“Chicks with Balls” is now a phenomenon. And my growing, living, traveling portrait exhibition called “Chicks with Balls: Judy Takács paints unsung female heroes” returns to Northeast Ohio with a solo show at Tri-C Gallery East, opening October 29th from 6:00 to 8:30. Back in 2010, “Chicks” was just a nutty painting idea: I asked female friends and family […]
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Charles Beneke: Specter Specter is an installation that envelops visitors in a swirl of handprinted wallpaper, relief and monoprint prints. The work by Charles Beneke, Professor and Printmaking Area Coordinator at the University of Akron’s Mary Schiller Myers School of Art, offers pleasure in its lush surface decoration and a stark reminder of our penchant for excess and its impact. […]
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Events Your easy, chronological, not-quite-comprehensive guide to what Northeast Ohio galleries and Museums have coming up in the next few months. More information about many of these shows can be found on preceding CAN member pages. Enjoy the shows! Continuing Through September 27 Staged Akron Art Museum through October 15 Migration Eastman Reading Garden Cleveland Public Library Through October 16 […]
Read moreDevelopment and land-use policies that favor newness over reuse drive Corrie Slawson to fantasize alternative realities for neighborhoods and places that were once considered to be magnificent but are now under appreciated. She responds by building macro and microscopic landscapes on paper, combining printed versions of pictures she takes during day to day travels. Her works on paper integrate screen […]
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Geoff Baker’s landscapes of northeastern Ohio and northwestern Michigan expand our understanding of what Henri Cartier-Bresson called his quest for “the decisive moment.” In Cartier-Bresson’s celebrated images, that “moment” is generally confined to street scenes inhabited by a person caught unawares – a pedestrian jumping over a puddle; a young man giving his girl friend a bunch of flowers. The […]
Read moreThe idea for Praxis Fiber Workshop arose when the Cleveland Institute of Art decided to downsize the Fiber and Material Studies department, merging it with the sculpture and video departments. A campus unification project has doubled the size of the Joseph McCullough building on Euclid Avenue, making CIA an even more impressive destination for young artists across the globe. […]
Read moreThe artists who run Zygote Press had an “a-ha” moment in 2013, when they decided it was time to lock away mineral spirits, glaze cleaner, lithotine, and other toxic tools of the print trade, and replace them with canola oil, vinegar, water and tallow. Now, supported by a grant from the George Gund Foundation, Ohio’s largest artist-run print shop is […]
Read moreThey spend hours, days, and months in the quiet, private safety of their studios and then bravely expose their work to jurors and, if they are lucky, thousands of spectators in the glorious chaos of the madding crowd and summer heat, year after year. How do they do it? This is the drama that keeps me hooked and attending […]
Read moreIn June, the eighth iteration of After the Pedestal opens at The Sculpture Center with an expanse of smaller works by bright artists of our region, selected from an open call. The juried exhibition is intended as an interlude from the mammoth-sized works often inhabiting the galleries. This showcase encourages viewers to look closely, as we often forget to […]
Read moreCleveland has a great deal of manufacturing that has always fascinated me, so I created The Legacy Project. I work with local business owners to celebrate their success with a portfolio of fused glass images, which are usually displayed in their lobby or boardroom. After an interview with the owner I take a series of photographs focusing on the […]
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