{"id":105898,"date":"2023-05-02T18:54:57","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T16:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.apartamentomagazine.com\/?p=105898"},"modified":"2025-10-01T15:43:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T13:43:14","slug":"misha-kahn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apartamentomagazine.com\/stories\/misha-kahn\/","title":{"rendered":"Misha Kahn"},"content":{"rendered":" \t\t<div class=\"woocommerce\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"woocommerce-info wc-memberships-restriction-message wc-memberships-message wc-memberships-content-restricted-message\">\n\t\t\t\tTo access this post, you must purchase <span class=\"wc-memberships-products-grant-access\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apartamentomagazine.com\/product\/apartamento-membership\/\">Apartamento Membership<\/a><\/span>.\t\t    <\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"woocommerce\">\n<div class=\"woocommerce-info wc-memberships-restriction-message wc-memberships-message wc-memberships-content-restricted-message\">\n\t\t\t\tTo access this post, you must purchase <span class=\"wc-memberships-products-grant-access\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apartamentomagazine.com\/product\/apartamento-membership\/\">Apartamento Membership<\/a><\/span>.\t\t    <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":105899,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,47],"tags":[471,75],"class_list":["post-105898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interview","category-video","tag-film-photography","tag-art","text_author-camille-okhio","photo_author-hans-neumann","film_author-hans-neumann","text_editor-alan-ohep","membership-content","access-restricted"],"acf":{"link_archive":true,"archive_story":"","archive_bg":"#F5F4EE","archive_title_color":"#000000","cover_bg":"#F5F4EE","cover_title_color":"#ffffff","body_bg":"#adc932","body_text_color":"#000000","body_captions_color":"#666666","related_bg":"#ffffff","related_text_color":"#000000","stories_bg":"#EDECEC","alternative_image":105913,"hover_image":"","credits":"","title_format":"center","font_size":"medium","image_format":"cover","hero_image_mobile":"","video":"https:\/\/vz-a6a6cda4-492.b-cdn.net\/f837ab5b-846d-4221-8114-b52f25fedded\/play_720p.mp4","video_excerpt":"","video_format":"regular","content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"two_blocks","block_sizes":"half_40_60","content_type_left":"credits","image_size_left":"regular","image_left":99495,"video_left_url":"","video_caption_left":"","video_left_type":false,"text_left":"","credit_image":105039,"credit_link_left":{"title":"Click here to buy the issue!","url":"https:\/\/www.apartamentomagazine.com\/product\/issue-30\/","target":""},"content_type_right":"text","image_size_right":"regular","image_right":null,"video_right_url":"","video_caption_right":"","video_right_type":false,"text_right":"Apartamento magazine issue #31 is officially OUT NOW! Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apartamentomagazine.com\/product\/issue-31\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>\u00a0to get your copy.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>New York City: A few weeks before interviewing Misha for this piece, our mutual friend Nina Johnson invited us (and several other bright lights) to dinner in the East Village. It was Indian food. One of the spots with chilli lights hanging so low you have to stoop to make your way to a table. Conversation covered love, fixation, passion mingled with professions, boredom, expectations, and our individual modes of existence as creative individuals. Misha was the quietest person there. He wasn\u2019t small or in the background, but rather unbothered and observant, engaged and in his own world simultaneously. He identifies as shy, which he is, but most people assume he\u2019ll be loud, boisterous, and vocally zany because of the visual energy of his work. There is a centuries-long tradition of this type of conflation, very likely linked to our fetishism of artists and artists\u2019 lives. But with Misha these projections seem even more prevalent. Perhaps because his work is constantly changing, and at a breakneck pace. He is one of those rare contemporary artists whose work remains as exciting now as it was 10 years ago when he set out on his own. His trajectory has been untraditional. He spent a year recalibrating on a Fulbright fellowship after graduating from Rhode Island School of Design. Afterwards he worked for a set shop building animatronics. Which was followed by a few years assisting a prop stylist, making still lifes. It was while he was assisting this stylist that his own work started to gain notice. Starting usually with a sketch, his ideas and method of creating are fully free flowing. He intentionally allows the subconscious to seep out. Misha\u2019s work is a chicken soup for the unrepentant. There is no strategy, no rigidity. All that Misha requires of himself is honesty. The work is functional (sometimes only barely so) because that is the type of output most natural to him. No material is off limits; no colour or pattern beyond consideration. Misha is a dreamer who doesn\u2019t remember his dreams. Someone living happily in the liminal, freely associating a reality of beauty, fun, and perversity perfectly interwoven.<\/strong><\/p>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image_size":"regular","gallery":[105900]},{"acf_fc_layout":"interview","interview":[{"question":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Let\u2019s start at the beginning<\/span><span class=\"s2\">. <\/span><span class=\"s1\">What was it like growing up in Minnesota<\/span><span class=\"s2\">?