Author: Jo Steigerwald

Wellness, Represented: University Hospitals and Deep Roots Experience

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At the intersection of health, wellness, and representation lies art: this winter, 21 works by Black and Brown artists living in Northeast Ohio were acquired by University Hospital’s (UH) corporate art collection. Works by Asia Armour, Bryant “Bee1ne” Anthony, Dayz Whun, Aldonte Flonnoy, Jevonte “Jae Capo” King-Woods, Pahpy/SammieDoesIt, Bobbi Reagins, Vivica Satterwhite, and Emanuel Wallace are now installed in two […]

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The Bonfoey Gallery at 130: Art That Transcends Time

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When they opened their first store, no cars swooshed by their display windows. Women’s skirts swept the sidewalks and their jewels glittered under gaslights at the Opera House, just down East 4th Street from the first store. John D. Rockefeller had just started his vertical integration into wealth, Henry Sherwin and Edward Williams had recently introduced a line of marine […]

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Honoring the Land: Baker, O’Sickey, and Tyrrell at Bostwick Design Partnership

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Three artists extend the landscape to others by freezing a moment: calculated, exuberant, and ineluctable, no matter if that landscape rides a riot of Fauve-inspired color, or stretches the delineation of deep graphite across white paper. This trio—Lawrence Baker, Joseph O’Sickey, and Brinsley Tyrrell—share a connection to Kent State University, and a fascination with the landscape. Baker studied with O’Sickey […]

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Jesse Owens Olympic Oak Plaza: A new Rockefeller Park installation by Angelica Pozo honors one of Cleveland’s greatest athletes

How do you capture the wind left by a monumental figure racing against time and hate? With an Olympic oak, flames frozen like leaves in mid-quake, and echoes of the dreams and fears of our community. Angelica Pozo’s recent installation honoring Jesse Owens–located in the Jesse Owens Olympic Oak Plaza, near the intersection of Martin Luther King Boulevard and East […]

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The Art of Tenacity: Art House’s new campus is a study in perseverence and collaboration

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Under a century-old sweetgum tree on Cleveland’s West Side, newly-planted clumps of ornamental grasses sway in the wind. Birds swoop between bushes ringing two bioswales that dip away from each other, creating a natural land bridge. This swath of green interrupts the march of apartment buildings, schools, and old homes near the intersection of Denison Avenue and Pearl Road in […]

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Sweet Art

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Synesthesia happens when a person experiences one sense through another: hearing Bach, you see rectangles. Or the word “table” brings purple to mind. Its Greek roots mean “senses coming together,” according to Dr. Veronica Goss at Boston University. Closer to home, artist Renee Fisher and gourmet chocolatier Ines Rehner have created a synesthesthetic experience in their collection of hand-painted chocolates […]

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Motion Arrested: Justin Brennan at HEDGE

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Velocity stands still in the portraits and interiors by Justin Brennan in his solo show, Wide-Eyed, on view at HEDGE Gallery until June 30, 2023. There’s flurry all awry here, in the unfinished movement of living. Portraits of the famous and not-famous gaze right back atcha, gallery-goer, triumphant in their purples and teals and blues and peaches. These armatures of […]

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Interdependence & Emergence: Eva Kwong at ARTneo

Eva Kwong has been captivated by the invisible proliferation of microbes since she was five years old. About once a month, her mother would disinfect Eva and her four siblings by popping them into a bathtub full of Dettol (a disinfectant with international popularity) where they would play all afternoon. “My mother thought this was a miracle product—the kitchen, the […]

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