Wood rests, metal stretches, and rock floats in this exhibition of work by three MIT students featuring furniture and sculpture.
Illustration courtesy the artists
Wood rests, metal stretches, and rock floats in this exhibition of work by three MIT students featuring furniture and sculpture.
Illustration courtesy the artists
Wood rests, metal stretches, and rock floats in this exhibition of work by three MIT students featuring furniture and sculpture.
Illustration courtesy the artists
Wood rests, metal stretches, and rock floats in this exhibition of work by three MIT students featuring furniture and sculpture.
Illustration courtesy the artists
Wood rests, metal stretches, and rock floats in this exhibition of work by three MIT students featuring furniture and sculpture.
Wood rests, metal stretches, and rock floats in this exhibition of work by three MIT students featuring furniture and sculpture.
Wood holds the rhythm of seasons. Metal, shaped by fire, carries light. Rock, dense and still, is both foundation and echo. Like the game, these materials meet—not in opposition, but in elemental balance, each responding to simple acts of manipulation.
In this collection of furniture and sculpture, wood rests, metal stretches, and rock floats. A chair offers pause, a table creates space for exchange. Through use, these materials shift—not just in form, but in meaning.
ROCK PAPER SCISSORS turns interaction into process. Balance, choice, and play shape the experience, where familiar materials take on new roles, and each piece suggests another way forward.
Exhibition on view: Feb 15-Mar 6 and accessible daily from 9am-9pm.
ROCK PAPER SCISSORS features the work of three current students in the MIT Department of Architecture:
Yuki Gray, M. Arch ‘27, received a BFA in Furniture Design from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2018. His work spans a broad range of materials conventional to the unconventional, from welding steel and using wood joinery, to thatching straw and rolls of paper. Drawing from a history of craft, Gray explores the manipulation of material and form with inspiration from his experiences. Drawn to images that are understated and ubiquitous, his interest is in the challenge of inventing poetics which frame common place phenomenon into new perspectives. Taking the everyday and transfiguring it into something which was new to our eyes but familiar to our souls.
Mara Jovanović, M. Arch ‘26, is a designer whose work explores grain as the quality that relates form and surface.
Cheung Qin, M.Arch ‘26, is a candidate for the Master of Architecture degree at MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning. He received a BFA in Architectural Design with an Interdisciplinary Sculpture concentration from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2019. Cheung Qin aims to construct actant instruments—inanimate objects or machines that harbor stories of resilience by performing autonomously. Qin attempts to make these objects transcend their static nature and surveys the fleeting affective moments of a speculative future past.
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Stratton Student Center
E15
20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA
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Presented by the MIT Wiesner Student Art Gallery with the support of the Council for the Arts at MIT.
Artists hold for a reception celebrating the opening of the exhibition
In the whirlwind of our fast-paced world, it feels like we blinked and suddenly found ourselves as adults juggling endless responsibilities. Take a step back and rediscover the simplicity of childhood with the ROCK PAPER SCISSORS PUBLIC TOURNAMENT—a friendly throwback to the games that once made us laugh. Relive the joy, embrace the nostalgia, and compete for an exciting prize: a sheet of Isamu Noguchi postage stamps! Food and beverages provided.
Limited space available, please register in advance.
