The Irma Freeman Center presents our newest exhibition,
Knowing the Edge and Works by Chad Hurley.
Knowing The Edge & Works by Chad Hurley opens with an artist reception First Friday, October 7th, 7-9 pm. Regular Gallery hours are Saturdays from 2-5 pm and by appointment. The Irma Freeman Center welcomes groups to book events and tours to experience this engaging and visually provocative exhibit. For information call: (gallery office) 412-924-0634
Knowing the Edge and Works by Chad Hurley is an art exhibition presented at the Irma Freeman Center for Imagination opening Friday, October 7th and running through November 4, 2022. The IFCI exhibition features the work of two artists: Carolyn Wenning and Chad Hurley.
Carolyn Wenning
Carolyn Wenning is an artist based in Pittsburgh, PA. Her work occupies a space between abstraction and figuration. Wenning explores the subconscious, seeking to render ideas of powerplay, states of connection and types of relationships. She utilizes stark contrast, simple color intervention and the language of drawing to create drawings, paintings and mixed media works.
Wenning exhibits nationally and internationally; most recently at MDavid & Company in New York, NY, Truro Center for the Arts in Truro, MA and Boxheart Gallery. Her work has been included in exhibitions at Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, the Andy Warhol Museum and the Mattress Factory and is held in private and corporate collections. Her academic training includes an MFA in painting and print media from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University.
Chad Hurley
Kentucky based visual artist and musician, Chad Hurley, has worked for over 30 years in the realm of human memory, specifically where the edge of our individual experience meets the more collective unconscious. His work often contains themes related to pop-culture, politics, science and music, stitched together with threads of imagery from his early life in rural Kentucky. Hurley employs these themes without intent, mostly interested in how they swirl ttogether in our mind’s storage system and how they form new imagery as they collide. In his work, there are elements of the supernatural, hinting at an unseen apparatus that controls our world, described in a style that oscillates between precision and chaos, employing stark images along with playful humor.
Hurley earned a BFA in sculpture and painting from the University of Kentucky and has exhibited his work in traditional and non-traditional spaces over his career with work held by private collectors across the US and internationally.