CRIMSON VORTEX | Tuleste Factory & Spring Place | NYCxDesign
Featuring Artists: Alex Kuznetsov • Bert Furnari • Courtney Kinnare • Facture • Ian Cochran • Jerry Ross Barrish
Tuleste Factory transformed Spring Place’s iconic red room into an immersive portal of color, material, and form. Crimson Vortex invited visitors into a living fantasy where retro nostalgia converged with futuristic ease. Saturated in deep crimson tones, subtle pinks, and passionate purples, the installation blurred the line between environment and dreamscape — offering a sensory experience where color became atmosphere and design became a gateway to another reality. Within this vivid world, past visions and future possibilities collided at the heart of New York’s creative scene.
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About The Artists
ALEX KUZNETSOV
Alex Kuznetsov is a Lisbon-based artist whose work engages abstraction as a method of resistance — to speed, to spectacle, to surface legibility. His compositions emerge through slow, layered processes where gesture, duration, and structure become inseparable. Rather than images, they are conditions: spaces for perception to stretch and recalibrate. Grounded in repetition, rhythm, and physical presence, Kuznetsov’s practice is deliberately open in material and form. From painting to object-based works, language to construction, he builds visual fields that refuse immediacy — inviting the viewer not to interpret, but to stay.
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Bert Furnari is a multidisciplinary artist and self-taught metal fabricator. He co-founded eleven20 Art Studios and Workshops in Easton, PA, where he operates a dynamic studio and metalworking shop. His medium of choice is aluminum, celebrated for its exceptional strength-to-weight ratio, malleability, durability, and sustainability. Remarkably, aluminum is 100% recyclable, with over 75% of all aluminum ever mined still in use today—a testament to its enduring and environmentally friendly nature.
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COURTNEY KINNARE
Courtney Kinnare is an artist and designer based in Brooklyn known for her vibrant mirrored works and functional artistic objects. Without feeling constricted to one medium or art form, she works intuitively to create abstract works of hyper-color palettes observed in the natural world, subconsciously documented throughout her life experiences. Each work is a unique experiment that studies the interaction of color, texture, and light, unveiling itself as it develops. By recreating and inviting these colors into a space, she hopes to build a stronger affinity towards the unnoticed details in our everyday.
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Facture is a contemporary design studio located in Brooklyn, NY. Founded by designer Quincy Ellis, the studio creates dynamic pieces from molded resin by manipulating the elements of light, color and transparency. This exploration is central to all of Facture's work, with each design featuring unique colors, shades and opacities. The final product is a body of work that achieves new dimensions in the medium of resin, consisting of objects whose compositions and meaning change in response to the environments in which they are placed.
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IAN COCHRAN
Ian Alistair Cochran is a designer who is excited by unconventional materials and the relationship that emerges in working with them. He makes contemporary art furniture in resin, fiberglass, composites, and continues to explore other materials not typically used in the design world. Ian’s Plump furniture series has garnered significant press and fanfare.
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Jerry Ross Barrish, a fourth-generation San Franciscan, pursued studies in sculpture and film at the San Francisco Art Institute from 1970 to 1976. Upon earning his BFA and MFA, Barrish went on to produce three full-length narrative films. In 1988, he shifted his focus back to sculpture, specializing in creating figurative assemblages using plastic found materials, a passion he continues to pursue and create. Select notable works have been reborn into bronze sculptures. He is represented in many permanent collections including The Oakland Museum of California, Berkeley Art Museum, Crocker Museum and San Jose Art Museum.
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