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Sick With Excitement

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This exhibit presented by River House Arts displays the work of Bill Ross, whose strange, colorful, and sometimes unsettling world first began to take shape during his art school days when he began doodling in a sketchbook. Sick with Excitement takes shows audiences those sketches spanning back to 1989 and how his art has unfolded to become what it is today. Ross says, “These paintings, although a little creepy in their candy-colored grimness, are a way for me to create spaces that are relatively clean and safe and even hopeful – my way of taking what was in the past and reinvigorating it with what I know and can do now.”

6-8pm | Friday, September 6
Secor Ballroom, 425 Jefferson St.
419-441-4025 | riverhousearts.com | Free

The Toledo City Paper depends on readers like you! Become a friend today. See membership options

This exhibit presented by River House Arts displays the work of Bill Ross, whose strange, colorful, and sometimes unsettling world first began to take shape during his art school days when he began doodling in a sketchbook. Sick with Excitement takes shows audiences those sketches spanning back to 1989 and how his art has unfolded to become what it is today. Ross says, “These paintings, although a little creepy in their candy-colored grimness, are a way for me to create spaces that are relatively clean and safe and even hopeful – my way of taking what was in the past and reinvigorating it with what I know and can do now.”

6-8pm | Friday, September 6
Secor Ballroom, 425 Jefferson St.
419-441-4025 | riverhousearts.com | Free

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