Exhibition Dates: February 25 – March 19
Opening Reception: February 25 6-9pm

The Joseph Gross Gallery is pleased to present LITERALLY BALLING - a collection of new works by Victor Solomon. 

Literally Balling, Solomon’s first solo exhibition in New York, features six of his signature stained glass basketball backboards. He elegantly balances wit, irony and fastidious craftsmanship in exploration of a host of disparate narratives: the religious devotion to sport, the athlete as modern-day king of court, the proletarian drift of basketball from project pick-up games to newfound cultural heights, even a cautionary comment on the fragility of luxury.

For Solomon, the medium is the message and despite having never had worked with stained glass before, he apprenticed for a year under Bay Area glass masters to realize this process-specific concept. The result is a gorgeous and evocative appropriation of basketball iconography, rendered with an athlete’s discipline in craftmanship.

*that clip below is not part of the show, but we could not resist to put it here: