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Oscar Tuazon - New Home

$100.00

New Home, 2024

Inkjet print on paper
9 × 12 Inches

I often use the tools of architecture to create sculpture, and the technique of stick framing is probably the most common construction technology in North America, so it is interesting to me as a kind of language with a syntax, grammatical laws, and a level of legibility that registers and communicates the tectonic principles of a building. Within an exhibition, all of the infrastructural problems of architecture have already been solved, so it is redundant or even impossible to really show architecture in this setting-- but it is possible to use the particular conditions of the exhibition space as a space of projection, a model space. To me, applying the language of framing to the practice of sculpture is a way to propose new typologies of building, new forms.

The prints are editioned by limited time, available only from October 15 - December 15, 2025. After this date, this image will not be made available in this format again.

New Home, 2024

Inkjet print on paper
9 × 12 Inches

I often use the tools of architecture to create sculpture, and the technique of stick framing is probably the most common construction technology in North America, so it is interesting to me as a kind of language with a syntax, grammatical laws, and a level of legibility that registers and communicates the tectonic principles of a building. Within an exhibition, all of the infrastructural problems of architecture have already been solved, so it is redundant or even impossible to really show architecture in this setting-- but it is possible to use the particular conditions of the exhibition space as a space of projection, a model space. To me, applying the language of framing to the practice of sculpture is a way to propose new typologies of building, new forms.

The prints are editioned by limited time, available only from October 15 - December 15, 2025. After this date, this image will not be made available in this format again.

Oscar Tuazon

Oscar Tuazon is an artist based in Los Angeles and Oil City, Washington. Tuazon studied at The Cooper Union and the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York. He is a co-founder of Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP), New York in 2000; castillo/corrales, Paris in 2007; and Los Angeles Water School (LAWS), Los Angeles in 2016. He is currently working on the design and construction of Water School as a permanent work of public art in the Great Basin region of Nevada, a long-term Land Back initiative in collaboration with the Goshute Tribe. His work has been included in the São Paulo Bienal, Chicago Architectural Biennial, Whitney Biennial, Venice Biennale and Skulptur Münster. Solo exhibitions include Le Consortium, Dijon; Ludwig Museum, Cologne; Bergen Kunsthall, Norway; Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany; and Kunst Museum Winterthur, Switzerland. Something in the Water, curated by Tuazon, is currently on view at the MAXXI Museum in Rome. In 2025, Tuazon completed a major public artwork for the City of Seattle.