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Octoquad – Hexadecagon, 2019
UV cured inkjet on shaped acrylic mounted on UV cured inkjet yellow composite aluminum panel, edition of 3, 24 x 24 inches
Octoquad – Hexadecagon
Ninety One Kites in the Summa Healing Arts Collection For New Patient Tower
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The new patient tower on the Summa Health System — Akron Campus designed by Hasenstab Architects features 90 unique pieces of art by 53 artists, all with Northeast Ohio ties. I’m honored that my work “Ninety One Kites” is part of this collection.
From the Summa website:
“Summa Health promotes a healthcare environment that surrounds and connects patients, visitors and staff with the healing powers of the arts.”
Click here to learn more.
I’m honored to be a part of Summa Health’s new Healing Arts Collection for the new Patient Tower at the Akron campus. Special thank you to Meg Harris Stanton, curator – Summa Health Healing Arts Leadership Council, for selecting my work “Ninety One Kites” where it has been placed on the fifth floor across from the nurses station. I like it’s location. Not only do patients and visitors benefit from the arts in healthcare, staff especially does so. Also, a special thank you to Christine Havice, Chair, Summa Health Healing Arts Leadership Council. With her background as an arts educator in art history, journalist, curator and consultant, she researched and wrote about each artist, artwork and the artists process. With dedicated web page’s for each, it’s a great resource to view and study the collection. Below is excerpt of what she wrote on my page:
After viewing this print, you may also find his reflections helpful in negotiating the visual arts world of today, where both digital and the older “analogue” techniques co-exist and often, as here and in certain other works of art in the Summa Collection, interpenetrate in new and exciting ways.
Click here to learn more about the artwork “Ninety One Kites”.
Below are some great works in the collection.
A Way with Words, 2019
Materials: Polymer gypsum, fiberglass, steel, plaster, gold leaf, aluminum leaf, copper leaf, pigment, 160.5 x 96 x 5.5”.
From left: Cliff Deveny, M.D., Diana Al-Hadid and David Custodio, M.D., during Al-Hadid’s art installation in the new tower on the Summa Health System — Akron Campus
photo: summahealth.org
Pictured, from left:
Neema & Phul
Asha & Furaha
from the North Hill series, 2018
Materials: Color digital print, 48 x 32”.
Location at Summa Health: New patient tower (141 N. Forge St.), hallway, second floor.
photo: summahealth.org
Untitled, undated
Materials: Mixed media monoprint 37 3/8 x 24 5/8”.
photo: summahealth.org
The Collection
- Ian Adams
- Diana Al-Hadid
- Lizzi Aronhalt
- Rob Blair
- Stephen Canneto
- Dale Chihuly
- Don Drumm
- Ibojka Maria Friedman
- Barbara Gillette
- Gretchen Goss
- Scott Goss
- Walter Grossman
- Frederick E. Hart
- Lee Heinen
- Marianne Hite
- Laurie Jacobs
- Marvin Jones
- Terry Klausman
- Charlotte Lees
- Jo Wayne Mazorow
- Taryn McMahon
- Patricia Parker
- Gloria Plevin
- Diane Pribojan
- Andrew Reach
- Meaghan Reed
- James Rehmus
- Christine Ries
- Eric Rippert
- P.J. Rogers
- Caroline Rowntree
- Nancy and Ned Seibert
- Susan Squires
- Julian Stanczak
- Darius Steward
- Stephen Tornero
- Shane Wynn
- Hui-Chu Ying
- Maria Zanetta
Wire – – Less
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Wire – – Less, 2019
UV cured inkjet on composite acrylic/aluminum panel
38 x 76 inches, edition of 3
In the past I’ve worked with circles organized as a matrix of dots but a regularized grid (x and y are equal) makes the axis of diagonal rows of dots at an angle of 45 degrees. So, I thought, what would happen if the grid was modified to make the axis at 60 degrees. I further thought, how could I create a further sense of movement. I substituted circles with ovals and rotated them along the long axis at a 30 degree angle giving them some tension.
For a little insight into my process, above is also sketch of mathematical layout in pixels I worked out first. This allows me to place guidelines in photoshop at 300 pixels vertically and 173 pixels horizontally giving me the accuracy I need to construct it.
For this first piece using this grid and rotated ovals, I spell out the words Wire Less. At first glance it could be read as wireless, a nod to the ubiquitousness of wireless technology. But another reading is Wire – Less; a message to metaphorically unplug once and a while.
Sun Art Aired on CBS Sunday Morning
A few weeks ago I submitted suns to CBS Sunday Morning (click here to see post). The sun above was selected and aired on the March 31, 2019 broadcast of the show.
Jessica Frank, the person at CBS who curates the selection of suns that air on the program, wrote me the following about airing my sun:
“I’m writing to let you know that one of your GORGEOUS suns will be on our Sunday Morning broadcast tomorrow. Steve Hartman is doing a really moving piece on a former convict/talented artist, and your sun is absolutely perfect at the end.”
Jessica Frank
The piece she is referring to is a moving story about wrongfully convicted artist Richard Phillips who created art in prison for decades. It was his way of surviving it knowing that he was innocent. This offered freedom that could not be taken away. Humbled that my sun was chosen to follow this story.