Wed 3/18 @ 5:30-7:30PM
HEDGE Gallery’s current 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 artist talk for this show is scheduled for Wednesday March 18. You can check out the show again on Third Friday, March 20, but the artist talk is the perfect time to learn more about the artists’ process and inspirations and to ask questions about specific pieces in the show. It’s free and open to all.
hedgeartgallery.com/exhibitions