WINTER 2019-2020 EVENTS

Works of Michael Greenwald are included in Timeless Vision: Earth, Sea and Sky, curated by Kendall Christian, on view in the Galleries at CSU January 31 – April 11.

Your easy, chronological guide to what Northeast Ohio galleries and museums have coming up in the next few months. More information about many of these exhibits can be found elsewhere in the pages of CAN.

 

CONTINUING EVENTS

THROUGH NOVEMBER 27
Lines & Shadows
Cleveland artists Steven Mastroianni and Rebekah Wilhelm bring different priorities and experiences to this show. Mastroianni is a working professional portrait photographer and musician, while Wilhelm’s practice is heavily focused on green printmaking. In this joint body of work, the artists add repeated marks and symbols to the surface of their images, etching into the ink and silver emulsion abstract evocations of reality in words, scratches and lines.
CLEVELAND PRINT ROOM

THROUGH NOVEMBER 30
Altered Landscapes
Part of Cleveland Photo Fest
MAC’S BACKS IN COVENTRY VILLAGE

THROUGH NOVEMBER 30
52 Weeks/52 Works
BALDWIN WALLACE UNIVERSITY FAWICK GALLERY

THROUGH NOVEMBER 30
Annual exhibition: Beachwood Photography Group
Part of Cleveland Photo Fest
BEACHWOOD BRANCH OF CUYAHOGA COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY

THROUGH DECEMBER 1
Ámà: The Gathering Place

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

THROUGH DECEMBER 1
International Artist in Residence: Taipei×CLE
Jr-Yun Lee
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ZYGOTE PRESS

THROUGH DECEMBER 5
88th Annual Akron Society of Artists Juried Exhibit

CUYAHOGA VALLEY ART CENTER

THROUGH DECEMBER 6
Life Preservers: Liz Maugans & Hilary Gent

MARIA NEIL ART PROJECT

THROUGH DECEMBER 7
Artists to Watch
In this periodic show, Bonfoey, Cleveland’s legacy gallery founded in 1893, shows a select group of regional artists who may be unfamiliar to local gallery visitors: Mark Krieger, Helen Lewis, Susan Morosky, Kristina Paabus, Lisa Robert Robinson, and Lisa Schonberg.
BONFOEY GALLERY

THROUGH DECEMBER 11
48th Annual Juried Show

VALLEY ART CENTER

THROUGH DECEMBER 13
Getting to Know You

Artists Natalia Arbelaez, Julie Heffernan, Haley Josephs, and Devan Shimoyama draw on a variety of source material, from art history to pop culture to persona iconography, to invite viewers to find themselves in images of other, presented in both a humorous and serious manner. Arbelaez, who is American-Colombian, searches for her identity through her fantastical sculptured figures, which reference folk art. New York-based Heffernan creates complex surrealistic paintings reminiscent of the work of Peter Blum. Josephs’ young women are rendered hyper-realistically but her idiosyncratic use of color removes them from reality. Shimoyama explores his queer black identity in brightly colored portraits rife with symbolism.
CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART REINBERGER GALLERY

THROUGH DECEMBER 14
Fall Graduating BFA Exhibition

MCDONOUGH MUSEUM

THROUGH DECEMBER 15
Integral Insects in East Asian Art
Shutter Speed
Japanese Dissent: Veiled and Unveiled
Japan on Stage

ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM

THROUGH DECEMBER 20
Textile Art Alliance 2019 Members Show

FLORENCE O’DONNELL WASMER GALLERY AT URSULINE COLLEGE

THROUGH DECEMBER 20
Palace of Illusion: curated by Lauren Davies

FOOTHILL GALLERIES OF THE PHOTO SUCCESSION

THROUGH DECEMBER 22
Invisible Visible: Celebrating Audra Skuodas

ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM

THROUGH DECEMBER 30
Xtinguish exhibition

CLEVELAND HOPKINS INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

THROUGH JANUARY 3
Christopher Kier: Totem

HEDGE GALLERY

THROUGH JANUARY 5
Catherine Opie: The Outside-Inside

Liu Wei
Louise Lawler: Birdcalls
Byron Kim: The Sunday Paintings
Every Sunday for 18 years, New York-based minimalist Kim has looked up at the sky and made a 14″×14″ painting of what he sees. These images record the day’s mood as well as his personal reflections and thoughts on the state of the world, along with the time and place where it was made. The moCa show includes the images from October 7, 2012—the week its new Uptown building opened—up through the present.
MOCA CLEVELAND

THROUGH JANUARY 5
Michelangelo: Mind of the Master

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

THROUGH JANUARY 5
Image to Image: Photography by Walsh University Digital Photojournalism Students
MASSILLON MUSEUM

THROUGH JANUARY 5
Opposites Attract: Urban Landscapes & Botanicals by Patricia Ingram

SHAKER HISTORICAL SOCIETY LISSAUER GALLERY

THROUGH JANUARY 11
Judith Brandon: Surface Tension

Brandon’s aggressively energetic paintings, with their ominous colors, appear to depict natural phenomena, especially storms and other less identifiable disruptions of the atmosphere. Those images appear as stand-ins for emotional states, which range from threatening and turbulent to merely unsettled. She shows a new body of work at Lesko every two years.
KENNETH PAUL LESKO GALLERY

THROUGH JANUARY 12
Vienna Modern

ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM

THROUGH JANUARY 18
Fulfilling the Eye: Anthony Eterovich

ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE

THROUGH JANUARY 19
Tabitha Soren: Surface Tension

TRANSFORMER STATION

THROUGH FEBRUARY 2
Open World: Video Games & Contemporary Art
AKRON ART MUSEUM

THROUGH FEBRUARY 7
Lakeland Community College Visual Arts Faculty Exhibition

THE GALLERY AT LAKELAND

THROUGH FEBRUARY 8
Foundations

CONVENTION CENTER GALLERY

THROUGH FEBRUARY 9
Color and Comfort: Swedish Modern Design
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

THROUGH FEBRUARY 16
Liu Wei: Invisible Cities

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

THROUGH FEBRUARY 23
Master/Apprentice: Imitation & Inspiration in the Renaissance

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

THROUGH MARCH 15
The Distance of the Moon
The moon has fascinated artists from poets to playwrights to painters for centuries. To honor the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, this show looks at it through photography and film-based images. They range from an evocative 1902 film by Georges Méliès to Nancy Graves’ contemporary work using images from moon voyages as source material for her meditative films. The exhibit also includes a small ceramic tile with reproductions of work by six artists, which was snuck onto Apollo 11 and traveled to the moon in 1969.
AKRON ART MUSEUM

THROUGH MAY 24
Afterlives of the Black Atlantic

Works by artists from Africa, Europe, and the Americas explore impacts of the Atlantic slave trade and its unresolved legacies.
ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM

THROUGH JUNE 14
Tiffany in Bloom: Stained Glass Lamps by Louis Comfort Tiffany

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

THROUGH JULY 19
The Enchantment of the Everyday: East Asian Decorative Arts from the Permanent Collection
Glimpse into a different world, where the everyday object became something magical in the hands of artisans working in gold, ivory, jade, and cloisonné.
ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM

NOVEMBER

22

CAN Journal Winter Issue Launch Party
FOLK GARDEN: DINARA MIRTALIPOVA
Reception 6-8 pm
ZYGOTE PRESS

22

Members show: Artists of the Rubber City
Through December 21
BOX GALLERY

23

Everything in its Place: Personal Archiving with Karen Eterovich-Maguire | Art Bites Professional Practice Series
1-3 pm
Register on artistsarchives.org
ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE

24

Traversed Media
Featuring: JoAnn Giovanetti-Renez, Debbe Kingery, Christie Klubnik & Michaelle Marschall
Reception 1-2:30 pm
Through December 13
ART GALLERY AT BEACHWOOD COMMUNITY CENTER

