At least once a year, artists of the Northern Ohio Illustrators Society create work for the clients who understand them best: themselves. Then they put on a gallery show and let viewers see what occupies their thoughts between paid gigs. Common Ground: New Art by Members of the Northern Ohio Illustrators Society, is on view from 6 to 10 p.m. […]
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When Julian Stanczak talked about his work as an artist, you couldn’t help but conclude that visual problem solving consumed him. How could he arrange forms to mimic the movement of rippled in a stream? What color combinations would activate the canvas in a particular way? “People came away with this idea of a life totally committed to visual communication,” […]
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When illustrator and CIA instructor James Groman (’86) was creating designer monsters for the Cleveland Institute of Art’s annual recruitment posters, he reined in his estimable gifts for the grotesque and pulled out the winsome instead. In the first of three Groman edition posters for CIA, a hopeful-looking young student is flanked by a menagerie with almost Muppetlike appeal: A […]
Read moreWith love from Berlin and Cleveland: Artists leave their mark in Hingetown On a sunny Sunday in mid-October, artist Ryan Jaenke stands in the bucket of a hydraulic lift, putting brush to brick to finish his mural on an old apartment building on W. 25th Street. His blazing black and red design shouts FULL TILT. A barber pole, a pigeon, […]
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After decades of stasis, cultural changes around gender identity are now moving as if on a high-speed train. The scope and range of the female voice is expanding right along with it. That’s all to say that Living Dangerously: Angela Dufresne and Nicola Tyson— on view through Dec. 16 at CIA’s Reinberger Gallery — offers a fresh look at the figure, landscape, […]
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Art galleries: They can be settings for divine experience and transportive beauty. And they can be showcases for donkeys and donkey doo. What to make of such contradictions? That’s a question for Bruce Checefsky. The director of Reinberger Gallery at the Cleveland Institute of Art is the host of “Gallery Guy,” a short-video series highlighting artists and exhibitions. The episodes […]
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Freedom is a big deal to Michela Picchi. The Italian-born artist lives in Berlin, travels as she can, and though she made a name doing illustrations for big clients, what she wants most now for her art is to be free of restrictions. That’s why she painted a flying tiger on the side of a building on W. 28th Street […]
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Designer and illustrator Michela Picchi comes to Cleveland this fall, bringing her six-hue palette, a pop art sensibility and a fierce enthusiasm for a new opportunity. Picchi, an Italian-born artist living in Berlin, is one of six members of this fall’s Creative Fusion residency created by the Cleveland Foundation. Visiting artists are hosted by a local organization — SPACES, in […]
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Denise Reynolds was a former journalist who became a corporate communications writer. Jenny Campbell was a onetime reporter who gave up newspapers to be a cartoonist. About six year ago, the two met through work at an animal welfare group, and a partnership was born. Outside the Lines Creative Group aligns Reynolds’ writing and business savvy with Campbell’s skills at […]
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On one of the first summery Saturdays in spring, Laura Yurko draped herself in vibrant fabric and walked slowly around the gallery at Praxis Fiber Workshop in Waterloo. A crocheted shroud hid most of her face. For hours, Laura and a pair of friends created her performance piece, Ensnare/Drift. They walked and crawled in the space, peeking through eyeholes. They […]
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