Mitchell Charbonneau’s Hyperrealist Sculptures Hide in Plain Sight

Mitchell Charbonneau’s studio is one of many among a warren of fabrication shops and ateliers at Permanent Maintenance, an artist-run space in the New York neighborhood of Ridgewood, Queens. Upon entering, I moved to place my coat on a worn, half-open folding chair. Looking more closely, I reconsidered, recognizing it as a work of art. Charbonneau’s exhibitions cohere in spare arrangements of banal detritus, with a tight visual vocabulary of things like Little Trees air freshene