Mark Howard and Chuck Fischer at HEDGE Gallery This Fall

This fall HEDGE is thrilled to present a painting and sculpture exhibition featuring Cleveland Arts Prize Lifetime Achievement award-winner Mark Howard (Cleveland) and Chuck Fischer (New Hope, PA).

This will be Howard’s third exhibition with a new body of work at HEDGE since 2021, and the gallery’s first time exhibiting Fischer’s abstract constructions and paintings.

Howard continues his industrious approach to art making, with new projects divided into works on paper, canvas panels and two-sided painted sculptures, all with an improvisational approach to color, shape and pattern. Though painting has been Howard’s concentration for decades, fiber and textile work has loomed over his background as a professional artist. He graduated with a major in painting and textile design from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1986, and has continuously been fascinated by the two art forms.

“I routinely observe my city and the people that make up its urban development, translating my impressions of daily life by orchestrating colors and shapes that move and weave across surfaces. This work is the evolving adventure I’ve discovered in pure abstraction.” -Howard

Fischer creates textured abstract constructions, or what he refers to as “tableaux reliefs”, to break the plane of two-dimensional art. His projects are intricately hand cut and assembled from wood, aluminum, and copper then finished with colored gesso and modeling paste to bring the surface of the work into conversation with its maze-like depth.

Fischer committed to a full-time fine art studio practice in 2016 in New Hope. He has experience designing nine published pop-up books and an architecture background; both visual languages seem to linger in his work. His designs are in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian’s Cooper Hewitt Museum and Museum of American History, and in the Artist Book section of the Library of Congress.

“Visual complexity runs throughout my work and I rarely sketch before starting a new piece, but I trust my intuition, life experiences, and the materials at hand to create works of spatial balance and harmony.” -Fischer

Join us for this visually stimulating exhibition at the preview reception from 5-7pm on Wednesday, September 17, or the opening reception from 5-7pm on Friday, September 19. The exhibit runs through November 1.

HEDGE GALLERY
1300 West 78th Street, Suite 200
Cleveland, Ohio 44102
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EVENTS:

Get The Picture?, September 17–November 1. Preview reception 5pm Wednesday, September 17. Opening reception 5pm Friday, September 19