M S LAMP, Plastic Laminate on Birch plywood, anodized aluminum hardware, fluorescent light, mirror, lucite cross. 2018.
Ryan Lauderdale (BFA in Studio Art and BA in Art History, 2005) is featured among 14 different artists and design collectives in In Good Company / Material Culture, an exhibition of emerging artists and designers whose work represents a post-industrial shift in thinking about materials. Curated by Fernando Mastrangelo and Hannah Martin, senior design writer for Architectural Digest, the works in In Good Company / Material Culture span textiles, furniture, lighting, and sculpture to radically recontextualize industrial materials typically associated with mass-production, and through experimentation with form and process, ask how functional objects can convey human experience.
Speaking to Architectural Digest, the curators Mastrangelo and Martin spoke to showing new artists and work in unconventional settings, contextualizing works in new ways. "Ryan Lauderdale, for example, is a sculptor," said Mastrangelo. "He uses light in his sculptures but the first time I saw him—on Instagram—I was like, "Yo, these are amazing lamps." It's just about contextualizing it that way."
In Good Company / Material Culture will be on view from September 7 - October 5, 2018.