Come celebrate the exhibition openings of Ling-lin Ku and Gary Scerbaniewicz in the galleries and meet the artists. Each artist will give a brief talk about their work at 6:30 PM.
Ling-lin Ku: Morning After
The large-scale sculptures in Morning After merge breakfast imagery and sexual motifs to construct a psychoscape of desire, indulgence, and vulnerability. Seductive at first glance, these works hover between appetite and excess, intimacy and exposure, pleasure and discomfort. Familiar domestic forms are exaggerated, hybridized, and materially distorted, transforming everyday rituals of consumption into charged emotional landscapes. Adding to this discomfort, Ling-lin Ku fuses handcrafted and digitally fabricated elements to create sculptures that feel tactile yet uncanny. Through this interplay of attraction and unease, Morning After invites viewers to confront the messy intersections of fantasy, longing, and embodiment.
Gary Sczerbaniewicz: Cloud of Unknowing
Drawing from a well of pop culture references, including UFOs, the occult, secret societies, and ritual spaces, Cloud of Unknowing by Buffalo, NY artist Gary Sczerbaniewicz explores the tensions that arise when opposing beliefs about reality collide, intersect, or are uncomfortably juxtaposed. Presented through a series of interactive sculptures that use miniature dioramas meticulously crafted at a scale of 1 inch to 1 foot as their primary visual language, Sczerbaniewicz addresses the conflict between rationalist, materialist worldviews and their opposites—a clash he experienced repeatedly growing up in a suburban, Polish-American, Catholic household during the waning days of the Cold War. The show’s title, The Cloud of Unknowing, refers to an anonymous 14th-century Christian mystical text that describes a method by which followers could understand the nature of God by setting aside knowledge and experience in favor of pure emotion. This idea of letting go of certainty in order to encounter another kind of truth mirrors the artist’s broader focus on competing, coexisting realities in our current cultural landscape–forces that shape, and at times, cloud our uniquely American identity.