“I’ve been drawing furniture for the last 10 years,” confesses the artist Josh Sperling, best known for his supersize wall-mounted installations of canvas-stretched spirals and squiggles. “I just haven’t been making it.” Until now, that is. A 19-month gap between two shows afforded him the time to give those sketches a little more thought—and to outfit his Ithaca, New York, studio for a new kind of making. The results? A series of 26 benches sheathed in vibrant Maharam wool that just debuted as part of his solo show at Paradise Art Space in Incheon, South Korea.
The seats serve as functional counterparts to his 150-foot mural, the hand-painted elements of which wrap the circular gallery space. “The pieces all reference or take verbatim shapes from my art practice,” explains Sperling,…
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Architectural Digest (Digital) - 1 Issue, November 2024