Friday 1.28

FRI 1/28

MOCA 2011 Winter Exhibition apparently comes in threes. Opening on Fri 1/28: Teresita Fernandez - Blind Landscape, Javier Tellez - Letter on the Blind for the Use of Those Who See doc about blind ppl interacting w/ an elephant [pictured] & Cle artist Lorri Ott presents passive voices. Sculpture + doc + mixed media + one giant party on opening night. Museum of Contemporary Art, 8501 Carnegie Ave., Cleveland 216.421.8671, mocacleveland.org

TUE 2/1

Life Imitates Artifice @ CSU Gallery This exhibit of contemporary photography will disrupt your expectations of life. See a civilization free from humans; photos of reconstituted photos; and work wherein an image's meaning shifts when textual info is added. It's all a part of this new exhibit @ CSU featuring the work of Nate Larsen & Marni Shindelman, Brandon Juhasz, Matt Siber, Kerry Skarbakka & Lori Nix. Tue 2/1 is the perfect day to stop by the Gallery & have a gander. [Pictured: Lori Nix, Laundromat, 2008] Cleveland State University Art Gallery, 2307 Chester Ave., Cleveland, 216.687.2103, www.csuohio.edu/artgallery