Cleveland’s Loftworks Gallery had the look of a miniature Rock & Roll Hall of Fame with its recent Rock and Roll Perspectives 2 show. The exhibition featured the works of Cleveland-area concert photographers Joe Kleon and (CAN contributor) Anastasia Pantsios. Gallery walls were plastered with mostly 16×20 matted prints of rock and roll legends from Paul McCartney to Tina Turner […]
Read morePatented in 1873 by the Englishman William Willis, platinum printing was immediately embraced at the turn of the twentieth century by the Pictorialist and Photo-Secession movements. This entirely handmade process exceeds all others in its physical beauty and longevity. An image made in platinum will vary in color from warm brown to cool black. Printing the image requires a negative […]
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Wildlife in Wax, a solo exhibition by Derek Brennan, opens Friday, July 7, 2017 at Loftworks Gallery. Derek Brennan, a Cleveland-based artist, has mastered the unique process of encaustic as a method to express the delicate balance between the abstract and the realistic. Encaustic is the use of hot wax and oil paints applied in layers to a piece of […]
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