Alexander Might, founding father of LA studio Sized, on the fun of artistic polymathy

For American artistic director Alexander Might – featured 2024’s Wallpaper* USA 400, in addition to in an accompanying photographic portfolio by Inez & Vinoodh – creativity is a fluid idea.

Might’s work has encompassed large-scale exhibitions, model technique, set design and artistic path. After working with manufacturers from Yola Mezcal to Skims, it felt pure to arrange on his personal, and Might launched artistic studio Sized, which additionally boasts a multifunctional 5,000 sq ft occasion house, in Los Angeles, in 2021. He has since additionally established Sized Selects, an ongoing curation of design, furnishings and artwork items from all over the world.

‘I feel as we speak everybody’s fairly aware of creatives who dabble, or who’re fairly proficient in many alternative fields,’ says Might. ‘Once I was coming into [the creative arena], it felt fairly polarising by way of interactions. Design as a complete was this different world that nobody from the artwork world or style world actually coalesced with, though they have been impressed by it and purchased and picked up from it. However it wasn’t a part of the identical dialog.’

Might eschewed this rigidity between the disciplines early on in his profession, cementing his multidisciplinary type of apply throughout time primarily based in Milan, the place he arrange the Fondazione Converso in 2017. Positioned within the Sixteenth-century San Paolo Converso church, the house celebrates another strategy to the showcasing and curation of artwork, design and efficiency. ‘I used to be utilising the entrance of the church, which is probably the most ornate half, as an area to curate, and populate with rising efficiency expertise and artists that I knew,’ says Might. ‘I began creating this programme, mainly connecting artists, designers and performers contained in the church, in a brand new context that was very metropolis particular.’

This interweaving of creativity and connections is one thing he took with him upon his return to the US. ‘It was somewhat little bit of a leap as a result of I got here to LA and I began the company that as we speak is Sized. It began off with this second, this huge dialog round an exhibition, which is what I knew the best way to do.

‘It is undoubtedly been a little bit of carving my very own path, which is one thing I’ve all the time accomplished instinctively. I constructed Sized to be an umbrella so we are able to collaborate – collaboration is de facto on the core of every little thing I do. Sized is an umbrella model for anybody coming in, so should you’re shopping for from us or should you’re collaborating with us, should you’re a consumer or working a pop-up within the studio, your autonomy stays the identical, however you develop into half of a bigger context, a part of the larger framework which I’ve created.’

With so many collaborations all through the world of artwork, design, structure and tradition beneath his belt, what’s subsequent for Might? ‘I am additionally now venturing extra formally into doing design work beneath my very own title; a few collaborations will likely be popping out within the fall. It is enjoyable. It is an thrilling factor to have the ability to hone in and push what I need to see, and what I feel is vital.’