This January, Cleveland Print Room will be presenting special off-site exhibitions in two locations.

Opening Friday, January 3 at Praxis Fiber Workshop, experimental analog photographer Mary Defer’s exhibition, Secret Family, is a photographic project using the discovery of a family secret as a springboard to explore social censorship, the region of Appalachia, and the “slow violence” (a term coined by scholar Rob Nixon) of generational trauma. These themes are expressed through experimental burned negative images and photographs printed on fabric, encouraging us to consider what we choose to omit or obscure in our own lives.

Secret Family is supported by the Urgent Art Fund administered by SPACES and supported by residents of Cuyahoga County and Assembly for the Arts through a public grant from Cuyahoga Arts & Culture.
Then, on Saturday, January 18th, artist Keelyn Bradley will be presenting one piece for one night as a recipient of our Stephen Bivens Fellowship, at 3731 Pearl Rd, Cleveland. This one-piece viewing is a preview of his project, “Living Room: Looking Through The Black Box/sensing the unimagined and unseen,” which will be presented in full later in 2025.

Living Room will be an intermedia performance installation, presenting the living room as a regulatory space for the reproduction of progress and homeostasis of anti-Black death driving the libidinal economy of the U.S. settler-colonial empire, seeking to make sense of the black box (opacity) of Black life and existence.

EVENTS:

Mary Defer: Secret Family: at Praxis Fiber Workshop, 15301 Waterloo Rd, Cleveland, OH 44110 – opening Friday, January 3, 2025 and running through March 14.

Keelyn Bradley: One Piece showing one night only – Saturday, January 18, at 3731 Pearl Rd., Cleveland