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Gallery Director’s work on display at new Innovation Institute By Sheila McBrayne
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Leamington Arts Centre Gallery Director Chad Riley isn’t one to brag, but he certainly has a lot to be boastful of. Riley, 35, is also a photographer and artist whose work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally in over sixty solo and group exhibitions. Last month Riley was honoured to have his photographic series Father’s Hands selected to be on permananet display at the Henry Ford Hospital New Innovation Institute. “The photographic series is called Father’s Hands. It was created and displayed for my Master of Fine Arts (MFA) thesis exhibition at Wayne State University in April and was submitted to the call for the Henry Ford Hospital’s H-1 Corridor, but was instead chosen for the more prestigious call, which I was unaware of at the new Innovation Institute. I am excited to say that they were chosen to be permanently displayed in the Think Tank/Stimulation Room, which is the showcase of the Institute. It’s a board room, which overlooks the entire facility,” stated Riley. The hands in the photo are Chad’s father’s hands and the work was created in tribute to his father and to modern medicine as a so-called step-father, Four of the series have been printed on a tensile material about 5’ by 2’ and accompanied by Riley’s artist statement. The grand opening of the Institute was Friday, October 7. This series is also currently on display at the Henry Ford Macomb Hospital, Clinton Twp., Michigan, where Riley gave an artist talk on Thursday, October 20 for the opening of the show called Healing Arts: Turning Point, which was artwork about a turning point in someone’s life. “My turning point was my transplant. As a young child I suffered from Cystic Fibrosis, a genetic disease affecting the lungs and the pancreas where thick mucus can cause lung damage and eventually an early death. I wasn’t diagnosed with this until the age of 14. At that time I weighed about 55 lbs and was only 4’7” tall in Grade 9,” said Riley. In his OAC (Grade 13) his lung collapsed and he was off school for four months. The damage from CF was worsening. “Eventually I had to have lung surgery to repair my lung. It was (Continued on Page 2)
Chad Riley in front Father’s Hands at the Henry Ford Innovation Institute
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