Each school year offers a fresh start. For artists, a new beginning can mean new ideas, materials, and practices as they encounter a blank canvas or a bundle of cardboard and plastic. Last Fall, Art House Teaching Artists embraced this new school year with freshness, and their collaborative artworks showcase this energy. Jo Lefebvre introduced International Newcomers Academy students to […]
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Art Books Cleveland will present a unique exhibit at the Beachwood Community Art Center from April 29 through May 26. The exhibit will include an artists’ reception from 6:00 to 8:00pm on May 6. This exhibit will introduce the public to the numerous forms, materials, and themes employed by contemporary book artists. In addition, it will place the book artist […]
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Delayed by two years due to the pandemic—and after appearing at Museum Wiesbaden, Hauser & Wirth New York, and mumok in Vienna—this exhibition of more than seventy works on paper by artist Eva Hesse returns to Northeast Ohio for its run at the Allen Memorial Art Museum, on the campus of Oberlin College. Drawn entirely from the Allen’s collection, Forms […]
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Herman Aguirre’s Vamos a darnos una vuelta al cielo [Let’s give heaven a visit] is a densely rich and truly unusual artwork. Most painters use their materials to make a picture on the surface of a canvas. While Aguirre does some of that, he also treats paint as a sculptural substance: building it up to represent leaves, flower petals, […]
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The Artists Archives of the Western Reserve (AAWR) is thrilled to announce the launch of the online catalog of its permanent collection of Ohio art. Featuring over 10,000 works from 89 watershed artists, the digital database positions the vast wealth of the region’s visual culture squarely at the public’s fingertips. “We hope that this database becomes a resource not only […]
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Abby Cipar’s art has a way of calling to you from afar. It was a cold, dark evening in Akron and I was driving home from class. As I prepared to turn left from Broadway onto Market Street, I looked over my shoulder at the ornate façade of Summit Artspace. It’s a habit—I work there, after all. Cipar’s wonderfully […]
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One of the joys of the annual DayGlo show at Waterloo Arts (February 4 – 26) is that it celebrates something so very Cleveland: an industrial product that is right at home in the art world. DayGlo is a Cleveland-based industrial manufacturer of fluorescent pigment: their customers are other manufacturing companies that use the pigment to make vividly colorful packaging […]
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For decades, the City of Cleveland, has had a scarce commitment to the support of the arts and cultural sector. In particular, the creative workforce—the individual people who actually do the creating– has been exceedingly undervalued. Those are people hit hard by the COVID crisis. Currently the arts sector, coordinated by Assembly for the Arts, is asking Cleveland City […]
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Meagan Smith’s Waves & Twills illuminates KINK Contemporary’s space, beckoning us to dive in. From afar, the woven compositions are a rainbowed pool; up close, a symphony of stitches. The artist surrounds us with undulating color and movement. A competitive swimmer, Smith thrives on the physically demanding process of weaving. Her solo exhibition explores the representation of fluid systems, […]
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The Curators for CAN Triennial 2022 : You Are Here have considered several hundred applications and took an additional month to make their choices, but on January 31 announced the artists they have chosen for the exhibition. CAN Triennial 2022: You Are Here is a city-wide exhibition of Northeast Ohio art making, concurrent with FRONT International Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary […]
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