CSU and CIA Come together at The EDGE
Marie Catanese
Issue date: 11/21/05 Section: News
Denise Stewart, a fifth year print major at CIA, placed third for her moving piece, Requiem. This work is interactive and viewers are invited to don a pair of white gloves and flip through a series of 12 sepia toned photographs. The series of photographs, housed in a box covered in linen and stained with rust, depict a family (probably that of the artist) and with each new page one of the members disappears.
"My work is about loss and memory. The box acts as a reliquary for the images of a family that through death fades away," Stewart explained in her artist's statement.
Four CSU students, Anna Tararova (Windows), J. J. Thornberry (Reflections), Louis Sanovich (The Creature) and Jayne Sylvester (Missed Communication) were awarded honorable mentions for their pieces.
The EDGE, a non-profit gallery and arts resource center, blends in so well with the rest of the surrounding Euclid Avenue buildings that many students and other passersby may not realize it is there. The gallery is one of the area's best-kept secrets in the arts and calls itself Cleveland's only "urban-Christian" arts organization.
The mission of The EDGE Art Gallery, opened in January 2002 by Pastor Gordon Jardy, is to "bridge community, education and faith through the visual arts." Jardy's love of art and position as campus minister spurred the gallery's development as a place for creativity and for fellowship.
"[The gallery] is part of a faith-based organization although the art is not necessarily faith based," Jardy explained.
The Third Annual CSU and CIA Student Art Exhibition will be on display through Dec. 2. The EDGE Art Gallery is open Monday through Thursday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Friday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Saturday by appointment. For more information call (216) 241-7120.
"My work is about loss and memory. The box acts as a reliquary for the images of a family that through death fades away," Stewart explained in her artist's statement.
Four CSU students, Anna Tararova (Windows), J. J. Thornberry (Reflections), Louis Sanovich (The Creature) and Jayne Sylvester (Missed Communication) were awarded honorable mentions for their pieces.
The EDGE, a non-profit gallery and arts resource center, blends in so well with the rest of the surrounding Euclid Avenue buildings that many students and other passersby may not realize it is there. The gallery is one of the area's best-kept secrets in the arts and calls itself Cleveland's only "urban-Christian" arts organization.
The mission of The EDGE Art Gallery, opened in January 2002 by Pastor Gordon Jardy, is to "bridge community, education and faith through the visual arts." Jardy's love of art and position as campus minister spurred the gallery's development as a place for creativity and for fellowship.
"[The gallery] is part of a faith-based organization although the art is not necessarily faith based," Jardy explained.
The Third Annual CSU and CIA Student Art Exhibition will be on display through Dec. 2. The EDGE Art Gallery is open Monday through Thursday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Friday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Saturday by appointment. For more information call (216) 241-7120.