A Lesser Doxology - photographs

Untitled (sun mirror)
8" x 10"
photograph

Rising Light
16" x 10" overall
photograph

Untitled (circles)
8" x 20" overall
photograph

There are 9 photographs on view in A Lesser Doxology. Here is a sample of them.

A Lesser Doxology - box constructions

Asteriod

7" x 5.5" x 3"
steel, acrylic resin, golf ball, stone, wood, acrylic paint, glass




Galaxy

6.6" x 6.5" x 4"
nickel plated brass, gold plated brass, glass crystal, plastic, steel wire, archival mat board, cardboard, rag paper, acrylic paint, glass

A Lesser Doxology has two components, box constructions and photographs. There are four box constructions in the exhibition. Here I show two. As suggested by the titles, these have cosmological themes.

A Lesser Doxology

My new solo show opens at Curious Matter on July 5, 2009 and runs through August 30, 2009.

Raymond E. Mingst has written an essay about the work in the show. Here is the first paragraph:

As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end,” is from a statement of praise known as the ‘lesser doxology’ which is repeated during the Christian liturgy. Arthur Bruso’s new exhibition of photographs and constructions touches on that sense of the eternal, and our perpetual search to find meaning and elegance in a patient universe. Bruso explains, “cosmological themes lend themselves to conceptual interpretation because of the nature of Physics. Most of what we know about the universe comes from mathematical models, not direct observation like much of Biology.”

Please go to the Curious Matter site to read the complete essay.