To me, the Cleveland Museum of Art’s statement “for the benefit of all the people forever” goes beyond meaning art should be accessible to everyone. I believe it speaks to the nature of art itself. The operative word is “benefit.” One of art’s most important purposes is to help the viewer make sense of or deal with situations in a […]
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Our Cleveland gallery’s fall exhibition is all about organic elements and natural influences. It will feature works by Charity Thomas, Charlotte Lees and Beth Lindenberger. Charity Thomas recently completed her MFA from Kent State University in Textiles. Materiality and process are at the forefront of this body of work. The pieces included feature embroidery and ink on paper, and they […]
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HEDGE Gallery is proud to present Dott von Schneider’s solo exhibition titled Road Trip, opening Friday, September 21, 5:00–9:00pm. Dott and I met in 2010, while she was living and working in Las Vegas. I’ll never forget my first conversation with her because it was as if we had known each other for years—long-lost friends, so to speak. We discussed […]
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The Cleveland Arts Prize has announced the winners of its 2018 awards. The 58th annual prizes recognize artists working in fields as diverse as architecture, literature, painting, and comics. A Lifetime Achievement Award was given to Rita Dove, a playwright, author, poet and lyricist based out of Akron. In 1993, Dove became the first Black Poet Laureate of the United […]
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Stanka Kordic Martin O’Connor John A. Sargent, III Judy Takács Contemporary Figurative Realism is a movement that has been brewing on the coasts for over a decade. Cleveland’s own figurative artists have also been passionately painting humans with an eye to truth, beauty and the beauty of the truthful depiction…physically and emotionally. To own a masterful depiction of a human […]
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Near infinite repetitions of rock-chipping and reed-plaiting, balancing and propping, burning and marking continue to inflect our “modern” lives: people know instinctively what to do with sticks and stones (apart from hitting one another on the head). Every human child puttering around a campsite piles up a wall, or draws with a burnt stick. One of the most powerful things […]
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The Morgan Conservatory’s mission is the preservation and advancement of “the ancient art of papermaking.” That mission is well-served by its exhibition opening this week, Unknown Terrain. Breaking preconceptions about paper in the fine arts, the Morgan’s show hosts more than a half dozen large installation made entirely or primarily out of paper. Paper is most often treated as a […]
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Leave your car behind and make your way easily from hub to hub of FRONT International Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art, CAN Triennial, and the restaurants and other nightlife of Gordon Square when you ride the free shuttle between downtown Cleveland, FRONT’s Hingetown location, the CAN Triennial at 78th Street Studios, and the restaurants and theatres of the Gordon Square Arts […]
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In the afternoon before the opening of Lakeland Community College’s May Show, the poster that would later greet visitors was covered in brown paper to keep the identity of the Best-In-Show winner a secret. During a walk around the galleries that afternoon, it was impossible to ignore Mark Giangaspero’s imposing pastel portrait in grays and blues, Altered Identity. The image […]
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Purchase Tickets Two city blocks. Three floors. Three weeks. Four weekends. Ninety Cleveland artists. Nineteen installations. Sixteen Ohio dealers. Music. Film. See it first when you join us for the CAN Triennial Benefit Preview Party. CAN Triennial was created to put Cleveland artists in the international spotlight drawn by FRONT Triennial. It’s not only a deep dive into the region’s creative […]
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