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So, what is this Loren Naji Studio Gallery in Ohio City, and what is Loren trying to do? Affordable real estate in this sort of  rundown section of West 25th Street enabled me to realize my dream art space in this budding, urban West Side Market  neighborhood eleven years ago.   I purchased this double store-front building back in 2001 and intended for it to serve as my […]

This spring, in partnership with The Cleveland Foundation’s Creative Fusion Program, Art House has the privilege of hosting international artist Alka Mathur, from New Delhi, India. As one of six host organizations in the city, Art House is  delighted to have this wonderful opportunity.   Born in Ajmer, Rajasthan, India, Mathur graduated in fine arts from the Sir J. J. School of Arts, Mumbai. Working in  mixed media, she […]

Two of Hollywood’s most talented personalities have Cleveland roots and are returning home to talk about what it means to be from Cleveland and how a regional personality and perspective takes shape. On April 25th, Modern Family  executive producer Dan O’Shannon and Community’s Yvette Nicole Brown will be at the Cleveland Public Library for a  free and lighthearted dialogue titled Who We Are: Comedy, Tragedy, & Cleveland.   Cleveland, once […]

William Busta Gallery: Most people take their outdoor photographs outdoors, don’t they?   Lori Kella: Yes I’m sure most do, but I was always dissatisfied with the exact scene in front of me, so I started building  landscapes myself. By creating artificial worlds I can merge different parts of the landscape as well as different places. In  my photographs I create a world that is partly based on […]

This summ er marks my five year anniversary as a working artist in the Screw Factory. When I moved in, I was  surrounded by studios under construction. Expansion had just begun from the established studios on the second floor. I  heard about the building from a friend, and as a transplanted resident of Lakewood, I was intrigued. After years of taking  my ceramics from show to show I saw […]

In May, 2013, the Cleveland Artists Foundation celebrates the range and excellence of art and designs created by members of Cleveland’s early Modernist art community. Cleveland has long been remarkable among American cities for the whole-hearted way in which its artist community embraced Modernism during the early years of the twentieth  century. Encouraged by a close relationship with the Cleveland School of Art, regional modernism flourished far from the  European […]

Recently gallerist and art dealer Bill Tregoning examined some remarkable contemporary photographs created through 19th century techniques. Artist-photographer Christopher Pekoc was the conduit; Pekoc was stricken by the  photographs, as was Tregoning—enough so that the gallerist invited Pekoc to curate an exhibition featuring the four  photographers’ work. The simultaneous notion of looking forward and backward invokes the Roman god of the New Year: Janus –depicted in antiquity in double profile, simultaneously looking left […]

Life Through the Ages This exhibition highlights artwork depicting animal life from prehistoric times to the present through sculpture,  paintings and prints by a wide variety of artists. Charles R. Knight became the first American artist to portray prehistoric  life through his murals at major natural history museums. His acute observations of contemporary animal anatomy and  a vivid imagination enabled him to accomplish this unique work. His large oil painting […]

Zygote Press has an active and growing internship program. In exchange for 10 hours of work each month, interns get  full access to the studio along with other benefits including opportunities to teach and take classes at Zygote. Recently, I  chatted with Nicole Schneider to discuss her five years as a Zygote intern and what has followed. She began as Gallery  Coordinator in 2008 right after graduating with a […]

My artist friends know the drill. When my studio door is propped open with a paint can, that’s my invitation to come in.  Maybe I’ve been holed up in my studio for hours, and the fumes from my oil paints are beginning to get to me. Or maybe  I’m heading down a precarious new path and need an empathic soul and a fresh set of eyes to […]