Marc Straus is delighted to announce Night Shape Black Horizon, an exhibition of new sculpture by American artist Michael Brown. The exhibition will take place in the gallery’s temporary space located at 132 Delancey St (entrance on Norfolk).

The exhibition extends Michael’s In The Meantime…, “The Broken Mirror” series, a body of work begun in 2007 and now exhibited as a series for the first time. Each piece resembles a delicately broken mirror but is in fact composed of hand cut stainless steel polished to a mirror finish. Tension is created between the perfect mirror surface of the metal and its unbreakable strength.

These “broken mirrors” will be shown with other new works entitled Night Shape consisting of freestanding brass rods and using a buildup of line to create form and shape. The heavy weight of the metal material is broken up amongst many single fragile lines arising from the floor and creating a ghost like shape that appears to sway. Brass has long been a classic architectural and ornamental building material.

Black Horizon, the last series of works in the exhibition are paper and brass collages, each start with an image of the sea and the horizon. Pieces of brass are hand cut into ornamental patterns and shapes and introduced into the compositions.

Michael Brown has quickly emerged as one of the most interesting American sculptors who has extended the vernacular of ready-mades.

Michael Brown was born in 1982 and lives and works in New York. He received his BFA from the SUNY New Paltz University, New Paltz. Recent solo exhibitions include: Michael Brown, Recent Works, Yvon Lambert Gallery, Paris, France (2010). An Object is Just Material, Yvon Lambert Gallery, NYC (2009). Michael Brown, The Peoples Playground, Yvon Lambert Gallery, NYC (2008). Recent (selected) group exhibitions include: The House Without the Door, David Zwirner Gallery, NYC (2011). Substance Abuse, Leo Koenig Gallery, NYC (2010). Quite Politics, Zwirner and Wirth Gallery, NYC (2008). A Sorry Kind of Wisdom, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, NYC (2008). First Look II, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY (2007).