found object
Example Sentences
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Shamus Skoch, a found object artist, displays his work.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2025
“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
The partly curved shape of the semi-wooden upright might seem to emulate a found object, but it was actually generated with geographic-information-system data.
From Washington Post • Feb. 10, 2023
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
