I Sing the Body is a group photography show that is a response to the glorious variety of skin and body types that surround us. Works were chosen from the Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell Collection as well as a number of key loans from museums, galleries, and exhibiting artists. Images include significant works by Richard Learoyd, Zanele Muholi, Carla […]
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In junior high, I began covering the walls of my childhood bedroom with clippings from fashion and music magazines. The growing collages began to the cover the adjoining walls and door frames, containing images as disparate as Nick Rhodes from Duran Duran to Claudia Schiffer channeling Brigette Bardot in a Guess jeans ad. Sprinkle in some horses, Dali Paintings, and […]
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Among the most moving contributions made by LGBTQ artists to new aesthetic and political perspectives are photographs – forthright, often sensuous testimony about self-concepts, social roles and gender identities. Mind-altering troves of recent contemporary portraits and studies of intimate or informal human interactions, expand upon the example of revolutionary photographers of the past several decades. Nan Goldin and Catherine Opie, […]
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Dana Schutz’s solo show of mostly new, mainly huge paintings at Transformer Station, called Eating Atom Bombs, starts off quietly enough. A smaller oil painting hung near the entrance, Bird in Throat shows an androgynous human head with close-cropped hair, rising from a green t-shirt. The shirt has an odd stripe along the neck-hole. A warm yellow glow in the […]
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I love the word desire. Desire in all of its forms. To desire another, to desire change, to desire the strength to believe in yourself. To say the word is to lower the voice, inhale the anticipation and exhale the surrender. Desire seeks an intimate relationship with another. Embraces. Becomes the other. I like these words too: haunch, collarbone, breast, […]
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“I do everything with the same conviction, whether I’m taking photographs or performing or painting or writing. I’m the same person.” – Patti Smith I doubt it’s very surprising that a musical artist would dabble in other art forms. The Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) was also a well-known painter who showed his work alongside Franz Marc, Wassily Kandinsky, and […]
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One of the things people say in describing the magnificence of opera is that it combines all art forms. We think of it as a musical experience, and we remember the composers, but it is also visual, theatrical, dramatic, poetic, sometimes even including dance, and no single component delivers the whole experience. Esther Teichmann’s Heavy the Sea, on view now […]
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TS: How do you define your practice as an artist? ET: My work comes from the bodily, from autobiography and how we fictionalize our memories and experiences. I’m interested in playing with the slippage between the real and imagined. Photography is an ideal medium, having been born from that tension. The still and moving image, photography and painting, writing visually […]
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Austrian artist Rainer Prohaska’s work is as much about construction as about the final structure, according to Danielle Meeker, the Transformation Station’s gallery manager. During his three-month Creative Fusion resdiency, Prohaska will create and install work in the outdoor space adjacent to the contemporary art gallery and half-time annex of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Apart from temporary installations on […]
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When I saw the title of the new show at the Transformer Station: “Dan Graham/Rocks”, I was excited. My knowledge of this video/conceptual artist consisted of a grainy documentation of a Minor Threat performance at CBGBs, so I was eager to learn about his connection to Cleveland. A connection that seemed to be inferred by the title (obviously playing off […]
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