Material Lust

04/06/2020

A look inside the Material Lust loft in Soho, New York with 1stdibs shot just a few days before New York shut down.

The Roman god Janus had two faces, which let him cover more ground, looking to the past and the future at once. The inventive New York–based design duo of Christian Lopez Swafford and Lauren Larson have two separate lines, one artsy and one practical, for similar reasons: It gives them the ability...

01/22/2020

ON VIEW NOW
SITE131 presents WHOLE CLOTH
ML, WU JINAN’AN and BRIAN SCOTT CAMPBELL
01112020 - 03212020
SITE131 c/o 131 PAYNE STREET DALLAS, TX 75207

08/15/2019

SEPTEMBER ISSUE
Architectural Digest's style issue gets the exclusive on YEAR SIX / PHASE VI as a studio. Big thank you to Hannah Martin and Amy Astley of AD.

08/13/2019

Material Lust meets the Hamptons
Thank you Architectural Digest!

From museum shows to lecture series and gallery openings, there’s a bevy of art to be enjoyed out east

08/13/2019

INDEX CARD
MATERIAL LUST (American, b.1981,1986)
PHASE VI MMXIX

08/13/2019

MATERIAL LUST (American, b.1981,1986)

Christian Lopez Swafford, (b. 1981, Washington, D.C.) work reconciles the traditional lyricality of European and Amerindian aesthetics with the pragmatism of the Information Age. Combining disparate styles and histories is a practice at which he is expressly adept. Raised in Washington, D.C., he spe...

08/13/2019

EDSEL WILLIAMS presents INTERVENTION
MAYNARD MONROW WITH MATERIAL LUST
EAST HAMPTON, NY

THE FIREPLACE PROJECT in East Hampton, New York, is a contemporary art gallery. They are located in the former Talmage garage at 851 Springs Fireplace Road, in the Springs historic district across from the Pollock-Krasner house. They feature solo exhibitions, curated group exhibitions, and artists’ projects. They are a project space and therefore non-traditional in our approach. They do not represent artists, They present artists. Helmet Lang, Cindy Sherman, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge are just a few icons Edsel has shown in his project space. The Fireplace Project is directed by Edsel Williams.

08/13/2019

Debuting at INDEPENDENT March 2019 a part of their special projects as an incubator for unrepresented young artists.

Phase six focuses on the steady influx of external and internal oppression on our populace, and the way that oppression and society’s reaction to it manifest in our built environment. ML has identified pressures and stresses that we have labeled as oppression. The internal includes our declining mental health and degrading quality of life, as well as incurable diseases and the effect of aging on the body. Return of the Oppressed shows how the oppressors, the populace, and our protective skins manifest in the built environment through a series of sculptures, reliefs and paintings. ML has included modern materials such as rubber, latex and plastic as well as old world forms and materials like hardwood, plaster and steel. The nesting forms are arranged in a way that infers protection, and a sense of armoring oneself. Much of the work is purposely stalled in a prototype stage of development in order to add layers without losing the texture of the original form.

05/31/2019

Material Lust in conversation with the MAD | Museum of Arts and Design about the punk scene graphics curated by Andrew Blauvelt director of the Cranbrook Art Museum.

The S*x Pistols, the Ramones, the Cramps, the Clash — bands like these are synonymous with punk. But music was only one part of this 1970s movement, which was defined by youth, rough and fast-paced sounds and antiauthoritarian, anti-commercial attitudes. From its inception, punk was deeply intertw...

03/12/2019

Check out the latest Cultured Magazine featuring the artist Okwui Okpokwasili immersed and entangled in our work in our soho loft captured by Naima Green.

“Okwui Okpokwasili has been a wicked daughter; a bedraggled, long-limbed ballerina in love with a race car; the proprietor of a remote saloon; and the devil herself.” - Cultured Magazine

Combining dance, theater and installation, MacArthur “Genius” Okwui Okpokwasili dips into the past, subtly elucidating its bearing on the present.

03/11/2019

How to spend it during .

"A treat awaits: Material Lust has taken over with their bodily furniture. Debuting a new collection that deals in latex and snaking wood forms, the New York based duo make their first appearance at the fair with treasure in tow. Our favorite buy is ML19001 (2019), which can be pulled apart and put back together again—maybe when the frenzy is over." - Cultured Magazine

The fair doors haven’t even opened and we're already shopping. We scoured Independent previews to bring you a list of 7 affordable works to nab on the fair floor. Let the games begin.

03/11/2019

How to spend it during .

"A treat awaits: Material Lust has taken over with their bodily furniture. Debuting a new collection that deals in latex and snaking wood forms, the New York based duo make their first appearance at the fair with treasure in tow. Our favorite buy is ML19001 (2019), which can be pulled apart and put back together again—maybe when the frenzy is over." - Cultured Magazine

The fair doors haven’t even opened and we're already shopping. We scoured Independent previews to bring you a list of 7 affordable works to nab on the fair floor. Let the games begin.