Judith Salomon, recipient of the 1990 Cleveland Arts Prize for Visual Arts, creates slab-built functional ceramic vessels. But function isn’t her primary focus. She stated in a 1978 Plain Dealer article, “I’m concerned with their being useful, but I think a good pot shows an expression of who made it. There’s something that catches the eye, a feeling for it.” […]
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ARTmeow: The Cool Cats of Cleveland With over 100 years of cats by Cleveland area artists on display, ARTmeow explores the cat’s iconic role of artistic muse. With cat memes and animated gifs ruling the internet, it’s a good time to reflect on how these feline friends have impacted the history of art. ARTmeow not only looks at the past […]
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Pop & Circumstance: Works by Andy Dreamingwolf March 18 – May 19, 2017 Through a photorealistic sense of nostalgia, Andy Dreamingwolf creates works that examine the paralleled history of the pharmaceutical and soft drink industries. Between the 1850s and the turn of the twentieth century, the pharmaceutical industry was comprised of traditional botanicals and was beginning to develop new synthetic […]
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In the early twentieth century, Northeast Ohio became home to one of the most accomplished schools of watercolor painting in American art and helped to create a regional artistic identity. Watercolor embodied an important American value: freedom. The affordability of the paint and easily transportable materials gave artists the ability to leave the studio. Paired with a lack of stylistic […]
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Phyllis Seltzer: A Feast of Americana September 16 – November 30, 2016 Curated by Christopher L. Richards ARTneo honors Phyllis Seltzer at our Annual Benefit this fall with a corresponding exhibition looking at her career in the arts. Best known for her heat-transfer prints, Seltzer has explored a number of printmaking techniques, including intaglio, woodcuts, screen printing, lithography, and ozalids. […]
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For over a century, the Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA) has provided essential training for many of Northern Ohio’s most vibrant and productive women artists. Their artistic work encompassed a wide range of media: oil and watercolor, sculpture, illustration and design, silversmithing and jewelry-making, enameling, ceramics and textiles. Many of the women had successful careers as designers and illustrators; some […]
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ARTneo is pleased to present Locus of Transition featuring the work of Jason Milburn and Laila Voss, the second and third prize winners from ARTneo’s 2015 Cleveland Creates juried exhibition. A consummate observer of human behavior, Jason Milburn’s work has revealed the psychological disjuncture within which people exist, even as they may be in close proximity to and interact […]
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Drawing from observation, artists have for centuries used figures to create everything from studies and sketches, to completed works of art. Fundamental Gestures: Figures From Life looks at drawings by some of Cleveland’s most prominent artists and how each one captures the human form. The works explore different approaches to looking at and building up the figure on paper. In […]
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Abstract painting in the late 1950s and 1960s developed beyond the realm of the action painters’ exploration of expressing raw internal emotions. A number of American artists, including Helen Frankenthaler and Morris Lewis, began allowing diluted paint soak into unprimed canvases, removing the physical gestures of painting and creating the flattest paint surface possible. Art critic Clement Greenberg called these […]
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This fall, ARTneo expands into the Ramp Level gallery at 78th Street Studios to present Curious Distortions, an exhibition of works by Mary Spain (1934-1983). Set in a realm of fantasy, Mary Spain’s work exhibits oddly distorted figures in a child-like manner with an underlying sense of absurdity. Through her toylike and primitive style, Spain created surrealistic dramas that puzzle […]
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