Featured Exhibit: TORQUED & TWISTED: BENTWOOD TODAY at The Center for Craft Creativity and Design

   

L TO R:  Jeremy Holmes, Atmosphere #45, 2011, white ash with black dye, steel, x 10 x 12"

Michael Cooper, The Big Bang Theory, 2007, various hardwood, aluminum, 65 x 53 x 37"

Don Miller, Penumbra, 2008, bleached white oak, 30 x 8 x 16"

On view through June 29th, Torqued and Twisted: Bentwood Today explores the work of nine furniture makers and sculptors from the United States who use the technique of bending wood in innovative, unusual and eloquent ways.  

  

Bentwood came to symbolize the modern movement in furniture design, but it still offers a tempting territory for a range of aesthetic and formal explorations. The artists/designers in this exhibition push the limits of wood bending to create extraordinary functional and sculptural works of art that are conceptually challenging and expand our understanding and expectations of wood as a material.

The Center for Craft Creativity and Design is located at 1181 Broyles Road Hendersonville, NC

  

This exhibit was funded, in part, by a Grassroots Grant from the North Carolina Arts Council, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources, with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts; administered by the Arts Council of Henderson County.