CHRIS DOROSZ | Each has his or her place in theprocession

There is something in staying close to men and women and looking on them,
and in the contact and odor of them, that pleases the soul well.

This artistmakes a bold declaration to the cosmos:‘I am your mirror.’This does not come fromgrandiosity. Each figure has a place in theprocession.Over the last two decades Chris Doroszhas developed a multi-disciplinary arts practice, moving comfortablybetween painting,photography, and sculpture, to explore human physicality and the pervasive, definingpresence of media in our consciousness.Each has his or her place in theprocessionis peopled by the myriad figuresof our collective conscious, animated by the multitude of meanings they inhabit as theycourse inexorablyandfleetingly through the news stream. Carved fromfoamcore, Dorosz’figureswere created asmaquettes for anongoing series of sculptural paintings; recaptured in photographs they move from 2-dimensions to sculptureand return to two dimensions in the photographic print, transformed in scale, with a heightened, albeit quietgrandiosity, much asthey loom large in our collective imaginary. Thus, subjects as disparate as“Man rescuingdog during HurricaneHarvey Houston 2017,” “Recruit at Military Entrance Processing Station Knoxville2008,”and“Princess Beatrice waiting outsidePublic nightclub London 2010”become a procession of thepresent, a microcosm of our ability to condense and distill relevance from the ceaseless pageant of humanity.