Emma Anderson’s paintings liberate through claustrophobia. Her panels are full of faces. Those faces exist between caricature and carnage. They wear the bulbous eyes and flapping lips of Muppets, or the fangs and searing eyes of monsters. Their colors are as vivid as poison dart frogs. They bunch together, crowding out negative space, pressing themselves towards the viewer. They are […]
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“My images are my proof that I exist in a world without accurate depictions….I am tired of people from outside of Black environments communicating our stories. Their perceptions are off. This is why my work is so important.” — Donald Black Jr., photographer, whose work is including in seenUNseen SeenUNseen is a large survey of work by African American artists […]
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A couple of shows recently opened at Negative Space, both reminding us (in case anyone ever forgot) that the river of creative production is endless, and constantly renewing itself. Negative Space director Gadi Zamir has run the Annex Gallery for several years as a zero-commission space for artists to present shows. The space he is calling Sideburner Gallery, however, is a […]
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The earliest exhibitions of digital art took place in Stuttgart, Germany and New York City back in the first half of 1965, yet today’s debates over how (or if) “digital” and “art” ought to mix too often lack maturity to match their advancing age. In the ‘60s the New York Times feared that “almost any kind of painting can […]
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“Ingenuity, born as Cleveland’s Festival of Art and Technology, has certainly been through some bleak times.” . . . That’s how CAN’s Michael Gill began a review of the re-energized Festival one year ago. And here we are a year later, with another wildly successful festival under their belts (judging by the amount of people I saw posting photos on […]
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When one hears the term “infrared photography,” one often thinks of technology that allows things to be seen in the dark. The word “Infrared” refers to a range of waves on the light spectrum that are unseeable by the human eye. Thanks to modern photography, images can be brought to life with spectacular results. Gallery+, located in 78th Street Studios, […]
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“Bodies have their own light which they consume to live; they burn, they are not lit from outside.” Egon Schiele “The Get Up #2”, a recent painting on Yupo paper by Cleveland-based artist Darius Steward, shows a young boy dressed in T shirt and jeans as he rises from the floor, propped on hands and one knee. The image […]
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Last night at the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Gartner Auditorium, broadcasting icon Dee Perry (CAP 2016) presented the 59th Annual Cleveland Arts Prize Awards to some of the region’s finest. Winners included poets, writers, musicians, composers, visual artists, dancers, leaders, and visionaries at what was a truly uplifting night filled with powerful speeches, delightful music, and extraordinary performances. It was what […]
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Midwest Architecture Journeys, an unusual and ambitious book from Belt Publishing, takes us on a tour of the region’s monuments, above and below ground, imaginary and actual. As Alexandra Lange says in the introduction, the book stems from an itch to explore a region that is far more than flyover country. You will want to visit these places. There […]
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In a lush series of paintings depicting larger than life-size nude figures, Lauren McKenzie Noel explores the sensuous boundaries and psychological range of self portraiture. Nothing says “modern” with quite the same conviction as the self portrait, which in the centuries of Western art since Rembrandt has repositioned the human face and body in respect to history. In a self […]
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