Floyd Gompf maintains a studio in Lakeside, MI. and shows locally in the Southwest Michigan area including, Red Arrow Gallery in Harbert, Good Goods Gallery in Saugatuck, Lovell and Whyte in Lakeside. His work can also be seen at Susan Fredman Design in Chicago and Lill St. Gallery in Chicago.

From the Chicago Tribune: Floyd Gompf creates furniture that is shabby chic raised to the sublime. He has a unique style that can only be described as being straight out of the movie “Blade Runner.” Gompf has been making furniture for 30 years, following a ceramic career of 20+ years. He borrows from forms he used during the years he worked in ceramics. His life is like that, full of paradoxes. His art is sought after by high-end collectors, but Gompf drives down alleys and past vacant lots in his van searching for discarded weather-worn wood boards and slats, patinated metals and found hardware to make the stuff. He also searches flea markets, farm auctions and salvage stores. He’s a scavenger with a bachelor of fine arts degree in design from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and a master of arts degree in sculpture from Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas. Self-taught as a furniture-maker, Gompf puts his rescued scraps together intuitively, following no blueprint other than that offered by his imagination. Jigsaw puzzle: “I let the materials dictate what the shape of the furniture will be. The materials stew awhile in my studio, strewn about, stacked in piles and barrels. I wait for inspiration from these discards. I start with one or two interesting pieces of wood or metal and then build around them. I give careful consideration to the juxtaposition of colors. It’s kind of like putting a big puzzle together. Each piece of unique hardware and weathered wood brings a unique story to the spirit of the piece.” Hunting and gathering: “There are lots of farm auctions near Lakeside, Mich., where I have my studio. Going to them is a fun thing to do on Saturday mornings. Once in a while, I hit a garage sale. Twenty-five percent of the time, I come up empty-handed.” Shaping up: “I used to do ceramic sculpture with mixed media. I guess making the furniture kind of satisfies my sculptural needs. A lot of the forms that I had been doing with ceramics, I kind of reinvented in furniture forms. One shape growing out of another shape was one of my themes [in ceramics]. Once in a while, I make a straightforward rectangular piece.” Familiarity breeds content: “We used to be in the antiques business here in Lakeside, Mich. We’ve gone through the gamut–Art Deco, ’50s, Industrial, French, Outdoor. Part of the reason I got into the furniture thing was that I was familiar through the antiques business with what people like–the shabby look.” Painter or purist?: “I’m pretty much a purist. People say, `Why don’t you just paint the wood?’ I like the fact there’s a history behind the wood. I like the wood that shows the shadow of a hinge has been on it, or an animal gnawing on it.” Dismantle or don’t touch?: “I’m not opposed to taking furniture apart, if it is not nice. If it is beyond hope, I can deconstruct.”