“It’s all about the stairs” said Corrie Slawson as I entered her lovely Cleveland Heights century home where both her studio and her printing outfit “Ping Pong Press” are located. I wasn’t sure what she meant about the stairs until she said, “So I think we should go top to bottom”. So off we went up two staircases to reach her […]
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One of the things people say in describing the magnificence of opera is that it combines all art forms. We think of it as a musical experience, and we remember the composers, but it is also visual, theatrical, dramatic, poetic, sometimes even including dance, and no single component delivers the whole experience. Esther Teichmann’s Heavy the Sea, on view now […]
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The subtitle of Susan Squires’ exhibit From There to Here: Encaustic Geometric Abstractions is on the one hand a perfectly accurate description of this work. It does consist of abstract shapes and patterns painted in wax. But the description is nothing like the whole story, and someone who reads that and expects pure, meaningless abstraction which just happens to be […]
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Keith Lemley: “Superstructure” Sculptor Keith Lemley’s installation “Superstructure” consists of four groupings of white neon tubes interspersed with chunks of wood cut in the shapes of irregular polyhedrons, faceted with prismatic reflective surfaces. Each of these stakes out a portion of the Cleveland Sculpture Center’s long interior gallery, unfolding in triangles of light across the polished concrete floor or up […]
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Miller Horns, who was born in 1948 and so came of age between the late 1960s and early 1970s, was mainly a printmaker. But he was a print maker excited by new forms and techniques available in that field, at that revolutionary time. Horns began looking for fresh means of expression just when electrostatic copy machines became widely available for […]
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Portraitist and figure painter Tricia Kaman has been developing her craft for four decades, and the results of her experiments and refinements are on display at Ursuline College’s Wasmer Gallery. “Women in Reverie,” now in its final two weeks in exhibit, gathers 52 of Kaman’s oil and pastel images of women and girls. The artist captures women in many activities—conversing, napping, […]
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Cuba is not on the list of countries from which the current US administration has banned travel. However the relationship between the island nation and the US is dominated by our partisan politics. And there are whole lot of people with families, jobs, and other professional relationships on both sides of that border who even now are awaiting news about […]
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“They tried to bury us, they didn’t know we were seeds.” You may have seen this popular slogan on posters at the women’s march last week. But the seeds that artist Darice Polo is examining in “Seeds of Colonialism” didn’t lead to unity and peace, but rather a century of oppression, discrimination, and exploitation. Technically, Puerto Rico is a U.S. “Unincorporated Territory”, […]
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The folks at SPACES really know how to throw a good party – and their grand opening weekend on January 14 and 15 did not disappoint. It was two days of performances, temporary installations, delightful food and drink, and of course some dancing. During the Saturday night “Roving Housewarming Party” nearly 30 area artists either contributed art or gave performances; […]
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You might be served best by stopping reading this review right now and driving to Highland Hills. There, the Tri-C Art Faculty and Staff Art Exhibit 2016 closes in two days, Jan. 26, this Thursday. Twenty artists from all four Cuyahoga Community College campuses are represented in the Eastern Campus Art Gallery. As with any group show, the subject matter […]
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