MAKING YOUR MARK AUDIOTOUR
Explore the exhibition Making Your Mark with the sounds of the artist’s studios.
“The images are not specific stories and the characters are not specific people. They’re the result of me seeing society and also trying to write this like fiction. Imagine that you’re writing fiction. Nothing is real but also it’s very familiar. When people see these images, they can interpret it themselves.”
“I always wanted to create images that can speak to everyone.”
“I used a specific material—bullet shells. I said, okay, I want to use them, but I want to use them in a different way… the destruction of the means of destruction was kind of a meditation for me.”
“I don’t want to sell art. My work is about power dynamics. Once you play into that role, you have to bow to the curators and the galleries. You have to change. You have to be kind of hypocritical.”
Omid Shekari
Iranian, born 1986, Damavand, Iran
Can’t go, 2019
Ink, gouache, powdered bullet shells on paper
Collection of the artis
Emergency Management, 2019
Ink, gouache, powdered bullet shells on paper
Collection of the artist
“Why does anyone have to keep art-making in the same boundaries? Why can’t I just keep pushing myself to make different stuff?”
“I like to use humor and allegory. They bring two different meanings, and I feel like humor brings a connection.”
“Since I was a kid, I always looked at pop culture as more than just media.”
Erykah Townsend
American, born 1997, Cleveland, Ohio
Holographic Meatloaf: (Crayola Box 8) Brown= S16, Red= S34, Orange= S04, Yellow= S27, Green=S20, Blue= S11, Purple=S22, Black= S13, Keep Blank= S012020
Printed paper, collage paste, acrylic, fiber paste
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“I’m very much an experimental kind of artist… I can work on spontaneous drawing and building up layers, and that’s been nice.”“I’m lucky that I found things that I love. I think that’s important for everybody, just to find something that you love”
“There are always things going on, but I can definitely say there are things that I’m working on now. We need definites in our lives, and I feel like that’s something I can count on.”
Michaelle Marschall
American, born 1979, Willoughby, Ohio
Plan Depth, 45 feet, 2018
Wood lithography
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Charted Course No. 3, 2018
Wood lithography
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“I’m very much an experimental kind of artist… I can work on spontaneous drawing and building up layers, and that’s been nice.”“I’m lucky that I found things that I love. I think that’s important for everybody, just to find something that you love”
“There are always things going on, but I can definitely say there are things that I’m working on now. We need definites in our lives, and I feel like that’s something I can count on.”
Christine Zuercher
American, born 1989, Dayton, Ohio
Distant Transmissions #1, 2018
Gum bichromate print
Collection of the artist
Distant Transmissions #15, 2018
Gum bichromate print
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“At the core of it, I see my art making as holistic… There isn’t a distinction between my artmaking and my lived experience.”
“There’s no hierarchy in materials; they’re all there and they’re all welcome.”“I do see color as a way to really immerse and draw the viewer in.”
“I’m okay with being up front with the viewer—‘yes it’s fabric,’ or ‘yes it’s denim’… but the accessibility of that can lead into transcendence of materiality.”
Andrea Myers
American, born 1979, Kettering, Ohio
Blue Seems, 2020
Remnant denim, fabric, acrylic on canvas
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“As a printmaker, I really appreciate what happens when I take a thing and use it as a matrix to become something else. And what’s beautiful about that process is that the matrix still remains as an object.”
“It excites me to discover things along the way, since we have so few uncharted territories.”
“Rather than relying on one single technique, I’m much more interested in finding what works to make it work.”
Micah Kraus
American, born 1976, Conneaut, Ohio
Rooftop, 2018
Laser engraved monotype collage
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