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If you're one of the many, many people who have always wanted to ask us the same million dollar question — how do we decide who to feature on Sight Unseen? — pay attention, because we're answering it here today. First things first, we feature people and things we like, it's as simple as that. More complex is how we find those people and things. Some of our biggest sources are Instagram, exhibitions we attend, and submission emails we receive. But not too long ago, we found another source that's an endless wellspring for discovering new names in art and design: Cargo.
09.30.16
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In a New Show, Thaddeus Wolfe Takes Glass in an Unexpected Direction
Thaddeus Wolfe's new show at Volume Gallery, while still preoccupied with glass as a totemic, assembled structure, adds a new element into the mix. Inspired by the interplay of light as it's filtered through glass, Wolfe decided to incorporate neon as another way to explore the interaction between the two.
09.17.15
Excerpt: Exhibition
James Hyde’s Varieties of Useful Experience at Volume Gallery
He just opened a sprawling solo show at the Chicago design gallery Volume, but if you're not familiar with the work of James Hyde — or at least not to the degree of other Volume alums like Jonathan Nesci, Tanya Aguiñiga, or Stephen Burks — you're not alone. And in fact, that's kind of the point: Hyde, who began his career in New York in the '70s, is a painter, and even when his works take the form of sofas or lamps, they remain squarely in the realm of art.