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Richard Klein, Johnson Hs. & Guest Hs. General View (2024), Ed 2/3, replica
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 comm...
Category
2010s Dada Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Photographic Film, Film, Archival Paper, Digital, Wood
Richard Klein, iHop II, 2018, Found and altered objects assemblage
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 comm...
Category
2010s Assemblage Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Richard Klein, American Glassware, 2010-2024, Found and altered objects
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 comm...
Category
2010s Assemblage Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Richard Klein, Holiday Inn Nocturne, 2020, Found and altered objects assemblage
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 comm...
Category
2010s Assemblage Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Richard Klein, McDonalds (El Nino), 2024, Found and altered objects assemblage
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 comm...
Category
2010s Assemblage Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Richard Klein, Expo 67, 2017, Found and altered objects assemblage
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 comm...
Category
2010s Assemblage Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Richard Klein, Holiday Inn Beirut, 2017, Found and altered objects assemblage
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 comm...
Category
2010s Assemblage Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Charles Birnbaum_Wall Piece No.28_Porcelain_Maximalist Sculpture
By Charles Birnbaum
Located in Darien, CT
Charles Birnbaum is a sculptor and a self-taught photographer. He graduated from Kansas City Art Institute where he studied ceramics and was among a select group of the esteemed Ken ...
Category
2010s Baroque Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Charles Birnbaum_Composition Black and White No.2_Porcelain_Maximalist Sculpture
By Charles Birnbaum
Located in Darien, CT
Charles Birnbaum is a sculptor and a self-taught photographer. He graduated from Kansas City Art Institute where he studied ceramics and was among a select group of the esteemed Ken ...
Category
2010s Baroque Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain, Acrylic
Estate of David Hayes_Form Study_plaster coated cut styrofoam_abstract sculpture
By David Hayes
Located in Darien, CT
ODETTA is pleased to offer this important sculpture from the Estate of David Hayes.
David Vincent Hayes (March 15, 1931 – April 9, 2013) was an American sculptor..
These Form Studi...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic, Polystyrene, Plaster
Estate of David Hayes_Form Study_plaster coated cut styrofoam_abstract sculpture
By David Hayes
Located in Darien, CT
ODETTA is pleased to offer this important sculpture from the Estate of David Hayes.
David Vincent Hayes (March 15, 1931 – April 9, 2013) was an American sculptor..
These Form Studi...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Polystyrene, Plaster, Acrylic
Estate of David Hayes_Form Study_plaster coated cut styrofoam_abstract sculpture
By David Hayes
Located in Darien, CT
ODETTA is pleased to offer this important sculpture from the Estate of David Hayes.
David Vincent Hayes (March 15, 1931 – April 9, 2013) was an American sculptor..
These Form Studi...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Polystyrene, Plaster, Acrylic
Estate of David Hayes_Form Study_plaster coated cut styrofoam_abstract sculpture
By David Hayes
Located in Darien, CT
ODETTA is pleased to offer this important sculpture from the Estate of David Hayes.
David Vincent Hayes (March 15, 1931 – April 9, 2013) was an American sculptor..
These Form Studi...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Plaster, Polystyrene, Acrylic
Estate of David Hayes_Form Study_plaster coated cut styrofoam_abstract sculpture
By David Hayes
Located in Darien, CT
ODETTA is pleased to offer this important sculpture from the Estate of David Hayes.
David Vincent Hayes (March 15, 1931 – April 9, 2013) was an American sculptor..
These Form Studi...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
Estate of David Hayes_Form Study_carved plaster of paris_1970_abstract sculpture
By David Hayes
Located in Darien, CT
ODETTA is pleased to offer this important sculpture from the Estate of David Hayes.
David Vincent Hayes (March 15, 1931 – April 9, 2013) was an American sculptor..
Hayes received a...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
Estate of David Hayes_Form Study_carved plaster of paris_1970_abstract sculpture
By David Hayes
Located in Darien, CT
ODETTA is pleased to offer this important sculpture from the Estate of David Hayes.
David Vincent Hayes (March 15, 1931 – April 9, 2013) was an American sculptor..
Hayes received a...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
Estate of David Hayes_Form Study_carved plaster of paris_1970_abstract sculpture
By David Hayes
Located in Darien, CT
ODETTA is pleased to offer this important sculpture from the Estate of David Hayes.
David Vincent Hayes (March 15, 1931 – April 9, 2013) was an American sculptor..
