The impact of humans on the planet is a great subject for art audiences these days. That’s not just because it matters, which of course it does in an existential crisis kind-of-way, but also because people know enough and are beginning to care enough to relate to it. They’ve heard on the news, and even seen for themselves how […]
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Abattoir is on a mission to highlight the best of Northeast Ohio and put it in a larger context by bringing new voices into Cleveland and to take Cleveland voices out into the world. Operated by Lisa Kurzner and Rose Burlingham, the gallery seeks to create a space for contemporary art. Their current exhibition, Thought Forms, John Pearson, Scott […]
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It’s a question just about everyone faces at some point in elementary school: Who are your heroes? But if that makes it sound simple, odds are you haven’t had to think very much about who inspires you, or who to look to as a role model. Deep Roots Experience opened Who Are Your Heroes February 20. Curators David Ramsey and […]
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The perception of value has been at the heart of Dale Goode’s artistic practice in recent years. That has been manifest in sculptural works made of scavenged material, often covered in fabric, spray painted metallic gold. It was an interesting point to make during the FRONT Triennial in 2018, when he presented a cube of compacted aluminum cans, covered in […]
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Several works by Quinn Alexandria Hunter are on view at Praxis Fiber Workshop until February 28 as part of the powerful exhibition “I Hear You Now, I See You Then”. A sculptor and performance artist from North Carolina, Hunter recently completed her MFA work at Ohio University. Primarily she works with hair as a medium, which she uses to recreate […]
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The effort to get additional public money to support the arts in Cuyahoga County is a lesson in taking what you can get. That’s been true from the beginning, but the current push to extend the cigarette tax beyond just cigarettes makes the point all over again. Counties seeking authority to tax for a specific purpose have to get permission […]
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Paintings can foreshorten and remake experience, transcribing in a directly sensual, primal tongue. This ambitious undertaking is often bitter and disappointing — but pocked with thrilling episodes. It’s a search for the kind of truth that immediacy conveys, a body-to-body, first person narrative approach to communication. Either there’s no room for error, or (more likely) the error is all the […]
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The hands-in-pocket, head-tilting, quiet, full-absorption mode happens to me just the same when I visit a gallery with a mask on as it used to without. I was pleased to discover this at Framed Gallery in December. So much of the art that lines the walls, all by African American artists, national and international, called out to me with […]
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A state arts agency might seem pretty distant from the insurrection at the US Capitol January 6. But when Susan Allan Block responded to that event by posting on social media in all caps, NO PEACE, NO UNITY, NO CONCESSION, and called president elect Joe Biden “ILLIGITIMATE,” and referred to vice president-elect Kamala Harris as a “WHORE,” that changed. Just […]
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Wolfs Gallery’s new location is a bit off the beaten track in a commercial/industrial park in Beachwood, but it is worth the visit. It was a treat to walk through the expansive space of multiple connected galleries filled with historic and contemporary art from Cleveland and beyond. Currently, their feature exhibition focusses on portraits of children by William Sommer […]
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