{"id":118203,"date":"2017-05-12T18:37:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-12T22:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/?p=118203"},"modified":"2017-07-20T15:01:15","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T19:01:15","slug":"rochelle-udell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/rochelle-udell\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist Rochelle Udell Tells Her Life Story through Chairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_121973\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-121973\" class=\"wp-image-121973 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMAGE3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMAGE3.jpg 580w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMAGE3-453x350.jpg 453w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMAGE3-120x93.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-121973\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Top: <em>Breuer Wassilys<\/em>, 2016, acrylic painting on inkjet printed canvas, by Rochelle Udell. Bottom: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/furniture\/seating\/armchairs\/vintage-pair-of-leather-chrome-wassily-chairs\/id-f_1345670\/\">Leather and chrome Wassily chairs, 1960s. Offered by Jean-Marc Fray<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After executive-level careers in publishing, beauty and fashion, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rochelleudell.com\/\">Rochelle Udell<\/a> now<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">creates art that asks viewers to reflect on the deep narratives contained in everyday objects.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The subject of her latest show, \u201cWhere Do You Sit In Life?\u201d (on view at the 1stdibs Gallery in the New York Design Center until June 1), is chairs. The works encompass many mediums, from painting and collage to wallpaper and assemblage, all related to seating. But as the Ossining, New York\u2013based artist reminds us, her series is just as much about what\u2019s not seen, but implied.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cSitting poses many questions with many possible answers: Who\u2019s at the head of the table? Who\u2019s at the center of the table? And who\u2019s not even at the table?\u201d Udell says. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cLook, I\u2019m not a chair scholar and I\u2019m not a furniture scholar. I\u2019m just a bit of a yenta who likes to watch how people behave, where they sit and how conversations form.\u201d  <\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Study sat down with Udell to discuss the roles that chairs have played in her personal history and art. To illustrated her comments, we paired some of the works with real-world examples found on 1stdibs.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_121943\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-121943\" class=\"wp-image-121943 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMAGE2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMAGE2.jpg 580w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMAGE2-453x350.jpg 453w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMAGE2-120x93.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-121943\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: <em>P.S. 93 School Chair<\/em>, 2016, acrylic painting on inkjet printed canvas. Right: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/furniture\/tables\/side-tables\/vintage-childs-school-desk-chair\/id-f_6666043\/\">Child&#8217;s school desk and chair, 1940. Offered by Abhaya<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Udell\u2019s exhibition is separated by themes like <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Everyday Icons<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (including historically important chairs represented in gold leaf), the Adirondack chair and poet Pablo Neruda\u2019s \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ode to the Chair<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u201d One section features three chairs that, Udell says, tell the story of her life thus far. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>P.S. 93 School Chair<\/em>, for instance, is about<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Udell&#8217;s school days in the Bronx, where she recalls sitting down in a small seat that allowed her feet to touch the ground: \u201cIt was the first time I actually fit into a chair.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_122333\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-122333\" class=\"wp-image-122333 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMAGE6-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"724\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMAGE6-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMAGE6-1-242x350.jpg 242w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMAGE6-1-83x120.jpg 83w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-122333\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>The Adirondack Chair in the Grass<\/em>, 2016, plastic molded relief with photo print, by Udell<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Udell explains how she was completely mesmerized by the beauty and simplicity of the traditional <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/furniture\/seating\/style\/adirondack\/\">Adirondack chair<\/a> while attending summer camp as a young girl. \u201cI\u2019m a kid from concrete: Born in the Bronx, raised in Brooklyn. It was the first time I ever saw a chair that basically <i>demanded<\/i> you to relax,\u201d she says. \u201cIt also struck me as a little, self-contained house. You could settle in, set down a drink and stack things up on its wide arms \u2014 and lean way back to read a book.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_121983\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-121983\" class=\"wp-image-121983 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-10-at-12.43.34-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-10-at-12.43.34-PM.png 580w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-10-at-12.43.34-PM-352x350.png 352w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-10-at-12.43.34-PM-120x120.png 120w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-10-at-12.43.34-PM-216x216.png 216w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-121983\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clockwise from top left: <em>Canvas Wassily<\/em>, <em>Faux Fur Wassily<\/em>, <em>Sexy Sheer White Slip Cover <\/em>and <em>Faux Gold Chanel Wassily<\/em>, all 2016<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Several depictions of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/buy\/wassily-chair\/\">Marcel Breuer\u2013designed Wassily chairs<\/a> signal Udell\u2019s coming of age. In her 20s, she moved into her first adult apartment and furnished it with a pair of Wassilys. \u201cThey represented modernity. They said I was a person of good taste and that I understood architecture and design,\u201d Udell explains. <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThen my mother walked in. . . . As far as she was concerned, these weren\u2019t chairs because they didn\u2019t have cushions or slipcovers.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Somewhat perplexed by the streamlined chairs, her mom said, \u201cWell, someday you\u2019ll have a little money to cover them.\u201d And so, years later, Udell <em>did<\/em> cover her Wassilys \u2014 with fake fur, plastic and vinyl. \u201cIf my mother said cover them, I was going to cover them!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_122003\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-122003\" class=\"wp-image-122003 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMAGE5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMAGE5.jpg 580w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMAGE5-453x350.jpg 453w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMAGE5-120x93.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-122003\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Top left: <em>The Louie Chair<\/em>, 2016, collage and ink on canvas, by Udell. Bottom right: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/furniture\/seating\/chairs\/louis-xvi-painted-fauteuil\/id-f_2488092\/\">Louis XVI fauteuil, ca. 1750. Offered by Gerald Bland<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Udell cheekily associates different chairs with people in her life. For example, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/furniture\/seating\/armchairs\/style\/louis-xvi\/\">Louis XVI chair<\/a> represents the artist\u2019s sister. \u201cI have an older sister who always wanted to be a page in a magazine,\u201d Udell quips. \u201cIf I was modern and minimalist, she was brocade and diamonds-are-a-girl\u2019s-best-friend. She\u2019s ornate, embellished, well dressed and has beautiful lines and lovely legs.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_122053\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-122053\" class=\"wp-image-122053 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMAGE7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMAGE7.jpg 580w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMAGE7-453x350.jpg 453w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMAGE7-120x93.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-122053\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: <em>Set of Eight Loop Chairs<\/em> 2016, gold leaf mono print on paper, by Udell. Right: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/furniture\/seating\/club-chairs\/pair-of-loop-chairs-francis-elkins\/id-f_6728173\/\">Pair of Francis Elkins Loop chairs, 1940s. Offered by Craig Van Den Brulle<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/frances-elkins\/furniture\/seating\/\">Frances Elkins loop chair<\/a> is the absolute favorite chair of my dear friend, architect and writer James Shearron. He even wrote about it,\u201d says Udell. \u201cSo if the Louis is my sister and the Adirondack is camp, then the loop chair is James. I can put faces on all the chairs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Udell has further elevated iconic chair designs by re-creating their shapes in gold leaf, a process she likens to a famous Leo Tolstoy witticism: \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Truth, like<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.\u201d In the process of removing the excess gold leafing from the surface of the paper, the artist leaves a ghostly silhouette of the chair. The result? Only the \u201cgold\u201d and \u201ctruth,\u201d to which Tolstoy so literally refers.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After executive-level careers in publishing, beauty and fashion, Rochelle Udell now creates art that asks viewers to reflect on the deep narratives contained in everyday 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