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WORKS BY JOHN PEARSON ON VIEW AT THE OBERLIN COLLEGE GALLERY & PERFORMANCE SPACE IN CLEVELAND
MARCH 26, 2002-- Works by acclaimed artist John Pearson will go on view March 28 at the Oberlin College Gallery & Performance Space at Here Here in Cleveland's theater district.
Co-chair of the Art Department at Oberlin College, Pearson is a renowned artist whose works have been exhibited in a wide variety of venues throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. The exhibition marks the first solo exhibition of Pearson's work in the Cleveland area since his Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art show in May 2000.
Among the works on view March 28-April 18 will be more than 250 pieces created by Pearson for a one-person show that occupied the entire nine galleries of the City Museum of Fine Arts in Ljubljana, Slovenia, during September of 2001.
Funded in part by the U.S. State Department, for the exhibition Pearson assembled 1500 small relief pieces mounted in over 234 frames. They range in size from 9-by-12-inch up to 72 inches wide. Some frames hold only one or two pieces while others contain up to 20 pieces arranged sequentially or layered. He also produced larger wooden relief structures for this same exhibition.
"The focus of the works is the concept of regeneration, as witnessed through the infinite rhythms and patterns of nature, the perennial cycle of life's renewal," Pearson says. Each work is a minimalist abstraction developed from studying the seeds and seed pods of wild flowers to be found in Yorkshire, England, Pearson's birthplace.
Oberlin's presence at the Here Here Gallery - which has been renamed Oberlin College Gallery & Performance Space at Here Here - began in May 2001, after the space was secured by Nanette Yannuzzi Macias, associate professor of art, and Johnny Coleman, associate professor of art and African American studies, to create a formal association between Oberlin College and the Cleveland arts community.
The gallery's first exhibitions included sculpture, installations, and performance pieces by Oberlin College art faculty. Since then, it has been the site of several exhibitions music and dance performances, including a sound installation by Coleman and a student exhibition titled Translations of Ashe which included performances and installations.
Refurbished for the current exhibition which runs through March 21, Sacred Spaces--Forgotten Places by Oberlin artist Audra Skuodas, "the gallery is now equivalent to any other 'alternative' art space," Pearson says. "It is a very elegant space."
Oberlin College Gallery & Performance Space at Here Here is located at 1305 Euclid Avenue. Exhibition hours are Tuesday thru Friday 11 A.M. to 5:30 P.M. and Saturdays 11-3 P.M. All events are free and open to the public.
Media Contact: Betty Gabrielli
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