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Medium: Found Objects
"I See Your Beauty" CMYK Process Test Print Collage On Panel
"I See Your Beauty" CMYK Process Test Print Collage On Panel

"I See Your Beauty" CMYK Process Test Print Collage On Panel

By Kelly Kozma

Located in Philadelphia, PA

This sculpture titled "I See Your Beauty" is an original artwork by Kelly Kozma as part of her newest exhibition, "Watch Me Backflip." This exhibition is made up of meticulously coll...

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

Materials

Paper, Found Objects, Acrylic, Panel

"Richness in Your Soul" Assembled Cookie Fortunes Collected Over 20 Years
"Richness in Your Soul" Assembled Cookie Fortunes Collected Over 20 Years

"Richness in Your Soul" Assembled Cookie Fortunes Collected Over 20 Years

By Kelly Kozma

Located in Philadelphia, PA

This sculpture titled "Richness in Your Soul" is an original artwork by Kelly Kozma as part of her newest exhibition, "Watch Me Backflip." This collection is made up of meticulously ...

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

Materials

Paper, Found Objects, Acrylic, Panel

"Security Blanket 2025 Edition" Layers of Cut Security Envelope Patterns Mounted
"Security Blanket 2025 Edition" Layers of Cut Security Envelope Patterns Mounted

"Security Blanket 2025 Edition" Layers of Cut Security Envelope Patterns Mounted

By Kelly Kozma

Located in Philadelphia, PA

This sculpture titled "Security Blanket 2025 Edition" is an original artwork by Kelly Kozma as part of her newest exhibition, "Watch Me Backflip." This collection is made up of meti...

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

Materials

Found Objects, Acrylic, Panel, Archival Paper

Vestiges spectrales II (texture, organic, biophilic, sand, pastels, mix-media)
Vestiges spectrales II (texture, organic, biophilic, sand, pastels, mix-media)

Vestiges spectrales II (texture, organic, biophilic, sand, pastels, mix-media)

By Melisa Taylor Metzger

Located in Quebec, Quebec

Vestiges spectrales II is a large-scale mixed-media painting on canvas that transforms the surface into a textured terrain where the visible and invisible intermingle. Built from lay...

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2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic

Mihail (Chemiakin), Found Art Collage and Painting by Bokov
Mihail (Chemiakin), Found Art Collage and Painting by Bokov

Mihail (Chemiakin), Found Art Collage and Painting by Bokov

By Konstantin Bokov

Located in Long Island City, NY

Artist: Konstantin Bokov, Ukrainian/American (1940 - ) Title: Mihail (Chemiakin) Year: 1985 Medium: Found Art Collage with Paint on Canvas, Signed and dated Size: 20 x 16 in. (50.8 x...

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1980s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Canvas, Found Objects, Oil

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

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

Jo Yarrington, Ghost Girls, 2018, Organic Material, Photographic Film, Plastic
Jo Yarrington, Ghost Girls, 2018, Organic Material, Photographic Film, Plastic

Jo Yarrington, Ghost Girls, 2018, Organic Material, Photographic Film, Plastic

By Jo Yarrington

Located in Darien, CT

Radioluminescence is the phenomenon by which light is produced in a material by bombardment with ionizing radiation and can be used as a low-level light source for night illumination of instruments or signage or other applications where light must be produced for long periods without external energy sources. Radioluminescent paint used to be used for clock hands and instrument dials...

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2010s Conceptual Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Pins, Organic Material, Plastic, Photographic Film, Acrylic Polymer, Fou...

Jo Yarrington, Uh Oh, 2020, mixed media, 3.5 x 4 x 8 in

Jo Yarrington, Uh Oh, 2020, mixed media, 3.5 x 4 x 8 in

By Jo Yarrington

Located in Darien, CT

Jo Yarrington has always been interested in chance and the found {moment, object, person}. How random experiences click in to place, form a narrative, reveal a truth. All the work ...

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2010s Conceptual Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Metal

Margaret Roleke, Holy Wars, 2015, children's toys, spray enamel, wood panel
Margaret Roleke, Holy Wars, 2015, children's toys, spray enamel, wood panel

Margaret Roleke, Holy Wars, 2015, children's toys, spray enamel, wood panel

By Margaret Roleke

Located in Darien, CT

Roleke creates politically aware work. Her wall reliefs are composed of multitudes of plastic toys, oddly sexualized Disney characters and Happy Meal trinkets. Through investigation ...

