Mid-November Shows

Friday Nov 14, from 6-11pm is "All Things Cleveland" @ Asterisk Gallery.
Show runs through Dec 6, 2008. hrs by appt. 330-304-8528
www.asteriskgallery.com

Joe Ayala, Zachary Hart Baker, Josh Banaszak, Matt Bartel, Jason Byers, Amy Casey, Bruno Casiano, Jeffry Chiplis, Cleveland SGS, Munroe Copper, Pedro Dell, Eileen Dorsey, Stephe DK, Bridget Ginley, John Howitt, Beth Kappa, Mark Keffer, Ryan Jaenke, Noel Maitland, Jerry Mann, Sam Mazzola, Doug Meyer, James Miles, Lou Muenz, Frank Oblak, Scott Pickering, Arabella Proffer, Donald Rogers, Thom Rossino, John Ryan, Anna Tararova, Jess Samuelson, Dott Schneider, Debra Shepherd, Paul Sydorenko, RA Washington and Chris Zahner.

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Saturday, Nov 15th T.R. Ericsson "Narcissus" @ Shaheen Modern & Contemprary Art. Opening reception 7-9pm.

T. R. Ericsson’s first exhibition at SHAHEEN features a group of thirteen drawings delicately rendered in powdered graphite and permeated by the biographical and autobiographical themes that have guided the artist’s sculpture, drawing, video and installation work of recent years.
Entitled "Narcissus", and bearing a loose thematic relationship to the myth of Narcissus and Echo, the cycle of images depicts the artist traversing a series of complex wooded landscape settings. To create these elaborate and labor intensive drawings, Ericsson converts high-resolution digital photographs into film positives, which are subsequently burned into silkscreens. He then rubs bags (nylon stockings, actually) containing powdered graphite through the mesh, transferring the image from the silkscreen to paper. Intermittently, Ericsson removes the screen and reconfigures the loose medium to pull out detail utilizing erasure, stencils, brushwork, stumping and vacuuming. The attempt to control the passage of medium through the screen, coupled with the repeated movement of the screen precipitates chance visual occurrences and enhances the drawing’s softly focused appearance.

Friday , Nov 21st Stephen Pentak "Counting Water" @ The Bonfoey Gallery, 1710 Euclid Avenue. Reception from 5 to 8 pm.

In these oil paintings on gessoed birch panels, Pentak instills a sense of tranquility and one’s self onto the landscape. Pentak explains these ideas as, “Each painting is a measure of time: time spent observing, time spent reflecting, and time spent in the act of painting. The paintings in this show are conscious of time: not so much the ‘time of day’ or ‘season’ that may be suggested, but time’s relationship to memory. In these paintings memory is an act of constant reconstruction. River-views, creek-side places, small observations: each of these are gathered as I count the waters.”