Guanyu (Gerry) Tao is an architectural designer and artist based in Los Angeles. He graduated with a Master of Architecture from the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) in 2022. Gerry’s work merges the fields of architecture and art, focusing on themes like pure formal spaces and architectural fantasies that push beyond conventional boundaries. He frequently utilizes digital and immersive medium to express his ideas. Committed design in his professional career with his art, Gerry is emphasizing the synergy and interaction between constructs and the nature, virtual and reality.
Guanyu (Gerry) Tao is an architectural designer and artist based in Los Angeles. He graduated with a Master of Architecture from the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) in 2022. Gerry’s work merges the fields of architecture and art, focusing on themes like pure formal spaces and architectural fantasies that push beyond conventional boundaries. He frequently utilizes digital and immersive medium to express his ideas. Committed design in his professional career with his art, Gerry is emphasizing the synergy and interaction between constructs and the nature, virtual and reality.
Poché #1Digital / Physical Sculpture W 780mm x H 630mm x D 220mm
Poché—the hidden space between the layers of a wall—it’s like that space where flesh and structure meld together, blurring the line between the organic and the constructed. This sculpture plays with that fusion, evoking a sense of bio-mimicry, where boundaries dissolve but never fully separate. Even when forms pull apart, there’s a lingering connection—like sinews stretching between divided parts, holding onto what once was whole. It’s an exploration of those delicate, unseen threads that keep things tethered, the stuff beneath the surface that slips through unnoticed yet refuses to fully let go.
3 pieces
Poché is the space nestled between two faces of a wall—a gap that holds its secrets, shrouded in mystery. Architects often render it in black, a void, leaving whatever lies inside unseen and unknown. But what if something stirs there, hidden from sight? When attention drifts away, what might emerge within? Could it be flowers in bloom, a dense forest, a murky swamp—or something entirely unexpected? It’s with the idea of the unseen, inviting contemplation of the hidden worlds that may exist in spaces we overlook, those in-between realms that lie just beyond perception.
Edges delves into the complex dance between structure and distortion, beginning with simple, rule-bound forms—triangular prisms and boxes—that evolve when pushed beyond their initial confines. The transformation of these rigid shapes involves a delicate balance, as each curve and pitch is manipulated with precision to maintain a controlled framework, ensuring that while the shapes twist and shift, they do not descend into chaos. This process reveals a deeper tension—a desire to use these structured, geometric bases as a means to explore and define the irregular, the spontaneous, and the unpredictable. The work captures the fascination with order and the allure of its disruption, as boundaries are pushed to uncover the beauty within the unexpected. It becomes a meditation on the act of creation, where control, chaos, and the interplay of intention and unpredictability manifest within the carefully carved edges of transformed geometric forms.
7 pieces
Edges is a clouds. But how can a cloud have edges? Clouds are supposed to be soft, light, and free, drifting without constraints. Yet, what if a cloud could also be sharp, hard, and controlled? These clouds have had their curves smoothed out, their soft rises flattened, leaving behind crisp, cutting edges. It’s a cloud unlike any you’ve seen before—a form that challenges the expectation of what something fluid and gentle can become, embodying tension between freedom and precision, softness and structure.