27

Journey Through Mishikui: Works on Paper by Yuko Kimura
Creative Roots: Celebrating Ohio from the CMA Collection
Gems of Modernist Brevity: Watercolor Miniatures
Crowns: Crossing into Motherhood
Eleven artists—all women, naturally—explore their experiences with motherhood and how it changes their lives, career and artistic practices. It looks at society’s expectations and what it means that motherhood is widely regarded as a woman’s “crowning” accomplishment, even in today’s more demanding world, and the satisfactions and disappointments inherent in those expectations. The eleven artists featured come from northeast Ohio and elsewhere around the Midwest—Stephanie DeArmond, Carole Epp, Kathryne Fisher, Jessica Gardner, Eva Kwong, Rhonda Willers, Janis Mars Wunderlich, Summer Zickefoose, Erin Furminsky, Rose B. Simpson and Kristen Cliffel
Through March 8
CANTON MUSEUM OF ART

29

Crafting Democracy: Fiber Arts & Activism
Crafts have always been considered a benign form of art-making, primarily the province of women and often with a quotidian utility beyond strictly visual. But for centuries, these artists have snuck subversive messages into their work. Inspired by the pussy hats that symbolized the 2017 Women’s March protests against Donald Trump, this exhibit shows how messages of protest—and demands for social and economic justice—have been shared through such media as yarn, textiles and thread, by a group of Rochester-area artists as well as other “craftivists” from across the U.S. and abroad.
Through January 10
THE SCULPTURE CENTER GALLERIES

30

Artist talk: Hong Hong & Claudio Orso-Giacone
7 pm
MORGAN ART OF PAPERMAKING CONSERVATORY

 

DECEMBER

3

Floral Artistry: Celebrating 30 Years of Floral Design for the Cleveland Museum of Art
This special event celebrates the founding of CMA’s Flower Fund Endowment in 1989, which provided for the weekly display of live flowers in the museum’s North Lobby. British floral designer Joseph Massie will do a live floral arrangement demonstration at the Gartner Auditorium.
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

5

Allen After Hours: Christina Sharpe
Christina Sharpe of York University, Toronto, discusses Black visual, queer, and diaspora studies. Her latest book was cited by The Guardian as one of its best of 2016. Presented in conjunction with the Afterlives of the Black Atlantic exhibition and cosponsored by the Art History Baldwin Lectures Endowment
5:30 pm
ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM

Artist Select: Ann Bort, Bex Fuller, Alex Overbeck, Taryn McMahon & Zak Smoker
Reception 6-9 pm
Through January 4
WORTHINGTON YARDS

6

Walk All Over Waterloo
6-9 pm
WATERLOO ARTS DISTRICT

Rochelle Johnson: Depictions
Rochelle Johnson has primarily been a figurative artist, focusing on the gentrifying urban neighborhood in Denver where she lives and on black subjects. But she has been getting more into looking at the geometric building blocks of a painting, exploring how shape, value and color generate energy and emotion. A selection of her work will be featured at the Waterloo Arts District’s newest gallery, Framed, which features work in various media by African-American artists from around the country.
Reception 6-9 pm
FRAMED GALLERY

Off the Wall Members Showcase
Reception 5-8 pm
Through December 14
CLEVELAND PRINT ROOM

Faculty Exhibition & Art Sale
Through January 15
CUYAHOGA VALLEY ART CENTER

7

Time Travel: New Works by David King
Reception 6-8 pm
ARTNEO

Special gallery hours during the ArtCraft Building’s Annual Holiday Sale
11 am-5 pm December 7
11 am-5 pm December 8

CLEVELAND PRINT ROOM

13

Transumanza: Massillon, Ohio by Carole D’Inverno Frisell
Reception 5:30-8 pm
Through January 26
Massillon Museum

Walkabout Tremont
6-9 pm
TREMONT

20

Third Friday
5-9 pm
78th STREET STUDIOS

JANUARY

3

Walk All Over Waterloo
6-9 pm
WATERLOO ARTS DISTRICT

6

Winter I classes begin
Through February 15
VALLEY ART CENTER

9

Residents Select
Worthington Yards resident Suzy Stang co-hosts this annual exhibition at the Yards Project, the gallery in the building’s lobby, where a committee of residents chooses artists for the show from submitted work. This year, a dozen artists were picked from among 67 submissions, including a mix of well-known local names (Eva Kwong, Justin Brennan, Tricia Kaman) and names you’ve probably never heard.
Reception 5:30-8 pm
WORTHINGTON YARDS