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>","answer":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">It was great! I\u2019ve thrown a lot of little Minnesota references into the objects I make. There\u2019s a cabin vernacular that runs through much of it\u2014a little bit of that farm-craft energy of things being cobbled together. <\/span><\/p>"},{"question":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Did you grow up on a literal farm<\/span><span class=\"s2\">?<\/span><\/p>","answer":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">No, not at all. I grew up in Duluth, which is like a little city.<\/span><\/p>"},{"question":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">What was high school like for you<\/span><span class=\"s2\">? <\/span><span class=\"s1\">Were you a dork<\/span><span class=\"s2\">? <\/span><span class=\"s1\">Popular<\/span><span class=\"s2\">? <\/span><span class=\"s1\">Somewhere in between<\/span><span class=\"s2\">?<\/span><\/p>","answer":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Probably a mix. High school was just palatable. I had a fun group of friends. I was really into swimming, sledding, and cross-country skiing. And then I studied abroad in Belgium for a year when I was 16.<\/span><\/p>"},{"question":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">What was that like<\/span><span class=\"s2\">?<\/span><\/p>","answer":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">That was great! But I really hated the high school I went to there. It was a Jesuit school. Super strict and uncreative, but it was because of that that I started taking art classes at night. And also there was just such good art in Belgium. I hadn\u2019t really been in a big city that had full-on contemporary art museums. When you\u2019re a kid in a little town you see lots of creative people and artists, but you don\u2019t really see the full breadth of possibilities.<\/span><\/p>"},{"question":"<span class=\"s1\">So back in Minnesota what other creative expression were you exploring<\/span><span class=\"s2\">?<\/span>","answer":"<span class=\"s2\">I was very into sewing. I would make lots of clothes and friends would come over and try things on. That was a constant.<\/span>"},{"question":"<span class=\"s1\">Who taught you how to sew<\/span><span class=\"s2\">?<\/span>","answer":"<span class=\"s2\">I got a sewing machine when I was really little, like five years old. I mostly taught myself, but my grandma was really good, so she taught me a few things. I kept fucking around and eventually I got good.<\/span>"},{"question":"<span class=\"s1\">And what about your parents<\/span><span class=\"s2\">? <\/span><span class=\"s1\">What do they do for a living<\/span><span class=\"s2\">?<\/span>","answer":"<span class=\"s2\">My dad is a contractor and builds houses and my mom writes kids\u2019 books.<\/span>"},{"question":"<span class=\"s1\">That\u2019s so precious<\/span><span class=\"s2\">! <\/span><span class=\"s1\">When I think of it in detail, the idea of building houses with your actual hands is inconceivable to me<\/span><span class=\"s2\">. <\/span><span class=\"s1\">Was that what your dad was doing<\/span><span class=\"s2\">? <\/span><span class=\"s1\">Were you in awe of him growing up<\/span><span class=\"s2\">?<\/span>","answer":"<span class=\"s2\">Well, when I was younger I thought his job seemed really boring. He was the one who was always on the phone. He called people all day long, coordinating the different aspects that went into construction. It\u2019s so funny because it feels so close to what I do now. I know a lot of other artists and designers who don\u2019t work like that. They have a single process and the studio is more thoroughly hands-on. But I\u00a0like making things that have a ton of different components and techniques involved.<\/span>"},{"question":"<span class=\"s1\">In a larger sense do you feel like some or all of your work is a response to what you saw as a child<\/span><span class=\"s2\">?<\/span>","answer":"<span class=\"s2\">I feel like I make work in a very lucid and free-association kind of way, a free-for-all strategy, so everything gets worked in. It\u2019s a conscious decision to make work that way, but there are so few things that are one-to-one. You also find my childhood in some of the titles of my work\u2014they\u2019re pulled from things from around where I grew up.<\/span>"}]},{"acf_fc_layout":"two_blocks","block_sizes":"half_50_50","content_type_left":"image","image_size_left":"regular","image_left":105917,"video_left_url":"","video_caption_left":"","video_left_type":false,"text_left":"","credit_image":null,"credit_link_left":null,"content_type_right":"image","image_size_right":"regular","image_right":105984,"video_right_url":"","video_caption_right":"","video_right_type":false,"text_right":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"interview","interview":[{"question":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">So this phrase \u2018one-to-one\u2019, do you think specificity is where value lies<\/span><span class=\"s2\">? <\/span><\/p>","answer":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">I think it\u2019s interesting. I think a lot of art sees specificity in that one-to-one relationship. Like, someone making a piece about a specific topic and really finding the value in the relationship between the object and that topic. <\/span><\/p>"},{"question":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">For me work feels so much more specific when it\u2019s a compilation of all these different weird things I\u2019ve seen and encountered, and then compounded by so many different emotions<\/span><span class=\"s2\">. <\/span><span class=\"s1\">Then it becomes beyond hyper specific<\/span><span class=\"s2\">. <\/span><span class=\"s1\">That\u2019s kind of interesting because then the work can only exist as that one thing, whereas when something is very one-to-one, I always feel like the irony is that it could almost just be anything<\/span><span class=\"s2\">.