The Trump EPA’s rollback of Obama-era rules protecting US waterways should have a special resonance in Cleveland, including in the art world here. Having just celebrated the 50th anniversary of the big fire on the Cuyahoga—an event which helped to inspire creation of the EPA—we know that humans and their industry can do profound damage to our waterways, and that […]
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For the past ten years, painter Eileen Dorsey has been toiling away in her first floor 78th Street Studios space. One of the original tenants when the building was converted, she is celebrating this milestone with an exhibition of new work – ten canvases that are 10″ x 10″, each representing a year of her practice. It’s a fascinating idea, […]
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Stepping off the elevator on the second floor of the Massillon Museum of Art you are greeted by a monumental work by Richard Vaux. Elevation VII is an oil on panel that is 79” x 12”. It is a work that needs to be seen in person to appreciate the scale as are so many of the […]
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“Depression is not always uncontrollable crying. …Depression is being given a year to get ready for an exhibition, an exhibition about depression, that is instead spent avoiding emails, wasting hours staring at blank pages and disappointment.” In the artist statement for this exhibition, Dan Miller bares it all – just as he does on the walls of Waterloo Arts for “Some […]
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Art can’t actually invite people to look at it. It’s up to us to look, and then decide whether we want to spend the time to pay more attention. But it’s the artist whose intention, labor, and technique gives us a reason to do that, and in Christy Gray’s recent Liquid Invitation, which was on view July – August […]
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Michael Weil’s recent photographs of Lake View Cemetery remind me of Alvin Langdon Coburn’s 1917 comparison of photography and “black magic,” but not exactly because Weil’s pictures were taken at night and include a great deal of black. Coburn made this connection to introduce his “Vortographs,” some of the first photographs ever conceived as abstract art. In a period of […]
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A typical photography exhibition features pictures taken by a professional, or a group of them. What happens when you give disposable cameras to everyday people and a few pros? The answer has been brought to life in an exhibition at the East Cleveland Public Library, thanks to LYLESART. The Artography Cleveland Street Photography Project is the brainchild of artist Julius […]
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In 1858 the French photographer Nadar did the unthinkable – using a hot air balloon, he took a camera up above Paris and shot the very first aerial photographs. Photography itself was only a few years old, and already someone was attempting to capture images of the world from high above. Anyone that has ever flown in an airplane has […]
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Two paintings in Eileen Dorsey’s Cleveland Botanical Garden exhibition Wooded Perspectives share the title “Breakthrough.” On one level, the word names the literal contents of those images—the spot where a hiker in thick forests suddenly steps into an open field, “breaking through” the claustrophobia of thick trees. But “breakthrough” also encapsulates an apt response to Wooded Perspectives itself. Here, Dorsey […]
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Every year the Sculpture Center holds a Juried Exhibition dedicated to small sculpture, called “After the Pedestal”. The rules require that each work be smaller than 3 x 3 x 3 ft., all dimensions added together. Initially I found it odd that a separate show is required to feature diminutive objects, but if you do a bit of digging, you begin […]
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