All of the Above
Sara Meltzer Gallery, NY
May 25 - July 1 2006
(exhibition press release)
Sara Meltzer Gallery is please to announce Lee Boroson's All of the Above, the artist's first solo exhibition with the gallery.
Boroson, best known for his inflatable sculputres, continues his interest in architecture and science with three new works that fill the gallery space and the stairway leading to the second floor. All works in the exhibition address the notion of perspective and call into question the ways in which we see the world around us. Boroson physically shifts objects from micro to macro in order to question the subjectivity of scientifically proven data vs. opinions and beliefs.
In the main gallery, Liquid Sunshine (2005) is a cluster of storm clouds that fill the space and hover close to the ceiling. Drawing from romantic landscape painting, religious painting and sculpture, Boroson depicts a heavenly scene complete with crepuscular rays and cherubic formations. Constructed from man-made materials: nylon, air blowers and strands of monofilament, Boroson relates the presence of this naturally spiritual moment to album cover art of the 1970’s, where music, mind-altering substances and visual imagery are substituted for a heavenly experience.
Graft highlights an area of the gallery not typically used for exhibition purposes. Based on the cross section diagram of human skin, Graft is suspended in the bright open-aired stairway leading to the penthouse level of the gallery. Complete with hair follicles that dangle downwards, this buoyant sculpture creates a permeable barrier between the first and second floor of the gallery.
In an ongoing project that utilizes astronomical data to create digital photographs, Boroson collapses the visible universe into dense images. Beginning with images downloaded from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey that include stars, asteroids, and galaxies, Boroson removes the black background (the emptiness) and rearranges the celestial bodies to form clusters. The latest incarnation if this project presents these clusters formed into the shapes of the four suits and three face cards (king, queen, jack). This series furthers Boroson's interest in cultural and visual perception relating to the ways we explain the universe via scientific theory and the ideas of luck and good fortune.