WINTER 2019-2020 EVENTS
Your easy, chronological guide to what Northeast Ohio galleries and museums have coming up in the next few months. More information about many of these exhibits can be found elsewhere in the pages of CAN.
CONTINUING EVENTS
THROUGH NOVEMBER 27
Lines & Shadows
Cleveland artists Steven Mastroianni and Rebekah Wilhelm bring different priorities and experiences to this show. Mastroianni is a working professional portrait photographer and musician, while Wilhelm’s practice is heavily focused on green printmaking. In this joint body of work, the artists add repeated marks and symbols to the surface of their images, etching into the ink and silver emulsion abstract evocations of reality in words, scratches and lines.
CLEVELAND PRINT ROOM
THROUGH NOVEMBER 30
Altered Landscapes
Part of Cleveland Photo Fest
MAC’S BACKS IN COVENTRY VILLAGE
THROUGH NOVEMBER 30
52 Weeks/52 Works
BALDWIN WALLACE UNIVERSITY FAWICK GALLERY
THROUGH NOVEMBER 30
Annual exhibition: Beachwood Photography Group
Part of Cleveland Photo Fest
BEACHWOOD BRANCH OF CUYAHOGA COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY
THROUGH DECEMBER 1
Ámà: The Gathering Place
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
THROUGH DECEMBER 1
International Artist in Residence: Taipei×CLE
Jr-Yun Lee
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ZYGOTE PRESS
THROUGH DECEMBER 5
88th Annual Akron Society of Artists Juried Exhibit
CUYAHOGA VALLEY ART CENTER
THROUGH DECEMBER 6
Life Preservers: Liz Maugans & Hilary Gent
MARIA NEIL ART PROJECT
THROUGH DECEMBER 7
Artists to Watch
In this periodic show, Bonfoey, Cleveland’s legacy gallery founded in 1893, shows a select group of regional artists who may be unfamiliar to local gallery visitors: Mark Krieger, Helen Lewis, Susan Morosky, Kristina Paabus, Lisa Robert Robinson, and Lisa Schonberg.
BONFOEY GALLERY
THROUGH DECEMBER 11
48th Annual Juried Show
VALLEY ART CENTER
THROUGH DECEMBER 13
Getting to Know You
Artists Natalia Arbelaez, Julie Heffernan, Haley Josephs, and Devan Shimoyama draw on a variety of source material, from art history to pop culture to persona iconography, to invite viewers to find themselves in images of other, presented in both a humorous and serious manner. Arbelaez, who is American-Colombian, searches for her identity through her fantastical sculptured figures, which reference folk art. New York-based Heffernan creates complex surrealistic paintings reminiscent of the work of Peter Blum. Josephs’ young women are rendered hyper-realistically but her idiosyncratic use of color removes them from reality. Shimoyama explores his queer black identity in brightly colored portraits rife with symbolism.
CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART REINBERGER GALLERY
THROUGH DECEMBER 14
Fall Graduating BFA Exhibition
MCDONOUGH MUSEUM
THROUGH DECEMBER 15
Integral Insects in East Asian Art
Shutter Speed
Japanese Dissent: Veiled and Unveiled
Japan on Stage
ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM
THROUGH DECEMBER 20
Textile Art Alliance 2019 Members Show
FLORENCE O’DONNELL WASMER GALLERY AT URSULINE COLLEGE
THROUGH DECEMBER 20
Palace of Illusion: curated by Lauren Davies
FOOTHILL GALLERIES OF THE PHOTO SUCCESSION
THROUGH DECEMBER 22
Invisible Visible: Celebrating Audra Skuodas
ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM
THROUGH DECEMBER 30
Xtinguish exhibition
CLEVELAND HOPKINS INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
THROUGH JANUARY 3
Christopher Kier: Totem
HEDGE GALLERY
THROUGH JANUARY 5
Catherine Opie: The Outside-Inside
Liu Wei
Louise Lawler: Birdcalls
Byron Kim: The Sunday Paintings
Every Sunday for 18 years, New York-based minimalist Kim has looked up at the sky and made a 14″×14″ painting of what he sees. These images record the day’s mood as well as his personal reflections and thoughts on the state of the world, along with the time and place where it was made. The moCa show includes the images from October 7, 2012—the week its new Uptown building opened—up through the present.
