Painters Kathy Skerritt and Rita DiCello, ceramic artists Diane Pinchot and Bob Marrone, photographer Al Fuchs, mixed-media artist Susan Ross and assemblage artist Louis Ross, explore the theme of The Elemental Imagination through intuitive and narrative-based artistic responses to the natural world and our current human presence or possible future absence in it. Concerned with the acceleration of climate and […]
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March: Art from our partner schools has started arriving. This moment in time invites the opportunity to reflect on the processes through which this work comes into being. The artists teaching in our programs make all the envisioning and scheduling come to fruition. They do so with great skill, patience, planning, and the ability to be flexible in changing circumstances. […]
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As reading material is increasingly digitized, some people wonder about the future of physical books. And yet, books and book art are thriving around the world, and Cleveland is part of that trend. Book art transforms books, emphasizing their structure and design as well as—or in place of—their content. The book becomes an art object, sometimes unrecognizable as a book […]
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Dread & Delight: Fairy Tales in an Anxious World Karl and Bertl Arnstein Galleries June 29–September 22 Dread & Delight: Fairy Tales in an Anxious World brings together the work of contemporary artists who use classical fairy tales to address the complexities of our world today. While some embrace the stories’ promises of transformation and happy endings, others plumb the […]
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Unlike most people, I first knew of Douglas Max Utter as a writer. Flipping through the pages of Angle Magazine and the storied Free Times (both now sadly defunct), I became a Doug Utter “The Writer” fan girl. As an aspiring art writer myself, I didn’t know that this kind of writing was allowed – I loved it so much […]
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When I arrived in Akron last Sunday for the Nick Cave performance titled HEARD•AKRON, the skies were grey and there was a chill in the air. I was honestly freezing as I found my seat on the ice-cold concrete of the Bud and Susie Rogers Garden. And then, as if on cue, as hundreds of people waited for the show to […]
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Nicole Schneider likes to court chaos. The works in her new exhibition at BAYarts are all titled “Negotiations” – as if in each work she is negotiating the peace between order and complete bedlam. In the end, a balance is reached – with some fairly spectacular results. It’s hard not to think about the scribbles of children when looking at […]
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Ohio based outsider artist Levent Isik died February 28, 2019 at the age of 57. To honor his passing and celebrate the artist’s work, friends Gina Ramirez, Coleen Mohney, and Liz Maugans have worked with collectors to gather an exhibit of the late artist’s work in Studio 215 at 78th Street Studios for one night only, during the Third Friday […]
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WOKE: RITA MONTACK at University Hospitals’ Trudy Wiesenberger Gallery offers a survey spanning a little more than 10 years of work by a notable Cleveland artist. Ranging from photographs Montlack created soon after she started working in the medium to new directions she is exploring, WOKE presents an overview of the artist’s range of techniques and themes. Reflecting her love […]
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Initially, William Harper’s new exhibit at the Cleveland Institute of Art’s Reinberger Gallery evokes the inner chambers of a pyramid wherein magnificent treasures languish in wait for their pharaoh and his concubines to arrive in the afterlife. It’s not by accident. “I wanted it to look like a tomb,” Harper says of the exhibit The Beautiful and the Grotesque. To that […]
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