The Broommaker, a three-week residency with Cleveland native, now Kentucky-based artist Hunter Elliott, is centered on brooms, from cultivating the grassy broomcorn plant onsite at SHED Projects, to harvesting and processing it, and—currently, creating stunning works of art. Elliott’s artistic practice is rooted in sculpture and printmaking, as he earned a BFA at Kent State University more than 10 years […]
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“The mind of the man [sic] who dreams is fully satisfied by what happens to him. The agonizing question of possibility is no longer pertinent… fly faster, love to your heart’s content. And if you should die, are you not certain of reawaking among the dead?” – André Breton, Manifestos of Surrealism, 1924 Doubting Thomas Gallery turned 25 in October, […]
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“Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt.” – Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, 1781 “I hope that [the] painting has the impact of giving someone… the feeling […]
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“[Pat’s in the Flats] was a dive bar with a shitty sound system that no one seemed to be able to comprehend. It was a venue that offered an uninhibited space for creative expression, [and] Pat [herself] was the magic.” – Shawn Mishak[1] In 1987 Patricia Hanych took over her family’s restaurant-bar at the bottom of Literary Hill in Tremont, […]
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Shahzia Sikander: Collective Behavior premiered at the Palazzo Soranzo van Axel in Venice, (April 20–October 20, 2024) as a collateral event of the 60th International La Biennale di Venezia. The U.S. iterations are co-organized by the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Cincinnati Art Museum. This is the most comprehensive presentation of the Pakistani American artist’s work to date, bringing together 40 pieces […]
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Last year, Mary Urbas left her longtime post as Director of the gallery at Lakeland Community College after the administration cut her position and closed the gallery amid deep budget cuts and financial woes. During her tenure as director, she curated long-running themed exhibitions, including the annual the Skull and Skeleton Show, and, in honor of Women’s History Month, the […]
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It is the morning after moCa’s new Curator and Deputy Director DJ Hellerman’s first curatorial project opened to a crowd of more than 700 widely diverse art lovers. DJ and I meet over Wojtila’s pastries and coffee at 10 am on Saturday, January 25; he was one of my first students in Cleveland, and we’ve not seen one another in […]
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Opening on Friday, January 24 are three exhibitions: Gala Porras-Kim: A Hand in Nature; Birthing Beautiful Communities: Dear; and (curated by MOCA’s recent hire, Curator and Deputy Director, DJ Hellerman) Harminder Judge: Bootstrap Paradox. This is the first U.S. exhibition by British artist Harminder, whose vibrant plaster-and-pigment pieces merge painting and sculpture, embedding paint in form, making fields of sinuous […]
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Possibility For Repair, on view at the Reinberger Gallery through February 9, opened just three days after the November 5 election. The show is an attempt to imagine reparations for the systemic elite white supremacy and unchecked, hegemonic European-Christian values that buttresses our collective American histories. Artists Lyndon Barrois, Jr., Mark Thomas Gibson, Sarah Kabot, M. Carmen Lane, and Jessica […]
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Nico Pico Train’s “Uncensored: Liquid Sex Series” (on view through March 30 at Art on Madison) ingeniously poses more questions than answers about sex, American-style, circa the fall of 2018 and the winter of 2019. Her images of bodies and their parts in various states of sexual arousal make for a stunningly beautiful, yet awkwardly candid portrayal of sexual […]
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