Events, Winter 2014 – 2015
Continuing
Through November 30
Art for the New Collector
Tregoning & Company
Cornerstone: 30 Years of Collection Building
ARTneo at Tregoning & Company
Through November 29
Anthony Mastromatteo, Frank Oriti, Michael Zigmond: The New Real
Bonfoey Gallery
Superman to the Rescue, by Michael Zigmond, at Bonfoey
Through December 5
True Story: Hadley K. Connor and Sarah Curry
HEDGE Gallery
Through December 18
Machined Senses
//benitez_vogl: {skin} D.E.E.P.-Digital Ephemeral Epidermal Patterns, and Przemyslaw Jasielski: Minotaur
The Sculpture Center
Through Dec 18
Japanese Fiber Art MINI part II
The Sculpture Center
Through December 19
Liz Maugans: Screen Plays
1point618gallery.com
Through December 20
Community Works: Artist as Social Agent
Gund Building, Cleveland Institute of Art
Through December 30
Heights Arts Holiday Store
Heights Arts
Through December 31
The Artists Speak
Artists Archives of the Western Reserve
Through January 4
Limelight: Local Art and Artists
Beck Center for the Arts
Through January 16
GIFS and video in the Vault
El Daino, Laurin Dopfner, Annette Jung, James Kerr, Milos Rejkovic AKA Sholim, Dana Sperry
SPACES
Through January 17
Anicka Yi: Death
Julia Wachtel
Transformer Station
Through January 18
Ferran Adria: Notes on Creativity
MOCA
Kirk Mangus: Things Love
MOCA
Jennifer Steinkamp Installation: Judy Crook, 4
MOCA
Through June 28
Latin American and Latino Art
Visual art—especially murals and prints—have profoundly informed our understanding of Latin American culture and history. Art has given people if not a weapon, at least a voice in social, political, religious, race, and labor struggles, especially in the twentieth century. With support from collectors and philanthropists, The Allen Memorial Art Museum in Oberlin has amassed an impressive collection of such work, including work of Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, David Alfaro, Guillermo Meza, and others. And this year the Allen offers not just a glimpse, but a solid exploration of the style and color that have so influenced the culture and what we know if it. The exhibit is complemented by conversation: talks by visiting artists Alfredo Jaar (March 5) and Edouard Duval-Carrie (April 2), as well as curator Denise Birkhofer (March 10) are noted later in these listings. Latin American and Latino Art is on exhibit through June 28, 2015 at the Allen Memorial Art Museum, 87 North Main Street, Oberlin. Call 440.775.8665, or go to oberlin.edu/amam.
NOVEMBER
November 21
Third Fridays at 78th Street Studios
November 21
Don Harvey: drawings and photography
Contemporary Letterpress printing and the book arts in Northeast Ohio have blossomed thanks to lots of people, including the founders of Artist Books Cleveland. But when it comes to empowering other artists, none has likely done more than Wendy Partridge. Nearly a decade ago, the quiet printer singlehandedly ensured that the heavy letterpress machines would make the move from Zygote’s old location to the current studio. And since then, there and at the Morgan Conservatory, she has taught countless students the basics, from setting type to cleaning up the presses. Meanwhile, she has continued her own poetic practice, making books with movable type, and innovative techniques such as pressure printing. Check out her eloquent collection at Busta’s, and you’ll see that letterpress ink can be ethereal, soft edged, moody, and natural looking. Her work is marked by strong environmental and literary sensibilities, and of course impeccable printing skills. Through December 27 at William Busta Gallery, 2731 Prospect Ave, Cleveland. Call 216.298-9071 or go to williambustagallery.com.
DECEMBER
December 4
Members Sneak Peak at Annual Holiday Sale: 6 – 9 pm
Waterloo Arts
December 5
Walk All Over Waterloo
December 5 – 7
Annual Holiday Sale
Waterloo Arts
December 6
Free First Saturdays at MOCA
December 12
Tremont Art Walk
December 14
Constructed Identities
Images don’t just report the reality of their subjects, but inevitably editorialize. Even photography, both by technique and by the moments it immortalizes, can’t help but contribute to what we know of people and things The Cleveland Museum of Art delves into that dynamic with this collection of photography that has helped to define the likes of Mick Jagger (through the polaroids by Andy Warhol, Robert F. Kennedy through the eyes of Henri Cartier-Bresson, and more. It’s on view through April 26, 2015 at the Cleveland Museum of Art, 11150 East Blvd., Cleveland. Call 216.421.7350, or go to clevelandart.org.
December 19
Third Fridays at 78th Street Studios
JANUARY, 2015
January 1
Heights Arts 15TH Annual New Year’s Day Pancake Breakfast
Tommy’s Restaurant
January 2
Walk All Over Waterloo
January 2
Bits in Pieces: New Work by Andrew Reach
Opening Reception 5 – 10 pm. Exhibit through February 15
Maria Neil Art Project
Through February 14, 2015
William Busta Gallery
January 2
Theater Tech Exhibition
through January 7
Galleries at Cleveland State University
January 3
Free First Saturdays at MOCA
January 9
Tremont Art Walk
January 9
Garmonbozia
Some words just beg for research. Fans of David Lynch’s Twin Peaks probably won’t have to look up Garmonbozia, but for the rest of you, according to the Twin Peaks Wiki, “garmonbozia is negative spiritual energy of pain and suffering, or perhaps created from pain and suffering. … Physically, it takes the shape of Creamed Corn. For the purposes of CAN, Garmonbozia is an exhibit of works by Diana Hlywiak and Steve Syd. Indeed, the two photographers’ mutual appreciation of the quirky film maker (and of death metal, and photography) is what drew them together. Come for the opening of their exhibit from 5 to 9 pm Friday, and come back for their gallery talk at 1 pm Saturday to ask them about the gigantic, mobile pinhole camera they made out of a box truck. Garmonbozia is on exhibit through February 20 at the Cleveland Print Room, 2550 Superior Ave., Cleveland. Call 216.401.5981, or go to clevelandprintroom.com.
