From Liberman to Gray, the generations explained

KENT — Alexander Liberman, Cleve Gray and Luke Gray’s Three Generations exhibit is on display at the Morrison Gallery. The show, which opened on Saturday, Aug. 2, will run through Sunday, Sept. 7. It features steel sculptures by Liberman, several of Cleve Gray’s most important paintings and several new paintings by Luke Gray.Liberman was born in 1912 and was one of the first artists to work with very large-scaled abstract sculpture. His works were created from industrial debris such as tank drums, boiler heads, giant pipes and steel beams. He would cut and slice the material to make decorative sculpture and architectural models that had a feeling of grain silos, Greek temples and medieval cathedrals. Liberman’s work is in museums and collections around the world and is also on display at the outdoor sculpture park at Storm King Art Center.Cleve Gray was born in New York in 1918 and graduated from Princeton with a degree in art and archaeology in 1940. He was widely admired for his large-scale brightly colored abstract compositions but was best known for his late-Cubist-style works created in the 1960s and 1970s . He was the husband of author Francine du Plessix Gray, who was the stepdaughter of Liberman. The Gray and Liberman families became neighbors in Warren, where both men had their studios.Luke Gray, son of Cleve Gray and Francine du Plessix Gray, is a resident of Brooklyn. He received a degree in fine arts and literature from the University of Pennsylvania in 1982. He studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine and at the Rhode Island School of Design. His work has been shown at many galleries in the U.S. and Germany.