Guest curated by former ID Magazine editor Steven Skov Holt and art historian Mara Holt Skov, Manuf®actured explores how artists and designers are using labor-intensive craft practices to craft new work from mass-produced objects and materials. Taking manufactured products apart and reconfiguring them in ways never previously seen, the artists in this exhibition are creating a new category of objects that operate between art, craft and design. With works as diverse as Cat Chow’s Bonded, a dress made from one continuous zipper and Jason Rogenes’ towers crafted from polystyrene, Manuf®actured examines issues such as overabundance, appropriation, reuse, and the relationship between the uniquely handmade and the uniformly mass-produced.

ARTISTS: Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir, Boris Bally, Harriete Estel Berman, Boym Partners, Jerry Bleem, Cat Chow, Sonya Clark, Mitra Fabian, Livia Marin, Régis Mayot, Jason Rogenes, Devorah Sperber, Laura Splan, Marcel Wanders, Dominic Wilcox

A catalog published by Chronicle Books accompanies the exhibition and is available for purchase in The Gallery.

Work by Harriete Estel Berman and Boris Bally is available for purchase in The Gallery.

Launch the Manuf®actured web site.

Listen and watch documentation from the Second Lives Symposium, February 7, 2009 at Museum of Arts and Design, New York. Participants include Museum of Contemporary Craft curator Namita Gupta Wiggers, Manuf®actured co-curators Steven Skov Holt and Mara Holt Skov, and Manuf®actured artists Boris Bally, Sonya Clark and Devorah Sperber.

Exhibition support provided by:

    Ziba Design

RELATED PROGRAMMING

MEMBER EVENT
Member Reception with guest co-curators Steven Skov Holt and Mara Holt Skov, and selected artists
Wednesday, September 17, 6:30–8:30 PM

LECTURE
CraftPerspectives – Manuf®actured:
From Readymade to AlreadyMade
Thursday, September 18, 6:30 PM

FAMILY DISCOVERY SUNDAY
Hot Off the Press
Sunday, September 28, 1–4 PM

FAMILY DISCOVERY SUNDAY
Binding the Unbreakable with Sonya Clark
Sunday, October 12, 1–4 PM

IMAGES(top to bottom):

Dominic Wilcox, War Bowl, 2002; Melted plastic army soldiers; approx. 17 x 4 inches; Image courtesy of the artist.

Jason Rogenes, Transponder, 2005; Found polystyrene, fluorescent lights, transformer boxes, electrical cables, monofilament; Installed in technocraft at the Wignall Museum, Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga, CA, January–March 2006.

Regis Mayót, Grand Magazin, 2001; carved plastic containers, metal, Plexiglas; 71 x 43 x 9.25 in.; Collection of the artist.