2021
Patrick Dougherty
'MAKING THE BIRDS PROUD'
Combining his carpentry skills and his love for nature, Patrick Dougherty uses vernacular building techniques and tree saplings to create immersive, otherworldly site-specific sculptures that twist, tower, bend, coil, and soar. Merging art, craftsmanship, and design, they attest to the wonder and awe-inspiring power of the natural world.
DeFINE 2021
Carlos Garaicoa
'A CITY VIEW FROM THE TABLE OF MY HOUSE'
DEC. 31, 2020 - AUG. 29, 2021
Based in Madrid and Havana, Carlos Garaicoa originally trained in thermodynamics and later in painting, lending him a unique perspective on the relationship of social and historical structures to architecture and urbanism. Throughout his prolific artistic career he has poignantly signaled the ways in which more abstract phenomena like power and entropy affect the tangible universe like cities.