The American artist Clay Ketter originally supplemented his income working in the construction industry, an experience that was to have a major influence on his artwork. Ketter appropriates and customises modular, prefabricated kitchen units—the kind we are used to assembling ourselves—and then places these hybrid structures in a gallery context. These pieces are informed by Scandinavian interior design, as exemplified by the Swedish company IKEA (Ketter now lives in Sweden). Melamine shelves, surfaces and cupboards provided the basis for these sculptural works, to which Ketter added a series of transparent panels that implied display. Meticulous in its craft, the finished product has a pared-down, utilitarian aesthetic reminiscent of both Minimalist sculpture and the utopian modernism of Bauhaus design, while also referencing the language of painting.