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Medium: Found Objects
Chiaroscuro
Chiaroscuro

Chiaroscuro

By Paul Villinski

Located in New Orleans, LA

Paul Villinski's "Chiaroscuro" incorporates his signature butterfly motif with a found antique frame. This unique piece dazzles with its shimmering gold leaf finish, with the bespoke...

Category

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

Materials

Metal, Wire, Gold Leaf

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

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

"Louis", Contemporary, Mixed Media, Beaded, Sculpture, Found Objects, Glass
"Louis", Contemporary, Mixed Media, Beaded, Sculpture, Found Objects, Glass

"Louis", Contemporary, Mixed Media, Beaded, Sculpture, Found Objects, Glass

By Jan Huling

Located in St. Louis, MO

Jan Huling was born in Chicago and raised in St. Louis. After attending the Kansas City Art Institute she started her career in greeting card design at Hallmark. She now works in New...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Glass, Plastic, Found Objects, Mixed Media, Other Medium

Cloud
Cloud

Cloud

By Paul Villinski

Located in New Orleans, LA

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

Category

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

Materials

Stainless Steel

Collective Liberation
Collective Liberation

Collective Liberation

By Elsa Marie Keefe

Located in Brooklyn, NY

Collective Liberation is comprised of a photograph, acrylic paint and resin. The base materials for the work are a wooden paneled canvas that supports the adhesion of a rolled photog...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Resin, Found Objects, Acrylic, Wood Panel, Photographic Paper

Constellation I
Constellation I

Maria ManhattanConstellation I, 2023

$3,520Sale Price|20% Off

Constellation I

By Maria Manhattan

Located in New York, NY

Porcelain sculpture with embedded china shards

Category

2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Porcelain, Found Objects

Constellation III
Constellation III

Constellation III

By Maria Manhattan

Located in New York, NY

Porcelain sculpture with embedded china shards

Category

2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Porcelain, Found Objects

Look
Look

Look

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

Tempest
Tempest

Tempest

Located in New York, NY

Stainless Steel TIG Welding Rod, Aluminum, Fishing Accessories, Wire, Paint Jeremy Bullis after David L. Bullis Edition 2/5

Category

2010s Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Stainless Steel, Wire

"Everlast" Contemporary Pastel Abstract Boxing Glove Wall Sculpture

"Everlast" Contemporary Pastel Abstract Boxing Glove Wall Sculpture

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

Plaster, Wood, Found Objects, Acrylic

"Tried and True, Nothing Beats a Classic Flip Phone", Crochet Wall Sculpture
"Tried and True, Nothing Beats a Classic Flip Phone", Crochet Wall Sculpture

"Tried and True, Nothing Beats a Classic Flip Phone", Crochet Wall Sculpture

By Nicole Nikolich, Lace in the Moon

Located in Philadelphia, PA

This piece titled "Tried and True, Nothing Beats a Classic Flip Phone" is a one-of-a-kind original piece by Nicole Nikolich (Lace in the Moon) and is made from crocheted acrylic on M...

Category

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

Materials

Textile, Yarn, Found Objects, Wood

Lady Gaga
Lady Gaga

Pablo CanoLady Gaga, 2012

$5,600Sale Price|34% Off

Lady Gaga

By Pablo Cano

Located in West Palm Beach, FL

This Lady Gaga marionette sculpture is made of found objects in Pablo Cano's signature style. Some of the elements include: plastic bowl, a metal candy dish, soda cans plastic credit cards, and a potato masher among other found objects. Born in Havana, Cuba in 1961, Pablo Cano was on the last flight out of the country before the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. He has since been a resident of Miami’s Little Havana, and is regarded by art patrons and critics alike as one of Florida’s premier contemporary fine artists. Since childhood, marionettes have fascinated Pablo. At the age of ten, he was mounting elaborate plays for his family featuring puppets constructed of household bric-a-brac. His primary work today continues to center around the marionettes that he fashions from found objects, and the performance pieces he composes to showcase these protagonists. Cano reveals, “I create a dream world where inanimate objects come to life – springing from my imagination in the Surrealist tradition. But my work is founded on Dada ideals. The Dadaists used chance, spontaneity, and childlike innocence in order to create their statement. Their intention, as is mine, was to break with tradition and painting technique and to return to the elemental basics of art; to start from scratch; to allow the process of imagination to unfold and begin anew each time I create.” Influences from the color palette of Russian Constructivist Alexandra Exter...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Found Objects

