In the upcoming Know the Place show running August 23 to December 2, 2023, PennWest Edinboro University's Bruce Gallery will present almost fifty works addressing time and place. Inspired by the famous phrase from T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets - "We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time" this show will include two, three and four dimensional artworks of real and invented landscapes, built environments and local histories.
Works drawn from the gallery's permanent collection include Jacques Callot's 1619 architectural elevation; Christo's 1968 plan to wrap Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art; Han Hsiang-Ning's 1980 print, N.Y. Skyline; and Piranesi's 1749 Imaginary Prisons.
Loaned works include John Baker's sketches for Buffalo, NY murals; Benton Bainbridge's (and Sariah Storm's) "science project" illustrating changing seasons via two trees flanking a mountain; Collin Bonner's documentation of his skateboarding in northwestern Pennsylvania; Larry Brown's photographs of Erie's historic commercial property; small-scale, hollow-constructed, copper-sheet architectural forms by Morgan Calabrese; plein air oil-stick drawings by Alaskan artist John Jodwalis; architect Jeff Kidder's adaptive reuse plan commissioned by CIVITAS for the Edinboro Boiler House; paintings of New Jersey houses by Steve Lewis; sculptor Heather Molecke's fictional display of Cleveland history; Jon Rubin's film HereThere, that visually connects interiors of homes lining a Pittsburgh street; Christopher Schneider's Astroturf sculptures of U.S.A. street signs; and an installation of postcards by anonymous residents of West Texas and New Mexico organized by Leslie C. Sotomayor II (and Katy Ballard) responding to a variety of prompts including, "belonging, crossroads, fear, home and happiness."
