WENDELL CASTLE: LIVING

Friedman Benda Los Angeles, Marmont Lane 8260, 90069, Los Angeles

September 17, 2026 – October 17, 2026

Friedman Benda is proud to present Wendell Castle: Living, a solo exhibition that reimagines the home of the late American sculptor and furniture maker Wendell Castle (1932–2018), and ceramist and multimedia artist Nancy Jurs (b. 1941), opening in New York on September 17, 2026. Curated by their daughter, Alison Castle, the exhibition is inspired by a 1973 House Beautiful magazine feature capturing the artists’ creative living environment in Scottsville, NY. The article provides unique documentation of this imaginative interior, preserving an intimate view of Castle and Jurs’ works when they were part of everyday life. Beyond depicting the domestic space of a prominent artist and his family—showing how someone who made such critically acclaimed work lived with it himself—the exhibition also reflects broader currents in American cultural life at the time. Returning to this source material, the exhibition considers how these two makers built a shared space in which domestic life and artistic production were inseparable. Nearly everything in the home was designed or made by Castle, Jurs, and their circle of artist friends.