Possibility for Repair is a focused group exhibition that explores how artists consider repair as a prospect. Possibility for Repair will exhibit a range of material and conceptual approaches to artmaking, and will feature work by Lyndon Barrois Jr. (Pittsburgh), Mark Thomas Gibson (Philadelphia), Sarah Kabot (Cleveland), M. Carmen Lane (Cleveland) and Jessica Pinsky (Cleveland). Acknowledging the 2024 election as a backdrop, each artist questions dominant systems and reflects on ways of seeing and experiencing the world in order to inspire new perspectives.
Possibility for Repair will open from 5 to 8pm Friday, November 8 in Reinberger Gallery. Opening that same night will be Bespoke, a CIA student exhibition in the Ann and Norman Roulet Student + Alumni Gallery.
Possibility for Repair is on view from Friday, November 8 through Sunday, February 9, 2025 in Reinberger Gallery.
Image credit: "Tomorrow in Hindsight" by Lyndon Barrois Jr., 4-color silkscreen, 32 x 60 inches, 2019.
Participating artists
Lyndon Barrois Jr. is an artist based in Pittsburgh and an Assistant Professor of Art at Carnegie Mellon University. He is half of LAB-D, with artist Addoley Dzegede, with whom he has collaboratively staged four exhibitions and co-authored a book of essays (Elleboog, at the Jan van Eyck Academie in 2019). He uses cinema as a means to travel both temporally and geographically, bringing to mind ideas of anachronism, simultaneity and reanimation.
Mark Thomas Gibson's personal lens on American culture stems from his multifaceted viewpoint as an artist—as a black male, a professor and an American history buff. These myriad and often colliding perspectives fuel his exploration of contemporary culture through languages of drawing, painting, print, and sculpture revealing a vision of a satirical, dystopian America where every viewer is implicated as a potential character within the story.
Sarah Kabot’s drawings, sculptures and installations interrogate everyday objects and spaces using faulty methods of reproduction, calling into question the possibility of creating a genuine or infallible record of a site or event. She is Associate Professor of Drawing at the Cleveland Institute of Art, and her work has been shown nationally and abroad at institutions including The Suburban (IL), SPACES (OH), Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MI), Akron Museum of Art (OH), the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, the Drawing Center (NY), the Peabody Essex Museum (MA) and Tegnerforbundet in Norway.
M. Carmen Lane is a two:spirit African-American and Haudenosaunee (Mohawk/Tuscarora) artist, writer and facilitator living in Cleveland. Lane’s work ranges from experiential educator to diversity practitioner to organizational systems consultant to experimental artist—all of it integrates ancestry, legacy and spirituality; pursues expansion, experimentation and play. Lane is founder and director of ATNSC: Center for Healing & Creative Leadership, an urban retreat center and social practice experiment in holistic health, leadership development, Indigenous arts and culture and the Akhsótha Gallery located in the historic Buckeye-Shaker neighborhood.
Jessica Pinsky grew up in Akron, Ohio and moved to Cleveland in 2011 after receiving a BFA from New York University in 2006 and an MFA from Boston University in 2009. Her artwork bridges painting, weaving and sculpture and she is represented by HEDGE Gallery in Cleveland. In 2012, she worked closely with Cleveland Institute of Art to found Praxis Fiber Workshop, a community textile organization. She is currently the Executive Director at Praxis and teaches adjunct classes at Cleveland Institute of Art.
SPONSORS
Possibility for Repair is generously supported by USI Insurance Services.
Reinberger Gallery programming is supported in part by the residents of Cuyahoga County, through a public grant from Cuyahoga Arts & Culture. Our exhibitions are also generously supported by CIA's Community Partners.