First Friday Opening for Cinders: Burned, Scorched, and Pyrographed Works in Wood | Fri. May 2, 2025 | 5:00 – 8:00 pm ET | In-person
Walk-ups Welcome
Cinders: Burned, Scorched, and Pyrographed Works in Wood, curated by Assistant Curator Amrut Mishra, presents artworks that revel in the incendiary properties of wood as a medium. Illustrated across twenty-six objects by twenty-two artists and largely drawn from the Museum’s permanent collection, Cinders delves into the enigmatic tension between permanence and fragility that materializes in fire-treated wood.
Installed in the gallery of the Fleur and Charles Bresler Research Library at the Museum for Art in Wood, this exhibition presents works of installation, sculpture, and woodturning that experiment with the generative possibilities of fire. From the delicate surface decorations of pyrography to the sensual sheen of scorching, Cinders invites visitors to consider the creative but fraught threshold before combustion.
Please join us for the opening!
Fri. May 2nd
5:00 – 8:00 pm
Remarks at 6:30 pm
Artists:
Steve Bishop
Christian Burchard
Miriam Carpenter
Gaynor Dowling
Melissa Engler
Ashley Eriksmoen
Amy Forsyth
Giles Gilson
Morgan Hill
Todd Hoyer
Katie Hudnall
Malcom Martin
Dennis Mueller
Jim Partridge
Andrew Potocnik
Graeme Priddle
Betty Scarpino
Jack Slentz
Hayley Smith
Michaela Crie Stone
Nucharin Wangphongsawasd
John H. Williams
Cinders: Burned, Scorched, and Pyrographed Works in Wood is generously supported by the Cambium Giving Society of the Museum for Art in Wood, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The Bresler Foundation, The Klorfine Foundation, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Philadelphia Cultural Fund, and Windgate Foundation.
