Summit Artspace’s art deco building, commissioned by John S. and James L. Knight in 1927 to house the Akron Beacon Journal, has abundant space to showcase art and engage the public with local artists. The historic edifice boasts five galleries and over 25 resident artist studios within its 55,000 square feet. Summit Artspace’s professional leadership recently created a strategic vision […]
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In case you haven’t heard, Zygote has joined forces with Praxis Fiber Workshop and SPACES Gallery to launch their ArtsPass Reciprocal Membership Program. So if you purchase a membership at Zygote, your membership is now recognized with our partner organizations, Praxis Fiber Workshop and SPACES Gallery. Likewise, if you are a member of Praxis or SPACES, Zygote will extend member […]
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EVENTS: Julie Schenkelberg, through December 16 Sarah Dittrich, through December 16 Connie Fu, January 20–March 4. Opening reception 5:30-8pm Friday, January 20 SCULPTURE CENTER1834 East 123rd StreetCleveland, Ohio 44106sculpturecenter.org216.229.6527
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Valley Art Center will combine poetry and visual arts for the 51st Annual Juried Art Exhibition, on display through December 14. Artists within a 250-mile radius of Chagrin Falls submitted artwork for consideration to this prestigious annual exhibition, juried this year by Casey Monda of Casey Monda Art Advisory, Arnold Tunstall, director of galleries at The University of Akron, and […]
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Rick Rollenhagen: The Spirituality of Spontaneity Multi-medium artist Rick Rollenhagen enlightens Maria Neil Art Project and its viewers to close out 2022 and help us usher in 2023. His stone sculptures capture elements of spirituality derived through the process of carving, and the drawings and prints create forms quickly-rendered and later elaborated. Goddesses and gods of the European Middle Ages […]
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In his sketchbooks, Pablo Picasso often made drawings where, by pressing hard, he would create an imprint transferred to the following page. He would be greeted with a trace on the subsequent page that presented a template for changing the image later, gradually or radically. The opportunity to create multiples and develop work through a series is best celebrated with […]
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In early November, Transformer Station opens a major exhibition of photographs by Gregory Halpern, 19 Winters/7 Springs, a show that spans nineteen years’ work made in Halpern’s hometown of Buffalo and the surrounding Erie County in Western New York. Comprising approximately fifty mid- to large-scale color prints and additional tabletop sculptures, the exhibition leads viewers through a poetic visual survey […]
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Lauren Yeager has a lot of plastic in her studio. “I have basically been doing a mad sprint to gather as much material as I can before the weather breaks,” she says. “Volumetric, plastic consumer stuff. A lot of coolers. I am always finding coolers. You can’t avoid that, really.” Yeager’s race is on, because a proposal by SPACES Gallery […]
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Laurence Channing had his first one-person show in 1991 at the William Busta Gallery on Murray Hill Road, Cleveland. His charcoal drawings, at once romantic and elegant and disquieting, found an audience in exhibitions that followed in 1992, 1994, and 1995. In 1997 he also presented prints—three drypoints and a lithograph. In the next few years he created five additional […]
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A Day No One Will Remember: Donald Black Jr. “A Day No One Will Remember is a collection of images assembled over the course of several years. I decided to take a detour on my creative journey and return home to Cleveland, Ohio. I started creating images that only an insider could see and began to make images that reflected […]
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