Detour
Detour

Detour

By Kat Flyn

Located in New Orleans, LA

"Society is placing a major roadblock in front of the lives of women who now that Roe has been overturned, are pressured to carry unplanned pregnancies to term." 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, Pearls Before Swine  2020, cochineal dyes, pages, sewn pearls
Patricia Miranda, Pearls Before Swine  2020, cochineal dyes, pages, sewn pearls

Patricia Miranda, Pearls Before Swine 2020, cochineal dyes, pages, sewn pearls

By Patricia Miranda

Located in Darien, CT

Patricia Miranda's work includes interdisciplinary installation, textile, paper and books. The textiles incorporated in these new pieces are vintage linens from her Italian and Irish grandmothers and sourced from friends and strangers around the country. Each donation is documented and integrated into the work. Textile as a form that wraps the body from cradle to grave. The role of lacemaking in the lives of women both economically and historically is packed with metaphorical potential. The relationship of craft and women’s work (re)appropriated by artists today to environmental and social issues is integral to the artist's research. Her work is process oriented; materials are submerged in natural dyes from oak gall wasp nests, cochineal insects, turmeric, indigo, and clay. She forages for raw materials, cook dyes, grind pigments, ecofeminist actions that consider environmental impacts of objects. The process is left visible as dyestuff is unfiltered in the vat and finished work. Sewn into larger works, Miranda incorporates hair, pearls, bone beads, Milagros, cast plaster. The distinct genetics and environmental and cultural history of each material asserts its voice as collaborator rather than medium. The lace inserts a visceral femininity into the pristine gallery, and exerts a ghostly trace of the history of domestic labor. The combination of earth and lace references human and environmental devastation and the conflation of nature and women’s bodies as justifications for exploitation. Mournful and solastalgic, they are lamentations to the violence against women and the earth. Patricia Miranda is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, educator, and founder of The Crit Lab, graduate-level critique seminars and Residency for artists, and MAPSpace project space. She has been Visiting Artist at Vermont Studio Center, the Heckscher Museum, and University of Utah; and been awarded residencies at I-Park, Weir Farm, Vermont Studio Center, and Julio Valdez Printmaking Studio. She received an Anonymous Was a Woman Covid19 Artist Relief Grant, an artist grant from ArtsWestchester/New York State Council on the Arts, and was part of a year-long NEA grant working with homeless youth. Miranda currently teaches graduate curatorial studies at Western Colorado University, and develops programs for K-12, museums, and institutions such as Franklin Furnace. Her work has been exhibited at ODETTA, NYC; ABC No Rio, NYC; Alexey von...

Category

2010s Feminist Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Thread, Dye, Found Objects

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...

