Susan Squires Reflects on the Memory of Trees

There’s a spirituality in nature that is simply felt. There’s no real defining this feeling, it just is. Susan Squires taps into this mindful awareness in her current exhibition, Nature Studies, at the Shaker Lakes Nature Center. On view through Monday, March 27, the show consists largely of small works of encaustic on wood slabs. The works focus on what […]

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Beyond Function: The Ceramics of Judith Salomon

Judith Salomon, recipient of the 1990 Cleveland Arts Prize for Visual Arts, creates slab-built functional ceramic vessels. But function isn’t her primary focus. She stated in a 1978 Plain Dealer article, “I’m concerned with their being useful, but I think a good pot shows an expression of who made it. There’s something that catches the eye, a feeling for it.” […]

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ARTneo presents works of Andy Dreamingwolf, plus Cleveland Creates

Pop & Circumstance: Works by Andy Dreamingwolf March 18 – May  19, 2017 Through a photorealistic sense of nostalgia, Andy Dreamingwolf creates works that examine the paralleled history of the pharmaceutical and soft drink industries. Between the 1850s and the turn of the twentieth century, the pharmaceutical industry was comprised of traditional botanicals and was beginning to develop new synthetic […]

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Mary Spain’s Curious Distortions

This fall, ARTneo expands into the Ramp Level gallery at 78th Street Studios to present Curious Distortions, an exhibition of works by Mary Spain (1934-1983). Set in a realm of fantasy, Mary Spain’s work exhibits oddly distorted figures in a child-like manner with an underlying sense of absurdity. Through her toylike and primitive style, Spain created surrealistic dramas that puzzle […]

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