Gene Vass (1922-1996)Untitled
undated
wood and marble
100 1/4 x 4 x 4 inches
Burchfield Penney Art Center, Gift of Mrs. J. Benjamin Townsend, 1995
Resonating repetitive forms in Three Untitled Sculptures (c. 1977) by Gene Vass, that are reminiscent of Constanin Brâncuși’s early twentieth-century totemic abstractions, suggest an infinite continuity to the cosmos, subverting corporeal references for celestial.