To the distinction between furniture and sculpture, Luke Malaney pays little mind. Trained under a classical Roman woodworker, his scrupulous works serve as new models for old-world techniques. Traditional craft in unchartered waters.

Nature is revered and architecture is something to be negotiated with; the legacy of many months spent hiking in the wilderness and the permanent side effect of a lifetime of skateboarding. Unbridled painters, old hockey sticks and his emboldened Mother — for inspiration, the New York-based artist goes nowhere and finds it everywhere.

Likening his process to the rodeo, predictably unpredictable, each work is an act of discovery and the product of countless considerations. While functionality and endurance may be the only hard-and-fast rules of his methods for making, the result brings a pause. A kind of beauty that makes your head tilt.

Brooklyn, New York

For inquiries regarding pricing, commission work and/or collaborations feel free to send an email to lukemalaney@gmail.com