Daniel Mack

Daniel Mack was born in 1947 in Rochester, New York. He earned a B.A. in anthropology in 1970 and an M.A. in media studies in 1975. He has been awarded a Mid-Atlantic Foundation Fellowship and two grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Mack's work is included in the collections of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York, the American Craft Museum, New York, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The artist has published a book, Making Rustic Furniture, which surveys the work of contemporary furniture makers and explains the techniques of rustic furniture fabrication. Mack's chairs are made from tree limbs stripped of their bark. He began incorporating other objects into his chairs in 1989 when he created a series of chairs that included antique tools and tools used in making furniture. In 1992 Mack stared a series of nautical chairs that incorporate objects relating to boating, sailing, and fishing. The artist feels that reusing discarded objects and unused bits of wood renews and prolongs their life and function.

*Excerpted from Tools as Art: The Hechinger Collection, published by Harry N. Abrams Inc.