Gravitate Cedar Falls Grand Opening Party + Artist Reception

200 State Street,Cedar Falls IA 50613

03 May, 2022

Description

Join us for a ribbon-cutting ceremony showcasing Gravitate Coworking's Cedar Falls location and a new art exhibition! Join us for our Grand Opening Party & Ribbon Cutting with Grow Cedar Valley! We'll have beverages and self-guided tours of our space freshly outfitted with new signage, freshly painted walls, and a new art exhibit! Grow Cedar Valley will officiate our Grand Opening Ribbon Cutting at 5:00pm! --- We are also excited to announce our new art installation with artist, Katie Walberg! Katie is a multi-disciplinary artist with interests in drawing, illustration, installation and sculpture. Her work is an exploration of the human landscape (e.g., buildings, roadways, sidewalks, power grids, refuse) as being both a reflection and determinate of the social, physical, and individual well being in contemporary human life. This is explored primarily through the exaggeration of our every day environment in a playful attempt to make visible the absurdity of our constructed spaces in contrast to the natural spaces surrounding us. Katie is interested in illuminating the relationship between practical human life in a consumerist society and the environmental destruction that can result. She explores how we manipulate our environment starting with our physical dwellings and structures. The drawings, sculptures, and installations she create focus on creating an exaggerated reality that re-contextualizes what has become common place in our constructed environments. Katie's most recent work is aimed at expanding this idea by taking drawing from a two dimensional approach to three dimensional sculpture. This approach combines her interest in sculpture's ability to interact with a viewer's space and drawing's ability to illustrate an idea. She finds this approach providing her with seemingly limitless possibilities. The paper sculptures build environments that are awkward and rambling. Natural elements are often minuscule or abstracted to something familiar but strange, and details like power lines or piping become rambling organic messes of knots and paper. Please join us for a night of art, refreshments, celebration, and community!