Grounds For Sculpture (GFS) presents five new exhibitions by an outstanding group of artists, both established and emerging, including Jae Ko, Karl Stirner, Jonas Stirner, Lauren Clay, and Robert Lobe. Spanning several generations and diverse mediums, the five exhibitions collectively feature over 75 works, many shown for the first time. Jae Ko: Selections, featuring Force of Nature, 白 Shiro, is the artist’s largest and most ambitious piece to date. The Washington, DC-based artist drew her inspiration from topographic and geologic forms to create a monumental, layered, paper relief sculpture that spans over 80 linear feet transforming the East Gallery. Additional works by Ko, all hand-rolled and color-stained by the artist, as well as a documentary video can also be seen through February 7, 2016. Karl Stirner: Decades in Steel explores the Pennsylvania-based sculptor’s masterfully welded and manipulated industrial forms which are often inspired by the huge sections of steel Stirner reclaims from steel manufacturing yards. Exhibiting his works with his father Karl Stirner for the first time, Jonas Stirner follows the creative tradition of welding and manipulating found steel into powerful yet whimsical and thought-provoking sculptures. The work of New Jersey/New York-based artist Robert Lobe is also featured. Working primarily in the rural woodlands of Sussex County, NJ, Lobe’s richly textured aluminum reliefs are made by hammering sheets of aluminum over natural forms in a technique adopted from the tradition of repoussé. The exhibition also features a selection of masterful collaborative works that incorporate the noted paintings of New York-based painter Kathleen Gilje. Robert Lobe: In the Forest Drawn of Metal featuring Forest Projects, Collaborative Works with Kathleen Gilje is on view through January 17, 2016. An installation by Brooklyn artist, Lauren Clay, is also on view. Clay, who works primarily with paper, exhibits a new body of work consisting of large papier-mache sculptures along with mural-sized prints of her vibrantly colored hand-marbled paper. Also included is a series of hand-painted paper sculptures which reference the American sculptor David Smith.
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