My fellow dads and I are excited to have a selection of videos we created over the last year featured in "How To Remain Human" at MOCA Cleveland!
Curated by Megan Lykins Reich, Deputy Director of Program, Planning, and Engagement, and Rose Bouthillier, Associate Curator, with support from Elena Harvey Collins, Curatorial Assistant
June 12, 2015 — September 6, 2015
How to Remain Human continues MOCA Cleveland’s focused engagement with artists connected to Cleveland and the surrounding region, including neighboring cities in Pennsylvania and Michigan. It features emerging, mid-career, and established artists, working across a wide variety of media, who question and affirm humanness. The exhibition’s title is a line from the late Ohio writer d.a. levy's "Suburban Monastery Death Poem" (1968). Ardent, aching, and raw, levy's poetry captured the struggle for freedom and expression during a tumultuous time in Cleveland’s history. Among the artists in How to Remain Human, there is a shared sense of the need to make, in order to interrogate life and claim space. They explore various ways of acting in and experiencing the world, questioning how we can go on, relate, and be.
Exhibiting Artists:
Mary Ann Aitken (1960, Detroit, MI—2012, Brooklyn, NY)
Derf Backderf (1959, Richfield, OH)
Cara Benedetto (1979, Wausau, WI);
Christi Birchfield (1983, Cleveland);
Dadpranks (Collective, founded Pittsburgh, 2013)
Kevin Jerome Everson (1969, Mansfield, OH);
Ben Hall (1977, Detroit);
Jae Jarrell (1935, Cleveland);
Harris Johnson (1986, Columbus, OH);
Jimmy Kuehnle (1979, Atlanta, GA);
d. a. levy (1942, Parma, OH—1968, Cleveland)
Michelangelo Lovelace (1960, Cleveland);
Dylan Spaysky (1981, Pontiac, MI);
Carmen Winant (1983, San Francisco, CA);