<\/span><\/p>","answer":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">That\u2019s interesting. When you make in that way, letting everything pour out of you consciously but indiscriminately, you capture that one moment of creation and that\u2019s what makes the work impossible to replicate. Is that what you\u2019re saying?<\/span><\/p>"},{"question":"<span class=\"s1\">Yes<\/span><span class=\"s2\">. <\/span><span class=\"s1\">I think part of what\u2019s special is that when you make this way, you get a really funny mix of the banal and low-brow things and larger themes concerning whatever\u2019s going on in your life at that moment or the world at large<\/span><span class=\"s2\">. <\/span><span class=\"s1\">That blend is really intriguing<\/span><span class=\"s2\">.<\/span>","answer":"<span class=\"s2\">When you look at art from hundreds of years ago, there are so many giant oil paintings of religious scenes that are supposed to encapsulate magnitude, and on the flip side, there are these really banal portraits of a lady with a vase.<\/span>"},{"question":"<span class=\"s1\">Ha<\/span><span class=\"s2\">! <\/span><span class=\"s1\">That\u2019s so hilarious, and true<\/span><span class=\"s2\">.<\/span>","answer":"<span class=\"s2\">Ya, we have this tendency in material culture to think that things are supposed to be one or the other: either quiet moments to be isolated or celebrated, or a focus on this huge serious topic. But the work I like the best tends to have a little bit of everything. So more and more I\u2019ve been trying to do that: everything all at once.<\/span>"},{"question":"<span class=\"s1\">Give me an example<\/span><span class=\"s2\">.<\/span>","answer":"<span class=\"s2\">It could be seeing something funny like a stupid baby-animal meme on Instagram and letting a visual from that trickle into an object. It requires a lucid acceptance of the low-brow tumbling into everything.<\/span>"}]},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image_size":"full","gallery":[105910]},{"acf_fc_layout":"interview","interview":[{"question":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">That almost sounds like a goal people seek out in therapy\u2014allowing this acceptance of unintended things to seep into your work<\/span><span class=\"s2\">. <\/span><span class=\"s1\">Or maybe I\u2019m projecting<\/span><span class=\"s2\">. <\/span><span class=\"s1\">What do you think<\/span><span class=\"s2\">?<\/span><\/p>","answer":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">I agree. Also I think having a little dog has let me see the world more in this way. He\u2019ll be so invested in a twig he found on the sidewalk and then the next 20 minutes will be about him getting to the bottom of this twig. There\u2019s a lot of joy in that! Or the big moment when you come home after being away for an hour and he\u2019s totally freaking out. That encourages an open-minded acceptance of these little boring things sprinkled through the whole day. But I\u2019ve never gone to therapy. Maybe these are just really obvious lessons.<\/span><\/p>"},{"question":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Nothing is obvious<\/span><span class=\"s2\">. <\/span><span class=\"s1\">I love that your dog brings so much into your life<\/span><span class=\"s2\">. <\/span><span class=\"s1\">It\u2019s like the innocence of a child, which makes me think of baby Misha again<\/span><span class=\"s2\">. <\/span><span class=\"s1\">When did you first started making<\/span><span class=\"s2\">?<\/span><\/p>","answer":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">I was really into making little claymation films as a kid, so there\u2019s a lot of little videos. That\u2019s the thing that stuck around. And I was also into making these gambling machines out of cardboard and papier m\u00e2ch\u00e9 that were a mix between pachinko and pinball machines. I tried to get people to play them when they came over so I could win their money. I wish those had stuck around. I bet they were cute looking, but not everything survives.<\/span><\/p>"},{"question":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">No it doesn\u2019t, but there\u2019s beauty in the ephemeral<\/span><span class=\"s2\">. <\/span><span class=\"s1\">Would you tend to play with other kids or mostly adults<\/span><span class=\"s2\">?<\/span><\/p>","answer":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">I feel like it would have been the adults, because I wanted the cash.<\/span><\/p>"},{"question":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I\u2019m obsessed<\/span><span class=\"s2\">. <\/span><span class=\"s1\">Do you think you\u2019re still industrious in that way<\/span><span class=\"s2\">?<\/span><\/p>","answer":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Kind of. It\u2019s funny meeting people who make work that is totally unsaleable, who embrace that it\u2019s unsaleable and find joy in not having to consider that component. It\u2019s like, \u2018Wow, I\u00a0never considered that\u2019. I feel like there\u2019s always an enterprising part of making work for me.