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The Bridges Project Marty Weishaar | 2010 | cardboard, hot glue, colored tape, spray foam and zip ties | courtesy of the artist
Speculative Models Marty Weishaar | 2011 | cardboard, hot glue, colored tape, spray foam and zip ties | Jerry Mann/SPACES
Speculative Models Marty Weishaar | 2011 | cardboard, hot glue, colored tape, spray foam and zip ties | Jerry Mann/SPACES
SPACES invites the Baltimore-based artist Marty Weishaar to execute his playfully chaotic style of art making in Cleveland. SPACES will be filled with bridges, toy car tracks, and cardboard airplanes to create a microcosm that is reminiscent of crumbling infrastructures, and the messy craft of modern civilization-building.
Weishaar's seemingly disorganized objects are thoughtfully constructed of common materials such as packing tape, zip ties, cardboard, matchbox cars and spray foam. At first glance, these forms (that rarely include a right angle) seem to be both toppling and rising at the same time. His work forms symbolic relationships between traditional and nontraditional materials with various historical approaches, such as conceptualism and intuituve abstraction. Connections are made between two-dimensional and three-dimensional projects, systematic abstract paintings, diarist drawings, airplanes, bridges and buildings.
Marty Weishaar
Marty Weishaar graduated from American University in 2007 with a Master of Fine Arts in Drawing and Painting. In July of 2010, Marty was a resident artist at the Vermont Studio Center. There he met Serena Perone the two of them completed an exhibit titled Exit Strategies at the Creative... go to artist page
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22, 25, 45, and 51 all also stop nearby at West 25 and Detroit.
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