These L.A. artists and furniture makers are blurring the lines between art and design and garnering high-profile fans along the way
These seven Los Angeles creatives are shaking up and sometimes blurring the lines between art and design with innovative seating, lighting, and (sometimes anthropomorphic) storage solutions.
Vincent Pocsik
Growing up in blue-collar Cleveland, Vincent Pocsik remembers his father crafting a canoe (that he never actually put into the water). So when a creative consultant in the Arts District approached him a few years ago about making some furniture for his office, he accepted the challenge on one condition: I do it my way. In the years since, his hand-tooled, anthropomorphic walnut lamps and totems sprouting ears, legs and hands have been shown around Los Angeles by John Wolf, Kyle DeWoody, and West Hollywood’s M+B gallery. Now, a giant eight-by-eight foot cabinet for curiosities in the shape of his head Pocsik-sized legs is the star of Cabinet Is Me, Pocsik's New York solo debut—also featuring a “listening wall” and a two-tiered dining table supported by what appears to be a hip bone—up through December 16 with Shanghai’s Objective Gallery. “I think of it as a sculpture,” says Pocsik. “Where the function is part of the art.” vincentpocsik.com
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