following the fire she relocated to San Francisco, where she spent a decade concentrating on her art in her studio in SOMA and exhibiting at galleries in the Bay Area. In 2015 she returned to San Diego and now works out of her studio in La Jolla, exhibiting there and in Los Angeles. Kat Flyn refers to herself as an Assemblage Sculptor and her works as Political Art or Protest Art. She separates herself from other assemblage artists in that she only employs “saved” as opposed to “found” objects in her work; and her pieces always have a political or cultural narrative to them rather than being surreal or abstract. She also constructs or refashions many of the pieces which she uses in her art, for example she turns a soft drink box into a tenement building in Affordable Housing 2017, a jewelry box into a wheelchair in Last Lily Foot 2016, an old shoe shine box...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Wood, Found Objects, Mixed Media

Indonesia
Indonesia

Alexander McVickarIndonesia

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Indonesia

By Alexander McVickar

Located in Santa Monica, CA

Original Alexander McVickar Mixed media, acrylic, and found object multi-panel painting.

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Outsider Art Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Found Objects, Mixed Media, Acrylic

"As the Crow Flies" -- Assemblage by Kat Flyn

"As the Crow Flies" -- Assemblage by Kat Flyn

By Kat Flyn

Located in New Orleans, LA

KAT FLYN is a self-taught assemblage artist working presently out of San Diego. She began her career as a costume designer in Southern California. Over the years she amassed a trove ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Wood, Found Objects, Mixed Media

American Story No.1875
American Story No.1875

American Story No.1875

By Kat Flyn

Located in New Orleans, LA

KAT FLYN is a self-taught assemblage artist working presently out of San Diego. She began her career as a costume designer in Southern California. Over the years she amassed a trove of artifacts and collectables which she began using to create assemblage art in the 1990’s. In 2000 she sold her business and moved to Cuyamaca, a remote community in the mountains outside of San Diego to devote herself exclusively to her artwork. In 2003 her work was interrupted when the Cedar Fire swept through San Diego county and destroyed the forest, her home & studio along with almost all of her collections and works of art. Following the fire she relocated to San Francisco, where she spent a decade concentrating on her art in her studio in SOMA and exhibiting at galleries in the Bay Area. In 2015 she returned to San Diego and now works out of her studio in La Jolla, exhibiting there and in Los Angeles. Kat Flyn refers to herself as an Assemblage Sculptor and her works as Political Art or Protest Art. She separates herself from other assemblage artists in that she only employs “saved” as opposed to “found” objects in her work; and her pieces always have a political or cultural narrative to them rather than being surreal or abstract. She also constructs or refashions many of the pieces which she uses in her art, for example she turns a soft drink box...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Wood, Found Objects, Mixed Media

Patricia Miranda, Lamentations for Ermenegilda; 2020, lace, cochineal dye, thread

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 Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Ceramic, Fabric, Thread, Dye, Found Objects

Jo Yarrington, Mute-Ability_Composition 1, 2019_acrylic, steel, player piano rol
Jo Yarrington, Mute-Ability_Composition 1, 2019_acrylic, steel, player piano rol

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 Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Steel

Patricia Miranda, Lamentations for Rebecca; 2020, lace, cochineal dye, thread
Patricia Miranda, Lamentations for Rebecca; 2020, lace, cochineal dye, thread

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 Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Ceramic, Fabric, Thread, Dye, Found Objects

"Relapse" - contemporary oil painting on found object, humorous swan smoking cig
"Relapse" - contemporary oil painting on found object, humorous swan smoking cig

"Relapse" - contemporary oil painting on found object, humorous swan smoking cig

By Anthony Ackrill

Located in Sag Harbor, NY

Anthony Ackrill paints directly onto found objects, seamlessly blending painting and sculpture. In "Relapse" Ackrill depicts a swan in water, humorously smoking a cigarette. Green li...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Found Objects, Oil

Andra Samelson, Microcosm 2, 2016, Canvas, Wood, Found Objects, Acrylic Paint

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 Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Canvas, Wood, Found Objects, Acrylic

