2012 W2S SERIES

Linda Ding: Still Life
MAIN GALLERY

In her installations, Linda Ding, a recent graduate of The Cleveland Institute of Art, “seeks out the recurring paths that architecture creates in anticipation of social interaction. A room, space, place, and time are all repeating in a constant rhythm, developing invisible guiding lines that lead to meeting points.” Through the arrangements of architectural space, which her installations emphasize, she “constructs an experience that defines the way people develop relationships.

about the artist
Linda Ding is an American sculptor currently living and working in Cincinnati, Ohio. She received her BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art (2010), and she has exhibited in Cleveland, Boston, and St. Louis. Her work focuses on the ideas surrounding the formation of spatial and emotional relationships between people.

January 20 – February 25, 2012
Lauren Yeager/Scott Stibich: Familiar Machines
EUCLID AVENUE GALLERY AND THE PLATFORM

Lauren Yeager and Scott Stibich, also two recent Cleveland Institute of Art graduates (2009 and 2010 respectively), have collaborated to fabricate 6mixed media sculptures that seek to mimic the perceptual experiences of extraordinary events such as sky diving, sensory deprivation and a solar eclipse. They recreate these experiences by means of everyday objects with the goal that the materials themselves will disappear to leave only the sensory experience.

Stibich | Yeager Collaboration Statement
We propose a collaborative series of sculptural devices that recreate perceptual experiences such as viewing a solar eclipse, sky diving, and sensory deprivation. These experiences are rare or unattainable for most people due to the specific circumstances they require. We will take note of the basic physics required to create the experiences we are mimicking and then recreate these circumstances using common, everyday objects. We will maintain the recognizable forms of these found objects with the intention that the concrete, familiar nature of the materials we choose will dissolve the "smoke and mirrors" associated with the original circumstances and their effects. We hope that the work will create impressive, immersive, sensorial effects while remaining familiar and highly tangible. Through this work, we want to empower people to actively imagine and create extraordinary experiences. Many of the works will be interactive for the viewers, while some will simply imply function.

about the artists
Lauren Yeager and Scott Stibich are Cleveland based artists investigating their day to day, immediate environments in order to discover alternate potentials within their daily routines. They are both recent graduates of The Cleveland Institute of Art (Yeager, 09/ Stibich, 10) with emphases in Sculpture.

Yeager recently returned from residencies in Alaska and Nebraska. She has exhibited at such galleries as Spaces, The Sculpture Center, and The Cleveland Foundation in Cleveland, Ohio. She has also been awarded such prizes as the Sallie Fishman Award for Excellence in Sculpture and The President's Traveling Scholarship from the Cleveland Institute of Art.

Stibich's work has been displayed in galleries and museums across the Midwest. He was recently recognized by Cleveland Public Art with the See Also award. He has also worked on two nationally honored public art projects.

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