Exhibits & Events

Katie Hudnall makes tools, furniture, and objects that are perfectly suited for a peculiar world. The first museum-organized solo presentation of Hudnall’s unique and captivating work, The Longest Distance between Two Points reveals a rare glimpse into the artist’s rich inner world. Here, the absurd and mechanically improbable merges with fine woodworking and salvaged wood materials to bring mechanisms and structures to life and action.

The Longest Distance between Two Points represents Hudnall’s most ambitious work yet. At the center of the exhibition is a complex interactive installation centering on a monumental cabinet for treasures found and carefully arranged by the artist. This idiosyncratic take on the Wunderkammer, made with reverence for the eccentric collector that lives in all of us, is no mere piece of storage furniture: every pull of a drawer instigates a specific response elsewhere in the space, highlighting the delight in the “inefficient beauty of roundabout function” as actions traverse meandering paths from gesture to outcome.