People used to make weirdly beautiful
scrap wood sculptures.
Not exact matches
Upcycled Bird
Sculpture by Laurie Coyle Designs (LaurieCoyleDesigns.Etsy.com); made using fabric
scraps from a friend's handbag - making business, fulled sweater remnants from another friend's blanket - making business, metal
scraps from my husband's metal - working and
wood salvaged from our home - improvement projects.
Her artworks from this time were mostly made from junkyard
scraps and driftwood, assembled and used in a way to make upright
wood sculptures.
The
sculptures were plaster accretions, built around found
scrap metal and
wood armatures, and reflected the informal Abstract - Expressionist - influenced Beat
sculpture of the time.
In addition to this body of work, the artist has created three
sculptures comprised of metal racks and
scraps,
wood, silver chain, and suspended water bottles.
Inspired by Cubism, Nevelson took
scraps of
wood and other materials found on the street near her studio and assembled them into free - standing and wall - mounted
sculpture that she would paint a solid colour — most famously, black or white.
The damaged artworks were 12 crown - like
sculptures made from a mixture of materials, including precious metals, marble,
wood, nylon and
scrap metal.
Inspired by Cubism, Nevelson took
scraps of
wood and other materials found on the street near her studio and assembled them into free - standing and wall - mounted
sculpture that she would paint a solid color — most famously, black or white.
These small
sculptures are installed outdoors on public streets and in nature, as well as in museums, where stones,
wood, feathers, shells, and
scraps of cloth are suspended in a delicate web, juxtaposed as visual metaphor.
The same can be said of American artist Louise Nevelson, whose large, wooden
sculptures, such as her 1979 Untitled, incorporate discarded
scraps of
wood, which were given to her by friends and others, or which she collected on the street herself.