Rodney Alan Greenblat: The High Chair

The High Chair by Rodney Alan Greenblat (b. 1960, San Francisco, CA) is a 15 1/2’ tall chair made of enamel-painted wood-framed plywood. Furniture is an integral part of Greenblat’s work, and The High Chair represents the first outdoor translation of his ideas in an architectural scale. The roof or seat of the chair is made of translucent corrugated fiberglass, forming a dry, well-lit shelter for passersby. On the right top back of the chair is a bird house. The chair, painted in the artist’s familiar trompe l’oeil decorative vocabulary, is described by Greenblat as an “unexplained billboard.”