Curated by 2025: Shored Against My Ruins - curated by DJ Hellerman
Hellerman is the Deputy Director & Senior Curator at moCa Cleveland where he is responsible for setting and implementing moCa’s curatorial vision. He is charged with bringing moCa’s mission and vision to life through strategic and collaborative partnerships. Formerly, DJ served as the Chief Curator & Director of Curatorial Affairs at The Fabric Workshop & Museum in Philadelphia where he led the research and implementation of artist-centered projects, exhibitions, and programming.
OPENING WEEKEND
September 5, 2025 11:00 – 21:00
September 6 & 7, 2025 11:00 – 18:00
Program of guided tours in the gallery:
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TR EricssonPriest, (Sad Young Man on a Train #095), Oil Paintings, 1992-2002, 2022oil on linen40.6 x 35.6 cm
16 x 14 in -
Franco AndrésCeremonial Assurance, 2025oil on linen, in two partsoverall: 35.6 x 55.9 x 3.8 cm; 14 x 22 x 1 1/2 in
each: 28 x 36 cm; 11 x 14 in -
Franco AndrésMaking For A Wise Life, 2025oil on linen, in five partsoverall: 35.6 x 139.7 x 3.8 cm; 14 x 55 x 1 1/2 in
each: 28 x 36 cm; 11 x 14 in -
Peter GalloEat Die, 2024oil, inkjet prints, and spray paint on panel74 x 49 cm
29 1/8 x 19 1/4 in -
Peter GalloUntitled Figure, 2020oil on muslin glued and stapled to panel89 x 48 cm
35 x 18 7/8 in -
Maja RuznicNANA, 2025Oil on linen46.36 x 33.35 cm
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Maja RuznicThe Fading Memory of Your Grandfather, 2025Oil on linen38.73 x 33.66 cm
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Maxime CavajaniForrest For The Trees (fragments), 2025Super 8 film and high-definition video transferred to high-definition video, color and black and white, sound, 11:22min.
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TR EricssonBouquet (merlot), 2020silkscreen ink and wine on gessoed panel61 x 45.7 cm
24 x 18 in -
TR EricssonSusan B. Ericsson (July 11, 1969), 2022oil on canvas60.96 x 50.8 cm
24 x 20 in -
Franco AndrésGradual Undoings, 2025oil on linen, in five partsoverall: 35.6 x 139.7 x 3.8 cm; 14 x 55 x 1 1/2 in
each: 28 x 36 cm; 11 x 14 in -
Peter GalloPossession, 2023-5oil, acrylic, and inkjet prints on found wood130.8 x 83.8 cm
51 1/2 x 33 in
Exhibition text
Fragmentation is ultimately an illusion. It is a ruse, a mirage that makes itself known through the melancholy and the euphoric, as life separates and splinters. Sometimes the stuff of daily life–a moonrise, an unassuming meal, an unyielding lament, the folding of freshly laundered things–becomes a ritualized act from which we glimpse the sublime. Catching these tiny fleeting shards is everything, wholeness.
Shored Against My Ruins features work by seven artists who embrace loose ends, the indecipherable, and the untidy. Their work is deeply connected to the process of coming undone. With a distinct relationship to the physical and psychic archive, each artist tackles the notion of reassembling. Their work is built of personal and communal objects, memories, and autobiographical experiences reminding us to pay close attention to what we collect during our own process of endless reconstruction.
Artists: Franco Andrés, Maxime Cavajani, TR Ericsson, Peter Gallo, King Cobra, Karl Karner, Maja Ruznic
Text by DJ Hellerman
