Location: New York City, NY, USA
Medium: Digital Fabrication (CNC, 3D printing, Laser Cutting)
Contact: admin@fuguegallery.com
I would describe my art practice as being an interdisciplinary student. I came to the Cooper Union for my BFA because I was drawn to the idea of a truly interdisciplinary education that would allow me to broaden my knowledge across the four schools of Art, Humanities, Engineering, and Architecture. A professor once told me the secret to education is “turning mirrors into windows”, and I believe working collaboratively and interdisciplinarily is critical in achieving this. Although I am currently pursuing a BFA, I am also a literature minor and hope to enter an MS program after graduation. There is a constant emphasis on vertical specialization, but I believe horizontal synthesis develops fluency in multiple languages. Being multilingual in art, engineering, literature, and other fields provides a plethora of tools through which we can process reality and more easily communicate with each other. My practice synthesizes many ways of making as a way of both learning and teaching through art objects.
*Future Forward Feature My work uses digital fabrication techniques to recontextualize historical objects and traditional techniques. Through the use of 3D modeling/printing and CNC routing, I not only explore new ways of material manipulation, but I also investigate the idea of the facsimile and the reproducible object, as well as the relationship between artist and machine. Does mechanical reproduction destroy the aura of a work of art, or can the aura be located in the work’s content regardless of the context of its fabrication? I explore this question by synthesizing traditional hand techniques, such as woodworking and painting, with modern computer-assisted methods.
