December 11, 2025 – February 21, 2026
Brad Kronz presents new sculptures on the ground floor of Artists Space, made from fragments of wood, fabric, paper, obsolete electronics, and cords. At times, a series of modified stools make use of their supportive rungs to add height to these assemblages—which appear like outsized images of muffled, irresolute experience. Some people describe artworks as having a kind of autonomy, and this exhibition inflates these assumptions to the point of ascribing a will to objects, expressed through their vertical, outward expansion.
The work titled While the Neglected Thought Dies, the Neglected Object Continues to Grow posits a premise wherein discarded or overlooked things, at the very least, attract dust, a form of rudimentary intelligence. In the process of enlarging some of these forms, via crude scale-shifts or the reconfiguration of their parts, the sharp resolution of an image breaks down while the peculiarities of the materials are exposed—the true surreality of wood’s grain or the glittering sheen of a white and beige patterned carpet. Cut from function or continued circulation, as it were, these items instead adhere to one another. Like the notion of aspiration (often measured in scale) or the effect of floating (achieved by mounting an artwork), height impresses value and implies the possibility of some kind of spiritual or material return. With the desire to be raised, the sculpture’s contingent structures emphasize their faulty seams, as they self-consciously confront their own dissolution.
There is another celestial-like level to this show, punctuated by large, light spheres hung near the ceiling. This layer of artwork that has accumulated above eye level is culled from Kronz’s history, worn by their life-span. Sequestered to this ulterior space, the burden of their physicality softens while their significance is elevated, even as the images are more difficult to see.
