Fall 2020 - Virtual Exhibition
CHIAOZZA: COLOR GATHERS SPACE
CHIAOZZA, the collaborative studio of Adam Frezza & Terri Chiao, explores play and craft across a variety of mediums. In this show, the duo exhibits large environmental works that dance upon the lines between painting, sculpture, design and architecture. The painted wooden forms experiment with vibrant color relationships, iconic shape-making, and perspectival movement to highlight a chromatic world where shapes have tones, objects create echoes, and color gathers space.
Naturally evolving from the duo’s Wooden Wall Works series, the pieces in this exhibition create an entirely new body of work, debuting for the first time here at Westchester Community College. The impulse is to consider the gallery a laboratory for experimentation and discovery; the hope is for the viewer to also discover and feel empowered to create and experiment within their own practice.
Virtual Exhibition Tour
With WCC Art Historian Sarah Mills
Top Left to Bottom Right: Hearth, Funnel, Reverse Watermelon, Lines, Waves, Ess, Lines, Inside, Scope, Dip Dip Dip, Arc, Blue Ridge Warm Waves 1, Spout Up Light (yellow), Blue Ridge Warm Waves 2, Blue Ridge Warm Waves 3
Top Left to Bottom Right: Solar Ear, Untitled 1, Untitled 2, Bell (front), Bell (side), Portal Pair (front), Portal Pair (side), Wavy Lines (front), Wavy Lines (side)
Behind the scenes
CHIAOZZA speaks with Sarah Mills about creating Color Gathers Space.
Meet the Artists
Studio Visit and Interview with CHIAOZZA
Questions & Activity
What causes negative space to appear as “activated” space?
In what ways can art engage with its physical context? Find 3 examples in the exhibition.
How can art/design direct the movement of one’s eyes? Discuss using an example found in the exhibition.
Is Color Gathers Space an exhibition about art or design? Explain.
Envision a new space for a few pieces of CHIAOZZA’s work outside the gallery setting. Sketch/describe a place where you think the work would be well suited.