Nicole Schneider is looking for chaos and order in equal measure. The result of this is her recent series of work, titled “Negotiations”. It is inspired by being an artist, wife, and Mom to two children under 4 years of age. The phrase she references about Motherhood is “ever-evolving” and this sense of adaptability is well represented in her art. […]
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We’ve said since the beginning that CAN Journal is a mirror of the art scene here. The truth of that, however, depends on who happens to be standing in front of it. For the last two years, Cleveland artists have been talking about racial inequity in our art scene—a conversation pushed along by Cuyahoga Arts and Culture’s efforts to […]
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Douglas Max Utter’s house on the hillside above Euclid Avenue in East Cleveland is filled with his steady output of painting and ideas. In room after room, the walls are hung with his own work. “I’ve made it a kind of museum of myself,” he says, in a way that is perhaps slightly bemused, but also frankly true. There […]
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Stephen Calhoun is an artist of paradoxes. Concretely, his works are photographs altered through generative computational processes. The finished products are luminous mandalas, characterized by symmetry and color. However, Calhoun’s thinking and processes are characterized by ideas in tension. His images are the product of both painstaking craftsmanship and blind mechanical algorithms. His art is abstract, but made of photographs […]
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“In the early days we were surprised and delighted with a photograph…but we soon wanted something more. Because the photograph told us everything about the facts of nature and left out the mystery. Now, however hard-headed a man may be, he cannot stand too many facts; it is easy to get a surfeit of realities, and he wants a little […]
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Multi-media artist Ron Shelton’s work is currently installed at 78th Street Studios (our plastic world, as part of CAN Triennial) and Lakewood Family Health Center (Figures in the Solstice Steppers). He talks about TV, colors, Tidy Cats, plastics, his commentary on the Midwest and why his work sometimes disappears. JI: Tell me about High Art Fridays. What was the impetus […]
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After high-profile projects like the Cleveland Trust Building’s transformation into a grocery store, and with BAYarts’ adaptive re-use of the former Huntington Playhouse in the works, John Williams looks back—and forward. by Jeff Hagan John C. Williams does not consider himself an architect. He jokes that he accidentally signed up for his first architecture course because in the course catalog […]
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by Erin O’Brien Horse-drawn Amish buggies clop along lonely county roads. Pastoral farmhouses evoke cotton shirts billowing on clotheslines and the aroma of freshly baked apple pies. Gentle bovines chew grass. While it’s only about fifty miles southwest of Cleveland, Huntington Township feels very far away from, say, 78th Street Studios in Gordon Square, where Dana Depew’s edgy “Your […]
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ARTIST / ARTIST DANA OLDFATHER AND STEPHEN YUSKO Dialog coordinated by Rebecca Cross Dana Interviews Stephen SY: I made these boxes after the election and this was my political take, so this is red for the Republican Party and spells “empty” (MT) in Morse code; the blue one spells “resist.” DO: Do you have a special link to Morse code? […]
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CONTINUING EVENTS THROUGH MARCH 15 Ryan Dewey: Lines of Descent; W2S 2019 New Work by Kelley O’Brien THE SCULPTURE CENTER THROUGH MARCH 22 Danny Volk: The News Gallery Julia Oldham: Fallout Dogs Johnny Coleman: Crossing the Water: Requiem for Lee Dobbins Oberlin-based sculptor/installation artist Johnny Coleman is an associate professor of studio art and Africana studies at Oberlin College. He […]
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