Category

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

Materials

Metal, Wire

Loosing Fear of the Consequences Series, Mixed Media by Contemporary Artist

Loosing Fear of the Consequences Series, Mixed Media by Contemporary Artist

By A. K. Douglas

Located in Kolkata, West Bengal

A. K. Douglas - Loosing Fear of the Consequences Series Mixed Media, 15 x 11 inches, 2020 Born in India1979, 2015: MFA from Prachin Kala Kendra, Chandigarh, India. Show / workshops/ symposium /biennale • 2020: Solo Show at SPC kunstrum gallery, Copenhagen Denmark. • 2020: Group show CALTART Caltabellotta Contemporary Art Project,Sicily. • 2020: Open Studio with marc Rayner, Sweden. • 2020: Group show, Galerie 6, Mairie de Montreuil, France. • 2020: Open 7,International art exhibition, at magazzini Dell Art contemporanea, Trapani Italy. • 2019: Group show-University Art museum Chungcheongbuk-do South Korea. • 2019: De Colore. Leonardo e l”interpretazionecontemporane, Milano Italy. • 2019: Kaleidoscope, international art exhibition, at magazzini Dell Art contemporanea, Trapani Italy. • 2019: 9th Biennale de SarriaSalon International d'Art,Spain • 2019: International artist residency for River Democracy, MahakumbhMela, PrayagrajIndia. • 2019: Group Show of Vasudhaivakutumbakam at Allahabad Museum India. • 2019: International coordinator for Dhanbad Art Fair, Dhanbad India. • 2018: 2nd Bodhgaya Biennale, Bodhgaya India. • 2018: Group show, Governor House Patna, in association with Govt. of Bihar (workshop)& Bihar Museum,India. • 2018: Group show,Gallerie Sonia Monti, Paris, France. • 2018: Arthshila International Artist Symposium Group Show, Bihar Museum Patna, India. • 2017: AMP TWOFOUR54, group show, October & November edition, Abu Dhabi,UAE. • 2017: 9th Biennale de SarriaSalon International d'Art,Spain. • 2017: ZeeArts, M gallery, The Retreat Hotel Palm Jumeirah. Dubai, UAE. • 2017: Group show, Magnetikzone International Art Project, Polo Museale “A.Cordici” Italy. • 2017: New media group show, Korean culture centre New Delhi, India. • 2017: Collective exhibition in Erice, Italy. • 2017: New media group show, Schema Art Museum Cheongju, South Korea. • 2017: Konst pa vag group show, Sweden. • 2017: Dual show,lugar 34 & Circa, TromsoNorway. • 2017: Dual show,Magazzinidell'ArteContemporanea,TrapaniSicily. • 2017: Group show, Anima Mundi at OrtoBotanico di Napoli, NaplesItaly. • 2016: Open studio with Marc Rayner, Sweden. • 2016: Magnetic zone, International Art Project, at MuseoCivico di Torre di Ligny, Trapani Italy. • 2016: Art Dubai, Mojo art gallery Dubai. • 2016: Landscape at SpazioPorta Mazzini Viale G, Mazzini 1, Rome, Italy. • 2015: International art camp, exhibition- The Al Asmakh Art Symposium, Qatar. • 2015: Biennale D’ArteContemporanea di Trapani secondaedizione, Italy. • 2015: Salon Generations, Hanger Art Center- Opera House Cairo- Egypt. • 2015: UpCycled Art Festival, Aviation Industry, Art Takes Wing, Art Hub Liwa, UAE. • 2015, 14, 13: Project Director for VashudhaivaKutumbakam artist residency. •2011, 17: Project manager for Buddha Enlightenment art...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Mixed Media, Textile, Yarn, Wood, Adhesive, Acrylic Polymer, Found Objec...

Drifting Off
Drifting Off

Drifting Off

By Becca Fuhrman

Located in New Orleans, LA

"Sounds of the Sea Vol. III" is painted on re-purposed drop cloth, embellished with black fringe and hung on custom brass hardware. Becca Fuhrman says of her work... My work aims t...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Brass, Copper

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

"City Streets" Contemporary Outsider Urban Expressionism Painting Framed
"City Streets" Contemporary Outsider Urban Expressionism Painting Framed

"City Streets" Contemporary Outsider Urban Expressionism Painting Framed

By Purvis Young

Located in New York, NY

The painting is an expressive, abstract work by Purvis Young with a strong emphasis on dynamic brushwork and a limited color palette dominated by deep reds, off-whites, and subtle ac...

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20th Century Abstract Expressionist Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Found Objects, Mixed Media, Cardboard

"Retablo No. 5 (An Attic of Records)", Mixed Media Sculpture
"Retablo No. 5 (An Attic of Records)", Mixed Media Sculpture

"Retablo No. 5 (An Attic of Records)", Mixed Media Sculpture

By Patrick Fitzgerald 1

Located in Chicago, IL

The intricate retablos of contemporary artist Patrick Fitzgerald are his means of paying homage to the musicians that inspired him throughout his life. Derived from Mexican votive...