MOCA CLEVELAND
THROUGH JANUARY 5
Michelangelo: Mind of the Master
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
THROUGH JANUARY 5
Image to Image: Photography by Walsh University Digital Photojournalism Students
MASSILLON MUSEUM
THROUGH JANUARY 5
Opposites Attract: Urban Landscapes & Botanicals by Patricia Ingram
SHAKER HISTORICAL SOCIETY LISSAUER GALLERY
THROUGH JANUARY 11
Judith Brandon: Surface Tension
Brandon’s aggressively energetic paintings, with their ominous colors, appear to depict natural phenomena, especially storms and other less identifiable disruptions of the atmosphere. Those images appear as stand-ins for emotional states, which range from threatening and turbulent to merely unsettled. She shows a new body of work at Lesko every two years.
KENNETH PAUL LESKO GALLERY
THROUGH JANUARY 12
Vienna Modern
ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM
THROUGH JANUARY 18
Fulfilling the Eye: Anthony Eterovich
ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE
THROUGH JANUARY 19
Tabitha Soren: Surface Tension
TRANSFORMER STATION
THROUGH FEBRUARY 2
Open World: Video Games & Contemporary Art
AKRON ART MUSEUM
THROUGH FEBRUARY 7
Lakeland Community College Visual Arts Faculty Exhibition
THE GALLERY AT LAKELAND
THROUGH FEBRUARY 8
Foundations
CONVENTION CENTER GALLERY
THROUGH FEBRUARY 9
Color and Comfort: Swedish Modern Design
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
THROUGH FEBRUARY 16
Liu Wei: Invisible Cities
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
THROUGH FEBRUARY 23
Master/Apprentice: Imitation & Inspiration in the Renaissance
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
THROUGH MARCH 15
The Distance of the Moon
The moon has fascinated artists from poets to playwrights to painters for centuries. To honor the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, this show looks at it through photography and film-based images. They range from an evocative 1902 film by Georges Méliès to Nancy Graves’ contemporary work using images from moon voyages as source material for her meditative films. The exhibit also includes a small ceramic tile with reproductions of work by six artists, which was snuck onto Apollo 11 and traveled to the moon in 1969.
AKRON ART MUSEUM
THROUGH MAY 24
Afterlives of the Black Atlantic
Works by artists from Africa, Europe, and the Americas explore impacts of the Atlantic slave trade and its unresolved legacies.
ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM
THROUGH JUNE 14
Tiffany in Bloom: Stained Glass Lamps by Louis Comfort Tiffany
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
THROUGH JULY 19
The Enchantment of the Everyday: East Asian Decorative Arts from the Permanent Collection
Glimpse into a different world, where the everyday object became something magical in the hands of artisans working in gold, ivory, jade, and cloisonné.
ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM
NOVEMBER
22
CAN Journal Winter Issue Launch Party
FOLK GARDEN: DINARA MIRTALIPOVA
Reception 6-8 pm
ZYGOTE PRESS
22
Members show: Artists of the Rubber City
Through December 21
BOX GALLERY
23
Everything in its Place: Personal Archiving with Karen Eterovich-Maguire | Art Bites Professional Practice Series
1-3 pm
Register on artistsarchives.org
ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE
24
Traversed Media
Featuring: JoAnn Giovanetti-Renez, Debbe Kingery, Christie Klubnik & Michaelle Marschall
Reception 1-2:30 pm
Through December 13
ART GALLERY AT BEACHWOOD COMMUNITY CENTER
27
Journey Through Mishikui: Works on Paper by Yuko Kimura
Creative Roots: Celebrating Ohio from the CMA Collection
Gems of Modernist Brevity: Watercolor Miniatures
Crowns: Crossing into Motherhood
Eleven artists—all women, naturally—explore their experiences with motherhood and how it changes their lives, career and artistic practices. It looks at society’s expectations and what it means that motherhood is widely regarded as a woman’s “crowning” accomplishment, even in today’s more demanding world, and the satisfactions and disappointments inherent in those expectations. The eleven artists featured come from northeast Ohio and elsewhere around the Midwest—Stephanie DeArmond, Carole Epp, Kathryne Fisher, Jessica Gardner, Eva Kwong, Rhonda Willers, Janis Mars Wunderlich, Summer Zickefoose, Erin Furminsky, Rose B. Simpson and Kristen Cliffel
Through March 8
CANTON MUSEUM OF ART
29
Crafting Democracy: Fiber Arts & Activism
Crafts have always been considered a benign form of art-making, primarily the province of women and often with a quotidian utility beyond strictly visual. But for centuries, these artists have snuck subversive messages into their work. Inspired by the pussy hats that symbolized the 2017 Women’s March protests against Donald Trump, this exhibit shows how messages of protest—and demands for social and economic justice—have been shared through such media as yarn, textiles and thread, by a group of Rochester-area artists as well as other “craftivists” from across the U.S. and abroad.
Through January 10
THE SCULPTURE CENTER GALLERIES
30
Artist talk: Hong Hong & Claudio Orso-Giacone
7 pm
MORGAN ART OF PAPERMAKING CONSERVATORY
DECEMBER
3
Floral Artistry: Celebrating 30 Years of Floral Design for the Cleveland Museum of Art
This special event celebrates the founding of CMA’s Flower Fund Endowment in 1989, which provided for the weekly display of live flowers in the museum’s North Lobby. British floral designer Joseph Massie will do a live floral arrangement demonstration at the Gartner Auditorium.
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
5
Allen After Hours: Christina Sharpe
Christina Sharpe of York University, Toronto, discusses Black visual, queer, and diaspora studies. Her latest book was cited by The Guardian as one of its best of 2016. Presented in conjunction with the Afterlives of the Black Atlantic exhibition and cosponsored by the Art History Baldwin Lectures Endowment
5:30 pm
ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM
Artist Select: Ann Bort, Bex Fuller, Alex Overbeck, Taryn McMahon & Zak Smoker
Reception 6-9 pm
Through January 4
WORTHINGTON YARDS
6
Walk All Over Waterloo
6-9 pm
WATERLOO ARTS DISTRICT
Rochelle Johnson: Depictions
Rochelle Johnson has primarily been a figurative artist, focusing on the gentrifying urban neighborhood in Denver where she lives and on black subjects. But she has been getting more into looking at the geometric building blocks of a painting, exploring how shape, value and color generate energy and emotion. A selection of her work will be featured at the Waterloo Arts District’s newest gallery, Framed, which features work in various media by African-American artists from around the country.
Reception 6-9 pm
FRAMED GALLERY
Off the Wall Members Showcase
Reception 5-8 pm
Through December 14
CLEVELAND PRINT ROOM
Faculty Exhibition & Art Sale
Through January 15
CUYAHOGA VALLEY ART CENTER
7
Time Travel: New Works by David King
Reception 6-8 pm
ARTNEO
Special gallery hours during the ArtCraft Building’s Annual Holiday Sale
11 am-5 pm December 7
11 am-5 pm December 8
CLEVELAND PRINT ROOM
13
Transumanza: Massillon, Ohio by Carole D’Inverno Frisell
Reception 5:30-8 pm
Through January 26
Massillon Museum
Walkabout Tremont
6-9 pm
TREMONT
20
Third Friday
5-9 pm
78th STREET STUDIOS
JANUARY
3
Walk All Over Waterloo
6-9 pm
WATERLOO ARTS DISTRICT
6
Winter I classes begin
Through February 15
VALLEY ART CENTER
9
Residents Select
Worthington Yards resident Suzy Stang co-hosts this annual exhibition at the Yards Project, the gallery in the building’s lobby, where a committee of residents chooses artists for the show from submitted work. This year, a dozen artists were picked from among 67 submissions, including a mix of well-known local names (Eva Kwong, Justin Brennan, Tricia Kaman) and names you’ve probably never heard.
