About

Spencer Krywy is a Chicago based artist exploring ideas of soundscape, landscape, composition, and ecology. Spencer’s work examines the changing ecologies and features of the sounds and spaces that surround us, primarily through the mediums of kinetic sculpture and sound. By creating kinetic sculptural works and systems of sound creation, Spencer explores ideas of duration and composition. These works, whose behavior is influenced by the environments around them, use systems of digital, mechanical, and analog methods of input and output to continuously produce a unique soundscape.These systems are often inspired by or an attempt to replicate a natural sonic phenomena. Ranging from the use of sonar and computation to arrange and compose sound scapes, to the use of a windmill to drive a simple mechanism of sound production, these works represent a variety of experimentations in sound and kinetics.

Exhibitions/Preformances

  • Waveforms, Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago IL, April 19th  2018

  • Open Air Waves, SAIC Free Radio, Chicago IL, May 8th 2019

  • Carpet Diem: Variety Show on an Area Rug, Gallery 400, Chicago IL, May 16th 2019

  • Alien Objects, SITE Galleries, Chicago IL, May 24th - June 7th 2019

  • SITE Curated: A Poem Left Untitled, SITE Galleries, Chicago IL, October 4th - October 26th, 2019

  • Terrain Biennial 2019 Block Party, Oak Park, Chicago IL, October 5th, 2019

  • Art In Place, CNL projects, Syracuse NY, May 20- August 23, 2020

  • Spring Undergraduate Exhibition, SAIC Galleries, Chicago IL, March 15th - 27th

  • Interstice, Various locations in/between\around/beyond Minneapolis, MN, May 15–31, 2021, Various locations in/between\around/beyond Los Angeles, CA, July 1–August 31, 2021

  • Terrain Biennial, Evanston IL, October 2nd - November 15th, 2021