Frozen motion and cross pollination across genres glow at the Firelands Association for the Visual Arts (FAVA) as part of the FRONT International 2022. Works by painter Alexandria Couch, media artist and composer Joe Namy, and video artist Tony Cokes are on view through October 2, 2022, at FAVA’s galleries in the splendid 1873 New Union Center for the Arts […]
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CAN Triennial 2022: You Are Here (July 9 – August 31) exhibited works of 126 artists in 16 venues, in 6 Cleveland neighborhoods to explore issues of this time and place, and to highlight the diverse excellence of art-making in Northeast Ohio. The CAN Triennial Exhibition Prizes–created in partnership with nine regional museums–extend its impact into the coming years and […]
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There is power in the history of the daily, when exposed. Worn, folded, kept secret, and loved, a collection of found photographs and handwritten narratives present the horror and delight in the ordinary in Christopher Mason’s exhibit, “Objects and Tales of Fascination, African American Migration 1919 – 1980” on view at the Cleveland Print Room through April 16, 2022. It’s […]
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The process wonks bloom all over the walls in Slowhand, a new exhibit at the YARDS Project, a venue tucked down a side alley between West 6th and West 9th, around the corner from St. Clair Avenue. Weavers who unweave first, seedpods encased in copper, the fevered discipline of cut paper fantasies, and empathy revealed by charcoal around the white […]
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Part 2: Deal Me In Last issue, we mashed up art and commerce with three artists, asking the question, “What sells?” This issue takes the same question to four art galleries and dealers. One slight variable: COVID-19. We spoke with artists in February, before the pandemic brought our juggernaut world to a halt in March and closed all art galleries […]
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“Don’t make any pictures of clipper ships. They don’t sell.” This apocryphal tidbit of economic advice for artists is attributed to the late Marvin Jones, professor of art and printmaking at Cleveland State University from 1976 to 2005. Never mind the ongoing pushmi-pullyu argument of art and commerce; most artists are makers who sell what they make. In this issue […]
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“You don’t need to be on the mountaintop to create,” states Luke Frazier, creator of the new podcast/video docuseries, Artists in Place. “You just need to be where your feet are, right now.” This conviction simmered awhile in Luke’s heart. Itched at the back of his head as he did the day-to-day, travelling Cleveland roads and noticing […]
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Catherine Opie discusses her work featuring eight images of Lake Erie, applied directly onto the interior spaces of moCa, commissioned in celebration of moCa’s fiftieth anniversary. Interview with Catherine Opie by Jo Steigerwald JO STEIGERWALD: Tell me about the structure of this commission. How did it happen? What about it interested you? CATHERINE OPIE: It came about quite quickly. I […]
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