WENDELL CASTLE:
SHIFTING VOCABULARIES

June 23, 2018 - January 20, 2019

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO

          Over a prolific sixty-year career, Wendell Castle (1932–2018), a native of Kansas, approached furniture design as a sculptor.

          Producing work in a vocabulary entirely his own, Castle considered form and function on equal ground. He defied categorization by generating creations that lay just outside the boundaries of art and furniture.

          Finished with a slick oil-like surface Castle’s expressive and organic forms, are made from stained stack-laminated wood. They call into question what we consider a chair and our expectations of furniture.

          Wendell Castle: Shifting Vocabularies features Castle’s latest and last body of work.

 

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