Paula Crown “Freezing Rain”

Marlborough (Midtown)

[Image: Paula Crown "Freezing Rain" (2016) super mirror stainless steel and monofilament, dimensions variable]

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The Directors of Marlborough Gallery presents new works by American artist, Paula Crown.

The exhibition will feature a new sculptural work, Freezing Rain, which will be shown at Marlborough as an 8 by 12 foot installation. Continuing her artistic practice of embracing the use of photography and technology while honoring the core human instinct to make marks, Freezing Rain was conceived from photographs Crown took of rainstorms. From the printed digital images she made freehand drawings of individual rain drops. The artist then employed high-resolution scanners and software to read, enlarge and map her drawings from which she created hundreds of elements crafted in Super Mirror stainless steel designed to mimic a sheet of rain. Crown has suspended these elements at irregular intervals along 200 individual lengths of invisible monofilament. The artist completes her glistening impression of a stormy moment by fastening the lines tautly at precise angles from ceiling to floor.