The father of the American Art Furniture movement’s later woodworks, completed between 2011 and 2015, signaled his return to biomorphism, the style he experimented with in the 1960s and ‘70s. After a prolific career spanning nearly five decades, Castle revisited the technique of carving into stacked laminate wood and fiberglass to create the elongated, organic forms of the works featured, which also span materials like steel, bronze, and nickel. They played a critical role in Castle’s practice by showing how materials influence structure and form.

Photography by Benjamin Baccarini, courtesy of Carpenters Workshop Gallery