Miller Horns, who was born in 1948 and so came of age between the late 1960s and early 1970s, was mainly a printmaker. But he was a print maker excited by new forms and techniques available in that field, at that revolutionary time. Horns began looking for fresh means of expression just when electrostatic copy machines became widely available for […]
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Lissa Bockrath’s works have a fearless quality. They evoke climactic moments of awe and revelation, using paint to recreate feelings of immanent transcendence, even divine presence. Perhaps they’re most like music — symphonic tone poems by expressive composers like Franz Liszt or Bedrich Smetana. In ways that parallel the sonic textures of those composers her sweeping oil on canvas inventions […]
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In the Odyssey, the Greek word used to describe the wily hero Odysseus is “polutropon” – many-sided, multivalent. It might also serve as an epithet for the sculptor Giancarlo Calicchia, a man accomplished in a variety of disciplines, whose unique imagery and personal symbols chip and twist through time, reimagining the scale and power of ancient mysteries. Calicchia’s sculptures […]
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Capping Loreto Greve’s three month-long artist residency at Cleveland Print Room as part of the Cleveland Foundation’s ongoing Creative Fusion Program, Tiempo Fragmentado is an exhibit of photographs, photograms, drawings and prints, all produced during Greve’s stay here. Photographs were processed on site at the Print Room, several lithographs were made under the direction of Karen Beckwith at the Cleveland […]
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“I’m going to have to borrow gas money to get home,” Loren Naji’s wry laughter echoed (just a little) through the tiny rafters of his spherical, handbuilt micro-home. Only a few hours earlier the Cleveland artist and a growing cadre of fans were still hoping that “Emoh,” as it is called, an oddly charming, eight-foot wide essay on hope […]
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Eric Rippert’s darkling, toys-in-a-landscape photographs have for several years commented on innocence and alienation, and he has drawn some attention for those. Most visibly, two were printed large — highway scale –and installed on the West 14th Street underpass in Tremont, as part of the Cleveland Innerbelt Project Mural Art Program. In 2014 the Progressive Insurance collection – always a […]
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It’s always a thrill to see Cleveland’s best artists pursuing national careers. Over the past several years the abstract paintings of a homegrown favorite, Dana Oldfather, have been snapped up by private collectors and public venues from Philadelphia to Las Vegas. Now one of Chicago’s sharpest galleries has joined the list. From May 5 through July 2, Zg Gallery opened […]
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Among the most adventurous things an artist from Cleveland can do is join the joyous printmakers’ haven called Zygote Press, then apply for one of the exchange residencies that Zygote sponsors in far-flung places. Zygote’s Ohio Arts Council-funded exchange with Dresden, Germany (the longest-running international residency in the state) is one possibility. Another is the chance to be an ambassador […]
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Kate Sopko’s series of short films collectively known as The Fixers isn’t exactly about fixing Cleveland, which might be impossible, though her narratives do show people hard at work repairing neighborhoods, hammering at closed minds. But “Fixers” in this usage are really guides to complex social or political situations—insiders who know shortcuts and can give journalists a fast ride […]
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Waterloo Arts Gallery has mounted ambitious shows in its renovated storefront space since 2004, in a long foreshadowing of North Collinwood’s current fine-arts thaw. After two tantalizing decades of big promises and slow progress around the intersection of East 152nd and Waterloo, that pioneer space and the entire Waterloo Arts District are more lively than ever. And some of the […]
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