luka vergoz

Instagram: @lukavergoz

Website: https://www.lukavergoz.com/

Bio: luka vergoz is an Oakland-based artist who finds, alters, and arranges material scraps into sculptures and installations addressing physics, language, and the transsexual experience. They hold a BA from Vassar College and an MFA from UC Davis. A 2023-4 Graduate Fellow at Headlands Center for the Arts, Luka has shown work at ICASF, Root Division, Pelota Gallery, and the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art.

Statement: Searching for specificity in abstraction, my work begins with discarded scraps, matter that is a byproduct of construction or a casualty of time. All matter used to be something else before it was this and will become something else after it’s done being this. All making is unmaking. Drawing on my experiences as a transgender person and my understanding of matter’s transformation over time, I place priority on the process of thingness–how seemingly static objects not so much “are'' as “happen.” Zoom out and consider the continuous shuffle of matter over time on a planetary scale. Zoom in to observe how subatomic processes maintain the forms we interact with at our bodily scale. If all being is happening, ‘form’ as noun becomes ‘form’ as verb. ​ I release boundaries of works in space and time, allowing components to expand and collapse, to break apart, combine, shuffle and change—presenting and re-presenting themselves in multiple stages of their perpetual becoming