Fusing Experiments, 2019-
Metamorphosis of various mineral and material bands within the earth is the result of extreme temperatures and pressures. Heat is one of the most important tools of humankind - with careful application of this force, we cook our food, keep our bodies comfortable in inhospitable climates, and create all glass, ceramic, metallic, and plastic materials with which we build our world. Heat is sometimes used as a source of electric power conversion, pumping current into our devices. Applying heat to various materials is a simple 1:1 procedure that calls to mind the plethora of possibilities within the materials surrounding us.
Fusing Experiments, 2019-
Metamorphosis of various mineral and material bands within the earth is the result of extreme temperatures and pressures. Heat is one of the most important tools of humankind - with careful application of this force, we cook our food, keep our bodies comfortable in inhospitable climates, and create all glass, ceramic, metallic, and plastic materials with which we build our world. Heat is sometimes used as a source of electric power conversion, pumping current into our devices. Applying heat to various materials is a simple 1:1 procedure that calls to mind the plethora of possibilities within the materials surrounding us.
Sam Horowitz
Sam Horowitz is a futurist, mad scientist, and Assistant Professor at Rowan University in New Jersey. Horowitz has exhibited in solo and group shows throughout the US, and earned degrees from Alfred University (MFA, Sculpture/ Dimensional Studies, 2020) and Bard College (BA, Studio Arts, 2010). Horowitz was awarded a 2025 Individual Fellowship in Sculpture by the New Jersey Council on the Arts. Horowitz has held a number of artist residencies, from Fleinvær (Norway, 2026), to Governors Island (NYC, 2016), and at Sloss Furnaces (AL, 2022), where he also served as Union Shop Steward.
Horowitz is a member of Philadelphia Sculptors and The Long Now Foundation. He serves as Co-Director of Exhibitions on the Steering committee of the 2027 National Conference of Contemporary Cast Iron Art and Practices in Birmingham, Alabama. In 2026, he joined the board of the Gloucester County Cultural & Heritage Commission.
Before rejoining academia, Horowitz worked on the production floors of bronze and iron foundries, as a mold-maker at an architectural-ceramic factory, in various furniture design/build studios, and on many construction and renovation crews across the Northeast. He brings skills learned throughout his experiences to bear in his studio and classroom alike. He is currently located in Southern New Jersey with his partner and their chickens and honeybees.
My work explores Deep Time. I co-opt natural processes and phenomena, collaborating with materials to create sculpture and geologic allegory. My hand is removed from much of the final products of my studio; the sculptures - in large part - are left to make themselves.
My work encourages a sense of empathy strengthening perceptions of our actions in an ever-accelerating world. I encourage consideration of longer durations of time, durations out of fashion in a “Buy Now” era. I initiate processes meant to escape my control, lending agency to the work. This collaboration helps an audience establish empathy. This empathy is beyond the interactions of audience members, stretching to the wider world. By developing affinity for those things human and non-human alike, together we build responsibility to help shepherd in a slower, more kind frame of reference. Stewardship in this way I try to bring us all into the material present, a present from which we may find and make good.