%C2%A9 Stephen Hogbin
Chair, c. 1974
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Stack-laminated cedarexpand_more
Gift of Various Donors, by exchangeexpand_more 2002.62.1
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Influential artist Stephen Hogbin began working with wood in the 1950s, though he did not begin turning wood until 1971, shortly after he emigrated to Canada. The stack-laminate furniture of Wendell Castle from the 1960s, represented by the three-seat settee in this gallery, inspired Hogbin to use the same material, though their approaches differ. Where Castle uses carving tools to shape the rough stack-laminate construction into furniture, Hogbin uses a lathe he built from a truck axle, mounted on a steel frame.
For this chair, he carved grooves in a disc of wood seven feet in diameter and one foot thick while it spun on the lathe. He then cut apart the disc and reassembled the layers into a new form. Hogbin calls these reassembled forms "fragmentals."
Details
- Title
- Chair
- Artist Life
- Canadian (born England), born 1942
- Role
- Maker
- Accession Number
- 2002.62.1
- Curator Approved
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