Art on Anders Nienstaedt

Two Houses (And a Space)

Tue, 10 Feb 2026 23:13:43 -0600

Red Cedar, Copper - 2025

Public Sculpture for Arkansas Tech University in Russellville, AR. Built while serving as the Arkansas Tech Windgate Artist-in-Residence from January-July, 2025. Photos by Liz Chrisman.

Revelers

Sat, 10 Jan 2026 23:13:43 -0600

Graphite and Acylic on Plywood - 2024

Trembling, Possibillity Of

Wed, 10 Dec 2025 22:09:28 -0600

Steel, Charred Poplar - 2024

Utopian Structures

Wed, 10 Dec 2025 21:55:38 -0600

Mixed media - 2019-Present

A series of works in wood and cardboard, imagining utopian architecture.

Hollowbody

Wed, 10 Dec 2025 13:20:49 -0600

Bent-Laminated Plywood, Guitar Parts - 2021

This wearable sculpture fuses human and instrument forms, encapsulating the player within a secondary resonant body. It is simultaneously an instrument, a costume, and a constraint.

Stump Memorial

Fri, 10 May 2024 23:13:43 -0600

Basswood and Southern Yellow Pine - 2025

Utopian Forms

Sun, 10 Mar 2024 23:13:43 -0600

Cast Bronze - 2024

Utopian Structure (Kit of Parts)

Sat, 10 Apr 2021 23:13:43 -0600

Plywood, Acrylic, Wire - 2019

Instants, Instants

Wed, 10 Jun 2020 21:24:57 -0500

Found Photographs, Wood, Shellac - 2020-Present

I Hope the World Lasts for You

Sun, 10 May 2020 23:13:43 -0600

Found Bowling Alley Section, Bowling Ball, Electronics - 2020

Surface Play

Tue, 10 Mar 2020 22:20:41 -0600

Screen-Printing on Bent-Laminated Plywood - 2020

*Sabots for Sabotage* and *The Fall*

Conditioned Response

Mon, 10 Feb 2020 22:48:17 -0600

Bent-Laminated Plywood, Wood, Glass, Polymer Clay, Electronics - 2021-Present

Sculpture and film prop for an in-progress short film about behavioral psychologist B.F. Skinner’s attempt to design a pigeon guided bombing system in World War II.

Meanwhile, At Two Points in the Indian Ocean

Fri, 10 Jan 2020 22:09:28 -0600

Wood, Cast Iron - 2013-2016

Created for Franconia Sculpture Park during Emerging Artist Residency. Also displayed at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design sculpture garden. First photo by Jeff Wheeler/Minneapolis Star Tribune.

Container Fulcrum

Wed, 10 Apr 2019 23:13:43 -0600

Cardboard, Wood, Acrylic, Mechanical Parts - 2021

Visitors

Wed, 10 Apr 2019 21:24:57 -0600

Turned Beech and Maple, Cast Pewter, Rubber Hose - 2021

Referencing 20th Century wood toys and early space suit design, ‘Visitors’ plays with toy design’s long-reaching utopian ambitions. A backwards-looking post-pandemic figure designed for a future in which wonder and anxiety exist in equal measure.

Schwinn Embrace

Sun, 10 Mar 2019 20:46:04 -0600

Found Bicycles - 2014

Camera for Capturing a Moment of Weightlessness

Sun, 10 Feb 2019 23:13:43 -0600

Wood, Glass, Mobile Phone - 2019

Kinetic Sculptures

Sat, 10 Feb 2018 23:13:43 -0600

2012-2016

American Trompe L'oeil

Wed, 10 Dec 2014 23:13:43 -0600

Found Picture Frame, Vacuum, Pizza - 2014

Below

Sun, 10 Feb 2013 23:13:43 -0600

Working Submersible, Steel, Acrylic, Rubber Glove - 2015

Frankfurt School Rec Room

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:13:43 -0600

Cast Bronze and Oak - 2012