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

Materials

Plastic, Found Objects, Spray Paint, Wood Panel

Margaret Roleke, Barbie Lives In A Police State, 2015, children's toys, wood
Margaret Roleke, Barbie Lives In A Police State, 2015, children's toys, wood

Margaret Roleke, Barbie Lives In A Police State, 2015, children's toys, wood

By Margaret Roleke

Located in Darien, CT

Roleke creates politically aware work. Her wall reliefs are composed of multitudes of plastic toys, oddly sexualized Disney characters and Happy Meal trinkets. Through investigation ...

Category

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

Materials

Found Objects, Spray Paint, Wood Panel

Lisa Levy, You See Through Bullshit, 2014, Mirror, Plastic, Marble, Found Object
Lisa Levy, You See Through Bullshit, 2014, Mirror, Plastic, Marble, Found Object

Lisa Levy, You See Through Bullshit, 2014, Mirror, Plastic, Marble, Found Object

By Lisa Levy

Located in Darien, CT

Dr. Lisa's Ego Championship Trophies Lisa Levy is a painter, conceptual artist, comedian and (self-proclaimed) psychotherapist. Lisa's visual career started when she was 3 1/2 ...

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

Materials

Marble

Sylvia Schwartz, Dressing-up_Detail, 2018, canvas, fabric, paint, plastic
Sylvia Schwartz, Dressing-up_Detail, 2018, canvas, fabric, paint, plastic

Sylvia Schwartz, Dressing-up_Detail, 2018, canvas, fabric, paint, plastic

By Sylvia Schwartz

Located in Darien, CT

Schwartz received a degree in fine art from the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne, Australia, and later studied sculpture at Columbia University. Her work has been shown in...

Category

2010s Abstract Expressionist Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Fabric, Plastic, Found Objects, Acrylic

Liz Sweibel, Untitled (Scrapings #10), 2016, Wood, Paint, Found Objects
Liz Sweibel, Untitled (Scrapings #10), 2016, Wood, Paint, Found Objects

Liz Sweibel, Untitled (Scrapings #10), 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...

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2010s Abstract Expressionist Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Wood, Paint, Found Objects

Patricia Miranda, Dreaming Awake, 2020, nightdress, cochineal dyes, plaster,
Patricia Miranda, Dreaming Awake, 2020, nightdress, cochineal dyes, plaster,

Patricia Miranda, Dreaming Awake, 2020, nightdress, cochineal dyes, 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 Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Fabric, Thread, Dye, Found Objects, Plaster

Butterfly Girl

Butterfly Girl

By Eric Rhein

Located in New York, NY

Eric Rhein “Butterfly Girl” 1992-1995 Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity Steel, brass, and gold-filled wire, thread, glue, and found object...

Category

1990s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Brass, Steel, Wire

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

At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites 11 (celestial blue, texture, organic, sea)
At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites 11 (celestial blue, texture, organic, sea)

At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites 11 (celestial blue, texture, organic, sea)

By Melisa Taylor Metzger

Located in Quebec, Quebec

At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites 11 (horizontal) is a richly textured, mixed-media painting from Melisa Taylor Metzger’s decade-long series At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites...

Category

2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Acrylic, Oil

Unique Rusted Metal Composition "Window on the Wall"
Unique Rusted Metal Composition "Window on the Wall"

Unique Rusted Metal Composition "Window on the Wall"

By Mark Hilltout

Located in Cape Town, ZA

Mark Hilltout has always been drawn to the random, the discarded and the broken. Car dumps fascinate him - he is attracted to the broken edge, not the perfectly straight line. For th...