Diary 2 by John Garrett, 2017, Mixed Media Wall Hanging Sculpture, Contemporary
Diary 2 by John Garrett, 2017, Mixed Media Wall Hanging Sculpture, Contemporary

Diary 2 by John Garrett, 2017, Mixed Media Wall Hanging Sculpture, Contemporary

By John Garrett

Located in St. Louis, MO

John Garrett was raised in southern New Mexico by parents who were both educators. They instilled in him an appreciation for the handmade with their collections of Native American a...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Fabric, Plaster, Wood, Found Objects, Mixed Media, Other Medium

"Philly Street IV", Abstract Patterns, Geometric Abstraction, Woodcut Monoprint
"Philly Street IV", Abstract Patterns, Geometric Abstraction, Woodcut Monoprint

"Philly Street IV", Abstract Patterns, Geometric Abstraction, Woodcut Monoprint

By Alexis Nutini

Located in Philadelphia, PA

This piece titled "Philly Street IV" is an original piece by Alexis Nutini and is made from awoodcut and found object stencil monoprint. This piece measure 40"h x 29.5"w and ships un...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Found Objects, Monoprint, Woodcut

Jo Yarrington, Mute-Ability_Composition 6, 2019_acrylic, steel, player piano rol
Jo Yarrington, Mute-Ability_Composition 6, 2019_acrylic, steel, player piano rol

Jo Yarrington, Mute-Ability_Composition 6, 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 Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Steel

"Egg Canoes: Duck #9-11", Found Object Sculpture, Egg Motif
"Egg Canoes: Duck #9-11", Found Object Sculpture, Egg Motif

"Egg Canoes: Duck #9-11", Found Object Sculpture, Egg Motif

By Katie VanVliet

Located in Philadelphia, PA

This piece titled "SEgg Canoes: Duck #9-11" is an original piece by Kate VanVliet and is made from eggshell, mica, 3-D printed PETG, acrylic, pine. This piece measures 4”h x 10”w x 2...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Wood, Found Objects, Acrylic, Mica

"Chimaera: Green #11", Reconstructed egg sculpture
"Chimaera: Green #11", Reconstructed egg sculpture

"Chimaera: Green #11", Reconstructed egg sculpture

By Katie VanVliet

Located in Philadelphia, PA

This piece titled "Chimaera: Green #11" is an original piece by Kate VanVliet and is made from eggshells, mica, and PVA. This piece measures 2.5”h x 2”w x 2”d ands with the pictured ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Glue, Found Objects, Mica, Organic Material, Acrylic

"Day in the Life: Green #22", Found Object Sculpture, Egg Motif
"Day in the Life: Green #22", Found Object Sculpture, Egg Motif

"Day in the Life: Green #22", Found Object Sculpture, Egg Motif

By Katie VanVliet

Located in Philadelphia, PA

This piece titled "Day in the Life: Green #22" is an original piece by Kate VanVliet and is made from eggshell, mica, and acrylic. This piece measures 4”h x 2.5”w x 2.5”d, and is shi...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Glue, Found Objects, Acrylic, Mica, Organic Material

"Day in the life: Green #25", Found Object Sculpture, Egg Motif
"Day in the life: Green #25", Found Object Sculpture, Egg Motif

"Day in the life: Green #25", Found Object Sculpture, Egg Motif

By Katie VanVliet

Located in Philadelphia, PA

This piece titled "Day in the life: Green #25" is an original piece by Kate VanVliet and is made from eggshell, mica, and acrylic. This piece measures 4”h x 2.5”w x 2.5”d, and is shi...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Glue, Found Objects, Acrylic, Mica

"Day in the Life: Green #33", Found Object Sculpture, Egg Motif
"Day in the Life: Green #33", Found Object Sculpture, Egg Motif

"Day in the Life: Green #33", Found Object Sculpture, Egg Motif

By Katie VanVliet

Located in Philadelphia, PA

This piece titled "Day in the Life: Green #33" is an original piece by Kate VanVliet and is made from eggshell, mica, and acrylic. This piece measures 4”h x 2.5”w x 2.5”d, and is shi...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Glue, Found Objects, Acrylic, Mica, Organic Material

