Since humanity learned something about fire, about its properties of heat and light, and then learned something about how to preserve fire, and then, finally, how to make it, we have cherished it in the hearth of our dwellings. And, since then, we have been making shapes in the shadows – first with our hands, and, later, with cut-outs, […]
Read moreThe May Show, an annual exhibition of Cleveland’s artists at the Cleveland Museum of Art, was discontinued in 1993. There were lots of reasons. Fine. There has been enough discussion. It is dead, cremated, and the ashes have been dispersed. But for the last 20 years there has been an undercurrent sense of loss within the community of […]
Read moreIt is a gallery rule not to ever suggest to artists that they collaborate with each other. It’s one of many rules I have to keep the gallery from intruding in the creative process. This is not a matter of virtue as much as wanting the best for exhibitions. To be authentic and successful, the collaborative venture works best when […]
Read morePerhaps the best known painting by an artist living in Cleveland is Archibald Willard’s patriotic painting Yankee Doodle, better known as The Spirit of 76,” exhibited at the Centennial exhibition in Philadelphia in 1876. This painting of battered soldiers with fife and drum, set during the Revolutionary War was popular enough in its day that Willard painted many copies (one […]
Read moreLooking ahead to his Spring exhibition, William Busta asked artist Michael Loderstedt some questions about putting together a show. William Busta: When you schedule an exhibition of your work, what is important to you as you think of presenting it? Michael Loderstedt: Generally speaking, I think most about the overall theme of the works I plan to include and […]
Read moreOften, while lecturing to a group, I’ll state my belief the what makes something a work of art is its capacity to change how the attentive, passionate viewer experiences and responds to the world for the rest of their lives. Once, I was called on this in a question: a Professor from a university asked me when this had happened, […]
Read moreWilliam Busta Gallery: Most people take their outdoor photographs outdoors, don’t they? Lori Kella: Yes I’m sure most do, but I was always dissatisfied with the exact scene in front of me, so I started building landscapes myself. By creating artificial worlds I can merge different parts of the landscape as well as different places. In my photographs I create a world that is partly based on […]
Read moreThere is always something missing when an artist portrays a place visited during vacation or sabbatical. And there is often something spectacularly present when an artist’s work responds to the cultural and visual landscapes with which they identify. The best of these works have a way of becoming insistent in the culture, forever shaping how everyone understands that landscape. This fall, three exhibits at William Busta Gallery present the artists […]
Read moreThere is always something missing when an artist portrays a place visited during vacation or sabbatical. And there is often something spectacularly present when an artist’s work responds to the cultural and visual landscapes with which they identify. The best of these works have a way of becoming insistent in the culture, forever shaping how everyone understands that landscape. This fall, three exhibits at William Busta Gallery present the artists […]
Read moreYou’re walking. And you don’t always realize it, but you’re always falling. With each step you fall forward slightly. And then catch yourself from falling. – Laurie Anderson (from Big Science, 1982) There is something disorienting about a lot of contemporary art. And then there is a lot about contemporary art that is re-orienting.Engaging with contemporary art is like a lot of training […]
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