Sometimes the most meaningful art doesn’t start in an art store; it starts right where we are. From forgotten buttons to ...

An old water spout, a broken crutch and a beat-up toy gun might look like trash to most. But Terry Brennan sees art. Brennan is a found-object artist, most of his work coming from what others throw ...

Steve Davis and Chris Caufield at Modified Arts: “Found object” art has come a long way since Duchamp’s urinal fountain. Steve Davis and Chris Caufield incorporate found objects into assemblage that ...

Contemporary art's storytelling power has been the subject of numerous shows of late, from Gowanus to the Guggenheim, and Story of a Story at Brooklyn nonprofit Smack Mellon offers still more evidence ...

The traditional approach to found-object art is to essentially let the object do the talking. But what about when the object is digital? While Charleston visual artist Jack Powell has combed through ...

Dawn DeDeaux, “The Mantle (I’ve Seen the Future and It Was Yesterday)” (2016–17), aluminum mantle with objects, and “Broken Mirror” (2017), transparency on convex mirror (all photos by the author for ...

PORT TOWNSEND — Three kinds of joy come from found-object art, said Steve Parmelee, one of the teaching artists coming to teach classes at the nonprofit Northwind Art School at Fort Worden State Park.

Artist David Olsen creates art the viewer may touch. His chosen materials have been handled plenty — bottle caps, lids, random computer parts and actual trash he picks up while mowing his yard. “The ...