Sculptor Vince Palacios Unveils His ‘Potato Trees’ in a New York Exhibition This Fall
Sculptor and ceramics professor Vince Palacios was born in Michigan and is based in California. Yet for his latest body of work, he references, among other inspirations, Peru—particularly taken with the the notion that a certain tuber symbolizes purity there. For “Haptic Memory,” at Gabriel & Guillaume in New York this fall, his series of “potato trees” nods to the food’s bulbous and awkward, yet beautiful and essential qualities. “I’m most interested in the unexpected things that emerge in the moment,” he says.
Indeed, the vessels are delightfully surprising, a result of manipulating clay by wheel and hand, then treating it with glaze and various flux before it undergoes multiple firings. “We all have bumps and lumps, my goal is to cause viewers to reflect on finding a way of fitting in.” Gabriel & Guillaume has done just that, this exhibition launching cofounders Nancy Gabriel and Guillaume Excoffier’s first permanent location. They’ve chosen to put down roots in the landmarked Steinway Hall (now, with a new adjoining tower by SHoP Architects and Studio Sofield, called 111 West 57th Street), engaging design agency FrenchCalifornia and Cueto Art Advisory to establish 17S, a former duplex apartment, as a soaring, 5,000-square-foot gallery.




read more
DesignWire
Chris Bogia’s Candle Sculpture Illuminates Fishers Island, New York
Candle, a sculptural installation by mixed-media artist Chris Bogia, is on display on New York’s Fishers Island.
DesignWire
Renovated by Maurice Mentjens, Museum W in the Netherlands Reopens With a Studio Job Exhibit
The Jacob van Horne Municipal Museum in Weert, Netherlands, reopens as Museum W with a multiroom exhibition of works by Job Smeets.
DesignWire
Wyatt Kahn’s Mammoth Cor-Ten Sculptures Debut in Downtown Manhattan
“Wyatt Kahn: Life in the Abstract” represents the painter/sculptor’s first public-art exhibition and his first pieces in Cor-Ten steel.
recent stories
DesignWire
10 Questions With… IIDA’s Ronnie Belizaire
Ronnie Belizaire, president of IIDA’s 2023-2024 Board of Directors, discusses her career journey and IIDA’s role in advocating for workplace equity.
DesignWire
See INTERIOR DESIGN’s 2023 Best of Year Awards Finalists
INTERIOR DESIGN reveals project and product finalists for the 18th annual Best of Year Awards, honoring innovation in all its forms across the industry.
DesignWire
Tadao Ando Puts His Spin on the Annual MPavilion Initiative in Melbourne
Tadao Ando is the seventh world-renowned architect to conceptualize MPavilion, the temporary monument staged within Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Gardens.