Being lost is an unfinished business, feeling unmoored despite being somewhere specific. Lost is destruction and grief, escape and adventure, terrifying freedom. Lost inspires awe in equal parts breathless amazement and fear in the gut, yet it provides respite from daily life and ordinary identity. Explore all aspects of lost in The YARDS Project’s current show, Let’s Get Lost: an […]
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Nostalgia drenches us with the exalted and sanitized familiar, usually rooted in childhood or in shape-shifting adolescence. It’s comfort food for the weary soul, it tiptoes at the edge of cliché, and it provides great fodder for advertisers and semioticians alike. It’s now on view in a blast of color, readymades, and delight in Be Kind…Rewind: A Nostalgia Show, through […]
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When the room has emptied, when the breath lets go, when the wire pulls taut, when the light keeps shining: places without people still tell stories we can hear. Maxmillian Peralta reveals his new work—a significant departure from his earlier, court-painting-inspired portraiture—in Flat Affect, on view at the Massillon Museum’s Studio M Gallery, June 21 through August 3. Peralta received […]
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Flowers escape frames, butterflies balance between celebration and rest, and resurrection arises from grief in The Nature of Healing, a group exhibition co-curated with and presented by Deep Roots Gallery at Cleveland Botanical Garden, on view now through May 18, 2025. Works by 30 Northeastern Ohio artists inhabit the fertile intersection of nature and grief. Cleveland, historically challenged by some […]
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The precipice of spring in Northeastern Ohio can be a gray and dismal place. The clouds, the Lake, the asphalt all conspire to monochrome for days that turn to weeks and resolve into months. Into this wash of wipeout inertia blasts a burst of color in Nevertheless, She Created: Encore, on view at the Bonfoey Gallery from now until April […]
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There are tiny stories (an egg, an apartment) and big stories (tyranny, love); there are books to pick up and read and some that are look-at only. Some pages implode in seemingly infinite folds; others explode outward, releasing butterflies that fling themselves over the walls. There are books of threads and narratives shrouding rocks. Reading takes on at least three […]
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Take the river of data that maps 163,000 parcels comprising the built environment of Cleveland. Add layers of interpretation from entities like the City of Cleveland, the Western Reserve Land Conservancy, and the Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative. Then introduce the shimmering catalyst of art to the mix, and explode the reality of place. Welcome to the Cleveland Print Room’s Property […]
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The eternal now glides through an enormous marble box wearing those sherbert pastels last seen in a 1970s Florida hotel. There’s a murmur of inscrutable—yet comforting—language of chimes and tones and whirrs. Lean into this otherworldly chatter and move among entities who move among you; dance without noticing and create the next movement, the next verse, that is inherent in […]
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If we don’t recognize our ancestors, we don’t know who we are. Stories and histories are the anchors of resilience in a turbulent river that can feel like a whirlpool. In Queer Histories, a collaborative exhibit between the LGBT Community Center of Greater Cleveland and Zygote Press, tributes to and calls to action from the queer community resonate through the […]
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The force of creativity pushes through the cracks that occur in the daily. Sometimes it looks like self-sufficiency: homegrown, repurposed, often awkward yet surprisingly stunning. Sometimes it beckons like light on water glimpsed out of the corner of the eye. Sometimes it’s the tenacity of the weed through the concrete, and doing the work on the regular. The creative force […]
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