VOLUME GALLERY

Last day alert! Jonathan Muecke has evolved a practice that resists standard divisions among design, art, and architecture, instead focusing on refined forms that investigate notions of positive and negative space, positional relationships, and the innate desire to read notions of functionality into objects that relate to human scale. He studied architecture at Iowa State and with the architectural office of Herzog & de Meuron in Basel, Switzerland, before studying design at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. In 2014 he was awarded the architectural pavilion commission from Design Miami and in 2015 he was awarded a USA Knight Fellowship. His first collection with Knoll debuted in 2025. Muecke’s works are in the collections of several museums including The Museum of Arts and Design in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Centre National des Arts Plastiques in Paris, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Montreal, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, and the Vitra Design Museum in Germany. Recent museum exhibitions include Jonathan Muecke: Objects in Sculpture at The Art Institute of Chicago and Constellations & Affinities: Selections from the Cranbrook Collection at The Cranbrook Art Museum.
Pictured:
Bench, 2026
Canvas, steel, wool, and foam
21.5h x 72w x 24d inches

Selva Aparicio
The Roots, 2023
Black sugar maple roots and wood, dandelion seeds
22” x 28” x 13”
The root of the original black sugar maple from the Edith Farnsworth House studded with dandelion seeds. The tree, which inspired Mies van der Rohe’s placement of the home and witnessed over sixty years of family visits, restorations, and changes of ownership before succumbing to flooding and illness in 2013, is imbued with the hope and potential of hundreds of dandelion seeds. Together with its handcrafted frame (made of the same historic wood), the piece represents a new afterlife and legacy for the remains of a prominent piece of the local landscape.