According to Gallery West Co-Director Barbara Chira, "'Musing Constructs and Contraptions is intended to provoke thinking about connections and contrasts between constructivist and deconstructivist impulses, between the painting and the object, and between form and content, as well as to be simply a buoyant and visual delight." Chira also offers a more detailed analysis of the exhibit:
"Joanne Heutsche's larger scale floor sculptures are fascinating contraptions with social or psychological commentary. They demonstrate engineering feats, and in some cases, kinetic activity, assembled from various heavy metal mechanical parts, wood, and glass. The smaller scale "toy" sculptures by Mindy Tousley, mostly of painted wood, express an amusement that sometimes belies an altogether different underlying message, perhaps political, upon closer look. David Wilder's seemingly deconstructivist abstract paintings do not destroy, but instead perhaps undo and dislocate their constructive beginnings, not only retaining but amplifying an original playful and amusing quality."
Gallery West is located on the second floor inside the Campus Library, in the Student Services Center, at Cuyahoga Community College's Western Campus, 11000 Pleasant Valley Road, Parma. Gallery hours are Monday-Thursday, 8 a.m. - 10 p.m., Friday, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m., and Saturday, 8:30 a.m. - 4 p.m. The Gallery is closed Sundays, holidays, and during academic breaks. For more information, call 216-987-5322 or visit http://www.tri-c.edu/gallerywest.
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