Paul Tikkanen loved to paint, and he did it until the last day he was alive. According to Ashtabula Art Center director of visual art Nancy Brotz, staff at the assisted living facility where the artist lived said he had been working on art the day he passed away, in August,2020, at age 94. An exhibit of his work—Paul Tikkanen: […]
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Judy Takács has been one of the most prolific and visible artists in Northeast Ohio, for years. She’s a constant presence in group and juried shows, and has had multiple solo shows as well, including a current collection titled The Goddess Project: Innocents, on view in the intimate Chagrin Arts gallery in the center of Chagrin Falls. It’s on view […]
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Where We Overlap, on view in the Lewis Gallery at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland (moCa), is a shining example of the age old adage “We are more similar than we are different.” Curator Davon Brantley paired several artists with seemingly different styles and approaches, so that they could learn from each other and collaborate on works of art […]
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Momentum in the art scene or in a neighborhood is at best something that can’t be measured. The laws of physics do not apply. Still there is something to it, something precious and easily lost, but also something to build upon. KINK Contemporary co-owners Anna Young and McKenzie Beynon build on their gallery’s momentum in two ways this summer with […]
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Friends and colleagues are invited to celebrate the life of Marilyn Ladd Simmons in a memorial gathering at SPACES from 2 to 5 pm Sunday, May 22. “Ladd-Simmons worked for SPACES and in the thick of the Cleveland arts scene for over 30 years,” SPACES said in a press release. “She transitioned from art studies at Baldwin-Wallace College to full-time […]
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FRONT TRIENNIAL ARTISTIC DIRECTOR PREM KRISHNAMURTHY AND CURATOR ANNIE WISCHMEYER TALK ABOUT CURATION DURING A GLOBAL PANDEMIC Brittany Mariel Hudak recently sat down with Prem Krishnamurthy and Annie Wischmeyer in the Ames Family Atrium of the Cleveland Museum of Art to discuss their curatorial strategies, inspirations, and what we can expect for FRONT 2022. Their team had just held a […]
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Donald Black Jr. is a fine artist with a vision—you can ride with him or without him. We talk about selling art at an early age, what his camera is trying to say and the luxury of the (pre-assembled) Parachute Man. Also, if you make art Cleveland doesn’t see, is it still art? JIMI IZRAEL: Where you from, Mr. Black? […]
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NFTs are tokens that we can use to represent ownership of unique items. They let us tokenise things like art, collectibles, even real estate. They can only have one official owner at a time and they’re secured by the Ethereum blockchain – no one can modify the record of ownership or copy/paste a new NFT into existence. —Ethereum.org, accessed April […]
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I’m an editorial portrait photographer based in my hometown of Cleveland, Ohio. Since I picked up a camera nearly twenty years ago, my intention has always been to empower people to see the beauty within themselves, even if it’s only for a brief moment. When I’m not shooting, I enjoy pretending to be a cross-fit athlete, admiring the work of […]
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John Mellencamp’s career as a rock and roll musician has been familiar since he was known as Johnny Cougar, and his 1978 song “I Need A Lover” became a hit. He subsequently wrote and recorded many more beloved records full of songs set in the heartland, about regular people with names like Jack and Diane. His most recent album, Strictly […]
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