Inside the Studio

Visit with CHIAOZZA

Artist duo CHIAOZZA working in their studio. — Photo by Joe Kramm

Step inside CHIAOZZA's whimsical Bushwick studio in preparation for their solo exhibition Slow Growth.

As collaborators for over a decade, CHIAOZZA has developed a unique visual language that carries across a range of techniques employed in their practice from sculpture to drawing to collage, and painting. This language includes a playful approach to form, color, composition, shape, and material that is rooted in a deep reverence and awe for nature and the impermanence of life’s fleeting moments.

In this series of paintings on linen, we play with the graphic space of the picture plane, in which bulbous floral forms push at the edges of the rectangular frame, and negative and positive space are equally weighted in the construction of the composition.
Adam Frezza & Terri Chiao (CHIAOZZA)

The formal decisions within this body of work are in service of a grounded stability and balance in search for a feeling of confidence, peace, and fullness.
Adam Frezza & Terri Chiao (CHIAOZZA)

Like the Japanese suiseki, we approach each image as a potential spiritual icon, imbuing each work with a humble loftiness to hold the wildness around us still for a moment and give us a chance to breathe.
Adam Frezza & Terri Chiao (CHIAOZZA)