If he didn't quite invent junk sculpture, Richard Stankiewicz (1921-1983) was certainly its prime manipulator.

But by the early 1960's junk sculpture had caught on to the point of cliche, and Stankiewicz decided to move on to a simpler, more abstract mode.

The results are something like musical junk sculpture, neatly welded at improbable joints.

The Escort looked like a piece of junk sculpture.

Despite the superficial resemblance to outsider art or junk sculpture, it would be a mistake to characterize Mr. Gachot's work this way.

So the orbital fortresses stood unsupported under the relentless pounding that gradually reduced them to titanic junk sculptures.

In the canon of junk sculpture, Mr. Fischer's work has a place.

You know... sometimes when I'm sitting at my desk it gets easy to be abstract about this. . . junk sculpture.

The prince and princess are reduced to junk sculpture.

The junk sculpture on Sixth Street and Avenue B looms above the surrounding tenements like a psychedelic treehouse.