The Barry Friedman Gallery displays Wendell Castle’s Rockin’ exhibition. Wendell Castle Rockin ‘is a group of stack-laminated wood chair with a unique and beautiful designs. All were created since the critical success of Castle’s 2008 exhibition at Barry Friedman, Ltd. With decades of experience as his backdrop, Castle’s new work is imbued with an animated optimism. While the organic, curvilinear forms of this new collection link it to many of his past masterworks, there is a confidence and quickness of gesture that suggest a new dimensionality. For example, Ghost Rider, a large attenuated rocking chair, illustrates Castle’s ability to intertwine complex technique with bold and graceful lyricism: with the pod-like seat suspended quietly between swooping legs, it is a calm in a storm of motion.

A long note of praise, fellowship, and the acquisition by the public institutions still provide Wendell Castle’s work is of historic importance can not be erased. His unification of sculpture and furniture innovative galvanized generations of artists and designers and contributed to the acceptance of design as an art form in itself. But at every stage, Puri has endeavored to incorporate innovations in materials and design, while deepening and, sometimes, re-inventing his own vocabulary of sculptures. From his iconic Molar Chair (1969) to Faust (2009), Castle’s work has often reflected sociological and cultural developments in pop culture, film and music. At the ages of 77, Wendell Castle is at the height of his career and creativity. Recently, contemporary works have been aquired by major museums including: the Museum of Fine Arts (Houston, TX); Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institutions (New York, NY): Brooklyn Museum (Brooklyn, NY); and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, MO).

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