What happens when two independent artists have a shared partnership in the work they make together? What occurs when their private and professional practices collide as close friends, family members or life partners?  Exhibiting together are Robin Robinson/Gary Williams, Laila Voss/Bruce Edwards, Todd Leech/Stephanie Craig, Alessandro Ravagnan/Devin Hinzo,  Annie Peters/A.D.Peters, Erin Guido/John Paul Costello,  Kate Snow/Eagan Rackley, Jacques Payne Jackson/Kristi Copez, Pita Brooks/Kristen Rogers, Wendy Partridge/Lisa Rainsong. 

Two of the artists in DUO, Laila Voss and Bruce Edwards have shared a studio for 20+ years. Bruce has been making screen prints from photographs for the last 10 years, coming from a practice of sculpture and performance, while Laila has been doing large scale multi-media installations, Sculptures, Drawings and pubic art projects. The most recent work that Laila has been creating are images of water and sky rendered in oil paint sticks on paper. Each piece has a strong horizon and a vibrant textured surface.

Bruce has been creating two bodies of work that relate to his relationship with his father and photographs that were taken by his dad and rendered in print by Bruce. When this series was complete, Bruce began a series of pieces that responded to the work that Laila had been creating, he started taking photographs of Lake Erie and using these to make prints, exploring a smaller scale that is more intimate. A dialogue occurred between them inspired by the lake and expansive sky near their home in North Collinwood. 

These dynamic DUOS will present collaborations, cross-disciplinary and synergistic works made independently or collaboratively. DUO will celebrate the respective influences, support, challenges and vicarious impact of how artists make and produce together.

Image Bruce Edwards Horizon #3 Silkscreen