Artist Joshua Abarbanel in Conversation with Curator of the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art

Artist Joshua Abarbanel joins Lauren Rogers Museum of Art's Curator of Collections and Exhibitions Kristen Miller Zohn for a conversation about his work and the museum's exhibition, "Improving Nature: Engineered Wood in Art & Design." The exhibition is part of an ongoing series that uses the strengths of the Museum’s collection and Laurel’s history to make connections to contemporary art and was inspired by the 100th anniversary of the invention of Masonite in Laurel in 1924. Designers and artists have utilized wood technologies like laminating and steam bending to produce shapes and forms that nature cannot, often adding cutting-edge processes to their practice. Abarbanel produces works using state-of-the-art digital tools and the hand-built construction of plywood. His complex works feature forms and patterns that are suggestive of biological, botanical, geological, and mechanical systems.