November 18 - December 11, 2016
Participating Artists: Alara Alkan, Samantha Anderson, Todd Anderson, Noelle Antignano, Yoon Jin Bae, Andrew Bannar, Ian Barsanti, Ben and Aja Blanc, Quinton Bley, Charles Brill, Joshua DaSilva, Delilah Davis, Daniel Dettrich, Elizabeth Dimitroff, George Dubinsky, Mark Epler, Debra Folz, McKenzie Gibson, Taylor Gray, Joseph Guerra, Ingemar Hagen-Keith, Ruth Henry, Nick Hollibaugh, Tallulah Hood, Reid Hoyt, Lucy Humphreys, Kelly A.A. Infield, Tyler Inman, Yeon Soo Joo, Caroline Kable, Benjamin Kicic, Makoto Kumasaka, Heejin Kwon, Hayoung Lee, Su Hyun Lee, August Lehrecke, Rebecca Li,Joyce Lin, Pei Xin Liu, Raghda Maaliki, Emily MacCloud, Laura Casanas Maya, Andrew Mau, Maxwell Mcinnis, Joh Moller, Liam Montano, Ana Marguerite Mosseri, Matthew Muller, Sydnie Nislow, Walker Nosworthy, Sunyoung Park, Santiago Pere, Andrew Pick, Sam Reese, Theo Richardson, David Riley, Rena Rong, Adrian Roop, Samuel Rosenberg, Molly Rubidge, Joseph Sands, Brandon Kento Saisho, Justin Seow, Urvi Sharma, Samantha Shields, Max Simon, Brian Skalaski, Sina Sohrab, Julia Stekette, Shaina Tabak, Jonah Takagi, Stephanie Tan, Yunzhu Wang, Katherine Weimer, Tannan Whidden Winter, Alexander Williams, Jamie Wolfond, Lu Xu, Jin ran Xuan
Curatorial Statement: The Department of Furniture Design promotes a way of working that integrates thinking and making. All studios and most courses require the design and execution of resolved objects in real materials at full scale. As a result, there are a lot of things to look at, learn from and think about. This Triennial exhibition includes over 120 objects by over 80 students and alumni. The work of these students and alumni says more about the depth and breadth of our students' experience in Furniture Design than any statement might. Pulling together an exhibition that represents the department in the middle of the fall semester before the completion of most current works requires that pieces were selected from available works created in the last few years. The student works in this exhibition are the product of Sophomore, Junior, Senior and Grad studios and electives. These make up a curriculum that is both very focused and experimental beginning in the undergraduate area with design principles and specific skills building in the Sophomore year and becoming increasingly experimental in terms of materials, processes and contexts during the Junior and Senior years. The graduate curriculum is built upon individualized research and experimentation culminating in the thesis and leading towards the professional world. The extraordinary alumni works in this exhibition demonstrate examples of successful careers developing out of an education that integrates thinking and making.
John Dunnigan, Department Head, Furniture Design
