Culture

Chris Schanck: Off-World

Museum of Arts and Design

2 Columbus Circle
New York, NY 10019

(212) 299-7777

http://www.madmuseum.org/exhibition/chris-schanck-world

Event Dates

Feb 13, 2022

Feb 20, 2022

Feb 27, 2022

Mar 06, 2022

Mar 13, 2022

Mar 20, 2022

Mar 27, 2022

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Aug 14, 2022

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Sep 04, 2022

Sep 11, 2022

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Sep 25, 2022

Oct 02, 2022

Oct 09, 2022

Oct 16, 2022

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Oct 30, 2022

Nov 06, 2022

Nov 13, 2022

Nov 20, 2022

Nov 27, 2022

Dec 04, 2022

Dec 11, 2022

Dec 18, 2022

Dec 25, 2022

Jan 01, 2023

Jan 08, 2023

Jan 15, 2023

When

Tuesday - Sunday, 10:00am–6:00pm

Museum of Arts and Design

During the past decade, Chris Schanck has emerged as a leading figure in the design world for his otherworldly fusion of sculpture and furniture. Skirting the line between refinement and camp, the strange, unfamiliar forms of Schanck’s chairs, sofas, lighting, mirrors, and more suggest coral reefs, extraterrestrial worlds, and artifacts from ancient civilizations, to name just a few of the designer’s inspirations. Each piece is meticulously handcrafted in Schanck’s Detroit-based studio, where his community of artists, students, and Bangladeshi craftspeople plays a key role in the designer’s egalitarian studio practice. Deftly melding innovative material experiments with an expressive yet rigorous refinement of form, Schanck’s elaborately carved, colorfully hued, and lustrous objects are contemporary talismans of stories from the past, present, and future.