Surreal by Nature

Dates and Times for this Past Event

Wednesday, Mar 9, 2022 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Wednesday, Mar 2, 2022 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Wednesday, Feb 23, 2022 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Wednesday, Feb 16, 2022 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Saturday, Feb 12, 2022 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Friday, Feb 11, 2022 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Thursday, Feb 10, 2022 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Wednesday, Feb 9, 2022 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Saturday, Feb 5, 2022 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Friday, Feb 4, 2022 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Thursday, Feb 3, 2022 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Wednesday, Feb 2, 2022 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.

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Surreal by Nature is an exhibition combining the new work of artists-in-residence Jonah Jacobs and Maria Uhase. Jacobs and Uhase arrived at vastly different interpretations of nature as each worked in their fall residencies.

Jonah Jacobs is a self-taught Cleveland artist. Jacobs uses unconventional materials including oatmeal, plaster, sand, yarn, gravel and dryer sheets. The media is layered on cardboard, formed and burned into organic shapes. These are then dipped and sprayed with dyes. His abstract surreal pieces are influenced by the gnarls and microscopic structures found in nature. The physicality and how form and function are intertwined in nature is the foundation from which his sculptures are designed.

Maria Uhase develops a surreal relationship between animals and plants within her paintings. She forms unexpected visual pairings such as depicting ideas which are simultaneously macabre and peaceful, or light-hearted and serious. Uhase spent her residency experimenting with the collaboration between human creativity and artificial intelligence by using a neural network program to

aid in generating new concepts. The combination of her hyper realistic paintings with AI generated ideas serves as an ironic layer in her work. Uhase is a recent graduate of the University of Akron and is based in Wadsworth, OH.