Schlomer Haus Gallery is presenting James Cherry’s San Francisco debut exhibition ‘Listening’, featuring a collection of driftwood carvings and buoyant lamps. For Cherry, the juxtaposition of light and earthly materials act as metaphors for the human experience, while the driftwood he found along Highway 1 since moving to the West Coast four years ago represents an organic amalgamation of friends, relationships, and loneliness.
Cherry’s lamps created from recycled materials have garnered attention from art and design collectors and are created using salvaged fabric mesh stretched across bulbous, amorphous or angular shapes. His driftwood sculptures play on the idiosyncrasies of the organic forms, and the interplay with the light sculptures strikes a balance between the pristinely refined and delicately handmade, with the lamps illuminating the driftwood sculptures and, in turn, the sculptures grounding the lamps, drawing the light and the eye.
