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Greg Kmieciak is a furniture maker and metalworker whose practice centers on materiality, labor, and the social meaning embedded in objects. With over fifteen years of experience spanning fabrication, restoration, and small-scale production, his work is informed as much by blue-collar labor as by historical furniture traditions. He primarily works with steel, bronze, and silver, using labor-intensive processes to elevate materials often considered utilitarian, overlooked, or structural.

Greg is interested in how materials function as symbols of wealth, status, and memory, drawing inspiration from periods of extreme economic disparity such as the Baroque and Rococo while situating his work firmly in the present. His objects often appear familiar at first glance—a table, a light, a utensil—but reveal themselves through unconventional forms, visible process, and an emphasis on detail that resists mass production.

Currently an MFA candidate in Furniture Design at the Rhode Island School of Design, Kmieciak approaches making as both personal inquiry and material critique, valuing craft as a site of attention, control, and lived experience.

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