Theju Nimmagadda focuses on the way wood is used in the constructed world around us, investigating and exposing the sleight of hand performed by the lumber industry, dwelling with wood-as-tree and following the course of materials from silviculture to the consumer product

Theju Nimmagadda is an artist born, raised, and educated in Providence Rhode Island. His work focuses on the way wood is used in the constructed world around us, investigating and exposing the sleight of hand performed by the lumber industry, dwelling with wood-as-tree and following the course of materials from silviculture to the consumer product.

Theju uses the framework of furniture to tell this story, taking advantage of its unique interactible nature in order to present material in a way that is legible, tangible, and emotional for viewers. He is also heavily influenced by the way he created in his younger years in the videogame Minecraft, and now uses the game as an Auto-Cad program in order to model pieces, as well as to seek inspiration from the way material, construction, and the earth as we know it is portrayed through this simulation.