January 16, 2013

Jimmy Kuehnle on Tour: Public Artist Makes New Friends on the Cold Streets of Cleveland

For Immediate Release

Download PDF Press Release: http://www.spacesgallery.org/files/pr/2013/130116-spaces-kuehnle-pr.pdf

Cleveland, OH, January 16, 2013—Feeling light-deprived this winter? Cleveland's own Jimmy Kuehnle, in residence with the SPACES World Artist Program this winter, would like to help you out with that.

This February, Kuehnle is taking to the streets on a light-mobile he's constructing out of an antique industrial tricycle, which, in its past life, was used to transport dies around an Indianapolis warehouse.

Kuehnle is known for luring unsuspecting strangers into his works by making himself an unexpected part of the local landscape. He's designed absurdly colorful and obtrusive inflatable suits and worn them around town in Chicago, Detroit, San Antonio, and New York, as well as in Japan, Italy and Finland. He has also constructed and toured a series of improbable bicycles-- invisible ones, rubber ones, ones that carried AV equipment, and one that held an entire lawn.

This time, he's committed himself to a tour of illumination during the month Clevelanders contend with seasonal affective disorder (SAD) by hook or by crook. He's wrapping the tricycle and himself in a gratuitous amount of light, and equipping the lights to react to sounds he encounters while cycling through Cuyahoga County. Kuehnle's excited not only about breathing new life into a discarded rust belt relic, but also about the chance to literally light up some lives this winter.

Intrigued? Then don't leave Jimmy out in the cold: come out and find him on his winter tour! He shouldn't be too easy to miss.

TOUR DATES
Friday, February 1, 5:15 pm:
Jimmy rides from Tower City across the Carnegie Bridge to his exhibition opening at SPACES.

Saturday, February 6, 5:30 pm:
Jimmy makes a round trip ride down the Euclid Corridor bike path, from Euclid and East Boulevard to Cleveland State University.

Saturday, February 16, 5:00 pm:
Jimmy makes an appearance at the Brite Winter Festival in the Ohio City Market District.

Visit http://www.spacesgallery.org/projects/jimmy-kuehnle for tour updates, snow days and new event postings!

ARTIST BIO
Jimmy Kuehnle researched public art and sculpture as a Fulbright Graduate Research Fellow in Japan after completing an MFA at the University of Texas at San Antonio. His recent work features public performance treks through rural and urban cities in the US including Chicago, Detroit, Austin, St. Louis, Cincinnati, San Antonio, Dallas and New York, as well as performances in Japan, Italy and Finland. He worked as a resident artist at Sculpture Space in Utica, New York, at Albion College in Albion Michigan and Atelj