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Michael de Forest: painted furniture and objects
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Painted Furniture and Objects. Time as an apprentice. Coffin maker in Ghana. The Suture Series came about in part from Michael de Forest's interest in making forms out of segments. Up to this point all his work had been furniture and related functional wood objects. This new work allows him to make three dimensional hollow wood human forms that are cut into segments, and then stitched back together to make it three dimensional again. SUTURED and PAINTED WOOD BOWLS. Art and Content in Contemporary Wood.
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Michael de Forest: The Family: A Table and Six Chairs
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Painted Furniture and Objects. THE FAMILY: A TABLE AND SIX CHAIRS. Time as an apprentice. Coffin maker in Ghana. Various woods, incised line carving, milk paint. Chairs 42h x 22w x 21d. Bottom row: Myron,Doc and Beekman. This furniture is in The Guild book by Michael Hosaluk. Art and Content in Contemporary Wood. Three of the chairback portraits are shown pulled up to the table with its painted place settings. Site design Bonnie Meltzer.
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Michael de Forest: Wall Works
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Painted Furniture and Objects. Time as an apprentice. Coffin maker in Ghana. Michael’s Table, Michael’s Chair. Plywood, incised line carving, milk paint. 67 h x 56 w x 2 d. What at first looks like just a grouping of Michael de Forest's furniture and painting is in fact an ingenious system of convertible furniture. Like the furniture of the Shaker tradition when not in use the table and the chair hang back up on the wall. In this case back up into the painting. Site design Bonnie Meltzer.
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Michael de Forest: CHAIRS
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Painted Furniture and Objects. PAINTED and INCISED CHAIRS. Time as an apprentice. Coffin maker in Ghana. A chair is not always just a chair to sit upon. Michael de Forest often uses the metaphor of furniture to make art that is social commentary. Cement, plywood,. Acrylic paint, dye, industrial casters. 44h x 22w x 29d. Paper pache, plywood, fiberglass, acrylic paint, industrial pneumatic casters. 36h x 51w x 27d. Poplar, incised line carving, milk paint,. 30h x 24w x 22d. 44h x 27 w x 21d.
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Michael de Forest: Suture Series- Bowls
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Painted Furniture and Objects. Time as an apprentice. Coffin maker in Ghana. The Frog Bowl Rebirth and Ttransmutation. Incised line carving waxed nylon sinew. 4h x 14 dia. Cutting apart the Frog Bowl. Cut apart and being painted. Rat Bowl, painted, holes drilled and ready to be stitched together. Site design Bonnie Meltzer.
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Michael de Forest: Suture Series-Vessels
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Painted Furniture and Objects. Time as an apprentice. Coffin maker in Ghana. In another variation of the suture series Michael de Forest developed a new constructive method of creating new forms from individual, discrete pieces made somewhat at random and then assembled. He used a clay sculpture of a torso, that was fragmented to make molds for the shapes that make up the collection of vessels you see here. Messenger: Faithful, Communicative, Traveler. 8h x 7w x 8d. 11h x 10w x 9d. 7h x 14 5/8w x 13d.
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Michael de Forest
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Painted Furniture and Objects. Time as an apprentice. Coffin maker in Ghana. Basswood, Incised Line Carving, Milk Paint, Waxed Nylon Sinew. 13h x 19w x 12d. Detail of painting and sutures. The pieces in this series are made of individual blocks stacked and fastened together with screws, an additive process. The exterior was then carved, a subtractive process, into a life-size bust, unscrewed, taken apart, the interiors cut out, holes drilled, painted, sanded and sewn back together.