Hayes received a...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
Estate of David Hayes_Form Study_carved plaster of paris_1970_abstract sculpture
By David Hayes
Located in Darien, CT
ODETTA is pleased to offer this important sculpture from the Estate of David Hayes.
David Vincent Hayes (March 15, 1931 – April 9, 2013) was an American sculptor..
Hayes received a...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
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 Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Enamel
Margaret Roleke, White World View, 2016, children's toys, spray enamel, wood
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 Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Enamel
Jaff_Blow_2014_hand cut paper_minimalism
By Liz Jaff
Located in Darien, CT
Liz Jaff creates intricate constructions which use repetition, patterns and forms from nature and architecture to explore ideas of love, commitment, sacrifice and memory of time and ...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Archival Paper
Jaff_Little Swivel._2022_hand cut paper_minimalism
By Liz Jaff
Located in Darien, CT
Liz Jaff creates intricate constructions which use repetition, patterns and forms from nature and architecture to explore ideas of love, commitment, sacrifice and memory of time and ...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Archival Paper
Margaret Roleke, Toyland, 2016, children's toys, spray enamel, wood
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 Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Enamel
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 Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects, Spray Paint, Wood Panel
Margaret Roleke, Religious Toys, 2016, children's toys, spray enamel, wood
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 Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Enamel
Margaret Roleke, Holy Torture, 2016, children's toys, spray enamel, wood
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 Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Enamel
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 ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plastic, Found Objects, Spray Paint, Wood Panel
Margaret Roleke, Pop pop, 2018, spent shot gun shells, wire, zipties, steel box
By Margaret Roleke
Located in Darien, CT
Margaret Roleke has created the sculpture “Pop,pop” specifically for the Las Gravitas exhibition at ODETTA. The title refers both to the fun and colorful hues of the piece that pop ...
Category
2010s Pop Art Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel, Wire
Margaret Roleke, Weapons of Mass Destruction, 2019, light box with video
By Margaret Roleke
Located in Darien, CT
Margaret Roleke creates politically aware work. Children’s war toys and packaging for these toys have fascinated her and become integrated elements in my wall reliefs and paper piece...
Category
2010s Pop Art Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Estate of David Hayes_Landscape Sculpture #52, painted steel, abstraction
By David Hayes
Located in Darien, CT
ODETTA is pleased to offer this important sculpture from the Estate of David Hayes
David Vincent Hayes (March 15, 1931 – April 9, 2013) was an American sculptor.
Hayes received a B...
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Enamel, Steel
Estate of David Hayes_Landscape Sculpture, painted steel, abstraction
By David Hayes
Located in Darien, CT
ODETTA is pleased to offer this important sculpture from the Estate of David Hayes
David Vincent Hayes (March 15, 1931 – April 9, 2013) was an American sculptor.
Hayes received a B...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Enamel, Steel
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...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Paint, Found Objects
Michele Brody, Re-Blooms, Individual, Handcast Paper, Bamboo, Avg, 9" Diameter
By Michele Brody
Located in Darien, CT
Michele Brody, Re-Blooms, Individual Blooms, Handcast Paper, Bamboo,, each approx 9: diameter, 2019
The essence of Michele Brody’s work thrives on the interaction with new communi...
Category
2010s Naturalistic Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Handmade Paper, Bamboo Paper
Michele Brody, Re-Blooms, Installation, Handcast Paper, Bamboo, 8'h x 5'w x 3'd
By Michele Brody
Located in Darien, CT
Michele Brody, Re-Blooms, Installation, Handcast Paper, Bamboo, 8'h x 5'w x 3'd, 2019
The essence of Michele Brody’s work thrives on the interaction with new communities and place-...
Category
2010s Naturalistic Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Handmade Paper, Wood, Bamboo Paper
Michele Brody, Drawing Roots: Free Falling, Handmade Paper with Flax Roots
By Michele Brody
Located in Darien, CT
Michele Brody, Drawing Roots: Free Fallling, Handmade Paper with Flax Roots, 18"h x 15"w x 1"d, 2017
The essence of Michele Brody’s work thrives on the interaction with new communi...
Category
2010s Naturalistic Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Wax, Handmade Paper
Michele Brody, Drawing Roots: Fairy Ring, Handmade Paper, Flax Sprouts, Wax,
By Michele Brody
Located in Darien, CT
Michele Brody, Drawing Roots: Fairy Ring, Handmade Paper, Flax Sprouts, Wax, 11" x 14" x 2"d, 2016
The essence of Michele Brody’s work thrives on the inter...
