Irrational Ingenuity, at Heights Arts

From furry walls to billowing fabric eyes, the landscape of Irrational Objects: Backwards into the Future envelops its viewers in the surreal. A “fruit basket” is a baby doll. A “housewarming gift” shifts from soft to sharp. The Venus de Milo floats, suspended, over waves of sand. Born of No Exit New Music Ensemble’s yearlong exploration of Surrealism, Irrational Objects […]

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Close Encounters of the Heights Kind

For over twenty years, Heights Arts—a nonprofit nestled in the heart of Cleveland Heights—has presented the region with programming in visual art, poetry, and music that reflects the vibrancy of the community it calls home. Alongside the opening of its 22nd annual Holiday Store, Heights Arts presents its entire music season of eleven concerts through August 2024. The 2024 music […]

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Collaborage, at Heights Arts

This fall and into next year, Heights Arts will participate in a city-wide exploration of surrealism in partnership with the No Exit New Music Ensemble and other collaborators. The celebration will begin with Collaborage, an exhibition opening in late August for which Heights Arts will tap its unique multidisciplinary resources. The concept for the exhibition employs the game strategies avant-garde […]

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Heights Arts Turns The Page

Visual artists have long been fascinated by books, often as a way to distribute reproductions of original works. Impagination, agroup exhibition running from August 19 to October 16, is not about reproductions, but about books that themselves are one-of-a-kind works of art, designed to be held in the hands and leafed through in a narrative sequence. Each participant was selected […]

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Heights Arts Figures Out Abstract

  From March 18 through May 15 in the Heights Arts exhibition space, artists Peter Christian Johnson, Karin Dijkstra, Corrie Slawson, Claudio Orso, and Carmen Romine test where boundaries lie between representational study and abstract expression. FIGURATIVE /ABSTRACT explores the familiar in unfamiliar ways, referring to the recognizable as a foundation from which new ideas are born. Portraying subjects from […]

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