Fri 1/20 @ 12:15-1:30PM
Fri 1/20 @ 5:30-8PM
This Friday, the Sculpture Center will open a pair of new shows. Avid local art-lovers will already be familiar with the engrossing mixed-media/multi-disciplinary works of Cleveland-based artist/musician Kasumi, which make use of photography, video, film and sound.
The works going on view including Surfacing, a digital kinetic sculpture which draws political and symbolic comparisons between women and water, utilizing multiple mages of a single woman. Also on view will be selections from The Perpetual Series, which, the artistic statement says, “remind us that the pieces from which we construct our current place in the world are already within us as the memories of movements, personalities, expressions, and gestures.” Again she draws on repeated images in a feedback loop that create what she calls “infinitely complex patterns of reality.”
The second show, called blooming flower, chaos of love, was created by Seattle-based Connie Fu, who worked for a short time out of Cleveland’s Praxis Fiber Workshop and Xin Collective. It combines elements of weaving and sound to create what is described as “series of site-specific shrines, resting places, and magical nooks.” The installation explores life’s chaos and pain, the beauty of connections, including long-distance ones and how people come together, including in the Xin Collective, whose artists (Fu, Petra Brown and Anna Routson) live thousands of miles apart.
There’ll be an opening night reception from 5:30-8:30pm on Friday January 20 with talks by the artists from 6-630pm and community weaving with Fu and Routson from 6:30-7pm. (t will continue throughout the run o the show.) Earlier in the day, from 12:15-1:30pm, Fu will talk at the Cleveland Institute of Arts Peter B. Lewis Theater. Both events are free and open to all.
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