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A modular shelving system that re-considers design and architectural references from the 60s/80s in a contemporary context.

Spenser Atlas

A Part Apart

I am fascinated by connections. Things that click, snap, slide, and hold. I care about the ways in which objects meet, looking for answers in the space between. What binds one thing to another?

I believe the world is presented to us in pieces. It’s hard to say how it all comes together. Connection is a bridge, a way of linking one thing to another that reveals interdependence, and eventually moves outwards to express a correlation between pieces, once assumed to be discrete and isolated.

This work is interested in exploring the form of connection. What does connection look like, and how can the objects I produce move within and beyond the material world to convey things that may be abstract but are more intimate, including a tie to people and place?

Pulling from a history of art that bridges the space between pop and minimalism, I seek to find ways of expressing links to people and places that are inspired by a web of meaning on the West Coast and beyond.

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A modular shelving system that re-considers design and architectural references from the 60s/80s in a contemporary context.

Bend Shelf

Plywood, laminate, steel hardware
68"x54"x12"
2022

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A modular shelving system that re-considers design and architectural references from the 60s/80s in a contemporary context.

Bend Shelf

Plywood, laminate, steel hardware
68"x54"x12"
2022

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A chair built of upholstered pieces that press fit into a steel structure.

Outline Chair

Steel, plywood, foam, corduroy
33"x20"x22"
2022

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A chair built of upholstered pieces that press fit into a steel structure.

Outline Chair

Steel, plywood, foam, corduroy
33"x20"x22"
2022

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A lamp made of four repeated units and arranged in a way to emphasize the gap between the elements.

Fold Lamp

Powder coated steel, acrylic diffuser, cloth cord, magnets
9.5"x8.25"x8.25"
2022

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A flexible seating system comprised of tiled, upholstered cushions and held together with webbing.

Jacob's Ladder

Steel, plywood, foam, felt
30"x80"x24"
2022

Jacob’s Ladder was made in collaboration with Kareno Kim and Eon Son

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A flexible seating system comprised of tiled upholstered cushions and held together with webbing.

Jacob's Ladder

Steel, plywood, foam, felt
30"x80"x24"
2022

Jacob’s Ladder was made in collaboration with Kareno Kim and Eon Son

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A collaborative installation with Lydia Chodosh.

"To read is to______" Installation with Lydia Chodosh

2023

“To read is to _____” was a collaborative installation with Lydia Chodosh (Graphic Design MFA ‘24) which took place in RISD’s Graphic Design Commons space from April 8–15, 2023. 

The show featured 10 reading forms designed by Lydia Chodosh, each encapsulating a single definition of reading and expressing a formal writing tool aligned with that definition.

I designed the displays in tandem with the objects—they suggest the form of unfolding books and allow for open engagement and interaction with the objects.

Time Relief

Paper, aluminum, laminate, clock parts
22"x17"x1"
2023

 

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