When my wife Laura and I opened Transformer Station in early 2013, we hoped it would be an artistic success. After almost five years, 20 exhibitions and scores of concerts and events, I think we can claim progress towards that goal. The success that we didn’t expect was the impact our investment had in the neighborhood. The lively sidewalk scene […]
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When a non-print-based artist wonders about the possibilities of printmaking and what the medium offers, it is usually a mixed bag. The backwards thing, the lack of immediacy and too much process are responses that are all too often a deterrent for artists to see inside the incredible Candyland of print. Many artists took a print class years ago and […]
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The Waterloo Arts Juried Exhibition ran this year from June 2 to July 21. The exhibition features recent work from American and Canadian artists, many of whom are from northeast Ohio. Amy Callahan, executive director at Waterloo Arts, noted the importance of displaying the Cleveland artists alongside their national counterparts: viewers familiar with Cleveland art gain a fresh perspective on […]
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On a recent trip to Rome, I discovered the amazing work of a talented Italian jewelry designer and made it my mission to bring some of her work back to my gallery here in Cleveland. Spazio Manassei Gioielli is the passion of Monica Coscioni who hails from an ancient Etruscan town, Orvieto. She draws the inspiration for her designs from […]
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Fin, Fur & Feather Valley Art Center’s fall exhibit features creatures of the sea, the earth and the air. Artists were encouraged to interpret and depict any class of animal, domestic or wild, using their choice of media. Join VAC for an opening reception on Friday, September 1, from 6 to 8pm to see what artists from near and […]
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Art production has no native country, no capital city, no president, and only that one law about beauty and truth. I think about this as I round a rainy corner in heavy traffic, on a mission to see John Nativio’s profoundly beautiful, mysteriously truthful paintings. Those works seem to describe a distant corner of emotional/mathematical space, but they’re natives of […]
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Stop us if you’ve heard this one. A man walks into a bar. All around him, people are imbibing, socializing, noshing. Liquor bottles are colorfully reflected in a wall-length mirror. Tables and chairs are generic brown wood. Some furniture (like the occasional patron) is a bit unsteady—stabilized perhaps by folded napkins or matchbooks shoved under one leg. Soft light, non-descript […]
Read moreYou’re invited to visit Stella’s Art Gallery located in the Matchworks Building in Mentor! We are the area’s only working art gallery offering affordable paintings, photography, pottery, jewelry, mosaics, upcycled art, ink and graphite drawings and more. There are 31 local artists represented at Stella’s currently with room for more. Many have studios in the gallery where they create […]
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Intaglio is a true labor of love. It is an art form that is antiquated yet irreplaceable. Below the Surface features work by 23 artists unified by their use of intaglio printing techniques including etching and engraving. Intaglio is a printmaking technique where the image is incised into a surface, typically a copper or zinc plate, and the recessed area […]
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Brown is the color of warm dirt beneath the feet of children running around the mountaintop village, where people rise earlier than the sun. And, when the sun recedes behind the highest peaks, the brown people blend back into their mud-built homes. This is the vision in the mind of Elmi L. Ventura Mata, the latest artist to be seen […]
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