Artists respond to the diversity and complexity of the urban street and envision it as a place of ever-changing inspiration.
Curated by Don Harvey
Events in conjunction with Street Repairs include:
Thu Sep 7 5–9 pm
Opening reception with live music and street dancing by 216beatriders
5–6 pm Members Hour
Sun Sep 10 11 am
Gallery discussion Join us for brunch with Israeli artist-in-residence Ravit Mishli.
Fri Sep 15 7–9 pm
Street performance night Urban poetry by Michael Salinger, Mary Weems, ra washington, Sara Holbrook and
Josiah Quarles, followed by live music
Thu Sep 21 noon PARK(ing) spaces around Cleveland
Sat Oct 14 noon
An urban afternoon Street performance of RU-FM on the Detroit-Superior Bridge by artists Frank Ferraro and Stephen Pelligrino. Following, artists and urban activists discuss the Visual and Social Street.
Live concerts throughout the exhibition in GutterHall, a concert space within Street Repairs. Visit newsense enterprises for performance information.
All events are free and open to the public
They appear overnight—made by unseen hands. Some vanish within days—some linger. Typically impromptu and often makeshift, these shrines, effigies, and religious icons on roadsides and in urban landscapes acknowledge tragic deaths. They are humble remembrances of loved ones and testaments of spirituality and mortality. In the hustle of day-to-day life, these devotionals give pause to reflect on humanity.
Born in Ashland, OH
Resides in Cleveland Heights, OH
Education:
1997 MA, University of Akron, Akron, OH
1995 BFA, University of Akron
Informed by anatomy, paleontology and industrial engineering, my work investigates correlations between the man made and the natural physical world. In response to a consumer culture in which there is a lack of understanding of the origins of all things, I seek to re-awaken this consciousness. My work for Street Repairs mines the substrates of Cleveland.
Born in Cleveland Heights, OH
Resides in Cleveland, OH
Education:
2005 BA Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA Selected Exhibitions
2005 Unseen, Cleveland Public Art, Cleveland, OH
2005 Thesis Show, List Gallery, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA
GutterHall is a conceptual art installation cultivating the notion that music and gatherings around music can contribute greatly to urban revitalization. GutterHall, as a performance, can be a space where bands and fans enact the 1950s pastime of seeing how many people can be crammed into a phone booth. It can conjure remembrances of seeing your favorite group before they “made it big,”“I saw Sonic Youth when they were doing house parties…” GutterHall, as a wordplay on guttural, can also quite simply be a gruff and raspy utterance of gritty rock noise cluster crank, jam-packed crazy close and full of frenzy. Ultimately, the installation and the performances provide a place where people can get together, experience art and community while making the world a better place to live.
Born in Wheeling, WV
Resides in Cleveland, OH
Education:
1991 BA Glenville State College, Glenville, WV Selected Exhibitions
1992 MA Miami University, Oxford
1994 MFA Miami University, Oxford , OH
2004 SUB: Cultural, Textual, Liminal, Space, Pittsburgh, PA
2005 Incorporated, Cincinnati Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH
2005 Pan/Sonic, Northern Illinois University Art Gallery, Chicago, IL
Born in Cleveland, OH
Resides in Cleveland Heights, OH
Education:
Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio Exhibition
2005 From Here to Mars, David Shoe Building Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Art lies in its processes. I make work that is meant to be seen in this active state and in which the artist is a performer and participant. Life of the city is played out in the streets and places on streets announce changes with postings, new signage, new tenants and purposes. To know the dynamic and shifting past provides us with an understanding of the present, and while new paint covers histories, the street remembers.
Born in Hanover, NH Resides in Cleveland, OH
Education:
1991 BFA Kent State University, Kent, Ohio
Selected Exhibitions:
2006 Degrees of Frank, Part 1, Arts Collinwood Gallery, Cleveland
2003 Word Work, Brandt Gallery, Cleveland
Frank Ferraro
These sound sculptures resemble urban detritus from which emanate a sort of sound graffiti—seemingly random street sounds, scarcely audible, like the deep background noise of urban life. Ferraro, collaborating with Leonardo Pellegrino, Stephen Pellegrino and Maurice Rickard, also creates street performances that are momentary interventions in busy urban streets. In one of them, RU-FM, a group of four musicians dressed as street workers assemble around a Ferraro sculpture that resembles an abstract machine and use it to perform a series of sound pieces composed by Stephen Pellegrino.
Born in Pittsburgh, PA Resides in Pittsburgh
Education: Self Taught
Selected Exhibitions:
2005/2006 4 Quarters and RU-FM, a collaboration, Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh
2004 The Sonic Bridge Project Sound Symposium, Terminal Building, South Side, Pittsburgh
Painting The Flats; Strip Tease is a multimedia piece that presents the painting as an altered reality and the video, which documents the painting process, as the juxtaposed reality of its creation.
