Josh Parker
Sometimes an entrance is actually an exit
May 14 – July 16, 2010
Josh Parker's large-scale, multi-media installation, Sometimes an entrance is actually an exit, provokes viewers to question perceptions of a changing environment, the concept of time, and test our willingness to follow unknown territory while facing possible isolation. The gallery space will be transformed into a mysterious labyrinth that challenges concepts of boundaries and space.
Corrie Slawson
Work Party 118
January 29 – March 26, 2010
Using elements from her own collection of materials and found objects from sites in MidTown Cleveland, the artist and her neighborhood team work together to build a colorful public art installation in the gallery and in the city.
Elizabeth Emery
the nurse and the police officer
November 20, 2009 – January 15, 2010
In the nurse and the police officer", Emery recorded interviews with Clevelanders from all walks of life about discrimination and racism to create a large-scale instalaltion.
Robin Latkovich
Evocation/Presence
November 20, 2009 – January 15, 2010
Latkovich’s Evocation/Presence guides visitors into an immersive territory conjuring the mystery behind the tangibility of presence and absence.
Elaine Hullihen
a float, a flicker
September 11 - October 23, 2009
In a float, a flicker Hullihen explores the ceaselessness of time and apprehending time's unstoppable current.
Mark Moskovitz
Repair Shop
September 11 - October 23, 2009
In his Repair Shop, Moskovitz addresses outsourcing and regionalism, trade skills versus information based work, planned obsolescence and disposal, transparency, authorship, and micro-economies.
Evan Larson
Permeability, Transformation and the Neutral
June 19 - July 17, 2009
Using techniques such as plaster carving, mold-making, and woodworking, Evan Larson manipulates the existing structures within the gallery to create a seemingly-organic and often ephemeral space of neutrality between object and viewer within institutional dynamics.
Sung Jin Choi
Ambient Sound
May 15 - June 12, 2009
Sung Jin Choi presents an intricate installation composed of found objects intended to evoke cultural nostalgia.
Yoshiko Kanai
Mar 6-Apr 3, 2009
Listen to Utopia
This installation explores emotions connected to the familial archetype and the inevitability of change experienced in the life of an immigrant.
Eileen Doktorski
Jan 30-Feb 27, 2009
Oblivion
Doktorski's installation examines the current state of consumer culture through juxtaposition of the forces of nature versus the will of man.
Dec 16, 2008-Jan 16, 2009
The Great Lakes, The Great Fears, The Great Memorial
Katie Hargrave (Somerville, MA) creates a mixed-media installation that focuses on notions of public memorial and place making. This site-specific installation, inspired by Cleveland's proximity to Lake Erie, is a further exploration of the artist's fascination with history as a vehicle for memorial.
B.J. Vogt
Nov 14-Dec 12 , 2008
Biomass
B.J. Vogt's (St. Louis, MO) installation explores brain function and memory systems and their relationship to how the present is processed.
Gary Duehr Sep 28-Oct 17, 2008
Cell
Gary Duehr explores our voyeuristic nature by re-presenting images taken from the media in his installation Cell. Duehr calls on the viewer to re-examine images captured from newspapers and magazines that bombard the public everyday.
Robert Banks
Sep 5-Sep 26, 2008
Equal Languages
Robert Banks presentsEqual Languages, a new video that addresses the social and cultural breakdown due to mainstream media consumption. Banks will transform a portion of the gallery into a black box showcasing Equal Languages on a continuous loop.
Liz Ensz
May 30-Jul 6, 2008
Does the Light of God Blind You or Lead the Way Home for You?
Liz Ensz explores America's role in international relations in the post 9-11 world in Does the Light of God Blind You or Lead the Way Home for You?
Andrea Joki & Chris Auerbach-Brown
Apr 18-May 23, 2008
Papersound
Andrea Joki and Christopher Auerbach-Brown collaborate to create a visual and auditory dialogue by combining sonic and visual elements to address themes of mapping and transformation.
