Arthur Bruso

The collection of work in your new show ÆTHER is comprised of photograms as well as small box constructions with titles such as Pulsar, Dark Matter and Wormhole.

This small box is my interpretation of that final stage of success where the material in the alchemical flask has crystallized out of the flame into the “nature of the salamander” or to have become unaffected to further distillation, making it ready to become the Philosopher’s Stone. The small toy salamander is hovering over reddening (pink) material at the base of the box. It is held in place by the downward pointing stopper of the flask. The flask itself is represented by a

In the spring of 1914, Picasso was still deep in exploring cubism and its possibilities as sculpture.

At the turning of the millennium, we purchased the house at 272 Fifth Street from the widow Maggie Olson. Maggie’s husband Charlie had...