A Little Table, 2002
Walnut
Lent by the artist
A little table—not a lot. –GP
Peteran has said that the single joint titled A Little Table is “just approaching a structure that might be a table.” Neat moldings run down three edges, but there is no difference between these “outside” faces and those on the “interior” of this perfectly finished, beautifully made conundrum. The piece is at the intersection between furniture and sculpture, willfully refusing to land in either one camp or the other.
100, 1996
Machined bronze, ebony, custom-built oak and leather case
Lent by Sylvia and Garry Knox Bennett
I employ the kinds of things I can control to pursue the things that elude me. –GP
The directive behind this piece was to try and capture the essence of furniture: to capture the history, structural substance, and poetry of the object in a more vital, gestural way. Standing in the neutral territory between the revered and the rejected, this table relies heavily on the individual’s recollection of furniture—specifically, the classical D-shaped or demilune tables—as well as their recollection of . . . junk. –GP