EXHIBITION NO. 0007

NEW AND RECENT WORK

OPENING RECEPTION: August 21, 2025 7pm

on view THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY 11am-4pm and by appointment

Through September 21, 2025

Internationally acclaimed composer, performer and interdisciplinary artist Rob Mazurek presents Perihelion Gaze at Club Nowhere in Marfa, TX. 

Perihelion Gaze invokes an astronomical condition: a body at its closest approach to the sun, where gravitational pull and orbital velocity converge in a moment of maximum intensity. Cement, beeswax, glass beads, and gold leaf/dust are composed into a gravitational chord, each exerting its own force while altering the behavior of the others. This expanded material constellation continues the work of Mazurek’s Radical Chimeras, where three or more wholly disparate entities merge into an almost impossible coalescence, a material becoming that exceeds the sum of its parts. Known for an expansive body of work that traverses sound composition, improvisation, painting, drawing, and installation, Mazurek engages here with sculpture as both an extension and a reframing of his core concerns: the distillation of form to its most intrinsic forces, the orchestration of disparate elements into coherent-yet-impossible unities, and the sustained interrogation of perception as a generative act. 

 

In counterpoint, Mazurek’s Desert Scores present modular, shape-shifting permutations of painting, drawing, printing, and collage. Their overlaid temporalities—which combine color, symbol, words, and musical notation—thicken and complicate pictorial space, confronting us with possibilities for improvisation both in the making and interpretation of a concrete form, or score.

 

More active zone than singular work, Perihelion Gaze comprises an orbital station in the continuum of Mazurek’s practice—where the viewer’s position, like a planet’s path, is both bound by and in motion toward something larger, hotter, rarer, and infinitely more difficult to behold.

Rob Mazurek is an interdisciplinary artist whose work spans over three decades and encompasses more than 80 recordings, site specific installations, and international performances/exhibitions. His practice—rooted in composition, improvisation and abstraction—seeks new vocabularies at the intersection of sound, image, and material form.