Henrique Oliveira
Xilonoma Chamusquius 3 - 2012 - burnt plywood and pigments
Oliveira begins with a PVC skeleton, tacking curls of scrap wood around established bends and tucks. He finds the bulk of his material in the dumpsters of São Paulo, choosing pieces that are splitting and decaying — affected by city life, then utilizes those aesthetic elements in each artwork. The laminate element of the wood is stripped from its basebord and arranged on a work like a brushstroke. Each massive, writhing art piece represents a combination of techniques used in architecture, sculpture and painting. Lives and works in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Sustained Decay (gradient) - 38" x 74" - 2009 - salvaged wood
San Francisco sculptor Andy Vogt has created, over the past decade or so, a series of wall-hung relief works, drawings, sculptures and now installations that exploit wooden lath, those rough-cut redwood strips, a quarter-inch by one and a quarter inches, that were found, coated with plaster, in every house, before the advent of the sheetrock era. Vogt scavenges the discarded old, worn sticks from dumpster bins and employs them to construct planar reliefs that suggest their origins. They read both as partial models of stick-frame houses with shattered roofs and splintered wall paneling, their beams and trusses dissolving as if corroded by space and light, and, with their exaggerated or collapsed perspectives... San Francisco, California
Amelia Bauer
Fallen Limb - 76" x 14" x 8" - 2010 -Wood marquetry on found tree limb
Stump - 4" x 4" x 6.5" - 2011 -Wood marquetry on found tree limb stump
I have always been fascinated with intricate and obsessively crafted objects. My mother is a potter and my father is an architect, and growing up my house was filled with traditional crafts and modernist furniture. I remember seeing a Victorian house for the first time. I couldn’t believe all of the ornate details, it just blew my mind. Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York
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