exit (a gallery space) presents:
Beka Goedde and Douglas Max Utter
Articulating Space
September 14th – October 26th 2007
Artist's reception: Friday. September 14th 2007. 6 p.m. - 9 p.m.
exit (a gallery space) is pleased to present Articulating Space, an interaction of two artists who explore movement and psychological themes within their own set of interests and sensibilities. Cleveland native Douglas Max Utter and New York artist Beka Goedde are paired together in this joint exhibition as exit (a gallery space) brings together the work of an artist living and working in Northeast Ohio with creative developments of an artist living, working and exhibiting outside the region.
Beka’s etchings and sculptural objects reflect her interest in movement as light,buoyancy, the natural decay of structural material and as a landscape of growth and continuation.Her geometric structures and forms grow systematically as extensions of her perceptions of the space around her:
“I am building a house around myself. I am able to sense my movement in surrounding space. I contribute to the surrounding space, my interior architecture, by transferring my sense of movement to the movement of physical material. The intimate space spreads outward….growing into structures and forms. It shoots off further than I can reach with my hands, hangs higher than where I can focus, dwells behind the reach of light.”
Doug’s latest series of storm paintings and monoprints represent sentiments of distance, isolation and loss. Scenes based on memories of the towns and farms where his parents grew up; depict the often-violent storms that rip through “tornado alley” in the summer heat of the southwestern Iowa landscape:
“These newest paintings are also about the excitement of elemental forces as they encircle and overwhelm human life, and about the energies of youth. The thick heat and smell of summer on dirt and gravel roads, the tumbling force of the land and the inescapable embrace of an infinite, fickle sky are impressions I always carry with me in some pocket of the soul.”
Beka Goedde received her BA in 2004 from Columbia University in Behavioral Neuroscience and Philosophy. Beka currently lives, works and shows her work in New York. Doug Utter currently works for the Artist Archives of the Western Reserve as well as serving as chief art reviewer for the Cleveland FreeTimes. Doug has shown extensively throughout the region as well as both nationally and internationally.
The exhibition will be catered by Tracy Mullin.
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exit (a gallery space)
2688 W. 14th St.
Cleveland, Ohio 44113
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gallery hours: Friday 5-7 p.m. Saturday 12-4 p.m. and by appointment for private viewing.