poly-perspectives
Paul Myoda
Paul Myoda’s most recent series of illuminated sculptures, titled Poly-Perspectives, explores the incompatibilities between different spatial representational systems, such as 1) linear perspective as developed in the European Renaissance, 2) isometric perspective as developed in East Asia, and 3) 4-dimensional space as developed in mathematics.
These wall-mounted sculptures are made by combining manual metal-working techniques (copper, bronze, and steel) with contemporary CNC technologies (wire benders and laser cutters).
The spatial and optical ambiguities that result from re-mixing visual-spatial systems suggest new kinds of speculative, liminal spaces.
Paul Myoda
Paul Myoda (b. 1967, United States) is a Japanese-American sculptor based in Chepachet, Rhode Island. Myoda is inspired by the underlying logic and formal principles of the natural world and applies them to his work with new media and industrial materials. The results are compositions of light and form that investigate tensions between beauty and ugliness, tradition and experimentation, and the natural and the built. His sculptures and installations are regularly exhibited both nationally and internationally.
Myoda earned a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design (’89) and an MFA from Yale University (’94). Based in NYC from 1990-2006, Myoda was the co-founder of Big Room, an art production and design collective in New York City. He was also a contributor to Art in America, Flash Art and Frieze. He is a recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Warhol Foundation and Howard Foundation, among others.
In 2001, he participated in the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s World Views Program and had a studio on the 91st floor of WTC I. In March of 2002, he co-created The Tribute in Light in memory of the tragic events of September 11th, 2001, which has since become an annual installation.
Over the past three decades, Myoda has been creating illuminated sculptures and sculptural installations. Their compositions consist of a wide range of forms and references, such as bioluminescent fauna, crystal morphology, religious nimbuses, and different graphicalperspective systems.
His works are part of the collections of the Queens Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami and the Library of Congress, among others. He has had solo exhibitions at the Friedrich Petzel Gallery, NY; the Dorsch Gallery, Miami, FL; the Project 4 Gallery, Washington DC; the Yellow Peril Gallery, Providence, RI; the Maine Museum at the University of Maine; the Peligro Amarillo Gallery, San Juan, Puerto Rico; and the Plug-In Exhibition, Istanbul, Turkey, among others.
He is an Associate Professor in Brown University's Visual Art Department, where he has taught sculpture and drawing since 2006.
