This expanded view of Faye Toogood’s Assemblage 7: Lost and Found II marks the influential British designer’s fourth solo exhibition with Friedman Benda gallery. First previewed in Los Angeles in 2022 and at Chatsworth House in 2023, Toogood’s acclaimed body of work makes its New York premiere. Showing her intimate process in a new light, Toogood uncovers new dimensions by poetically transforming her two chosen materials – English oak and Purbeck marble – into pieces that capture and convey the essence of time.
 
Assemblage 7: Lost and Found II  is also an exploration of the excellence of British craftsmanship and material landscape: Oak, a mainstay building material, is finished using shellacking, a time-honoured fine furniture technique dating back to the 18th century; Purbeck, a rare limestone packed with shell fossils and quarried since antiquity, is sourced from a family-owned quarry on the Isle of Purbeck in southeast Dorset. It is hand-carved and chiseled, revealing the treasured stone’s stratigraphy.
 
A continuation of Toogood’s expansive way of working, Assemblage 7 represents her closest approach to traditional as well as modernist sculpture. Each piece (Plot, Cairn, Barrow, Hill, Hoard, and Lode) represents undiscovered places and elements that had long been hidden —“something almost prehistoric that had been lost to time,” says Toogood.