A new exhibit at MoCA Cleveland has just opened, entitled Delicious Fields : Ohio Photographers at Work, and features work by Pipo Nguyen-Duy, Professor of Studio Art, Photography at Oberlin College. Professor Nguyen-Duy's biography is here. The exhibition runs through August 21, 2011.
From MoCA Cleveland's website, "Rolling farmlands, looming factories, majestic matter-of-factness - these descriptions apply to Ohio as a cultural and geographic site distinct from other regions of the United States. But what can that mean for photographers working in our midst? "Delicious Fields" derives from "Champs Delicieux," a portfolio of photograms created by Man Ray and published by Tristan Tzara in Paris in 1922. As an avant-garde publication heralding the beginning of photographic surrealism in Paris, the images in Champs Delicieux represented revolution in their own time and are reprised in experimental contemporary photography. Man Ray's images, created by placing everyday objects onto a sheet of photographic paper exposed to light, offered a scrambling of reality. Just so, the nine Ohio photographers exhibited here overlay personal narrative on the Ohio landscape, or conversely, subject this and other topography to overt manipulation and examination. What results is a selection of photographic work imbued with the spirit of the enigmatic, as descended from its French forbearers."
More details on the exhibition can be found here.
MoCA Cleveland Gallery and ARTspace Hours:
Tuesday - Sunday, 11 am to 5 pm
New! Late Night Wednesdays until 8 pm
Admission:
MoCA Members receive free admission and parking every day.
$4 Non-Members
$3 Students and Seniors with Valid I.D.
Free for Children Under age 12
The Cleveland Play House provides secure parking for MOCA Cleveland visitors at $7.00 per car.
MOCA Cleveland is located on the second floor of the Cleveland Play House Complex at 8501 Carnegie Avenue. Look for the colorful banners both on top and in front of the building. Once inside, just follow the signage through the elevator or stairs to find our galleries, which are ADA accessible.
8501 Carnegie Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44106-2919
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