On the surface, Rob Hendrickson is just another self-taught, multi-disciplined designer and creative soul living in Brooklyn, New York who enjoys many of the current trends (film photography, upcycling, and home recording), but below the surface, and what few others can honestly emulate, lies the long gestating connection he has had with design based on repurposing the relatively valueless.
What started out as a youthful indulgence in thrift and second-hand stores supported by family interests in antiquing became an ongoing quest to create value from what many people simply gave away or didn’t use anymore. He made his first glass-top speaker coffee table in high school and quickly became obsessed with interiors and the manipulation of object and space in the home, meticulously building and crafting his living spaces and then going on to collaborate with and be a consultant for others. Most of his works are products of simple convenience and availability, involving penchants for common materials like wood, glass, and speakers, that are transformed into a wholly unique and new creation that can seem at first-glance almost obvious because the result is so immediately easy to identify with.
This same philosophy is applied to photography, graphic design, and music by composing and sculpting new entities from pieces of older uncommon sources such as vinyl, film reels, and dead stock cameras and film. Instead of jumping on a what-happens-to-be-fashionable-now bandwagon, Rob Hendrickson reveals through his oeuvre how progressive he has been for over a decade and shows no signs of contenting himself by resting on his laurels.
To contact Rob Hendrickson please email him at Roballenh@mac.com
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