Tom Schorgl is best known in Cleveland as the researcher, policy maker, and advocate who led the Community Partnership for the Arts and Culture (CPAC) and built the argument for public support of the Arts in Cuyahoga County. His work on that front eventually led to the creation of Cuyahoga Arts and Culture. Schorgl’s training, though, and his commitment […]
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BLUE EXHIBITION BOX: W2S 2018 Early Career Sculptor Series Jonas Sebura: Confounded into Unitary Chaos and Anthony Warnick: Language Games on view March 9 – April 13 Matt Lambert: Fun & Games and Eli Gfell: post-consumer on view April 27 – June 1 The Sculpture Center 1834 East 123rd Street Cleveland, Ohio 44106 216-229-6527
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Anthony Mitri (Closing at September Third Friday) A Cleveland native, Anthony Mitri has been drawing and painting most of his life. Before focusing strictly on the realistic charcoal drawings he is known for, Mitri completed a series of 22 abstract landscape paintings from 2000-2002. He was experimenting with a technique of building up many layers of very thin oil washes […]
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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,” […]
Read moreAre you looking to buy a Jackson Pollock? I’ll wager you didn’t know you could buy one right here in Cleveland tomorrow – well, if you make the winning bid. Most people are familiar with the big name auction houses – Sotheby’s and Christies move original works of art by famous artists like Pollock regularly. But there is a thriving secondary […]
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We all know one. That person who’s incredibly talented but isn’t doing anything with it. The boy who could draw so effortlessly in grade school… now he’s a corporate IT director. Or that girl in high school who wrote poetry that made you cry… she’s a nurse. Maybe it’s your friend who actually went to art school but is hanging […]
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I became executive director of Art House early in the Spring of 2016. This is a short list of highlights, both from our community-based events, and the progress of the organization during my first year: The First Annual ABC Chili Cook-Off: A very warming, fun introduction to the Art House community Making new friends (including Metro Zoo staff) Bringing more […]
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The folks at SPACES really know how to throw a good party – and their grand opening weekend on January 14 and 15 did not disappoint. It was two days of performances, temporary installations, delightful food and drink, and of course some dancing. During the Saturday night “Roving Housewarming Party” nearly 30 area artists either contributed art or gave performances; […]
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Cleveland painter Frank Oriti recently moved into a new studio in the Screw Factory. Much larger than his previous space, sunlight pours into the room through an immense wall of windows. His tools and easels are all carefully set and at the ready, and giant heaps of oil paint wait for his brushes. I have been an admirer of Oriti’s portrait paintings […]
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Somewhere in my attic there is a box filled with tattered and torn old zines. I’ve held on to these photocopied and unevenly stapled collections of anarchist poems, punk album reviews, crude drawings, and suburban-nihilist thought for over twenty years. But zines have moved beyond my limited, largely 1990’s perception, and are starting to get their “fair dues” as an art form. MOCA Cleveland […]
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