<\/span><\/p>"},{"question":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Has anyone tried to shame you for that<\/span><span class=\"s2\">?<\/span><\/p>","answer":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Ya. The whole system is set up to do that. I\u00a0think using how the industry is set up creatively is interesting, because it feels like I\u2019ve always lived with these broader suggestions. You can\u2019t really make work without participating, so my practice does have those elements, and I think it\u2019s funny. People like to suggest that if you participate in the industry then your work is less creative, that it\u2019s a less pure pursuit. But it\u2019s just really another part of the puzzle and to remove it would be to subtract one more thing to be creative with.<\/span><\/p>"}]},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image_size":"regular","gallery":[105899]},{"acf_fc_layout":"interview","interview":[{"question":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I think that\u2019s central to Western society<\/span><span class=\"s2\">. <\/span><span class=\"s1\">Setting up a system with shame inherent in it and then chastising those who try to make it work for them creatively, or who choose another path<\/span><span class=\"s2\">.<\/span><\/p>","answer":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">For sure. For hundreds of years art has essentially been a pursuit for wealthy children. It\u2019s been that way for so long and things are set up in a way that it can only be that. I actually have a lot of thoughts about this. This world is set up to make sure people can only be artists if they come from great means, which is why we have so much boring art from people that all look the same. But I do feel like there has been a recent interest in correcting that. Unfortunately, from my perspective it seems like people are only interested in including diverse artists in the conversation as long as it\u2019s easy to slot them into existing categories.<\/span><\/p>"},{"question":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Oh, definitely<\/span><span class=\"s2\">! <\/span><span class=\"s1\">There are so many Black artists, for instance, being prioritised because they make work derivative of very established white artists<\/span><span class=\"s2\">. <\/span><span class=\"s1\">And on a larger scale you can see whole categories being ignored within the racial disparity discussion<\/span><span class=\"s2\">. <\/span><span class=\"s1\">Figurative painters are most sought after while there is little to no attention being shone on Black artists working within abstraction, performance, conceptual art\u2014the list goes on<\/span><span class=\"s2\">.<\/span><\/p>","answer":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">They\u2019re comfortable as long as you\u2019re making work that\u2019s very familiar to them already.<\/span><\/p>"},{"question":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It\u2019s so dark<\/span><span class=\"s2\">. <\/span><span class=\"s1\">But also why it\u2019s so exciting when people consciously veer outside of that path and achieve some version of success regardless of the norm<\/span><span class=\"s2\">. <\/span><span class=\"s1\">Now I\u2019m curious about how older generations have played into your practice<\/span><span class=\"s2\">. <\/span><\/p>","answer":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">There are a bunch of older people that have been big influences on me. Mags Stephens for one, who runs the tapestry workshop that produces tapestries for me. She\u2019s in her 90s and has such a free approach to this technique and craft that has been around for so long. They are literally making Gobelin tapestries but are also so open-minded and intuitive about how to work within that. There\u2019s also GianCarlo Montebello, who died recently at the age of 79. He did work for everyone, including Man Ray and Niki de Saint Phalle. Working with him was really eye-opening for me. You go to school and learn to execute something in a very specific way. His way of working with materials so freely wasn\u2019t something that felt acceptable to me. It initially felt like you were doing something wrong or corrupting the material. <\/span><\/p>"},{"question":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">So this inversion of the \u2018proper\u2019 way to manipulate a material influenced you early on<\/span><span class=\"s2\">?<\/span><\/p>","answer":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Yes. Nicole Eisenman\u2019s brilliant fountain at the Whitney Biennial a few years ago is a good example. That installation was such a star. It had all these bronze figures wearing shitty college sports socks. It was a really funny mix, having a really royal material that was rendered super carefully with figural elements that were intentionally slapdash. It all felt so right together. That\u2019s an element that I\u2019ve learnt from other people.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">I also love Bruno Gironcoli, the late Austrian sculptor. He made these huge cast-metal sculptures like cityscapes, with random things like croissants or little babies stuck on. It\u2019s that mix of formal qualities I like, where some of it feels very high and some feels very low, but it feels holistic. Is it a city? Is it a spaceship? It lives between all these different things. And the longer you look at it, the more you get from it. I feel like most work isn\u2019t like that. You look at it for seven seconds and you\u2019re like, \u2018Yep, got it!