There is no visual fluff here, Steve Cup’s linoleum block and digital prints read like somebody violently screaming into a pillow. Cup’s images are evocative and word, “Woah!” was often heard at the opening. Cup’s art boldly supports the trending #Enough Movement. Enough of racism, gun violence, social injustice, political chaos, global warming, and enough living in fear, each of print […]
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Breaking Point is one artist’s visual response to the first year of the Trump presidency. In this body of work Steve Cup explores what he—and perhaps others—see as a rapidly deteriorating sense of community as the country reaches all-time levels of divisiveness. Spanning personal works, private commissions and commercial work, each piece represents an immediate, often emotional reaction to the […]
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Brown is the color of warm dirt beneath the feet of children running around the mountaintop village, where people rise earlier than the sun. And, when the sun recedes behind the highest peaks, the brown people blend back into their mud-built homes. This is the vision in the mind of Elmi L. Ventura Mata, the latest artist to be seen […]
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Many in the visual arts community know Bryon Miller as a gallerist presenting work. These days, Miller is more interested in producing work. In July, he opens his first solo exhibition in more than ten years. In this new show, Miller exhibits a new body of work focused on the notion that we’ve inherently lost something. It could be a detachment […]
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Deborah Pinter’s ethereal flora and otherworldly plant matter will grace the walls of Maria Neil Art Project and help usher in Spring. Monochromatic prints showcasing depth and structure hearken back to her ‘Scanagram’ photography on silver gelatin paper. The flashiness of her subject matter is now replaced with heavy black inks and articulated impressions which help guide the viewer into […]
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Eric Rippert’s darkling, toys-in-a-landscape photographs have for several years commented on innocence and alienation, and he has drawn some attention for those. Most visibly, two were printed large — highway scale –and installed on the West 14th Street underpass in Tremont, as part of the Cleveland Innerbelt Project Mural Art Program. In 2014 the Progressive Insurance collection – always a […]
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Cool. Contemporary. Cleveland. That pretty much sums up what we do at Maria Neil. From presenting artwork in unconventional spaces to displaying work in equally unique ways, we work hard to put a new spin on how to experience art. This you already know. What you might not know is that we have teamed up with five notable […]
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The Maria Neil Art Project, in the Waterloo Arts District in Cleveland’s historic Collinwood neighborhood, will be featuring new work by Cleveland artist Darius Steward in the upcoming solo exhibition Pressure. The exhibition will run March 4 through April 17, with an opening reception Friday, March 4, from 5 – 10 pm. Both the exhibit and reception are free and […]
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What do we obtain from the earth, and what do we make of it? Jen Craun tackles this quandary in a visually engaging way this January at Maria Neil. The question is two-fold due to not only the visual aesthetic she creates with her wood intaglio prints, but also to the processes which she undergoes to create them. “The printed […]
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We can’t remember everything. Many things remain with us, almost forever, yet some things get lost, disappear, or are forgotten. As our memories begin to age, relics of our past, bits and pieces of what we once knew, endure as segments, small sections of our original memory, filled in by voids of space that are often confused, blurry, and indistinct. […]
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