Event Preview: RE:Formation

Eye On Art  |  By Kelly Thompson  |  07/31/2016

On Monday, Aug 1, the Gallery Project will host a one-of-a-kind exhibition to downtown Toledo.

Re:Formation will open Monday and run through Wednesday, August 31 at One Lake Erie Center, 600 Jefferson Avenue. The opening reception will take place from 5-9 p.m. on Friday, August 5, with music by DJ Mattimoe and food provided by Grumpy’s.

Gallery Project directors Rocco DePietro and Gloria Pritschet curated the show, which will focus on societal action and reaction. As The Gallery Project website describes it,

“What is shifting? How are these shifts taking form? How do you experience this time of formation? What is your relationship to it, its impacts on you, your participation in this awareness and militancy? What can or should be done? What outcomes might result and what will the future look like? Re: Formation invites artists to actively express this unfolding reality as observers, participants, documentarians, conjurers and critics.”

In other words, the exhibition gives artists and viewers the chance to experience visually those changes that we see all around us, and it does so in the face of an upcoming election that is particularly polarizing.

For our friends in MI, there will also be an Ann Arbor Re: Formation, opening at the Ann Arbor Art Center (117 W Liberty) on Friday, September 9 until Sunday, October 16. The opening reception will be held Friday, September 9 from 6-9 p.m.

Participating artists include:

• Heather Accurso
  
• Hiba Ali
  
• John James Anderson
  
• Michael Arrigo
  
• Siobhan Arnold
  
• Nick Azzaro
  
• Darryl Baird - Photographs and other media
  
• Barchael (Barry Whittaker and Mike Bernhardt)
  
• Barry Whittaker
• Morgan Barrie
  
• Carolyn Barritt
  
• Beehive Design Collective (Meg Lemieur Art)
  
• Mark Bleshenski
  
• Jada Bowden
  
• Seder Burns
  
• RUTH CROWE - ARTist
  
• Dana Depew, Rocco DePietro
  
• Desiree Duell
  
• Dianne Farris
  
• Susan G Fecteau
  
• Anthony Fontana
  
• Mark Hereld
  
• Dan Hernandez
  
• Stephanie Howells
  
• Tim Ide
  
• Douglas D Kampfer
  
• Tohru Kanayama
  
• Yusef Lateef
  
• K.A. Letts
  
• Kate Levy
  
• Julianne Lindsey
  
• Jeremy Link
  
• Melanie Manos
  
• Shanna Merola
  
• Ken Milito
  
• Michael Nagara
  
• Jefferson Nelson
  
• Endi Poskovic
  
• Gloria Pritschet
  
• Sharon Que
  
• Raizup Collective (Antonio Cosme)
  
• Boris Rasin
  
• Roger Rayle
  
• Jesse Richard
  
• Arturo Rodriguez
  
• Gary Setzer
  
• Meagan Shein
  
• Anna Schaap
  
• Sheida Soleimani
  
• Brian Spolans
  
• Jessica Tenbusch
  
• Alex Tsocanos
  
• Ellen Wilt,
  
• Robin Wilt
  
• Viktor Witkowski

August 1-31, 2016. Hours: Thursday 12-6 p.m., Friday and Saturday 12-8 p.m., Sunday 12-5 p.m. August 1-3 and 29-31 hours are noon-6 p.m. 600 Jefferson Ave., Toledo.