As the Bonfoey Gallery closes its 125th year, we think back to the origin of our company and its custom framing roots when we began creating hand-made custom frames in 1893. Originally, Bonfoey Framing Company was located on East Ninth Street in downtown Cleveland and produced custom frames for the Rockefellers and Fords, among other notable clients. From there, we […]
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In conjunction with the FRONT International exhibition, our summer show schedule will be highlighting the works of nationally recognized regional artists. First, the paintings of Julian Stanczak and the sculptures of Barbara Stanczak will be featured. In August, the large- and small-scale textual works of George Fitzpatrick will hang in our galleries. Lastly, the varied contemporary works of Andrea Joki, […]
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Bonfoey Gallery, located in Cleveland’s Playhouse Square District at 1710 Euclid Avenue, was established in 1893. We are celebrating our 125th year as Cleveland’s premier art gallery and framing facility. Surviving the Great Depression, a devastating fire in the 1960s, the Euclid Corridor Project, and the Great Recession of 2008, The Bonfoey Gallery remains a stalwart of downtown Cleveland and […]
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I want to talk about…Art. I know…surprised, right? But first I want to take a minute to share with you something I read recently on a scrap of paper found amongst Dan Tranberg’s things that his friend shared with me. “For me, the thing that seemed to ignite my imagination at an early age was abstract painting.” “With my work […]
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Dan Tranberg’s final works, completed in the two years before his death on May 29, are composed of pleasurable colors and forms, yet offer surprising intellectual challenges and a range of emotional information. He made many of the small painted collage-like works displayed at Bonfoey Gallery (opening October 14) in his hospital room as he struggled with cancer during his […]
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Dan Tranberg, who died of heart failure after a struggle with leukemia at age 53 this week, was an incomparably valuable human being. I can’t begin to imagine how many real tears are being shed over him now, how many people felt that he was close to them, that whatever warmth or insight he shared with them was among the […]
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The Bonfoey Gallery’s summer exhibition Contemporaries 2017 will feature gallery artists Judy Barrie, Amanda Cook, Phyllis Fannin, Kathleen Hammett, Robert Robinson, Ashley Sullivan, and John Tellaisha. These new works convey each artist’s singular viewpoint. Amanda Hope Cook was highly influenced by her father, artist Marion B. Cook. After graduating from the Columbus College of Art & Design, she began […]
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In the small rooms of a duplex house on Cleveland’s West Side George Mauersberger stores and sometimes makes his large-scale drawings, which have been a mainstay of the city’s visual art scene for the past thirty years. Whether these images in graphite, pastel, and watercolor are Realist, Hyper-Realist, Pop, or something else, they’re remarkable for a hallucinatory fidelity to the […]
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**Note: This show has been extended until Saturday, January 21.** A rainy winter day seemed perfect for stopping in to Bonfoey Gallery to see work by Laurence Channing. These moody, hyperrealistic, mostly black and white drawings of Cleveland’s urban landscape present city streets, structures, and bridges as tranquil environments devoid of people or traffic. Channing’s choice medium is charcoal and […]
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When I was a little girl growing up in Ann Arbor in the 60’s, my parents urged me to dream big and pursue whatever my imagination allowed. With brothers on both sides, I built forts, dug in the sandbox, and climbed trees. My liberal dad and feminist mom raised me to believe in myself, supporting me when I organized girls […]
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