Crystal Bridges State of the Art Discovering American Art Now
This September Crystal Bridges opens a large survey show of American art featuring 102 artists from across the country. I am excited about the ideal habitat for native Type I Amphibious Inflatable Suits (AIS) at Crystal Bridges that allows for the inclusion of my work in the exhibition. These remarkable creatures pose many challenges to maintaining a healthy life in captivity. I will post about these challenges as well as the preparations for safe transit from the studio to the site in Arkansas next month.
FreshWaterCleveland.com featured a photo of the Twinkling Tricycle Tour of Enchantment by Bob Perkoski from Brite Winter 2013 in Ohio City. The 4th annual winter festival of art, lights and music met a gusty storm of snow and winter weather. Clevelanders responded, “Bring it on winter!”
The Twinkling Tricycle took the Tour to the FOX 8 Morning Show studio in Cleveland, OH. Wayne Dawson and Stefani Schaefer took delight at the mobile sparkling machine. Wayne even went for a short spin on the trike commenting on its smooth performance.
Cleveland Magazine posted on their blog about the Twinkling Tricycle Tour of Enchantment. Roxanna Coldiron interviewed me about the Twinkling Trike’s appearance at Brite Winter this Saturday, February 16, 2013.
During the Friday Euclid corridor Twinkling Tricycle ride, photographer Joshua Gunter of the Plain Dealer followed along snapping some great photos. One photograph appeared on page B12 of the Sunday Plain Dealer Metro Section.
Mr. Gunter braved the cold leap-frogging ahead to get the twinkling images. More of his tricycle photos can be seen in an online gallery on Cleveland.com. Thanks for coming along for the tour Josh.
On the Twinkling Tricycle Tour of Enchantment Euclid Corridor ride, I passed by the Channel 5 newsroom. They sent out a news van to catch up with me. The lights protected me from traffic but the camera man should have had a reflective vest for nighttime shooting. Lots of motorists stopped to take pictures, workers in building came streaming out into the streets, bus passengers remained glued to the windows. The night twinkled with Enchantment.
Two more tour dates remain.
Saturday, February 16, 5:00 pm:
Jimmy makes an appearance at the Brite Winter Festival in the Ohio City Market District.
Friday, February 22, 6:30 p.m.
Jimmy joins the Critical Mass ride, starting in the southwest
quadrant of Public Square.
VIDEO TRANSCRIPT:
I want you to check out this unusual site in downtown Cleveland. Isn’t this something. We caught up with Jimmy Kuehnle riding his decorative bike down Euclid Avenue. We all saw him from the newsroom tonight as he came by.
It’s called the Twinkling Tricycle Tour that is part of a SPACES gallery exhibit. Jimmy is an assistant professor at the Cleveland Institute of Art. And he says that he designed the bike himself. He has 3000 Christmas lights on it and you just can’t miss him. You can’t miss that going down the street.
The Twinkling Tricycle Tour of Enchantment crossed the Carnegie Bridge in Cleveland, Ohio on the way to SPACES. Rob Muller, a photographer for the Cleveland Institute of Art, snapped a great panoramic image of the Twinkling three-wheeled transport.
Upcoming Tour Dates:
Saturday, February 6, 5:30 pm:
Jimmy makes a round trip ride down the Euclid Corridor bike path, from Euclid and East Boulevard to Cleveland State University.
Saturday, February 16, 5:00 pm:
Jimmy makes an appearance at the Brite Winter Festival in the Ohio City Market District.
Friday, February 22, 6:30 p.m.
Jimmy joins the Critical Mass ride, starting in the southwest
quadrant of Public Square.
Bright colors spilled out onto Euclid Avenue from the Sculpture Center as The Inflatable Wonderland Labyrinth of Joy inflated for the first time. Not much space for anything else in the gallery.
The show opens this Friday, January 18th at 5:30 – 8:00 pm and also features a show by Justin Farris Braun called The Swelling Horizon.
6:15 PM The Artist Talks: Jimmy Kuehnle in the Euclid Avenue Gallery
7:00 PM The Artist Talks: Justin Farris Braun in the Main Gallery
Normally I prefer to make funky bicycles for performance projects such as the Four Person Bicycle made at Sculpture Space. I could not pass up this old Worksman Industrial Tricycle that I found on Craigslist. The seller claims it came from a plant in Indiana. The front loading tray has “die cutters” written with welded beads.
SPACES, an exhibition space in Cleveland, Ohio, has a SPACES World Artist Residency Program or SWAP “is a residency program for international, U.S. and local artists, founded in 2002 to foster cultural exchange between audiences in Northeast Ohio and artists from around the world.” I am a current SWAP resident with an exhibition opening at SPACES on February 1, 2013.
For the project I am constructing a device that exchanges sound for light. It will be built on the platform of the Worksman Tricycle giving an old rusty relic some new life. The device will tour around Cuyahoga County at various locations during the month of February.
