The Sculpture Center

05/22/2026

We were honored to have these four distinguished practitioners serve as our jurors for the 2027 Revealed emerging artist series. Revealed accepts artist applications by open call and awards 6 emerging artists a solo exhibition annually. Selected artists will be announced early summer.

Jurors clockwise from top left:

✨Meghana Karnik is a curator, researcher, and writer based in New York City. Her practice explores paradoxes between art and social change, spirituality and economy, lived experience and institutional process. She is currently Curator & Exhibitions Director at Flux Factory.

✨Paula Burleigh is an art historian specializing in modern and contemporary art. She is an associate professor of art history at Allegheny College in Western Pennsylvania.

✨Danny Bracken is the Director of Exhibitions at Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh, PA.

✨Simon Anton is a multidisciplinary artist, designer, and educator whose collaborative practice spans architecture, furniture, art, and social engagement, often transforming recycled materials into projects that connect community, grief, and environmental care. His work has been presented at the Hong Kong Shenzhen Biennale, Expo Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, and the Venice Architecture Biennale.

05/20/2026

✨Upcoming Exhibitions Alert!✨We are excited to introduce our upcoming exhibiting artists, Jacklyn Brickman, Noelle Choy, and Malena Grigoli! Their exhibitions will open on June 20, 2026!

Visit our upcoming exhibitions to read more about each artist!
https://sculpturecenter.org/category/exhibition-upcoming/

05/11/2026

Grace Chin, our executive director, reflects on the Martin Puryear: Nexus exhibition on display now at The Cleveland Museum of Art.

"Sculpture should not behave. It should challenge us physically, intellectually, and emotionally.

If we want an art scene that reflects the complexity of the world we live in, we must make space for disciplines that resist easy interpretation. Sculpture does that. It slows us down. It disrupts our assumptions. And at its best, it changes how we understand what sculpture can do and how we understand ourselves.”

Don't miss your chance to join The Sculpture Center this Thursday, May 14 as we tour Martin Puryear: Nexus with curator Emily Liebert followed by dinner at Edwins Leadership & Restaurant Institute. Sign up here: https://sculpturecenter.org/curator-led-tour-martin-puryear-dinner/

© Martin Puryear, Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery.

05/05/2026

“Today, sculpture is one of the most experimental and challenging disciplines in contemporary art. It may not always possess the polished finish or material mastery associated with artists like [Martin] Puryear, and, increasingly, it is not meant to feel resolved. Instead, it invites tension between form and concept. That gap between intention and interpretation is part of what makes sculpture resonate.”

Read more from our Executive Director Grace Chin in her op-ed published on cleveland.com, where she reflects on the celebrated work of sculptor Martin Puryear and the vision behind the work of The Sculpture Center.

And be sure to reserve your May 14 tickets for our special event featuring a tour of Martin Puryear: Nexus led by Emily Liebert, Lauren Rich Fine Curator of Contemporary Art the The Cleveland Museum of Art, followed by dinner at Edwins Leadership & Restaurant Institute!

To read the full op-ed, visit: https://sculpturecenter.org/martin-puryear-and-alien-huddle-why-sculpture-matters-today-grace-chin/

To buy tickets for the tour, visit here: https://sculpturecenter.org/curator-led-tour-martin-puryear-dinner/

04/29/2026

Don't miss your chance to experience the The Cleveland Museum of Art's Martin Puryear: Nexus exhibition! The Sculpture Center will be hosting a special tour with curator Emily Liebert followed by dinner at Edwins Leadership & Restaurant Institute on Thursday, May 14!

