January 21st – February 26th, 2011
Elaine Hullihen
Main Gallery
Elaine Hullihen recently earned her BFA from Kent State University in 2007. Her playful and self reflexive work, uniting sculpture and performance, explores interpretations of human attachment to various abstract concepts such as time, place, and desire.
Elaine Hullihen
I Pushed That Out There, 2009
Jenniffer Omaitz
Euclid Avenue Gallery
Jenniffer Omaitz, an Adjunct Instructor at the University of Akron, earned her MFA from Kent State University in 2009 and her BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 2002. Omaitz’s large installations of found objects, home building materials, and architectural models imply a shift between topography and natural disasters and tensions between physical landscape and the landscape of the psyche.
Jenniffer Omaitz
Installation Number One, 2008
Mixed media
130 x 162 x 24 in.
March 11th – April 16th, 2011
Qian Li
Main Gallery
Qian Li is an Associate Professor at Cleveland State University. Li’s mixed media installations of sculpture and projected video incorporate memories, dreams, and visualizations of her troubled childhood and traditional Chinese background. She constructs a world of desperation, mental and physical pain, anxiety, and restlessness.
Qian Li
Garbage Bag - Hang, 2009
Watercolor sketch
1 ft. 1 in. x 1 ft. 8 in.
Image courtesy of artist.
Daniel McDonald
Euclid Avenue Gallery
Daniel McDonald is an Assistant Professor of Art and the Head of Sculpture at Ashland University. McDonald’s individual sculptures of varying size and materials convey a personal interest in socio-cultural aspects of his Mormon background as well as overarching cultural dilemmas, through themes of manipulation, stereotyping, and self-evaluation.
Daniel McDonald
Reluctant Redemption: In the Mouth of the Fish, 2008
Steel, foam, bronze, fabric, rubber, cable
9 ft. x 10 ft. x 6 ft. 3 in
April 29th – June 6th, 2011
Annie Strader
Main Gallery
Annie Strader was born and raised in Columbus, earned her BFA from Ohio University in 2002 and MFA from the University of Colorado in 2005, and holds the position of Assistant Professor at Sam Houston University in Texas. Strader’s installations utilize sculpture, video, and performance to explore personal notions of longing for love, truth, and understanding, combined with historical, mythical, and contemporary archetypes of feminine desires.
Annie Strader
Cure, 2009
Digital projection, metal tray table, ceramic teacup, and table salt
2.5 x 3 x 1.5 ft.
(Burning fire is projected on to the salt that fills the teacup.)
Joshua Parker
Euclid Avenue Gallery
Joshua Parker earned his BFA from Kent State University in 2007 and is a 2010 MA Candidate in the same program. He previously exhibited two pieces at the Sculpture Center in On a Pedestal and Off the Wall in 2008. His large, dynamic and often fantastical mixed media installations are frequently ironically narrative, utilizing accompanying texts.
Joshua Parker
EBFAM (Edison’s Brother from Another Mother), 2008-2009
Photo cell, light bulb, manipulated and fabricated electronics, foam, steel, copper, wire, inkjet prints, wood, hydrocal, string, paint, glue, VCR head, propeller, fabric, 1/10th Rpm motor, timer, tape, and extension cords
9 ft. x 10 ft. x 3 ft.
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