BEN MEDANSKY (b. 1988, Arizona)

Ben Medansky is a Los Angeles based sculptor. Medansky received his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His work has been featured in countless publications including, Architectural Digest, Surface Magazine and The New York Times Style Magazine. Most recently Medansky has exhibited at The Landing Gallery, LA, Fisher Parrish, NYC and The American Museum of Ceramic Art. Medansky’s work is part of the permanent collection at LACMA. He has also created a number of large scale installations for designer Kelly Wearstler.

Medansky's work is influenced by Brutalist and Modern architecture as well as industrial design. He utilizes repetitive forms, radial symmetry and grid patterns to experiment with the visual language of technology and industrial aesthetics. Fascinated by space exploration, his hand crafted ceramic works challenge notions of balance, engineering, technology and progress. Medansky appropriates shapes and patterns employed by the mechanical world; acting as an experiment mimicking strong forms out of a fragile material, creating patterns that while derived from modern life echo a tribal energy. The output is a meditation on minimalism and mechanics, re-mastered in earthen and eternal material.