About the Artist
Newton, Massachusetts
Aspen Golann is a furniture maker, artist and educator whose work explores gender and power through the manipulation of iconic American furniture forms. Trained as seventeenth- to nineteenth-century woodworker, she mines the intersections of sexuality, identity, decorative arts and contemporary craft in a range of works including fine furniture and sculpture.
In 2020 Aspen founded The Chairmakers Toolbox—a project intending to increase access and equity in the field of chairmaking. She is published in The New York Times, Architectural Digest, Fine Woodworking, and American Craft, and exhibits internationally. She teaches at Rhode Island School of Design and holds a degree from The North Bennet Street School.
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Artist Statement
Aspen co-built In the Garden Settee with Greg Pennington at his shop in Hendersonville, Tennessee. Her bench references a style of furniture associated with nineteenth-century Connecticut maker Lambert Hitchcock, who often used interchangeable parts and stenciled gold designs on painted backgrounds. Aspen’s fresh take on this style incorporates personal elements like images of her own hands.