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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For hundreds of years, musical instruments have been designed to please both the eye and the ear. Instruments such as violins and celli, woodwind and brass instruments, and keyboard instruments like the piano and pipe organ, have been created for both immaculate sound production and overall visual appeal. The achievements of famous instrument builders like Stradivarius and Amati come to […]
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Art is alive and well at Judson Park, a retirement community bridging Cleveland Heights and University Circle. The community features two galleries with exhibits that are free and open to the public. Bi-monthly exhibits in the intimate Howson Gallery spotlight local and nationally known visual artists working in a variety of media. Friday gallery openings attract both residents and neighbors […]
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HEDGE Gallery is proud to present its first solo exhibition with established Cleveland artist Nikki Woods, opening September 15, 5 to 9pm. Since her last exhibit at the Gallery in the summer of 2015, Nikki Woods’ artistic style and use of medium have evolved to reflect her commentary on current political and sociological issues, but her undying love for paint […]
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The dual galleries of Harris Stanton are pleased to present an exciting fall exhibition series featuring artists working in a variety of media. People, Places, and Things opens our fall season at our Cleveland location. The group show featuring the work of Laura Bidwell, Chris Felver, and Rita Montlack is Harris Stanton’s first photography exhibition in many years. Although working […]
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Over the last seven years, the Eastman Reading Garden at Cleveland Public Library has been home to some of the most fascinating public art as part of the See Also series. Each summer, LAND studio partners with Cleveland Public Library to bring creative, innovative, and thought-provoking works of art to this already beautiful public space. Following a politically divisive year, […]
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