Anyone who has tried painting in watercolor at all—let alone painting complex urban landscapes crawling with dozens of figures–will appreciate the work of the late artist and Cleveland public school teacher Moses Pearl. A recent exhibit of his work at the Artists Archives of the Western revealed an artist who used watercolor, not with pallid delicacy, but with the […]
Read moreJulian Stanczak—surely Cleveland’s greatest living artist–presents a notable case of a painter who is at once famous and unknown—indeed, curiously unknown, even in his home town. He originally burst onto the national scene in 1964, when the New York art dealer Martha Jackson staged a show of his “Optical Paintings” and the artist/art critic Donald Judd shortened the phrase to […]
Read morePhotographer, vintage photo collector, and Cleveland Print Room Executive Director Shari Wilkins has been inspired by Henry David Thoreau since someone handed her a copy of Walden when she was 12 years old. “He was a Transcendentalist who put emotion & intuition above reasoning,” Wilkins says. “Philosophically & spiritually, I connect with him. My work is my attempt […]
Read moreHEDGE Gallery is preparing another year of dynamic exhibitions by joining forces with local colleges and universities, art organizations and of course, local artists. Process + Materialsopened February 20 in collaboration with Kent State University School of Art and its gallery director, Anderson Turner. The show features work by a large group of local artists, including many from the […]
Read moreOn February 20th, 2015 ARTneo opened Cleveland Creates, a juried exhibition of Northeast Ohio artists on the second floor of 78th Street Studios. First introduced in 2011, the exhibition reached out to members of the organization and those interested in joining ARTneo to submit up to three works of art to be considered. For the second iteration of the show, a panel […]
Read moreCuyahoga Arts And Culture has announced that during its meeting Monday, February 9, the board voted to make a grant to the Community Partnership for the Arts and Culture, which would re-instate its individual artist grant program, the Creative Workforce Fellowships, for the year 2016. The process was suspended for the current year while the organizations re-examined funding criteria for […]
Read moreAfter my wanderings on a very busy Friday night, February 6, I can’t help but juxtapose the sweet and observant figure paintings of Darius Steward, which continue on view at William Busta Gallery this month, with the humorous and insightful ones of Dan Miller, on view at Gallery 160 in a show he’s calling “Imaginative Isolation.” Both are small works […]
Read moreTransitions between one state and the next, bending, flexing, modifying, adapting, able to yield to change. How much flexibility does an artist allow him or herself between the original concept for a work, the studies, and the final product? Flexible Domains examines the question for artists Matthew Kolodziej, Andrea Joki and glass artist Robert Coby. The majority of […]
Read moreSince humanity learned something about fire, about its properties of heat and light, and then learned something about how to preserve fire, and then, finally, how to make it, we have cherished it in the hearth of our dwellings. And, since then, we have been making shapes in the shadows – first with our hands, and, later, with cut-outs, […]
Read moreCall for Trans* Artists A healthy glow of pride seemed to envelope our city during last summer’s Gay Games, as Cleveland excitedly welcomed thousands in a celebration of our diversity. Waterloo Arts would like to build on the success of that event and continue the conversation about gender and diversity, with a trans* exhibit, opening April 2015. The exhibit […]
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