The Sculpture Center / 2007 - 2008 Exhibition Calendar

2008 - 2009 Exhibition Calendar

Richard Hunt Tower of Aspirations 2002 Welded stainless steel 45’H x 16’W x 16’D Springfield Village Park Augusta, Georgia Image courtesy of the artist	September 5 – October 25, 2008 Opening Friday, September 5 from 5:30 – 8 PM 6:30 PM The Artist Talks with Richard Hunt MAIN AND EUCLID AVENUE GALLERIES *Richard Hunt: Shaping the Spirit* Richard Hunt’s abstract, lyrical, smaller bronze and stainless steel sculptures and his maquettes for his huge public pieces, with photomurals of the completed works, fill two galleries. Richard Hunt, an eminent Chicagoan whose work has been lauded since the early 1960s, was the first African-American artist to have a one-person exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and has received more commissions for sculpture than any American artist. His early works in bronze and some recent stainless steel pieces were cast at a Cleveland foundry. His bronze sculpture Sentimental Scale and Wedge (1977), commissioned by the City of Cleveland, stands beside the Justice Center.
Curtis Mitchell Godfather 2007 9 x 11 x 21 ft. video projection, altered C-Print, rubber matting, logs, paint. Image courtesy of the artist.	November 7 – December 20, 2008 Opening Friday, November 7, 5:30 – 8 PM 6:30 PM The Artist Talks with T.R. Ericsson and Scott Westover, Curator of the Progressive Corporation Art Collection in the Euclid Avenue Gallery 7:15 The Artist Talks with Curtis Mitchell in the Main Gallery MAIN GALLERY *Curtis Mitchell: Personas* In his most recent series Personas, Curtis Mitchell appropriates eloquent film moments, as the scene in The Godfather when Don Corleone dies while chasing his grandson in an apple orchard. Mitchell projects himself and the viewer into the roles of the protagonists by altering the film to hide their faces, places a photographic print on the floor on which he has exactly recreated their footsteps, and makes an accompanying sculpture. For The Sculpture Center exhibition, Mitchell will show excerpts of two films. The gallery will be arranged in such a manner that the viewer will block certain parts of the film while watching it, thus creating the interaction with the protagonists and placing that person into the various roles. Curtis Mitchell’s work, often seen at New York galleries, was last shown in this area at the Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA, in 2003, at P.S.1 MoMA in 2006, and this summer at Maisonneuve, Paris, in The Word Is…/Bill Albertini, Jan Kopp, Curtis Mitchell. Mitchell, a New Yorker, is the fall 2008 Visiting Professor of Sculpture at the Cleveland Institute of Art.
T.R. Ericsson The Magic Inside of You is Infinite 2007 glass and alcoholic cocktail mix, 5 x 6 x 1 1/2 in. Image courtesy of the artist.	EUCLID AVENUE GALLERY *T.R. Ericsson: Heaven leans its heavy hand in a flashing drop of dew so its giant sky won’t break in pieces.* This installation is under development. The exhibition will focus on the launching of the 14th edition of Thirst, Ericsson’s long running self-published limited edition artworks that often take the form of a magazine, and the theme of narcissism. The viewer will be placed into the role of Narcissus searching for Echo, and Ericsson will look at his own work from the vantage point of this theme. Ericsson’s artwork is based upon the lives of his immediate family of grandparents, uncle, mother, and father, and his upbringing with them in Cleveland. All Ericsson’s family on his mother’s side died over a 5 year period. He often exhibits sculptural objects that he has made in response to these losses, actual objects and memorabilia that he unexpectedly inherited, and self-published magazines about these experiences. With these objects he explores the lives and creates “portraits” of his family members and, obliquely by association and by his choices and omissions, of himself. Ultimately the objects and installations activate in the viewer the emotions that the artist has experienced. The Sculpture Center exhibition is being held in conjunction with Narcissus at Shaheen Modern and Contemporary Art, 740 W. Superior Ave., Suite 101, Cleveland (Nov. 15 – Dec. 20, opening Nov. 15), an exhibition of Ericsson’s recent graphite drawings for the series by the same name. Ericsson divides his year between Cleveland and New York. His most recent exhibition was at Heidi Cho Gallery in New York (Oct. 2007). His work is held in the collection of the Progressive Corporation.
