Thu 8/8 @ 5:30-8PM
The next show coming up at the Yards Project in the ground-floor gallery of the Worthington Yards Apartments in the Warehouse District is called Various Small Fires. It takes its name from a 1964 book by California-based mixed-media artist Ed Ruscha called Various Small Fires and Milk, featuring photographs of mundane subjects associated with fire such as a lighter, a cigar, a matchbook and a stove top. It was part of a series of artist books he created using ordinary objects and scenes, often on fire.
We’re told that the“Various Small Fires exhibition is inspired by the liminal moments of the everyday that are ignited through the eyes of the artist storytellers. Artists in Various Small Fires similarly lay bare the essence of people’s lives—their tenacity, courage, vulnerability, hope, and pain. What are things we hold dear—as well as those that burden or haunt us? The weavings, quilts, paintings, ceramics, and drawings celebrate life and the act and art of living.”
Artists in the show include Orville Brown, Mary Burkhardt, Melissa Campbell English, Lucy Copper, Amber Esner, Jenny Mendes, Jason Milburn, Chen Peng, Nell Simons and Mary Ann Tipple.
The show opens with a free public reception on Thursday August 8 @ 5:30-8PM.
Cleveland, OH 44113