United States
Statement
My sculpture and installations have been exhibited extensively in the US where I have taught at the Kansas City Art Institute. My site responsive objects, installations and drawings, respond to the spatial, conceptual and architectonic conditions of a place. I make sculpture of materials with which I have an intimate visceral connection. Industrial felt, found wood, felted wool sweater, soil, bath towels, paper towels, and used hospital towels are materials that I know, have manipulated and coaxed through my hands. They speak to the vulnerability and fragility of the human condition, carry traces of body memory through history of their former use, and create an absorptive silence. My interest in physical actions of folding and stacking finds its focus in organization and reduction and makes reference to artistic precedent such as mono-ha and minimalism.
Profile
GlogauAIR resident from June 2016 to September 2016
GlogauAIR Project
Within my site responsive sculpture, installations, and drawings, I am fascinated with the interplay between the spatial and architectonic conditions of a place. Through an incremental means of building with utilitarian materials, I make objects that explore repetition, mass and void, physicality and weight, compression and release. Within these qualities, I find parallels in the physical and psychological states of the body, sensory knowledge, and the human condition. These often pliable materials have an intense relationship to the body, and the capacity to carry traces, memory, and a potent history of former use. My interest in the actions of folding, cutting, and stacking finds its focus in organization and reduction and makes reference to artistic precedent such as mono-ha and minimalism.
CV Summary
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
- 2014 Print Edition, Lawrence Lithography, Kansas City, Missouri
- 2013 Working Parts, Haw Contemporary, Kansas City, Missouri
- 2011 Concentrations, The Studios Exhibition Space, Kansas City, Missouri
- 2007 Marcie Miller Gross, New Work, Byron Cohen Gallery for Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
- 2006 Marcie Miller Gross: Density, Paragraph, Urban Culture Project, Kansas City, Missouri
- 2005 foldoverfold, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, brochure
- 2003 Recent Work, Joseph Nease Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
- 2001 To Fold, Joseph Nease Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
- Collecting, sorting, dredging, folding… Joseph Nease Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
- 1999 Field Investigations, Joseph Nease Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
- 1996 Body‐ Earth Project: Sculpture and Photographs, Zone, Kansas City, Missouri
- 1994 Marcie Miller Gross, Drawings & Constructions, The Writers Place, Kansas City, Missouri