\u2019 Maria Sibylla Merian is also like that. She was working in the later 1600s and early 1700s just drawing bugs. I feel like she must have been on so many psychedelics while she was drawing.<\/span><\/p>"}]},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image_size":"full","gallery":[105913]},{"acf_fc_layout":"interview","interview":[{"question":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Do people ever ask you if you drugs<\/span><span class=\"s2\">?<\/span><\/p>","answer":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Ya.<\/span><\/p>"},{"question":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Ha<\/span><span class=\"s2\">! <\/span><span class=\"s1\">I thought so<\/span><span class=\"s2\">. <\/span><span class=\"s1\">And do you do them<\/span><span class=\"s2\">? <\/span><\/p>","answer":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Of course! In the book that <i>Apartamento<\/i> is doing on me I felt a bit guilty thinking of my mom reading it and seeing all these disparate mentions of acid trips. I was like, \u2018Ugh, this is getting to be too druggy\u2019. I never need drugs to make my work though. It\u2019s never something I need for input. But I do think psychedelics are super valuable. I recently read that they think mushrooms were a huge part of how language developed. <\/span><\/p>"},{"question":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Wow<\/span><span class=\"s2\">! <\/span><span class=\"s1\">That\u2019s amazing<\/span><span class=\"s2\">. <\/span><span class=\"s1\">You always hear of the usefulness of psychedelics, that they\u2019re proven to open up new passageways in the brain<\/span><span class=\"s2\">. <\/span><span class=\"s1\">I\u00a0always love thinking of the Viking berserkers who took this specific kind of psychedelic fungi before war<\/span><span class=\"s2\">. <\/span><span class=\"s1\">It aided in their fearlessness, which in turn terrified their opponents even more deeply<\/span><span class=\"s2\">. <\/span><span class=\"s1\">Psychedelics have always scared me a bit though\u2014who knows what fucked up shit is lurking in the subconscious<\/span><span class=\"s2\">.<\/span><\/p>","answer":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">I think thinking about how to form a different connection in your brain or how to approach something differently is useful though. So I feel unapologetic about psychedelics in that sense. I do find it really annoying when people use acid as a descriptor, like, \u2018That\u2019s blank blank on acid\u2019, as though something is just a boring object that got put through the magical air fryer of psychedelics. <\/span><\/p>"},{"question":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">And in the same way that an acid trip can\u2019t make what was already uninteresting suddenly interesting, it can\u2019t really make a boring person any less boring<\/span><span class=\"s2\">. <\/span><span class=\"s1\">Do you think there are non-creative people and creative people<\/span><span class=\"s2\">? <\/span><span class=\"s1\">Or do you think everyone has a capacity<\/span><span class=\"s2\">?<\/span><\/p>","answer":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">I kind of am inclined to think that probably everyone is creative, because it does feel like muscle memory to create. Most kids are creative, so it seems more like something that\u2019s lost, rather than something that wasn\u2019t ever there.<\/span><\/p>"}]},{"acf_fc_layout":"two_blocks","block_sizes":"half_50_50","content_type_left":"image","image_size_left":"regular","image_left":105909,"video_left_url":"","video_caption_left":"","video_left_type":false,"text_left":"","credit_image":null,"credit_link_left":null,"content_type_right":"image","image_size_right":"regular","image_right":105962,"video_right_url":"","video_caption_right":"","video_right_type":false,"text_right":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"interview","interview":[{"question":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I want to circle back to a phrase you used: \u2018royal materials<\/span><span class=\"s2\">\u2019. <\/span><span class=\"s1\">I feel like often your work is misinterpreted because it\u2019s so clearly contemporary\u2014layered, colourful, and abstracted\u2014and thus it\u2019s easier for people to say, \u2018That\u2019s very Coming Soon\u2019, rather than, \u2018That\u2019s very Versailles<\/span><span class=\"s2\">\u2019. <\/span><\/p>","answer":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">The work definitely has a relationship to palace objects. It starts with the fact that a group of skilled people are working on a masterful and elaborate object, which is just so far from what the last 100 years of production have been about. Another thing I keep thinking about is how the relationship between architecture and object is so shitty now. And that connection was such a nice component. If you have a room that is mirrored, then the furniture should also have inset mirrors or mother of pearl. Materials don\u2019t have to be isolated. If they\u2019re both really good, they will both shine. When you see how most people think of interiors today, usually one thing is downplayed with the intention of highlighting another element. Which is really bad, because it\u2019s actually the palaces that are completely done. <\/span><\/p>"},{"question":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">That pulling-back and less-is-more mentality can really make our eyes lazy<\/span><span class=\"s2\">. <\/span><span class=\"s1\">That fear of excess<\/span><span class=\"s2\">.