Here, we ask designers to take a selfie and give us an inside look at their life.
Age: 50
Occupation: Artist.
Instagram: @carmendapollonio
Hometown: Zürich.
Studio location: Los Angeles.
Describe what you make: Sculptures. Mostly ceramic, but sometimes not. Usually a lamp, but sometimes not.
The most important thing you’ve designed to date: The working process is the most important part to me.
Describe the problem your work solves: Creating light in the dark tunnel.
Describe the project you are working on now: With my latest pieces, I’ve been trying some recent ideas on a much larger scale. For example, I made a piece that was 15 inches tall and then tried to take the same figuration to make it four feet. Once you start scaling up in ceramics, everything becomes much more challenging and you’re really fighting with the materials.
A new or forthcoming project we should know about: I’m present “Hallo It’s Me Again,” a solo show at Friedman Benda in Los Angeles, from May 16 through June 29.
What you absolutely must have in your studio: Cigarettes and coffee.
What you do when you’re not working: Knit sweaters, hand stitching, and embroidery.
Sources of creative envy: I don’t know about envy, but there are plenty of artists who inspire and excite me. Lately Lee Lozano’s paintings, Simone Fattal and Jacques Lipchitz ceramics. Dagobert Peche was a designer whose work I love. The list could go on and on.
The distraction you want to eliminate: My dog bugging me for table food.
Concrete or marble? Marble.
High-rise or townhouse? High-rise.
Remember or forget? Forget.
Aliens or ghosts? Ghosts.
Dark or light? Light.
