Tag: Heights Arts

Public conscience, communities, and emerging artists at Heights Arts

Graphic design and illustration have expanded from the publishing and advertising industries from which they sprung.  Influenced by graffiti, new technologies in animation or gaming, illustrators now create stories about world issues, popular culture, trends in daily life. Artists take issues out of context and reexamine them in unconsidered perspectives which cleverly challenge  the viewers to assess their own part […]

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Herb Ascherman’s Life Behind a Camera

In photographer Herb Ascherman’s Shaker Heights living room, there’s what he calls his “worship wall.” It features classic photos by some of photography’s towering giants: Albert Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, Inge Morath, Arnold Newman.   “Every morning I get down on my kneeler and ask for their blessing,” he says, only half joking.   It must have worked. Ascherman has had […]

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Herbert Ascherman Jr.: 40 Years photography retrospective at Heights Arts

While making his living in portraiture, Cleveland photographer Herbert Ascherman Jr. also pursued passions in other photographic genres—street photography, nudes, and landscapes.   Herbert Ascherman Jr.: 40 Years gathers approximately 60 key works from all of those interest areas, selected by Ascherman and Heights Arts, which powerfully represent his wide-ranging career. Drawn from the 150,000 black and white negatives in […]

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Northeast Ohio explorations in glass at Heights Arts

Refraction: The Influence of Brent Kee Young gathers works by eleven artists who studied under Young’s extraordinary tenure as professor and head of the glass department at the Cleveland Institute of Art.   Carrie Battista, Robert Coby, Scott Goss, Earl O. James, Brent Marshall, Shawn Messenger, Michael Mikula, Marc Petrovic, Kari Russell-Pool, Mark Sudduth, and Linda Zmina are working glass […]

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At Table: Cleveland Culinaria opens at Heights Arts

Twenty-seven visual artists have partnered with some of Cleveland’s most creative culinary experts to transform the Heights Arts gallery into unique, themed installations that speak to the art of food and community through the materials we use to eat and drink. At Table: Cleveland Culinaria showcases the vision of chefs Doug Katz (Fire Food and Drink, Provenance); Marc-Aurele Buholzer (Vero […]

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Holiday Show and Winter Exhibitions at Heights Arts

Heights Arts offers a rich, multidisciplinary selection this fall and winter. Opening Friday, November 6 in the renovated Lee Road gallery space is the annual Holiday Store, showcasing the best selection of affordable work by artists of the region. It runs through December 30. Opening January 15 and running through February 27 is Remade in Cleveland, featuring furniture and functional […]

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Heights Arts presents rising local artists in Emergent 2015

Heights Arts continues to celebrate the finest “local produce” of Northeast Ohio with a new annual exhibition, Emergent 2015, opening Friday, September 4 and running through October 17. The show features artists who graduated from area art programs in recent years and are now producing significant work. Throughout history, many regions have provided fertile environments for vibrant artistic production, and […]

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