Opening Reception · By Way Of

The Cleveland Institute of Art’s Reinberger Gallery presents By Way Of, a group exhibition of new work by the inaugural cohort of the Regional Artist Mobility Program (RAMP), a residency exchange between Flux Factory and CIA in Northeast Ohio. By Way Of takes its title from the common preposition for an indirect route–a nod to the oft absurd, circuitous path taken by makers for their art. Leaning into processes of working backwards, taking the side quest, wandering off or rerouting, each of the artists in By Way Of channels a practice through something that already exists: by way of a melting shoe, by way of reenactment, by way of material resistance or by way of Saturday morning cartoons. The inaugural RAMP cohort includes two Cleveland Institute of Art faculty members: interdisciplinary artist and designer Rachel Ferber and painter Mike Meier.