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Jean Luc Mylayne, Bird, 2007
| Jean Luc Mylayne
On view May 30th, 2008 through August 17th, 2008
Using birds as his primary subject matter, artist Jean Luc Mylayne creates photographs that move beyond documentation to become philosophical meditations on the relationship between man and nature. This exhibition features approximately twenty large-scale color photographs of bluebirds, hummingbirds, juncos, and other bird species that live in Western Texas.
From 2004 to 2007, Mylayne and his wife/collaborator, Mylène, lived in Fort Davis, Texas, for six-months at a time. During these stays, Mylayne developed an intimate understanding of the surrounding environment and birdlife. He waited patiently for hours, even days, for certain birds to come in close range, and then photograp ... Read More
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Jamie Davis, before.during.after (detail), 2006, Parchment paper, wax paper,
newsprint, thread, wood, 168 x 96 x 1 inch
| Jamie Davis
On view May 30th, 2008 through August 17th, 2008
A WENDY L. MOORE EMERGING ARTIST SERIES EXHIBITION
Using diverse materials such as wax, cotton batting, salt, band-aids and human hair, Akron-based artist Jamie Davis creates sculptural installations that explore the relationship between linear time and the experience of memory. Many of her works, such as 3.7%, call attention to how humans perceive and reinterpret the past, present and future.
Created to honor the memory of Wendy L. Moore, an inspiring artist and native Clevelander who died in 1997, the Wendy L. Moore Emerging Artist Series provides one female artist in the Northeast Ohio region with an annual solo exhibition at MOCA Cleveland. This exhibi ... Read More
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| Michel Huelin
On view May 30th, 2008 through August 17th, 2008
This exhibition presents Floating Device (2007), a video installation in which Swiss artist Michel Huelin conveys a dreamy, seductive world where nature is transformed. It is an uneasy world where the fusion of the artificial and the real ventures into new territory.
Huelin’s work in photography and video portrays the environment we inhabit as a synthetic, fluid world that exists in between real and virtual realities. Bold and vibrantly colored, his computer-generated imagery transforms familiar objects or environments into floating sequences of constantly moving and mutating hybrid forms. In Huelin’s work, interior spaces and botanical forms resembling plants and flowers ... Read More
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