Dual Sculpture Exhibitions Explore Desire, Belief and the Unseen

Two concurrent exhibitions opening April 10 bring together artists whose sculptural practices explore the tension between the familiar and the unknown. On view through June 6, the exhibitions feature new work by Gary Sczerbaniewicz and Ling-lin Ku, each presenting immersive sculptural environments that challenge how viewers experience
objects, belief and desire. The exhibitions reflect The Sculpture Center’s ongoing commitment to supporting artists at pivotal moments in their careers while encouraging experimentation in the field of contemporary sculpture.

“Sczerbaniewicz and Ku are doing something rare—each in their own distinct language, they make the invisible felt. One looks outward toward the mysteries we project onto the world; the other turns inward toward the hungers we carry in the body. Together they create an experience that is genuinely hard to shake,” said Grace Chin, Executive Director.

Gary Sczerbaniewicz: Cloud of Unknowing

Gary Sczerbaniewicz’s exhibition, Cloud of Unknowing, draws from a wide range of cultural references including UFOs, occult imagery, secret societies and ritual spaces. Through a series of interactive sculptural environments incorporating meticulously crafted miniature dioramas, the artist explores the friction between rational, materialist worldviews and the enduring pull of mystery and belief. The exhibition title references the anonymous 14th-century Christian mystical text The Cloud of Unknowing, which suggests that deeper truths may emerge when certainty and knowledge are temporarily set aside.

Sczerbaniewicz constructs immersive spatial scenarios that blur boundaries between architecture, sculpture and theatrical stagecraft. Embedded miniature scenes invite viewers to peer into alternate worlds where cultural anxieties, speculative narratives and conflicting systems of belief collide. His work reflects a long-standing fascination with spaces that produce psychological disorientation and moments of curiosity or unease.

Ling-lin Ku: Morning After

In the adjacent exhibition, sculptor Ling-lin Ku presents Morning After, a series of large- scale sculptures that merge breakfast imagery with sensual and bodily forms to create a
surreal landscape of desire, indulgence and vulnerability. Familiar objects associated with domestic rituals—foods, tableware and fragments of the body—are exaggerated,
hybridized and transformed into sculptural forms that shift between playful and unsettling.

Using a hybrid process that combines digital fabrication technologies such as 3D scanning and CNC routing with traditional sculptural methods, Ku produces works that
oscillate between organic and artificial, tactile and uncanny. The sculptures draw viewers in with lush surfaces and recognizable imagery while gradually revealing tensions between pleasure and excess, intimacy and spectacle.

Ku’s exhibition is presented as part of The Sculpture Center’s Revealed series, the institution’s signature early-career artist initiative. Since 1991, Revealed has served as a catalytic platform for sculptors within the first decade of their careers,
providing the opportunity to create an ambitious new body of work for a solo exhibition. By prioritizing experimentation and inquiry over market viability, the program allows artists to test ideas, take risks and push the boundaries of contemporary sculpture.

Together, the exhibitions present two distinct yet complementary investigations into how contemporary sculpture can transform everyday references into emotionally charged environments. While Sczerbaniewicz examines cultural belief systems and the mysteries that shape collective identity, Ku’s work turns inward, exploring appetite, longing and vulnerability through the language of the body and domestic consumption.

About the Artists
Gary Sczerbaniewicz
Gary Sczerbaniewicz received his BFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University and his MFA from the University at Buffalo. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is included in the permanent collections of the Burchfield-Penney Art Center and the Sanford Underground Research Facility. He currently serves as Assistant Professor of Spatial Arts and Sculpture at Northern
Kentucky University.

Ling-lin Ku
Ling-lin Ku received her MFA from the University of Texas at Austin and her BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. Her work has been exhibited internationally and across the United States, and she has participated in residencies including the International Studio & Curatorial Program in Brooklyn, the Salzburg International Summer Academy and the 18th Street Arts Center in Los Angeles. Ku is currently
Assistant Professor of Studio Art at Oberlin College.

Exhibition Details

Gary Sczerbaniewicz: Cloud of Unknowing
Ling-lin Ku: Morning After
Dates: April 10 – June 6, 2026
Opening Reception: April 10, 2026, 5:30-8pm
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