Arts for Justice Cleveland Presents We the People… All the People: Portraits by Judy Takács

In her new show at Midtown Collaboration Center, and as the United States celebrates its semiquincentennial, Arts for Justice Cleveland presents works of figurative painter Judy Takács through Election Day, inspiring hope and action through portraiture. Using art as her ammunition by depicting our country’s most vulnerable citizens, Takács issues a call-to-action that presents democracy as a work in progress. […]

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A Complicated Kind of Optimism: 250 at Sltwtr

Writing about Sltwtr Gallery’s exhibition 250 on the Fourth of July feels right and hopeful. The gallery could be anywhere: It’s in the community-focused building owned by the organization called Loiter, and it houses something absolutely common: a group of artists building community, presenting shows. But it’s impossible to ignore its location on Euclid Avenue in East Cleveland.  In the […]

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Julian and Barbara Stanczak at the Medici Museum in Warren, Ohio

Julian Stanczak is surely the one painter of recognized international stature that Cleveland has produced.  But it’s an unfortunate fact that work has not been very well shown in town.  The Cleveland Museum of Art has never staged an exhibition of his work, and those exhibitions that have been devoted to him—for example, a conscientious four-part survey of his prints […]

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Managing the Darkness: Ed Raffel and Hilary Gent at HEDGE

In Managing the Darkness, HEDGE Gallery presents a compelling two-person exhibition featuring Hilary Gent and Edward Raffel, on view June 19 through July 25. Together, the artists explore the conceptual relationship between light and darkness, using distinct yet complementary approaches to illuminate both the gallery and the viewer’s perception. It’s a rare moment in that Gent–the Gallery Director and Owner […]

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CAN Seeks Street Photographers for Photo Poets

Are you a street photographer in Northeast Ohio? Do you take your camera out, prowling the city for images that reveal something about where you live? If so, this is for you: CAN Journal seeks photographers for the quarterly Photo Poets series. Photo Poets is a quarterly print feature curated by Aja Joi Grant, highlighting street photography in Northeast Ohio. […]

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8X2: New Photography by Greg Donley, at Foothill

Full disclosure, I have long loved Greg Donley’s photography. Why? The way he constructs these long horizontal works creates a left to right cinematic effect with the splicing. Therefore, from a distance, each work creates cool visual rhythms of light and space. In addition, he pairs these works into 8 upper and lower groupings duos, hence the title, 8xTwo. The […]

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William Sommer Returns to the Spotlight

A new retrospective at WOLFS Gallery revisits one of Cleveland’s most original Modernists and makes a strong case that Sommer is one of America’s most underrecognized artists. More than seventy-five years after his death and a memorial exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art in 1950, William Sommer is once again commanding attention in Northeast Ohio. William Sommer: Visionary Modernist, […]

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The Metamorphosis of Brian Asquith

It’s a gloomy Third Friday in early spring, and although crowds of people pass by, only a few have ventured through the door of Brian Asquith’s studio. Inside, a lone couple stands before an image of a giant lobster. Its neon colors seem to glow against the stark white gallery walls. Over three feet tall, the turquoise body is covered […]

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Violet Maimbourg Invites You to Step into Her Colorful, Compelling Carnival of Art

Violet Maimbourg’s resplendently colored, meticulously crafted sculptures immediately draw the viewer into an absurd, exaggerated carnival world born of her wicked sense of humor and mischievous mind. “I’ve always just liked fun art because humor is a way for art to be accessible,” Violet stated. “High art isn’t really accessible for the everyday person who doesn’t have knowledge of the […]

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