Trees

source: stripedcanary

Wade Kavanaugh and Stephen B. Nguyen, both based in Brooklyn, NY have collaborated since 2005. They continue making work together because their collaborative process has given them a platform to articulate the collective processing of what they see and to continually re-question visual foundations such as memory, perception and imagination. The process of questioning at the root of their collaboration has encouraged experimentation and play that might otherwise not exist in their individual artistic practices.
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source: juxtapoz

Using wood and paper, Brooklyn-based long time collaborators Wade Kavanaugh and Stephen B. Nguyen create large-scale installations that often resemble trees and forests, filling entire rooms with the twisted and crushed material.
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source: watsonfestival

WADE KAVANAUGH was born in Portland ME and currently lives and works in Brooklyn NY. He received his AB in Economics from Bowdoin College in 2001. His work has been shown at the Cynthia Reeves Gallery, New York NY; The Soap Factory, Minneapolis MN; Smack Mellon, Brooklyn NY; Portland Museum of Art, Portland ME; Islip Art Museum, Islip NY; and the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx NY. Kavanaugh has been an artist in residence at The Macdowell Colony, Peterborough NH; Franconia Sculpture Park, Shafer MN; and the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson VT. He has received grants from both the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation.

STEPHEN B. NGUYEN was born in Little Falls MN and currently lives and works in Brooklyn NY. He received his MFA in painting from the University of Victoria, British Columbia in 2002. His work has been shown at the ISE Cultural Foundation, New York NY; Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Swing Space, New York NY; Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn NY; Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia, Canada; Islip Art Museum, Islip NY; and the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx NY. Nguyen has been an artist in residence at The Macdowell Colony, Peterborough NH. He has received grants from both the Urban Artist Initiative and the New York Foundation for the Arts. KAVANAUGH and NGUYEN’s collaborative work has been exhibited at the Dumbo Arts Center, Brooklyn NY; the Maproom, Portland ME; Islip Art Museum, Islip NY; The Soap Factory, Minneapolis MN; and Mass MOCA, North Adams MA. ‘Tug O’ War’, their collaborative installation for the 2012 wats:ON Festival, remains on exhibit through 27 April.
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source: nomadaq

Las raíces de un árbol, las paredes interiores de una cueva o la lengua de un glaciar punto de caer al océano son algunos de los sucesos del entorno natural, en los que se inspiran los artistas Wade Kavanaugh y Stephen B. Nguyen con sede en New York, para realizar sus voluminosos conjuntos escultóricos.

Realizada con papel de diferentes colores dependiendo del objeto recreado. Se trata de intervenciones donde el espacio se convierte en el contenedor donde la escultura cobra vida extendiéndose de forma orgánica hasta modificar la identidad del mismo.

Debido a las grande dimensiones y a la mareabilidad del material que se emplea, las estructuras conforman paisajes interiores donde lo surrealista y lo onírico confluyen en una experiencia sensorial que estimula la imaginación del espectador, que siente el impulso de recorrerlas a pesar de que es consciente de que su acción deforma su constitución.

Wade Kavanaugh y Stephen B. Nguyen, han realizado colaboraciones puntuales mientras paralelamente desarrollaban sus carrera en solitario. Iniciada en 2005, han creado una plataforma común definida por un estilo propio donde el tratamiento colectivo, continuamente re-cuestionan fundamentos visuales tales como la memoria, la percepción y la apariencia del paisaje y sus procesos biológicos.
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source: buro247

Бруклинские художники Уэйд Каванах (Wade kavanaugh) и Стивен Б. Нгуйен (Stephen B. Nguyen) работают вместе с 2005 года и создают масштабные скульптуры из бумаги, заполняя ими целые комнаты. Их инсталляции превращают в зал в дремучий лес с красными стволами деревьев, в снежные склоны или непроходимые “бумажные” джунгли.

Новую работу скульпторов “In response to shoshone falls” в этом сезоне показывал центр искусств Sun Valley в городе Кетчум штата Айдахо. Скрученные листы тонкой бумаги простираются на несколько метров в каждую сторону, спускаясь с потолка, подобно водопаду. Они кажутся будто бы взятыми из фильма Ларса фон Триера “Меланхолия” — инсталляция Каванаха и Нгайена явственно напоминает нам о той “серой пряже”, что опутывала ноги Кирстен Данст. Только в гораздо больших масштабах.