10

Walkabout Tremont
6-9 pm
TREMONT

Christopher Kaspar: Someone’s Past
Reception 7-9 pm
BAYARTS

Emma Wolpert: Finding My Home, Finding Myself-Guo’ Chu’ Chu’
Reception 7-9 pm
BAYARTS

Juan Si Gonzales and DaShaunae Jackson
Reception 5-8 pm January 10
Artist talk 1 pm January 11
Through February 29

CLEVELAND PRINT ROOM

14

Ukiyo-e Prints from the Mary Ainsworth Collection
After a celebrated six-month tour of three Japanese museums, a selection of nearly 120 color woodblock prints from this remarkable collection are on view at the Allen.
10 am-5 pm
ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM

17

Third Friday
5-9 pm
78th STREET STUDIOS

The Garden of Old Age Exhibit & Premier Book Signing
Poetry by Nina Gibans, photography of Shaker Lakes by Abby Star
Reception 4:30-6 pm
Artist talk 4:30 pm

Through April 15
GEORGE S. STREETER GALLERY @ JUDSON PARK

Bunco, Buddies & Brats
7-10 pm
BAYARTS

Fibers Show with Janice Lessman-Moss
Reception 6-9 pm
Ekphrastacy 7 pm February 13

Through March 1
HEIGHTS ARTS

21

Winter exhibition and art sale
Through March 5
CUYAHOGA VALLEY ART CENTER

24

Past Due: Curator Megan Young
Reception 6-8 pm
Curator Talk 6:30 pm
Through February 14
ZYGOTE PRESS

Community Culture Night with Donna Webb
7-8:30 pm
ART HOUSE

Conducted Answer
Reception 5-7 pm
Through February 28
KENT STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ART

Small Works juried exhibition
Through February 29
KSU DOWNTOWN GALLERY

Ruth Bercaw
Reception 5:30-8 pm
Through March 14
ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE

Identity: Things
Reception 6-8 pm
Through March 4
VALLEY ART CENTER

Nate Ruccioto & Lisa Walcott
Through March 13
THE SCULPTURE CENTER GALLERIES

31

Spotlight: Sean Jason Kelly
Reception 6-9 pm
Through March 15
HEIGHTS ARTS

Timeless Vision: Earth, Sea, and Sky
Both local and regional artists, including some with international reputations, contributed to this show, sharing the different approaches they take to exploring the landscape, a painting subject that became prominent in the late 19th century. Unlike many artists today, who are addressing the impact of man on the environment, this group simply looks at, and celebrates, the variety of natural beauty surrounding us.
Reception & gallery conversations 5-8 pm
Program 6 pm
Through April 11
THE GALLERIES AT CSU

FEBRUARY

1

SOUPer Bowl Challenge
11:30 am-1:30 pm
BAYARTS

Fuse: New Works by Deb Pinter
Through March 22
MASSILLON MUSEUM

6

The Mary A. Ainsworth Collection of Japanese Prints: Recent Discoveries
Kevin R. E. Greenwood, Curator of Asian Art, discusses the Allen’s renowned collection of Japanese woodblock prints. He touches on new facts about Mary Ainsworth’s life, the history of the collection and its connections to Frank Lloyd Wright, and the rarity and unique status of some of the ukiyo-e prints on view at the Allen.
5:30 pm
ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM

7

Walk All Over Waterloo
6-9 pm
WATERLOO ARTS DISTRICT

Max Markwald: Skin
Reception 7-9 pm
BAYARTS

Pam Mills: Wanderlust
Reception 7-9 pm
BAYARTS

Proof: Photography in the Era of the Contact Sheet
Through April 12
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

8

The Art of Love
6 pm
LA COSECHA

Table for Two
Reception 1-3 pm
Through April 12
CONVENTION CENTER GALLERY

13

Chicks with Balls: Judy Takács paints unsung female heroes
Reception with book launch & signing 5:30-7:30 pm
Through April 4