Reception 5:30-8 pm
WORTHINGTON YARDS
10
Walkabout Tremont
6-9 pm
TREMONT
Christopher Kaspar: Someone’s Past
Reception 7-9 pm
BAYARTS
Emma Wolpert: Finding My Home, Finding Myself-Guo’ Chu’ Chu’
Reception 7-9 pm
BAYARTS
Juan Si Gonzales and DaShaunae Jackson
Reception 5-8 pm January 10
Artist talk 1 pm January 11
Through February 29
CLEVELAND PRINT ROOM
14
Ukiyo-e Prints from the Mary Ainsworth Collection
After a celebrated six-month tour of three Japanese museums, a selection of nearly 120 color woodblock prints from this remarkable collection are on view at the Allen.
10 am-5 pm
ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM
17
Third Friday
5-9 pm
78th STREET STUDIOS
The Garden of Old Age Exhibit & Premier Book Signing
Poetry by Nina Gibans, photography of Shaker Lakes by Abby Star
Reception 4:30-6 pm
Artist talk 4:30 pm
Through April 15
GEORGE S. STREETER GALLERY @ JUDSON PARK
Bunco, Buddies & Brats
7-10 pm
BAYARTS
Fibers Show with Janice Lessman-Moss
Reception 6-9 pm
Ekphrastacy 7 pm February 13
Through March 1
HEIGHTS ARTS
21
Winter exhibition and art sale
Through March 5
CUYAHOGA VALLEY ART CENTER
24
Past Due: Curator Megan Young
Reception 6-8 pm
Curator Talk 6:30 pm
Through February 14
ZYGOTE PRESS
Community Culture Night with Donna Webb
7-8:30 pm
ART HOUSE
Conducted Answer
Reception 5-7 pm
Through February 28
KENT STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ART
Small Works juried exhibition
Through February 29
KSU DOWNTOWN GALLERY
Ruth Bercaw
Reception 5:30-8 pm
Through March 14
ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE
Identity: Things
Reception 6-8 pm
Through March 4
VALLEY ART CENTER
Nate Ruccioto & Lisa Walcott
Through March 13
THE SCULPTURE CENTER GALLERIES
31
Spotlight: Sean Jason Kelly
Reception 6-9 pm
Through March 15
HEIGHTS ARTS
Timeless Vision: Earth, Sea, and Sky
Both local and regional artists, including some with international reputations, contributed to this show, sharing the different approaches they take to exploring the landscape, a painting subject that became prominent in the late 19th century. Unlike many artists today, who are addressing the impact of man on the environment, this group simply looks at, and celebrates, the variety of natural beauty surrounding us.
Reception & gallery conversations 5-8 pm
Program 6 pm
Through April 11
THE GALLERIES AT CSU
FEBRUARY
1
SOUPer Bowl Challenge
11:30 am-1:30 pm
BAYARTS
Fuse: New Works by Deb Pinter
Through March 22
MASSILLON MUSEUM
6
The Mary A. Ainsworth Collection of Japanese Prints: Recent Discoveries
Kevin R. E. Greenwood, Curator of Asian Art, discusses the Allen’s renowned collection of Japanese woodblock prints. He touches on new facts about Mary Ainsworth’s life, the history of the collection and its connections to Frank Lloyd Wright, and the rarity and unique status of some of the ukiyo-e prints on view at the Allen.
