CURRENT EXHIBITION
MOON BABIES
New work by Meg Matko
Opening October 11th 2025
Meg Matko takes her sculpture and performance in a new direction with MoonBabies, exploring fantasy, Kawaii culture, consumerism and Al obsession. Matko conjures a portal of escape, magic and child-like play with mixed media alien-esqe dolls, exaggerated clothing and mask-making.
The work is a departure from Matko’s previous bodies of work, focused largely on physically intense, durational performance and minimal sculpture. “It’s really a subconscious response to the current state of all-consuming civil unrest, imploding social politics and the unrelenting crush of information and a comment on our capacity to self-preserve and revisit childhood innocence when reality feels unsafe,” she says.
Illustrator and printmaker, Sequoia Bostick introduces a custom MoonBabies design, specially created for the show, that will be live printed on t-shirts and totes during the event by Julie Schabel, Wave Space Studio founder and creative director. All apparel and art will be available for purchase during the event.
Julie Schabel, the owner of Wave Space has shown mostly 2D work in her space so far, so this is a new offering for the up and coming gallery. “We are excited to share this new work with the community and hope that it evokes a sense of whimsy and fun in these difficult times”
About the Artists
Meg Matko is a visual / interdisciplinary artist based in Cleveland, Ohio using sculpture, time and gesture to investigate themes of female identity, masochism, emotional labor, collecting/coveting and preciousness. She doubles as the Director of Artist Funding Programs at Assembly for the Arts, Cleveland’s local arts council and is a long-time arts administrator and advocate.
Sequoia Bostick is an illustrator, maker, designer and plant enthusiast based in Cleveland, Ohio. A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art, she is a freelance multidisciplinary artist and has served as a resident teaching artist since 2016. She serves as the social media and community engagement manager at Zygote Press and leads Genghis Con, Cleveland’s largest small press and independent comics convention.
Past Exhibitions
RETROSPECTIVE:
THE GOOD, THE BAD, & THE CONTEMPORARY
OPENING AUGUST 9TH 2024
FEATURED ARTISTS:
CHRISTA FREEHANDS
TOBY GRIFFITHS
DAYZWHUN
GABY ROSSETTI
NATE AUSTIN LACY TALLEY
AJHA DEAN-PHILLIPS
Super Psychedelic Sisters
September 1-29th 2023
“The Super Psychedelic Sisters Against Cancer!” a portion of proceeds will be donated to The Gathering Place https://touchedbycancer.org
This affordable cash and carry art show will have framed prints in all sizes, books, drawings, hand-painted accessories and other arty farty products.
We are three women artists based in Cleveland. Ohio. We are excited to continue our practice of traditional painting, and pair it with digital and installation art. We want to educate creators, collectors, and spread beauty in this crazy world. Our subjects are often strong, dreamy, and fabulous females in phantasmagorical environments.
Arabella Proffer
Tessa LeBaron
Jenna Fournier
GOONS: The Corporate Body
Oct 1 2022
Goons began in Chicago in 2004. Starting as a street artist he put his work all over the city. Later he found success working with companies such as Red Bull, Nike and Wrigley gum. He now works and lives in his home and studio in Vermont.
Growing up in rural Washington state my contact with the “Outside” world was very limited. Sitting in that little cabin on a hillside with only my dad, no hot water, no phone, a black and white tv with no channels I was alone but not lonely. My imagination ran wild and in this place brands became my friends. A WD-40 can promised some connection to something greater… out there somewhere. I revisited this theme with what I’ve taken in since and the larger works are the result.
The smaller works were created in Florida, summer of 2022. Finding elements at thrift stores and estate sales. I reflected the atmosphere of warm air and and palm trees in an ever abstracting way.
The work is created in a very jazz-interpretive dance type way. Using whatever is around I allow the work unfold as the impulses suggest. Sometimes taking a break for days and revisiting with a totally new direction.
Thank you for taking the time to look at the work and extrapolate the meaning it might give to you.
Color Me In! An exhibition by Jihad C Dennis
September 1- October 9 2022
Personal Truths: A Youth Social Justice Exhibition
July 23- August 30th 2022
Students from Northeast Ohio workshopped ideas on social justice issues that were important to them. They worked with Christa from Art-C to develop a project and wrote abstracts to explain the meaning behind the artwork they created.
What matters to youth? Listen, view, and experience these Cleveland area middle school/high school voices in this thought-provoking art exhibition. Art for Resistance Through Change (A.R.T.-C.), a nonprofit community arts-based organization committed to promoting diversity, equity, justice, and activism through artmaking, and Wave Space Gallery are PROUD to support this powerful art. This exhibition addresses what youth deem SIGNIFICANT: realities facing Black and Brown youth, children with learning differences, the LGBTQIA+ community, domestic violence, love and family, mental health, foster care, institutionalization, mass incarceration, grief, and other significant issues.
RAINBOW
SPIRITUALITY
PEACE
MY HEART
LIFE’S JOURNEY
Don’t Look Now: The Great Escape Artist by Heather Molecke
April 1st – April 30th 2022