Reserve your tickets here: https://sculpturecenter.org/curator-led-tour-martin-puryear-dinner/

Featured image:
Detail image of Bower, 1980. Martin Puryear (American, b. 1941). Sitka spruce, pine, copper tacks;163.3 x 240.2 x 66 cm. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, Museum purchase made possible through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, Alexander Calder, Frank Wilbert Stokes, and the Ford Motor Company, 2002.18. Photo: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC / Art Resource, NY. © Martin Puryear, courtesy of Matthew Marks Gallery

04/21/2026

Join us this Saturday, April 25 from 12pm-1pm! We’ll have the opportunity to explore the Morning After exhibition more deeply through conversation with the artist and audience. Ling-lin Ku will share her inspirations, the conceptual goals behind her work, the techniques she uses in her creative process, and the core themes that shape the exhibition.

FREE! - Register here: https://sculpturecenter.org/ling-lin-ku-artist-talk-and-tour-at-the-sculpture-center/

04/10/2026

Check out The Oberlin Review's interview with artist Ling-lin Ku and stop by her exhibition, Morning After, on view in our galleries starting at 5:30pm TONIGHT!

On the Record with Ling-lin Ku: Multimedia Sculptor, Assistant Professor of Studio Art

04/06/2026

✨Opening Exhibition Alert!✨Join the artists and friends in celebration of their must-see shows on Friday, April 10, 5:30-8PM.

Ling-lin Ku’s series of large-scale sculptures in her solo exhibition Morning After merge breakfast imagery and sexual motifs that hover between appetite and excess, pleasure and discomfort. Familiar objects like toast and pancakes are hybridized and materially distorted to confront the messy intersections of fantasy, longing, and embodiment.

Drawing from a well of pop culture references including UFO’s, the occult, and secret societies, Gary Sczerbaniewicz explores the tensions that arise when opposing beliefs about reality collide, intersect, or are uncomfortably juxtaposed. Presented through a series of interactive sculptures that use meticulously crafted miniature dioramas as their primary visual language, Sczerbaniewicz references the conflict between rationalist, materialist worldviews and letting go of certainty in order to encounter another kind of truth.

Meet the artists and celebrate our latest exhibitions with us!
https://sculpturecenter.org/ling-lin-ku-and-gary-scerbaniewicz-exhibition-openings/

The Sculpture Center, 12210 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44106
Free, parking on site

03/26/2026

The final days of Surface & Structure: Contemporary Ceramics on the Edge of Form are here -- don't miss your chance to see the exhibit before it closes this Saturday, March 28!

The Sculpture Center is open Wednesday - Saturday from 12 - 5 pm

https://sculpturecenter.org/surface-and-structure/

03/06/2026

✨Upcoming Exhibition Alert!✨We are excited to introduce our next exhibiting artist, Gary Szerbaniewicz, whose exhibition will open on April 10, 2026!

Born in Upstate New York, Gary Sczerbaniewicz earned his BFA in Sculpture from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, and his MFA in Sculpture from the University of Buffalo in 2013. Sczerbaniewicz was recently awarded a Po***ck Krasner Foundation Grant to attend a residency at the historic Byrdcliffe Arts Colony in Woodstock, NY. He is also a 2023 recipient of a Summerfair Cincinnati Award for Individual Artists, the 2016 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Architecture/Environmental Structures/Design, and a 2022 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant for his exhibition Folie a Deux at the Ely Center of Contemporary Art in New Haven, CT. Sczerbaniewicz’s works are included in the permanent collections of the Burchfield-Penney Art Center in Buffalo, NY, and the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, SD. He has exhibited nationally and internationally and has completed artist residencies at Yaddo, I-Park, the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, Sculpture Space, the Sanford Underground Research Facility, and AIR Byrdcliffe. Sczerbaniewicz served as Visiting Assistant Professor of Sculpture at the University of Notre Dame from 2017-2020 and is currently Assistant Professor of Spatial Arts and Sculpture at Northern Kentucky University.

02/12/2026

The Sculpture Center is seeking applicants for its 2027 Revealed Emerging Artist Solo Exhibition Series through an open call for artists!

This is a funded exhibition. An artist honorarium will be provided.

March 23 application Deadline.

Apply here! https://sculpturecenter.org/callartists/