PADRAIC JOHN
MITTAG - MCNAUGHT

Has a background in Sculpture & Printmaking from St. Olaf College (B.A. 2020), and is currently a Masters of Architecture I Candidate at Yale School of Architure (M.Arch I 2025). 

Through architecture, I explore ideas of urbanity, with an unwavering belief in the city. 


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The Artificial Forest

Spring 2023
North Gallery
Yale School of Architecture

The Artificial Forest is an exhibition attempting to unearth the spirituality of the natural object within its industrialized form, focusing on our most familiar industrialized resource and material: trees and wood.

Exhibits of furniture and sculpture recontextualize both the tree as a manufactured material: the wood, and the tree as a tamed wilderness: the artificial forest. The artists inject emotion and labor into their exhibits to showcase the material identity of their crafted ojects.

More than critiquing the status quo of industrial monopolies or advocating to reverse their soulless process, the Artificial Forest exhibition reflects the contemporary reality of wood and looks for ways to celebrate it. Pieces are situated in a gridded artificial forest of 2×4 lumber.


Curation
Owen Wang
Yueting Val Zhao
Ariel Bintang
Paddy Mittag-McNaught

Sponsors
Fairhaven Furnitures
Spiritos PropertiesSpring 2022