Divergent Explorations: Works By 5 Contemporary Artists

Opening reception: 5-7pm Thursday, March 2

Divergent Explorations includes new and recent work by Lane Cooper, Ben Grasso, Tony Ingrisano, Scott Stibich and Dan Tranberg.

Lane Cooper: An associate professor at CIA, Cooper’s work is developed from photographic sources. “Acting as metaphor, it focuses on an experience of the world that is constantly shifting between the sensual external and the intellectual internal,” said Cooper of her work.

Dan Tranberg: Tranberg has been a Painting instructor at CIA since 2000, and his current work “highlights bold and subtle interactions of pure color, demonstrating and celebrating the endlessly complex ways in which color can be perceived.”

Ben Grasso: Grasso is a Cleveland native who received his Painting BFA from CIA in 2003. “My painting does not seek to present something impossible or particular; instead it represents something contingent, a re-alignment of logic that makes plastic the anxiety underlying objects in the world,” said Grasso.

Tony Ingrisano: Ingrisano is an assistant professor in CIA's Painting and Foundation departments and the current Painting department chair whose work “is concerned with re-examining the aesthetic nature of the many natural and man-made systems that surround us.”

Scott Stibich: Stibich, a sculptor and installation artist who graduated from CIA in 2010, uses “readily available objects, media and recognizable environments to create a base line connection with the viewer.”