NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian Gallery announced Katharina Grosse's first commercial gallery exhibition in New York in early 2017.

Katharina Grosse is acclaimed for her immersive spray paintings that explore and expand the potential of the medium through site and circumstance. This approach combines a dynamic yet highly nuanced sense of color and event with the apparent weight and spectacle of large-scale sculpture. Parallel to her site-responsive practice, Grosse maintains a vigorous studio-based activity, producing paintings, works on paper, and sculptures.

Grosse's most recent outdoor work, unveiled to the public on July 3, is the latest chapter in Rockaway!, MoMA PS1's programming in the Rockaways that began in 2013 in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. In this commission, Grosse has transformed the derelict aquatics building of Fort Tilden at Breezy Point--the former military base that is now part of Gateway National Recreation Area--into a site of painting. MOMA PS1 director Klaus Biesenbach describes her action as "using the landscape and architecture as a canvas." Rockaway! will remain on view through November of this year.

Katharina Grosse was born in 1961 in Freiburg/Breisgau, Germany. She lives and works in Berlin. Recent solo museum exhibitions include "Hammer Projects: Katharina Grosse," UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2001); "Der weisse Saal trifft sich im Wald," Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland (2002); "Perspectives 143: Katharina Grosse," Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (2004); "Constructions à cru," Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2005); "Atoms Outside Eggs," Serralves, Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto (2007); "Hello Little Butterfly I Love You What's Your Name," ARKEN-Museum for Moderne Kunst, Copenhagen (2009); "One Floor Up More Highly," Mass MoCA, Massachusetts (2010); "Third Man Begins Digging Through Her Pockets," MOCA, Cleveland (2012); "Two younger women come in and pull out a table," De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art, The Netherlands (2013); "WUNDERBLOCK," Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas (2013); "Inside the Speaker," Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf (2014); "yes no why later," Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow (2015); and "Seven Hours, Eight Rooms, Three Trees," Museum Wiesbaden, Germany (2015). Grosse created the site-specific installation Untitled Trumpet, 2015 for "All The World's Futures," the 56th Biennale di Venezia (2015).

At the close of Grosse's Rockaway! project the Fort Tilden aquatics building will be razed by the GNRA park services as part of its Hurricane Sandy recovery program. A current survey of her paintings remains on view at the Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, Germany until October 9th, 2016.