Thu 7/11 @ 5:30-8PM

Artists Archives of the Western Reserve is serving up a veritable art feast this summer. After closing shows of work by three recently archived women artists whose work contains elements of surrealism, it’s opening another three, extremely diverse shows. They include two artists working in vastly different mediums and a group show of work by members of Art Books Cleveland.

Jon Barlow Hudson was archived in 2017 and his show, called Incarnations, will share some of the work that made him such a successful sculptor with more than 100 public commissions across the country and abroad. Across his career, he’s worked in stainless Steel, brass, cast bronze, glass, water, stone and fiber optic light, with an interest in contrast natural material with manmade ones. His stainless steel work Morning Star is on view at AAWR’s campus. The show will feature some of his smaller works, as well as photos of some of his commissioned pieces.

John Saile didn’t start making art until relatively late in life but once he started, he became ultra-productive. His work, which often combines painting, printmaking and photography, tends towards abstraction. Much of his work, AAWR describes his black and white iterative digital studies in the AAWR collection, as “very sculptural,” and says “the juxtaposition of this work with Hudson’s creates a beautiful flow between the adjacent galleries.”

The shows open with a free public reception on Thursday July 11 and will be on view through August 24.

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 On Vview through August 24.