Dana Barnes & Jerome Abel Seguin

Dana Barnes creates textural and sculptural works, objects, and site-specific architectural installations that are made solely by hand. Her formative years in New York were spent in fashion design for international luxury brands where she honed her skills in textiles. Each piece embodies her deep fascination with materiality, process and experimentation. They come to life in her Lower East Side studio where she devises her own methods and tools to produce the three-dimensional forms. Using innovative wet bonding processes, woolen and exotic fiber masses are fused with contrasting elements, like copper, resin, clay, concrete, wood, and, recently, antique knotted Persian carpets, to form abstract compositions that defy convention and challenge the notion of material. Barnes’s works aspire to evoke a deep visceral and physical connection, and it can be found in privation collections worldwide.

French artist Jerome Abel Seguin has lived in Indonesia for over 25 years. His work gives shape to large native wood species highlighting the natural heft of the material. His latest collection, “Archipelago: Wood, Stone, Iron” celebrated ironwood and iron wall furniture salvaged from scrap metal and machine parts, inspired by handmade ikat textiles from the Flores and Sumba islands in Indonesia. His Suiseki river stone sculptures are shaped over centuries by river currents, and collected by Seguin around Java, and prized for their position between art and nature. He joined RALPH PUCCI in 2000.