Some adjectives are not normally used when describing furniture. But these are exactly the words one could use to describe the works of Canadian furniture maker, Gord Peteran, whose works are on view at the Long Beach Museum of Art from April 11 through September 7, 2008. Gord Peteran: Furniture Meets Its Maker, is a thought-provoking exhibition of 34 psychologically compelling pieces of, you guessed it, furniture.
It is furniture unlike any other. A table that doesn’t hold objects, chairs not made for sitting, objects that appear to function as torture devices or for the sexually experimental. Despite the dubious functionality of many of the pieces in the exhibition, one can recognize, using Peteran’s word, the “furnitural” quality of the object. The accompanying award-winning exhibition catalog expresses it this way, “at Peteran’s hands furniture dies a fascinating death, without ever quite going away.”
Don’t miss your chance to experience this truly unique exhibition.
Gord Peteran: Furniture Meets its Maker is organized by the Milwaukee Art Museum and the Chipstone Foundation with generous support from The Windgate Charitable Foundation.