You’re weird for building this
With Stephanie Rohlfs
October 27–December 2, 2018

Royal NoneSuch Gallery
300 Jefferson Street
Oakland, CA

All photos by Graham Holoch
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You’re weird for building this was a collaborative two-person exhibition with Oakland artist Stephanie Rohlfs. Inspired by “animal enrichment devices,” the objects provided by zookeepers and pet owners to reduce stress and improve an animal’s quality of life, we presented enrichment devices for human audiences. The utilitarian decisions made by industrial designers became generative springboards for sculptures that enclose, support, tease and soothe. Custom furniture, live plants, sound and atomized scents created a space for a playful investigation of the relationship between artist, viewer and object.


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