Sculptor Randall Cleaver creates "timekeeping artifacts" out of discarded objects. Displaying a complexity of forms, textures, relationships, and humor, Cleaver's clocks represent a conglomerate of ideas that have been a particular interest to the artist over the years: actual, as opposed to implied, motion; machine sounds emanating from the pieces; humor; functionality; the sense of history in timepieces; and the near obsession our society has for time. They provide an archetypal starting point from which to view Cleaver's other works.

In the window of Atlas Wallpaper Cleaver will install Ophiuchus, We Hardly Knew Ye (the title references the supposed 13th sign of the zodiac), a multiple clock construction with numerous swinging pendulums and chimes. Cleaver holds a BFA from Penn State University. (NOTE: Cleaver’s work will also be viewable during the Fringe at Works Gallery, 313 Cherry Street, in an exhibition of artists featured in the new book Found Object Art by Dorothy Spencer).

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