Conjuring Images, the title of Nikki Woods’ show of mesmerizing works on canvas, panel, and paper at HEDGE Gallery (July 17 – August 31), demonstrates the range and force of this artist’s emerging mastery. Her perception of painting and drawing as personal ritual serves as a theater to a Maya-like play of formal resemblance and revelation. Hallucination gives rise […]
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HEDGE Gallery opens two exhibits this summer season, and kickstarts new programming that includes group exhibitions, which will be an up-and-coming part of our regular scheduling in 2025 and 2026. Spatial Harmony opens May 17, featuring recent paintings by Justin Brennan, with Columbus-based painter Aaron Troyer and Cleveland ceramicist Kero Johannes. Abstracted scenes, spirited color palettes and optical illusions create […]
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This Spring, HEDGE Gallery presents a solo exhibition of Rebecca Cross’ most recent projects, Mapping the Sensorial, opening March 15. Rebecca manipulates silk fabric to create experimental “scores” that move across or around space, undulating with delicate crests and waves. The dyed and embroidered silk is sewn directly onto wooden surfaces that she has also drawn and painted on. Others […]
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HEDGE Gallery is thrilled to kick off 2024 with LIFE IS BRUTIFUL, a solo exhibition of Liz Maugans’ recent collage-themed prints and paintings. Maugans processes and organizes knowledge using found materials, collaged monoprints, and screen prints. She often incorporates text to serve as form and function, and her new prints are autobiographical—in her words, “both beautiful and brutal.” Liz describes […]
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This September, HEDGE Gallery is thrilled to open IN COLOR, an exhibition of new work by Mark Howard. His recent projects include further investigations of abstraction and the interaction of color and shape. Expressive forms reflecting a wide range of emotions are carefully balanced in paintings and collage. While Howard attended the Cleveland Institute of Art from 1981 to 1986, […]
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Velocity stands still in the portraits and interiors by Justin Brennan in his solo show, Wide-Eyed, on view at HEDGE Gallery until June 30, 2023. There’s flurry all awry here, in the unfinished movement of living. Portraits of the famous and not-famous gaze right back atcha, gallery-goer, triumphant in their purples and teals and blues and peaches. These armatures of […]
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Death cracks open and the flowers come out in Katy Richard’s Pocket Full of Posies, now at HEDGE Gallery until May 5, 2023. Here are rooms where skeletons ache behind strips of floral wallpaper, bodies shimmer underneath a heavy mask of stylized blooms twisting on vines, and the underside of a pink petal shifts to show skin. O, do these […]
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This spring, HEDGE Gallery is thrilled to present Pocket Full of Posies, a new series of richly-saturated oil paintings by Katy Richards. Still lifes and the human figure are subject matter for her recent work, and she reveals them under layers of color and floral patterns, almost as if old wallpaper was being removed from the surface of her canvases. […]
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Jessica Pinsky returns to HEDGE Gallery with a striking new series of textiles titled I Can’t Remember Anything, opening November 18. Pinsky’s weavings represent her mindset during her first year of motherhood in the pandemic. Woven on a TC2 jacquard loom, the original images were chosen by going through images taken on her cell phone from the first years of […]
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A long-awaited memorial exhibition for Cleveland artist John W. Carlson opens this September at HEDGE Gallery and ARTneo Museum featuring paintings, prints, and drawings created during his extensive artistic career in Northeast Ohio. John passed suddenly in December 2020, leaving behind a remarkable collection of his artwork, some very recently completed and never seen in public. At the pinnacle of […]
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