For many
years Ron Baron has approached cast-off objects as an
urban archeologist. He assembles sculptures with a keen
sense of balance and sense of humor. This new series
takes the form of core samples set into the four elegant
niches in the Glyndor House foyer. Fragments of objects
that once possessed personal or cultural value emerge
from rubble and dirt. The sculptures shift scale to
create a miniaturized world, and allude to the accumulating
residue that is the underpinning of the American dream.
Ron Baron has created many artworks for public spaces
in New York and elsewhere. Tower of Time: Mirror of
Brooklyn, 1999, was a temporary project for the Grand
Lobby at the Brooklyn Public Library, and Birds, 1999,
remains on view at Pier 34 on the Hudson River just
north of Canal Street in Manhattan. My Time is Now,
1993 is a bronze sculpture featuring stacked, cast athletic
equipment and yearbooks at nearby Lehman College. His
work has been exhibited widely in venues such as the
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, the Sculpture Center,
Long Island City, NY, and Exit Art, New York, NY.
Unearthing
the American Dream, 2004, mixed media, four components,
dimensions variable
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