~HENRY CRISSMAN / TURN ONZ, DETROIT / NADA House 404A
TURN ONZ . . . ???
LIVES UP – TO IT’S . . NAME !!!
IRL – ALERT !!!!!!
TURN Onz & NADA House / open today !!
Sunday July 25 !!
NYC !! – HIT THE ‘GO’ BUTTON, & JUMP ON THAT FERRY – !!!
note: next weekend is the last chance to catch this amazing / creative endeavor /
NADA House / Governors Island . . . up thru – AUG 1st !!
HENRY CRISSMAN – LIGHT SWITCH for: TURN ONZ, Detroit !!
curated by JEFFREY TRANCHELL / NADA House 404A /
HENRY CRISSMAN, Light Switch, 2021.
ceramic.
my daughter Kate, a classic millennial ‘creative’ / and therefore, a post-modern, mid-century, minimalist-loving fashion & style / design professional . . . literally let out an audible gasp, when we turned a corner, and she caught sight of Henry Crissman’s – minimalist, architectural, sculptural, and very very smooth – light switch !!
she said she had seen it online, but wondered what it was going to look like – IRL !!!!
needless to say – she . . . . . WAS NOT DISAPPOINTED !!!!
HENRY CRISSMAN, TURN Onz – light switch, 2021.
if only,
the world worked this way – in general.
so smooth, so calm, yet passionate. innovative, yet quite functional. a touch of emotion.
a big punch of . . determinism !!
problem-solving in a peaceful arc / nothing brutal about it, though perhaps ‘brute’ leaning, in that classic modernist sense.
a great contrast to the historic house, for sure. the presence of an artist – at work, for sure.
HENRY CRISSMAN – IMAGE VIA SELECT 2019 OBJECTS – HENRY CRISSMAN
HENRY JAMES HAVER CRISSMAN . . .
has a BFA in CRAFT / College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI / MICHIGAN (2012),
and, received his MFA in CERAMICS, Alfred University, NY, in 2015.
currently based in Hamtramck, MI (essentially Detroit), Crissman is currently an adjunct professor in the CRAFTS & MATERIALS STUDIES DEPT / College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI.
see: SELECT 2019 OBJECTS / HENRY CRISSMAN ARTIST PORTFOLIO WEBSITE
HENRY CRISSMAN – IMAGE VIA HENRY JAMES HAVER CRISSMAN / ARTIST PORTFOLIO WEBSITE
see: HENRY JAMES HAVER CRISSMAN / ARTIST PORTFOLIO WEBSITE
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH / UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED