Flower Towers
Flower Towers | Wade Schaming
January 20, 2016 - February 28, 2016chashama 300
300 West 30th Street
(at 8th Avenue)
New York, NY
Nearest Trains: A, C, E, 1
Exhibition on view from the street 24/7
Wade Schaming's sculptures are painstakingly assembled solely through the process of stacking. The materials remain unchanged – used as is/found – and are unfixed to each other. As such, Schaming creates delicate juxtapositions perilously balanced, like thought given concrete form.
From discarded and forgotten objects, which memorialize hope, the assembled forms aspire to return dignity to the bearer and evoke empathy in the viewer. Schaming's process is site-specific and confined to the present moment: because he works only with found and discarded materials (nothing used is purchased), his pieces reflect their origins while reinforcing a desire to create impermanence.
About the Artist:
Wade Schaming was born in 1984 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He studied at the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA (BA 2006) and the School of Visual Arts, New York, NY (MFA 2010). He has participated in the Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) program at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY (2012) and was an artist-in-residence at the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT (2014), Residency 108, Clermont, NY (2014) and The Museum of Human Achievement, Austin, TX (2015). He currently is participating in the Keyholder Residency program at the Lower East Side Printshop, New York, NY (2015-16). He lives in Brooklyn, NY.
This exhibit is supported in part by a space grant from chashama, and made possible with funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
