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<\/p>\nIn the hands of Chris Wolston, even the most ordinary object \u2014 a chair, lamp or credenza \u2014 becomes something more whimsical, playful and quirky. <\/p>\n
The artist has built a stellar reputation in the design world for his anthropomorphic rattan chairs (complete with bums and feet). Yet the array of pieces on display in his first solo museum show at Dallas Contemporary reveals there\u2019s much more to his oeuvre. <\/p>\n
Displayed across four catwalks, reminiscent of a fashion show or drag ball, are sculpted chairs in terra-cotta adorned with metal insects, a bronze coffee table cast from leaves found in the artist\u2019s garden and chairs inspired by the gestural limbs of supermodels. Handwoven carpets from Morocco on the walls are interspersed with video works highlighting Wolston\u2019s process filmed by his husband, the filmmaker David Sierra. Together, they recall a fantasy world of objects both functional and sculptural. <\/p>\n
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\u201cI always find that through humor, there\u2019s an interesting entry point for people \u2014 it breaks down a barrier,” says artist Chris Wolston. “And I was always drawn to furniture as a medium because it\u2019s accessible, it\u2019s egalitarian.\u201d <\/p>\n
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By signing up, you agree to our\u00a0Terms of Service<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n Wolston has been walking the tightrope between craft and art with a humorous twist since he made his first terra-cotta chairs in 2014. Drawn to the relationship between materiality and everyday life, he naturally embraced furniture as his medium. <\/p>\n \u201cI started working with the (contemporary design gallery) The Future Perfect, and then we started doing these body chairs for a chair show,\u201d he says. \u201cI always find that through humor, there\u2019s an interesting entry point for people \u2014 it breaks down a barrier. And I was always drawn to furniture as a medium because it\u2019s accessible, it\u2019s egalitarian.\u201d <\/p>\n Having initially studied glassmaking at the Rhode Island School of Design, Wolston earned a Fulbright to study pre-Columbian ceramics in Colombia, prompting him to settle his studio in the city of Medell\u00edn. He found his entry point into raw ingredients by working with natural terra-cotta clay found in the mountains surrounding the city, and has since cycled through bronze, rattan, anodized aluminum and shearling. <\/p>\n Curated by Glenn Adamson, former director of the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, Profile in Ecstasy highlights a decade-plus of work that led Wolston to discover the throughlines behind his various collections, whether they be nods to fashion and nature, Spanish modernism or subtle surrealism. <\/p>\n \u201cThese themes that exist in an artist\u2019s practice emerge when a new collection emerges,\u201d Wolston says. \u201cIt\u2019s interesting to see how collections made at different times with totally different materials and thought processes at play resonate with one another.\u201d <\/p>\n Details<\/p>\n Chris Wolston: Profile in Ecstasy is on view at Dallas Contemporary from Nov. 7 through Feb. 1, 2026. <\/p>\n Gov. Greg Abbott has called for Texas counties and cities to remove \u2018political ideologies\u2019 from public roadways, which could result in the removal of rainbow and BLM crosswalks in Dallas.<\/p>\n A collaboration between the Dallas Urby and Nostalgia and Noise shows how two pillars of D-FW life can work in tandem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the hands of Chris Wolston, even the most ordinary object \u2014 a chair, lamp or credenza \u2014…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":359660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,1033,979,8160,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,5548],"class_list":{"0":"post-359659","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-design","11":"tag-galleries","12":"tag-museums","13":"tag-texas","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa","21":"tag-visual-arts"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115502509697025106","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/M6KWSBUL35AI7JZ6R3BAF2A72M.jpg\")
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