LOU SHAN FENG ART FESTIVAL, 2026
Haikou Port, Taiwan
Situated along Taiwan’s southern coastline, the annual Lou Shan Feng Art Festival invites international artists to create large outdoor installations that honor the wind and sea. My work, Horizon Run, is a horizontally expansive steel sculpture that measures 27 feet in length and frames the horizon through a series of precisely aligned openings. Positioned between sea and sky, the work invites visitors to pause, look outward, and experience a new relationship to the landscape through structure.
SCULPTURE GARDEN RESIDENCY: CLOSING, 2025
Thomas Van Dyke Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
This show marked the conclusion of a six-month residency that I approached as an evolving platform to ask questions about structure, weight, light and gravity, and to embrace the unknown as a sculptor who works in collaboration with nature. To celebrate my learnings, I staged a cross-section of experiments and outcomes in stone, burnt wood and metal, including my Ghent Stack series, with natural elements assisting in the results, both unpredictable and controlled. This exhibition also previewed a new collection of limestone sculptures made in my studio in Bali.
Thomas Van Dyke Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
This exhibition at the midpoint of my sculpture garden residency presented various techniques I had started to uncover — using fire, water and weather to disturb, degrade and evolve materials’ character in unpredictable and striking ways. “There’s a sense of calm thrill and quiet wonder when watching VanderVoort work, a fulfillment in his order and experimentation. His work is dynamic but soothing; big ideas with a measured approach that results in an evolution of the curious mind and the physical world.”
Studio 10, Art Cake, Brooklyn, NY
Rulers take us from the unknown to the known. Unlike a traditional ruler with numbers and tick marks, my rulers guide visual perception and journeys that contrast a circle and a square and explore all the possibilities within these two shapes, where order and balance wrestle with visual rhymes and illusions. This solo show allowed me to present this examination and system in its totality.
Liminal spaces are places of transition from one state to another, and inevitable parts of my ongoing inquiry into beauty and perception across painting and sculpture. My collaboration with Michael Francken of Modern Shapes Gallery encouraged this through the production of a limited edition collection of mahogany and sycamore forms, providing an opportunity to apply my language to wood as a sculptural material and stage my first solo show outside the U.S.
My first solo exhibition introduced a self-developed ‘alphabet’ across a collection of painted surfaces and hand-carved stones. This work is the result of an ambitious search to connect and communicate with others, play with power of scale, and provide unexpected in-roads to beauty through the modulation of shapes, color, composition, and materials. Abstraction is used as a tool to invite the eye to see and relate to one’s own interpretation of memory and meaning inside a series of positive and negative spaces.
