“Lutheran Substation”

Dauntless Indignant Geography Series2020s2025$1000-$5000

Nov 13

"Lutheran Substation"

by Gregory J. Rose
2025, Mixed Media On Panel, 24“x24”

A structurally dense abstraction composed of vertical bars, gridded fields, and charged linear conduits layered across a pale ground. Exhibited in the Dauntless Indignant Geography Solo Exhibition at NE SCULPTURE | Gallery Factory. Unframed. Certificate of Authenticity included.

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Collector Snapshot

Lutheran Substation functions as a visual koan centered on nourishment, toxicity, and survival within hostile systems. Inspired by the question, “If the food is poison, why does it still nourish?”, the work confronts the paradox of growth formed through harm, endurance shaped by pressure, and strength forged within contradiction.

Within the Dauntless Indignant Geography Series, Lutheran Substation maps spiritual, physical, and infrastructural tension through a language of repeated structure and interrupted flow. The painting draws from lived experience, generational resilience, and the unseen networks that transmit both damage and sustenance. For collectors, this exhibited work offers a rigorous meditation on how survival persists even when conditions are corrosive.

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High Growth
This work demonstrates strong growth indicators through its exhibition provenance, its alignment with a pivotal moment in Gregory’s development, and its position within a cohesive series with limited availability and increasing collector interest.
One of One Original
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Retail Price: $4,800
Unframed
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Signature Masterwork Tier
The strength of the series’ exhibition visibility, paired with the depth of structural language present in this work, positions it as a defining example of Gregory’s mature mixed media practice.

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Artwork Details

Inspired by the Koan:

“If the food is poison, why does it still nourish?”

Poem written by the artist:

“Boy I will be on you—like white on rice”!
You can get cut—rolling dice.
Minnesota nice.

He’s a black cat.
Lone wolf no pack—
But known by all including the hustler, pimps and thieves.
He has had more than 9 lives.
A holy trinity—
It’s by 3’s.

Blessed, looked over, born again
And deceased.
Chicken
Grease.

Caged in philosophical warfare
Yet the seeds were planted.
Tears watered the land.
Boxer fracture of the right hand.

Kissed of frozen ground
Fist a cuff in the smoke cloud rings
Out his mouth.

He gave himself to the journey long ago.
While his dad on Sundays
put bullet holes in
Targets at—range.

How do I explain
Spiritual loss—
Physical gains.
It’s all a part of the game.

Full Description

Lutheran Substation presents a layered field of vertical bars, segmented grids, and intersecting linework that evoke infrastructure under constant load. Muted olive and mustard forms repeat across the surface, while electric pink passages bleed and drip through the composition, softening its rigid geometry. Blue structural blocks anchor the lower register, while black linear gestures move through the field like conduits carrying energy between fractured systems.

The surface reveals accumulation, revision, and compression, mirroring the experience of navigating environments where nourishment and danger coexist. Structure becomes both shelter and constraint, and repetition becomes a means of persistence. The work reads as a map of endurance, where survival is transmitted through damaged but functioning networks.

Authentication

Certificate of Authenticity included
Digital documentation provided
Hidden signature within the composition
Artist signature on the back

Provenance

Dauntless Indignant Geography Solo Exhibition

This artwork was featured in Gregory’s 2025 solo exhibition at NE SCULPTURE | Gallery Factory, a gallery centered on supporting emerging and mid-career contemporary artists. The exhibition explored internal geographies and the reconstruction of personal terrain through mixed media abstraction. After the exhibition concluded, the artwork returned to the artist’s studio collection.

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Market Relevance

The Dauntless Indignant Geography Series occupies a distinct position within contemporary abstraction by merging Zen inquiry, Black cultural memory, and spatial mapping. Lutheran Substation contributes to this dialogue through its focus on infrastructure, contradiction, and endurance, offering collectors an exhibited work that resonates culturally while maintaining formal discipline and long-term relevance.

Comparable Sales

Comparable sales data is currently being compiled. Pricing is based on Gregory’s established retail structure for mixed media works and documented exhibition history.

Artist Market Position

Gregory is an established regional artist with national reach, with works in private, public, and academic collections. His continued exhibition activity, growing catalog, and expanding licensing partnerships bolster collector confidence. Exhibited works such as Lutheran Substation represent the most current evolution of his practice and hold strong relevance for long-term collectors of contemporary abstraction.

Price Growth of Mixed Media Works (2018–2025)

“Lutheran Substation reframes survival as a system that continues to function despite damage, contradiction, and strain.

Through layered structure, interrupted flow, and charged passages of color, the work visualizes how nourishment can emerge from toxic conditions and how resilience is built within compromised frameworks. As part of the Dauntless Indignant Geography Series, it affirms endurance not as purity, but as persistence.”

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