God's True Cashmere Customized Hat

Josh Sperling (b. 1984, Oneonta, New York), lives and works in Ithaca, New York. He draws on the language of minimalist painting from the 1960s and 1970s, working with shaped canvases and functional design. In his fine art practice, Sperling reduces architectural motifs to their most limited vocabularies. He crafts intricate plywood supports over which canvas is stretched and painted in a signature palette of saturated, sometimes clashing colors. His works blur the lines between painting and sculpture, image and object. In Sperling’s furniture design, he turns his references volte-face, looking to his artworks and then adding a layer of utility and function. Mining a wide range of sources, from design to art history, Sperling has crafted a unique visual vocabulary remarkable for its expressive quality and irrepressible energy.

A portion of the proceeds from this sale will go in support of Loaves and Fishes Inc.