Elias Sime, Objects to be Destroyed, and The Kids are Alright

ELIAS SIME: TIGHTROPE Karl and Bertl Arnstein Galleries February 29-May 24 Elias Sime: Tightrope, the first major traveling survey dedicated to the Ethiopian artist’s work, features numerous large-scale tableaus. From afar, these works give the appearance of abstract paintings. However, upon closer inspection, one sees these color-block compositions are assembled from unexpected materials like motherboards, buttons and electrical wire. First […]

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Job Title: Collective Arts Network Development Manager

CAN is a mission-driven non-profit organization providing a collective voice for–and accessible, high-quality reporting and commentary on–the visual arts in Northeast Ohio. Since CAN’s first organizational meetings in 2011, CAN Journal and the website CANjournal.org have become critical pieces of Northeast Ohio arts infrastructure. We work for the success of the entire visual art sector in Northeast Ohio. CAN produces: […]

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Go Big: Claudio Orso’s Panta Rhei

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Claudio Orso’s Panta Rhei, on view at the Bostwick Design Art Initiative through March 10, is a big exhibit that resonates beyond its walls. It surveys some of the prolific artist’s most important work of the last half-decade or so, representing two aspects of his career: on the one hand, there are larger-than-life masks, costumes, and puppet figures made for […]

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Profiles in Courage: Kimberly Chapman, “hush”

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“hush” is a tender syllable, beginning as an exhalation and ending with an onomatopoeic sound, like lips closing for a kiss. Yet like so many sentimental things, the word can also cast a somber shadow, hinting that all breathing will finally stop. When ceramicist Kimberly Chapman uses it as the title of her current show at the McDonough Museum in […]

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Max Markwald’s Stunningly Intimate Paintings on View at BAYarts

Back in September of 2018, Markwald legally changed his name to Max, and began painting large self-portraits documenting his gender transition. The tall vertical canvases are identical in size, impressively painted, and are all titled simply for the month they were created. Several of them are currently on view at BAYarts, in a new show titled “Skin” (until March 6), […]

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Honoring the Clean and Pure, at Praxis

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When you walk past Praxis Fiber Workshop’s front windows in the Waterloo Arts District, you’ll see bright blue child-size body bags mounted elegantly on the walls. If that’s not enough to pique your curiosity about this community-based studio space and gallery, I don’t know what is. Praxis owes this not-quite-living enticement into their space to their current gallery exhibition, AMALA: […]

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The Art of George Kocar Featured in New Book

Cleveland-based artist George Kocar has an unmistakable style. His whimsical, colorful, and at times bitingly sarcastic paintings can be spotted across a room – and they have always delighted me. In particular, one of the things I like most about Kocar’s work is how dark his paintings can be, while still maintaining their bright shiny palette and whimsy. It’s a […]

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Valentine Greetings To You, Whom I Adore

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  Are you familiar with the early twentieth-century Cleveland artist Juvia Johnson? Perhaps, or perhaps not. You may or may not be celebrating Valentine’s Day, and your celebration may or may not include a card, and if it does, you may or may not plan to make it yourself. If that’s your plan, and you haven’t yet taken action, stop […]

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Jill Paulsen to Lead CAC Forward

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After a search that lasted more than a year and a half, at its Board meeting today, Cuyahoga Arts and Culture announced the appointment of Jill Paulsen as Executive Director.  Paulsen served as interim executive director since June, 2018, when her predecessor Karen Gahl-Mills resigned. CAC hired Arts Consulting Group to conduct a national search.  In the end, they found […]

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