During his residency at HCCC, he plans to explore functionality and use his studio to create sculptural furniture and play with sight lines and space. He hopes visitors will be encouraged to use and activate his works with their bodies.

Originally from New York, Pitt earned his BFA from the University of New Mexico and his MFA from Mills College. He currently lives and works in Houston, TX, and Santa Fe, NM. His work has been the subject of solo exhibitions in San Francisco, Boston, Los Angeles, New Mexico, and Berlin, and in group exhibitions at the Laumeier Sculpture Park in St. Louis, MI, and the Schneider Museum of Art is Ashland, OR, as well as throughout the Bay Area and New York.  Most recently, his work was shown in dialogue with JB Blunk at Blunk Space and solo exhibitions at Ratio 3, San Francisco, and Seven Sisters, Houston. His work is in the permanent collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Blanton Museum, Austin, TX; and the Berkeley Art Museum.

Jamie’s residency was generously sponsored in part by Laura Babka.

Gracey grew up in California, where he received an MFA in “Sculpture New Genre” from Otis College of Art and Design. He fell into the cabinet-making trade and eventually attended The Krenov School of Fine Woodworking. He has attended residencies at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts and was recently a fellow at The Center for Furniture Craftsmanship in Maine. His work has been exhibited in Los Angeles and San Francisco.

To learn more about Miles Gracey’s work, visit his Instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/plays.on.woods/