The Journal
Notes on found-object sculpture
Guides to commissioning, collecting, and understanding Leo Sewell's work — plus the history and process behind fifty years of found-object sculpture.
Commissions
How to commission a custom found-object sculpture — process, cost, timelines, and ideas.
How to Commission a Found-Object Sculpture
How to commission a custom found-object sculpture from Leo Sewell — how the process works, what it costs, realistic timelines, and how to begin.
In the Studio
How the work gets made: materials, methods, and fifty years of practice.
How a Found-Object Sculpture Is Made
Inside Leo Sewell's process — how thousands of scavenged metal, wood, and plastic objects become a single assembled sculpture, step by step.
Collecting
For buyers and collectors: acquiring, displaying, and caring for found-object sculpture.
Collecting Found-Object Sculpture: A Buyer's Guide
A collector's guide to found-object sculpture — how to buy a Leo Sewell piece, how to care for and display it, and how to think about its value.
Found-Object Art
The history and ideas behind assemblage, from Dada and Duchamp to the present.
What Is Found-Object Art? From Dada to the Dumpster
What found-object art is, where it came from — Duchamp, Dada, and Surrealism — and how Leo Sewell's assemblage sculpture continues the tradition today.
Philadelphia
Leo Sewell's Philadelphia: the studio, the city, and its found-object tradition.
Leo Sewell: Philadelphia's Found-Object Sculptor
Meet Leo Sewell, the Philadelphia found-object sculptor — fifty years in the city, the Dumpster Divers, public works, and how to commission a piece.