Maria Neil Art Project presents Crystal Miller: DRMWRLD

“I dream about a world that accepts me for who I am, fully. A world that not only uplifts but protects the lives of Black people. A place for my Black sisters to thrive and feel empowered. I am compelled to make work about this collective dream, and one day it shall become our reality.”– Crystal Miller Crystal Miller (Cleveland […]

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Maria Neil presents A Curated Selection of Natural Elements from Here and Abroad

Deborah Pinter’s ethereal flora and otherworldly plant matter will grace the walls of Maria Neil Art Project and help usher in Spring. Monochromatic prints showcasing depth and structure hearken back to her ‘Scanagram’ photography on silver gelatin paper. The flashiness of her subject matter is now replaced with heavy black inks and articulated impressions which help guide the viewer into […]

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Representation and Collaboration with Maria Neil

Cool. Contemporary. Cleveland. That pretty much sums up what we do at Maria Neil. From presenting artwork in unconventional spaces to displaying work in equally unique ways, we work hard to put a new spin on how to experience art.   This you already know.   What you might not know is that we have teamed up with five notable […]

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“Finding the Inherently Beautiful in Everything”

What do we obtain from the earth, and what do we make of it? Jen Craun tackles this quandary in a visually engaging way this January at Maria Neil. The question is two-fold due to not only the visual aesthetic she creates with her wood intaglio prints, but also to the processes which she undergoes to create them. “The printed […]

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Scott Goss: Incoherent Spaces at Maria Neil Art Project

We can’t remember everything. Many things remain with us, almost forever, yet some things get lost, disappear, or are forgotten. As our memories begin to age, relics of our past, bits and pieces of what we once knew, endure as segments, small sections of our original memory, filled in by voids of space that are often confused, blurry, and indistinct. […]

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Maria Neil Artists Take on Life’s Incongruities and the Paradigm of the Human Body

  Pita Brooks and Kristin Rogers Living and working together in Lakewood, Pita Brooks and Kristin Rogers create artworks that are at once entrenched in material explorations, and in the expression of ideas surrounding life’s absurd incongruities. Sometimes they create collaboratively and sometimes independently. Their work as a whole is a layered dialogue about both the situational and the dispositional. […]

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The Collectors: a Perfect Pairing

John Farina & Adam Tully have been collecting art together since they met nearly eight years ago. Adam actually became an instant collector when he met John, who had already begun his collecting of Cleveland art many years earlier. The collection they have amassed over this time now numbers close to 350 pieces – almost 90 percent of which is […]

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