Wed 3/16 @ 5:30-7:30PM
Fri 3/18 @ 5-8PM
The next show at HEDGE Gallery is called Exquisite Attention, and features work by three artists whom local gallery-goers will be familiar with: Rebecca Cross, Cathie Bleck and Taryn McMahon.
The title refers to a couple of things. One is the theme of the show: calling attention to the damage that human beings are doing to the environment. “Their collective research and influence of the natural world will address the beauty, fragility and resiliency of threatened species,” the show’s statement says.
The other is the collaborative process they used for some of the work: a process known as “The Exquisite Corpse,” associated with the early 20th-century surrealists, where artists pass around a drawing and each adds to it without seeing what has previously been done.
The other work includes McMahon’s printmaking featuring silhouettes of things she found on the banks of the Cuyahoga River; Cross’s bio-tracings series of “exprints” — imagined extinct plant species created using a traditional Japanese process called shibori; and Bleck’s works on paper and clay pigment paintings addressing explore dualities in nature and human evolution.
There’s a preview reception on Wednesday March 16 @ 5:30-7:30pm. The show official opens during Third Friday, March 18 @ 5-8pm. The show is on view through May 6.