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2026
Apple of My Eye presents itself as a quietly monumental object, its compact dimensions belying the emotional and material complexity packed within. Greg Ito has assembled wood, leather, furniture hardware, and mirrored plexiglass into a sculptural form finished in automotive enamel, a surface treatment that carries the gleam of desire and commercial beauty while grounding the work in the vernacular of American craft and industry. Nested among these structural elements are a dollhouse nightstand, miniature apples, and a Springs baby fork, objects that oscillate between the domestic and the diminutive, conjuring a world scaled to tenderness rather than grandeur. What distinguishes this work from Ito's broader practice of emotionally charged assemblage is the handmade handkerchief sewn by the artist's mother from one of his studio shirts, a detail that collapses the distance between autobiography and art object in a single gesture. The presence of Springs air clay sculpture alongside this textile transforms the piece into something closer to a reliquary, a container for memory, intimacy, and the particular love that accumulates in ordinary things. The mirrored plexiglass throws the viewer's own gaze back at them, implicating the act of looking in the emotional logic of the work. Signed by the artist and offered through Superposition, Apple of My Eye arrives as a singular and deeply considered object. Collectors drawn to work that refuses the separation between the personal and the formal will find in this piece an example of Ito at his most vulnerable and precise, constructing meaning from materials that carry real histories of care.
- Medium
- Wood, leather, furniture hardware, mirrored plexiglass, automotive enamel, dollhouse night stand, miniature apples, Springs air clay sculpture, Springs baby fork, studio shirt handkerchief sewn by Mom.
- Overall
- Signed
- Yes
- Location
- Superposition, LOS ANGELES, CA
- Spotted At
- Gallery · SuperpositionView on map
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