Opening Sat 8/24 @ 1 – 10pm
This Saturday, Cleveland’s Museum of Contemporary Art throws an eclectic party to celebrate both the return of the area’s college students as well as its newest exhibition Everything All at Once, featuring four Cleveland-based artists. Sound Your Engine will feature contemporary art, experimental music performances and custom car culture.
Starting at 1pm, Toby’s Plaza outside MOCA will be filled with some of the region’s finest custom vehicles – from homemade Monster Trucks to custom, hand-built motorcycles. From 5-9pm, innovative sound artists and electronic musicians will conduct improvisational performances inside and outside the museum.
At 7pm, MOCA will hold a reception and artist talk for Everything All at Once featuring curator Liz Maugans and the four participating local artists — Jeffry Chiplis, Dana Depew, Elizabeth Emery and Jennifer Omaitz. All four artists re-contextualize and “upcycle” found objects – creating completely new, compelling objects that are simultaneously familiar and new.
Jeffry Chiplis restructures commercial neon signage to create new forms and meanings. His work can currently be seen outside of William Busta’s art gallery. Dana Depew is Cleveland’s jack-of-all-trades. He’s a sculptor, painter, installation artist, curator… The guy can do it all. He’s also probably the hardest working artist in town. His installation, Rust Belt Crystal Palace, is a rendition of the historic Crystal Palace in London. The work includes storm windows, wood pallets, stained glass panels and more. While his work is always changing, Depew often re-fabricates and re-contextualizes commercial and industrial materials.
Elizabeth Emery is another multi-talented local artist. She casts everyday objects to draw attention to their unique surface qualities and intriguing negative space. Jennifer Omaitz uses paper, cardboard, wood and various other found objects to create enveloping, almost overwhelming wall sculptures that comment on the changing landscape of our region and world-at-large.
Everything All at Once is curated by CAN Journal/Zygote Press’ Liz Maugans. Maugans is the recent recipient of a Creative Workforce Fellowship from the Community Partnership on Arts and Culture (CPAC). Zygote Press also received a Cleveland Arts Prize this year. In the past year, her work has been showcased at Arts Collinwood and 1point 618 Gallery. She is quickly becoming one of the Cleveland art community’s biggest assets.
The night will conclude with a performance by a “Headliner” band that has yet to be announced at 8:30pm in Toby’s Plaza.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
1pm: Car Show Begins
5–9pm: Pop-Up Musical Performances
7pm: Exhibition Talk
8:30pm: Headliner Band
Plaza events are free until 5pm. General admission after 5pm is $8. MOCA Members and college students are free (with college ID).
[Images, top to bottom: “The Show Off Chameleon” by Jeffry Chiplis, “Rust Belt Crystal Palace” (detail) by Dana Depew, “Elastic Limits” by Jennifer Omaitz, “Black Dots” by Elizabeth Emery]
Sound Your Engine/Everything All at Once runs 8/24 – 10/13 @ MOCA, 11400 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH 44106. http://mocacleveland.org.
Josh Usmani is a 27 year old local artist, curator and writer. Since 2008, his work has been featured in over 50 local and regional exhibitions.
Cleveland, OH 44106