"Day in the Life: Green #90", Found Object Sculpture, Egg Motif
"Day in the Life: Green #90", Found Object Sculpture, Egg Motif

"Day in the Life: Green #90", Found Object Sculpture, Egg Motif

By Katie VanVliet

Located in Philadelphia, PA

This piece titled "Day in the Life: Green #90" is an original piece by Kate VanVliet and is made from eggshell, mica, and acrylic. This piece measures 4”h x 2.5”w x 2.5”d, and is shi...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Glue, Found Objects, Acrylic, Mica, Organic Material

At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites 14 (texture, organic, biophilic, sand)
At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites 14 (texture, organic, biophilic, sand)

At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites 14 (texture, organic, biophilic, sand)

By Melisa Taylor Metzger

Located in Quebec, Quebec

At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites 14 is a vertical mixed-media work from Melisa Taylor Metzger’s decade-long series At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites (2015–2025). This piece ...

Category

2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic

"Self-Reflection on March 12, 1972" Contemporary Cross Stitch on Vintage Photo
"Self-Reflection on March 12, 1972" Contemporary Cross Stitch on Vintage Photo

"Self-Reflection on March 12, 1972" Contemporary Cross Stitch on Vintage Photo

By Han Cao

Located in Philadelphia, PA

This piece titled "Self-Reflection on March 12, 1972" is an original piece by Han Cao and is made from embroidery on a vintage photograph. This piece measures 11" x 9" framed and is ...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Thread, Found Objects, Photographic Paper

"KINDS OF LUCK" Found object assemblage, shadowbox, acrylic and wood
"KINDS OF LUCK" Found object assemblage, shadowbox, acrylic and wood

"KINDS OF LUCK" Found object assemblage, shadowbox, acrylic and wood

By Jim Houser

Located in Philadelphia, PA

This piece titled "KINDS OF LUCK" is an original artwork made from assemblage by Jim Houser. This piece is shipped in the pictured black frame and measures 20"h x 16"w. It’s called ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Wood, Paint, Found Objects

Andra Samelson, Microcosm 3, 2016, Canvas, Found Objects, Acrylic Paint
Andra Samelson, Microcosm 3, 2016, Canvas, Found Objects, Acrylic Paint

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 Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Canvas, Found Objects, Acrylic

"Oesterreich II" Contemporary Monotype with Chine Colle and Watercolor
"Oesterreich II" Contemporary Monotype with Chine Colle and Watercolor

"Oesterreich II" Contemporary Monotype with Chine Colle and Watercolor

By Michael Pauker

Located in Soquel, CA

Contemporary abstract painting and collage composition with stamps, various types of paper, and watercolor by Michael Pauker (American, b. 1957). With found object scraps of vintage ...

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Early 2000s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Paper, Watercolor, Found Objects

"Son Temps", Contemporary Abstract Found Object Collage with Watercolor
"Son Temps", Contemporary Abstract Found Object Collage with Watercolor

"Son Temps", Contemporary Abstract Found Object Collage with Watercolor

By Michael Pauker

Located in Soquel, CA

Beautiful contemporary abstract expressionist collage/oil painting by Bay Area artist Michael Pauker (American, b.1957). Antique stamps, currency, and letters from different places a...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Paper, Watercolor, Found Objects

Elk Mount
Elk Mount

Elk Mount

Located in Belgrade, MT

This is a monumental sculpture which gives us a conversation about our relationship with the natural world. It is not only a straight up beautiful form of our majestic elk but it is ...

Category

2010s American Impressionist Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Copper, Steel, Iron, Wire

At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites 12 (texture, organic, biophilic, sand)
At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites 12 (texture, organic, biophilic, sand)

At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites 12 (texture, organic, biophilic, sand)

By Melisa Taylor Metzger

Located in Quebec, Quebec

At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites 12 (horizontal) is a luminous, mixed-media painting by Melisa Taylor Metzger from her decade-long series At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites (...

