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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Near the shore of an ocean—or along Lake Erie where the fiber artist Rebecca Cross lives during much of the year—the world is mainly water, topped with sky. Storm or calm above is reflected in the tone and motion of the waves, and the line between water and sky, the distinction, is often broken, though the long curve of difference […]
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In these tenuous times, making art has become an altogether strange activity. I’m making small silk sculptures around rocks and sticks, as well as mixed media paintings/drawings, all largely influenced by the shores of Lake Erie: its geological formations, its flora and fauna, its water and light. These natural elements seem to share with our contemporary moment the quality of […]
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Every year the Sculpture Center holds a Juried Exhibition dedicated to small sculpture, called “After the Pedestal”. The rules require that each work be smaller than 3 x 3 x 3 ft., all dimensions added together. Initially I found it odd that a separate show is required to feature diminutive objects, but if you do a bit of digging, you begin […]
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In 2016, American Greetings opened a new world headquarters at Crocker Park. The five story, 160,000 square feet building housed about 1700 employees. Developed by Stark Enterprise of Cleveland, the interior was designed to promote collaboration and promote a sense of community among its many designers and artists. Plenty of artwork and murals grace the hallways and common areas both […]
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ARTIST / ARTIST DANA OLDFATHER AND STEPHEN YUSKO Dialog coordinated by Rebecca Cross Dana Interviews Stephen SY: I made these boxes after the election and this was my political take, so this is red for the Republican Party and spells “empty” (MT) in Morse code; the blue one spells “resist.” DO: Do you have a special link to Morse code? […]
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CAN Triennial curators received more than 500 applications for the exhibition and its site-specific installations. At a time when the eyes of the art world are on Cleveland, CAN Triennial is proud to put the spotlight on Cleveland Art. Profound thanks to William Busta, Angelica Pozo, Hilary Gent, and Curlee Raven Holton whose wisdom and range of perspectives have guided […]
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Orso and Cross met in The Studio, Gallery and Lyceum in downtown Oberlin, where Claudio’s prints and ceramic sculptures are currently on exhibit. RC: In pieces from your time in Wyoming, the direction changes from politics to so much about joy, community and how you love place. We’re all as politically concerned as ever, but what do you think? CO: […]
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I work in silk sculpture, and am creating a series of “shields” for the torso, pelvis and face. My work has typically communicated ideas and metaphors that are personal or conceptual; this series is also, decidedly political. As a woman and artist, I feel besieged by the political decisions that are being made currently in our nation, by an elite […]
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