GAYLE FORMAN
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Forman Function was formed in 2015 by artist and designer Gayle Forman in Norfolk, Virginia while working at the Chrysler Museum Glass Studio.
First encountering glass during high school at Pittsburgh Glass Center, Gayle Forman received her BFA in Glass from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2014. Since then she’s worked within museums, nonprofits, and fabrication studios as an artist, educator, administrator, and fabricator. In 2019, Forman was a Fulbright U.S. Study & Research grantee in São Paulo, Brazil, researching gambiarra, a practice of creative and makeshift material reuse. Forman relocated to London in the fall of 2025 to pursue her masters degree in Material Futures at Central Saint Martins.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Employing a variety of techniques Forman Function strives to provide unique, handcrafted objects that can exist both as user friendly items and sculpture. The designs are inspired by the search for something Forman refers to as the “wiggle” - instances in which materials, objects, or people no longer have defined limitations and can fluctuate between hard and soft, rigid or flexible. All the pieces in the collection embody this sense of wiggle, as they are all intended to exist as sculptures on their own, while also designed with function in mind.