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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Metal, Steel, Iron

Large Red and Yellow Abstract African Rusted Metal Composition "Red Abstract 2"
Large Red and Yellow Abstract African Rusted Metal Composition "Red Abstract 2"

Large Red and Yellow Abstract African Rusted Metal Composition "Red Abstract 2"

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

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

Patricia Miranda, Florilegium Series, 2016, cochineal dyes, antique books, pearl
Patricia Miranda, Florilegium Series, 2016, cochineal dyes, antique books, pearl

Patricia Miranda, Florilegium Series, 2016, cochineal dyes, antique books, pearl

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

Fabric, Thread, Plaster, Dye, Found Objects

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

Assemblage with Cigar Box and the Letter P
Assemblage with Cigar Box and the Letter P

Assemblage with Cigar Box and the Letter P

By Michael Pauker

Located in Soquel, CA

Abstract expressionist oil painting with assembled objects by Bay Area artist Michael Pauker (American, b. 1957). Against a yellow and black background, the artist has attached several objects, including plastic letters, cigar boxes, and glass slides. Unsigned, but was acquired with a collection of his work. Unframed. Image size: 20"H x 24"W Bay Area artist and art educator Michael Pauker was born in New York in 1957 and knew he wanted to be an artist from the age of 15. He earned a Bachelor’s in Fine Arts at SUNY Purchase in his native state of New York. In 1989 he went on to earn an M.F.A at Mills College in Oakland and was awarded the City of Oakland Artist Fellowship in Painting. He has been a Bay Area resident since 1988. His work has been exhibited widely across the U.S., as well as in Japan and Costa Rica, and is included in the collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Exhibitions include: 2007 Contemporary Art Museum, San Jose, Costa Rica 2007 “The Ebay Art Project,” Works/San Jose, San Jose, CA 2003 “Found Imagery: The Art of Collage,” Fresno Art Museum,Fresno, CA 2003 “Cut, Copy, Paste,” De Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, CA 2003 “20th Annual Exhibition,” Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA 2002 “40 by 40...

Category

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

Materials

Canvas, Glass, Plastic, Paper, Oil, Found Objects

Jo Yarrington, Mute-Ability_Composition 5, 2019_acrylic, steel, player piano rol
Jo Yarrington, Mute-Ability_Composition 5, 2019_acrylic, steel, player piano rol

Jo Yarrington, Mute-Ability_Composition 5, 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

Jo Yarrington, Ghost Girls, Camel Hair Brush Display, 2018, Found Objects, Metal
Jo Yarrington, Ghost Girls, Camel Hair Brush Display, 2018, Found Objects, Metal

Jo Yarrington, Ghost Girls, Camel Hair Brush Display, 2018, Found Objects, Metal

By Jo Yarrington

Located in Darien, CT

Radioluminescence is the phenomenon by which light is produced in a material by bombardment with ionizing radiation and can be used as a low-level light source for night illumination of instruments or signage or other applications where light must be produced for long periods without external energy sources. Radioluminescent paint used to be used for clock hands and instrument dials...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Metal

Joker, Found Objects and Oil Paint on Canvas and Wood by Mihail Sorin
Joker, Found Objects and Oil Paint on Canvas and Wood by Mihail Sorin

Joker, Found Objects and Oil Paint on Canvas and Wood by Mihail Sorin

By Mihail Sorin

Located in Long Island City, NY

Artist: Mihail Sorin Title: Joker Year: 2000 Medium: Oil on Canvas with Wood Frame adorned with Mini Playing Cards Size: 27.5 x 19.75 in. (69.85 x 50.17 cm) Frame Size: 54 x 42.5 x...

Category

Early 2000s Surrealist Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Canvas, Wood, Found Objects, Oil

Hot Dog Man, Found Objects and Paper Mache by Kay Ritter
Hot Dog Man, Found Objects and Paper Mache by Kay Ritter

Hot Dog Man, Found Objects and Paper Mache by Kay Ritter

By Kay Ritter

Located in Long Island City, NY

Artist: Kay Ritter Title: Hot Dog Man Medium: Papier-mache Figure Sculpture with Mixed Media Found Objects, signed Year: 1981 Size: 48 x 16 x 15 in. (121.92 x ...

