Volume Gallery

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.

Terumi Saito, installation image from her show Interweaving - Fiber and Clay. In her pieces, materials arch and wrap around one another, delicate silk is woven against pronounced hemp rope, while hand-formed ceramic is intertwined with textile in dynamic conversation. With conscientious attention to composition and color, small moves like shifts in scale, gradations of hues, curving protrusions, and carefully chosen material contrasts have great impact. The result is formally compelling and warmly human in scale, honoring living traditions while interconnecting them in refreshing ways.

Aluminum Shelf, presented in Jonathan Muecke’s current show is the combination of 2 types of extruded aluminum, Flat Bar and an Oval Extrusion. The configuration presented is 29.5H x 144W x 12D inches, but that is only one of several dimensions this piece can assume. . . . Jonathan Muecke Aluminum Shelf, 2026 Aluminum 29.5h x 144w x 12d inches

Matt Paweski Seed with Handle, 2024 Aluminum, aluminum rivets, vinyl paint 9.25h x 10.25w x 6.25d inches

Installation image from our 2021 show with Jonathan Muecke. Pictured L-R: . . . WB (Wood Block) White Oak 17H x 12.75W x 13.5D inches . . . FS (Flat Shape) Aluminum 49.5H x 37.5W in frame . . . PS (Painted Shape) Wood, mineral paint 35H x 28W x 28D inches

Arina Erdélyi, a descendant of European lacemakers, uses ancestral and historic lace trimmings to impress patterns into clay slabs, which she hand-forms into sculptural vignettes. The black-glazed surfaces and warm light of each lamp evoke intimate interiors and fabric-covered furniture in preserved or abandoned rooms. . . . Pictured: Arina Erdélyi Table for Twelve (Round), 2026 Glazed stoneware, raw silk shade, and lighting hardware 13.75h x 15.5w x 14d inches

Jonathan Muecke WS (Wood Stack), 2024 White oak 21h x 21w x 21d inches 53.3h x 53.3w x 53.3d cm Unique

Still a few more weeks to catch Christy Matson, Field Guide (a two person show with Sarah Blaustein) at Library Street Collective AND Anders Ruhwald, Alkali Shift right next door at Louis Buhl. Go to Detroit!

Jonathan Muecke CTC5 (Carbon Tube Chair 5), 2026 Carbon fiber 29.5h x 17.5w x 17.25d inches

Terumi Saito Nestled, 2026 Hand-dyed silk, natural dyes (kihada, cochineal), hemp, jute, wood, and metal wire 37h x 26wx 1.5d inches

What does Porfirio Gutierrez’s work have in common with the new David Geffen Galleries at LACMA (outside of the works in their permanent collection)? Architect Peter Zumthor saw Gutierrez’s work in We Live in Painting: The Nature of Color in Mesoamerican Art and after seeing these pigments said “That is what I want”.

Jonathan Muecke’s new show is on now at the gallery. 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