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Honoring the Land: Baker, O’Sickey, and Tyrrell at Bostwick Design Partnership

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Three artists extend the landscape to others by freezing a moment: calculated, exuberant, and ineluctable, no matter if that landscape rides a riot of Fauve-inspired color, or stretches the delineation of deep graphite across white paper. This trio—Lawrence Baker, Joseph O’Sickey, and Brinsley Tyrrell—share a connection to Kent State University, and a fascination with the landscape. Baker studied with O’Sickey […]

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Amber N. Ford’s “Untitled: I Really Just Made This Work So I Could Heal,” at Akhsó Gallery

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Long before the Black Girl Magic movement of recent years, community educator and gender studies scholar bell hooks called for loving blackness as a form of political resistance. In 1992, her now famous collection of essays, Black Looks was published with goal of “transforming our ways of looking and being, and thus creat[ing] the conditions necessary for [Black people] to move […]

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Lusenhop Fine Art, on Lee Road in Cleveland Heights, opens with works of Dawoud Bey

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David Lusenhop’s celebrated career as an independent scholar and collector of African American art spans several decades, and includes sales to dozens of American museums, including several transactions–by sale as well as donation–to the Cleveland Museum of Art. He describes himself merely as “a conduit.” But he is so much more. He recently opened Lusenhop Fine Art, a quaint storefront […]

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Tethered: Bernadette Glorioso and Dott Schneider, at the Hildebrandt

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In their artist statement, Bernadette Glorioso and Dott Schneider explain Tethered as “a conversation about breaking free from restrictions and expectations,” and as collaboration between two artists who met earlier this year while installing work in a group exhibition. The new show of paintings–done in oil or mixed media on canvas, in varying square or rectangular dimensions–is not experimental in […]

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CAN Journal Announces Archiving Partnerships

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Now in its second decade, Collective Arts Network is proud to announce archiving partnerships with five of Northeast Ohio’s most respected libraries and collecting institutions: The Cleveland Museum of Art Ingalls Library, Case Western Reserve University Kelvin Smith Library, Cleveland Public Library, Cleveland Institute of Art’s Jessica R. Gund Memorial Library, and Artists Archives of the Western Reserve. The project […]

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Context Fine Art debuts with Shapes of Abstraction: Nine Women Artists

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Context Fine Art, the new gallery located on the third floor of 78th Street Studios, premiered in September with Shapes of Abstraction: Nine Women Artists. A partnership between artist Justin Brennan and art historian Christopher Richards, Context is a space for abstract art to be considered and reconsidered in thought-provoking configurations. This exhibition highlights Context’s promising potential as a smart, […]

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Take Cover

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Planning for the CAN Journal Archive party has us looking back through the years at art on the cover of every issue of CAN Journal. The cover of any publication is an iconic space, as Shel Silverstein and Dr. Hook noted about Rolling Stone, and all the more so for a quarterly magazine about art. In just under 12 years, […]

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Degas at CMA: Elevating the Laundress

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Laundry. Whether the word evokes dazzling white sheets billowing along a clothesline or a basket brimming with unmentionables, the uniquely human task is as universal as it is mundane. However it’s perceived, the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) is elevating the humble work of washing and ironing with Degas and the Laundress: Women, Work, and Impressionism. “The exhibition looks at […]

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