<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:center"><div style="text-align:center"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" id="m_9052835704095926887m_-1941254432787339278gmail-docs-internal-guid-0db5ea2e-7fff-5116-cce0-c7ed69171563"><font size="4"><b>"Caspio’s immersive work interweaves sensory and mental information to
open new avenues of thought. Ray’s work is intimate–deeply,
unapologetically intimate–but it is communal too, with
microscopically-focused, ironic details and an expansive sense of cosmic
unity</b></font><font size="4"><b>."</b><br></font></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" id="m_9052835704095926887m_-1941254432787339278gmail-docs-internal-guid-0db5ea2e-7fff-5116-cce0-c7ed69171563"><font size="4">-Liz Maugans, CAN Journal<br></font><font size="2"><b>Full review here:</b> <a href="http://canjournal.org/2023/05/ray-caspio-the-wall-at-1300-gallery/" target="_blank">http://canjournal.org/2023/05/ray-caspio-the-wall-at-1300-gallery/</a></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" id="m_9052835704095926887m_-1941254432787339278gmail-docs-internal-guid-0db5ea2e-7fff-5116-cce0-c7ed69171563"><br></p><div style="text-align:center"><font size="4"><b>"[Caspio's] presence is always compelling...and [their] words!"<br></b></font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font size="4">-Christine Howey</font></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><font size="4"><b><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" id="m_9052835704095926887m_-1941254432787339278m_5510352589209848088gmail-docs-internal-guid-948bd0a8-7fff-628c-1730-ec45e3d4e257">"Powerful, thought-provoking and provocative! A must see!"<br></span></b></font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" id="m_9052835704095926887m_-1941254432787339278m_5510352589209848088gmail-docs-internal-guid-948bd0a8-7fff-628c-1730-ec45e3d4e257">-Cleveland Explored</span><b><a href="http://raycaspio.com/thewall" target="_blank"><br><br></a></b></font><div style="text-align:center"><font size="4"><b><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-f9863957-7fff-bcd9-c4a3-75d309989947">"I’ve never felt art like this before. Ineffable."</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-f9863957-7fff-bcd9-c4a3-75d309989947"><br></span></b></font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font size="4">-A.W., patron<b><br></b></font></div><a href="http://raycaspio.com/thewall" target="_blank"></a></div><div style="text-align:center"><br></div><br><div style="text-align:center"><font size="6"><b><a href="http://raycaspio.com/thewall">raycaspio.com/thewall</a></b></font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font size="6"><b>for tickets and more information</b></font><font size="4"><b><br><br></b></font></div></div><div><div><br></div><div>THE WALL is a durational performance installation centered around a 6’4”
x 6’4” wall of text from Caspio’s studio composed of automatic writings
recorded during their 18 month pandemic isolation. The result is a
dreamlike meditation on loss, Self, sexuality, and memory inviting
participants to face the walls we erect around ourselves. THE WALL's raw
vulnerability and immersive reflection in a time of lies, chaos, and
fear of "the other" is a journey of acceptance toward the wholeness of
ourselves, and each other, before our time is through. THE WALL brings
the story to life through paintings, audio, photography, and automatic
and homoerotic drawings, with performance uniting all of the elements. <strong></strong></div><div><strong></strong></div><strong><br><u>REMAINING PERFORMANCE</u></strong><br>Saturday, May 27: 11am-8pm<br>Tickets are Pay-What-You-Can, with a suggested amount of $25<br><em><b>Come and go as you wish or witness the entire event.<br></b></em><div><em>Ages 18+ only</em></div><div><b>TICKETS:</b> <a href="https://www.raycaspio.com/thewall" target="_blank">https://www.raycaspio.com/thewall</a><br></div><br></div><div><b><u>LOCATION</u></b></div><div>1300 Gallery at 78th Street Studios<br></div><div>1300 West 78th Street</div><div>Cleveland, OH 44102<br><br></div><div>THE
WALL is supported by The Satellite Fund, administered by SPACES, and
funded by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Regional
Regranting Program. It is co-produced by Caspio and Ohio City Theatre
Project.<br><br></div><div><br></div><div><span id="m_9052835704095926887m_-1941254432787339278m_5510352589209848088m_5399034908895857361gmail-docs-internal-guid-3a54d211-7fff-fde5-352f-07c429076c65" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><u>ABOUT RAY CASPIO</u></span></font></p><font size="2"></font></span><span id="m_9052835704095926887m_-1941254432787339278m_5510352589209848088m_5399034908895857361gmail-docs-internal-guid-3a54d211-7fff-fde5-352f-07c429076c65" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Ray Caspio (b. 1979, they/he) is a performance and conceptual artist, and educator. Their art is one of exposure. Caspio creates atmospheric works ranging from confessional to camp/satirical to sincere in an inquiry into memory, Queer identity, trauma, loss, the grotesque of society, and profound emotion. They possess a visceral vulnerability and irreverent