The three artists in Unfinished, Andy Vogt, Krishna Khalsa, and Scott Oliver, use raw and recycled wood as a primary sculptural material, giving their work a deceptively simple elegance. Without extraneous color or embellishment, these artists’ painstaking attention to craft draws attention to the inherent sophistication of the material at hand, transforming scrap wood or thrift store furniture into commanding sculptural objects.

Andy Vogt’s main material is salvaged plaster lath: the wooden strips embedded in the walls of old houses. He cuts and joins the lath to create two and three-dimensional sculptures, highlighting the variations in color, texture and thickness in the recycled wood. Using the lath with the precision of technical drawing and architectural models, Vogt plays with perspective and implied volume, often invoking natural forms.

Krishna Khalsa uses materials in repetition—ranging from toothpicks to cut-up wood pallets—to create large-scale structural objects. She explores how space is perceived and navigated, by creating constraining passageways through which viewers are forced to pass, but with semi-transparent walls, which renders these unconventional contexts both restrictive and permeable.

Scott Oliver’s work begins with used furniture and other found objects, which he transforms from familiar into uncanny new forms. In the construction of each of Oliver’s works, craft is of utmost importance, countering the relative “disposability” of the mass produced items from which they derive. By altering these objects, Oliver subverts the meanings they have in their typical functions and compels the viewer to reconsider both their materiality and their possible significance.