August 21 - October 16, 2015

Deeper Structures

Curated by: Elena Harvey Collins (Cleveland Hts., OH)

Earcatcher (Columbus, Ohio), Yvonne Carmichael, Elena Harvey Collins (Cleveland, OH), Jibade-Khalil Huffman (Los Angeles, CA), Dani Leventhal

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Deeper Structures
The Ballad of the Rawson Sisters

The Ballad of the Rawson Sisters  Yvonne Carmichael | 2013 | HD color video, installation view | Courtesy of the artist.

The Ballad of the Rawson Sisters

The Ballad of the Rawson Sisters  Yvonne Carmichael | 2013 | HD color video, Video still | courtesy of the artist

Audisne

Audisne  Earcatcher | 2014 | HD color video with sound | courtesy of the artist

Deeper Structures

Curated by: Elena Harvey Collins (Cleveland Hts., OH)
Deeper Structures brings together artists who use a variety of strategies in order to compress, stretch, and chop narratives, often revealing hidden patterns and rhythms that move beneath the surface of a story. These works bear certain hallmarks of traditional 3-part narrative structure, yet they wander off script, leaving the viewer in the middle of events, with little explanation, left to fill in the gaps.

Throughout the works in Deeper Structures, sudden shifts in perspective, intensity, and logic abound; decision making as to the timing and cadence of a work reveals the relationship of the film maker to subject. It's in the cut that the presentation of "real life" is ordered, and these works push the ability of the camera--and the edit--to question and conflate our mediated experience of everyday life.

About the Artists

Earcatcher

Earcatcher, Linda Diec, Liz Roberts, and Lexie Stoia (Columbus, OH)Artist collective Earcatcher work within strict narrative parameters, using sound as a generative seed around which mysterious, playful, and disjointed stories are developed. go to artist page

Yvonne Carmichael

Carmichael conducts research into the affect and gesture of retail workers in now-empty stores, isolating the repeated movements and developing a choreographed folk tale that memorializes the past of these spaces. go to artist page

Elena Harvey Collins

Elena Harvey Collins is a Cleveland based artist from London, England. She completed her MFA in 2012 at the Columbus College of Art and Design in Columbus, OH. Currently, she is a Curatorial Assistant at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH. go to artist page

Jibade-Khalil Huffman

Huffman's poetic video works reference pop culture, hollywood movies, and the landscape of Los Angeles, combining image and text to create odd associations and meanings. go to artist page

Dani Leventhal

In Leventhal's personal and visceral films, the video itself becomes a tactile surface as she uses the camera as a tool to strip back the barriers between herself and her surroundings. go to artist page

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