Category
2010s Naturalistic Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Wax, Handmade Paper
Michele Brody, Prarie Preserve: Installation, Recreation of Rolling Prairie
By Michele Brody
Located in Darien, CT
Michele Brody, Prarie Preserve: Recreation of Rolling Prairie in Medicine Bottles, 1997
The essence of Michele Brody’s work thrives on the interaction...
Category
2010s Naturalistic Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Mixed Media, Handmade Paper
Michele Brody, Nature in Absentia: Cattails Plucked Out Handmade Cast Paper
By Michele Brody
Located in Darien, CT
Michele Brody, Nature in Absentia: Cattails Plucked Out, Handmade Cast Paper
The essence of Michele Brody’s work thrives on the interaction with n...
Category
2010s Naturalistic Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Handmade Paper
Michele Brody, Drawing Roots: Curvature, Handmade Cast Paper, Dried Wheat Grass
By Michele Brody
Located in Darien, CT
Michele Brody, Nature in Absentia: Cattails Plucked Out, Handmade Cast Paper
The essence of Michele Brody’s work thrives on the interaction with n...
Category
2010s Naturalistic Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Handmade Paper
Michele Brody, Nature in Absentia: Empty Cattails, Handmade Cast Paper
By Michele Brody
Located in Darien, CT
Michele Brody, Nature in Absentia: Cattails Plucked Out, Handmade Cast Paper
The essence of Michele Brody’s work thrives on the interaction with n...
Category
2010s Naturalistic Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Handmade Paper
Michele Brody, Nature in Absentia: Cattails In Relief, Handmade Cast Paper
By Michele Brody
Located in Darien, CT
Michele Brody, Nature in Absentia: Cattails Plucked Out, Handmade Cast Paper
The essence of Michele Brody’s work thrives on the interaction with n...
Category
2010s Naturalistic Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Handmade Paper
Michele Brody, Nature Preserve: Installation, Wetlands plants floating on water
By Michele Brody
Located in Darien, CT
Michele Brody, Nature Preserve: Installation, Wetlands plants floating on water, 2011
The essence of Michele Brody’s work thrives on the interaction with new communities and place-m...
Category
2010s Naturalistic Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Handmade Paper, Glass, Mixed Media
Michele Brody, America The Beautiful:For Amber Waves of Green, 7'h x 5'w x 6'd
By Michele Brody
Located in Darien, CT
Michele Brody, America The Beautiful:For Amber Waves of Green, Handmade paper installation with Glass Tubes, 7'h x 5'w x 6'd, 2016
The essence of Michele Brody’s work thrives on th...
Category
2010s Naturalistic Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Wax, Handmade Paper, Glass, Mixed Media
Charles Birnbaum, 372 Wall Piece No.20, 2017, porcelain, 19.5x15.5x7 in, Visionary
By Charles Birnbaum
Located in Darien, CT
Charles Birnbaum is a sculptor and a self-taught photographer. He graduated from Kansas City Art Institute where he studied ceramics and was one of a select group of the esteemed Ken...
Category
2010s Baroque Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Digital Pigment, Porcelain
Charles Birnbaum, 371_Wall Piece No.19_2017_porcelain_19x13x5 in_Visionary
By Charles Birnbaum
Located in Darien, CT
Charles Birnbaum is a sculptor and a self-taught photographer. He graduated from Kansas City Art Institute where he studied ceramics and was one of a select group of the esteemed Ken...
