Carl Gaertner: The Brilliant Work of The Cleveland School’s Most Quietly Radical Artist

In November 1952, Cleveland’s then most famous artist complained of a headache after teaching a class at the Cleveland Institute of Art. He went home to Willoughby, and immediately died of a cerebral hemorrhage. With him died any explanation of what he was striving to achieve in his work. Consistently affable yet non-committal in public, that artist never revealed his […]

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ArtNeo Presents The Cleveland Salon, 1920-1924

In the 1920s, Cleveland was having an artistic revival, with the bookshop of Richard Laukhuff as its center. Laukhuff had opened his little shop full of books, prints, and European art magazines in 1916. It quickly became a meeting place for local artists, a small group of whom decided to form a salon. Their self-styled “salon” lasted only a few […]

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Cleveland Artists Foundation: Can the Phoenix Fly Again?

In the forty years since it was founded in 1984, the Cleveland Artist’s Foundation has gone through many ups and downs, but has been the one exhibiting organization in the city to focus consistently on the art-life of Cleveland.  Over the years it has produced a very impressive series of scholarly and also very readable publications on Cleveland art, devoted […]

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Watch Them Create: Elmer Brown and Langston Hughes at ARTneo

Saucy camels, side-eyed snakes, and indignant cats are frozen in a blur of graphite and watercolor in A Sweet and Sour Journey with Elmer W. Brown and Langston Hughes, on exhibit at ARTneo now through July 24, 2023. Brown and Hughes, friends from their time together at Cleveland’s Karamu House in the 1930s, collaborated on “The Sweet and Sour Animal […]

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Sweet and Sour: The ABCs of Rediscovery

Logan Fribley, a seventeen-year-old high school student from South Euclid, was signing up last summer for the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Currently Under Curation (CUC) program, when he recognized the subject matter he and other students would work with this year. It had something in common with a book he has had at home since he was a child: The […]

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John W. Carlson: A Retrospective at ARTneo

John W. Carlson’s art and life are being celebrated by an exhibition at HEDGE gallery and the ARTneo Museum. Primarily known for his paintings, Carlson also created a remarkable body of works on paper, which will be showcased in ARTneo’s intimate gallery. It will include many prints and drawings on view for the first time and serve as a complement […]

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Anthony Eterovich Retrospective: A Stage is Set at Massillon Museum

It’s easy for an artist to become lost to time, their body of works fading out of the public’s memory. This could have been the case for Anthony Eterovich (1916-2011). Instead, Eterovich has been getting the attention of regional museums and galleries, including that of the Massillon Museum. Their current exhibition, A Thrilling Act, is a retrospective of the artist’s […]

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ARTneo Presents Drawn to Clay: The Alchemy of the Elements

  This exhibition presents the work of four Northeast Ohio women who all have decades of experience in the ceramic arts. The natural world has provided much inspiration for these artists who are moved by the infinite variation in process, form, and color found in nature. Their overlapping interests and differences highlight contemporary developments in regional ceramics. Donna Webb and […]

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Magic Realism in Cleveland 1930-1960

In 1942, the Museum of Modern Art in New York showcased magic realism in a groundbreaking exhibition titled American Realists and Magic Realists. It featured works by a variety of artists, including Edward Hopper, Andrew Wyeth, and Cleveland’s own Clarence Carter. In works that were often bizarre and mysterious, sometimes psychologically disturbing, the artists attempted to grapple with the frightening […]

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Mauersberger and Graham: Screenscapes at ARTneo

ARTneo’s CAN Triennial exhibition prize was awarded to Christine Mauersberger in July 2018. The exhibit opened November 20, 2020, and remains on view this Spring. CAN Journal spoke to Mauersberger when she and collaborator Evan Graham were in the process of creating new work, via screen print. They have recently migrated from printing on paper to printing on wood. The silkscreen prints in […]

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