Exhibition
Location
East Sibley Hallway
East Sibley Hall
Contact
Department of Architecture
Abstract
This body of work was created in response to shifting circumstances during preparation for the exhibition. My contribution was shaped by production realities: time, tooling, tolerance, and the constraints of material. I produced a series of CNC-carved panels fabricated from upcycled 7/16″ OSB, each bearing traces of prior use, including a red-painted surface applied by a previous user.
Each panel uses the same source image while varying tool geometry and machining strategy to create different surface qualities and levels of legibility. Repetition allows the work to scale to the architecture of the gallery; variation in tooling produces distinct textures, depths, and clarity—turning a practical solution into a visible record of process.
Matthew Glaysher’s exhibition explores the productive tension between analog craft and digital fabrication. A wheel-thrown bowl with crater glaze demonstrates unpredictable surfaces emerging through chemical reaction, while vase and mug forms achieve similar complexity through computational design and latticed structures. Molds are displayed alongside finished ceramics, revealing fabrication processes as both technical necessity and aesthetic opportunity. A mycelium-cast stool with 3D printed mold components extends this investigation into bio-based materials. Together, these works trace a continuum where handcraft and digital tools become mutually informing methods, generating forms that feel both precisely engineered and alive with emergent possibility.
Biographies
Kurt Brosnan, Material Practices Facilities Shop Manager
Kurt Brosnan is a designer and digital fabrication specialist based in Ithaca, New York. His interests combine computational design, CNC machining, and material experimentation. Using repetition, variation, and tool-specific carving strategies, his work makes the fabrication process visible—treating the machine not as a neutral tool, but as an active interpreter of form.
Matt Glaysher, Material Practice Shop Technician
Matthew Glaysher is an artist whose practice bridges art, design, and architecture through the intersection of digital fabrication and traditional craft. His work explores the synthesis of opposing dynamics—the natural and artificial, handcrafted and digitally fabricated, structure and entropy. Working across ceramics, mold-making, 3D printing, and CNC fabrication, Glaysher creates forms that evoke growth patterns and natural forces while remaining grounded in modernist principles of reduction and simplicity. He is particularly interested in that condition that seems to be static and at the same time dynamic.
Glaysher holds an M.F.A. in Sculpture and Ceramics from Pratt Institute. He has taught at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Syracuse University, and Ithaca College.
His work has been exhibited at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, the Everson Museum’s Syracuse Biennial, and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum at Cornell University, among other venues. He has received grants from the Community Arts Partnership and Cornell Council for the Arts. He worked as Arts/Industry Technician at the Kohler Co. Arts/Industry residency program and recently completed a residency at Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts focusing on digital clay processes. His mold-making work has been published in The Clay Lover’s Guide to Making Molds.
