58 DIGS.NET
| 7.23.2021
P R O F I L E | I A N F E LT O N
Like many others, Felton experienced new challenges with
the pandemic and decided to take the opportunity to change the
environment in which he lived. "During my quarantine time, I was
on a friend's farm upstate, really rehabilitating myself from, you
know, being a New Yorker," he smiles. "I spent my days picking
the food we would cook, reading, drawing, hiking and dirt biking
on the property. After I fully settled, I really got back in touch with
my sculpting roots. The first collection I produced in 2019 had
to be extremely intentional to uncover the start of a language and
a process. Now with the time to step away from the daily grind, I
sort of combined the essence of my first body of work with a much
more natural and in-the-moment kind of process, listening to the
material and helping to personify this object that was already
there, somehow trying to come into the world."
Felton started to work with wood again and experimented, too.
"Over the last year and a half, I've been trying to perfect glazing
lava stone with a process similar to ceramics glazing," he says.
"I've been able to turn a very utilitarian material into this really
intriguing substance like coral under water — color possibilities
are infinite." In July, Felton debuted a collection of the glazed
lava stone pieces with Unno Gallery at Nomad Circle, a collectors'
only art fair in St Moritz, Switzerland. This series, along with a few
new works, will be showcased with Unno Gallery as well, during a
satellite show of Supersalone in Milan in September. Around the
fall, Felton will present a new body of work with his close friends,
designer Olivier Garcé and architect Clio Dimofski in Portugal,
while a few interior design projects in Los Angeles and New York,
and several commissions across the country will also keep him
busy in the coming months.
ianfeltonstudio.com
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