5:30 pm
ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM
7
Walk All Over Waterloo
6-9 pm
WATERLOO ARTS DISTRICT
Max Markwald: Skin
Reception 7-9 pm
BAYARTS
Pam Mills: Wanderlust
Reception 7-9 pm
BAYARTS
Proof: Photography in the Era of the Contact Sheet
Through April 12
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
8
The Art of Love
6 pm
LA COSECHA
Table for Two
Reception 1-3 pm
Through April 12
CONVENTION CENTER GALLERY
13
Chicks with Balls: Judy Takács paints unsung female heroes
Reception with book launch & signing 5:30-7:30 pm
Through April 4
ZANESVILLE MUSEUM OF ART
Fibers Show with Janice Lessman-Moss
Ekphrastacy 7 pm
HEIGHTS ARTS
15
Gallery Talk: Chicks with Balls: You, me and every woman we know
2-3 pm
ZANESVILLE MUSEUM OF ART
Signal Noise: Aaron Rothman
The 35 heavily manipulated photos comprising this show take as source material ten years of Rothman’s landscape shots of the American West. Using digital and analog photography and digital processing and printing, he transforms the images into something else entirely, where the original scene is barely recognizable, only a jumping-off place for the artist’s deep dive into how the natural and the artificial interact with each other, and how reality can be used as a jumping-off place for the imagination.
Through May 17
TRANSFORMER STATION
14
Walkabout Tremont
6-9 pm
TREMONT
20
Art by the Falls Entry Deadline
VALLEY ART CENTER
21
Third Friday
5-9 pm
78th STREET STUDIOS
Blues featuring John Carlson and Shari Wilkins
Reception 5-9 pm
HEDGE GALLERY
24
Winter II classes begin
Through April 4
VALLEY ART CENTER
26
Screening of The Foreigner’s Home
Nobel prize-winning author Toni Morrison, who was born and raised in Lorain, Ohio, passed away earlier this year at age 86. She was celebrated for works such as Beloved and The Bluest Eye, which drew on her experiences as a black woman. The Apollo Theatre in nearby Oberlin will host a free screening of the 2018 documentary The Foreigner’s Home, about Morrison’s 2006 residency at the Louvre. It will be followed by Q&A with Oberlin faculty members Rian Brown-Orso and Geoff Pingree, who directed the film.
7 pm
APOLLO THEATER, OBERLIN
Conducted Answer artist talk: Holland Houdek
2 pm
KENT STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ART
27
Artists Talk: Rebekah Wilhelm/Art Werger & Yana Mikho-Misho
Taipei Bamboo Curtain Studio (Taiwan) / OAC Dresden Exchange (Germany)
6:30 pm
ZYGOTE PRESS
29
Elias Sime: Tightrope
Through May 24
AKRON ART MUSEUM
MARCH
1
International Artist Residence: Alberto Daniel Zamora Bravo
Aguafuerte Taller, Santiago de Chile
Through April 30
ZYGOTE PRESS
5
Poetry Slam
Oberlin poets gather to honor in verse the works in Afterlives of the Black Atlantic. Inspired by Toni Morrison’s museum interventions documented in The Foreigner’s Home. Followed by a reception and an opportunity to see the exhibition.
5:30 pm-
ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM
Evita Tezeno: Whimsy
Reception 6-9 pm
FRAMED GALLERY
6
CAN Journal Spring Issue Launch Party
6-8 pm
MORGAN CONSERVATORY
Walk All Over Waterloo
6-9 pm
WATERLOO ARTS DISTRICT
Members Show 2020
Reception 6-9 pm
Through April 19
HEIGHTS ARTS
8
Golden Needles: Embroidery Arts from Korea
Through July 26
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
Reception for Table for Two
1-3 pm
CONVENTION CENTER GALLERY
10
Human Figure exhibition and art sale
Through April 16
CUYAHOGA VALLEY ART CENTER
13
Walkabout Tremont
6-9 pm
TREMONT
BAYarts Annual Juried Exhibition
Reception 7-9 pm
BAYARTS
Andy Sweet’s The Last Resort
Reception 5-8 pm
Through April 14
CLEVELAND PRINT ROOM
Genius loci towards understanding of place: Tressa Jones and Arron Foster
Reception 6-8 pm
Curator talk 6:30 pm
Through April 17
ZYGOTE PRESS
14
The Annual ABC Chili Cook-Off
1-4 pm
ART HOUSE
19
Artist Lecture: Beyond Chicks with Balls: The Goddess Project
6-7 pm
ZANESVILLE MUSEUM OF ART
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