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Functional Forms
New Jersey School of Architecture Gallery
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Newark, NJ
March 4 - April 9, 2010

New, one-of-a-kind table and mirror designs by artist Glen G. Guarino will be exhibited at the New Jersey School of Architecture. Guarino approaches each new piece as an adventure and opportunity to explore his imagination and the material’s potential. It’s an approach that respects the history of the tree as it is reborn into a functional work of art Read the rest of this entry »

Celebrating the Studio Fellowship
Messler Gallery
Center for Furniture Craftsmanship
Rockport, ME
February 19, 2010 - April, 2 2010

“Celebrating the Studio Fellowship” opens at the Messler Gallery of the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship in Rockport, Maine on Friday, February 19, 2010. All of the work on display—which includes everything from fine furniture and to abstract sculpture—has been created by current and former participants in the Center’s Studio Fellowship program. The Studio Fellowship Program provides emerging and established furniture makers, carvers, and turners with a stimulating environment for the exploration of new work. The program offers free studio space and other benefits to individuals who are willing to commit anywhere from a month to a year to expanding their creative abilities. Read the rest of this entry »

The Artful Table
Florida Craftsmen Gallery
St. Petersburg, FL
February 19 – May 29, 2010

Opening in just a few days, the Florida Craftsmen Gallery will host a juried and invitational exhibition of Florida artists who create contemporary works of art that make up a dining room setting. These include the broad spectrum of art objects designed specifically for the table, from the functional to the decorative including tables, chairs, room dividers, linens, dishes, flatware, centerpieces, lighting and rugs. Read the rest of this entry »

The Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs
Heinz Galleries
Carnegie Museum of Art
Pittsburgh, PA
January 30 - April 25, 2010

A protean artist, actor, and furniture maker dedicated to the primacy of individual expression, Charles Rohlfs (1853–1936) called his unprecedented designs “artistic furniture.” This exhibition—the first major survey of his work—will present over 40 pieces of his furniture and related objects in the context of groundbreaking new research. With roots in the “art for art’s sake” theories of Aesthetic movement, Rohlfs’s virtuosic carving and imaginative silhouettes relate to Art Nouveau, combined with a wide range of international design traditions. His innovations influenced the pared-down oak forms of the Arts and Crafts movement. Combining design motifs in remarkably inventive ways, Rohlfs created furniture like none other, whose story and legacy contribute a new chapter to the history of American design. Read the rest of this entry »

Studio Furniture 2010
Bungendore Wood Works Gallery
Bungendore, Australia
January 23 - March 31, 2010

Bungendore Wood Works Gallery and Australian Wood Review Magazine opened their second Bi-annual exhibition, Studio Furniture 2010 on Australia Day, January 23, in the Octagon ArtSpace.

The exhibition is the result of an Australia wide competition sponsored by the Wood Works Gallery with $11000 made available for four prizes for the winning entrants.

Over 138 entries were received and from those 70 pieces of furniture from 66 individual wood workers and furniture makers were selected to make up the most extensive exhibition ever held at Bungendore Wood Works Gallery. Read the rest of this entry »

Contemporary Studio Furniture & Historic Glass
Wexler Gallery
Philadelphia, PA
January 4 – February 27, 2010

Wexler Gallery is presenting a survey of contemporary studio furniture including works by Timothy S. Philbrick, Silas Kopf, Tom Huang, Wendy Stayman, John Dunnigan, and more. Historic pieces by master glass artists such as Mark Peiser and Joel Philip Myers will also be on view.

The exhibition will include one-of-a-kind or limited production furniture objects designed and produced by local and national artists. Blurring the line between sculpture, craft, and design, featured objects will explore boundaries between the functional and dysfunctional and the representational and abstract. Read the rest of this entry »

Studio Furniture: The Next Generation
Main Gallery
Minneapolis College of Art and Design
Minneapolis, MN
January 15 - February 21, 2010

The Minneapolis College of Art and Design will be the first venue to host the traveling exhibition “Studio Furniture: The Next Generation.” The exhibit was organized and curated by Dean Wilson, head of the furniture design program at MCAD.

The exhibit brings together fifteen outstanding studio furniture artists whose work exemplifies new trends in a greatly expanding field. While these young designers build upon the hallmarks of the studio furniture tradition—quality craftsmanship, good design, sculptural emphasis, and limited production—their experimental use of materials and innovative concepts encourages viewers/users to reconsider their relationships with everyday objects. Familiar but unconventional, the chairs, tables, benches, shelves, and cabinets included in this exhibition will be as thought provoking as they are visually engaging. Read the rest of this entry »

Boris Bally: deSign
Patina Gallery
Santa Fe, NM
December 4, 2009 - January 3, 2010

Road signs, we hardly see them ’til we need them. We take for granted their placement and design, and barely notice when they change. But they do, all the time. Designs and routes change. Signs are retired and sent to signage graveyards where they languish or await recycling but some get lucky, and go home with Rhode Island artist, Boris Bally, who appreciates their design so much that he gives them new lives as sculpture and furniture.

Bally has been awarded several fellowships and was recently nominated for a Louis Comfort Tiffany Grant. Examples of his high color works reside in the collections of the Cooper Hewitt, the Museum of Art and Design and the Brooklyn Museum, to name a few. Read the rest of this entry »

Maine Wood 2010 Biennial Exhibition
Messley Gallery
Center for Furniture Craftsmanship
Rockport, ME
December 4th, 2009 - February 12th, 2010

This biennial exhibition aims to highlight the breadth, creativity, and excellence of wood craftsmanship in Maine, and to promote the artistic and economic development of Maine’s growing community of fine woodworkers. This year’s show includes 16 furniture makers and sculptors: David Boyle, Gregory W. Crispell, Philippe Guillerm, Wayne Hall, Lou Landry, Matthew Lindsay, Gregg Lipton, Lin Lisberger, James Macdonald, Conger Murray, Jack Rodie, Libby Schrum, Chris Steiner, David Talley, Peter G. Thompson, and John Van Dis. Read the rest of this entry »

Custom by Design: Contemporary Furniture Handmade in Arkansas
Historic Arkansas Museum, Gallery II
Little Rock, AR
May 14, 2009 - January 10, 2010

Custom by Design highlights the artistry in handmade, one-of-a-kind studio furniture created in Arkansas. The exhibit includes works by: Tommy Farrell, Mia Hall, Keith Newton, Whitney Patterson, 2009 Arkansas Living Treasure Doug Stowe and Lucas Strack. The furniture pieces on display are rooted in the traditional processes of craft and material with aspects of sculpture, innovation, experimentation and cross-pollination from other disciplines. The common thread in the exhibited works is the notion of function. Each artist has, however, pushed the notion of the traditional every-day furniture by infusing the objects with unique aesthetics, non-traditional materials or concept and narrative. Read the rest of this entry »