Fri 7/12 @ 5-7:30PM
This weekend, Akron Soul Train, the organization that awards artists in various disciplines short residency grants to create specific projects, will open a pair of new shows in its galleries.
In Bread and Butter, Akron-based painter Katie Butler’s still lifes address this country’s economic disparities. They use common signifiers of ordinary American life, such as American flags and barns, as background, dwarfed by scenes of luxury dominating the foreground —a visual depiction of the economic divide.
In the second show, another local artist, Kayla Weinman also uses distortion to make her points. Based in ceramics (her major at the University of Akron), she distorts and exaggerates certain aspects of her representational objects. In Clowning Around, her pieces distort aspects of clown attire to dig beneath the surface of their ostensibly entertaining personalities to get at something darker and deeper.
The shows are on view Wednesday July 20 through Saturday August 17. They open with a free, public reception on Friday July 12. Get more information here.
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