Category

2010s Surrealist Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Paper, Oil, Found Objects, Mixed Media, Wood Panel

Rift Valley, sonde 2 (texture copper bronze gold emerald green abstract wine red
Rift Valley, sonde 2 (texture copper bronze gold emerald green abstract wine red

Rift Valley, sonde 2 (texture copper bronze gold emerald green abstract wine red

By Melisa Taylor Metzger

Located in Quebec, Quebec

"Rift Valley, Sonde 2" is a textural and elemental abstract painting on canvas. It explores the hybridization of chance-derived color-fields with textural topography. Various techniq...

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2010s Abstract Geometric Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic

"Whew!" oil pastel signed landscape motorcycle fun adventure lake mountains bold
"Whew!" oil pastel signed landscape motorcycle fun adventure lake mountains bold

"Whew!" oil pastel signed landscape motorcycle fun adventure lake mountains bold

By Reginald K. Gee

Located in Milwaukee, WI

"Whew!" is an original oil pastel drawing on a grocery bag by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece in the lower left. It depicts a man on a motorcycle doing a wheelie on a be...

Category

Early 2000s Expressionist Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Oil Pastel, Found Objects

"3 Pallets", Hand-Crafted Miniature Sculpture in Wood and Watercolor
"3 Pallets", Hand-Crafted Miniature Sculpture in Wood and Watercolor

"3 Pallets", Hand-Crafted Miniature Sculpture in Wood and Watercolor

By Drew Leshko

Located in Philadelphia, PA

This piece titled "3 Pallets" is original artwork made from coffee stirrers, basswood, pastel, watercolor by Drew Leshko. This piece measures 5”h x 1”w x 5”d. Drew Leshko is a Phila...

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

Materials

Wood, Found Objects, Watercolor

"Cornbread The Legend Change The World", Acrylic on Metal Roofing Panel Graffiti
"Cornbread The Legend Change The World", Acrylic on Metal Roofing Panel Graffiti

"Cornbread The Legend Change The World", Acrylic on Metal Roofing Panel Graffiti

By Cornbread

Located in Philadelphia, PA

This artwork titled "Cornbread The Legend Change The World" is an original artwork by Cornbread made of acrylic paint on a metal roofing panel. The piece is a movie set piece from Au...

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

Materials

Metal

Earthy Abstract African Trees, Rusted Metal Composition "Farm Landscape Study 3"
Earthy Abstract African Trees, Rusted Metal Composition "Farm Landscape Study 3"

Earthy Abstract African Trees, Rusted Metal Composition "Farm Landscape Study 3"

By Nyasha Mashumba

Located in Cape Town, ZA

Nyasha Mashumba, having been the apprentice of Mark Hilltout, has now started to carve out a career for himself as artist and designer, utilizing the medium and craft he has mastered...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Metal, Steel, Iron

Rift Valley, sonde 2 (texture copper bronze gold emerald green abstract wine red
Rift Valley, sonde 2 (texture copper bronze gold emerald green abstract wine red

Rift Valley, sonde 2 (texture copper bronze gold emerald green abstract wine red

By Melisa Taylor Metzger

Located in Quebec, Quebec

"Rift Valley, Sonde 2" is a textural and elemental abstract painting on canvas. It explores the hybridization of chance-derived color-fields with textural topography. Various techniq...

Category

2010s Abstract Geometric Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic

"Ultrablue Garden 05" Mixed Media Painting
"Ultrablue Garden 05" Mixed Media Painting

"Ultrablue Garden 05" 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...

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

Materials

Concrete

"Crimson Garden 01" Mixed Media Painting
"Crimson Garden 01" Mixed Media Painting

"Crimson 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 and complicated past into richly textured, mixed-media paintings with reverberating, monochr...

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

Materials

Concrete

"Vintage LG Flip", Crocheted Framed Wall Art, Nostalgic Flip Phone Sculpture
"Vintage LG Flip", Crocheted Framed Wall Art, Nostalgic Flip Phone Sculpture

"Vintage LG Flip", Crocheted Framed Wall Art, Nostalgic Flip Phone Sculpture

By Nicole Nikolich, Lace in the Moon

Located in Philadelphia, PA

This piece titled "Vintage LG Flip" is a one-of-a-kind original piece by Nicole Nikolich (Lace in the Moon) and is made from recycled cell phone mounted on crocheted acrylic in ornat...

