Fri 4/10 @ 5:30-8PM
The Sculpture Center in University Circle opens its doors to two new shows this week: Cloud of Unknowing by Gary Sczerbaniewicz and Ling-lin Ku’s Morning After.
“Sczerbaniewicz and Ku are doing something rare—each in their own distinct language, they make the invisible felt,” says The Sculpture Center’s executive director Grace Chin in the show’s press release. “One looks outward toward the mysteries we project onto the world; the other turns inward toward the hungers we carry in the body. Together they create an experience that is genuinely hard to shake.”
Sczerbaniewicz’s work draws together influences from such disparate arcane sources as UFOs, occult imagery, secret societies and ritual spaces with interactive sculptural environments featured miniature dioramas. His title comes from the anonymous 14th-century Christian mystical text The Cloud of Unknowing, referring to hidden truths that may come to light by looking beyond certainty and knowledge.
Ling-lin Ku’s presents Morning After features a series of large-scale sculptures incorporate breakfast imagery including tableware and food, and sensual and bodily forms, exaggerating and morphing them “to create a surreal landscape of desire, indulgence and vulnerability,” according to the show’s statement. His process includes digital fabrication technologies including 3D scanning and CNC routing along with traditional sculptural methods. The show is part of TSC’s early-career artist program, Revealed.
The shows open with a reception on Friday April 10 @ 5:30-8pm and will be on view through Saturday June 6.