Vincent Pocsik b. 1985
Vincent Pocsik is a Los Angeles–based artist whose work explores the boundaries between sculpture and functional design. Working primarily with walnut and oak, he merges traditional hand-carving techniques with digital fabrication to create objects that examine the relationship between the human body, urban detritus, and material transformation.
Drawing from a diverse visual language, Pocsik’s sculptures reference both natural and built environments. Industrial artifacts—cans, shoes, tires—are juxtaposed with organic forms such as fruit, flowers, cacti, hands, and ears, yielding hybrid compositions that evoke a surreal, anthropomorphic sensibility. These symbolic pairings reflect an ongoing inquiry into place, memory, and corporeality, shaped by the artist’s Midwestern upbringing and his current life in Southern California.
Trained in architecture, Pocsik operates fluidly across analog and digital methods. Each work begins as a graphite drawing, then evolves into a three-dimensional model using animation and design software. The final forms are meticulously hand-carved, sanded, and stained, with recent works incorporating cast pewter and bronze—materials that underscore the industrial dimension of his process.
Pocsik’s work aligns with a lineage of artists whose practices blur the lines between sculpture, function, and design. He draws inspiration from figures like Isamu Noguchi, who sought to democratize sculpture by imbuing everyday objects with the same artistic intent as his more traditionally defined artworks. Likewise, Donald Judd approached furniture with the same formal rigor and material clarity that defined his sculpture. For Judd, furniture was not subordinate to art but a parallel practice, deserving of its own conceptual integrity. Both artists rejected the hierarchy that traditionally separates art from design, insisting that objects for living could be as thoughtful, disciplined, and meaningful as those created solely for contemplation.
Pocsik engages the sculptural object as a site where form, function, and emotion converge. The human figure—never fully present yet never entirely absent—emerges through the material as an echo of lived experience. Carved limbs, textured surfaces, and contorted volumes suggest a body in flux, caught between states of being and becoming. In this way, Pocsik’s sculptures articulate a poetics of transformation: one that resists fixed categories and instead embraces ambiguity, hybridity, and change. Through this continual negotiation between body, object, and environment, his practice reflects a deeper inquiry into how we shape the world—and how it, in turn, shapes us.
Vincent Pocsik (b. 1985, Cleveland, OH) received an MA in Architecture from Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles and a BS from Bowling Green State University, OH. He has had recent solo exhibitions at Nazarian / Curcio, Los Angeles; Shrine Gallery, New York; Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco; Objective Gallery, New York and Shanghai; and Twentieth Exhibitions, Los Angeles. His work has been included in recent group exhibitions at R&Co., New York; Object Gallery, St. Moritz Switzerland and the Marfa Invitational at Room 57 Gallery, Marfa, TX. Pocsik lives and works in Los Angeles.
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Vincent PocsikLamp with Rain Boots, 2025Carved and bleached walnut, stained glass, pewter, and lighting elements54 x 18 x 22 in
137.2 x 45.7 x 55.9 cm -
Vincent PocsikIt May Rain, 2023
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Vincent PocsikOlympia, 2023
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Vincent PocsikHand with Plums, 2025Walnut and bronze16 x 7 x 5 in
40.6 x 17.8 x 12.7 cm -
Vincent PocsikTire with San Pedro Cactus and Cans, 2024Walnut38 ½ x 23 ½ x 15 ¼ in
97.8 x 59.7 x 38.7 cm -
Vincent PocsikHand with Dahlia, 2024Walnut33 ¾ x 10 ½ x 8 ¼ in
85.7 x 26.7 x 21 cm -
Vincent PocsikStool with Oranges Hands and Ears, 2025Carved walnut, fabric and pewter25 ½ x 19 ¾ x 20 in
64.8 x 50.2 x 50.8 cm -
Vincent PocsikBench with Plums Hands and Ears, 2025Carved walnut, fabric and pewter19 ¼ x 55 x 20 in
48.9 x 139.7 x 50.8 cm -
Vincent PocsikStool with Avocados Hands and Ears, 2025Carved walnut, fabric and pewter25 ½ x 19 ¾ x 20 in
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Vincent PocsikShoe with Prickly Pear and Strawberries, 2024Red oak, pewter metal25 x 17 ½ x 7 in
63.5 x 44.5 x 17.8 cm
With pedestal: 60 x 13 x 15 inches
152.4 x 33 x. 38.1 cm
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Vincent PocsikTwo Gerberas with Hands, 2024Ebonized walnut34 ½ x 35 ½ x 4 ½ in
87.6 x 90.2 x 11.4 cm -
Vincent PocsikHand with Oranges, 2025Walnut and bronze16 x 9 x 5 in
40.6 x 22.9 x 12.7 cm
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Vincent Pocsik: Could Be Gardens, Nazarian / Curcio, Los Angeles, November 16 – December 21, 2024.
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Vincent Pocsik: Could Be Gardens, Nazarian / Curcio, Los Angeles, November 16 – December 21, 2024.
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Frieze Los Angeles: Summer Wheat, Maria A. Guzmán Capron, Widline Cadet, and Vincent Pocsik presented by Nazarian / Curico, February 20–February 23, 2025.
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Vincent Pocsik
Could be Gardens 16 Nov - 21 Dec 2024Nazarian / Curcio is pleased to announce Could be Gardens , an exhibition of new sculpture by Los Angeles-based artist Vincent Pocsik. This is the artist’s debut exhibition with the gallery. Could be Gardens features eight new wall and floor-based sculptures crafted in oak and walnut, including a unique sculpture...Read more -
Friends and Lovers
15 Jul - 19 Aug 2023Shulamit Nazarian is pleased to present Friends and Lovers , an exhibition that brings together over twenty artists exploring ideas of kinship. Featuring painting, drawing, photography, and sculpture, the exhibition spans eight decades, uniting a cross-disciplinary and intergenerational group of artists. FEATURing Alina Perez Alex Bradley Cohen Anthony Iacono Charles...Read more
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Financial Times: Furniture to high five: why designers have a thing for hand motifs
Francesca Perry, Financial Times, March 19, 2025 -
FAD Magazine: Frieze LA 2025: 5 Artists to See This Year
Courtney Killough, FAD Magazine, February 21, 2025 -
LA Mag: Blurring Lines Between Art and Furniture Design
Michael Slenske, LA Mag, November 2, 2022 -
Hypebeast: Vincent Pocsik Shapes Wooden Furniture Into Almost-Human Forms Ears, legs, arms, and noses morph into cabinets, tables, and lamps.
Alice Morby, Hypebeast, October 20, 2022 -
Surface Mag: Designer of the Day - Vincent Pocsik
Ryan Waddoups, Surface Mag, October 19, 2022 -
The New York Times: Furniture Design Drawn from Life (Literally)
Hillary Moss, The New York Times, July 20, 2020