'Musing Constructs and Contraptions Exhibit to Open at Tri-C

    PARMA, Ohio, Jan. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- 'Musing Constructs and
 Contraptions, an exhibit with sculpture by Joanne Heutsche and Mindy
 Tousley, and paintings by David Wilder, will be on display Monday, January
 22 - Saturday, February 17, at Gallery West at Cuyahoga Community College's
 Western Campus. The public is invited to an opening reception for the
 artists on Wednesday, January 31, from 6-8 p.m., in the Gallery.
     According to Gallery West Co-Director Barbara Chira, "'Musing
 Constructs and Contraptions is intended to provoke thinking about
 connections and contrasts between constructivist and deconstructivist
 impulses, between the painting and the object, and between form and
 content, as well as to be simply a buoyant and visual delight." Chira also
 offers a more detailed analysis of the exhibit:
     "Joanne Heutsche's larger scale floor sculptures are fascinating
 contraptions with social or psychological commentary. They demonstrate
 engineering feats, and in some cases, kinetic activity, assembled from
 various heavy metal mechanical parts, wood, and glass. The smaller scale
 "toy" sculptures by Mindy Tousley, mostly of painted wood, express an
 amusement that sometimes belies an altogether different underlying message,
 perhaps political, upon closer look. David Wilder's seemingly
 deconstructivist abstract paintings do not destroy, but instead perhaps
 undo and dislocate their constructive beginnings, not only retaining but
 amplifying an original playful and amusing quality."
     Gallery West is located on the second floor inside the Campus Library,
 in the Student Services Center, at Cuyahoga Community College's Western
 Campus, 11000 Pleasant Valley Road, Parma. Gallery hours are
 Monday-Thursday, 8 a.m. - 10 p.m., Friday, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m., and Saturday,
 8:30 a.m. - 4 p.m. The Gallery is closed Sundays, holidays, and during
 academic breaks. For more information, call 216-987-5322 or visit
 http://www.tri-c.edu/gallerywest.
     Print quality digital images available upon request.
 
 

SOURCE Cuyahoga Community College