Wed 2/18 @ 5-7PM
Fri 2/20 @ 5-8PM
HEDGE Gallery’s new show, Natural Phenomena, features the work of three Northeast Ohio-based artists, two painters who use encaustic in their work, and one ceramicist.
Christopher Kier, who came to this area from Toronto, is inspired by ruins, relics, and totemic objects. He says, ““My work presents what I consider to be an architectural or totemic ‘echo’. Topographical environments and reliquaries are created with wax, graphite, oil pastel and paint, nurturing my preoccupations with place, time, and the human imprint onto the natural scape.”
Susan Squires, whose work recently appeared in a show at Context Gallery, one floor up from HEDGE, has been working in encaustic for the last couple of decades, creating mixed-media geometric abstractions. “My work is influenced by dialogue between ancient ways of knowing and our modern world view,” she assets.
Finally, Lauren Herzak- Bauman creates layered ceramic and porcelain works, that absorb other materials including fabric, inspired by such natural phenomena as moving water, rock striations, and star clusters.
The show opens with a preview event on Wednesday February 18, and official opens on Friday February 20, during 78th Street Studios’ Third Friday.
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