![]() ![]() Outdoors, there’s more potential for a flow of these ideas, with the viewer seeing it more freely and carrying it farther. We love exhibiting in an art gallery, but the concepts are isolated there, especially since some people don’t feel comfortable even walking into a gallery. It lets us create a moment of awe for someone that they can carry with them throughout their day. ID: What appeals to you about exhibiting outdoors in general?Īdam Frezza: Placing our work against the neutral backdrop of an urban environment creates a surreal feeling, because it has such high-key color and whimsical shapes and patterns. And since New York is so global, having our work on view in places like Industry City and Central Park speaks to locals as well as those passing through, connecting us, and helping us have a conversation, with the whole world. Terri Chiao: It’s been amazing to contribute to the emotional and cultural landscape of a city that’s already so layered with history, architecture, and culture. ![]() Interior Design: As a New York–based couple, what’s it like to experience your art on public view there? ![]() Our work is a quest to visualize that.” We sat down with her and Frezza to learn more.Ĭhiaozza cofounders Adam Frezza and Terri Chiao in their Bushwick, Brooklyn, studio resting on unpainted recycled paper pulp sculptures for Scumble Lumps, their second long-term public installation currently on view at Industry City in Sunset Park, with their 10 wooden wall works, also unpainted, for Google’s Pier 57 office in Chelsea behind them. “There’s also the internal emotional landscape. “Physical reality is not the only reality,” Chiao says. Yet all their creations are still inspired by plants, or, more accurately, a brightly colored fantasy version of the natural world, as filtered through their especially fertile imaginations. Recently, they completed a second outdoor exhibition at Industry City, were commissioned by Google to create pieces for the company’s Pier 57 campus in Chelsea, and released a set of wall hooks with fellow Brooklyn brand Areaware (with another functional object in the works). Since then, they’ve had a daughter as well as expanded their Brooklyn-based practice to encompass rugs for IKEA, window displays for Hermès, and a stucco forest at Coachella, the latter around the same time they produced Zen Garden, their 5-year-long installation at Industry City in Sunset Park. The project helped them realize they worked well together, so they decided to cofound a studio, smushing their last names together to christen it Chiaozza. Together, they fashioned a miniature garden full of wild, neon-colored paper plants (which eventually inspired a life-size version at Wave Hill garden in the Bronx). In 2011, less than a year after they met at Chinatown karaoke bar Winnie’s and started dating, Terri Chiao and Adam Frezza had a career-defining experience: Chiao, an architect and alum of 2×4 and OMA, was working on a tiny scale model of a treehouse, and asked Frezza, a fine artist, to help her fill it with foliage. ![]()
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