Author: Indra K. Lācis, PhD

Line & Liminality: Curlee Raven Holton’s Earth, Air, Fire, Water, and Spirit at William Busta Projects

Array
(
    [0] => stdClass Object
        (
            [ID] => 28266
            [display_name] => Indra K. Lācis, PhD
            [first_name] => Indra
            [last_name] => Lācis, PhD
            [user_login] => indra-k-lacis-phd
            [user_email] => 
            [linked_account] => 
            [website] => 
            [description] => 
            [user_nicename] => indra-k-lacis-phd
            [type] => guest-author
            [nickname] => 
        )

)
Leave a comment

On view as part of Curlee Raven Holton’s solo exhibition Earth, Air, Fire, Water, and Spirit at William Busta Projects in Waterloo this fall, the modest size serigraph relief, A Dance of Joy and Pain (2024), summons the unusually spectacular autumn gracing Cleveland this year. Orange-crimson burns like a flame against a shrinking azure expanse, glow emitting a boundless, jubilant, […]

Read more

Broken Babes, Together & Alone: Sarah Curry’s Common Threads at HEDGE

Array
(
    [0] => stdClass Object
        (
            [ID] => 28266
            [display_name] => Indra K. Lācis, PhD
            [first_name] => Indra
            [last_name] => Lācis, PhD
            [user_login] => indra-k-lacis-phd
            [user_email] => 
            [linked_account] => 
            [website] => 
            [description] => 
            [user_nicename] => indra-k-lacis-phd
            [type] => guest-author
            [nickname] => 
        )

)
Leave a comment

Silent and two-dimensional, paintings speak languages we have long forgotten—the dialects we once knew, the tongues of our childhood, the vernacular of our most recent loss. On view at HEDGE through October 26, Sarah Curry’s newest body of work, Common Threads, presents the amorphous space between then and now, what once was and what is today. The exhibition lays out […]

Read more

Celebrating the Life & Work of Kenneth John Nevadomi (1939 – 2023)

Array
(
    [0] => stdClass Object
        (
            [ID] => 28266
            [display_name] => Indra K. Lācis, PhD
            [first_name] => Indra
            [last_name] => Lācis, PhD
            [user_login] => indra-k-lacis-phd
            [user_email] => 
            [linked_account] => 
            [website] => 
            [description] => 
            [user_nicename] => indra-k-lacis-phd
            [type] => guest-author
            [nickname] => 
        )

)

On September 8, 2023, Ken Nevadomi, one of Cleveland’s most prolifically complex and enigmatic artists, laid down for an afternoon nap and bid farewell to life here on Earth. Suffering for some time from the degenerative effects of Alzheimer’s disease, Nevadomi continued to work in the studio until his final weeks. During his recent memorial service in Lakewood, Ohio, on […]

Read more

Tenderness Abounds: Douglas Max Utter’s Recent Exhibition at HEDGE

Array
(
    [0] => stdClass Object
        (
            [ID] => 28266
            [display_name] => Indra K. Lācis, PhD
            [first_name] => Indra
            [last_name] => Lācis, PhD
            [user_login] => indra-k-lacis-phd
            [user_email] => 
            [linked_account] => 
            [website] => 
            [description] => 
            [user_nicename] => indra-k-lacis-phd
            [type] => guest-author
            [nickname] => 
        )

)
Leave a comment

Douglas Max Utter’s second major solo exhibition at HEDGE Gallery (Family Life & Other Fancies, on view July 19 – September 1, 2023), reflected the glow of a fire just put to bed, after many long conversations. This sense of yearning—for childhood innocence and later, life unchained—governs an abundance of the artist’s pictures. In Doug’s work, it seems difficult to […]

Read more

Honey Instead of Vinegar: Corrie Slawson’s Future dithering at SHAHEEN modern and contemporary

Array
(
    [0] => stdClass Object
        (
            [ID] => 28266
            [display_name] => Indra K. Lācis, PhD
            [first_name] => Indra
            [last_name] => Lācis, PhD
            [user_login] => indra-k-lacis-phd
            [user_email] => 
            [linked_account] => 
            [website] => 
            [description] => 
            [user_nicename] => indra-k-lacis-phd
            [type] => guest-author
            [nickname] => 
        )

)
Leave a comment

“You know, I really just want to grow things,” says artist Corrie Slawson, laughing, though I don’t get the sense she’s kidding. Slawson’s garden—dappled with natives, cultivars, vegetable gardens, and a flock of chickens flowing alongside Taro, the family’s adopted rescue pup from Puerto Rico—is a crush of color, kaleidoscopic tones, and layered textures, fifteen years in the making. “You […]

Read more

To Travel Like Clouds: Julie Langsam’s Landscape Interventions

Array
(
    [0] => stdClass Object
        (
            [ID] => 28266
            [display_name] => Indra K. Lācis, PhD
            [first_name] => Indra
            [last_name] => Lācis, PhD
            [user_login] => indra-k-lacis-phd
            [user_email] => 
            [linked_account] => 
            [website] => 
            [description] => 
            [user_nicename] => indra-k-lacis-phd
            [type] => guest-author
            [nickname] => 
        )

)
Leave a comment

Today’s highly choreographed, plastic, bifurcated world (and all the concerns keeping us up at night) grants renewed meaning to the phrase, open road. It’s there we find freedom and a sense of escape, but also greater connection, and the inclination to understand identity—one’s own and that of others. A selection of Julie Langsam’s Landscape Interventions: 500+ Drawings, on view at […]

Read more

Joy is a Boundless Form of Resistance: A short interview with Brooklyn-Based Artist Judy Giera

Array
(
    [0] => stdClass Object
        (
            [ID] => 28266
            [display_name] => Indra K. Lācis, PhD
            [first_name] => Indra
            [last_name] => Lācis, PhD
            [user_login] => indra-k-lacis-phd
            [user_email] => 
            [linked_account] => 
            [website] => 
            [description] => 
            [user_nicename] => indra-k-lacis-phd
            [type] => guest-author
            [nickname] => 
        )

)
Leave a comment

My grandmother used to say: you can laugh or cry, but you must choose. She passed when she was 101 years young, at home in her own bed, sound of mind, body, and spirit.  Despite that life offers inconveniences, perhaps daily, and sometimes, mind-bending tragedy, her strategy of pursuing joy throughout her life appeared to work. Brooklyn-based artist Judy Giera […]

Read more

Time to Muse: Kristen Newell’s Unfolding at WOLFS

Array
(
    [0] => stdClass Object
        (
            [ID] => 28266
            [display_name] => Indra K. Lācis, PhD
            [first_name] => Indra
            [last_name] => Lācis, PhD
            [user_login] => indra-k-lacis-phd
            [user_email] => 
            [linked_account] => 
            [website] => 
            [description] => 
            [user_nicename] => indra-k-lacis-phd
            [type] => guest-author
            [nickname] => 
        )

)
Leave a comment

Cleveland-based artist Kristen Newell’s sculptures harness the scent of freshly burnt sage: mild but potent, transformative, warm and redemptive. The figures, animals, and vessels she sculpts all seem to carry the sound of water: rain, tears, the silence of shallow vernal pools, a rushing river, the crash and hush of an oncoming or receding tide. Adamantly whole and conspicuously vulnerable […]

Read more