F.or Skinned Table, Joyce Lin used a razor blade to dissect layers of veneer from an old table, which she mounted on brass pins on its exposed underside like a biological specimen. The table is surprisingly beautiful in its deconstructed form, but Lin is aiming for something much deeper.
"When I take things apart, I examine structures and materials – how things are made and where they come from – but it's also like looking for the truth," Joyce Lin tells me from her studio in Houston at the East End Maker Hub.
Skinned Table is currently featured in the prestigious Objects: USA 2020 exhibition at R & Company in New York City, which runs through September 6th. Lin, 26, is the youngest artist in the exhibition and her work is getting a lot of attention in the national press. Bloomberg named her a breakout star among the show's established contemporary artists such as Daniel Arsham, The Haas Brothers, and Monique Peán.
R & Company co-founder Evan Snyderman has described Lin as an extraordinary young visionary. Lin studied furniture at the Rhode Island School of Design and biology / geology at Brown University and digs beneath the surface of design with forensic zeal.
"Joyce Lin is both a scientist and a carpenter and is continuously researching the layers and surfaces that lie beneath our physical world," says Snyderman.
Joyce Lin's future as a collector's artist looks promising. When the gallery exhibited one of its $ 3,000 Exploded Chairs in 2019, the entire edition of eight was sold out. Her public work Home Grown can be viewed on the Richmond Ave Sculpture Trail through December 31st. In a game of words and materials, she created an armchair, a table and a lamp made of fiberglass, epoxy and earth that seem to have grown out of the ground.
Artist Joyce Lin with "Home Grown", 2021
PaperCity's Rebecca Sherman spoke to Joyce Lin to find out more:
It's unusual to have a double degree in furniture design and science.
Joyce Lin: I have always been fascinated by nature and the question of where we come from and where we are going. In college, introductory geology courses were eye-opening. It's part of our deep story in the way everything is connected.
Your designs are original and provocative
JL: This idea of painting over the surface and hiding the structure is a journey based on wood and seeing the natural grain of the material. It clashed with my growing understanding of industrialized materials, where humans all develop properties in order to be in control of their physical environment. For me it almost has a horror aspect to it.
Your work also has a sense of humor.
JL: In my early work, I made kinetic toy chairs to challenge the assumption that furniture is static. What we assume to be static in geology is not. Even rocks move slowly. Everything moves slowly from one state to another. Chairs are related to the human body – even how we talk about a chair. It has a back, arms, legs. It's my way of almost turning the work into a character.
Dirty work.
JL: I've been interested in dirt for a while – conceptually as that idea of something under our feet, a realm that we consider nature to be, but it's also something we might find gross. When things die, we use dirt to cover them up. But things also grow out of it. The natural matrix of death and creation is beautiful. In my latest work, Home Grown, the soil grows out of the dirt into this opaque surface so you can't see what's inside.
1-800 Get Pink
JL: It's a chair I made in late 2020. It was a response to social media back then. I made a lot of round chair shapes that are painted or gilded. But what is actually in these things? So there are exposed areas where you can see what is really underneath.
Inspiration.
JL: If I just go about everyday life, I'll see something like exposed sidewalk on the street and get inspiration. Building fascinates me. For a while they spent a year repaving my entire street and I thought, 'Oh my god, there's a whole world under our feet.'
source https://seapointrealtors.com/2021/07/31/houston-furniture-artist-touted-as-a-young-visionary-joyce-lin-brings-science-and-wonder-together/
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