""They're a bit embryonic," he says, inspecting the specimens that have covered his worktables since he opened a studio in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, this past summer. A spiraling partition table lamp, a pyramid-shaped pendant, and assorted amoeba-like forms are all made using variations of that original ad hoc technique, wherein Cherry stretches everyday fabric (early experiments were made using discarded packages of pantyhose scored from a Walmart dumpster) over some framework before hardening it with coats of resin."
"Cherry, who was born in Chicago, also maintains a home and studio in Los Angeles, where he moved during the early days of the pandemic. There, he might use found shells in a piece, or mix sand into the resin. But in Brooklyn, his material palette has expanded, incorporating piano wire scavenged from the street or twigs collected in Central Park to make the interior skeletons."
James Cherry designed his first light fixture in 2019 in a cramped New York City apartment, wrapping torn boxer fabric around a clay armature and hardening it with resin. That initial experiment launched a practice focused on ethereal, handmade lamps made by stretching everyday fabrics over frameworks. Cherry produces spiraling partition table lamps, pyramid-shaped pendants, and amoeba-like forms, often using found or scavenged materials such as pantyhose, cedar balls as joints, piano wire, twigs, shells, and sand mixed into resin. Cherry maintains studios in Brooklyn and Los Angeles and adapts his material palette to local resources.
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