Opening Reception: Saturday September 12, 2015 from 5-8pm

Artist Talk: Saturday October 3 at 12pm

Exhibition: September 8 - October 10, 2015

Exhibition extended through October 17, 2015

ROBERT BERMAN GALLERY is pleased to present Knot Chaos an exhibition of new poplar sculptures by John Rose. 

“This new group of works I call amalgams, mixtures of forms and imagery gleaned from many disparate sources. Over the years most of the works I have constructed have been grounded in the powerful fundamental compounds of our world, its still there as the basic structure the building blocks, if you like, of each piece as it goes through the process of construction.

The progression from there to the here and now has been the introduction of new ingredients to the mix, on recent travels I ingested more visual information,elevating my work to a new level.

Seeing, feeling, touching, smelling, hearing, tasting, all these elements of emotional response to old, smooth and worn, surfaces that have been used by myriads of people for thousands of years clashing against the brand new, hard, sharp and bright.

Making lots of mental notes, photographs only record so much, I remember the smell and noise of a market so much more vividly than just a snap.

Remembrances of places and things past, solid and quiet, loud and disorderly, fragile and tough.
In all the sinews and muscles of each work is evidence of movement, nothing is really still as per string theory, everything is vibrating. Chaos reigns.”

-John Rose