ZANESVILLE MUSEUM OF ART

Fibers Show with Janice Lessman-Moss
Ekphrastacy 7 pm
HEIGHTS ARTS

15

Gallery Talk: Chicks with Balls: You, me and every woman we know
2-3 pm
ZANESVILLE MUSEUM OF ART

Signal Noise: Aaron Rothman
The 35 heavily manipulated photos comprising this show take as source material ten years of Rothman’s landscape shots of the American West. Using digital and analog photography and digital processing and printing, he transforms the images into something else entirely, where the original scene is barely recognizable, only a jumping-off place for the artist’s deep dive into how the natural and the artificial interact with each other, and how reality can be used as a jumping-off place for the imagination.
Through May 17
TRANSFORMER STATION

14

Walkabout Tremont
6-9 pm
TREMONT

20

Art by the Falls Entry Deadline
VALLEY ART CENTER

21

Third Friday
5-9 pm
78th STREET STUDIOS

Blues featuring John Carlson and Shari Wilkins
Reception 5-9 pm
HEDGE GALLERY

24

Winter II classes begin
Through April 4
VALLEY ART CENTER

26

Screening of The Foreigner’s Home
Nobel prize-winning author Toni Morrison, who was born and raised in Lorain, Ohio, passed away earlier this year at age 86. She was celebrated for works such as Beloved and The Bluest Eye, which drew on her experiences as a black woman. The Apollo Theatre in nearby Oberlin will host a free screening of the 2018 documentary The Foreigner’s Home, about Morrison’s 2006 residency at the Louvre. It will be followed by Q&A with Oberlin faculty members Rian Brown-Orso and Geoff Pingree, who directed the film.
7 pm
APOLLO THEATER, OBERLIN

Conducted Answer artist talk: Holland Houdek
2 pm
KENT STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ART

27

Artists Talk: Rebekah Wilhelm/Art Werger & Yana Mikho-Misho
Taipei Bamboo Curtain Studio (Taiwan) / OAC Dresden Exchange (Germany)

6:30 pm
ZYGOTE PRESS

29

Elias Sime: Tightrope
Through May 24
AKRON ART MUSEUM

MARCH

1

International Artist Residence: Alberto Daniel Zamora Bravo
Aguafuerte Taller, Santiago de Chile
Through April 30
ZYGOTE PRESS

5

Poetry Slam
Oberlin poets gather to honor in verse the works in Afterlives of the Black Atlantic. Inspired by Toni Morrison’s museum interventions documented in The Foreigner’s Home. Followed by a reception and an opportunity to see the exhibition.
5:30 pm-
ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM

Evita Tezeno: Whimsy
Reception 6-9 pm
FRAMED GALLERY

6

CAN Journal Spring Issue Launch Party
6-8 pm
MORGAN CONSERVATORY

Walk All Over Waterloo
6-9 pm
WATERLOO ARTS DISTRICT

Members Show 2020
Reception 6-9 pm
Through April 19
HEIGHTS ARTS

8
Golden Needles: Embroidery Arts from Korea
Through July 26
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

Reception for Table for Two
1-3 pm
CONVENTION CENTER GALLERY

10

Human Figure exhibition and art sale
Through April 16
CUYAHOGA VALLEY ART CENTER

13

Walkabout Tremont
6-9 pm
TREMONT

BAYarts Annual Juried Exhibition
Reception 7-9 pm
BAYARTS

Andy Sweet’s The Last Resort
Reception 5-8 pm
Through April 14
CLEVELAND PRINT ROOM

Genius loci towards understanding of place: Tressa Jones and Arron Foster
Reception 6-8 pm
Curator talk 6:30 pm

Through April 17
ZYGOTE PRESS

14

The Annual ABC Chili Cook-Off
1-4 pm
ART HOUSE

19

Artist Lecture: Beyond Chicks with Balls: The Goddess Project
6-7 pm
ZANESVILLE MUSEUM OF ART