Assembling pieces of the natural and manufactured worlds, Ian Pedigo constructs sculptural balances of disparate materials. Some of his newest creations are on view in his solo show Cosmopolitan Sleep Positions at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery on the Lower East Side.
 
It seems a little bit like the New York–based, Alaska-born artist is playing exquisite corpse with his materials. In the especially balanced “Waiting Deaf for the Untamed” (2014), dual pigeon feathers propped up on pine cones connect to the severed back of a chair, which curves up into deer rib bones that sway forward with the furniture. The feathers appear again in “Herald of Breathlessness” (2014), where they fly up from the jagged form of a found wood shard. Pedigo has been experimenting with this collage of materials for a while, with previous exhibitions at Klaus von Nichtssagend including Accumulations of Matter in 2010 and Dawn Goes by Round the Neck in 2011. Read More