<\/span><\/p>","answer":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Oh my god, yes. It\u2019s something I say all the time because I think people have really lazy eyes. Like, if two things have a print on them, their lazy eyes just glaze over both prints, which is so absurd. You were once a primate that used to find tiny berries amid a jungle of foliage, you can do this.<\/span><\/p>"},{"question":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Oh my god, how cutting<\/span><span class=\"s2\">. <\/span><span class=\"s1\">I couldn\u2019t have said it better<\/span><span class=\"s2\">. <\/span><span class=\"s1\">I feel like people do the same when they try to make sense of a person and their work<\/span><span class=\"s2\">. <\/span><span class=\"s1\">Like, loud work cannot be made by a quiet person, which is so simplistic and inaccurate<\/span><span class=\"s2\">. <\/span><\/p>","answer":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">It goes against the grain of what we think. I\u00a0remember, this one collector who had never met me before was at my studio and she was like, \u2018Act more like Misha!\u2019 She had such an idea of what I\u2019m supposed to act like though she had never met me.<\/span><\/p>"},{"question":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Yikes, that is so off<\/span><span class=\"s2\">. <\/span><span class=\"s1\">What are some of the things that people have said about you or your work that you really appreciated<\/span><span class=\"s2\">?<\/span><\/p>","answer":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">The first time I showed a really big cast-bronze piece\u2014a console called <i>Tingle Tangle Mingle Mangle<\/i>\u2014in Miami, some seasoned collectors asked if it was a new Fran\u00e7ois-Xavier Lalanne piece, and I was like, \u2018Wow\u2019. It\u2019s so weird to be complimented by that because they didn\u2019t think it was original, but in reality, for me I\u00a0was so taken by the fact that I was able to get to a place to produce something at that level of quality to be mistaken for Lalanne, whose work I love.<\/span><\/p>"},{"question":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Wow<\/span><span class=\"s2\">. <\/span><span class=\"s1\">And I\u2019m sure you thought of how far you\u2019ve come and where you started production-wise<\/span><span class=\"s2\">. <\/span><span class=\"s1\">What was the first piece you sold<\/span><span class=\"s2\">? <\/span><\/p>","answer":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Well, I sold things that I made in class when I\u00a0was like 18 at Minneapolis College of Art and Design. The first sale was a coffee table, and I remember the people who bought it called and asked if I would make them a headboard. That felt inconceivable to me. Also the amount of money it takes to impress you when you\u2019re 18 is such a delightfully achievable threshold.<\/span><\/p>"}]},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image_size":"full","gallery":[105912]},{"acf_fc_layout":"interview","interview":[{"question":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">How much does it take to impress you now<\/span><span class=\"s2\">?<\/span><\/p>","answer":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">We sold a couple things for a huge amount, and I was like, \u2018Wow, that was a lot. That\u2019s cool\u2019. <\/span><\/p>"},{"question":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">That\u2019s a house essentially<\/span><span class=\"s2\">.<\/span><\/p>","answer":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Ha. Yes, but I somehow still don\u2019t have a house. But the transaction happened. Somewhere in there lies a business class. It makes you realise you\u2019re part of an economy that\u2019s like the whale carcass at the bottom of the ocean. I do wish that the middlemen in the art market would realise that they were scavengers\u2014imagine if art advisors were like, \u2018Oh no I self-identify as a scavenger\u2019. It would make things so much more tolerable.<\/span><\/p>"},{"question":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It seems so obvious that everyone clamouring for five percent off the top is a bottom feeder<\/span><span class=\"s2\">. <\/span><span class=\"s1\">But back to school\u2014so you went to MCAD and then RISD<\/span><span class=\"s2\">. <\/span><span class=\"s1\">Can you tell me what the community was like there<\/span><span class=\"s2\">?<\/span><\/p>","answer":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Well, I transferred after one year at MCAD, but I loved RISD. I think the irony is that most of my really good friends now that did go to RISD weren\u2019t people I knew or was friends with while I was there. The program I was in was also quite traditional, so I was still a little bit of an oddball there. I somehow dove into making work that was at least heading in the same direction as what I\u2019m doing now. That was pretty immediate. And people were always like, \u2018Yeah this is funny, but it\u2019s not going somewhere\u2019.<\/span><\/p>"},{"question":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">But then it went somewhere<\/span><span class=\"s2\">. <\/span><span class=\"s1\">I love proving people wrong<\/span><span class=\"s2\">. <\/span><span class=\"s1\">So was the energy at RISD competitive<\/span><span class=\"s2\">? <\/span><span class=\"s1\">Confusing<\/span><span class=\"s2\">? <\/span><span class=\"s1\">Inspiring<\/span><span class=\"s2\">?