Put something on repeat and loop it, and it takes on a shape of its own, becoming another entire entity in and of itself. It’s pattern’s older, louder cousin: one who also may travel under the name Persistence of Vision—the title of Kasumi’s first retrospective on view at Summit Artspace, July 12 through September 14. “Life is born of random […]
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Imagine a turbine always in motion; it spins quietly and eternally in the background, barely humming, gathering energy and transforming it into something else. It’s a sort of mechanical alchemy: a cool, perpetual transmogrifier that harnesses power from one source and outputs something completely different. Welcome to Allison Bogard Hall’s creative process. For the past eighteen months, Hall has immersed […]
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The last thing artist, activist, and creative director Antwoine Washington expected at the end of the fall semester of Pressing Matters—an afterschool art program at Zygote Press—was to give financial management advice to a group of eager teenagers. And yet, it is precisely this sort of real-life problem-solving that is at the core of this unusual youth program. Pressing Matters […]
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In the early 2000s, Pete Dell began collecting art during weekend excursions to University Circle with his teenage son, Denver. The two would start by catching an unconventional film at Cinematheque at the Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA). Then they would visit various art galleries throughout the city. “That’s when I started buying art and gradually started spending more money […]
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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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In many Cleveland neighborhoods that have been revitalized in the last twenty or thirty years, artists have led the charge with their own dollars and sweat equity. Consider Tremont, or Waterloo, or Gordon Square. Even in Playhouse Square, the arts were the point. In what’s probably the region’s largest single rediscovery of urban infrastructure, it has gone a different way. […]
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BIO Camilo Gonzalez Barragan BIO Camilo Gonzalez Barragan is an independent artist from Bogotá, Colombia, who studied film and TV at the UNITEC University Corporation of Colombia. He found interest in analog photography as a means to develop his ideas and tell his stories while working on audiovisual projects. Cinema, music and painting have been his inspiration to illustrate his […]
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It’s a precarious landscape, at once intimate and vast, that flips the uneasy switch at the back of one’s neck. It’s a magnificent wreck that somehow amplifies the joy in that moment balanced between destruction and creation. It’s the fragility of one small brick spinning out from an enormous cyclone of urban decay. As Amy Casey says about her work, […]
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At the intersection of health, wellness, and representation lies art: this winter, 21 works by Black and Brown artists living in Northeast Ohio were acquired by University Hospital’s (UH) corporate art collection. Works by Asia Armour, Bryant “Bee1ne” Anthony, Dayz Whun, Aldonte Flonnoy, Jevonte “Jae Capo” King-Woods, Pahpy/SammieDoesIt, Bobbi Reagins, Vivica Satterwhite, and Emanuel Wallace are now installed in two […]
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Richard and Alita Rogers symbolize the Yin and Yang of art collecting. Rick has pursued the art of acquiring fine objects since he was a child, starting with coins and moving into antiques and furniture as a young man. Roughly a decade after marrying Alita in 1982, he had worked hard and long at B. W. Rogers Co.–his family’s industrial […]
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