{"id":7597,"date":"2018-07-10T04:45:15","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T08:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=7597"},"modified":"2018-07-10T16:14:25","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T20:14:25","slug":"jonathan-trayte-at-friedman-benda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/10\/jonathan-trayte-at-friedman-benda\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Trayte at Friedman Benda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Art &amp; design merge in British artist Jonathan Trayte\u2019s otherworldly habitat at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.friedmanbenda.com\/exhibitions\/current\/jonathan-trayte-fruiting-habits\">Friedman Benda<\/a>, where a chaise longue doubles as a lamp and a pink bedframe made out of pipes questions the use-value of sculpture.\u00a0 Here, an irresistible painted bronze, steel, foam and neon sculpture titled Kandi defies explanation while enticing with its organic forms and pink glow. (On view in Chelsea through July 27<sup>th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7598\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7598\" style=\"width: 248px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=7598\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7598\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7598\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/jonathan_trayte-248x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7598\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jonathan Trayte, Kandi, painted bronze, stainless steel, foam, polymer plaster, pigments, adhesive, nylon flock, neon, 42.5 x 43.25 x 13.75 inches, 2018.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Art &amp; design merge in British artist Jonathan Trayte\u2019s otherworldly habitat at Friedman Benda, where a chaise longue doubles as a lamp and a pink bedframe made out of pipes questions the use-value of sculpture.\u00a0 Here, an irresistible painted bronze, steel, foam and neon sculpture titled Kandi defies explanation while enticing with its organic forms &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/10\/jonathan-trayte-at-friedman-benda\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jonathan Trayte at Friedman Benda&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,27,4],"tags":[919,8,117,1225,3048,13,8022,8023,3576,2666,7193,10,16],"class_list":["post-7597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-features-commissions","category-hottest-show","tag-abstraction","tag-art","tag-chelsea","tag-design","tag-friedman-benda","tag-gallery","tag-jonathan-trayte","tag-kandi","tag-lamp","tag-neon","tag-organic","tag-sculpture","tag-tour"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-1Yx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7599,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7597\/revisions\/7599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}