When I enter a room, I look for a chair. Almost any room, almost any chair. The assumed context of this expectation is unexamined except through art, where it is frustrated.
Roy McMakin
All the classics, from Duchamp and Beuys to Bruce Nauman, at DesignBoom.
Love this post (and the DesignBoom one, too)
Drew Daly’s chair ring and sanded chair blow my mind! http://drewdalyonline.com/Work/Subject/Subject.htm
Of course it’s hard for me not to think of Roy McMakin when I think of chairs. http://www.domesticfurniture.com/some_furniture.html
You can sit in Roy’s, which is why I didn’t put them in.
Some of us roll into the room in/on our own chair. I enjoyed the art. I am sorry there were no variations on a wheelchair as art. It’s been done, at least once but I don’t remember the artist’s name. And one artist in this show’s chair based sculpture had “kinetic” in title.
Hi Sanda: I think you’re referring to Harriet Saunderson, whom I should have included. I’m making these lists off the top of my head as a kind of curatorial suggestion. I couldn’t find a wheelchair of hers, but I added a Saunderson chair in your honor.
Joey. On second thought, Roy McMakin makes a few chairs that aren’t intended for straight-up use, so I added one. Thank you!
Hi Regina,
Someone sent me a magazine article a few years ago, someone else. I am sorry I can’t recall his name or the magazine. I did have fun googling, but didn’t find it. Your bouncing ball covers a lot of ground! Thanks.
You may be interested in the work of Michael Zelehoski. He collapses actual, physical chairs and other objects into two dimensional picture planes.