SUSPENDED
SHARONE PUTTER
OPENING: WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 5:30 P.M. - 7:30 P.M.
ON VIEW: JULY 9 - AUGUST 8
Sharone Putter's SUSPENDED presents a new body of work, expanding her ongoing Workscapes project (2014–present). Viewed from the isolated vantage point of a crane cabin, these paintings depict abandoned industrial landscapes where eroded boundaries, corroded tools, and fading architecture drift within hazy tonal expanses. Though traces of past activity - and perhaps catastrophe - remain, the works are imbued with a quiet serenity that transforms these sites into liminal spaces, suspended between memory and possibility. From this aerial perspective, viewers become the connection between a mysterious past and an unknown future.
Within this exhibition is a mini-series, BRIDGES TO NOWHERE, in which Sharone sets three defunct Ohio bridges afloat on an open sea. Even when severed from land, road, or rail, they retain their status as connectors across voids, between places, people, and ideas. Weathered architecture, discarded tools, and graffiti evoke the sense of impermanence and transition inherent to liminal spaces, prompting the question: what life forces will shape their trajectory now?
SUSPENDED was made possible in part through an Artist Opportunity Grant from the Ohio Arts Council.