Writing about Sltwtr Gallery’s exhibition 250 on the Fourth of July feels right and hopeful. Have you been to Sltwtr Gallery? Have you been to Loiter? The gallery could be anywhere: It’s artists building community, presenting shows. But it’s impossible to ignore the fact that the building housing these creative ventures is on Euclid Avenue in East Cleveland. In the […]
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Julian Stanczak is surely the one painter of recognized international stature that Cleveland has produced. But it’s an unfortunate fact that work has not been very well shown in town. The Cleveland Museum of Art has never staged an exhibition of his work, and those exhibitions that have been devoted to him—for example, a conscientious four-part survey of his prints […]
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In Managing the Darkness, HEDGE Gallery presents a compelling two-person exhibition featuring Hilary Gent and Edward Raffel, on view June 19 through July 25. Together, the artists explore the conceptual relationship between light and darkness, using distinct yet complementary approaches to illuminate both the gallery and the viewer’s perception. It’s a rare moment in that Gent–the Gallery Director and Owner […]
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Are you a street photographer in Northeast Ohio? Do you take your camera out, prowling the city for images that reveal something about where you live? If so, this is for you: CAN Journal seeks photographers for the quarterly Photo Poets series. Photo Poets is a quarterly print feature curated by Aja Joi Grant, highlighting street photography in Northeast Ohio. […]
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Full disclosure, I have long loved Greg Donley’s photography. Why? The way he constructs these long horizontal works creates a left to right cinematic effect with the splicing. Therefore, from a distance, each work creates cool visual rhythms of light and space. In addition, he pairs these works into 8 upper and lower groupings duos, hence the title, 8xTwo. The […]
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A new retrospective at WOLFS Gallery revisits one of Cleveland’s most original Modernists and makes a strong case that Sommer is one of America’s most underrecognized artists. More than seventy-five years after his death and a memorial exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art in 1950, William Sommer is once again commanding attention in Northeast Ohio. William Sommer: Visionary Modernist, […]
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Like discovering a mysterious bruise on your thigh, tilting your nose toward a trail of perfume, or tightening your fist around a receding memory, Things That Ache Softly is an exhibition imbued with the intrigue of trying to put your finger on something you can’t quite name, something you had maybe even tried in vain to forget. At her HEDGE […]
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The March 28, No Kings rally in Cleveland was a visual spectacle led by individuals who may not consider themselves artists, but practice their creative freedoms through colorful, authentic imagery. Their cries bounced off of the Free Stamp — whose gigantic letters spelling the word ‘FREE’ seemingly resonated with the cause. At protests, the signs and art are only curated […]
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In our conversations about Artificial Intelligence and its whirlwind of concerns–from job losses to water contamination to power consumption–basic elements of humanity sometimes get lost. In the wake of the Artemis II voyage, which showed to earthlings for the first time ever the dark side of the moon, photographer Daniel Levin takes up the loss and momentary restoration of something […]
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This year, Mary Urbas, long-time curator of From Woman, returned to Understory to mount part of her large-scale, annual exhibition, now in its 19th iteration. As in 2025, art is spread across multiple spaces. In chronological order of their openings, they were at the McDonough Museum at Youngstown State University (January 20–February 28) : Lake Erie College’s BK Smith Gallery […]
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