Fri 4/11 @ 5:30PM
Exchange shows seem to be becoming increasingly popular, offering artists the chance to show work in another market and art lovers the opportunity to see work they’re unfamiliar with by artists from another area.
Artists Archives of the Western Reserve has paired with Buffalo’s Burchfield Penney Art Center (Buffalo, NY) to present Common Currents, offering work by artists from both Northeast Ohio and Western New York state. The work will be on view at AAWR from April 11-June 21, and in Buffalo July 11-November 2. It features a range of work by a dozen artists from each market, co-curated by Cleveland Sculpture Center executive director Grace Chin and Kyle Butler, Assistant Professor of Fine Art at Buffalo’s Villa Maria College, who pored over hundred of entries to choose the final group.
They tell us that “Themes of exploration, transformation, reinvention, and the use and impact of technology infuse the collection, expressing through a variety of mediums the work of both cities to move out of their common Rust Belt pasts while also keeping mindful of how that past informs our perception and experience of the present.”
The Cleveland show opens with a free, public reception Friday April 11 @ 5:30pm.
artistsarchives.org/event/common-currents/