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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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Bend Shelf
Plywood, laminate, steel hardware
68"x54"x12"
2022
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Bend Shelf
Plywood, laminate, steel hardware
68"x54"x12"
2022
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Outline Chair
Steel, plywood, foam, corduroy
33"x20"x22"
2022
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Outline Chair
Steel, plywood, foam, corduroy
33"x20"x22"
2022
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Fold Lamp
Powder coated steel, acrylic diffuser, cloth cord, magnets
9.5"x8.25"x8.25"
2022
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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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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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"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.
