It’s not just anyone who can donate of a body of work to the Cleveland Museum of Art and have it accepted, much less exhibited in a one-person career-spanning retrospective. But Ann Baumann’s 2005 gift of works by her father Gustave Baumann made the cut. Indeed, the museum followed the artist’s career since the early 20th century, lucky for us. […]
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The New Now, Artists Archives of the Western Reserve’s biennial staple of the Northeast Ohio exhibition calendar, showcases a juried collection of artists from throughout the region. Partnering with Cuyahoga Community College, the exhibition is normally held at Tri-C’s Gallery East. This year, however, it has been moved to an online format on the Archives’ website. Cat Sheridan, the […]
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If you are curious as to what the last four to 400 years have felt like living in a feminine and/or female, queer, brown, black, disabled, poor, mentally ill body, art is a place to begin your empathetic and sensuous exploration. Even better, if haven’t visited Kaiser Gallery on Professor Avenue in Tremont, founder-curator Tanya Kaiser creates a welcoming, […]
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The 75th annual CIA Student Independent Exhibition is of unusual interest, not just for all the perennial art and education reasons, but also as creative testimony to the deep impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on students and on artists generally. Organized by a student committee, the works on view were selected by a group of artist/educator jurors recruited from around […]
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The impact of humans on the planet is a great subject for art audiences these days. That’s not just because it matters, which of course it does in an existential crisis kind-of-way, but also because people know enough and are beginning to care enough to relate to it. They’ve heard on the news, and even seen for themselves how […]
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Abattoir is on a mission to highlight the best of Northeast Ohio and put it in a larger context by bringing new voices into Cleveland and to take Cleveland voices out into the world. Operated by Lisa Kurzner and Rose Burlingham, the gallery seeks to create a space for contemporary art. Their current exhibition, Thought Forms, John Pearson, Scott […]
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It’s a question just about everyone faces at some point in elementary school: Who are your heroes? But if that makes it sound simple, odds are you haven’t had to think very much about who inspires you, or who to look to as a role model. Deep Roots Experience opened Who Are Your Heroes February 20. Curators David Ramsey and […]
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The perception of value has been at the heart of Dale Goode’s artistic practice in recent years. That has been manifest in sculptural works made of scavenged material, often covered in fabric, spray painted metallic gold. It was an interesting point to make during the FRONT Triennial in 2018, when he presented a cube of compacted aluminum cans, covered in […]
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Several works by Quinn Alexandria Hunter are on view at Praxis Fiber Workshop until February 28 as part of the powerful exhibition “I Hear You Now, I See You Then”. A sculptor and performance artist from North Carolina, Hunter recently completed her MFA work at Ohio University. Primarily she works with hair as a medium, which she uses to recreate […]
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The effort to get additional public money to support the arts in Cuyahoga County is a lesson in taking what you can get. That’s been true from the beginning, but the current push to extend the cigarette tax beyond just cigarettes makes the point all over again. Counties seeking authority to tax for a specific purpose have to get permission […]
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