The CAP Show, on view December 12 – January 31 at Bostwick Design Art Initiative Gallery, is the first opportunity since 2009 to see works by generations of visual arts winners of the Cleveland Arts Prize all in one space. Curated by gallerist and Cleveland Arts Prize board member Michael Weil and H. Scott Westover, who is curator of the […]
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The Broommaker, a three-week residency with Cleveland native, now Kentucky-based artist Hunter Elliott, is centered on brooms, from cultivating the grassy broomcorn plant onsite at SHED Projects, to harvesting and processing it, and—currently, creating stunning works of art. Elliott’s artistic practice is rooted in sculpture and printmaking, as he earned a BFA at Kent State University more than 10 years […]
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In a single room at the Hildebrandt Building, Sh’Bang Fest presents 91 works from 60 artists crowding the walls salon-style, with pedestalled 3D and textile works hung off of mannequins that stood throughout. There are no labels, aside from a number sticker next to each piece, corresponding to the artist and their social media Linktree. There is no brochure or […]
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“The mind of the man [sic] who dreams is fully satisfied by what happens to him. The agonizing question of possibility is no longer pertinent… fly faster, love to your heart’s content. And if you should die, are you not certain of reawaking among the dead?” – André Breton, Manifestos of Surrealism, 1924 Doubting Thomas Gallery turned 25 in October, […]
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Humans coexist with the natural world and benefit from its abundant resources. From the soil all creatures emerge and will return in due course. It is the interconnectedness of life which inspires Debra Sue Solecki in her latest exhibition, Nature’s Networks: A Visual Exploration of Mycelium. By way of a complex mixture of writing, pasted historical photography and realistic paintings […]
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The exhibition of August Frederick Biehle’s work at Wolfs Gallery is one of the standout exhibitions in this region of the year—indeed of the last several years—and a major contribution to our understanding of the Cleveland School. Both in its visual impact and in its scholarship it achieves a level of quality that matches that of the shows put on […]
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The exhibition ITERATIONS: Rhythm & Reason, featuring works by Brinsley Tyrrell, Janice Lessman Moss, and Peter Christian Johnson, might aptly and alternatively titled Work ethic: What can happen when an artist commits to their studio practice and just keeps pushing. All three of these artists have deep ties to the School of Art at Kent State University: Brinsley Tyrrell (sculpture) […]
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One of the small handful of Cleveland artists with an international following, the photographer Abe Frajndlich, is almost invisible here in Cleveland because his career took an international turn. For over fifteen years he photographed celebrities, from rock stars to celebrated authors, for the weekend edition of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the major newspaper in Frankfurt. As a consequence he’s […]
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Some of the most tenacious and generous and art-savvy people in the region found their way to The Hall at St. James in Lakewood for CAN Journal’s benefit, Buy Art / Buy Ohio November 8. Thanks to generous support from Walk Your Plans, the organization had a gorgeous venue with a projection system we were able to use to bathe […]
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“Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt.” – Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, 1781 “I hope that [the] painting has the impact of giving someone… the feeling […]
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