About the Artists:
Kristin Rogers explores pretty much everything. Sculpture, drawing/collage, videography, and music are additional interests that Kristin pursues with an intentional rejection to style and the stale trappings of signature uniformity. He much prefers routine through the practice of eclecticism and unpredictability. Where some projects come to concrete conclusions, others linger as ongoing accumulative matters. In his strategy there is almost a sense of clarity achieved through disorder where seemingly absurd non-sequiturs reveal themselves as candid critiques, characterizations, or presentational snap-shots on common social themes.
Pita Brooks is an advocate and native to Northeast Ohio, and she has been immersed in the Cleveland art scene since childhood. She received a B.A. in Fine Arts from Hiram College, where she studied painting, photography, multimedia, and minored in Art History. She most recently came to the Cleveland Institute of Art from the Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland where she was working for the past five years. Pita is a lover of contemporary culture and when she is not at CIA or in her studio, you can catch her motorcycling around town, hitting all of the art openings.
Kristin Rogers explores pretty much everything. Sculpture, drawing/collage, videography, and music are additional interests that Kristin pursues with an intentional rejection to style and the stale trappings of signature uniformity. He much prefers routine through the practice of eclecticism and unpredictability. Where some projects come to concrete conclusions, others linger as ongoing accumulative matters. In his strategy there is almost a sense of clarity achieved through disorder where seemingly absurd non-sequiturs reveal themselves as candid critiques, characterizations, or presentational snap-shots on common social themes.
Pita Brooks is an advocate and native to Northeast Ohio, and she has been immersed in the Cleveland art scene since childhood. She received a B.A. in Fine Arts from Hiram College, where she studied painting, photography, multimedia, and minored in Art History. She most recently came to the Cleveland Institute of Art from the Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland where she was working for the past five years. Pita is a lover of contemporary culture and when she is not at CIA or in her studio, you can catch her motorcycling around town, hitting all of the art openings.
PitaBrooks
Bite Size
November 4 - November 27, 2016
PitaBrooks - Bite Size
Pita Brooks brings her signature narrative encaustic tableaus to Maria Neil Art Project for a new exhibition! Having cut her teeth for years behind the lens of photography, Brooks fixes her attention here on developing the languages of film and translating them into these intimate, tactile snapshot creations. In these sculpted scenes, frozen vignettes jump from the substrate like the modeled dimensionality of a stereoscope or Viewmaster. Similar to photography’s articulation of fore-middle-back-ground, these dioramas traverse that terrain with archeological illogic—spinning narratives of fictional settings that are at once foreboding and oddly full of promise.
Brooks invites the closest of scrutiny, both of the exquisite materiality of her microcosms and of the vast macrocosms that await narrative translation from viewer to viewer—visitor to visitor. Certain physical items within each of these bites are quickly identifiable, while fantastical fictitious scenery beseeches us to create our own associations to the space, place, or story. Like a choose-your-own-adventure, each “bite size” work drops us into the middle of a tale and asks us to root around for a moment before frame-advancing to the next page around the corner. The artist reminds us of our own daily mind flickering, the rapid-fire release of memories, dreams, aspirations, and meanderings—those images that in one moment bring back small snippets or pixels of remembrance, yet so often lack the full clarity of the experience itself.
To fully digest the library of adventures that Brooks outlines, all we need do is consume her snapshots and join her invitation to mine our own minds—in small, bite size morsels. Bon appétit!
Pita Brooks brings her signature narrative encaustic tableaus to Maria Neil Art Project for a new exhibition! Having cut her teeth for years behind the lens of photography, Brooks fixes her attention here on developing the languages of film and translating them into these intimate, tactile snapshot creations. In these sculpted scenes, frozen vignettes jump from the substrate like the modeled dimensionality of a stereoscope or Viewmaster. Similar to photography’s articulation of fore-middle-back-ground, these dioramas traverse that terrain with archeological illogic—spinning narratives of fictional settings that are at once foreboding and oddly full of promise.
Brooks invites the closest of scrutiny, both of the exquisite materiality of her microcosms and of the vast macrocosms that await narrative translation from viewer to viewer—visitor to visitor. Certain physical items within each of these bites are quickly identifiable, while fantastical fictitious scenery beseeches us to create our own associations to the space, place, or story. Like a choose-your-own-adventure, each “bite size” work drops us into the middle of a tale and asks us to root around for a moment before frame-advancing to the next page around the corner. The artist reminds us of our own daily mind flickering, the rapid-fire release of memories, dreams, aspirations, and meanderings—those images that in one moment bring back small snippets or pixels of remembrance, yet so often lack the full clarity of the experience itself.
To fully digest the library of adventures that Brooks outlines, all we need do is consume her snapshots and join her invitation to mine our own minds—in small, bite size morsels. Bon appétit!
About the Artist:
Pita is an advocate and native to Northeast Ohio, and she has been immersed in the Cleveland art scene since childhood. She received a B.A. in Fine Arts from Hiram College, where she studied painting, photography, multimedia, and minored in Art History. She most recently came to the Cleveland Institute of Art from the Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland where she was working for the past five years. Pita is a lover of contemporary culture and when she is not at CIA or in her studio, you can catch her motorcycling around town, hitting all of the art openings.
About the Artist:
Pita is an advocate and native to Northeast Ohio, and she has been immersed in the Cleveland art scene since childhood. She received a B.A. in Fine Arts from Hiram College, where she studied painting, photography, multimedia, and minored in Art History. She most recently came to the Cleveland Institute of Art from the Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland where she was working for the past five years. Pita is a lover of contemporary culture and when she is not at CIA or in her studio, you can catch her motorcycling around town, hitting all of the art openings.
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KristinRogers & PitaBrooks
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March 6 - April 19, 2015
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