The Sculpture Center in Cleveland opened two simultaneous exhibitions on April 10, 2026, pairing work by artists whose practices occupy strikingly different registers. Gary Sczerbaniewicz, a Buffalo-based sculptor, presents “Cloud of Unknowing,” an installation examining the tensions between rationalist worldviews and belief systems rooted in the occult, conspiracy culture, and religious mysticism. Ling-lin Ku, a professor at Oberlin College, presents “Morning After,” a body of large-scale works layering food imagery, sensory contrasts, and bodily allusions.

Sczerbaniewicz builds his work around meticulous miniature dioramas viewable through small windows in large wooden cases, with scenes spanning Victorian sitting rooms, Masonic temples, satellite imagery, and religious iconography. The title draws on an anonymous 14th-century Christian mystical text. One centerpiece, “SCIF #1: Cloud of Unknowing,” features an audio loop referencing UFO sightings. The artist has said the work grows out of anxieties he absorbed growing up in a suburban, Polish-American, Catholic household during the Cold War. Ku’s “Morning After” works employ sharp material contrasts — round and square, smooth and coarse, light and dark — and a recurring preoccupation with food, physical sensation, and melancholic undertones.

Both exhibitions run through June 6, 2026. The Sculpture Center is located at 12210 Euclid Avenue in Cleveland and is free to visit. An opening reception was held April 10, with artist talks at 6:30 p.m.

Source: The Sculpture Center