Last week, Columbus Alive featured our Residues exhibition in their November gallery preview.  Below is the article:

“Ray Klimek and Rajorshi Ghosh take what most of us would consider trash or a ruined landscape and turn it into art. The two Ohio University assistant professors have both documented man’s effect on the areas where they grew up.

“We realized there’s a common theme of waste in both of our work,” Klimek explained. Their joint exhibition this month at ROY G BIV, “Residues,” just goes to show that nothing is wasted on a good artist.

Klimek was raised in northeastern Pennsylvania, near abandoned coal mines where he would often play. The setting has inspired Klimek to create a photo series, “Carbon/Analog,” which captures the sense of fantasy and adventure he felt there as a kid.

“What’s so fascinating is partly that it lends itself to whatever we want it to be,” Klimek said of the black mound-covered landscape. “It’s a place where you can play army, you can play cowboys and Indians, you can play anything that your imagination can come up with.”

He often stylizes the photos to resemble official NASA images or pictures of the nighttime sky.

“From a distance, it looks kind of astronomical and then you get closer up and you realize that it’s spoils sometimes,” he said of the glittering coal residue.

Ghosh, whose “Ganges” series last year at OSU’s Urban Arts Space showed video footage of items floating in the Indian river, has contributed a series of what he calls “reconfigured” communist propaganda posters found on the streets of Calcutta, his hometown. There is also a lightbox installation modeled after a broken lightbox found in Cairo’s Tahrir Square that bore an image of Egypt’s former president, Hosni Mubarak.

The centerpiece of Ghosh’s work, though, will be “Landscape with Kites,” a video installation that shows thousands of kites — birds of prey — flying over Delhi. Locals believe spirits from the city’s violent past reside on the wings of the birds.”

To see the rest of the article visit Columbus Alive at http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2011/11/03/preview-november-gallery-hop.html