In his short career, Mark Ferguson (1959–2008, American) primarily worked in the medium of cast glass and was a prolific painter and draftsman. His monochromatic paintings belong to a lineage of artists including Elise Driggs and Charles Sheeler who worked during the Machine Age (1880–1945) in North America. Visualizing grandly scaled industrial subjects that, in many cases, assume animalistic traits such as horns, Ferguson constructed realities that appear frozen in time. The industrial landscape titled Ships Bridge with Horns #2 is rendered in a diffuse gray palette that casts a fog-like mist over the composition. The work’s atmospheric quality and inclusion of horns allude to signs of life in what appears to be a vision of an alienated world.
–Affinities and Outliers: Highlights from the University at Albany Fine Art Collections