<\/span><\/p>","answer":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">I didn\u2019t think it was very competitive. It was very fun. It was also cool to be working out of a workshop where everyone else was working all the time, but they were also chatting, listening to music, and eating snacks. It never occurred to me to have a workspace that didn\u2019t feel like that. I do feel like my current studio is an extension of that energy, but with better craftsmanship.<\/span><\/p>"},{"question":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Where did you work after you graduated<\/span><span class=\"s2\">? <\/span><\/p>","answer":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">I got a Fulbright for a year, so I had a year of limbo time. Then I worked briefly at a set shop building the animatronic components. After that I worked for a prop stylist for a few years as her assistant. I mostly made still lifes and that was super useful for me. And then things really started to take off.<\/span><\/p>"},{"question":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">What year was this<\/span><span class=\"s2\">?<\/span><\/p>","answer":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">2013 or 2014.<\/span><\/p>"},{"question":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">And how many people work for you now<\/span><span class=\"s2\">?<\/span><\/p>","answer":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Six. <\/span><\/p>"}]},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image_size":"regular","gallery":[105911]},{"acf_fc_layout":"interview","interview":[{"question":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I\u2019ve seen work by people who have some connection to you that\u2019s very clearly derivative of your aesthetic<\/span><span class=\"s2\">. <\/span><span class=\"s1\">How do you feel when that sort of thing happens<\/span><span class=\"s2\">?<\/span><\/p>","answer":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Some of the things caused me some pain, but I think there\u2019s also some joy in it. You\u2019re not really succeeding unless you\u2019re inspiring other people to pursue what you\u2019re doing. When we look at historical work, usually the value we see is influence. That\u2019s the most egotistical answer, but it also is the one answer that leaves room for you to not just be a panicky janitor frantically trying to clean up people\u2019s copies. The copying has also pushed some of my work in different directions. I\u2019ve moved on maybe too quickly from works and series because I felt like someone was coming for them. So I thought, \u2018Whatever, let them have it and I\u2019ll move on\u2019, and I think that hasn\u2019t always been good for me.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Also a certain level of the complexity I was adding to the work was to make sure people couldn\u2019t easily reproduce it. How easy is it to reproduce something that melded weaving with cast bronze with cast crystal. So much of the stuff I\u2019m doing now has so much process put into it. You can\u2019t set up a folding table and start making these pieces. But it also makes the work <i>way<\/i> more difficult to produce for me. And then you see something more straightforward and you\u2019re like, \u2018Oh god, that would be nice\u2019. But it has really had an effect on me. I was talking to another designer and he was like, \u2018Really? You worry about people copying you? I would never\u2019. I think it\u2019s deeply human to feel territorial about something you put energy into.<\/span><\/p>"},{"question":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I think when people suggest you shouldn\u2019t feel that way it\u2019s because they don\u2019t put energy or thought into anything they do<\/span><span class=\"s2\">. <\/span><span class=\"s1\">Have there been specific moments when you wanted to give up<\/span><span class=\"s2\">? <\/span><\/p>","answer":"I think about quitting all the time, but I haven\u2019t."},{"question":"Do you think you\u2019ll work as a furniture designer forever?","answer":"I don\u2019t think so. Life is so long. There are just so many ways in which it could just keep shifting. More and more I\u2019m realising how much stuff is just out of our control. The thought that for my whole life people will be buying rarefied objects like art or fine furniture just seems so unlikely, though I do think creative building will always be valuable. I think the format will shift."}]},{"acf_fc_layout":"two_blocks","block_sizes":"half_50_50","content_type_left":"image","image_size_left":"regular","image_left":105914,"video_left_url":"","video_caption_left":"","video_left_type":false,"text_left":"","credit_image":null,"credit_link_left":null,"content_type_right":"image","image_size_right":"regular","image_right":105916,"video_right_url":"","video_caption_right":"","video_right_type":false,"text_right":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"interview","interview":[{"question":"You work with so many mediums so voraciously already. Do you have a favourite?","answer":"What I enjoy even more than the mediums themselves is meeting new craftspeople who are incredibly skilled. It makes the process of production so fun because you\u2019re unlocking this whole world of knowledge and you can ask anything you can imagine.\r\n\r\nWe also just started making things out of wood in the studio, which is really funny to me because I had to do a lot of woodwork in school and I said I never wanted to use this material again. It\u2019s such a fussy material, and you\u2019re told you have to work with it in a certain way, and there are so many visual examples of how it\u2019s supposed to be used, and if you don\u2019t use it that way everyone thinks it\u2019s wrong. I\u00a0actually kind of love that. I also think using any material is violence to the earth. Trees in particular. It\u2019s interesting and weird because people associate wood with being cosy and homey. People live so comfortably with furniture made out of these majestic creatures."