Category
2010s Baroque Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Susan Hensel_Skewed Geometry 8_digital embroidery_11.5 x 11.5 inches
Located in Darien, CT
Susan Hensel designs images in the computer using specialized software. It is a form of drawing in stitches that combines aspects of both Adobe Photoshop...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Mixed Media
Materials
Fabric, Thread
Susan Hensel_Skewed Geometry 7_digital embroidery_11.5 x 11.5 inches
Located in Darien, CT
Susan Hensel designs images in the computer using specialized software. It is a form of drawing in stitches that combines aspects of both Adobe Photoshop...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Mixed Media
Materials
Fabric, Thread
Susan Hensel_Skewed Geometry 6_digital embroidery_12x12in_
Located in Darien, CT
Susan Hensel designs images in the computer using specialized software. It is a form of drawing in stitches that combines aspects of both Adobe Photoshop...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Mixed Media
Materials
Fabric, Thread
Susan Hensel_Skewed Geometry 2_digital embroidery_12x12in_
Located in Darien, CT
Susan Hensel designs images in the computer using specialized software. It is a form of drawing in stitches that combines aspects of both Adobe Photoshop...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Mixed Media
Materials
Fabric, Thread
Susan Hensel_Skewed Geometry 1_digital embroidery_12x12in_
Located in Darien, CT
Susan Hensel designs images in the computer using specialized software. It is a form of drawing in stitches that combines aspects of both Adobe Photoshop...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Mixed Media
Materials
Thread, Fabric
Susan Hensel_Hard Geometry 6_embroidery on fabric mounted on painted Arches
Located in Darien, CT
Susan Hensel designs images in the computer using specialized software. It is a form of drawing in stitches that combines aspects of both Adobe Photoshop...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Mixed Media
Materials
Fabric, Acrylic, Archival Paper
Susan Hensel_Hard Geometry 4_embroidery on fabric mounted on painted Arches
Located in Darien, CT
Susan Hensel designs images in the computer using specialized software. It is a form of drawing in stitches that combines aspects of both Adobe Photoshop...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Mixed Media
Materials
Fabric, Acrylic, Archival Paper
Susan Hensel_Hard Geometry 3_embroidery on fabric mounted on painted Arches
Located in Darien, CT
Susan Hensel designs images in the computer using specialized software. It is a form of drawing in stitches that combines aspects of both Adobe Photoshop...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Mixed Media
Materials
Fabric, Acrylic, Archival Paper
Susan Hensel_Hard Geometry 2_embroidery on fabric mounted on painted Arches
Located in Darien, CT
Susan Hensel designs images in the computer using specialized software. It is a form of drawing in stitches that combines aspects of both Adobe Photoshop...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Mixed Media
Materials
Fabric, Acrylic, Archival Paper
Susan Hensel_Hard Geometry 1_embroidery on fabric mounted on painted Arches
Located in Darien, CT
Susan Hensel designs images in the computer using specialized software. It is a form of drawing in stitches that combines aspects of both Adobe Photoshop...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Mixed Media
Materials
Fabric, Acrylic, Archival Paper
Carol Salmanson, Double Diamonds, 2018, LED, plexiglas, gels, irridescent paint
By Carol Salmanson
Located in Darien, CT
Memory is at its most magical when it conjures up not the event, but its surrounding perceptual and emotional space. Flashes of reflected light, movement seen out of the corner of eye, bits of sound or feeling – these are what ignite memory, giving it form and bringing it to life.
Light both beams into and envelops you. Carol Salmanson started working with it in 2003 after painting for many years because of these singular spatial qualities. They enable herto build whole worlds with color and shape, ones that resonate with memory and experience. Painters have often talked about depicting light. Today’s technology allows me to use light as medium as well as subject.
Double Diamond is made with layers of light that beam onto reflective material; its two different configurations of diamonds are mounted on a strip that also layers light. The location in the beams creates a glowing frieze that radiates outwards, giving the viewer a first a sense of surprise, and then wonder.
Carol Salmanson is an artist working with light and reflective materials to create installations, sculptures, and wall pieces. She received a B.S. in Biological Psychology from Carnegie-Mellon University and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago. She attended the Arts Students League, the School of Visual Arts as a Public Art Resident, and the National Academy of Fine Arts as an Abbey Mural Workshop Fellow.
Public art projects include Water Bubbles, an installation in twenty windows of the abandoned landmark Constructivist White Tower in Yekaterinburg, Russia. Other window installations include the venues Station Independent Projects, Time Equities’ Art-in-Buildings program, OK Harris Works of Art, 254 Park Avenue South, and Mixed Greens Gallery, all in New York. Her outdoor sculptures include Tri-Quadular Cone in Summit, NJ, and Lot’s Ex-Wife in Brooklyn. She will have an installation, Crown Colony, in the window at 266 W. 37th St, in September of this year.
Solo and two-person exhibition venues include SL Gallery (NY), Slag Contemporary (Brooklyn), Station Independent Projects (NY), Brian Morris...
Category
2010s Color-Field Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Plexiglass, Polyester, LED Light, Acrylic
Andra Samelson, Pemarom, 2013-2022, 1300 + cds, Edition of 5, Abstract Sculpture
By Andra Samelson
Located in Darien, CT
The word in Tibetan for lotus is “Pema.” In Buddhism the lotus is a symbol of purity. The lotus is planted and rooted in the mud, but grows up through the water and into the vast sky...
