Volume Gallery is pleased to announce Private Quarters III which will be on view beginning January 8, 2022. Private Quarters is an ongoing series of exhibitions focused on giving further context to work by the gallery’s designers and artists. A rumination on domestic space, this group show will feature work by Ross Hansen, Jennefer Hoffmann, Christy Matson, Jonathan Muecke, and Thaddeus Wolfe.
New pillar-shaped ceramics by Jennefer Hoffmann made during a residency in North Carolina reference the steeples and rolling hills in the area as well as the influx of wasps and bees in her studio. Some of the pieces are titled after daubers, wasps that build their nests from mud. Not only resembling their cylindrical nests, the ceramics are also intended to translate the buzzing sound of wasps and bees in clay.
Christy Matson’s weavings often reference the history of Modernism, including the concept of the grid, as well as the history of textiles from all over the world. In Pliable Grid (Silver), hand-painted metallic fibers form a grid that overlays a subtle spray of yellow, pink, and green. In Pliable Grid (Pink), shades of black and pink are woven into a plaid-like pattern, imprecise as if hand-drawn.
Ross Hansen’s recent ceramic epoxy table, Bootcut Console, has a marbled surface and unusual split legs that exemplify Hansen’s subversive use of industrial production methods to form unique and animated designed objects.
Thaddeus Wolfe is known for his dedication to the laborious techniques of glassmaking and an inquisitive vision that leads the medium into new terrain. Untitled is a combination of kiln-formed and mold-blown glass. Mostly a deep black with a few windows into its more chromatic inside, the glass has been cast in a crystalline pattern like an otherworldly geological formation.
Jonathan Muecke’s elegant forms are hyper-specific in scale and material. His FS (Flat Shape) comes from a series of matte-black aluminum sheets cut into a variety of shapes, all of which are one hundred inches around with a serrated border of five hundred tiny peaks.
Private Quarters III will be on view through February 26, 2022.
Ross Hansen is a landscape and furniture designer. He received his Bachelors in Landscape Architecture from Iowa State University followed by an MFA in 3D Design from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Before establishing his design practice in 2014, he was adjunct faculty at Woodbury University and worked at the offices of Hood Studio, and Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture.
Jennefer Hoffmann lives and works in Chicago, IL. Hoffmann’s emotional and intuitive studio practice produces sculptural forms that are open objects for contemplation. The forms are a means to explore the world around — whether they are forms detailing personal intimacy, or forms reflecting her observations and feelings about community and society in times of upheaval, empathy, and change.
Christy Matson lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. Recent solo exhibitions include the Cranbrook Art Museum, which featured a special commission for the US Art in Embassies Program, and the Long Beach Museum of Art. Her work has been in dozens of group exhibitions including the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Museum, the Craft and Folk Art Museum Los Angeles, the Asheville Art Museum, and The Knoxville Museum of Art.
Matson’s work is in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, The Milwaukee Art Museum, and the Smithsonian Museum of American Art’s Renwick Gallery. In 2012 Matson was tenured and appointed as Associate Professor of Fiber and Material Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Matson will open a solo exhibition at the Milwaukee Art Museum in 2022.
Jonathan Muecke has evolved a design practice that resists standard divisions between design, art, and architecture, instead focusing on refined forms that investigate notions of positive and negative space, positional relationships to structures, and the innate desire to read notions of functionality into objects that relate to human scale.
He studied architecture at Iowa State, interning at the architectural office of Herzog & de Meuron in Basel, Switzerland before studying design at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. In 2014 he was awarded the architectural pavilion commission from Design Miami and in 2015 he was awarded a USA Knight Fellowship.
Muecke’s works are in the collections of several museums including The Museum of Art and Design in New York City, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Center National des Arts Plastiques in Paris, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Montreal, and The Art Institute of Chicago.
Muecke will open a solo exhibition at The Art Institute of Chicago in 2022.
Thaddeus Wolfe studied glass at the Cleveland Institute of Art, graduating with a BFA in 2002. He has held residencies at Pilchuck Glass School (Stanwood, WA), Creative Glass Center of America (Millville, NJ), and Museum of Glass (Tacoma, WA). His work has been exhibited in New York at E.R. Butler and Co., Heller Gallery, Matter, R & Company (New York), Pierre Marie Giraud (Brussels), and with Volume Gallery (Chicago).
In addition to private collections, Wolfe’s work is held in the permanent collections of the Yale University Art Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Toledo Museum of Art, Musee des Arts Decoratifs de Montreal, Indianapolis Museum of Art, and the Corning Museum of Glass, where he was awarded the 2016 Rakow Commission.
Thaddeus lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