},{"question":"Wow I have never thought about wood in that way. We sit down for a meal and are literally sitting\u2014if we\u2019re lucky\u2014at the bones of an ancient carrier of knowledge and memory. That\u2019s such a profound comment, and also so obvious, it\u2019s shocking we don\u2019t discuss things in that way more frequently. So what mediums have you yet to try that do interest you?","answer":"I feel like I really gobbled up a lot of materials already. I haven\u2019t really done anything with big slabs of stone, though I have done things with found rocks. I like how clunky and immediate they are. I really want to make carved-stone work\u2014I think that\u2019s a new frontier hopefully this year."},{"question":"Walk me through your process. I\u2019m sure it changes with every piece and medium, but what is the ideation stage like for you? What steps do you take to reach completion?","answer":"It really depends on the thing. I\u00a0sketch a lot. I use virtual reality to draw things all the time, but not everything, and I make little models, too. For some things, once they leave the sketching phase, they\u2019re more sorted and don\u2019t need too many adjustments. The piece I was working on today was entirely different. We got the parts back and I was like, \u2018Hmm. I want to move all these things around\u2019. And now we\u2019re building a whole new composition from these finished pieces. There\u2019s a big spectrum of the route things can go."},{"question":"Where is your studio?","answer":"In Sunset Park. I love it."},{"question":"And where do you live?","answer":"In Greenpoint, Brooklyn."},{"question":"How long have you been there?","answer":"Six years."},{"question":"What attracted you to the space?","answer":"I actually sobbed when we got the apartment because I didn\u2019t want it. It\u2019s a railroad and a pretty good one, but I wanted another apartment that was like an industrial loft with no kitchen or bathroom. Now I\u2019m glad we didn\u2019t get it because it would have been hell. My boyfriend, Nick, said that if we got our current place, I could decorate it however I wanted."},{"question":"And how have you decorated it? What collections are represented within it?","answer":"I feel like it\u2019s fun to have other people\u2019s work in the house. We have some Campana Brothers pieces, a Gaetano Pesce dining table, a Wendell Castle table, a few Katie Stout lamps, and a couple of Tadanori Yokoo posters."}]},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image_size":"full","gallery":[105915]},{"acf_fc_layout":"interview","interview":[{"question":"How do you feel when you come home? Are you happy there?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;","answer":"I really like it there. But of course, after six years there are things that you want to change."},{"question":"Is the way you engage with your home straightforward? What activities do you engage in and in which parts of the house?","answer":"I\u2019m pretty didactic about the house, except I\u00a0do eat in bed."},{"question":"I must admit I do that too, but feel such shame about it.","answer":"I don\u2019t have the wherewithal to feel shame. I eat in the bathtub a lot too."},{"question":"Wait, how do you pull that off, logistically?","answer":"I like to have the bath filled up a little bit and then the shower filling up the bath. Then I sit down in the shower and eat. Sometimes the food gets wet. And I\u00a0don\u2019t do that every day, but still somewhat often. It\u2019s usually cereal I eat in the shower, because you\u2019re sitting down and you\u2019re warm, but you\u2019re also wet and you\u2019re eating something wet."},{"question":"What are the things that you can\u2019t see that bring you joy?","answer":"The feeling of warm water."},{"question":"And what about your happiest moments?","answer":"My parents bought this little summer cabin when I was like 10 years old. The previous owner had died, and I found all this money they had stashed in the dishwasher. My mom took me to Sam\u2019s Club and let me buy a trampoline. That is the most pure answer I can give."},{"question":"Oh that\u2019s lovely. What about one of your most transportive moments?","answer":"I was with friends on the way to a majestic little cove near Tulum off the beaten path. We were all by ourselves except for these three strippers with long silk scarves dancing in the outdoor showers by the cove with a drone hovering over them. I felt like I had left earth and gone inside a computer. It was totally captivating, and nothing about it made any sense."},{"question":"Have you ever looked into the abyss?","answer":"No."},{"question":"What is the most important emotion?","answer":"I think contentedness."}]},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image_size":"regular","gallery":[105908]},{"acf_fc_layout":"interview","interview":null},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image_size":"regular","gallery":""}],"related_text":"","issue":"","button_text":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Misha Kahn<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Before interviewing Misha, I joined a lively Indian dinner hosted by Nina Johnson in the East Village, a spot with charming chili lights.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.apartamentomagazine.com\/stories\/misha-kahn\/\" 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