Finding a Seat Within the Knotted Wire

Just off Williamsburg’s Bedford Avenue, down a street lined with indie-music clubs, sculptor Forrest Myers lives and works in a low-level building he purchased decades before the neighborhood became a favored destination for the young and arty. Mr. Myers and his wife, Debra, who occupy the top floor, renovated the space themselves and now even the knobs of the kitchen cabinets and drawers are artful: They’re made of Mr. Myers’s signature tangled knots of steel wire. It’s the same aesthetic that is on public view at the Friedman Benda gallery, where Mr. Myers’s “chairs” — some made from woven wire, others of oxidized steel — as well as some of his pivotal early works, such as his stainless steel geometric constructions, are on view.