Fri 8/23 @ 6pm
This Friday, SPACES invites the community to a reception celebrating the latest installations from Mimi Kato and Brandon Juhasz.
Mimi Kato is a Cleveland-based artist originally from Nara, Japan. For her exhibition, she has partnered with the Cleveland Metroparks as one of SPACES’ World Artist Program (SWAP) participants. Her current work deals with invasive plants in our region. She will be creating installations at both SPACES and the North Chagrin Reservation of the Cleveland Metroparks using these invasive plants – specifically glossy buckthorn.
Kato will spend time with an invasive plant control team in the North Chagrin Reservation as they cut back and spray herbicide on the invasive plants. As each plant is removed, Kato will wrap the stumps with reflective tape. At night, the tape is meant to glow like animals’ eyes. All the buckthorn stalks removed will be part of Kato’s exhibition at SPACES. During the exhibition, Kato hopes to work with the community to create solutions and ideas on how to best re-use the plants. It is the goal of Kato, Cleveland Metroparks and SPACES to expose their audience to the sheer volume of invasive plant species that threaten our region’s ecology and the amount of effort put into combating their damage.
Brandon Juhasz’s exhibition Paradise. Pair a dice. is an installation of sculpted photographs. Juhasz creates an enveloping, interactive environment containing strange 3D objects created by folding, wrapping and rolling printed images he finds on the internet. Visitors are invited to navigate through the sculptures and take photos. The photos can then be uploaded to a website intended to collect the many different interpretations of the project in hopes of creating a collective “idea” of the site for people who don’t see it in person. At a to-be-determined date during the exhibition’s run, Juhasz will hold a workshop leading participants through his process of sculpting printed images.
Additional Events:
Mimi Kato Installation at the North Chagrin Reservation Fri 8/23 – Fri 8/18 at 3037 SOM Center Road Willoughby Hills, OH 44094 Park Hours: 6:00 AM – 11:00 PM Free and open to the public. Night visitors are asked to bring their own flashlight or head lamp.
Talk on Invasive Plants with Mimi Kato and Jennifer Hillmer (Invasive Plant Coordinator, Cleveland Metroparks) Thu 9/5, 6:30 – 8:00 PM @ SPACES, 2220 Superior Viaduct.
All events are free and open to the public.
[Images, top to bottom: “Followers” by Brandon Juhasz, “North Chagrin Reservation Installation Night View” by Mimi Kato]
Retro-Reflections on Sculpting Nature and Paradise. Pair a Dice opens Fri 8/23 at SPACES Gallery, 2200 Superior Viaduct, Cleveland, OH 44113. On view 8/23 – 10/13. Additional Hours: Tuesday-Sunday Noon-5pm, Thursdays open until 8pm. Closed Mondays. (216) 621-2314. http://spacesgallery.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.