Opening Fri 9/10 @ 6 – 9PM
One of the city’s most innovative luminaries, Terry Schwarz, is this year’s Artist-In-Residence @ Zygote Press. Schwarz is known for her visionary work as the director of Kent State University’s Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative. Her newest exhibit, Take It, is sure to be as cool and thought-provoking as anything else she’s ever done.
Details:
A city planner by training, her work is about finding meaningful new responses to decline and loss. Abundant production is one such response. She has created and collected a variety of images making multiples of everything through the printmaking process. Schwarz has bound these words and images into big loose pads with the hope that visitors to the exhibition will find something useful or meaningful and then “take it.”
Writes Schwarz: “When I first starting thinking about all of this, I googled the phrase “take it” and found a wonderful book called Take It by the poet Joshua Beckman. His writing perfectly captures the sense of entropy and transformation that I have been dealing with in my work in Cleveland neighborhoods. So I borrowed quite a lot from his book; his words are threaded through many of my images. Interspersed with the prints are some new projects that we’re working on at the Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative, including some emerging ideas from the Re-imagining a [Greater] Cleveland vacant land initiative, a joint project of the CUDC, Neighborhood Progress Inc., and ParkWorks.”
The gallery is open every Tue & Sat and by appt. Exhibit on display through Sat 10/16. Artist talk is on Thu 9/16 from 6:30 – 8PM.
Zygote Press – 1410 E. 30th St.
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