Collective Arts Network – CAN Journal

William Busta Gallery: Most people take their outdoor photographs outdoors, don’t they?   Lori Kella: Yes I’m sure most do, but I was always dissatisfied with the exact scene in front of me, so I started building  landscapes myself. By creating artificial worlds I can merge different parts of the landscape as well as different places. In  my photographs I create a world that is partly based on […]

This summ er marks my five year anniversary as a working artist in the Screw Factory. When I moved in, I was  surrounded by studios under construction. Expansion had just begun from the established studios on the second floor. I  heard about the building from a friend, and as a transplanted resident of Lakewood, I was intrigued. After years of taking  my ceramics from show to show I saw […]

In May, 2013, the Cleveland Artists Foundation celebrates the range and excellence of art and designs created by members of Cleveland’s early Modernist art community. Cleveland has long been remarkable among American cities for the whole-hearted way in which its artist community embraced Modernism during the early years of the twentieth  century. Encouraged by a close relationship with the Cleveland School of Art, regional modernism flourished far from the  European […]

Recently gallerist and art dealer Bill Tregoning examined some remarkable contemporary photographs created through 19th century techniques. Artist-photographer Christopher Pekoc was the conduit; Pekoc was stricken by the  photographs, as was Tregoning—enough so that the gallerist invited Pekoc to curate an exhibition featuring the four  photographers’ work. The simultaneous notion of looking forward and backward invokes the Roman god of the New Year: Janus –depicted in antiquity in double profile, simultaneously looking left […]

Life Through the Ages This exhibition highlights artwork depicting animal life from prehistoric times to the present through sculpture,  paintings and prints by a wide variety of artists. Charles R. Knight became the first American artist to portray prehistoric  life through his murals at major natural history museums. His acute observations of contemporary animal anatomy and  a vivid imagination enabled him to accomplish this unique work. His large oil painting […]

Zygote Press has an active and growing internship program. In exchange for 10 hours of work each month, interns get  full access to the studio along with other benefits including opportunities to teach and take classes at Zygote. Recently, I  chatted with Nicole Schneider to discuss her five years as a Zygote intern and what has followed. She began as Gallery  Coordinator in 2008 right after graduating with a […]

My artist friends know the drill. When my studio door is propped open with a paint can, that’s my invitation to come in.  Maybe I’ve been holed up in my studio for hours, and the fumes from my oil paints are beginning to get to me. Or maybe  I’m heading down a precarious new path and need an empathic soul and a fresh set of eyes to […]

Troy Gua [Seattle, WA] May 17th – July 13th, 2013 Troy Gua is an artist whose work investigates identity, celebrity and popular culture. His Pop Hybrid series is a unique, superimposition of iconic faces and imagery, instantly recognizable on their own, but dissolved into a kind of Rorschach  inkblot puzzle when merged—each viewer seeing something different, making his or her own subjective associations. The resulting hybrid image is a new […]

Audra Skuodas Connectophanies – Connectopathies: Evolutions Opening Reception: April 19, 2013 from 7-10PM Audra Skuodas is the 2010 recipient of the Cleveland Arts Prize Lifetime Achievement award, and this will be her second  solo exhibition with 1point618.   In December of 2007, writing for the Plain Dealer, art critic Dan Tranberg said of Skuodas’ first exhibition with the  gallery, “Her show is an inspiration, both as […]

Opening in April is “Das Wird Sich Alles Finden (Everything Will Turn Out Alright)”, an international group show that  includes 19 artists from 7 countries. The collection of work addresses how artists and people across the globe connect to  the many uncertainties of contemporary life. In May, the Gallery hosts a C.I.A. Biomedical Art Exhibition. The Cleveland Institute of Art is one of only a handful of colleges […]