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Meg — January 26, 2010

Unstuck Time: A Small Stage for Wandering Minds by Leslie Baum

January 16 - February 15, 2015

In 2003 I visited Angkor Wat in Cambodia. The temples and stone sculptures possessed a staggering beauty and scale, but it was the small arrangements of stone rubble at every site that really struck me. I speculated. Perhaps these still-life-like groupings and stone stacks were the work of bored tourists, of wandering minds and wandering hands? A few years later, I encountered something similar in New Mexico: arrangements of pottery shards on the dry earth of Pueblo archeological sites.

Time unsticks in these moments. The ancient slips into the now. The piles, cairns, and mosaic-like images pulsate with intimacy and evidence a deep urge to play and to delight in touch, shape, form, pattern and texture.

Nothing lasts, nothing is finished, nothing is perfect.

This expression, associated with the Japanese aesthetic Wabi Sabi, has a far reach. I believe it encompasses these ever-so-casual tableaus placed by anonymous hands. The arrangements, easily abandoned…

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Canyon Flow by Studio Gang (now at Soho House Chicago)

October 2017

Clutch Gallery is pleased to present "Canyon Flow" by Studio Gang, in collaboration with Chicago Design Museum. Members of Soho House Chicago may borrow the 25-square-inch purse gallery overnight. It can be booked through the club's reception desk.

The dynamic qualities of nature, and the striking forms shaped by natural processes, are an endless source of inspiration for our architecture. From the "vertical topography" of our Aqua Tower in Chicago, with its undulated balconies, to the dramatic, canyon-like spaces of our Gilder Center at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, we are interested in how design can learn from nature to bring people together for meaningful shared experience. The liquid material of concrete often provides the perfect medium for this kind of architectural innovation. Canyon Flow embraces both the physical power of nature's forces and the wonder they inspire, as well as embodying the immersive currents…

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