Most people think of an art gallery as a room or building for the display or sale of works of art. Not artist Emily Metzger. In her eyes, an art gallery isn’t defined—or confined—by rooms or buildings. Metzger, a Tremont resident, had the vision to bring art outside to make it more approachable. She is the brains behind the nonprofit […]
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In June and July, Waterloo Arts gallery will host three artists who have recently created bodies of work by playfully experimenting with the objects, space or subject immediately available to them, creating sculpture from everyday mass-produced objects, painting domestic space and capturing shadow images using a cellphone. Jennifer Irene Masley is a sculptor who has been researching form, irreverently using […]
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Outwardly, there may seem to be few clear connecting points between David Kuntzman’s linear, conceptual abstractions and Priscilla Roggenkamp’s figural, textile sculptures. The artists feel this is part of the fun of working together. In describing Simultaneous Contrasts, opening at BAYarts on July 14, Roggenkamp advises the connection may not be obvious between the saturated colors of Kuntzman’s paintings and […]
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Since the start of his career in the 1990s, the work of Dexter Davis has been expressive of the emotional and magical core of our humanity. Mostly, his work as been a dissective portraiture, reaching into the complex variability of how we face the world. He constructs, tears apart, rearranges, patches together, shreds and assembles. Much as all of us […]
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“I was born and raised in Cleveland but I became a man in Atlanta,” says Kevin Harp, the artist known as Mr. Soul. He graduated from John Marshall High School on Cleveland’s West Side in 1992, enrolled at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, and soon after graduation moved to Atlanta to create graphics for the music industry. He got involved […]
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In 2011, Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell and the Cleveland Museum of Art announced a unique partnership that allowed the art-collecting Bidwells to launch exhibitions featuring their extensive holdings for six months each year, and allowed the museum to create a permanent presence for contemporary art on the Near West Side—an area long known as Ohio City, recently branded by […]
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On a Tuesday evening in March 1964, two New York police detectives stormed into the New Bowery Theater in the city’s Lower East Side and seized a number of items, including reels of an avant-garde film, Flaming Creatures. Produced the previous year by experimental film pioneer Jack Smith, the forty-minute effort included nudity, transsexuality, and sexual situations. Just two months […]
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Arfil Pajarillaga is a multimedia artist based in Cleveland. Over years of cultivating his practice in photography, working primarily with analog processes, his work gravitates towards documenting the relationships that coexist within environments. Whether between people, or a subject in nature and its surroundings, he actively works to document the beauty and magic that occurs within everyday life. “How do […]
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Sit you down and take note: powerful women surround us, in alleys and backyards, dystopian landscapes and under gentle night skies. You just have to know where and how to look. Leigh Brooklyn’s Battle Scars: The New Protagonist, at Mansfield Art Center from March 19 to April 16, reveals an army of women warriors. Works range from hyper-realistic portraits in […]
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Jay Workin’ is a designer and creative media consultant from East Cleveland known for his work at the Boys & Girls Clubs of America and elsewhere. He has been extensively covered by local news for his endeavors and for staying connected and engaged by using social media to turn young people on to design and the opportunities that lie therein. […]
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