LIZ MAUGANS
DESPERATE SIGNS
OPENING RECEPTION:
7–10 P.M. FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Liz Maugans is a co-founder and managing director of Cleveland’s Zygote Press, and the 2012 winner of the Martha  Joseph Prize from the Cleveland Arts Prize. She’s also a founding member of Cleveland’s most recent arts publication,  CAN Journal.

Maugans’ work demonstrates her supreme ability to both live in and criticize modern American domestic life. Her sharp  wit and insight into the times in which we live translate into smart, emotional, and prolific artworks. She received her  BFA from Kent State University in 1989 and her MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1992.  Her work is on  display in the BF Goodrich headquarters, the Oregon Art Institute, the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, and in the  Progressive Corporation’s Art Collection.

AUDRA SKUODAS
CONNECTOPHANIES – CONNECTOPATHIES:
INVISIBLE PHENOMENA MAKING ITSELF VISIBLE.
OPENING RECEPTION:
7–10 P.M. APRIL 19, 2013

Audra is the 2010 recipient of the Cleveland Arts Prize Lifetime Achievement award, and this will be her second solo  exhibition with the gallery.

In a review of Skuodas’ first exhibition with the gallery that appeared in the Plain Dealer in December of 2007, art critic  Dan Tranberg wrote, “Her show is an inspiration, both as a display of fascinating works and as a demonstration of what  can happen when an artist of Skuodas’ considerable magnitude and skill pushes beyond her comfort zone.”

As the artist writes, “This new series arises from the meditative contemplation of seemingly disparate phenomena which  we have compartmentalized yet function in a tandem within that ever changing continuum we call Life –a cosmic dance  of consequence. I believe our psyches are linked to the laws which manifest themselves in the formation of a flower, a  snowflake or a seashell. The work strives to access this archetypal intellect.”

For additional insight, she turns to the Belgian poet Maurice Maeterlinck, who wrote that “Out of the silence of the soul is  born the Wisdom.”