TJ Krivanec

Bio: TJ Krivanec has lived in Rich­mond VA his whole life. Early expe­ri­ences in historic reno­va­tion led to inter­ests of wood as a medium for furni­ture and sculp­ture. He earned a BFA in the Craft & Mate­r­ial Studies program from VCU, mostly explor­ing processes involved with fine wood­work­ing and glass­mak­ing. He has installed exhi­bi­tions as a prepara­tor for Hamil­ton­ian Gallery, The Ander­son, The Eric Schindler Gallery, and The Science Museum of VA. He sees wood as a time­less teach­ing tool- from the life­cy­cle of the tree itself, the chal­lenges of fabri­cat­ing for specific demands, to personal explorations.

State­ment: I am inter­ested in under­stand­ing wood’s unde­ni­able origin as tree, and through that process further contem­plate the layers of fake­ness and simu­la­tion we are surrounded by in post indus­trial society. I am inter­ested in how nature feels strange and exotic as our broken systems attempt to become automated.