STUDIO POA

Giovanni Valdeavellano’s work as Studio POA represents a merger, in several ways, of disparate sides of his background — his childhood learning crafts from his mother and engineering from his father, his career spent working as a contractor with an art practice on the side, and his dual identities as a Guatemalan living in New York. The pieces in his new collection similarly hover between the gestural qualities of art, the technology of 3-D rendering, and the craft of sculpting materials like ceramic, glass, wood, and sand by hand.