Steve Rossi

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Liquid Resonance
Mesaros Gallery
West Virginia University
Solo exhibition installation view

The 2025 solo exhibition Liquid Resonance features three bodies of work, each with a visual sensibility that forges a dialogue between histories of landscape representation and the language of geometric abstraction. The exhibition’s overarching theme is the question of how we live in relation to water in our built environments. Created with natural resource stewardship and labor solidarity in mind, the work seeks to draw attention to, and to question, the social value systems leading to the wasteful use of the planet’s limited natural resources, as well as the erasure of historical labor struggles within official industrial narratives.


In addition to the three bodies of work represented in this exhibition, a sound piece titled Beneath the Stream by experimental sound artist Robbie Wing (Cherokee Nation) accompanies the video projection and immerses viewers in the gallery space. The series Monongahela Tributes is featured in this online gallery, documentation of work from the Transitional Spaces series as well as the Rivers, Blocks, and Bridges to Newark Bay project can be accessed from the homepage or through the preceding links.


Work in this exhibition draws inspiration from, and is held on, land that has been the traditional homeland of the Monongahela Culture, Shawandasse Tula, Osage, and Massawomeck peoples. The area of the Southern Great Plains region referenced in the Transitional Spaces series has been the traditional homeland the Kiowa, Mescalero Apache, Comanche and Lipan Apache peoples. The Mohican and the Munsee Lenape were the original stewards of the land in the Rivers, Blocks, and Bridges to Newark Bay project. Native People have stewarded the land for thousands of years prior to European colonization—sustaining relationships with water sources so different from the polluting or nonrenewable extractive practices currently in use today.



All images copyright of Steve Rossi.

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