Rick Rollenhagen: The Spirituality of Spontaneity Multi-medium artist Rick Rollenhagen enlightens Maria Neil Art Project and its viewers to close out 2022 and help us usher in 2023. His stone sculptures capture elements of spirituality derived through the process of carving, and the drawings and prints create forms quickly-rendered and later elaborated. Goddesses and gods of the European Middle Ages […]
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In his sketchbooks, Pablo Picasso often made drawings where, by pressing hard, he would create an imprint transferred to the following page. He would be greeted with a trace on the subsequent page that presented a template for changing the image later, gradually or radically. The opportunity to create multiples and develop work through a series is best celebrated with […]
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In early November, Transformer Station opens a major exhibition of photographs by Gregory Halpern, 19 Winters/7 Springs, a show that spans nineteen years’ work made in Halpern’s hometown of Buffalo and the surrounding Erie County in Western New York. Comprising approximately fifty mid- to large-scale color prints and additional tabletop sculptures, the exhibition leads viewers through a poetic visual survey […]
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El Poder del Arte Latino / The Power of Latino Art opened September 23 at Future Ink Graphics gallery at the Pivot Center. The exhibition brings together a couple of generations of Cleveland artists of Latin ancestry: some well-known, some not so much. The title of the show has the power to draw viewers in via identity. The content shows […]
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Lauren Yeager has a lot of plastic in her studio. “I have basically been doing a mad sprint to gather as much material as I can before the weather breaks,” she says. “Volumetric, plastic consumer stuff. A lot of coolers. I am always finding coolers. You can’t avoid that, really.” Yeager’s race is on, because a proposal by SPACES Gallery […]
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Before the Summer of 2022, the Ashtabula Art Center was probably far from the minds of most Cleveland artists—and maybe even most artists of Northeast Ohio. But the recent announcement of winners of the inaugural Paul and Norma Tikkanen Prizes for painting may change that. There are two top prizes, $12,000 each—one for abstraction, and another for realism. There are […]
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Momentum is fragile, but with the re-convening last week of the Arts Impact Ohio state-wide conference for the for the first time since before the COVID Pandemic, the Ohio Arts Council seems to have some. The conference took up major issues of the day, including the need for major institutions to back up diversity rhetoric with action. Some history is […]
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Detritus makes luminous patterns worth following in Gina Washington’s Monday’s Child, now at Prama Art Galleries through Sunday, October 17, 2022. Based on the poem “Monday’s Child,” one of the nursery rhymes-meet-fortune telling NOUNS, Washington’s show galvanizes the singsong with splendid, large collages of family members whose births aligns with each day. “I work with these connected-to-childhood sayings and fairytales […]
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An automobile’s innards, parted out in exploded schematics, can be strangely lascivious. And elegant. Seneca Kuchar’s On Blocks: Repair Manual for an American Dream, at Waterloo Arts through Saturday, October 1, 2022, presents the breakdown of things unseen: car guts, rendered for delectation in colors not found in automotive factories, on mylar and steel and cellophane. Large sheets of opaque […]
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From the initial announcement of curators, to interviewing them about their plans, to individual reviews of specific installations, CAN Journal and CAN Blog have extensively covered the 2022 FRONT Cleveland International Triennial for Contemporary Art. To make it easy to get an overview, we’ve gathered all our coverage here, with links to full posts and stories. I Think Its Absolutely […]
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