Artist Misha Kahn’s Sunset Park studio is home to robots and a night possum. DHWendyGoodman reports
Misha Kahn. Photo: Wendy Goodman Misha Kahn’s Sunset Park studio is next to a big transformer grid in a squat, still thoroughly industrial part of the city where he moved his operation two years ago from Bushwick. A broker “showed me a bunch of cool spaces and then he said he’d show me a sort of curveball, but it was really cheap,” he says. There’s no AT&T mobile service inside, so I had to knock forcefully to get his attention to let me in.
Right now, his works include glass tondi: circular sculptures he refers to as “portals.” He is also working a lot in clay and has some very out-of-this-world, comfy-looking upholstered pieces. “This thing over here is really psycho; it’s in progress,” Kahn says. It looks like a hulking sea monster that crawled out of the harbor and found refuge in the studio. He created the form in VR, then the robot carved it, then they draped it with clay. “So in the end, I think, it will read as all mosaic when we finish grouting all of it.” What’s it going to be for? “Although I am dabbling in dark arts of nonfunctional things, this one is going to be a dresser, so there are drawers in it.
The machine has expedited the execution of Kahn’s designs. “It’s made the process very fluid,” he says. “I can draw something and then it carves it..” We next step into a room with a sunken dining and work area below, with a large window overlooking the maze of the transformer.
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