Glenn Hirsch, Instructor www.glennhirsch.com

1. Found Objects
Glenn Hirsch

2. Working on a found object
creates another “layer of
meaning.”
In this piece, a face painted
on a ping pong paddle.
Serious expression, goofy
object.
Which can also be held in
front of the face as a mask.
Dassi Weinstein

3. Painted figure on an old suitcase says something about ‘personal baggage.’
(Numo Jaeger)

4. A Renaissance portrait
painted on the back of a
broken guitar (which has
the shape of a head).
Mo Seder

5. Three skatboards hung together on a wall, with an oil portrait on top for an
object about gritty urban realities.

6. A ‘bouquet’ of razor blades create an “edge” for a funny Valentine.

7. Broken dishes
glued to a
piece of
wood, with a
painted the
portrait on
top.
Julian
Schnabel

8. Art using ‘found
objects’ became
popular in the
1930’s with DaDa
and in the 1950’s
with pop art.
Robert Rauschenberg

9. Even abstract
expressionism
embraced found
objects.
Here the found
objects are parts of
wrecked automobiles
welded together to
make an abstract
painting.
John Chamberlain

10. Very different
elements
seem to “go
together”
when they
repeat shape
and color.
Here, “lines”
tie it all
together: the
grain in the
wood, the
stick, the ruler
and the
photograph
with cast
shadow.

11. The collage in the old box and the fish are connected with “light”

12. Here the
objects are
all painted
with one
color to
abstract
and unite
them into
one piece.
Louise
Nevelson

13. Like an alchemist, the artist uses the brush to transmute
cardboard trash into an exquisite art object.

14. Working on found objects, accidents happen, as here the clown
appears next to the universal product code on the bottom of an
old box , becoming the universal product clown.

15. The subtext is music.

16. On top of a “carpet”
of old postcards
glued to cardboard a
figure is then
painted on top.
Robert Marosi

17. On top of a “carpet” of old postcards glued to cardboard a figure is then
drawn with pastel and paint on top. (Kevin Dame)

18. A swimmer
painted on the
bottom of an
Easter basket

19. A piece of lace
(owned by the
artist’s
grandmother) is
stretched and
glued on to canvas,
and then an oil
portrait is painted
on top.
Susannah Bayne

20. Transparency on top
of computer chips
and steel mounted
on shaped painted
plywood.
Pamela Lanza

21. Canvas stretched
over an old wood
crate, with paint
on top … then the
canvas is cut and
pulled back with
wires to reveal the
structure
underneath.

22. An oil painting of a giant
hand on top of a canvas
lawn chair.
Allison Goss

23. An oil painting of a
giant hand on top
of a canvas
“director’s chair.”

24. Pieces of
Chinese gold
incense paper,
painted with a
stencil of Anne
Frank’s face, and
installed in an
old trunk.
Jeremiah
Schaeffer

26. Collage applied to a piece of wood molding from an old house creates an unusual shape.

27. Left: Pastel on handmade paper stretched over chicken wire; Right: with the
lights off and a candle placed within.

28. Sophia Denler, student