The outdoor Sculpture Terrace will feature large-scale welded steel geometric abstractions based on the underlying physical structures of simple organisms by Maryland artist Wendy Ross. These artworks reference intersections of nature, culture, and technology, and seem like prototypes for futuristic life forms. The indoor sculpture Terrace will be filled with related reliefs and maquettes. This national group exhibition will explore the theme of monsters in contemporary art.
Monsters are unnatural beings that are hybrids or gross distortions of humans, animals, or plants.
They have a presence in art history that dates to the earliest cave paintings, and runs through the Ancient and Classical world through all major world religious art to more recent secular manifestations in Romanticism, Symbolism, Expressionism, and Surrealism.