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ART GALLERY EXHIBITS
Audrey & Harvey Feinberg Art Gallery, curator Linda K. DeMarco
Open one hour before events except Kids Matinees.
"TESTING 1, 2, 3…"
E.D. Taylor, Hannah Petroni, Ian Petroni
Thursday, June 9-Sunday, July 10
Opening reception Friday, June 10, 6-8pm.
E.D. Taylor Artist's Statement:
My parents named me Elizabeth Dare Taylor after my grandmother and a friend of the family, thinking that the film star Elizabeth Taylor would be an unknown by the time I grew up! Born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah, I discovered early in life a love of, and facility for, art-making beginning with passionate, clandestine crayon scribblings on my mom's freshly painted walls. While still in high school, I decided to study art seriously and later attended the University of Utah. Soon after getting my degree in painting and drawing, I stumbled into an eighty dollar per month studio space in a creaky old building with peeling paint and terrible wiring called The Guthrie. I built a portfolio for submission to several graduate level art programs landing at Rhode Island School of Design where I studied printmaking. Since earning my MFA from RISD, my artwork has been seen in PIEROGI Gallery, Brooklyn's Flat Files, Ingenuity Fest and the Warwick Museum of Art among others.
As an artist, I investigate the mystery and power of the human form. At the same time, I grapple with the transience of the human condition. This confrontation with the hard fact of mortality necessitates experimentation and playfulness. So my meticulous artwork combines elements of both the comical and quietly disturbing. Methods and materials range widely from burin engraving to building sculptural elements with ceramic stucco. I challenge myself to use and master processes that best express the obsessions fueling my work.
Hannah Petroni Artist's Statement:
Hannah Petroni studied art at Vassar College, graduating in 2000. She then lived in northern Japan for two years teaching English in rural junior high schools. After traveling back home via China, Mongolia, Tibet, Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean, she worked for five years in the Cleveland Museum of Art's Installation Department. Hannah now works at the Mutt Hutt daycare for dogs in Tremont. She has previously shown her work at the Arts Collinwood Gallery.
Some of these paintings are influenced by patterns found in Japanese textiles and paper. Other paintings feature repeated botanical forms. During this past winter, Hannah enjoyed seeing the elegance of plant shapes during many long dog walks. Out of the gray and drab winter, there was beauty to be found in the patterns of dried and dead plants.
Hannah is married to Ian Petroni and they have two dogs and two cats. They are expecting their first child, and many of the flowering and growing forms in the paintings are flavored by the experience of pregnancy. Hannah is grateful for the opportunity to show this work at Cain Park.
Ian Petroni Artist's Statement:
Ian Petroni grew up near Berkeley, California and graduated from Vassar College with a degree in drama and philosophy. He moved to Cleveland in 2005 after having worked for Parade the Circle the previous four summers. He has been very involved with the Community Arts department of the Cleveland Museum of Art, which has given him the opportunity to pursue his interests in street theater and sculpture. His training in festival arts received a boost in 2005 when he traveled to Trinidad and Tobago to work on two Carnival bands there. Ian's work here has included the Waterloo Arts Festival, the Cleveland Museum of Art's Lantern Festival, and a giant garlic sculpture at the inaugural North Union Farmer's Market Garlic Festival. He has created work for several public art displays including the United Way's "Guitar Mania" and the St. Clair Superior Neighborhood Development Corporation's "Year of the Pig." Continuing to hone his specialty carpentry skills, Ian has worked as the properties carpenter at the Cleveland Play House for the past four seasons and has created custom furniture and home improvement projects for clients in the greater Cleveland area. His sculptural lamps and decorative works of art have been shown at galleries including Arts Collinwood, Tri-C Gallery West, and in California. Ian uses simple methods and materials, such as wire, branches, found objects and paper to create works that express handcrafted individuality. A soon-to-be father, he lives in the Tremont neighborhood with his wife, two dogs, two cats, and prolific vegetable garden.
"CAMERA READY"
Photography by Brad Cohn and Ronnie Pyles
Friday, July 15-Saturday, August 13
Opening reception Friday, July 15, 6-8pm.
Brad Cohn Artist Statement:
Photography is my passion, hobby and profession. I took an early interest in photography at 8 years of age and have been shooting ever since. With over 26 years of photographic experience - 18 years of which are in professional shooting and 15 years in the photographic retail business - I can safely say photography is my life.
My first love, besides my family, is night photography and macro photography. I look for the most aesthetically pleasing scenes that will transport the viewer to a place of my choosing. There is an intended balance and flow in many of my photos. Having started with film and with digital photography being so easily correctable, I've always abided by the rule of "Shoot for the shot." This means that you want to create your image before it ever gets to the computer so that minimal editing is needed.
Ronnie Pyles:
Native Clevelander Ronnie Pyles has had an extensive career in modeling which ultimately led to his interest in photography. While spending some of his modeling career in Europe, he developed an appreciation for architecture. However, it was when he returned to Cleveland that he began to turn his new love into a new career path. His first project was photographing old abandoned buildings in the Flats. Ever since then, photographing architecture in black and white has been his primary interest. While still modeling in Los Angeles, Ronnie also developed a love for "old Hollywood," which led to his photographing anything vintage, including a friend's collection of vintage ladies shoes. He has dedicated one of the vintage shoe photographs to the late film star and Cleveland native Dorothy Dandridge. In addition to architecture and vintage shoes, Ronnie also enjoys photographing old bridges and old cars. He received his Bachelor of Arts in sociology at Kentucky State University as well as a professional designation in public relations from UCLA's Extension Program.
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