Late last year, the Cleveland Foundation contacted Deba Gray and Serena Harrigan of Gray’s Auctioneers. The Foundation was whittling down its art collection in preparation for its upcoming move to MidTown and identified some works that they did not have a place for. They decided to generate income by putting these works up for auction at Gray’s, with the proceeds […]
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Being a recent transplant from Greater Cleveland to the Akron area, I was unfamiliar with most of the artists in Summit Artspace’s annual FRESH exhibition. Now in its 18th year, the juried show is open only to artists in Summit, Medina, and Portage counties. This year’s iteration presents 31 works selected from a total of 155 entries by Jared Ledesma, […]
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Gray’s Auctioneers will offer up a host of modern and contemporary art for its upcoming auction, including a unique little sculpture loaded with big local history. In November 1979, Clevelanders watched on as a dynamic public art installation rose before the new Frank J. Lausche State Office Building on the corner of West 6th Street and Superior. While a […]
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Abby Cipar’s art has a way of calling to you from afar. It was a cold, dark evening in Akron and I was driving home from class. As I prepared to turn left from Broadway onto Market Street, I looked over my shoulder at the ornate façade of Summit Artspace. It’s a habit—I work there, after all. Cipar’s wonderfully […]
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One of the joys of the annual DayGlo show at Waterloo Arts (February 4 – 26) is that it celebrates something so very Cleveland: an industrial product that is right at home in the art world. DayGlo is a Cleveland-based industrial manufacturer of fluorescent pigment: their customers are other manufacturing companies that use the pigment to make vividly colorful packaging […]
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For decades, the City of Cleveland, has had a scarce commitment to the support of the arts and cultural sector. In particular, the creative workforce—the individual people who actually do the creating– has been exceedingly undervalued. Those are people hit hard by the COVID crisis. Currently the arts sector, coordinated by Assembly for the Arts, is asking Cleveland City […]
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Meagan Smith’s Waves & Twills illuminates KINK Contemporary’s space, beckoning us to dive in. From afar, the woven compositions are a rainbowed pool; up close, a symphony of stitches. The artist surrounds us with undulating color and movement. A competitive swimmer, Smith thrives on the physically demanding process of weaving. Her solo exhibition explores the representation of fluid systems, […]
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The Curators for CAN Triennial 2022 : You Are Here have considered several hundred applications and took an additional month to make their choices, but on January 31 announced the artists they have chosen for the exhibition. CAN Triennial 2022: You Are Here is a city-wide exhibition of Northeast Ohio art making, concurrent with FRONT International Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary […]
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While virtual gallery tours, carry-out activities, and even drive-in performances all have had their magnificent places through the COVID pandemic, one of the most fitting responses was very old-school, and it resonated beautifully with the event it replaced: moCa Cleveland’s annual BOUND artist book and ‘zine fair, which had annually drawn art book and zine publishers curated by TR […]
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Photocentric’s recent exhibition, Altered felt like traveling in three different realms: through cities, through space or under water, or–in a macro vs micro way–examining tiny details of a gritty environment. The show brought together a group of photographers who just about couldn’t be more different. The completely distinct color palates and photographic pursuits of Rita Montlack, Steven Mastroianni, and John […]
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