
Michael Mahalchick
Michael Mahalchick’s compassion for destitute objects compels him to knot them into gentle, dirty bundles, bandage them one around the other, and tie them together so that they may never be lonely again. Taking as his working material the unlovely, soft refuse of urban existenceunwanted clothing, used bedsheets, matted stuffed animalsMahalchick transfigures it through his particular form of assemblage magic: wrapping. Some sculptures disclose armatures of found chairs, picture frames, or carpet rolls, while others, like the disco-ball-esque Form.a, 2005, seem constructed, from core