Category

2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic

American Story No.1921

American Story No.1921

By Kat Flyn

Located in New Orleans, LA

KAT FLYN is a self-taught assemblage artist working presently out of San Diego. She began her career as a costume designer in Southern California. Over the years she amassed a trove of artifacts and collectables which she began using to create assemblage art in the 1990’s. In 2000 she sold her business and moved to Cuyamaca, a remote community in the mountains outside of San Diego to devote herself exclusively to her artwork. In 2003 her work was interrupted when the Cedar Fire swept through San Diego county and destroyed the forest, her home & studio along with almost all of her collections and works of art. Following the fire she relocated to San Francisco, where she spent a decade concentrating on her art in her studio in SOMA and exhibiting at galleries in the Bay Area. In 2015 she returned to San Diego and now works out of her studio in La Jolla, exhibiting there and in Los Angeles. Kat Flyn refers to herself as an Assemblage Sculptor and her works as Political Art or Protest Art. She separates herself from other assemblage artists in that she only employs “saved” as opposed to “found” objects in her work; and her pieces always have a political or cultural narrative to them rather than being surreal or abstract. She also constructs or refashions many of the pieces which she uses in her art, for example she turns a soft drink box...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Wood, Found Objects, Mixed Media

At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites II, Mixed Media Painting texture metallic
At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites II, Mixed Media Painting texture metallic

At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites II, Mixed Media Painting texture metallic

By Melisa Taylor Metzger

Located in Quebec, Quebec

"At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites I1" is a textured mixed-media painting that explores the connection between the ancient and the celestial. Created with acrylic, latex, copper ...

Category

2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Bronze, Copper

"Francisco G.", Mixed Media on Linen with Assemblage Elements, 1990
"Francisco G.", Mixed Media on Linen with Assemblage Elements, 1990

"Francisco G.", Mixed Media on Linen with Assemblage Elements, 1990

Located in Astoria, NY

Roni Nicholson (American, XX), "Francisco G.", Mixed Media on Linen with Assemblage Elements, 1990, signed, titled, and dated verso, unframed. 51.25" H x 54" W x 1.5" D. Provenance...

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1990s Conceptual Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Textile, Linen, Wood, Found Objects, Mixed Media, Oil

Paintbrushes I
Paintbrushes I

Paintbrushes I

By Arman

Located in Long Island City, NY

Artist: Arman, French/American (1929 - 2005) Title: Paintbrushes I Year: 1991 Medium: Paintbrushes and Oil Paint in Epoxy Resin Sculpture, Signature and number inscribed Edition: 20,...

Category

1990s Dada Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Epoxy Resin, Found Objects, Mixed Media, Oil

Paint Roller Series
Paint Roller Series

Paint Roller Series

By Jerry Cabrera

Located in New Orleans, LA

Jerry Cabrera’s Light Painting series captures the preciousness and sacredness of light through his glowing and vibrant rectangular canvasses. Although abstract, Cabrera’s stacked ca...

Category

2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Found Objects, Oil

Charlie Milgrim, Sin of Science, 1997, Social Commentary, Bowling Balls
Charlie Milgrim, Sin of Science, 1997, Social Commentary, Bowling Balls

Charlie Milgrim, Sin of Science, 1997, Social Commentary, Bowling Balls

Located in Darien, CT

Milgrim’s sculpture practice is restless by nature, evolving every few years and incorporating new materials and concepts. She utilizes a diverse range of industrial, found, and dist...

Category

1990s Assemblage Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Wood, Found Objects

Rift Valley, Sonde 1 (khaki tan green organic copper coastal abstract texture)
Rift Valley, Sonde 1 (khaki tan green organic copper coastal abstract texture)

Rift Valley, Sonde 1 (khaki tan green organic copper coastal abstract texture)

By Melisa Taylor Metzger

Located in Quebec, Quebec

"Rift Valley, Sonde 1" is a textural and elemental abstract painting on canvas. It explores the hybridization of chance-derived color-fields with bas-relief aesthetics. Various techn...

