Opening Fri 1/14 @ 5:30 – 8PM
Exhibit runs through Sat 2/26
The Sculpture Ctr presents two intriguing exhibits from two local artists opening on Fri 1/14. Jenniffer Omaitz: Shadow Structures and Joshua Parker: Humans are the only species on the planet that create trash, one good turn deserves another and the worst part about dying is that you can only do it once – but don’t worry, the water’s still fine here.
See, even the names of the exhibits are cool.
Hear Jenniffer talk @ the Euclid Ave Gallery at 6:15PM. Then, at 7PM, hear from Joshua in the Main Gallery.
About the artists:
Jenniffer Omaitz, an Adjunct Instructor at the University of Akron, earned her MFA from Kent State University in 2009 and her BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 2002. Omaitz’s large installations of found objects, home building materials, and architectural models imply a shift between topography and natural disasters and tensions between physical landscape and the landscape of the psyche. She employs geometric forms that collide together and expand to examine the relationship between the walls, ceiling and floor that comprise the space. She uses gestural lines and cast shadows to separate structures in a way that resembles an urban sprawl; a simultaneous construction and deconstruction of the perceived space.
Joshua Parker’s work focuses on places and things he would like to encounter. He is pushing against ‘labeled’ art that is by default ‘restrained.’ He rejects this notion, preferring that creativity should be able to develop unencumbered by anything other than the artist’s own musings. By abandoning the limits of rational and logical methods, Parker seeks to create new and fresh works of art. “Art unlike other things can appear to have a complete understanding of the unknown. I like that.”
[Pictured: Joshua Parker, Eco-Ugly, 2009-2010, Paint, nylon rope, paper 6 x 9 x 2 ft.]
The Sculpture Center – 1834 E. 123rd St. – Cle