Traveling exhibition organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami Curated by Bonnie Clearwater, Executive Director & Chief Curator, MOCA, North Miami / Coordinated at MOCA Cleveland by Margo A. Crutchfield, Senior Curator
ON VIEW in the Talalay, Lewis, and Seltzer galleries

Organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Jorge Pardo: House is the first comprehensive US museum exhibition of Los Angeles-based artist, Jorge Pardo. Accompanied by an illustrated catalogue, this nationally ... Read More

In 2004, Atlanta-based artist Sheila Pree Bright began a series of forty photographs representing affluent African-American suburban homes around Atlanta. MOCA Cleveland’s exhibition, Sheila Pree Bright: Suburbia will feature thirteen mid-scale and large-scale photographs from this body of work. Portraying the rooms, furnishings, and partially-concealed residents of these homes, Bright emphasizes an upper-class African-American lifestyle that is often overlooked or disregarded in mainstream media. In addition to a social examination of race and place, Bright explores the racial assumptions that images of suburban wealth can evoke.

A 2002 National Graduate Semina ... Read More

Curated by Indra K. Lacis, Emily Hall Tremaine Curatorial Fellow

Building on Sheila Pree Bright’s examination of race in her exhibition Suburbia is a group of short videos by five young African American artists—Elizabeth Axtman, Jefferson Pinder, Hank Willis Thomas/Kambui Olujimi, and Xaviera Simmons.

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Organized by MOCA Cleveland; Guest curated by Steve Dietz; coordinated at MOCA Cleveland by Margo A. Crutchfield, Senior Curator
ON VIEW in the Marjorie Talalay, Peter B. Lewis, and Video Galleries

There is nothing particularly lighthearted about global climate change. Or terrorism. Or the history of colonialism. Or global outsourcing. Or pervasive war. Or inescapable poverty. Or a failing educational system. Or a failed relationship, for that matter. Yet, if we are honest, regardless of where we stand, these are among the weighty topics none of us can evade as we contemplate the future. In this contemporary context, “what’s next?” the age-old question ... Read More

Curated by Megan Lykins Reich, Assistant Curator

ON VIEW in the Ginn Gallery

"The work of Christian Wülffen proves to be a constant estimation of measurement: of his own action, of the possibilities of artistic utterance, of the chosen locations, of the art system.” – Nikolai B. Faustbauer

In his work, Christian Wülffen investigates how (visual) information is organized and transmitted. For many years, Wülffen has created wood fences that function as concrete metaphors for the ways in which information is structured, controlled, and directed in society. Wülffen also integrates p ... Read More

Curated by Megan Lykins Reich, Assistant Curator
ON VIEW in the Marjorie Talalay and Peter B. Lewis Galleries

Cyclones; digital technology; war; sustainability; unemployment; immigration; gentrification; capitalism; fundamentalism. These and other social, economic, ecological, and political influences are bearing heavily on communities across the globe, causing rapid, even drastic changes in the look and constitution of these distinctive places. There Goes the Neighborhood presents the work of contemporary artists who are exploring the shifting patterns, appearance, and composition of communities in America and several countries a ... Read More