The sculptor Oscar Tuazon works with natural and industrial materials to create inventive objects, structures, and installations that can be used, occupied, or otherwise engaged by viewers. With a strong interest in and influence from architecture and minimalism, Tuazon turns both disciplines on their heads as he mangles, twists, combines, and connects steel, glass, and concrete as well as two-by-fours, tree trunks, and found objects. Tuazon produces objects and environments that draw out humanity’s relationship to buildings, interior and exterior spaces, and other objects and structures.
Nightswimmin'
2024
Enamel, acrylic and marbling ink on canvas
152 x 152 cm / 59 7/8 x 59 7/8 in
© Oscar Tuazon
Abyssal
2024
Enamel, acrylic and marbling ink on canvas
122 x 122 cm / 48 x 48 in
© Oscar Tuazon
Fire Worship
2019
Concrete, refractory cement, stainless steel, and fire
Dimensions variable
Installation view, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, 2019
© Oscar Tuazon
Growth Rings
2019
Wood, Douglas fir
Site-specific installation of 3 large wooden rings
Ring 1 ø 548 cm / ø 215 3/4 in
Ring 2 ø 508 cm / ø 200 in
Ring 3 ø 469 cm / ø 184 5/8 in
Installation view, Central Wharf Park, Boston, 2019
© Oscar Tuazon
Orchard Ladder
2019
Aluminum, douglas fir, steel
226 x 66 x 122 cm / 89 x 26 x 48 in
© Oscar Tuazon
Double Corner
2019
Juniper, concrete, steel
Sculpture 172.5 x 30.5 x 61 cm / 68 x 12 x 24 in
© Oscar Tuazon
Water column
2017
Thermoplastic pipes, tree trunks
268 x 800 cm (H x L) / ø 210 cm
Installation view, FIAC, Hors Les Murs, Place Vendôme, Paris, 2017
© Oscar Tuazon
Burn the Formwork (Fire Building)
2017
Precast concrete, refractory cement, steel, stainless steel, wood, fire
350 x ø 500 cm / 137 3/4 x ø 196 7/8 in
Installation view, Skulptur Projekte Münster, Münster, 2017
© Oscar Tuazon
WALK THROUGH WALLS (The Easy Way is Hard Enough)
2017
Low E glass, aluminum, steel door, rope, pulley, stone, wire, whiteout and ink on paper
276 x 152 x 80 cm / 108 5/8 x 59 7/8 x 31 1/2 in
© Oscar Tuazon
WALK THROUGH WALLS (America)
2017
Low E glass, aluminum, acrylic, steel, cedar, poplar, electronics, concrete, pulley, styrofoam insulation, rope, chain, beer cans, digital camera
253.5 x 152.5 x 80 cm / 99 3/4 x 60 x 31 1/2 in
© Oscar Tuazon
Quonset Tent
2016
Aluminium, acrylic, wood, glass
228 x 608 x 400 cm / 89 3/4 x 239 3/8 x 157 1/2 in
Installation view, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, 2016
© Oscar Tuazon
THE HOUSE HUSBAND
2016
concrete, wood, paint, steel, candles, paper
223 x 35 x 47 cm / 87 3/4 x 13 3/4 x 18 1/2 in
© Oscar Tuazon & © Ariana Reines
Pipe Prototype
2015
Fiberglass, concrete, sonotube
54 x 125.5 x 155 cm / 21 1/4 x 49 1/2 x 61 in
© Oscar Tuazon
A Person
2014
Steel, concrete, glass, brick, lamps, paint
280 x ø 315 cm / 110 1/4 x ø 124 in
© Oscar Tuazon