humor that opens an authentic conduit between the artist and their audience collaborators. Their performances have been recognized as “magical” and “intensely honest and unflinching,” with Ray being called “a shapeshifter” and “one [person] tour de force.” Caspio’s creations have been performed at The Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA), BorderLight Fringe, Theater Ninjas, and Cleveland Public Theatre’s Pandemonium. Caspio’s work appeared on “Best of” lists for Scene Magazine and WCPN’s The Sound of Applause. Ray was profiled by Scene as “The Thespian'' of 2014. Caspio founded Michael Chekhov Center Cleveland to share their understanding of Chekhov’s psychophysical performance principles with Northeast Ohio artists. Ray received a 2016 Creative Workforce Fellowship for their performance work. Through the revealing of cathartic truths of their inner life, Caspio inspires the questions: Who am I? Who are you? Who are we? What is this space we inhabit, together? And what does it mean to be alive?</span></font></p></span><span id="m_9052835704095926887m_-1941254432787339278m_5510352589209848088m_5399034908895857361gmail-docs-internal-guid-3a54d211-7fff-fde5-352f-07c429076c65" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><u>ABOUT OHIO CITY THEATRE PROJECT</u><br></span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Actively involved in the Cleveland area since 2012, Ohio City Theatre Project (OCTP) strives to create world class theatrical experiences that are experienced intellectually and touch the heart. OCTP uses creative innovation to drive civic dialog about contemporary issues and connects with regional partners to develop synergistic opportunities for local artists to produce new theatrical work and impactful education programs.</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">OCTP is led by Executive Artistic Director Pandora Robertson. OCTP has produced the premieres of new works by Northeast Ohio artists, which include the film </span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">But to work!</span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (2021) as well as the plays </span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Central Concern</span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (2019 premiere, 2022 Borderlight Festival Producer’s Choice Award), </span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Incendiaries </span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(2016 premiere, 2018 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award for playwriting), </span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Snake Oil </span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(2015), </span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Free Radical and The Late Night Sketchbook </span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(2014), </span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Summer Storefront </span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(2013), </span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Living Storefront: A Night of New Theatre </span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(2012), as well as productions of Eugène Ionesco’s </span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Bald Soprano </span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(2013) and Matt Larsen’s </span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Kid Mystery </span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(2012).<br><br></span></font></p></span><br><div style="text-align:center"><font size="4"><b>"Breathtaking."<br></b></font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font size="4">-J.R., patron<br><br></font><div style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-8a9feff1-7fff-e2c9-6ed7-4a474769dc79"><font size="4">"Political, personal, of the body, flesh, heart space, richly philosophical and utterly present."</font></span></b><br></div><div style="text-align:center"><font size="4">-Molly Andrews-Hinders, Performance Artist</font><font size="4"><b><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-f9863957-7fff-bcd9-c4a3-75d309989947"><br></span></b></font></div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font size="4"><b>"I was moved and brought to tears...Thank you for the safety of THE WALL."</b></font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font size="4">-D.A., patron<br><br><b>"</b><b><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-a6280f80-7fff-b568-d243-6de44fb0b0a5">Run to this experience, I’m so glad I got to be in town for this."<br></span></b></font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-a6280f80-7fff-b568-d243-6de44fb0b0a5">-N.E., patron</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-a6280f80-7fff-b568-d243-6de44fb0b0a5"><br></span></font></div><br><font color="#888888"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"></font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font size="4"><b><a href="http://raycaspio.com/thewall" target="_blank">raycaspio.com/thewall</a></b></font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font size="4"><b>for tickets and more information</b></font></div></div></div>