Category

1980s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Found Objects, Papier Mâché

Memo (Night)
Memo (Night)

Memo (Night)

By Paul Villinski

Located in New Orleans, LA

medium: aluminum (found cans), wire, soot Unique, open edition Available in multiple color/finish options (see second image on listing for options). Installations are made to order, sizes and shapes of butterflies vary and can be oriented leftward or rightward. Ships with installation template and loaner tool kit. Installation can be arranged with JONATHAN FERRARA GALLERY. Paul Villinski is a professional visual artist who has created studio and large-scale artworks for more than three decades. Villinski was born in York, Maine, USA, in 1960, son of an Air Force navigator. He has lived and worked in New York City since 1982. A scenic route through the educational system included stops at Phillips Exeter Academy and the Massachusetts College of Art, and a BFA with honors from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 1984. He lives with his partner, the painter Amy Park, and their son, Lark, in their studios in Long Island City, NY. His work has been included in numerous exhibitions nationally, recently including the solo exhibition “Passage: A Special Project,” at the Blanton Museum, University of Texas, Austin; “Making Mends,” at the Bellevue Museum of Arts, Bellevue, WA; “Second Lives: Re-purposing the Ordinary,” at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY; and “Prospect .1,” an international Biennial in New Orleans, LA. “Emergency Response Studio,” a FEMA trailer redesigned and rebuilt into a solar-and wind-powered mobile artist’s studio, was the subject of a solo exhibition at Rice University Art Gallery, Houston, TX; the exhibition also travelled to Ballroom Marfa, in Marfa, TX; Wesleyan University’s Zilkha Gallery, Middletown, CT; and the trailer was featured in the New Museum’s “Festival of Ideas for the New City”, in New York, NY. Villinski’s work is widely collected, including major public works created by commission. His studio is currently at work on “SkyCycles,” three full-scale “flying...

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

Materials

Metal, Wire

Jo Yarrington, Orchestrations, 2016, Found Objects, Plexiglass
Jo Yarrington, Orchestrations, 2016, Found Objects, Plexiglass

Jo Yarrington, Orchestrations, 2016, Found Objects, Plexiglass

By Jo Yarrington

Located in Darien, CT

The installation, Orchestrations, explores the vernacular in vintage piano roles. The physical perforations in the piano roll paper, coded notations for sound, act as a vehicle for l...

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2010s Post-Minimalist Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Plexiglass, Found Objects

Lisa Levy, Didn't Have to Buy It, Mirror, Plastic, Marble, Found Objects
Lisa Levy, Didn't Have to Buy It, Mirror, Plastic, Marble, Found Objects

Lisa Levy, Didn't Have to Buy It, Mirror, Plastic, Marble, Found Objects

By Lisa Levy

Located in Darien, CT

Dr. Lisa's Ego Championship Trophies Lisa Levy is a painter, conceptual artist, comedian and (self-proclaimed) psychotherapist. Lisa's visual career started when she was 3 1/2 ...

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

Materials

Marble

"best in the west" framed vintage ephemera collage embellished with crystals
"best in the west" framed vintage ephemera collage embellished with crystals

"best in the west" framed vintage ephemera collage embellished with crystals

By Danielle Krysa

Located in Philadelphia, PA

"best in the west" is an original piece by Danielle Krysa, who curates vintage imagery with feminine embellishments to create trophy silhouettes in her newest UNDEFEATED series. This...

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

Materials

Paper, Glitter, Found Objects

"Delivered and Discarded (positive) #1" dimensional collage of sumi ink on Tyvek
"Delivered and Discarded (positive) #1" dimensional collage of sumi ink on Tyvek

"Delivered and Discarded (positive) #1" dimensional collage of sumi ink on Tyvek

By Yoonmi Nam

Located in Philadelphia, PA

"Delivered and Discarded (positives) #1" is an original wall-hanging piece by Yoonmi Nam. This piece is made from the flattening out packing boxes that the artist traces to depict t...

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

Materials

Found Objects, Sumi Ink, Synthetic Paper

"Delivered and Discarded (negatives) #3" abstract layers of manipulated sumi ink
"Delivered and Discarded (negatives) #3" abstract layers of manipulated sumi ink

"Delivered and Discarded (negatives) #3" abstract layers of manipulated sumi ink

By Yoonmi Nam

Located in Philadelphia, PA

"Delivered and Discarded (Negatives) 3 " is an original wall-hanging piece by Yoonmi Nam. This piece is made from the flattening out packing boxes that the artist traces to depict t...

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

Materials

Found Objects, Sumi Ink, Mixed Media, Synthetic Paper

"Saved from the Cannibals" Contemporary Abstract Painting w Found Object Collage
"Saved from the Cannibals" Contemporary Abstract Painting w Found Object Collage

"Saved from the Cannibals" Contemporary Abstract Painting w Found Object Collage

By Michael Pauker

Located in Soquel, CA

A unique contemporary abstract expressionist painting with collaged found object elements, including a torn page from Robinson Crusoe, vintage stamps, and old letters by Bay Area art...

