OBJECTS: USA 2024
x R & Company
64 White Street, New York, NY
Curated by Kellie Riggs and Angelik Vizcarrondo-Laboy
September 6, 2024 to January 10, 2025
https://objectsusa.r-and-company.com/
Objects: USA 2024 celebrates the pathbreaking work of some of today’s most innovative American designers and artists. Through nearly 100 objects by 55 visionary makers, the major survey exhibition challenges traditionally understood boundaries between fine art, craft, and design and captures the diversity of individuals propelling handmade processes in compelling new directions. Many of the featured works defy easy categorization, teetering between sculpture and functional furniture and between art objects and beautifully-crafted everyday tools.
To engage audiences with this unique spectrum of works, the 2024 exhibition curators, Kellie Riggs and Angelik Vizcarrondo-Laboy, developed a fresh conceptual framework that emphasizes artistic motivations and establishes a new set of artistic archetypes— the Seven Archetypes of Objecthood: Truthsayers, Betatesters, Doomsdayers, Insiders, Mediators, Codebreakers, Keepers.
Objects: USA 2024 marks the launch of R & Company’s triennial as an ongoing commitment to uplifting contemporary makers and supporting the dynamic landscape of American object-making.
Click here for the full roster.
Photos by Logan Jackson