Randall
Cleaver will install a kinetic piece consisting of multiple interacting
clocks in the window of Atlas Wallpaper & Paint, 742 South Street.
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: Cleavers 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) |