Viscaya Wagner is a multidisciplinary artist and designer based in Burlington, Vermont. Integrating art forms into our everyday spaces and rituals, Viscaya creates spaces, objects, and artwork that reflect a long term exploration of form and material. Her work exhibits warmth, tactility, and simplicity of form, emphasizing the dynamic force between discoverability and familiarity.

“My process is what has come to drive my personal art practice. Through my work I practice letting go of a preconceived outcome, necessary when working in interior and furniture design, and playing with shape as a meditative act. It’s difficult for me to separate from my expectations and let the materials present opportunities for me to respond to. Although my sculptural pieces are very considered and require coordination and planning, I begin most works by sitting down and drawing forms in quick succession; loosening my thoughts and freeing my mind. I often start by drawing a grid of squares and then filling them in before I have an opportunity to overthink what I’m putting on the page. This practice is an ongoing exercise in freeing myself from my own limitations.

I’m drawn to materials in their most elemental form and think of these sculptures as ‘material collages’ — exploring essential forms and the way materials interact with one another. These pieces are purely formal and their expression is limited to the celebration of texture and naked materials.”   

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