Wendell Castle
in conversation with Michael Golec
July 10
12:30 p.m.
Sponsored by Evan Snyderman and Zesty Meyers/R & Company,
New York and Rona and Jeff Citrin
Lauded as the father of the art furniture movement, celebrated American artist Wendell Castle has been a sculptor, designer and educator for over 5 decades. From the outset of his career, Castle has consistently challenged the boundaries of functional design, becoming renown for his superb craftsmanship, whimsically organic forms and original techniques for stack-laminating wood.
Michael J. Golec is Associate Professor of the History of Design at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Golec’s scholarship focuses on image theory, graphic visualization and American art and design history in the twentieth-century. Golec was the 2010-2011 Anschutz Distinguished Fellow in American Studies at Princeton University. He is the author of Brillo Box Archive: Aesthetics, Design, and Art (Hanover: Dartmouth College Press, 2008) and, along with Aron Vinegar, co-edited and contributed to Relearning from Las Vegas (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009). Golec has published articles and reviews in Design and Culture, the Journal of Design History, Design Issues, Senses and Society, Cultural Critique, American Quarterly, and Home Cultures.
Wendell Castle’s presentation is sponsored by:
