Jonathan Odom

Socrates Sculpture Park produced this series of fifty ratchet strap chairs, designed by Jonathan Odom, to celebrate the park as both a social space and a place for making. Open Seating is both an amenity for park visitors and a platform for community building.

The Open Seating project highlights Socrates Sculpture Park as a social space, as well as a place of relaxation and leisure. Blueprinted by Jonathan Odom for open design DIY website Instructables and painted by volunteers, staff and youth participants in the park’s education programs, the project resonates with the culture of making embedded at Socrates. Dispersed throughout the park, the chairs create a platform for visitor interaction and underscore the park as a communal, restorative, public space.

Catalogue

Marking Socrates Sculpture Park’s 30th anniversary this year, the institution presents LANDMARK, a series of artist commissions and projects that transforms the land both physically and symbolically. Once an industrial landfill and illegal dumping ground, Socrates has transformed itself into New York City’s preeminent sculpture park and social space for public art, community engagement and urban discovery. LANDMARK directly addresses the idea of place as intimately tied to social and ecological structures, to maintenance and stewardship, and to evolution over time.

View the exhibition catalogue free online HERE>>>, a print version is not available.