Max Lamb
'Elements'
Showcasing numerous objects in a range of materials, including metal, stone, wood, polystyrene, and textile, Elements highlights Max Lamb’s versatility as a designer and the thoroughness of his exploration across mediums. Lamb’s boundless creative practice has become one of the most well-regarded of his generation, noted for his ceaseless inventiveness. The forthrightness of his work — and the efficiency of the methods through which he creates it — at times belies his extremely nuanced problem-solving and the meaningful ways he confronts some of the most complex challenges of our era. While the exhibition organizes these works by material to highlight the range and depth of his work, the slippages between each category demonstrate the overarching ethos of an artist who is guided by an unparalleled inquisitiveness that unifies his approach.
Showcasing numerous objects in a range of materials, including metal, stone, wood, polystyrene, and textile, Elements highlights Max Lamb’s versatility as a designer and the thoroughness of his exploration across mediums. Lamb’s boundless creative practice has become one of the most well-regarded of his generation, noted for his ceaseless inventiveness. The forthrightness of his work — and the efficiency of the methods through which he creates it — at times belies his extremely nuanced problem-solving and the meaningful ways he confronts some of the most complex challenges of our era. While the exhibition organizes these works by material to highlight the range and depth of his work, the slippages between each category demonstrate the overarching ethos of an artist who is guided by an unparalleled inquisitiveness that unifies his approach.
About the artist
Max Lamb (b. 1980, St. Austell, Cornwall, England) lives and works in London. Lamb’s works are collected by numerous public institutions around the world, including the Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York; the Design Museum Gent in Belgium; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Odunpazarı Modern Museum in Eskişehir, Turkey; the Denver Art Museum; and the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, Germany. In 2018 he presented his first institutional solo show Max Lamb: Exercises in Seating at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Credits
Elements is organized by SCAD Museum of Art chief curator Daniel S. Palmer and presented as part of SCAD deFINE ART 2026.