Category

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

Materials

Textile, Yarn, Found Objects

Compass
Compass

Compass

By Paul Villinski

Located in New Orleans, LA

medium: found aluminum cans, wire, Flashe paint Available in right and left orientations. Available in multiple color/finish options (inquire with gallery). Installations are made t...

Category

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

Materials

Metal, Wire

Abstract Composition
Abstract Composition

Abstract Composition

Located in Astoria, NY

Marc Heine (German/American, 1919-2007), Abstract Composition, Mixed Media on Canvas, signed lower right, wood frame. Image: 66.25" H x 35.25" W; frame: 67" H x 36" W x 1" D. Provena...

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Mid-20th Century Modern Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Canvas, Found Objects, Mixed Media, Oil

"Tiffany Garden 01" Mixed Media Painting
"Tiffany Garden 01" Mixed Media Painting

"Tiffany 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 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

"Snapshot Taken of Saucer Touchdown" Oil Pastel on Grocery Bag by Reginald K Gee
"Snapshot Taken of Saucer Touchdown" Oil Pastel on Grocery Bag by Reginald K Gee

"Snapshot Taken of Saucer Touchdown" Oil Pastel on Grocery Bag by Reginald K Gee

By Reginald K. Gee

Located in Milwaukee, WI

"Snapshot Taken of a Saucer Touchdown" is an original oil pastel drawing on a grocery bag by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece lower right and dated it on the back. It dep...

Category

1990s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Oil Pastel, Found Objects

"Tomato and Anvil" hyperrealist, tender fruits atop industrial metal, painting
"Tomato and Anvil" hyperrealist, tender fruits atop industrial metal, painting

"Tomato and Anvil" hyperrealist, tender fruits atop industrial metal, painting

By Anthony Ackrill

Located in Sag Harbor, NY

Trompe l'oeil still life oil painting of lush red tomatoes juxtaposed atop an anvil, with a sledgehammer in the background. Painted on an old cabinet door. Signed by artist on verso...

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

Materials

Found Objects, Oil

"Bouquet, " Mixed Media Sculpture
"Bouquet, " Mixed Media Sculpture

"Bouquet, " 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...

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

Materials

Stone

Feminist Acrylic/Collage Colorful Painting - Clothespin Coil and Friends 27
Feminist Acrylic/Collage Colorful Painting - Clothespin Coil and Friends 27

Feminist Acrylic/Collage Colorful Painting - Clothespin Coil and Friends 27

By Linda Stein

Located in New York, NY

Linda Stein, Clothespin Coil and Friends 27– Signed Feminist Acrylic and Collage Colorful Painting Clothespin Coil and Friends 27 is from Linda Stein's Missives series--a body of w...

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1980s Feminist Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Plexiglass, Found Objects, Acrylic, Board, Wood

"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

Cohete VI - 21st Century, Contemporary Sculpture, Figurative, Recycled Objects
Cohete VI - 21st Century, Contemporary Sculpture, Figurative, Recycled Objects

Cohete VI - 21st Century, Contemporary Sculpture, Figurative, Recycled Objects

By Miquel Aparici

Located in Barcelona, Catalonia

Miquel Aparici's sculptures are surprising assemblages made from old objects that had other uses in the past, and which the artist recovers and uses in a creative and ingenious way. ...

Category

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

Materials

Found Objects, Mixed Media

"Magma & Reef", Multicolor Geometric Abstract Hand-Stitched Paper Wall Art
"Magma & Reef", Multicolor Geometric Abstract Hand-Stitched Paper Wall Art

"Magma & Reef", Multicolor Geometric Abstract Hand-Stitched Paper Wall Art

By Kelly Kozma

Located in Philadelphia, PA

This sculpture titled "Magma & Reef" is an original artwork by Kelly Kozma made of assorted & repurposed punched paper, hand-stitched together with embroidery thread. The pie...

