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① Artwork:
Loop Hangers
These hangers were born from a frustration with the conventional, flimsy hangers of the artist’s wardrobe. With carved ebonized wooden shoulders and a forged steel frame, they enhance the experience of perusing one’s closet. This special edition of hangers features an inverted loop that can hold a scarf, tie, or additional hanger to form a chain.
Hunt is interested in how living with quotidian objects that feel like sculpture encourages greater care and appreciation for the possessions already in our space. Many of us cherish particular clothing items for sentimental, aesthetic, and personal reasons, so why not use a special hanger to transcend the bland utility of “storage object”?
Mason Hunt designs furniture and household goods that embody an uncanny function and handmade-ness in protest of mass production. His artworks emphatically insist on their appeal as display objects as much as their practicality. Combining humble materials like wood, steel, clay, wax, paper, and sculpted epoxy, he prioritizes elegant connections between dissimilar materials, hoping to make objects one can’t help but want to touch.
③ Artist:
Mason Hunt designs furniture and household goods that embody an uncanny function and handmade-ness in protest of mass production. His artworks emphatically insist on their appeal as display objects as much as their practicality. Combining humble materials like wood, steel, clay, wax, paper, and sculpted epoxy, he prioritizes elegant connections between dissimilar materials hoping to make objects one can’t help but want to touch.
Mason Hunt was born in 2000 in San Francisco, CA, and lives in Brooklyn, NY. He received a BFA from The Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI (2024), where he studied sculpture and art history.
Hunt has participated in group shows at the Flatiron Project Space at SVA in New York, NY; the RISD Museum in Providence, RI; the List Art Center at Brown University in Providence, RI; the Oxbow School in Napa, CA; and elsewhere.
Hunt’s work has been featured in The New York Times and The College Hill Independent.