	2009 WINDOW TO SCULPTURE EMERGING ARTIST SERIES
Donald Henson Seeker 2006 turned wood, machined aluminum, paint, cable 42 x 8 x 8 in.	January 9 – February 14, 2009 Opening Friday, January 9, 5:30 – 8 PM EUCLID AVENUE GALLERY *Donald Henson: Title to be determined* Donald Henson aims to synthesize the historically formal aesthetics of sculpture with the contemporary popular culture genre of science fiction. He works within a technological mode while maintaining a high level of craftsmanship in order to create a dialogue between the organic and the synthetic, an intersecting of nature and humanity. The African-American artist Donald Henson received his MA in Sculpture from Kent State University and is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
. Susan McClelland Hidden 2007 wooden bed frame, bed linen, filler, thread, ink 48 x 72 x 36 in.	MAIN GALLERY *Susan McClelland: Title to be decided* Endowing everyday furniture of the home with sewed fabric, Susan McClelland explores intimate communities inherent in our everyday domestic lives. Her sculptures represent individual identities, and her use of sewing and cloth speaks to the constant and often difficult work of creating, maintaining, and healing relationships between individuals. Susan McClelland received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Kent State University.
Jake Beckman Excised 2007 found asphalt, cement, soil, oil, motorized model oil pump, stainless steel, 22 x 68 x 9 in.	February 28 – April 4, 2009 Opening Saturday, February 28, 5:30 – 8 PM MAIN GALLERY *Jack Beckman: Title to be decided* Jake Beckman’s sculpture, portraying mechanical ecosystems, explores human kind’s relationship to the natural world. Beckman seeks to reframe our perceptions to expose our dependent relationship with synthetic modern existence and to promote a greater connection to an interrelated whole. Jake Beckman, a Cleveland native, currently has a studio in New York City.
Danielle Julian Norton Treading and Transport 2006 rice, glue, monofilament, 30 x 20 ft.	EUCLID AVENUE GALLERY *Danielle Julian Norton: Title to be decided* Danielle Julian Norton creates sculptural installations that engage the human body in a corporeal relationship to the space of her work. Norton focuses on the physical, rather than the emotional or spiritual, facilitating the viewer’s participation with the materials and discovery of their own bodily experience. Danielle Julian Norton is an instructor at the Columbus College of Art and Design. She received her Master of Fine Arts from the University Of Notre Dame in Indiana.
Sarah Kabot Inversion 2007 digital prints, 12 x 8 x 6 ft.	April 17 – May 22, 2009 Opening Friday, April 17, 5:30 – 8 PM MAIN GALLERY *Sarah Kabot: Title to be decided* Using systems of copying, mirroring, and amplification, Sarah Kabot creates sculptures and installations that articulate a visual tension between the original and the imagined object. Emphasizing the transient nature of the object, her work challenges viewers’ perceptions by altering our comprehension of the object’s structure and meaning. Sarah Kabot, an Assistant Professor at the Cleveland Institute of Art, has exhibited her installations throughout Ohio and the Midwest and in summer 2008 in New York, NY.
Elissa Cox Sleep 2008 installation, mixed media, 40 x 22 ft.	EUCLID AVENUE GALLERY *Elissa Cox: Title to be decided* Elissa Cox’s sculptural environments are informed and inspired both by the human body and the natural landscape. Simultaneously seductive and grotesque, these forms are evocative of internal surfaces of the body, and aesthetically resemble natural flora and fauna. Cox’s installations overwhelm the senses with visual excess and her compulsion to detail and craft. Elissa Cox received her MFA from Ohio University and has joined the faculty of Upper Iowa University, Fayette, IA, on a tenure track for fall 2008.
Leticia R. Bajuyo, entitlement pills: wisdom and joy, 2006, candy machine, Good & Plenty candy, blue food color; Matthew Boonstra, Untitled (school desk), 2007, steel; Walter Early, Lawley, Dawley, 2007, wood; Leticia R. Bajuyo, forces of nature: tornados and hula hoops, 2007, PVC tubing, paint; Matthew Boonstra, Untitled (umbrella), 2007, steel; Joshua Parker, Mailman, 2007, 8,500 9 x 12 inch manila envelopes; Chad D. Curtis, Floral Landscape with Trees, 2007, glazed terra cotta. Image courtesy of The Sculpture Center.	June 5 – July 26, 2009 Opening Friday, June 5, 5:30 – 8 PM MAIN AND EUCLID AVENUE GALLEIES *On A Pedestal and Off The Wall* *The Fifth Annual of Small Sculpture from the Region* A juried exhibition of small sculpture by artists of Ohio, its contiguous states, and Ontario, Canada. Juror to be chosen.
Exhibitions: 2008/2009, 2007/2008, 2006/2007, 2005/2006, 2004/2005, 2003/2004, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997
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