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

Materials

Paper, Found Objects, Thread

"Lounging Reader" Oil Pastel Portrait on Grocery Bag signed by Reginald K. Gee
"Lounging Reader" Oil Pastel Portrait on Grocery Bag signed by Reginald K. Gee

"Lounging Reader" Oil Pastel Portrait on Grocery Bag signed by Reginald K. Gee

By Reginald K. Gee

Located in Milwaukee, WI

"Lounging Reader" is an original oil pastel drawing on a Safeway grocery bag by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece lower right and signed & dated it on the verso. This piec...

Category

1990s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Oil Pastel, Found Objects

So it Goes
So it Goes

So it Goes

By Becca Fuhrman

Located in New Orleans, LA

Medium: house-paint on upcycled drop cloth Becca Fuhrman (b. 1988, Boise, ID) is an interdisciplinary artist who specializes in multimedia large-scale p...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Found Objects, House Paint

"Landscape Study on Daguerreotype Plate", Oil Painting Italian Countryside Hills
"Landscape Study on Daguerreotype Plate", Oil Painting Italian Countryside Hills

"Landscape Study on Daguerreotype Plate", Oil Painting Italian Countryside Hills

By Dina Brodsky

Located in Philadelphia, PA

"Landscape Study on Daguerreotype Plate” is an original artwork by Dina Brodsky, as part of her acclaimed two-person exhibition "Little Italy", an exhibition celebrating travel in co...

Category

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

Materials

Copper

Signed Feminist Acrylic/Collage Colorful Painting - Linear Thoughts Sewn 24
Signed Feminist Acrylic/Collage Colorful Painting - Linear Thoughts Sewn 24

Signed Feminist Acrylic/Collage Colorful Painting - Linear Thoughts Sewn 24

By Linda Stein

Located in New York, NY

Linda Stein, Linear Thoughts Sewn 24 – Signed Feminist Acrylic and Collage Colorful Painting Linear Thoughts Sewn 24 is from Linda Stein's Missives series--a body of work born from...

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1980s Feminist Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Plexiglass, Found Objects, Acrylic, Board

"Take Your Pleasure Seriously" - Mixed Media Textured Collage Painting
"Take Your Pleasure Seriously" - Mixed Media Textured Collage Painting

"Take Your Pleasure Seriously" - Mixed Media Textured Collage Painting

By Cabell Molina

Located in West Hollywood, CA

This 36 inch square original mixed media painting on canvas is wired and ready to hang. Layers of patterned collage elements and acrylic paint bring this artwork to life. The layering and unique texture of colorful clippings and geometrical designs create a window looking into a luxurious escape perfect for any home or office. The sides of the artwork are painted and it does not require framing. It is signed and titled by the artist on the back of the artwork. Molina's work is influenced by her prior career as an advertising art director–but now her goal now is to sell perspective rather than product. In this series, Cabell reclaims classic femininity as multi-faceted, giving voice and texture to lost imagery. Her art pushes for colorful expansion of a “woman’s place” while it explores the complex dynamic of a woman’s emotions, celebrating the bygone glamour of mid-century fashion and deconstructing its patriarchal underpinnings. Cabell’s painting/collages read as meditations on the female experience and the pursuit for sovereignty in a historically male dominated culture. She studied graphic design, and fine art at San Diego State University and Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles. Her work has been featured in NYT The Cut, CNN Style, and Vogue, as well as shown in multinational galleries and can be found in private collections around the world. Exhibitions: 2015 Xpozure Gallery, CT 2015/16 Gallery Room 112, CT 2016/18 Love Art Gallery and Studio. CT 2016 Four page Feature editorial The Beat magazine, CT 2016 Saatchi Art’s Curators pick “Up and coming pop artists”, international 2016 Celebrity painting/collages for Discovery Channel reality show: Project Dad 2017 Gallery Americana’s, CT, feature artist 2017 The Untitled Space gallery, She Inspires, NYC 2017 The Untitled Space Gallery, Secret Garden, NYC 2017 Group editorial New York Times Magazine, The CUT/Untitled Space gallery, NYC, cover piece 2017 Aqua Art Miami , duo show 2018 Vogue Magazine, Untitled Space Gallery, How Could I Have Known 2018 CNN Style, Untitled Space Gallery, How Could I Have Known 2018 Girl Talk...

