Body Of Work

Body of Work Presented By Cristina Grajales Gallery At Design Miami/ 2011

Artist Ross Bleckner mentored Sebastian Errazuriz when he was a student in New York University’s MFA program. Since then the two have become close friends and have often talked about creative ideas and concepts. This year at Design Miami/, Cristina Grajales Gallery is showing the first ever collaboration by the duo. It’s a unique piece called Body of Work and it marries Ross Bleckner’s art with Sebastian Errazuriz’s furniture design.

“The work breaks the barriers of art and design. It’s a wonderful convergence of the two,” says Lindsay Johnson with Cristina Grajales Gallery.

Inside a coffee table designed by Sebastian lives four original self portrait paintings by Ross. The coffee table is made with walnut wood and finished with white lacquer. It has a clear glass top through which you can see Ross’s portraits. The coffee table almost looks like Snow White’s glass coffin when you see the paintings inside that depict a corpse like human figure. The first portrait shows Ross naked – almost fully exposed -and in each subsequent portrait more of the human body is covered up. The top portrait shows human eyes peering out of the darkness. The portraits can live stacked in the table or be taken out and hung on the wall. The portrait photographed here is the third layer. The fourth layer is displayed out of the case leaning against the wall in Cristina Grajales’s booth.

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