Ryan Legassicke
dal 11/6/2014 al 29/7/2014
Segnalato da
11/6/2014
Ryan Legassicke
The Sculpture Center, Cleveland
Shadows - Wall Disease. Artist's current work examines contemporary urban spaces and makes connections between our shared aesthetic experience and the idea that we are becoming progressively more disconnected from ourselves, each other, and the places that we inhabit.
Ryan Legassicke's current work examines contemporary urban spaces and makes connections between our shared aesthetic experience and the idea that we are becoming progressively more disconnected from ourselves, each other, and the places that we inhabit. His work addresses the ways in which various ideologies (socio-economic inequality, racism and migration) are manifested in the built environment and the resulting psychological effects. Legassicke's aim is to reinterpret urban landscapes where histories are removed, intolerance is enforced and people attempt to resist a paradoxical space both present and absent. His current project Shadows: Wall Disease, creates three dimensional full scale sections of structures such as the Berlin Wall. These life size models appear not as replicas but as objects which physically delineate the space that these barriers occupied in real life. Conceptually they are meant to appear as shadows: mental after-images.
About the artist
Ryan Legassicke received his MFA from SUNY - Buffalo in 2009. Legassicke has shown nationally and internationally. He has received numerous awards and grants including the Ontario Arts Council, Emerging Visual Artist Grant in 2010 and again in 2011 the Toronto Arts Council Emerging Visual Artist Grant. He most recently participated in the exhibition, Borderline at the Living Arts Centre, Mississauga, Ontario. He currently lives and works in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
About The Sculpture Center
The Sculpture Center receives generous support from The Callahan Foundation, the Kulas Foundation, The John P. Murphy Foundation, the Bernice and David E. Davis Art Foundation, The George Gund Foundation, studioTECHNE|architects, the Leonard Krieger Fund of The Cleveland Foundation, Sculpture Center board members, and many individual donors to Friends of The Sculpture Center. It receives additional generous public funding from Cuyahoga Arts and Culture and the Ohio Arts Council.
Image: Ryan Legassicke, Untitled (walls), 2012, models and mesh, dimensions variable. Image courtesy of the artist.
Thursday, June 12
5:30 - 8:00 PM Opening
6:15 PM The Artist Talks: Janet Macpherson in the Euclid Avenue Gallery
7:00 PM The Artist Talks: Ryan Legassicke in the Main Gallery
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