Born in Cleveland, OH Resides in Cleveland
Education:
1995 BFA Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Selected Exhibitions:
2006 BierMkt, Cleveland
2005 Griffin Gallery, Cleveland
My work bridges and contrasts a neighborhood and green pedestrian space with city infrastructure and man with machine. Images are slowed and edited to appear to merge. ‘Centaur’ refers to the legend which claims that Aztecs, upon first encountering Spanish cavalrymen, considered them to be half-man and half-horse.
Born in Providence, RI Resides in Oberlin, OH
Education 2006 BA Oberlin College, Oberlin
Exhibition 2006 Spectre, Fisher Gallery, Oberlin
Asphalt Repair misses the array of cracks to create a more compelling pattern. These applied patterns mark locations of organizations that engage in “Urban Repair.” Represented through photography, the applied archetypal symbols and patterns elevate the otherwise mundane asphalt parking lots.
Born in Washington, DC
Resides in Cleveland, Ohio
Education 2002 MA Kent State University, Kent, OH
1993 BA Miami University, Oxford, OH
1997 University of South Florida, Tampa, FL Selected Exhibitions
2006 Playhouse Square Station Luminaries Project, GCRTA, Cleveland, OH
2006 Industrial Pavilions, Superior Avenue Public Art, Cleveland OH
2006 Butterfly Fountain, Columbus, OH
My primary interest is in exploring architectural rendering and images to create narratives and metaphors for the complexities of how we relate to our built environment. I view architecture as a cultural metaphor. I have become interested in systems of architectural rendering as a way of addressing human issues of psychology and politics in addition to visceral and perceptual aspects of architectural space. While working within these conventions, familiar frameworks are questioned through fantasy and humor – buildings become protagonists in narratives about their design, function, construction and disintegration.
Born in Oberlin, OH Resides in New York, NY
Education
2006 MA Kent State University, Kent, OH
1998 BA University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI Selected
Exhibitions 2006 Built Rebuilt, Kent State University
2006 Solo Exhibition, Commerce Street Artists’ Warehouse Residency, Houston, TX
2006 City, Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Home Sweet Home” addresses the potential for a synergistic relationship between social interaction and public spaces. After observing local bus shelters, I took note of their distinct characteristics, especially the tendency for such spaces to isolate the individuals therein. Although bus shelters can be utilized by many at a given time, these spaces discourage conversation. My intention is to design a space that will address and challenge such socially adverse spaces, while simultaneously provoking civic imaginations. Bus shelters are designed to accommodate high traffic and as a result, these efficient and sterile spaces have become cold and hostile. Typically, home environments starkly contrast such alienating spaces. Sociologists suggest that, for Americans today, relaxing activities and social visits are in decline. Inspired by the pedestrians gathered daily at bus stops, this project acts as a catalyst for social interaction, as well as furthering art and design’s impact on what are— for now—marginalized public spaces.
Born in Cleveland, OH
Resides in Sheffield Lake, OH
Education
2006 Certificate in Product Design, Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, London, England
2006 BFA, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland Selected Exhibitions
2005 The NEO Show, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland
2004 Cleveland Botanical Garden Flower Show, Cleveland
Road re-construction makes mazes of Cleveland’s streets in summer. While streets reveal their underbellies, traffic patterns are redrawn, normal life is altered but redirected, life of the city travels on. I observe and imagine life in the city streets, I create vignettes and dances in the streets and I capture and embellish the stories.
Born in Cleveland, OH
Resides in Westlake, OH
Education
1997 BFA, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland Selected Exhibitions
2006 On the Verge, 1300 Gallery, Cleveland 2004 Drive-In Tales, Artmetro, Cleveland
Beck Center, Cleveland, OH Cleveland Public Art, Cleveland Twenty-nine billion Styrofoam containers are used in the United States per year—25 million per day. The ecosystem of the city, the natural flow of energy and matter is in disequilibrium. Food packaging refuse, take-out containers, sauce-laden foil wrappers and paper napkins litter the streets. Pigeons have no natural predators and they feed on the littered leftovers from the community dining room of the street—and multiply. These drawings and constructions are about accumulation, multiplication, fast food, and an ecosystem gone awry.
Born Cleveland, OH
Resides in Cleveland Heights, OH
Education
2006 MFA Kent State University, Kent, OH
1997 BA Parsons School of Design, New York, NY Selected Exhibitions Beck Center, Cleveland, OH Cleveland Public Art, Cleveland