"Chris Schanck: Off-World" Exhibition
Chris Schanck: Off-World is on view at the Museum of Art and Design in New York until January 8, 2023. Over the past decade, Chris Schanck has become a leading figure in the design world for his otherworldly fusion of sculpture and furniture. Bizarre, unfamiliar forms of Chris Shank’s chairs, sofas, lamps, mirrors bypass the line between refined and camping, alluding to coral reefs, alien worlds and artifacts from ancient civilizations.
Chris Schanck
Chris Shank is a graduate of the Sculpture Department at The School of Visual Arts in New York, and has a Master of Fine Arts in Design from the Cranbrook Academy of Art. The creative style presents decadence and aggregation, individual and group, industry and craftsmanship, and romanticism in sharp contrast. He is good at creating unique objects with everyday materials.
"Chris Schanck: Off-World" Exhibition
After graduating in 2011, Chris Shank founded a studio in Detroit, employing more than a dozen artists, students and craftsmen. Chris Shank strives to move away from mass production and instead revive mundane materials by transforming them into unique objects of unusual luxury. Chris Shank is best known for his ongoing Foil series in which industrial and waste materials are sculpted, covered in foil and then sealed with resin.
"Chris Schanck: Off-World" Exhibition
"My works exist in a range where on the one hand they are practical and functional, on the other they are aspirational and speculative - a fusion of reality and fantasy. Imagine a picture of a child shaped like a rocket or a car The bed. The actual function of that bed is in the form of a fantasy. We know you can't start the bed and fly away, but it inspires ideas of speed and exploration in a child. My job functions a lot like that bed, "Chris Shank said.
"Chris Schanck: Off-World" Exhibition
The Dallas Museum of Art commissioned Chris Shank to create a piece that speaks to their collection of a late 19th-century Martelé dresser, which debuts in January 2021 in his first museum solo show. Chris Shank's work is in the collections of the Cranbrook Museum of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; the Dallas Museum of Art, Texas; the Art Museum of Houston, Texas; and the Montreal Museum of Art, Canada.
"Chris Schanck: Off-World" Exhibition
Chris Schanck: Off-World, presented by the Museum of Art and Design (MAD), showcases the Detroit-based artist's striking otherworldly forms of furniture. Also included are several recently completed works that explore the artist's new direction towards figures and individuals. Chris Schanck: Off-World's first solo exhibition in New York is an insight into the artist's commitment to blurring the lines between art and design. Chris Schanck: Off-World deftly blends innovative material experimentation with expressive yet refined forms, with carefully sculpted, colourful and lustrous objects serving as talismans for contemporary stories telling of the past , present and future stories.
Each piece is carefully handcrafted by a team of artists, designers and Bangladeshi artisans from nearby. Artisans at Studio Alufoil sand thin sheets of aluminium foil onto the furniture's structural skeletons, which are made from sheet steel and hand-carved foam insulation. Encased in a final layer of transparent resin, like insects in amber, the fragments exhibit a surface depth and smoothness that belies the inlaid forms and pleated surfaces of the inner foil. In addition to this iconic craftsmanship, other pieces are cast in aluminium and bronze, while others use coloured resins and dyes on found objects and wood particle boards.
"Chris Schanck: Off-World" Exhibition
Chris Schanck's strange, unfamiliar forms allude to coral reefs, alien worlds and artifacts from ancient civilizations. Other works, especially the latest figures, references mythology, poetry and aspects of his own life. At the same time, Schanck's work remains grounded in the reality of human neglect, necessity and creativity. Chris Shank: Leaving the World has a wide range of influences, from his local Detroit, Brutalist and Art Deco architecture, ancient Egyptian and Aztec portraitures to motifs on the fringes of pop culture. As such, each piece is a gritty reflection of an alternative universe rarely explored in contemporary design.
TheLittleEyeof a God, 2022
"Chris Schanck is one of the most exciting artists working on contemporary furniture design today. His work represents a fruitful fusion of art and design. Concept-rich, material innovation and aesthetic adventure, it challenges our perception of design expectations — that it doesn’t quietly occupy space, but rather inhabits our minds and engages our senses,” says Brouwert.
TheLittleEyeof a God, 2022
“It's based on a poem by Sylvia Plath called Mirror. It deals with the fear of aging, not only physical deterioration, but also a lack of meaning and ignorance of one’s origin. For me , the tone is almost like existential horror. I also think it is very relevant. The woman in the poem resents the mirror, prefers moonlight and candlelight. As I read the poem, I realize that there is a relationship between the mirror and the woman This interdependent relationship that lasts a lifetime. We all have a certain level of vanity and look at ourselves in the mirror every day.”
"Mom's Chandelier", 2020
"I got to a point, or maybe an age, where it became increasingly important for me that the people I cared about knew what I was doing. I wanted to collaborate with my mother (who is also an artist) on a piece works to reconnect with the creative things we had when we were young because in her own words she completely misunderstood my work. She sculpted this out of materials she found on the beach and on an abandoned lot near her home in Florida The shape. She sent me this explosive branch and stick that was completely unstable but aesthetically strong. I stabilized the shape, painted it through tinted resin, and made it into a lamp. Through this article, I realized that we have similar tendencies when it comes to materials, and that our intuitions are more consistent than I thought.
"When Mom's Chandelier arrived at the studio, I thought, let's do it again, but based on where we're at, so it's kind of geo-specific. More Cyber The punk influence comes from me. We gather materials from yards and scrap piles: post-industrial scraps, sticks, and organics. We attach these to the armature through various methods of gluing, lashing, and wrapping. Then we attach it to the Doing a series of resin washes and car tinting. I wanted to do something unrecognizable. With form, the less you connect with it, the less baggage it has. Mystery and openness lead to personal interpretation."
"Trembling Chair", 2022
"OSB is a material I've been exploring for ten years. It's the cheapest type of plywood, and it's an extremely common material because of the conditions in Detroit. It's used to seal foreclosed or abandoned homes, As a last ditch effort to stop the element - the element is the most destructive thing behind human neglect. To get more value out of the material, it's usually painted black so that it lasts longer. When I moved to Detroit after grad school Into the house I still live in it was boarded up the same way. I tore off the plywood and sanded it and it instantly became this beautiful material with depth. I put together one for my house Bookcases, coffee tables, and chairs, since my only job at the time was teaching part-time.
Over the past decade, OSBs have begun to disappear as investors buy entire neighborhood blocks. We used this material by using light wood dye. The piece is an abstraction of the way in which something that has been neglected for a long time becomes a hybrid of industrial and organic. So the simplest example is a tree going through a barbed wire fence. Separating the two would break the integrity of the fence or part of the tree, so they would be joined together. This kind of mixing happens a lot near me, like a vertical garden grafted onto a house. At this time of year, it looks like the end of the world, but by spring and summer, everything is blooming, along with pumpkins, beans, and flowers everywhere. Every home has a garden in its backyard. The piece should feel organic, moving, growing – a mirror of the annual abundance and beauty here."
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