Fred and Laura Bidwell’s Transformer Station Museum is a particularly savvy instance of contemporary design, and simultaneously a study of fading history. Originally a streetcar power substation dating from 1924, the well-made and now restored original building is supplemented at the west end by a new minimalist structure of about the same size. It looks intriguingly like one thing […]
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Adele Marihatt: Presented by ArtSource and the AAWR Legacy Society at the Penton Media building, 1300 E 9th St, Cleveland, through July 1, 2016 If there is a central theme flowing gently through Swiss-born Adele Marihatt’s subtle paintings, it is the concept of translation. Any art is a matter of representing one type of reality in terms of another, as flesh […]
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Adjust the picture on a vintage TV set, fiddle with dials, swing the rabbit ears around. Aim for clarity – but what that means depends on whether you want to see the whole sitcom or a millisecond of the action, the image or the matrix from which it emerges. And if technology can achieve finer tuning, our own brains are […]
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Anna Arnold may be most recognized right now as the guiding light of Wasmer Gallery at Ursuline College, where she took over from long-time Director Frank Frate about two years ago. Arnold’s Facebook page recently featured a sixteen second video of all the works on view in the most recent exhibit she put together, “The Drawing Show: From Doodles to […]
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Deb Lawrence rents two spaces at the historic Murray Hill School in Cleveland’s Little Italy arts district. One of these is her new gallery business, tucked away in a sunlit room that used to be the school nurse’s office. Called NOCA (No Ordinary Contemporary Art space), it earns its name equally by its transitional perch on a landing between floors, […]
Read moreShe is used to this sort of thing. Her blacks crackle and drag. These partial, broken images at the end of Sylvia Plath’s final poem “Edge,” written shortly before the poet’s suicide in 1963, are a patchwork of verbal shadows and flat, wounding sounds. Knowing what we do about the artist and her history, the poem can read […]
Read moreFor almost half a century, the Cleveland Arts Prize honored the city’s artists one at a time in an annual ceremony. But on May 2nd the venerable organization’s interim director Alenka Banco announced the names of no less than nine honorees for 2014. The artist/winners are spread over five disciplines, and all receive a monetary award that has grown […]
Read moreThe process unfolded dramatically, mostly via email but with important scenes taking place among the gritty realities of Collinwood and other crusty Cleveland locales. It was like the plot of an early Russo brothers movie–except that our gang had good intentions. Before the work began, we were sworn to secrecy via PDF file. Later we assembled in propria […]
Read moreChristina Vassallo arrives in Cleveland at an exciting time. Hired by SPACES as the organization’s new Director, the thirty-three year old comes at a moment in the city’s evolution that just might be a turning point. Back home in Brooklyn, New York where Vassallo has headed the prestigious Flux Factory artists’ space for the past three and a half years, […]
Read moreA photograph appeared in the New York Times this past August, illustrating a profile article about the artist Frank Oriti. It shows him sitting next to one of his canvases in his Cleveland studio — a broad-shouldered thirty year old man, rocking an impeccable classic haircut and a somewhat severe vibe. He sits overshadowed by a self-portrait which is a […]
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