Mood Swing

Group exhibition for The Sculpture Center, Cleveland, Ohio

November 22, 2024 - January 11, 2025

Featuring work by artists Michelle Burdine, Allana Clarke, Michael Coppage, Amber N. Ford, Stephanie Rond, A.F. Oehmke, and Jonathan Vega

Mood Swing featured artists that set out to question power and address issues of race and colonial thought, social cruelty, debates around reproduction and the body, and the agency and complications of self-formation. The past decade has witnessed rapidly shifting ontologies, and a significant change in mood in contemporary art to include exhibitions and artists that represent, explore, and embrace historically marginalized personal, social, and political narratives. This mood swing phenomenon includes the demand for visibility, and the motivation to visibly articulate complex realities and perceptions that are deeply felt.

Michelle Burdine, Collected II, ash lumber, plexiglass, tracing paper, menstrual blood, LED lights, 4 boxes 6' x 14" x 14” each

Allana Clarke, Of My Longing & My Lack, HD video

Amber N. Ford, L to R: Untitled (horizontal braids), Untitled (X), Untitled (Spring Twist), inkjet prints, 24" x 36” each

Michael Coppage, "GET ON YOUR KNEES!", bronze, 23"h x 22.5"w x 25.5"d

Stephanie Rond, L: Lepidopterist, and R: Celestial, hand-cut stencil, spray paint, acrylic, adhesive on sanctioned wall, 80" x 48"

A.F. Oehmke, L: I kept my foot in this., acrylic, gold frame on artist-designed wallpaper, 17” x 13”
R: Black Owned Things, powdered coated brass, 4 ½" x 1 ¾"

Jonathan Vega, A Historical Process: Unchanged Representation, tintyes and archival pigment prints