R. Justin Stewart
Feb 18-Mar 7, 2008
Mapping Mixed Information
In Mapping Mixed Information, R. Justin Stewart presents multiple maps that record his movements from interiors to exteriors through time. A meticulously hung gridwork of blue thread and changing light projections interact with each other to present the viewer with shifting slivers of information.
Chelsea Blackerby
Jan 18-Feb 13, 2008
I Felt That (Rainbow Troop, crawl)
In I Felt That (Rainbow Troop, crawl), Blackerby uses traditional sleeping material to create small, nest-like spaces that invite viewers into them. As the viewers become engaged with the static space, they transform the installation into performance with their participation.
Nichola Kinch
Dec 8-Jan 4, 2008
How's It All Stack Up?
Nichola Kinch received an MFA from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University (Elkins Park, PA). In the past, Kinch used video installation incorporating interaction with viewers to examine how physical perspective and proximity can act as metaphors for psychological perspective.
Dustin Grella
Nov 16-Dec 7, 2007
Untitled
Dustin Grella received a BA in Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Akron and is currently seeking an MFA in Computer Art at the School of Visual Arts (New York, NY). The artist/writer has based his past projects developing artifacts and events that explore elements of human experience through the passage of time. Through animation, performance, the creation of fabricated artifacts and experimental processes, the artist intends to unite us in humanity and emphasize the importance of the Now.
Double Dutch Will Take You Higher
Sep 29-Oct 19, 2007
Double Dutch Will Take You Higher (DDWTYH) is a jump roping performance art troupe that hopes to bring communities together and take them higher.
Aaron L. Peterman
Sep 7-Sep 28, 2007
Honour and Glory
Peterman constructed a large-scale installation based on an expansion of past projects including the use of upholstered furniture, mirroring, and compicated patterns to depict the interrelated nature of gay lifestyle and stereotype.
Amy Santoferraro
Jul 14-Aug 3, 2007
Right Outside
Artist's Statement:
[...]Collections are spectacularly selfish satisfactions that are classless and limitless. Rich, snooty museum collectors in search of obscure works of art and unemployed QVC shoppers looking for one more crystal unicorn are essentially doing the same things that I do-strategically collecting objects to organize and make sense of our surroundings through interactions with the material world.
Michael Ellyson
Jun 22-July 13, 2007
The Tuco Picture Puzzle Series
Artist's Statement:
I'm interested in the deconstruction and alteration of space, as well as creating abstract imagery from the complete collections of different thematically chosen and kitsch-like items. I'm also interested in my behavior and how it decides and controls the choices that I make. In the end, I try to alter the original content and also add other visual and very subtle political touches.
Kent State University
Apr 20-Jun 8, 2007
Group Exhibition
College of Architecture & Environmental Design
Graduate Students
Jake Beckman
Jan 19-Feb 9, 2007
Untitled
Dan Tranberg, The Plain Dealer:
Pristine white walls function as the ultimate neutral background in contemporary art galleries. They allow light to fill the room and hide architectural details that can distract viewers from focusing on the important stuff: the art.
But in the case of Jake Beckman's new untitled sculpture, on view at Spaces gallery in Cleveland through Friday, Feb. 9, an otherwise standard gallery wall is ripped open to reveal a mysterious, cavernous space.
Tai Hwa Goh
Feb 13-Mar 9, 2007
Bodily Landscape
Artist Statement:
The body not only acts as a container for my soul but also as a vessel that leads my mind and thoughts into various investigations. My body is both outward and inward, and it is also a widely open "site". I've presented sceneries of the imagination regarding the extensive site based upon personal and bodily experiences.
Jean Alexander Frater
Dec 12-Jan 5, 2006-07
Time Flies
Artist's Statement:
Time is often represented by a line: A timeline, marking specific moments which are spatially relative, and usually a notation of some value accompanies each point. It is a representation of an ongoing series of moments or points, which leap gaps of massive conceptual shifts, that perhaps denied conventional wisdom of the time.