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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Canvas, Found Objects, Mixed Media, Acrylic

"Highly Collectable Clamshell StarTAC", Retro Framed Still-Life Flip Phone
"Highly Collectable Clamshell StarTAC", Retro Framed Still-Life Flip Phone

"Highly Collectable Clamshell StarTAC", Retro Framed Still-Life Flip Phone

By Nicole Nikolich, Lace in the Moon

Located in Philadelphia, PA

This piece titled "Highly Collectable Clamshell StarTAC" is a one-of-a-kind original piece by Nicole Nikolich (Lace in the Moon) and is made from recycled cell phone mounted on croch...

Category

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

Materials

Textile, Yarn, Acrylic, Found Objects

The Battle (of Grunwald) --  geometric abstract mixed media collage painting
The Battle (of Grunwald) --  geometric abstract mixed media collage painting

The Battle (of Grunwald) -- geometric abstract mixed media collage painting

By Mat Tomezsko

Located in Bryn Mawr, PA

Mat Tomezko's "Price" series of mixed media collage paintings are constructed from periodicals, circulars, acrylic, asphalt, graffiti, and coal on panel. Using mostly found materials...

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2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Found Objects, Acrylic, Panel, Wood Panel, Magazine Paper, Newsprint, As...

Story Time
Story Time

Story Time

By Tony Dagradi

Located in New Orleans, LA

TONY DAGRADI is an internationally recognized jazz performer, artist, composer, author, and educator. For over three decades he has made his home in New Orleans, performing on tenor ...

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

Materials

Paper, Varnish, Found Objects

The Ancient One
The Ancient One

The Ancient One

By Tony Dagradi

Located in New Orleans, LA

TONY DAGRADI is an internationally recognized jazz performer, artist, composer, author, and educator. For over three decades he has made his home in New Orleans, performing on tenor ...

Category

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

Materials

Paper, Varnish, Found Objects

"Rubens vs. Knippel" Oil on Restored and Assembled Vintage Paintings
"Rubens vs. Knippel" Oil on Restored and Assembled Vintage Paintings

"Rubens vs. Knippel" Oil on Restored and Assembled Vintage Paintings

By André Schulze

Located in Philadelphia, PA

This Mixed Media piece titled "Rubens vs. Knippel" is an original artwork by André Schulze made of oil on vintage painting on canvas. The piece measures 25.25"h x 17.5"w framed, and ...

Category

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

Materials

Canvas, Found Objects, Oil

Land Of The Giants
Land Of The Giants

Land Of The Giants

By Tony Dagradi

Located in New Orleans, LA

TONY DAGRADI is an internationally recognized jazz performer, artist, composer, author, and educator. For over three decades he has made his home in New Orleans, performing on tenor ...

Category

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

Materials

Paper, Varnish, Found Objects

Excerpts
Excerpts

Excerpts

By Tony Dagradi

Located in New Orleans, LA

TONY DAGRADI is an internationally recognized jazz performer, artist, composer, author, and educator. For over three decades he has made his home in New Orleans, performing on tenor ...

Category

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

Materials

Paper, Varnish, Found Objects

Constellation II
Constellation II

Constellation II

By Maria Manhattan

Located in New York, NY

Porcelain sculpture with embedded china shards

Category

2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Porcelain, Found Objects

Found Objects art for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Found Objects art available on 1stDibs. While artists have worked in this medium across a range of time periods, art made with this material during the 21st Century is especially popular. If you’re looking to add art created with this material to introduce a provocative pop of color and texture to an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, orange, green, purple and other colors. There are many well-known artists whose body of work includes ceramic sculptures. Popular artists on 1stDibs associated with pieces like this include Reginald K. Gee, Katie VanVliet, Melisa Taylor Metzger, and Kat Flyn. Frequently made by artists working in the Contemporary, Abstract, all of these pieces for sale are unique and many will draw the attention of guests in your home. Not every interior allows for large Found Objects art, so small editions measuring 0.01 inches across are also available