found object
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“It’s a found object, but price-wise it’s the same as a sculpture,” he said, laughing again.
From New York Times • Jun. 9, 2023
Dwan looked at his work — minimal, found object assemblages that hung from the ceiling and emitted sounds — and offered Anastasi the third show at her New York space.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 17, 2022
“This found object refracts light, which lends itself to reflection. Its brightness and weight endow it with a presence, but its transparency allows it to disappear.”
From Washington Post • Mar. 30, 2021
Johns said he liked it because it allowed him to treat the design of the painting as a given, a found object, and then to do various painterly things to it.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 3, 2018
Most viewers will recall a key sculpture in the series that is accidentally bumped off its plinth and broken: The work is, unsurprisingly, called “Untitled,” and consists of exactly one found object, a brick.
From Salon • Jul. 23, 2017
