Distinctive Perspectives on the Evolving World of Art and the Pressing Issues It Addresses in Tremont

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Winter offers a number of opportunities to engage with powerful, innovative, and thought-provoking creations at Tremont’s galleries and bars. Stop in during Walkabout Tremont (second Friday of each month) for multiple opening receptions, or any other time to see all that’s on display. Here are some highlights: Kaiser Gallery Offers Several Distinct, Thought-Provoking Exhibits2418 Professor AvenueArts Leadership Residency Cohort Exhibition, […]

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The Cleveland Show, at YARDS

In 1796, Moses Cleaveland probably wasn’t thinking about how art would play a vital role in the cultural development of the city. It took about eighty years for artists to develop a presence in Cleveland. In 1876, Cleveland painter Archibald Willard exhibited his work The Spirit of ’76 at The Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia and returned to Cleveland to form […]

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Zygote, Praxis, SPACES, MORGAN Group Holiday Sale

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In case you haven’t heard, last year Zygote joined forces with Praxis Fiber Workshop and SPACES Gallery to have a group Holiday Sale – and just recently, the Morgan Art of Papermaking joined too! That’s right, all FOUR organizations will be holding a Holiday Members’ Showcase across all four locations! The exhibitions open Friday, December 1 and run through Saturday, […]

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From Canvas to Composition: Art and Poetry Converge at Valley Art Center

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Valley Art Center (VAC) is thrilled to announce the 52nd Annual Juried Art Exhibition, where visual art and poetry converge, running through December 13. Artists hailing from a 250-mile radius submitted their works to be juried by an esteemed panel: McKenzie Beynon from Kink Contemporary, Anastasia Pantsios of CoolCleveland.com, and Gina Washington of The Visit Arts Collective. Returning this year […]

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Form and Function: the Object as Art and Art as Object, at Context

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Utility. How can a work of art be used beyond decoration? Ideas set forth by the Arts and Crafts movement, Constructivism, and the Bauhaus still largely influence how artists today approach their work to create unique objects meant to perform dual functions: that of use, and that of aesthetic and artistic beauty. Functional Geometries brings together works in ceramics, glass, […]

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Honoring the Land: Baker, O’Sickey, and Tyrrell at Bostwick Design Partnership

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Three artists extend the landscape to others by freezing a moment: calculated, exuberant, and ineluctable, no matter if that landscape rides a riot of Fauve-inspired color, or stretches the delineation of deep graphite across white paper. This trio—Lawrence Baker, Joseph O’Sickey, and Brinsley Tyrrell—share a connection to Kent State University, and a fascination with the landscape. Baker studied with O’Sickey […]

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Amber N. Ford’s “Untitled: I Really Just Made This Work So I Could Heal,” at Akhsó Gallery

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Long before the Black Girl Magic movement of recent years, community educator and gender studies scholar bell hooks called for loving blackness as a form of political resistance. In 1992, her now famous collection of essays, Black Looks was published with goal of “transforming our ways of looking and being, and thus creat[ing] the conditions necessary for [Black people] to move […]

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Lusenhop Fine Art, on Lee Road in Cleveland Heights, opens with works of Dawoud Bey

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David Lusenhop’s celebrated career as an independent scholar and collector of African American art spans several decades, and includes sales to dozens of American museums, including several transactions–by sale as well as donation–to the Cleveland Museum of Art. He describes himself merely as “a conduit.” But he is so much more. He recently opened Lusenhop Fine Art, a quaint storefront […]

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Tethered: Bernadette Glorioso and Dott Schneider, at the Hildebrandt

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In their artist statement, Bernadette Glorioso and Dott Schneider explain Tethered as “a conversation about breaking free from restrictions and expectations,” and as collaboration between two artists who met earlier this year while installing work in a group exhibition. The new show of paintings–done in oil or mixed media on canvas, in varying square or rectangular dimensions–is not experimental in […]

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