A "rampant cast of character-objects" that includes furniture, lighting and sculpture are displayed at artist and designer Misha Kahn's first solo show in Los Angeles.
Misha Kahn's Just Around the Bend exhibition includes designs created in a wide variety of materials
Just Around the Bend, now on view at the Annex at M+B gallery in West Hollywood, includes a variety of new works that incorporate recognisable signatures of Kahn's style.
M+B gallery, which is hosting the exhibition, described the pieces on show as "endearingly absurd"
"Misha Kahn's practice is grounded in contradiction," said a statement from the gallery. "Rather than creating harmony between scale, function and materiality, Kahn zealously opts for discord, resulting in objects with constantly evolving personalities." "For his exhibition at Annex, Kahn presents a rampant cast of character-objects, each one a unique manifestation of the artist's unbridled world view," the text continued.
The exhibition showcases Kahn's whimsical forms
Among these items is Tingle Tangle Mingle Mangle, a bronze desk with gloopy legs and extra appendages that appear to be partially melting.
Similar fluid forms are visible in the American Gothic chair and Around the Tree and into the Hole sofa, created around plywood and steel frames, and upholstered in multi-coloured cashmere.
The Tingle Tangle Mingle Mangle bronze desk has several gloopy appendages
Kahn's series of Puzzle Mirrors...