Galerie56 presents “Shades of Light”— an exhibition in conjunction with Sarah Myerscough Gallery. Marking the London-based gallery’s New York debut, “Shades of Light” will showcase innovative works celebrating organic materials and skilled craftsmanship. Highlights include Full Grown’s sculptural willow chairs cast in bronze, Eleanor Lakelin’s horse-chestnut burr vessels, and John Makepeace’s new collection in blonde wood. Additional featured artists include Ernst Gamperl, Teresa Hastings, Tadeas Podracky, Christopher Kurtz, and Nic Webb, whose works all explore the intersection of material science, craft knowledge, and sculpture.
The exhibition maintains a sharp focus on sculpture and design using natural materials, relishing a connection to the natural world. The work shown represents that of highly-skilled artist-designer-makers whose practices are grounded in craft-making traditions but defined by contemporary innovation. Through diverse making processes, the works on view embrace the elemental, the imperfect, and the complex intersections between history and future, hand and technology, form and function.
The artworks within the exhibition, titled Shades of Light, signify the restorative capacities of craft-making processes. Envisioning craft as an ongoing and changing mode in which material and artist are in a potent and formative relationship with each other, the works are formed through distinctly contemporary approaches to craft and design.
