Mark Common paints landscapes almost exclusively, and he says in a statement on the wall at ArtiCle Gallery, “I sometimes derisively mock my work as just pretty pictures.” He adds, “on a certain level, I hope that is true.” And in fact it is, as you can see if you check out Mark Common – Oil Paintings at Article Gallery […]
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Artist Jim Soppelsa returns to Article Gallery with Playing In The Present—New Paintings from Friday, August 4, through Thursday, August 24. A formal approach to visual composition has been a lifelong quest of Jim Soppelsa. Beginning with sketches using the elements of shape, color and line, Jim explores dynamic energies, tensions and movement across the canvas. His earlier studies in […]
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Kathy Skerritt, the Cleveland painter, installation, and mixed media artist, passed away August 28, at age 64, after resisting cancer for eight years. She was my closest art friend over the last five years. The following brief impressions are necessarily personal. Kathy’s luminous personality loomed over the warp and weft of her creative soul and work. She understood: being comes […]
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Jim Soppelsa grew up with an appreciation of art and design. Jim’s father, A.J. Soppelsa, a talented Cleveland commercial and fine artist, instilled in his son a love of line, color and shape—and a fascination with what he termed “the abstract.” Graduating from the Cooper School of Art in 1974 with a major in communication design, Jim began his […]
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Painters Kathy Skerritt and Rita DiCello, ceramic artists Diane Pinchot and Bob Marrone, photographer Al Fuchs, mixed-media artist Susan Ross and assemblage artist Louis Ross, explore the theme of The Elemental Imagination through intuitive and narrative-based artistic responses to the natural world and our current human presence or possible future absence in it. Concerned with the acceleration of climate and […]
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Lakeland Community College’s Gallery Director Mary Urbas brings her artistic passion and curatorial skills to ArtiCle Gallery with a full schedule of captivating summer exhibitions. Mary’s commitment to regional outreach and creative collaboration has forged a growing partnership among visual artists in the Cleveland arts community. ArtiCle Gallery is proud to present Mary’s vision. Lisa Eastman: Nocturne June 1 Walk […]
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As you walk around Article (Art in Cleveland) gallery on Waterloo Road looking at its latest show Claiming Our Space and Place, curated by Gallery at Lakeland director Mary Urbas, you find your perceptions shifting. Sometimes you’ll hear the individual voices of the three artists clearly, and at other times they’ll blend, as if they are one voice, a hive […]
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Halfway, gum bichromate prints by Becky Grasser, explores her shifting experience of time and space through past, present and future as a result of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. PTSD is a mental health condition triggered by witnessing or experiencing a traumatic event. “The images are, on the surface, images of bridges in various states of being built, crumbling, and being rebuilt,” […]
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