Jessie Nelson

Jessie Nelson traveled a peripatetic path-from small-town Wyoming roots to global rock tours and, eventually, a fortuitous hotel job-to creating objects that quietly anchor a space. In the designer and furniture maker's Gowanus workshop, concrete bends like liquid stone and charred ash bears the marks of intentional fire. His works currently on view at Dernier Cri , High Altar Boy and Acolyte, feel at once primitive and refined, and unbeknownst to the casual eye, blend family story and ritual. A pivotal shift happened in 2009, when Nelson applied for-and 'begrudgingly'...