Loose canvas sits heavy on the gallery walls with thick, dripping paint and geometric printed fabrics forming wrapped heads and caped shoulders out of the jumbles of colorful strokes. But what makes Khehla Chepape Makgato’s raw, swirling, energetic paintings truly portraits are their unmistakably piercing stares. Walking into Harris Stanton’s great little space on W 9th St. in […]
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As you walk around Article (Art in Cleveland) gallery on Waterloo Road looking at its latest show Claiming Our Space and Place, curated by Gallery at Lakeland director Mary Urbas, you find your perceptions shifting. Sometimes you’ll hear the individual voices of the three artists clearly, and at other times they’ll blend, as if they are one voice, a hive […]
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“It’s a themed show, but it isn’t so tightly specific to an image or a specific story line,” said R!ch Cihlar, Co-owner of E11even 2 and curator of Echo. The title of the show is “Echo: an exhibition on textures, repetition, and patterns.” The loose parameters set for the artists led to an assortment of interpretations of these themes. Generally […]
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What powers do words have? In a pair of exhibitions now ongoing at The Sculpture Center, Jonas Sebura and Anthony Warnick conduct two very different investigations of this question. Sebura looks at early efforts to manipulate reality directly through ritual and speech in the form of spells, incantations, curses, and prayers. Warnick uses the insights of philosophy of language to […]
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You’ve probably visited the Transformer Station, the Ohio City gallery housed in a former streetcar power station. But did you know there is another restored transformer station across town? This one is on Larchmere Boulevard, and it’s also filled with art. If you’ve never been to Wolfs Gallery, you should stop by – because this little building is filled to the brim with treasures. On a cold Saturday afternoon […]
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“I’d rather risk an ugly surprise than rely on things I know how to do.” – Helen Frankenthaler Hilary D. Gent is busy. You might know her as the owner/curator of HEDGE gallery in 78th Street Studios, the venerable space that now represents thirteen area emerging and professional artists including local art stars like John Carlson and Justin Brennan. In addition […]
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Tom Schorgl is best known in Cleveland as the researcher, policy maker, and advocate who led the Community Partnership for the Arts and Culture (CPAC) and built the argument for public support of the Arts in Cuyahoga County. His work on that front eventually led to the creation of Cuyahoga Arts and Culture. Schorgl’s training, though, and his commitment […]
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It’s hard to draw conclusions about the talent and vision of a photographer in a group show featuring two images a piece by each, with artist statements/bios available for only half of them. Such is the case with many of the artists in Spitball, currently at the Cleveland Print Room. It opened Friday March 2 and will be on […]
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When an object has the power to compel a closer look, it is almost always has something to do with the way in which it was made. Paintings draw us in not only with their content, but with their brush strokes. Prints cause us to consider the cuts in a wood block, the burr on the edge of a dry […]
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The N in CAN stands for Network, and so we are especially proud to announce that CAN Triennial will partner with regional institutions to offer a series of Exhibition Prizes and Purchase Prizes. The following prizes are named for institutions whose curators will come to CAN Triennial and choose an exhibiting artist to be given a solo exhibition at that […]
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