From exploring the themes of gender, race, and culture through interactive installations to the whimsical fun of music posters to turning the lens on the inside of Cleveland’s steel mills, there’s a lot happening in Tremont’s galleries throughout the spring and during Walkabout Tremont (the second Friday of every month). There’s also art on display inside some of Tremont’s legendary […]
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Valley Art Center is dedicated to bringing joy to our community through art. In line with this mission, we are excited to announce a new public art project in celebration of both World Art Day and Earth Day. VAC is partnering with artist Ron Shelton, who creates environmental displays from ordinary objects that are often made of unstainable materials. He […]
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On view in Waterloo Arts’ main gallery through March 25 is I Paint Houses, a site-responsive collection of three-dimensional paintings by Alex Vlasov. Undercutting the art historical weight of the term “painting,” Vlasov’s newest body of work playfully constructs a relationship between raw building materials, fluorescent color, and the everyday as a canvas. Mitered angles of construction lumber halo lively […]
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Sculpting has been a thread through sculptor and ceramicist Kristen Newell’s life beginning with small animals made of Sculpey™ clay. These days, she creates larger than life figures at her studio in the Hildebrandt Artist Collective. Two figures, I know it Isn’t Right (2023) and Point of Contact (2023)—Kristen’s latest works—are of the raw clay body style that she has […]
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The artists in The Infinite Mix filter and play with the absurd in a time and space that seems so damn upside-down and surreal. It is very much like the moment in which Man Ray developed his early artistic approaches during the Dada movement. Shaped by the trauma of World War I and the emergence of a modern media culture, […]
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Thanks to a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, all of Zygote Press’s 2023 residency programs are fully supported, including our Black, Indigenous and Artists of Color Fellowship—which is now in its fourth cohort. Each BIPOC fellow participates in a ten-week program that gives them the opportunity to learn a variety of printmaking techniques, including silkscreen, etching, lithography, […]
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As artists of all kinds navigated the pandemic, online communities became a thing—not only as a way to conduct business, but to keep in touch with collaborators, and even to bring art to the public. Online performances by orchestras, for example, became emblematic of the era: a matrix of individual frames on a computer screen, one musician in each frame […]
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Complex, photo-based assemblages that are equally beautiful and unsettling—telling stories that can be uncomfortable and transformative—are the thoughtful byproduct of artist Christopher Pekoc’s inventive collage works. Pekoc is widely known for his experimental mixed-media pieces that are often life-sized and incorporate stitching, paint, and polyester film that is sanded, scratched, and coated. Formerly a drawing instructor at Case Western Reserve […]
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For more than 10 years, Loren Naji’s iconic sculpture “They Have Landed” sat politely on a slip of greenspace in front of the West 25th RTA station, but now it’s gone. “They just threw it away,” said Naji during a Feb. 16 phone interview. “Can you imagine?” Its role as public art was clear: The sculpture was marked with a […]
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Orlando Caraballo and Jennifer Whitten are a serendipitous pairing at Akron Soul Train, elevating domesticity through both subject matter and materials. Whitten’s Intricacies and Caraballo’s Capicú are on view concurrently through March 4th. Cleveland native Orlando Caraballo is the education director at the Cleveland Print Room and earned his B.F.A. in drawing and printmaking from the Cleveland Institute of Art. […]
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