The Wabi Sabi Lounge was exhibited at Smalter Arts in Kansas City in 2023.

This installation featured work made in KC that’s in the Color in Distress tradition combined with furniture made from antique table parts and 80 year-old refrigerator doors that I put holes in with a shotgun.

The short video above gives you a view of the installation, and on this page are shots of the individual pieces.

The Wabi Sabi Lounge is both a functioning social space as well as a grouping of my work; to create an environment where you could sit down with these artworks and feel the patina of time; appreciate the subtle beauty in the tired wood and worn metal.

The colored lights offer the relaxing hues of mid-century beer signs in our memory.

A smaller version of this installation now functions as a relaxing lounge for the studio artists at Agnes Arts in KC.

Take a moment to settle into the old, comfy chairs, and find yourself somewhere in between The Ship and Max’s Kansas City.