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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

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

"Kobe", by Street Artist Sean 9 Lugo, In Memoriam, Kobe Bryant
"Kobe", by Street Artist Sean 9 Lugo, In Memoriam, Kobe Bryant

"Kobe", by Street Artist Sean 9 Lugo, In Memoriam, Kobe Bryant

By Sean 9 Lugo

Located in Philadelphia, PA

"Kobe" is an original contemporary wall-hanging artwork by Sean 9 Lugo, known artistically for his gallery artwork, murals, and street art. The piece features the artist's signature ...

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

Materials

Paper, Found Objects, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Permanent Marker, Aquatint

"No One Cares", Hand drawn/painted bear figure on mixed media street sign
"No One Cares", Hand drawn/painted bear figure on mixed media street sign

"No One Cares", Hand drawn/painted bear figure on mixed media street sign

By Sean 9 Lugo

Located in Philadelphia, PA

"No One Cares" is an original piece by Sean 9 Lugo "No One Cares" is an original contemporary wall-hanging artwork by Sean 9 Lugo, known artistically for his murals and street art...

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

Materials

Paper, Found Objects, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Permanent Marker, Aquatint

"Edward 40 Hands", Hand drawn/painted figure on wheatpaste & collage street sign
"Edward 40 Hands", Hand drawn/painted figure on wheatpaste & collage street sign

"Edward 40 Hands", Hand drawn/painted figure on wheatpaste & collage street sign

By Sean 9 Lugo

Located in Philadelphia, PA

"Edward 40 Hands" is an original contemporary wall-hanging artwork by Sean 9 Lugo, known artistically for his murals and street art . The main figure displaying classic street wear c...

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

Materials

Paper, Found Objects, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Permanent Marker, Aquatint

"Doom", Dog person, machete and bear head wheatpasted on collaged street sign
"Doom", Dog person, machete and bear head wheatpasted on collaged street sign

"Doom", Dog person, machete and bear head wheatpasted on collaged street sign

By Sean 9 Lugo

Located in Philadelphia, PA

"Doom" is an original piece by Sean 9 Lugo made from acrylic, marker, ink on paper and mixed media wheatpasted and collaged on decommissioned street sign. This piece features a portr...

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

Materials

Paper, Found Objects, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Permanent Marker, Aquatint

Urn with Roses
Urn with Roses

Urn with Roses

By Carlton Scott Sturgill

Located in New Orleans, LA

medium: reclaimed button-down, wire, floral tape, ceramic urn Born in 1971 in Cincinnati, Ohio, CARLTON SCOTT STURGILL received his Masters of Arts (Fine Art) from London’s Chelsea ...

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

Materials

Metal, Wire

At sea between fossils and satellites 7 (blue organic copper abstract texture)
At sea between fossils and satellites 7 (blue organic copper abstract texture)

At sea between fossils and satellites 7 (blue organic copper abstract texture)

By Melisa Taylor Metzger

Located in Quebec, Quebec

"At Sea between Fossils and Satellites 7" is a textural and elemental abstract painting on canvas. It explores the hybridization of chance-derived color-fields with art deco aestheti...

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2010s Color-Field Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic

"Kryptonite Wares", Found Objects 2015/2019, Chartreuse & Red, House Paint
"Kryptonite Wares", Found Objects 2015/2019, Chartreuse & Red, House Paint

"Kryptonite Wares", Found Objects 2015/2019, Chartreuse & Red, House Paint

Located in Detroit, MI

"Kryptonite Wares" is a clever and humorous collection of both superfluous and everyday objects purchased from the Dollar Store. It is a wry comment by the artist on the overabundanc...

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2010s Assemblage Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Plastic, Wood, Found Objects, Lights, Mixed Media, House Paint

Eden
Eden

Eden

By Severine Gallardo

Located in Santa Monica, CA

Headdresses; embroideries, felted and crocheted yarn, stones, linen, and old photography.

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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Felt, Linen, Found Objects, Mixed Media

Persephone
Persephone

Persephone

By Peyton Pickenpaugh

Located in New Orleans, LA

Peyton Pickenpaugh says of her work… In my work, I explore the hidden histories of women, feminist reinterpretations of myth, and the spiritual resonance of materiality. Through lay...

