found object
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Shamus Skoch, a found object artist, displays his work.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2025
They fit in well with Philadelphia’s collection, evoking at once Duchamp’s devotion to the found object and Cézanne’s obsession with process.
From New York Times • Sep. 13, 2021
“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
