Black Artists from Cleveland and Beyond, at Framed Gallery

In the heart of the Waterloo Arts District, fashionista Stacey Bartels–owner of Framed Art Gallery–offers an impressive array of wooden and clay sculptures, oil on canvas paintings, photo-realistic nudes, and more from internationally and locally acclaimed Black artists that elevate and celebrate Black beauty. Presently on display, Cleveland native piercer, muralist, and other mixed media abstract artist Honey Pierre’s central […]

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David Buttram: Master Controller

David Buttram estimates that he went 42 years without having a solo show: between a 1982 exhibition at Karamu House (during which he says he sold every painting) and one in 2022 at Framed Gallery on Waterloo, he appeared regularly and was even sought-after for group shows, but didn’t get the spotlight himself, to present a broad collection of his […]

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Honey Pierre at Framed Gallery

Honey Pierre is more than a Black girl painting.  As an emerging artist, her ritual comes from a spiritual place using organic shapes, patterns, and flowing movements throughout her works. Likewise, she creates a unique style in her fiber works that captures the soul and spaces within her community. Pierre embraces her artistic expression with the use of weirdly positioned […]

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Framed Gallery Presents Austin, Olfus, and Gibson in Fall shows

Framed Gallery on Waterloo presents two new shows this fall, first introducing Cleveland artist Nathaniel F. Austin, and then showing new works of two artists familiar to the gallery’s regulars—Hampton Olfus and Michael Gibson. Nathaniel F. Austin, Opening October 6 As Nathaniel F. Austin says, “An Artist is a problem solver for an equation that has no definite solution.” Austin’s […]

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Framed Gallery Fall Shows: Tiffani Glenn and Buchi Upjohn

Tiffani Glenn: Rise to the Occasion: women empowered Tiffani Glenn draws upon her own worldview as a woman, and her formal education in media arts and animation to generate a body of works filled with energy and range. Today, Glenn finds solace in painting images viewers often find profoundly familiar. Reflections of oneself on canvas with a distinctive and whimsical […]

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Framed Presents Béatrice Lebreton and Richmond Agamelah

  Béatrice Lebreton September 3 Inspired by the African Diaspora, Béatrice Lebreton sources both her multicultural heritage and current events as she creates work that encourages the viewer’s engagement and interpretation. Working primarily in mixed media, Lebreton combines textiles, stitched and beaded surfaces with painted sections on the canvas as a means of commemoration and interaction. The patterns, fabrics, and […]

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Creative Fusion Outcomes: Reconnecting in Cleveland: Cheikhou Ba at Framed Gallery

Cheikhou Ba came to Cleveland from Dakar, Senegal, as part of the Creative Fusion cohort in Fall 2013. Hosted by Zygote Press, he worked with students in the Sisterhood after-school arts program at the West Side Community House, with Cleveland-based artist April Bleakney. To create an exhibit opportunity, Zygote connected with Waterloo Arts, which presented Cheikhou’s work in their Waterloo […]

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Portraitures: Discoveries Through the Canvas Mirror—Framed Presents Annan Affotey and Baba Musah

This spring, Framed Gallery extends its international reach, bringing works by two artists of Ghana, West Africa, to Cleveland—on view starting March 5. Francis Annan Affotey While the scenes are often familiar to the millions of Africans whose daily existence reveals the realities of contemporary life and culture, Francis Annan Affotey presents to the world the joys, and sometime secrets, of […]

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Afrogallonism: Attukwei Clottey at Framed

  The hands-in-pocket, head-tilting, quiet, full-absorption mode happens to me  just the same when I visit a gallery with a mask on as it used to without. I was pleased to discover this at Framed Gallery in December. So much of the art that lines the walls, all by African American artists, national and international, called out to me with […]

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Roots to Love Celebrates Black Men and Fathers at Framed Gallery

Framed Gallery continues exhibiting and selling works of African American artists, and—in new ways—adding to the dialog and the evolution of artistic traditions. On Friday, December 4, Framed presents a new exhibit, Roots to Love. The exhibit celebrates Black men and fathers. It is a group show featuring works of Charly Palmer, Evita Tezeno, Joyce Owens, Gerald Griffin, Chukes, Tiffani Glenn, […]

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