Wood Pushers: Artists Take on Chess Museum for Art in Wood

The Museum for Art in Wood presents Wood Pushers: Artists Take on Chess, a compan­ion exhi­bi­tion to Donna Dodson: Match of the Matri­archs that further explores the game’s sculp­tural possi­bil­i­ties. Featur­ing nine artists, the exhi­bi­tion brings together playable wooden chess sets that vary in scale, form, and approach, reimag­in­ing famil­iar pieces while preserv­ing the rules of play. Visi­tors can discover how wood’s versa­til­ity inspires artis­tic inven­tion in works by Oswaldo Chin­chilla Villa­corta, Wharton Esher­ick, Rex Kale­hoff, James Macdon­ald and Lucky Platt, Michael Mode, Anders Nien­staedt, and Mark Sfirri and Amy Forsyth.