When Arists Archives of the Western Reserve executive director Mindy Tousley asked me to curate a figurative show to honor Women’s History Month in March 2015, and to include my own work, she didn’t have to ask twice. Eagerly and quickly, I chose my dream team of Archived Artists for the exhibition we call Majority Rising. Feminist issues […]
Read moreThe exhibition currently on view at the Akron Museum of Art celebrates the exoticism, exuberance and optimism found in the work of thirteen contemporary abstract painters. Beauty Reigns: A Baroque Sensibility in Recent Painting (January 24-May 3, 2015 in the Karl and Bertl Arnstein Galleries) offers viewers visual pleasure, with each artist approaching ideas about beauty in different ways. […]
Read moreThree Cleveland nonprofit organizations are mission-driven to recognize, preserve, and collect the art of Northeast Ohio. They are not the city’s biggest institutions, but three relatively small ones, with staffs of one or two people: ARTneo, the Artists Archives of the Western Reserve, and the Cleveland Arts Prize. They are completely separate organizations, but taken together, their […]
Read moreShe is used to this sort of thing. Her blacks crackle and drag. These partial, broken images at the end of Sylvia Plath’s final poem “Edge,” written shortly before the poet’s suicide in 1963, are a patchwork of verbal shadows and flat, wounding sounds. Knowing what we do about the artist and her history, the poem can read […]
Read moreSPRING 2015 EVENTS CONTINUING Through March 28 They Came. They Saw. They Printed! (19 Years of Swift, Victorious Prints) Zygote Press Gallery Through April 3 Process and Materials HEDGE Gallery Through April 10 Off the Web, On the Wall 2 Society for Photographic Education Through April 19 Cleveland Creates ARTneo Through April 26 Christopher Pekoc: […]
Read moreAnyone who has tried painting in watercolor at all—let alone painting complex urban landscapes crawling with dozens of figures–will appreciate the work of the late artist and Cleveland public school teacher Moses Pearl. A recent exhibit of his work at the Artists Archives of the Western revealed an artist who used watercolor, not with pallid delicacy, but with the […]
Read moreJulian Stanczak—surely Cleveland’s greatest living artist–presents a notable case of a painter who is at once famous and unknown—indeed, curiously unknown, even in his home town. He originally burst onto the national scene in 1964, when the New York art dealer Martha Jackson staged a show of his “Optical Paintings” and the artist/art critic Donald Judd shortened the phrase to […]
Read morePhotographer, vintage photo collector, and Cleveland Print Room Executive Director Shari Wilkins has been inspired by Henry David Thoreau since someone handed her a copy of Walden when she was 12 years old. “He was a Transcendentalist who put emotion & intuition above reasoning,” Wilkins says. “Philosophically & spiritually, I connect with him. My work is my attempt […]
Read moreHEDGE Gallery is preparing another year of dynamic exhibitions by joining forces with local colleges and universities, art organizations and of course, local artists. Process + Materialsopened February 20 in collaboration with Kent State University School of Art and its gallery director, Anderson Turner. The show features work by a large group of local artists, including many from the […]
Read moreOn February 20th, 2015 ARTneo opened Cleveland Creates, a juried exhibition of Northeast Ohio artists on the second floor of 78th Street Studios. First introduced in 2011, the exhibition reached out to members of the organization and those interested in joining ARTneo to submit up to three works of art to be considered. For the second iteration of the show, a panel […]
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