NYAB Event - Howard Gross "Watching Shadows Fade Into Ligh"

Howard Gross "Watching Shadows Fade Into Ligh"

Causey Contemporary

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Watching Shadows Fade into Light will feature new mixed media sculptures and drawings by Howard Gross. The exhibition is in many ways a reincarnation of an earlier exhibition of sculptural reliefs which Mr. Gross exhibited in his first solo exhibition at the Allan Frumkin Gallery in Chicago nearly forty years ago. At that time, Howard says he was attempting to transform his drawings into three dimensional relief sculptures. He used chicken wire armatures molded into forms, attached them to panels and coverd them with cotton, latex, horsehair, spanish moss and/or poly-urethane foam. Two years later, Mr. Gross followed this exhibition with one entitled Boxes in which he enclosed the forms inside twelve inch square boxes. In the current body of work, Howard has chosen a far more neutral material to convey the forms which are also enclosed in boxes or mounted upon masonite panels. The effect is a more direct translation of the drawings into three dimensions than the objects from the earlier exhibition. Both the drawings on scratch board or paper and the sculptures are a form of puzzle solving for Mr. Gross, creating a form or shape that relates to the one next to it - each decision leading to the next decision. For the sculptures, he has chosen is a white clay molding material that offers complete flexibility in creating the intricate and varying shapes which translate the labyrinth, curving shapes within the drawings themselves. In the pieces, both sculptural and drawn, each devoid of color, shadows provide the nuances of grey.

Media

• Drawing
• Sculpture

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