Cleveland conservatory to host Fredonia professor’s Lake Erie art exhibition
“Navigation: Lake Erie – Great Lakes,” an exhibition by Fredonia Department of Visual Arts and New Media Professor Tim Frerichs, will open at the Morgan Conservatory in Cleveland on Friday, Feb. 12, at 6 p.m., with a virtual artist talk and gallery tour.
Mr. Frerichs’ mixed media installation includes more than 130 works and a large-scale installation that includes drawings, photographs, paperworks, collected flora and fauna and video. Many of the pieces and images can be viewed at Frerichs’ website: http://www.timothyfrerichs.com/navigationlake-eriegreat-lakes-project.h…
For the last 25 years, Frerichs has used his artwork to address the impact humans have on the environment. His current work examines human activity as the dominant influence on environmental problems plaguing Lake Erie and the Great Lakes system.
Frerichs' project was made possible in part through a 2019 Global Warming Grant Project, from Ben Perrone and Environment Maze Project donors, administered by Arts Service Initiative.
A member of the Department of Visual Arts and New Media faculty, Frerichs strives to create his work as sustainability as possible, sourcing materials locally and often finding ways to use objects he collects along the Lake Erie shoreline.
Frerichs will be joined in a virtual conversation with Department of Biology Associate Professor Courtney Wigdahl-Perry, of Fredonia’s Environmental Sciences program, on Thursday, Feb. 25, at 7 p.m. Dr. Wigdahl-Perry is an aquatic ecologist whose research focuses around understanding how lakes respond to environmental change.
More information about the exhibition, gallery tour and discussion is available online at https://www.morganconservatory.org.
With 15,000 square feet of converted industrial space, the Morgan Conservatory is the largest arts center in the United States dedicated to every facet of papermaking, book arts and letterpress printing and to cultivating the talents of established and emerging artists.
The Frerichs exhibition will continue through March 19.
