Bonfoey Gallery, located in Cleveland’s Playhouse Square District at 1710 Euclid Avenue, was established in 1893. We are celebrating our 125th year as Cleveland’s premier art gallery and framing facility. Surviving the Great Depression, a devastating fire in the 1960s, the Euclid Corridor Project, and the Great Recession of 2008, The Bonfoey Gallery remains a stalwart of downtown Cleveland and […]
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Jenniffer Omaitz Constructions at BAYarts interview by Jessica Stockdale Through a thoughtful blending of paintings, assemblage and site-specific installation, Jenniffer Omaitz tackles chaos and form in her new exhibition Constructions. This is the first time she has displayed her 2D and 3D work together, and with it, overlapping weighty themes of architecture, boundaries, movement and geometry. JS: Can you talk […]
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Szalay/Takács Secrets Art is full of secrets…secret meanings, symbolism, struggles and statements. Some secrets go to the grave with the artist, leaving curators and art historians to spend centuries speculating and theorizing about the mysteries hanging on museum walls. And some living artists blog about the secrets they have hidden in their paintings, hoping someone will care about the painting […]
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Claiming Our Space and Place March 2–April 6 ArtiCle Gallery, located in the Waterloo Arts District, has an exciting schedule of exhibitions and art activities for Spring 2018. Guest Curator Mary Urbas, Lakeland Community College gallery director, has organized an exhibition of artworks in a variety of media by Cleveland artists Gail Crum, Jill Milenski and Gayle Pritchard, titled Claiming […]
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The War of Art is the abbreviated title of a book by Steven Pressfield in which he discusses Resistance: resistance to the creative process and any cause that calls us. It is a toxic force that is experienced as fear. Fear precipitates flight. An underlying connection to this theory is the dismissive attitude that continues to persist towards the deep […]
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Art at the School House is Murray Hill’s newest exhibition gallery. Founded by Margo Brown and directed by Herb Ascherman with Special Collections Curator Missy Bystrom, the gallery will open April 6 in Suite 108, the premier location of the Murray Hill School House. AATSH will exhibit four artists annually, each of whom works in varied media: painting, works on […]
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Rembrandt’s etchings have long been treasured for their technical innovation and perceptive portrayal of the human psyche. They have figured prominently in many American academic museum collections, in part because they reward intensive study. Lines of Inquiry: Learning from Rembrandt’s Etchings, an exhibition on view this spring at the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College brings together 60 prints […]
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Jun Kaneko: Blurred Lines Karl and Bertl Arnstein Galleries February 17–June 3 Among the most acclaimed artists working in contemporary ceramics today, Jun Kaneko has spent decades pushing the boundaries of ceramics, sculpture, and painting, repeatedly blurring the lines that have traditionally separated the world of fine art and craft. Jun Kaneko: Blurred Lines, opening February 17, presents an impressive […]
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The current exhibition at the Cleveland West Art League, comprised of works by Paula Izydorek and Debra Sue Solecki, brings together the works of two artists who had not previously met, but who had converged on a single theme: home. Izydorek explores “home” as a general, universal idea. This approach results in abstract, almost ethereal images. Many of the houses […]
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Julia Christensen’s latest art project “Waiting for a Break”, like much of her work, is dependent on technology. The crux of this interdisciplinary piece is live video feeds of views of Lake Erie, strategically set at different points along the shores of our Great Lake, giving the viewer a real-time look at the current state of the ice cover. The […]
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