Tag Archives: Found Object

Cheryl Leonard

Leonard is an experimental composer who creates scores for instruments like feathers,  bowed pine cones, and percussive rocks.  Recent explorations of the natural world have taken her to Antarctica. Her composition Ziran, based on poems from the Tang dynasty of ancient China, is typical of her methodology.
http://www.allwaysnorth.com/
http://www.kqed.org/arts/programs/spark/profile.jsp?essid=4280
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Michael Johansson

Michael Johansson creates sculpture and installation from found objects, fitting objects together like a puzzle. The result focuses attention on post-industrial manufacturing and disposability.
http://www.michaeljohansson.com/
http://www.booooooom.com/2009/12/11/artist-michael-johansson/
http://www.lostateminor.com/2009/12/08/michael-johanson/
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Jessica Stockholder

Jessica Stockholder’s work operates between traditional genres and corresponding expectations. Embracing vibrant color, improvisatory spirit and a diverse range of found objects and commonplace materials, Stockholder’s complex site-specific installations challenge spatial boundaries, often incorporating and/or overflowing the architecture of the spaces for which they are developed. Walls, ceilings, and floors are created or cut [...]