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Gary Sczerbaniewicz: Cloud of Unknowing

 

Start: May 13, 2026 12:00 pm
End: June 6, 2026 5:00 pm

The Sculpture Center
Address:
1834 E. 123rd Street
Cleveland, OH – 44106

Admission Price: Free

This exhibition is on view at The Sculpture Center April 10 – June 6, 2026 Drawing from a well of pop culture references, including UFOs, the occult, secret societies, and ritual spaces, Cloud of Unknowing by Buffalo, NY artist 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 miniature dioramas meticulously crafted at a scale of 1 inch to 1 foot as their primary visual language, Sczerbaniewicz addresses the conflict between rationalist, materialist worldviews and their opposites—a clash he experienced repeatedly growing up in a suburban, Polish-American, Catholic household during the waning days of the Cold War. The show’s title, Cloud of Unknowing, refers to an anonymous 14th-century Christian mystical text that describes a method by which followers could understand the nature of God by setting aside knowledge and experience in favor of pure emotion. This idea of letting go of certainty in order to encounter another kind of truth mirrors the artist’s broader focus on competing, coexisting realities in our current cultural landscape–forces that shape, and at times, cloud our uniquely American identity. Featured photo courtesy of Jacob Koestler.

 

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