Group Exhibition
Curated by
Steven Skov Holt & Mara Holt Skov
Museum of Contemporary Craft
Portland, OR
August 28, 2008 – January 4, 2009
Artists: Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir, Boris Ball,y Harriete Estel Berman, Boym Partners, Jerry Bleem, Cat Chow, Sonya Clark, Mitra Fabian, Livia Marin, Régis Mayot, Jason Rogenes, Devorah Sperber, Laura Splan, Marcel Wanders, Dominic Wilcox
Photography Courtesy of
Museum of Contemporary Craft
Manuf®actured: The Conspicuous Transformation of Everyday Objects introduces a provocative new class of objects emerging from the permeable edges of art, craft and design. The exhibition highlights works from fifteen international artists who appropriate manufactured products to create sculptural works and installations of all sizes and scales. Rather than transform a single natural material, the artists on view employ a variety of pristine goods culled directly from manufacturers and store shelves as their raw materials. Nevertheless, each piece exhibits craft's time-honored, labor-intensive repetitive processes as a strategy for object-making.