Let me begin by giving CAN a high-five for being named the “Best Magazine in Ohio.” I am honored that I am a part of that at this point. Way to go: CAN! In our last article here in CAN Journal I shared how fortunate I was to have met Richard Pace and his beautiful daughter Catherine Pace of Cumberland […]
Read more
“For a star to be born, there is one thing that must happen: a gaseous nebula must collapse. So collapse. Crumble. This is not your destruction. This is your birth.” —Zoe Skylar On Independence Day 2019, about 11:00pm, I started to receive texts, calls and messages from various people that something was happening at the gallery. I was at work, […]
Read more
The Gallery at Lakeland welcomes the Columbus Crossing Borders Project, a traveling art exhibition and documentary film screening relating to the record high numbers of displaced persons across the globe. “The Columbus Crossing Borders Project is about caring. Caring about humanity, caring about justice and caring about the truth,” said Laurie VanBalen, project director and producer. The idea for the […]
Read more
With the generous support of Cuyahoga Arts and Culture, LAND studio is presenting its Studio to the Street workshop in September and October. The two-day workshop will be held twice, once at LAND studio on Friday and Saturday, September 20 and 21, and once at Mt. Pleasant NOW on Friday and Saturday, October 11 and 12. Each two-day session will […]
Read more
Michael Weil’s recent photographs of Lake View Cemetery remind me of Alvin Langdon Coburn’s 1917 comparison of photography and “black magic,” but not exactly because Weil’s pictures were taken at night and include a great deal of black. Coburn made this connection to introduce his “Vortographs,” some of the first photographs ever conceived as abstract art. In a period of […]
Read more
A typical photography exhibition features pictures taken by a professional, or a group of them. What happens when you give disposable cameras to everyday people and a few pros? The answer has been brought to life in an exhibition at the East Cleveland Public Library, thanks to LYLESART. The Artography Cleveland Street Photography Project is the brainchild of artist Julius […]
Read more
In 1858 the French photographer Nadar did the unthinkable – using a hot air balloon, he took a camera up above Paris and shot the very first aerial photographs. Photography itself was only a few years old, and already someone was attempting to capture images of the world from high above. Anyone that has ever flown in an airplane has […]
Read more
Two paintings in Eileen Dorsey’s Cleveland Botanical Garden exhibition Wooded Perspectives share the title “Breakthrough.” On one level, the word names the literal contents of those images—the spot where a hiker in thick forests suddenly steps into an open field, “breaking through” the claustrophobia of thick trees. But “breakthrough” also encapsulates an apt response to Wooded Perspectives itself. Here, Dorsey […]
Read more
Every year the Sculpture Center holds a Juried Exhibition dedicated to small sculpture, called “After the Pedestal”. The rules require that each work be smaller than 3 x 3 x 3 ft., all dimensions added together. Initially I found it odd that a separate show is required to feature diminutive objects, but if you do a bit of digging, you begin […]
Read more
Some artists plow the same fields over and over, as it were, working in a given medium for entire careers. That can’t be said of Eric Rippert, whose show The Man Whose Head Expanded was on view June 7 through July 6 at BAYarts. A lot of people know Rippert for his photographic work, specifically for Cleveland landscape photos featuring […]
Read more
You must be logged in to post a comment.