Richard D. Baron ‘64 Gallery, Oberlin College
65 E. College St.
Suite 5 Oberlin, OH 44074
Toby’s Plaza, Case Western Reserve University
Uptown Pedestrian Trwy
Cleveland, OH 44106
Hours
Fri – Sat: 10 – 5, Sun: 1 – 5
Located inside the Dewy Ward ’34 Alumni Center, the gallery is named for 1964 alumnus Richard D. Baron, a supporter of the arts and mentor to the city’s East College Street Project, who has worked to rebuild communities across the country. This single-story multiuse facility, dedicated October 9, 2010, provides exhibition space and event opportunities for student, faculty, local, and international artists.
Born in the 1980s, Shanghai-based artist Cui Jie belongs to the post-Mao generation of Chinese artists whose work renounces the socialist political agenda of the previous era. Focused on urban architectural form, Cui’s first solo presentation in the United States is comprised of paintings, drawings, and 3D-printed sculptures. Modeled on existing structures, such as the Shanghai Bank Tower, Cui’s paintings fantasize her subjects by employing a painterly style and visual grammar that marry the artist’s academic study of modernism with dystopian surrealism.
Cui Jie was commissioned by FRONT and presented with support from Oberlin College’s Department of Art, the Eric and Jane Nord Family Fund, the Nord Family Foundation, and Antenna Space, Shanghai.