Vincent Pocsik
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© Vincent Pocsik. Photo by Dominic Rawle.
Vincent Pocsik’s giants reflect the trichotomy of man, machine, and nature. Sometimes they are at odds with one another; other times, in harmony. It is this tension that influences Pocsik’s sculptural furniture—the supernatural, sometimes grotesque anatomies that emerge are caught in the ongoing negotiation of dominance between these three elements. Nature is still calming and seductively provocative to this city-kid designer, which he says he cannot hope to replicate; wood remains Pocsik's material of choice because it is beautiful to begin with. When designing his forms, Pocsik starts with a sketch and then uses an animation software he learned in architecture school to augment the designs, which get sent to a CNC machine to be cut in blocks, and then assembled and finished by hand.
Though the designer leaves traces of the mill bit on the surface of the wood, he does not want the digital fabrication component to be fetishized. Rather, it is the underlaying and overlaying of all different inputs that make the work singular. Pocsik has no immediate plans to disrupt this process and feels he is just digging into his visual language. “Diligence is important. The lamps are growing, and I’m learning about them. They are characters and aliens trying to figure out the metaphysical idea of being. When you focus on something for a really long time, it becomes part of you.”
B. 1985, Cleveland, OH
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
FL593
Vincent Pocsik, Standing with One Oxford in Blue Maple, 2024, Dyed maple, aluminum, resin, and lighting elements. Courtesy of the artist, photography by R & Company.