Tag: photography

Vivica Satterwhite: F is for Freedom, at SPACES–Freedom is Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Lose

Leave a comment

In 1982 no one I knew could stop listening to Prince’s iconic record celebrating the apocalypse, 1999. The record’s title song reminded us in robotic-alien voice that no harm would come, “Don’t-worry-I-won’t-hurt-you-I-only-want-you-to-have-some-fun.” This sense of dancing on the grave of white patriarchal capitalism is at the heart of Vivica Satterwhite’s installation in Toby’s Vault at SPACES (on view through October […]

Read more

Waiting for the Work to Be Done: Ruddy Roye and The Outhwaite Project

Ruddy Roye is a documentary photographer whose editorial clients include the New York Times, Ebony, Essence, Fast Company, The New Yorker, and others. In 2016, TIME Magazine named him the Instagram Photographer of the Year. As a 2020-2021 National Geographic Storytelling Fellow, he created “When Living is a Protest,” a project documenting how families who have lost family members to […]

Read more

In Concert: Photography and the Violin, at Transformer Station

  Transformer Station plays a new tune with a lively show of photography focused on the violin, assembled by Pittsburgh collector Evan Mirapaul and organized by Carnegie Museum of Art curator Dan Leers. With over 250 images, this fascinating exhibition explores intertwined histories of the camera and the violin, spanning the life of photography from its invention to the present. […]

Read more

Altered: A Three-Way at Photocentric

Photocentric’s recent exhibition, Altered felt like traveling in three different realms: through cities, through space or under water, or–in a macro vs micro way–examining tiny details of a gritty environment. The show brought together a group of photographers who just about couldn’t be more different. The completely distinct color palates and photographic pursuits of Rita Montlack, Steven Mastroianni, and John […]

Read more

NATIONAL JURIED PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW AT FAVA

  For anyone interested in contemporary fine art photography, it’s well worth a trip to the Firelands Association for the Visual Arts (FAVA) in Oberlin for the biennial juried photo exhibition, selected this year by Barbara Tannenbaum, curator of photography at the Cleveland Museum of Art. On view through October 31, the show brings together works by 30 artists from […]

Read more

From Eden to the nations to Miami: “Shtetl in the Sun” at the Cleveland Print Room

In 1977, two photographers set themselves a challenge: Take pictures of Miami Beach’s Jewish retirement community residents every day for ten years. The photographers were named Andy Sweet and Gary Monroe. They called their undertaking simply “The Miami Beach Project.” Tragically, five years into the project, Sweet was murdered in his own apartment during a home invasion. At the time […]

Read more

Holding Pattern: Michael Loderstedt interviews Kahlil Pedizisai about Collinwood Now

Leave a comment

Michael Loderstedt had the opportunity to interview photographer Kahlil I. Pedizisai about his work included in the upcoming Collinwood Now exhibition opening at Photocentric (15515 Waterloo Rd.) August 7- 29, in collaboration with Cleveland Heights Now opening August 6 at Foothill Galleries (2450 Fairmont Blvd). These two projects ask both new and seasoned photographers living in their respective neighborhoods to […]

Read more

Art from a Distance: Home Is Where The Art Is, hosted by the Cleveland Museum of Art

True to the pledge to be “For the benefit of all the people, forever,” the Cleveland Museum of Art has continued offering aesthetic, educational programming during coronavirus-imposed closure of their brick-and-mortar galleries. About every ten days since March 20, the CMA has posted an episode to its new YouTube series, “Home Is Where The Art Is.” Hosted by a rotating […]

Read more

Photocentric: Hopeful

Leave a comment

It’s rare these days for Cleveland galleries to publish catalogs with their exhibits. And while catalogs are very much not the point of art exhibits, they are excellent documents: they capture slices of history, collections of work and their relationships to the times. What happened on Waterloo in North Collinwood Friday, December 6, 2019, was one of those times. A […]

Read more
1 2 3