Adam Mugavero

Adam Mugavero spent the better part of his youth building fires and windsurfing on the shores of Sound Beach. A true Renaissance man, Mugavero made a heartbreakingly beautiful album of songs that resonated deeply with listeners and critics while exploring his propensity to make art through the lens of a songwriter before taking to sculpting. “This is where I come from,” Mugavero said in reference to his wooden sculptures. Some are fashioned from fallen trees in Fort Greene Park and others are reminiscent of the images of Long Island’s north shore. “I needed to do the sculptures in order to get to the frames.”

There are few designers making frames out of wood and ever fewer making it this way, but that's what separates Mugavero from the rest of the pack. He is making art that is as at home on your face as it is on a museum wall or in a gallery. Mugavero’s inimitable sculptural eyewear is what it is because his hands are on every piece of work that leaves his studio. It’s an exhaustive and brilliant operation that is just starting to find its way into the world. This is wearable sculpture, designed, carved and finished by the artist himself whose craft was born out of a desire to create and transform the world — to see differently.