Jesse Groom
Cicatrix Chair, 2025
Aluminum, filler rod
18 x 16 x 34 in.
Courtesy of artist

Jesse Groom
Jesse Groom is a New York-based designer whose work straddles the worlds of furniture design and sculptural craft. Using found and industrial materials, Groom constructs visceral assemblages that suggest imperfect hybrid forms made from resourceful experimentation and formal detours. His work frequently evokes the tension between normative function and vernacular gestures of freedom.

His ongoing Cicatrix series—including chairs, lamps, and furniture—involves intense metal work constructed by covering aluminum frames with countless filler rods to create what Groom describes as self-forming objects that are the “epitome of the Greek philosophical concept known as techne: learning by doing, being by doing. Cicatrix praises the scars of practice and process.”