Category
2010s Conceptual Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Mirror, Plastic, Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Other Medium
Katherine Jackson, Little Oil 19, 2020, Photograph on aluminum
By Katherine Jackson
Located in Darien, CT
There are two Little Oil installations available with 6 sculptures each on top of LED light boxes.
Little Oil 19 is a digital photographic print on aluminum for the flat files.
Katherine Jackson has been working with glass and light together for many years, Recently, she's been making glass castings of vintage oil cans, and displaying them -- singly, in small groupings, or in vitrines -- on light boxes. So far she has created about 90, each one unique. The series is called Little Oil, alluding to Big Oil, and sometimes Small Oils, as in oil painting. But “oil” can mean many things. It has been a source of light (sometimes from unconscionable sources) since ancient times as well as a source of eternal light in many faith traditions. Set atop lightboxes, where each work glows from within, these pieces can simply seem like vessels of light itself. At times, they appear to me to transcend their relation to oil altogether, appearing anthropomorphic or creaturely, even biological. These days, I think of them as archeological artifacts, relics of a past, oil-based, civilization.
Necropolis is a print of a painting inspired by a map of the necropolis where the terra cotta soldiers...
Category
2010s Conceptual Still-life Sculptures
Materials
LED Light, Pigment, Glass
Loren Eiferman, Nature Will Heal, 108 Pieces of Wood, 2016, Wood, Found Objects
By Loren Eiferman
Located in Darien, CT
Over many decades Loren Eiferman has created and mastered a unique technique of working with wood—her primary material.
First, she begins with a drawing of an idea. Then she takes a daily walk in the woods surrounding her studio and collects tree limbs and long sticks that have fallen to the ground. She never chops down a living tree or uses green wood. Eiferman allows the wood time to cure in the studio to make sure it won’t check or crack.
Next, she debarks the branch and looks for shapes found within each piece of wood. Using a Japanese hand saw, she cuts and connect these small shapes together using dowels and wood glue. Then, all the open joints get filled with a home made putty, which is then sanded so she can see the newly formed shapes. This process is until the new sculpture appears like the original line drawing but in space. She wants the work to appear as if it grew in nature, when in fact each sculpture is composed of over 100 small pieces of wood that are seamlessly jointed together. Her work can be called the ultimate recycling: taking the detritus of nature and giving it a new life.
We have all at one point or another picked up a stick from the ground—touched the wood, peeled the bark off with our fingernails. Her work taps into that same primal desire of touching nature and being close to it. Trees connect us back to nature, back to this Earth. Her work has a meditative quality to it—a quiet, calming energy.
Her influences are many; from looking at nature and plant life on this Earth to researching the heavenly bodies in the images beamed back from the Hubble Telescope. From studying ancient Buddhist mandalas and designs to delving deeper into quantum physics. And from researching mysterious manuscripts to studying the patterns inside our brains.
For Invocation, we are exhibiting her newest body of work, inspired by the illustrations found in the Voynich Manuscript. This 250-page book, is believed to have been written in the early 15th century, of a mysterious origin and purpose.
Written in an unknown language and currently housed at Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book Library, the manuscript has eluded all attempts in the intervening centuries to decode or decipher its purpose and meaning. This enigmatic book is divided into 6 different sections (herbal, astronomical, biological, cosmological, pharmaceutical and recipes).
Having discovered the images contained in this codex over the Internet, Eiferman felt an immediate, profound and inexplicable connection to this manuscript and its creator.
The artist is currently transposing the “herbal” section of manuscript into sculptures. This section has drawings in it of plants and flowers that do not really exist in nature—past or present. These aren’t just pretty images of flowers—they also contain the wacky root systems and seemingly out of proportion leaves, stamens and pistils.
Loren Eiferman was born in Brooklyn, NY. She received her BFA from SUNY Purchase. Her work has been exhibited extensively throughout the Tri-State region including gallery and museum exhibitions in the Hudson Valley and Connecticut. Her work is included in numerous corporate and private art collections.
In 2014 she was awarded a NYC MTA Arts & Design art commission to produce steel railings...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Found Objects
Mary Schiliro, Cat's Cradle 6, 2006, acylic on Mylar, 36 x 18 in, Abstraction
By Mary Schiliro
Located in Darien, CT
Mary Schiliro’s work with acrylic paint on Mylar is process based, and expands the boundaries of painting by exploring alternative presentation methods. Using a dipping process wher...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Mylar, Plexiglass, Acrylic