January 15
Mind Creatures: The Amazing World of Marvin Jones
Only Human: Wrestling Entropy
Place and Vision: The Artistic Legacy of Masumi Hayashi
All through March 7
Galleries at Cleveland State University
January 16
Light Show
Opening reception 6-9 pm. Exhibit through February 28
Heights Arts
January 15
Pearls of Cleveland, though February 27
Artists Archives of the Western Reserve
January 15
2015 W2S Artists R. Eric McMaster (New Work) and Julius Lyles (Welcome to the Watermelon Patch)
Artists talk 5:30 – 8 pm. Exhibit through March 12
The Sculpture Center
January 16
Third Fridays at 78th Street Studios
January 20
SCAPE
Opening reception 5-8 pm Friday, January 23. Exhibit through February 13
Baldwin Wallace University Fawick Gallery
January 23
Gregory Scott, In Still Motion, through April 11
1point618gallery
January 25
Themes and Variations: Musical Drawings and Prints
Music is the matter at hand in this selection of about 60 drawings and prints from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s permanent collection. The exhibit explores how music and musicians, both sacred and secular, have been portrayed in art of Europe and the US, from the 15th through 20th centuries. It’s a common theme that brings together works of a diverse bunch, including Rembrandt van Rijn, Jean Antoine Watteau, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Wassily Kandinsky, and John Cage. On exhibit through May 17 at the Cleveland Museum of Art, 11150 East Boulevard, Cleveland. Call 216.421.7350, or go to clevelandart.org.
FEBRUARY
February 6
Walk All Over Waterloo
Brooch by Michael Romanik, exhibiting at Flux Metal Arts
February 6
Michael Romanik: Cloisonné’ Jewelry Trunk Show
Creative Workforce Fellow Michael Romanik has been melting glass into intricate shapes defined by silver wire for more than 20 years. Over the years, his cloisonne jewelry has been inspired by everything from Celtic designs to natural forms, and recently by the printed patterns in fabric—which you might say brings full circle his studies of drawing, printmaking, and glass years ago at the Cleveland Institute of Art. The East Clevelander gives a look into a veritable treasure trove of his work just in time for Valentine’s day, this week at Flux Metal Arts. There’s an artist reception from 6 to 9 pm Friday, and the exhibit continues Saturday and Sunday. Bring your sweetie to 8827 Mentor Ave. Suite A, Mentor. Call 440.205.1770 or go to fluxmetalarts.com.
February 6
Taryn McMahon: prints, installation
Through March 7
William Busta Gallery
February 7
Free First Saturdays at MOCA
February 9
IrinaKoukhavna
Exhibit throughMarch 5
Link Gallery, KSU Trumbull campus
February 13
Tremont Art Walk
February 13
Virginia Cascarilla: Paintings
Through March 15
Beck Center for the Arts
February 15
Bach Bartok Beatles
3 pm at the Kalman & Pabst Photo Group, 3907 Perkins Avenue
Heights Arts
February 20
Third Fridays at 78th Street Studios
February 20
avaf@AMAM
Richard D. Baron Gallery, 65 E. College St., Oberlin
through April 30
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin
MARCH
March 5
First Thursday Visiting Artist Lectures
5:30 pm: Alfredo Jaar. Galleries open til 8 pm.
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin
March 6
Walk All Over Waterloo
March 6
National Arts Program Exhibit: 6 – 9 pm
presented by the City of Cleveland
Waterloo Arts
March 7
Free First Saturdays at MOCA
March 10
Tuesday Tea
2:30 pm—Denise Birkhofer: The Legacy of Mexicanidad: Neo-Mexicanism at the AMAM
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin
Douglas Max Utter: paintings, monotypes
Through April 25
William Busta Gallery
March 13
Homegrown II
opening reception 5-9pm
Artists’ Gallery Talk, Saturday, March 14
Exhibit through April 26
Cleveland Print Room
March 13
Tremont Art Walk
March 20
Third Fridays at 78th Street Studios
“Born,” litho by Kiki Smith, from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s contemporary print exhibition
March 22
Contemporary Prints
Sunday, March 22
Thanks in part to the Print Club of Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art’s collection of contemporary prints is a deep look into ways contemporary artists use old and even ancient printmaking techniques to make new work. Artists from the US and abroad are represented, including Richard Tuttle, Andrew Raftery, Rosemarie Trockel, Yizhak Elyashiv, Louise Bourgeois, Felix Gonzales-Torres, Annette Lemieux, Thomas Novkowski, and Christiane Baumgartner. Many of these prints have never been exhibited.Through July 26 at the Cleveland Museum of Art, 11150 East Blvd., Cleveland. Call 216.421.7350, or go to clevelandart.org.
March 28
FIRST symposium
Cleveland Institute of Art
March 31
Women to Watch – Ohio
public opening reception, April 2, 6-8pm;
panel discussion, April 10, 12:15 pm
exhibition through May 2
Gund Building, Cleveland Institute of Art
April 2
First Thursday Visiting Artist Lectures
April 2, 5:30 pm—Edouard Duval-Carrié
Galleries remain open until 8 pm.
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin
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