The N in CAN stands for Network, and so we are especially proud to announce that CAN Triennial will partner with regional institutions to offer a series of Exhibition Prizes and Purchase Prizes. The following prizes are named for institutions whose curators will come to CAN Triennial and choose an exhibiting artist to be given a solo exhibition at that […]
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Calm before the storm? Nah. We love the butterflies and peaches, and the warm colors on our cover this issue, but above all we love the magnifying glass, because it calls to mind curiosity. For my money, curiosity is the most precious commodity in the art world—the desire for knowledge, for connection, for discovery, for new things. The photo is […]
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Maybe it’s ironic to present images of Lin Ke’s virtual art in a print magazine. Or maybe printed photos representing works that are made on a laptop and exist on screens or in projections, with the internet experience as their subject matter, are just another layer in the experience of removal from reality. The artist from Beijing, China discussed the […]
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Talking to a crowd of about 30 people at the FRONT Porch in January, LA-based Juan Capistran described himself as a “post studio, conceptual artist,” which is not a term a person hears very often in Cleveland. Northeast Ohio artists for the most part not only have studios, but outfit them to work in a specific medium, and define themselves […]
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When Juan Capistran visited Cleveland for a week in January, we took a driving tour, starting in University Circle. There’s nothing like showing Cleveland to a visitor to reveal the city to yourself anew. Los Angeles-based, Mexican-born Capistran is one of the Madison Residents, a cohort of national, international, and Cleveland-based artists whose residencies are supported by the Cleveland Foundation […]
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The the idea that an artist can live after death through his work is old, universal, and in a way central to the exhibit on view now at the Stocker Center gallery at Lorain County Community College. The stated idea behind the show is built into its name: Lorain County Printmakers gathers the work of five accomplished and prolific printmakers […]
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Below is a breaking announcement from the leadership of FRONT International Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art. Watch for updates as they become available. Find Douglas Max Utter’s Fall 2017 interview with Jens Hoffmann here: Interview from the FRONT FRONT International Announces Changes to Artistic Team CLEVELAND, Ohio (November 27, 2017) – FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art announced today […]
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When CAN launched as a quarterly, we were stricken with the glow of potential. This column began: There’s a moment, sure as flipping a light switch, when you realize something is possible. The visual art scene in Cleveland is at that moment. Five years later, that potential has grown in every way, and another moment has arrived. In the summer 2018, […]
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Lauren Yeager’s studio on the fourth floor of a near-east-side warehouse is filled with the dry humor of accumulated cast-off products, mostly made of plastic. You wouldn’t call any of it beautiful, at least not to look at, not in any conventional sense. There are five-gallon paint buckets brimming with drips and smears, mostly white and neutral. There are balls […]
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The night white nationalists marched with tiki torches, shouting racist slogans in Charlottesville, Virginia Johnny Coleman was capturing a different atmosphere, after midnight in a plantation cemetery about 100 miles south, near the Dismal swamp. Driven to fill in the details of a story his grandmother told, Coleman had been searching geneological records and county land records dating to the […]
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