Patricia Zinsmeister Parker has been an exhibiting artist for a long time, long enough to impact the arts in Ohio and beyond in many ways, but also long enough for general awareness of the importance of her paintings to go in and out of focus. She is also a significant arts educator, who received her advanced and terminal degrees […]
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William Deresiewicz’s new book, The Death of the Artist, is not a who-done-it. But it moves through a slate of factors that conspired in the alleged death, as if they were characters. And there are a lot of them. This book came to our attention courtesy of the City Club of Cleveland, which presented the author in conversation with University […]
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“Let me just say right off the bat, that I’m not sure I can make art without music. And I say that because I’ve never tried….I need music to function.” – Patricia Zinsmeister Parker Sonata #5 Project was conceived by Cleveland composer Ryan Charles Ramer, whose new musical piece, a sonata for piano in four movements, was given to […]
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The events of 2020 have been quite revealing when it comes to matters of race in America. There is a global consciousness of the tensions here, as the world virtually watched life escape Minnesotan George Floyd on May 29th. Corporate responses came moments later. New terms like “anti-racism” accompanied pledges to give greater thought to ways to acknowledge and […]
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The months pass and the memes metastasize as the COVID crisis wears on; we become less familiar to one another and less sure of ourselves. The fact that most of us wear masks in public, now, is especially confusing, obscuring emotional cues and familiar expressions. It’s as if much of the nuance of the social world was blanked out like the pages […]
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Cleveland-based artist Ron Shelton puts the worldwide plastic problem front and center in both his own art-making and his practice as a curator / convener. His current exhibit, HAF Connects, is on view now through September 18 at RampArts Gallery, in the 78th Street Studios complex in Cleveland. It’s an exhibit that weaves together multiple threads of ongoing interest […]
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When I heard that Rebekah Wilhelm was pairing up with John Saile for a show ostensibly about “color” at 818 Studios, I will admit, I was surprised. Wilhelm is an artist whose career I have followed for years, and whose work I very much admire (and own), but color is not a quality I associate with her practice. Her […]
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Many abstract paintings do not suggest movement. Or if they do, they not create the suggestion of movement of elements within the canvas, but bring viewers to mind of the act of painting. A Helen Frankenthaler painting might prompt us to imagine the artist pouring paint; a Jackson Pollock recalls Hans Namuth’s photos of the artist dripping paint onto canvas […]
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You can’t win if you don’t play. That’s the kind of flippant, easy thing people say about the lottery. But it is an important message in the midst of the greatest challenge we face in the US, which is to deal with our history of racism. We can’t deal with it if we don’t try. You are not making progress […]
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The likeness of “whiteness” has always filled our world. It is the ideal of beauty that most people strive to become. As children, we spent the entire day watching television, looking at magazines and school books void of “diversity.” Thank you, 1976 “Charlie’s Angels,” for making girls want hair that would blow in the wind. What began as a need to […]
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