Rick Rollenhagen: The Spirituality of Spontaneity Multi-medium artist Rick Rollenhagen enlightens Maria Neil Art Project and its viewers to close out 2022 and help us usher in 2023. His stone sculptures capture elements of spirituality derived through the process of carving, and the drawings and prints create forms quickly-rendered and later elaborated. Goddesses and gods of the European Middle Ages […]
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In his sketchbooks, Pablo Picasso often made drawings where, by pressing hard, he would create an imprint transferred to the following page. He would be greeted with a trace on the subsequent page that presented a template for changing the image later, gradually or radically. The opportunity to create multiples and develop work through a series is best celebrated with […]
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In early November, Transformer Station opens a major exhibition of photographs by Gregory Halpern, 19 Winters/7 Springs, a show that spans nineteen years’ work made in Halpern’s hometown of Buffalo and the surrounding Erie County in Western New York. Comprising approximately fifty mid- to large-scale color prints and additional tabletop sculptures, the exhibition leads viewers through a poetic visual survey […]
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Lauren Yeager has a lot of plastic in her studio. “I have basically been doing a mad sprint to gather as much material as I can before the weather breaks,” she says. “Volumetric, plastic consumer stuff. A lot of coolers. I am always finding coolers. You can’t avoid that, really.” Yeager’s race is on, because a proposal by SPACES Gallery […]
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Laurence Channing had his first one-person show in 1991 at the William Busta Gallery on Murray Hill Road, Cleveland. His charcoal drawings, at once romantic and elegant and disquieting, found an audience in exhibitions that followed in 1992, 1994, and 1995. In 1997 he also presented prints—three drypoints and a lithograph. In the next few years he created five additional […]
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A Day No One Will Remember: Donald Black Jr. “A Day No One Will Remember is a collection of images assembled over the course of several years. I decided to take a detour on my creative journey and return home to Cleveland, Ohio. I started creating images that only an insider could see and began to make images that reflected […]
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CAN Fall Issue Despite the honored position that the name Cleaveland holds in the city’s history, it is the incorrect spelling, Cleveland, without the extra “a,” that is our city’s name. One legend has it that in 1830 the city’s newspaper could not fit the “a” in its headline, so the city became Cleveland. Using 21st century technology, the shorthand of […]
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John W. Carlson’s art and life are being celebrated by an exhibition at HEDGE gallery and the ARTneo Museum. Primarily known for his paintings, Carlson also created a remarkable body of works on paper, which will be showcased in ARTneo’s intimate gallery. It will include many prints and drawings on view for the first time and serve as a complement […]
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Over the last three years, Amber Kempthorn has drawn, written, directed, and produced four animations that visually translate British composer Benjamin Britten’s Four Sea Interludes into familiar scenes from the Northeast Ohio region. Created in collaboration with the Akron production studio Red Point Digital, Ordinary Magic: A Sunday in the Cuyahoga Valley is supported in part by a grant from […]
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Printmaker Maggie Denk-Leigh, chair of the Cleveland Institute of Art’s Printmaking Department, has participated in the college’s annual Faculty Exhibition more than twenty times during her career. She finds the experience valuable. Like her colleagues, all of whom are practicing artists and designers, Denk-Leigh balances personal goals and her studio practice with responding to the learning environment at CIA. The […]
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