Simon Evans meticulously assembles simple materials like paper scraps, scotch tape, pencil shavings, and white-out into diagrams, maps, flowcharts and diary entries that obsessively catalogue the fragments of life. His text-based drawings, weavings, and embroideries share confessional, often humorous observations. Only Words Eaten by Experience presents a comprehensive overview of Evans’s work from the past five years.
November 1, 2013 — February 16, 2014
Karl Haendel, Michael Smith, Amanda Ross-Ho, Jessica Jackson Hutchins
November 1, 2013 — February 16, 2014
Michelle Grabner’s survey exhibition, I Work From Home, features a replica of The Suburban, an artist project space Grabner and Brad Killam founded in 1998 in their backyard. Converted from an 8 x 8 foot storage shed and positioned in the suburbs—typically thought of as peaceful and humdrum—The Suburban offers an alternative platform for contemporary art outside of the typical hierarchies.
Jeffry Chiplis, Dana Depew, Elizabeth Emery, and Jenniffer Omaitz
August 24, 2013 — October 13, 2013
Everything All At Once features four Cleveland-based artists who make sense of the world through restructuring and assembling found materials. These common things—picked up, repainted, repaired, or completely transformed—navigate between the ordered space of the museum and the material jumble of the outside world.
June 28, 2013 — October 13, 2013
Featuring the artists Kevin Beasley, Jerry Birchfield, Julia Christensen, Jacob Ciocci, Lenka Clayton, Hilary Harnischfeger, Frank Hewitt, Leza McVey, Scott Olson, Michael E. Smith, Reverend Albert Wagner, and Lauren Yeager.
October 8, 2012 — September 1, 2013
Katharina Grosse’s vibrant, massively scaled paintings invite viewers to physically encounter color. Using the expanded platform of architecture, Grosse takes on ceilings, walls, and floors as “canvases,” creating a heightened awareness of space. Grosse is the first artist to be featured in MOCA Cleveland’s new annual Atrium Commission series.
May 3, 2013 — August 11, 2013
Light from the sun takes 8.3 minutes to reach the Earth. Light from the stars of distant galaxies can travel for thousands of years before we see it. When we look up at the sky, we are looking back in time.
March 16, 2013 — June 9, 2013
In addition to their solo art practices, Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller have collaborated on a number of projects that investigate perception and immersive environments. The Paradise Institute is one of their most ambitious and complex works to date, exploring the psychological effects of cinema.
March 16, 2013 — June 9, 2013
MOCA Cleveland presents Kate Gilmore’s first solo museum exhibition, featuring a newly commissioned work. Gilmore’s performances involve physical challenges, which combine elements of humor and discomfort to address female identity, labor, and resistance.
January 18, 2013 — April 14, 2013
Corin Hewitt will convert the Museum’s Toby Devan Lewis Gallery into a combined studio, theatrical stage, and exhibition space, using the walls as a site of activity. Shifting and unsettled, Hewitt's project will draw audiences into a dialogue about artistic process, and the museum as a space for production.
David Altmejd, Walead Beshty, Jeremy Blake, Louise Bourgeois, Katharina Grosse, David Hammons, Jacqueline Humphries, Oliver Husain, Gordon Matta-Clark, Corey McCorkle, Henrique Oliveira, Barry Underwood, William Villalongo, Jennifer West, Rachel Whiteread, and Haegue Yang
October 8, 2012 — February 24, 2013
A new MOCA Cleveland. Dramatic structure. Dynamic galleries. The inaugural exhibition at MOCA Cleveland’s new building takes an in-depth look at how artists engage with architecture and concepts of space.