FALL EXHIBITION 2010
| FALL EXHIBITION 2010 |
The Sculpture Center’s fall 2010 exhibitions emphasize the many faceted talents of art professors in our larger region. David Deming, just retired President of the Cleveland Institute of Art, has taught sculpture in Texas and Cleveland, Ohio, for over 25 years. Heather McGill has been artist-in-residence and Head of the Sculpture Department at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, since 1991. Aaron L. Peterman is a recent graduate of Cranbrook Academy of Art who now lives in Providence, Rhode Island, and whose work is being exhibited often in Boston, Massachusetts. September 24 – December 18, 2010 TransFORMations Heather McGill Aaron L. Peterman TransFORMations TransFORMations: The Rocker and Centurion Series presents the creative variations and production processes for two dynamic sculpture series by Cleveland artist David Deming. The light hearted Rocker, for which the first rounded model was done while the artist was a student at the Cleveland Institute of Art, was inspired by a Mayan glyptic form and has been translated by Deming into a variety of both smaller bronze variations and large brushed steel outdoor pieces. Centurion, a series initiated just six months ago, recombines a restricted vocabulary of geometric shapes into stately upright bronze pieces. The 10 sculptures in TransFORMations are first formed as wooden models and are finally realized as bronze castings in a variety of patinas. In honor of David Deming’s 41 years as a fine arts teacher, the exhibition will include an example from each series of the production steps from model to casting molds to finished sculpture. about the artist Deming graduated from the CIA in 1967 (BFA) and the Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI, in 1970 (MFA). Before graduate school, he taught sculpture for one year at Boston University’s School of Fine and Applied Arts. Upon receiving his advanced degree he taught sculpture and drawing, briefly design, in Texas, first at The University of Texas at El Paso for two years, then at The University of Texas at Austin for 26 years. At UT Austin he was Chair of the Department of Art and Art History, Interim Dean and then finally Dean of the College of Fine Arts from 1991-1998. Deming served as the President of the Cleveland Institute of Art from 1998-2010. Heather McGill Heather McGill’s The Last Time I Saw Richard is a visually raucous installation spread across the Euclid Avenue Gallery. McGill’s art work, built up of layer upon layer of lacquer “candies” or laser cut paper, surreptitiously addresses layer upon layer of illusion - social, political, and physical.
about the artist McGill has received grants for both permanent and temporary installations from the National Endowment for the Arts, LEF Foundation, Ford Foundation, California Arts Council, and the San Francisco Arts Commission. As a two-year Artist-in-Residence at the Exploratorium in San Francisco, she designed a piece that became part of the permanent collection after traveling through Europe. In 1999, she received the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award. She has lectured and served as a panelist at many universities and conferences in the United States, and recently as a peer reviewer for the Fulbright Fellowship applicants in 2001-03. A former California resident, McGill created installations throughout the West Coast exploring the historical, environmental, and cultural systems specific to each site. Outdoor permanent sculpture includes works in the city of San Rafael and for the State of California at the Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Sanctuary. Her work is included in the public collections of Sprint, Albright-Knox Gallery, Fidelity Investments, Compuware, Daimler, and the Detroit Institute of the Arts. In the past few years, McGill has participated in group and one-person shows at the Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York; Dwight Hackett Projects, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Miller/Block Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts; The Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, New York; Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; Knoedler & Company, New York, New York; L.A. Louver, Venice, California; TZ’ Art & Company, New York, New York; The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan; Espace Lyonnais d’Art Contemporain, France; Serpentine Gallery, London; Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels; Seville Museum, Seville, Spain; William Traver Gallery, Seattle, Washington; The Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York; Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, Washington; Madison Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin; and San Jose Museum, San Jose, California.
Aaron L. Peterman Aaron L. Peterman’s “Repent, harlequin!” is both a meticulous and monumental structure composed of decorative patterns and appropriated queer imagery. Engulfing the viewer, this installation subtly subverts aesthetic tradition, social decorum, and viewers’ immediate assumptions. The title “Repent, harlequin!” is taken from a 1965 Harlan Ellison short story in which the Harlequin character defies the rules of established society and attempts to sabotage those in power through civil disobedience.
about the artist Aaron L. Peterman was educated at the University of Evansville and Ball State University in Indiana, and in 2008 received his MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI. His work has been exhibited in galleries nationally and is held in the permanent collection of Fidelity Investments in Boston, MA. Peterman lives and works in Providence, RI, and is currently represented by Miller Block Gallery in Boston. |
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