Fri 10/30 @ 6-9PM
The 2731 Prospect Gallery, which took over the old William Busta Gallery space, got up and running in September, featuring the bustling urban landscape paintings of Michelangelo Lovelace, one of this year’s Cleveland Arts Prize winners, and the city-in-ruins photography of Donald Mengay and Hrvoje Slovenc.
Its second pair of shows demonstrates the direction new gallery director Lauren Davis said they were interested in going. They’ve got another show of photography, something Busta didn’t do much of, and they’re casting a wider regional net. Clevelander Joseph Minek does abstract works created in the darkroom without a camera, while Cincinnati-based artist Amber Stucke will be showing graphite drawings of lichen, fungi, algae and moss in her show Symbiosis State, which “investigate the complex visual relationships between survival, both parasitic and mutualistic, that take place under symbiosis.”
The opening reception takes place Fri 10/30 from 6-9PM; the shows run through Sat 12/5. Minek will do an artist talk on Sat 11/14 2pm; Stucke will do an artist talk on Sat 12/5 @ 2pm as part of a closing party for the show.
