Madeline Coven might have the youngest practice on our list — she only recently started working on her own full-time after apprenticing in the studio of Minjae Kim — but her growing collection of pewter sconces and rawhide leather lamps have the sophistication of a designer with twice her experience. Coven grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico, a place in clear dialogue with the landscape around it, and it imprinted a sort of otherworldly aesthetic on her while teaching her the importance of viewing her work as an ever-changing ecosystem. “I see materials as in flux and part of a broader cycle that relies on all of its parts,” Coven told gallerist Jacqueline Sullivan last year in an interview on the occasion of her Library exhibition. “I aim to have a similar sensibility in my work, not to impose form upon objects and material, but to observe and collaborate with its natural behavior.” Coven sees her work as a kind of alchemy, so it makes sense that pewter — which is able to be manipulated and re-formed on a whim, and has the appearance of a lunar surface — is one of her preferred materials.