John Cira uses a big stone as ammo in a giant spandex slingshot aimed right at the museum; it’s an essay in tension physical and psychological.

-Christine Temin, The Boston Globe, August 1995

Boston Globe Critics’ Pick of the Week

STRETCH/HOOK For this world premiere collaboration, Kairos Dance Theater choreographer/performer DeAnna Pellecchia dances within visual artist John Cira’s sculptural installation of floor-to ceiling bands of illuminated spandex. Jazz pianist Kenny Werner provides the live improvised score.
May 28, 2016, 8 p.m.
Cotuit Center for the Arts, Cotuit, MA.

A Stretch of the Imagination 

By ELISE HUGUS, Sept. 5, 2012, InsideOUT Cape Cod

Spandex might not be the first thing that comes to mind when planning an art installation, but Falmouth sculptor John Cira is, shall we say, flexible. READ MORE…

Yellow Fever at Guyer Barn

You want to touch it, to swing on it, to see if it bends; you want to photograph it, to paint it, to make a play within its spaces:

He: Ahoy; She: Ahoy; He: What color is your light you? She: Yellow, the space ties me/ READ MORE…