NYAB Event - Ross Rudel "burgeon"

Ross Rudel "burgeon"

Jack Shainman Gallery

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Jack Shainman Gallery presents burgeon an exhibition of new sculpture by Los Angeles artist Ross Rudel. For this body of work Rudel has drawn upon dreams, odd personal experiences and his ongoing spiritual relationship with nature. Resurrection of the Green Man was inspired by a dream in which a man was murdered in the Mojave Desert and his corpse sprouted vegetation that transformed the landscape into a lush Eden. A chance meeting with a Yoruba Priest and a related encounter with an urban hawk led to the creation of Solicitation. A long aesthetic struggle with the strange gnarls on the surface of a log found while hiking resulted in the double-helix carving Sequence.

The materials that Rudel incorporates in his work often have personal or symbolic significance. The Green Man and related work in the exhibit were created entirely of algae from the Los Angeles River that blooms prodigiously every Spring following the purging winter floods. An antler from the Black Hills, manzaneta root burl from a spiritual center at Mt Shasta and fabric related to Rudel’s deceased brother were incorporated in Solicitation. The playing cards used to create Proprietary Dream Mandala had run a full cycle at the poker tables of the Silverado Casino in Deadwood, SD, which Rudel believes imbued them with significant residual energy. Humor finds its way into the Mandala, as Rudel saw this artwork in a dream at a collector’s home and obsessed about plagiarizing it.