Sreshta Premnath
Nov 17-Dec 8, 2006
KCAPUT
Artist Statement:
In KCAPUT (read C crossed out) I force a juxtaposition, a slippage. Caput in Latin means head, Kaput in German means destroyed, over, broken. A kind of verbal decapitation signaled by the crossing of the C is explored by the photographic diptych in the installation. Both images are derived from press photos, one of Al Zarquawi holding Nick Berg's decapitated head in his fist, the other, a more recent image of US officers holding a framed photograph of Al Zarquawi's dead visage.
Eiko Sugi
Jul 18-Aug 4, 2006
Untitled
Artist Statement:
I describe my work as self-portraits, exploring my cultural and personal identity as a Japanese woman living in the U.S.. I employ a process of enabling and disabling to wander through themes of identity and the body.
My work is about own questioning of ever changing negotiations of polarities and multiplicities that shape the identity of the self.
Sep 7-Oct 20, 2006
Kyoto Heights
Artist's Statement:
These sound sculptures resemble urban detritus from which emanate a sort of sound graffiti-seemingly random street sounds, scarcely audible, like the deep background noise of urban life. Ferraro, collaborating with Leonardo Pellegrino, Stephen Pellegrino and Maurice Rickard, also creates street performances that are momentary interventions in busy urban streets. In one of them, RU-FM, a group of four musicians dressed as street workers assemble around a Ferraro sculpture that resembles an abstract machine and use it to perform a series of sound pieces composed by Stephen Pellegrino.
Dan DeZarn
May 16-Jun 9, 2006
What's Left Behind
Artist Statement:
This body of work deals with the residue left behind after an event takes place. Each piece in this exhibition was produced by sandwiching a consumer grade firework between two painted wood panels and detonating it. I used basic firecrackers, sparklers and fountains because they are the fireworks I played with most as a child and they are readily available and recognizable to most people. I chose to work with fireworks because they are sold as individual ready-made events with specific intended outcomes. Once the event is over everything left is refuse. I placed those events in a situation where the refuse would create a two-sided physical history or narrative of each of those simple manufactured events. In recording the event in this way, the focus shifts from the phenomenon of the explosion to the physical effect it has on its surroundings.
Jo Nelson
Apr 21-May 12, 2006
City
Artist Statement:
The central theme in my work is the relationship between environmental influence and individual will; how space affects experience and how fantasy can allow us to alter and gain control over these effects. I use miniature environments to illustrate this relationship, incorporating familiar objects and symbols that engage the viewer's imagination and empathy. I have been exploring the traditional miniature formats of the tableau -- the dollhouse, the museum diorama, sets for stop-motion animation, and architectural models -- all of which depend on the viewer's imagination to create the illusion of space.
Diane Carr
Feb 14-Mar 10, 2006
Twilight
Artist Statement:
My sculptures and installations depict imaginary artificial environments, and are built from a range of brightly colored industrial materials such as foame, styrene, velcro and plastic. These materials are altered so that their initial utilitarian purpose is disguised. My environments often function like daydreams, with scenes of immense forests, snowy landscapes or a sky full of fictitious constellations. The landscape-like pieces contrast the natural world with the artificial matter that makes up our daily lives. With these sculptures, I am interested in calling into question what we consider real and synthetic, and in drawing attention to our surroundings. My sculptures of environments explore my ecological concerns about current conditions such as global warming, deforestation, and pollution along with my sentimental attachments to these places.
Sarah Bednarek
Jan 20-Feb 10, 2006
Hotel Soubise
Artist Statement:
I am interested in rhetoric and its uses in the world. Hotel Soubise is an exploration of the rhetoric of power and money. The actual ballroom of the Hotel Soubise in France is a monument to the reckless frivolity and ostentatious wealth of France's pre-Revolutionary rulers. I have attempted here not only to create for the viewer a smaller-scale reproduction, but also a comment on the underpinnings of this kind of ostentation. If the actual Hotel Soubise ballroom can be considered an argument for the preservation and supposed goodness of France's monarchy, then my reproduction can be considered a parody. My copy is insubstantial, transient, packable and mobile.
In a sense, a shade or sketch of the original, impoverished of stability.
