Here is the quantum of breath held upright before the exhale, here are the questions we all carry underneath: where does that hallway lead to, what’s beyond that door, who is here and who is not. Cincinnati-based artist Emil Robinson explores the graceful yet unsettling nature of inside spaces in his solo show, Interiors at Abattoir Gallery, on view until […]
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The Cuyahoga Arts and Culture board of directors answered a couple of questions that have hung over the public art funding agency for its recent history. In a unanimous roll call vote, the board approved a resolution to put a 3.5 cent per-cigarette tax before voters in November, for the first time committing to when the issue would be on […]
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Kamari Carter is a New York based multidisciplinary artist, with his latest exhibition, Dark Blue, Almost Black on view at SPACES gallery until May 10. Carter uses a minimalist, multimedia approach to tackle topics regarding Americentrism, policing, and identity through text, imagery, sound and wall work. His presentations and curatorial framework encourage the audience to reflect on what they experience […]
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While not exactly invisible, Richard Andres had a low profile during his lifetime, supporting himself as a high school art teacher, occasionally showing in the May Show (where he won some awards), quietly working away in his home studio in Hudson, Ohio in a house that was largely of his own design, its large windows looking out on the surrounding […]
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The world around us is changing at an unprecedented rate as the climate changes, shifting weather patterns and affecting our natural environments as well as our man-made ones. Artists and curators have been taking on the subject of these issues, often pointing out the problems, yet not often giving viewers hope for a brighter future. In Life Out of Balance, […]
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It is all but impossible to capture Ed Raffel’s work, unless you’re standing directly in front of it. When you do, his work will capture you. It will capture you honestly. It will capture you and several dozen of your twins, even if you have no siblings. It will capture you upside down, methodically fragmented, and sometimes sharing the space […]
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Have you heard there is going to be a total solar eclipse April 8, and that Cleveland is in the Path of Totality? No? Well, it’s true. Skip the following paragraph if you have already heard this information forty gajillion times: The moon will begin to block the sun at 1:59 pm in Cleveland. Between 3:13 and 3:17 pm, it […]
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For more than a year, artists have complained that Cuyahoga Arts and Culture –the entity that administers the cigarette tax for the arts–did not meet the requirement that at least two of its members “devote a major portion of their time to practicing, performing or teaching any of the arts, or […] are professional administrators in any field of the […]
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Waterloo Arts rang in the new year with the opening of Settling/Unsettling, Daydream of Jiangnan. A solo exhibition featuring the works of Michigan-based textile artist Xia Gao, Settling/Unsettling was a multifaceted and thought-provoking exhibition that raised pertinent questions about modernization, adaptation, and the rapid socioeconomic changes taking place in China and beyond. Gao, a Chinese immigrant and professor at Michigan […]
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Vividly graphic paintings adorn the walls of Abattoir’s satellite location at the Quarter in Hingetown. The exhibition consists of hard-edged canvases by Catherine Lentini. Two related but separate series that make up the majority of the show explore Lentini’s thoughts about the passage of time, the pervasiveness of screens in our daily lives, and of war – specifically nuclear war […]
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