Category

2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic

Surreal Contemporary Figurative Mixed-Media Sculpture Found-Object American

Surreal Contemporary Figurative Mixed-Media Sculpture Found-Object American

By Philip Kuznicki

Located in Buffalo, NY

One of a kind mixed-media sculpture by Philip Kuznicki from the Spirit exhibition. Comes in its original frame. Born in Dunkirk NY, Kuznicki started his career working for artists su...

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2010s Surrealist Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Found Objects, Mixed Media

Memo (Ghost)
Memo (Ghost)

Memo (Ghost)

By Paul Villinski

Located in New Orleans, LA

medium: aluminum (found cans), wire, white Flashe paint Available in multiple color/finish options (inquire with gallery). Installations are made to order, sizes and shapes of butte...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Metal, Wire

"Tomato Garden 01" Mixed Media Painting
"Tomato Garden 01" Mixed Media Painting

"Tomato Garden 01" Mixed Media Painting

By Patrick Burns

Located in Chicago, IL

"Concrete Gardens" is a body of work that translates Patrick Burns' deep love of the land into mixed-media paintings with rich texture and reverberating, monochrome color. Using pres...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Concrete

"Have A Kissing Accident (Sententia Sectum)", Mixed Media Layered Paper Collage
"Have A Kissing Accident (Sententia Sectum)", Mixed Media Layered Paper Collage

"Have A Kissing Accident (Sententia Sectum)", Mixed Media Layered Paper Collage

By Hyland Mather (X-O)

Located in Philadelphia, PA

"Have A Kissing Accident (Sententia Sectum)" is an original artwork by Hyland Mather made of layered paper assemblage with laser-cut text and found collage. It measures 12.5”h x 9”w ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Paper, Found Objects

"Beach-Combed Mochaware, " Mixed Media Sculpture
"Beach-Combed Mochaware, " Mixed Media Sculpture

"Beach-Combed Mochaware, " Mixed Media Sculpture

By Michael Thompson

Located in Chicago, IL

Based in Chicago, IL, contemporary artist Michael Thompson creates unique kites, collages and mixed media works assembled from material fragments of past and present collected in his travels. In his ongoing series of memory jugs, Thompson adorns stoneware vessels with a kaleidoscope of ceramic shards, found objects, and pocket-sized trinkets he collected over the course of his life. Also known as forget-me-not jugs or spirit jars, memory jugs are African American folk art objects that honor a loved one who has recently passed. Small tokens and mementos of the deceased are gathered and affixed to the exterior of a jug or vase, an abundance of memories that celebrates a life lived to the fullest. Michael Thompson applies this tradition to his own practice, creating tactile assemblages of this and that. Formed in the manner of collage, each jug honors the lost memories of generations past and his own memories of personally discovering each item. With varied sources for materials including Kyoto, Turkey, and Mexico, a great number of the found shards are 18th and 19th century ceramics...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Stone

Rift Valley, sonde IV (texture abstract painting canvas bronze Earthy organic )
Rift Valley, sonde IV (texture abstract painting canvas bronze Earthy organic )

Rift Valley, sonde IV (texture abstract painting canvas bronze Earthy organic )

By Melisa Taylor Metzger

Located in Quebec, Quebec

“Rift Valley, Sonde IV” is an evocative mixed-media composition that captures the raw essence of nature through its textured, multilayered surface. The earthy palette—browns, ochres,...

Category

2010s Color-Field Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic

Name Unknown
Name Unknown

Name Unknown

Located in New York, NY

Stainless Steel TIG Welding Rod, Aluminum, Fishing Accessories, Wire, Paint Jeremy Bullis after David L. Bullis Edition 1/5

Category

2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Stainless Steel, Wire

"Venerable Truth - Breathe" Mixed Media Artwork, Chinese, Framed, Post-Modern
"Venerable Truth - Breathe" Mixed Media Artwork, Chinese, Framed, Post-Modern

"Venerable Truth - Breathe" Mixed Media Artwork, Chinese, Framed, Post-Modern

Located in Sag Harbor, NY

"Venerable Truth - Breathe" is a mixed media sculpture by David Saunders. For this series of works, he collected imported cans discarded near his studio in Soho, NY and constructed c...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Post-Modern Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Enamel, Gold Leaf

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