It’s fun to hear artist Suzanne Head talk about her younger self. Poised and thoughtful, Head is a newly minted graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art with a plan for making her life as a fine artist. She spends weeks on exquisitely rendered drawings of animals or the female form, or some combination of the two. And with […]
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Cleveland native, San Francisco-based watercolorist Gary Bukovnik will be exhibiting new work in his home town this summer. This beautiful exhibition of watercolors, entitled Return of Spring will be on view at The Bonfoey Gallery, 1710 Euclid Avenue, in both our street and lower level galleries from May 20 through June 18, 2016. An opening reception with the artist will be held Friday, May 20th, from 5 […]
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“The aim of art is to represent NOT the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.” – Aristotle For nearly 50 years, Art Therapy Studio has endeavored to make visual arts accessible, meaningful, and useful to individuals throughout Northeast Ohio. Central to our mission and organizational philosophy is the belief that, regardless of age, ethnicity, gender, abilities, socio-economic […]
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For over a century, the Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA) has provided essential training for many of Northern Ohio’s most vibrant and productive women artists. Their artistic work encompassed a wide range of media: oil and watercolor, sculpture, illustration and design, silversmithing and jewelry-making, enameling, ceramics and textiles. Many of the women had successful careers as designers and illustrators; some […]
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When I moved from Western New York to Cleveland Ohio, I was extremely impressed with the both the quantity and quality of work being produced by Ohio ceramic artists. After 23 years my enthusiasm and admiration for these artists has only increased. So I am thrilled to begin our summer at the Artists Archives with a Ceramics Invitational Exhibition. Works […]
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ARTneo is pleased to present Locus of Transition featuring the work of Jason Milburn and Laila Voss, the second and third prize winners from ARTneo’s 2015 Cleveland Creates juried exhibition. A consummate observer of human behavior, Jason Milburn’s work has revealed the psychological disjuncture within which people exist, even as they may be in close proximity to and interact […]
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The annual Octavofest celebration of book and paper arts is preparing to kick off its 2016 season, featuring a line-up that’s more extensive and engaging than ever. As always, two major shows—a themed show, this year focused on the number 100, and an Abecedarium show emphasizing alphabet-related works—serve as centerpieces for the month-long event running throughout October. Among the […]
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Mark Mothersbaugh: Myopia Karl and Bertl Arnstein Galleries, Akron Art Museum Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland May 29-August 28, 2016 Equal parts engagement and provocation, the art of Akron native Mark Mothersbaugh investigates the tension and interplay between order and freedom, repetition and play, technology and individuality and mutation and conformity. Beginning as an art student at Kent State […]
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When we talk about race in Cleveland, conversation runs quickly toward headline stories, especially of white police officers and Black men or boys. Thanks to a couple of high profile shootings and the way the justice system responded, the city had a major role in the national discussion of race-related violence in 2015. That was the context in which I […]
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And the voices keep coming – Throughout Cleveland’s history our cultural legacy has been built by people from around the globe. From the dozens of immigrant nationalities that designed, sculpted, and maintain the cultural gardens of Rockefeller Park, to the music performed at Severance Hall, to the Asian collection and the rest of the vast holdings of the […]
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