Wade Patrick Kavanaugh was born in Bethel, Maine. He received a B.A. in Economics from Bowdoin College in 2001 and currently resides in Brooklyn, New York. Kavanaugh is best known for his collaborations with Stephen B. Nguyen on installation art. The two joined forced in 2005 to create art based on “shared seeing.” They use art to actively investigate visual reference points, memories, and assumptions. Kavanaugh has been both a Fellow at MacDowell and an Ellis-Beauregard Fellow at the Center for Main Contemporary Art.
Discipline:
Visual Art – sculpture
Wade Kavanaugh
Discipline:
Visual Art – sculpture
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2008
More:
www.wadekavanaugh.com
Studios
Heinz
Wade Kavanaugh worked in the Heinz studio.
The icehouse, built of fieldstone in 1914–1915, was a practical part of Marian MacDowell’s plan for a self-sufficient farm. Winter ice cut from a nearby pond was stored here for summer use on the property. Idle since 1940, it was a handsome but outdated farm building. In 1995, Mrs. Drue Heinz, a vice chairman…