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2010s Art by Medium: Found Objects

Materials

Ceramic, Fabric, Wood, Found Objects

"Yoni", reconstructed egg assemblage, Hanging Sculpture
"Yoni", reconstructed egg assemblage, Hanging Sculpture

"Yoni", reconstructed egg assemblage, Hanging Sculpture

By Katie VanVliet

Located in Philadelphia, PA

This piece titled "Yoni" is an original piece by Kate VanVliet and is made from eggshells, mica, PVA. This piece measures 14.5”h x 9.5”w x 2.5”d and comes with 3-D printed screw cove...

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

Materials

Glue, Found Objects, Mica, Organic Material, Acrylic

"Walking Stick", Found Object Sculpture, Egg Motif, Wall Hanging Sculpture
"Walking Stick", Found Object Sculpture, Egg Motif, Wall Hanging Sculpture

"Walking Stick", Found Object Sculpture, Egg Motif, Wall Hanging Sculpture

By Katie VanVliet

Located in Philadelphia, PA

This piece titled "Walking Stick" is an original piece by Kate VanVliet and is made from eggshells, mica, PVA. This piece measures 4”h x 32”w x 3”d and comes with 3-D printed screw ...

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

Materials

Glue, Found Objects, Mica, Organic Material, Acrylic

Peck, Contemporary Still-Life Sculpture with Mica and Eggshells
Peck, Contemporary Still-Life Sculpture with Mica and Eggshells

Peck, Contemporary Still-Life Sculpture with Mica and Eggshells

By Katie VanVliet

Located in Philadelphia, PA

This piece titled "Peck" is an original piece by Kate VanVliet and is made from eggshells (bantam), mica, and PVA. This piece measures 3”h x 9”w x 7”d. Kate VanVliet is a sculptor a...

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

Materials

Glue, Found Objects, Mica, Organic Material, Acrylic

"Tripod", Reconstructed Egg Assemblage Sculpture on Tripod, 21st Century
"Tripod", Reconstructed Egg Assemblage Sculpture on Tripod, 21st Century

"Tripod", Reconstructed Egg Assemblage Sculpture on Tripod, 21st Century

By Katie VanVliet

Located in Philadelphia, PA

This piece titled "Tripod" is an original piece by Kate VanVliet and is made from eggshells, mica, and PVA. This piece measures 10”h x 9”w x 6.5”d. Kate VanVliet is a sculptor and p...

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

Materials

Glue, Found Objects, Mica, Organic Material, Acrylic

"Donut (Mint)", Reconstructed Egg Assemblage Sculpture, Contemporary Art
"Donut (Mint)", Reconstructed Egg Assemblage Sculpture, Contemporary Art

"Donut (Mint)", Reconstructed Egg Assemblage Sculpture, Contemporary Art

By Katie VanVliet

Located in Philadelphia, PA

This piece titled "Donut (Mint)" is an original piece by Kate VanVliet and is made from eggshells, mica, and PVA. This piece measures 3.5”h x 3.5”w x 1.5”d and ships with the picture...

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

Materials

Found Objects, Mica, ABS

"Chimaera: Green #17", Reconstructed egg sculpture
"Chimaera: Green #17", Reconstructed egg sculpture

"Chimaera: Green #17", Reconstructed egg sculpture

By Katie VanVliet

Located in Philadelphia, PA

This piece titled "Chimaera: Green #12" is an original piece by Kate VanVliet and is made from eggshells, mica, and PVA. This piece measures 3.5”h x 2.5”w x 2.5”d and ships with the ...

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

Materials

Glue, Found Objects, Mica, Organic Material, Acrylic

"Chimaera: White #1", Found Object Sculpture, Egg Motif
"Chimaera: White #1", Found Object Sculpture, Egg Motif

"Chimaera: White #1", Found Object Sculpture, Egg Motif

By Katie VanVliet

Located in Philadelphia, PA

This piece titled "Chimaera: White #1" is an original piece by Kate VanVliet and is made from eggshells, mica, and PVA. This piece measures 3.5”h x 2.5”w x 2.5”d and ships with the p...

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

Materials

Glue, Found Objects, Mica, Organic Material, Acrylic

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