Olo of the Sun to feature in the Museum of Arts and Design 'Against the Grain' exhibition

Museum of Arts and Design 'Against the Grain' exhibition:

I've been invited to participate in this 2012 exhibition which will be running in Charlotte North Carolina for 4 months and then in New York City for a further 4 months. I'm sending the 19 foot 'Olo of the Sun'.

The invitation described the inclusion of a Roy Stewart surfboard as "greatly contributing to the message of the exhibition and an essential addition to the project"

Here's a description of the event from the assistant curator:

"Against the Grain: Wood in Contemporary Art, Craft and Design, curated by Lowery Stokes Sims. This project focuses on some of the most interesting conceptual and technical trends in wood working over the last decades. It will include approximately 80 objects by artists, craftsmen and sculptors presented together in a provocative ways that beg the questions of genre divisions in art.

The exhibition proceeds from the premise that Wood is the most modernist of materials and has functioned as a medium of virtuosity and functional elegance, while providing a direct experience of the material and its particular qualities. Over the last three decades, however, creators have used modernist expectations as platforms from which to launch creative approaches that strained the protocols of woodworking. Vessel forms have been deconstructed; furniture has played with the relationship between function and form; and sculpture has co-opted the techniques and forms of woodturning and furniture. Against the Grain focuses on work created since 2000 that demonstrate how these developments in woodworking exemplify postmodernism with the intention of providing fresh thinking about the medium of wood. "

Needless to say we are super stoked, take that all you naysayers!!

http://www.madmuseum.org/