Philadelphia-based artist Nick Missel exhibited a series of sculptural seats informed by scrap materials and working class survivalism at Design Miami's 2024 Los Angeles edition.
Created with tactile appeal, Nick Missel's collection of unique furniture objects were designed to explore malleable forms with textured surfacing.
Missel's works were showcased alongside five other artists ? Gulla Jónsdóttir, Justin Wesley, Feyza Kemahlioglu, Benjamin Gillespie, Gregory Nangle ? at Wexler Gallery's booth in Holmby Hills Estate specially for the inaugural edition of Design Miami/Los Angeles.
Nicki Missel has created a serious of sculptures as furniture objects at Design Miami/Los Angeles
The artist described his silicone sculptures as a form of "cultural archeology of the working class". "I think there is a resilience and creativity that comes with the survival lifestyle of the working class, always doing more with less," Missel told Dezeen. "I would collect random objects in the back of my truck, selling them for scrap so I could fund my early sculptures."
"This experience made me curious to find beauty in these things that sit on the periphery of our attention in everyday life, but have some kind of power to them as objects of opportunity," he continued.
Missel's intricate works explore malleable forms with textured surfacing
His sculptures were produced through a process of layering pigmented silicone on bales of cardboard to create a t...