Cleveland artist John Carlson was in Manhattan years ago, pounding the pavement to make connections in galleries he hoped might show his paintings. Buoyed by recent acceptance into a well-respected show in Ohio, he made a point of dropping into a gallery owned by the very selective New Yorker who had juried him into it. Carlson introduced himself to the […]
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“Excellence has no sex,” the German-born American artist Eva Hesse once remarked in an interview. That unassailable truth is born out in A Century of Women in Prints, 1917-2017, on view through December 17 in the Stern Gallery West of the Allen Memorial Art Museum in Oberlin. Curated by Andaleeb Badiee Banta, with the assistance of Oberlin student Claire Rasmussen […]
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For nearly thirty years, the five-story George Worthington building—a T-shaped red-brick structure hidden behind the St. Clair Avenue and West 6th Street strip—sat inactive. From the 1980s though the millennium, office buildings were sparsely populated, or housed low-income artists as illegal squatters (the Bradley Building being one of them). A few art galleries came and went. The district was SPACES’s […]
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“Ice is complicated,” explains Julia Christensen on the blog for her upcoming project Waiting for a Break. With support from LAND studio and SPACES gallery, the Oberlin-based artist and writer is creating a city-wide art project exploring just how complicated ice can be—by trying to capture the moment when the ice on Lake Erie breaks. Any Cleveland native knows that […]
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One year ago, Artful Cleveland was charging ahead with a plan to create an artist hive in Cleveland Heights, akin to 78th Street Studios in Detroit Shoreway, or the Screw Factory in Lakewood. Founders had recognized that while Cleveland Heights has the highest concentration of artists in all disciplines in the region, it didn’t have the kind of destination that […]
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WINTER 2017-2018 EVENTS Your easy, chronological guide to what Northeast Ohio galleries and museums have coming up in the next few months. More information about many of these exhibits can be found elsewhere in the pages of CAN. Enjoy the shows! by Anastasia Pantsios CONTINUING EVENTS THROUGH NOVEMBER 18 Art Books Cleveland presents Play: Books as Toys […]
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Lauren Yeager’s studio on the fourth floor of a near-east-side warehouse is filled with the dry humor of accumulated cast-off products, mostly made of plastic. You wouldn’t call any of it beautiful, at least not to look at, not in any conventional sense. There are five-gallon paint buckets brimming with drips and smears, mostly white and neutral. There are balls […]
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Cleveland’s FRONT triennial is primarily a visual arts event. But its choice of playwright Michael Oatman as one of its initial six Cleveland artists through the Cleveland Foundation’s Creative Fusion program signals a broader agenda. The selection of Oatman also indicates an attempt to reach out to parts of the urban area often overlooked for trendier and more affluent environs. […]
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The night white nationalists marched with tiki torches, shouting racist slogans in Charlottesville, Virginia Johnny Coleman was capturing a different atmosphere, after midnight in a plantation cemetery about 100 miles south, near the Dismal swamp. Driven to fill in the details of a story his grandmother told, Coleman had been searching geneological records and county land records dating to the […]
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It’s not just that Creative Fusion Madison Resident Julie Patton is an open book—she’s several open books, pages fanning, fluttering, in motion. She is a pop-up book, 3-D and surprising; a matchbook, with all its spark and flame and heat and light and char and singe; a how-to; a cookbook; a book of poems; a world atlas, drawing from the […]
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