‘The Odd Couple’ – a new exhibition at the New York City design gallery Superhouse –brings together over a dozen works created since the 1980s that exist somewhere between sculpture and useful objects.
It’s bookended by a pitch-black 1980 Howard Meister chair with a narrow five-foot-tall back and a 2024 Ellen Pong seat composed of a repurposed birch mould and ceramic tile. Between them are a 1989 Alex Locadia light sculpture made from resin and copper that hides a jewellery box, a 2005 two-person rocking chair by the studio woodworker Tom Loeser, and more. It’s surprisingly hard to distinguish which pieces come from which decade – a testament to the radical forms each artist has created.
