Squiggletown is an exhibition of moving, active, shifting abstractions that celebrate making art for art’s sake. The bodies of work, created by CIA Painting and Drawing seniors Sage Zargari and Audrey Magdics, are forms of expression and release. Each artist uses a wide variety of materials and substrates, with gravity and process leading the way.

Squiggletown will be on view from Friday, September 26 through Friday, October 10 in CIA's Donna and Stewart Kohl Corridor.

This exhibition is loud and shameless. The artists encourage viewers to let the work surround them and ask that they question where they find meaning and value in a work of art. For Zargari and Magdics, there is value in each drip and mark as they are records of the human experience and the movement of the artist’s hand and body. In a world where the value of human expression is constantly threatened, replicated and challenged, the artists make a statement about meaning. Where painting and drawing exists as a liberating and untethered process, each mark is packed with value and declaration of a very raw, very real human experience.

The artists have formed a partnership as they hold similar values and interests in their artmaking. Each artwork is a kind of self-portraiture, expressing something unique about their process and what calls them to make each piece. These paintings and drawings work in harmony through a variety of squiggles, drips, puddles, brushstrokes, and marks. Through this partnership, the works resonate as a chorus of gesture, each distinct yet deeply intertwined.

SPONSORS

Reinberger Gallery programming is supported in part by the residents of Cuyahoga County, through a public grant from Cuyahoga Arts & Culture. Our exhibitions are also generously supported by CIA's Community Partners.