This fall HEDGE is thrilled to present a painting and sculpture exhibition featuring Cleveland Arts Prize Lifetime Achievement award-winner Mark Howard (Cleveland) and Chuck Fischer (New Hope, PA). This will be Howard’s third exhibition with a new body of work at HEDGE since 2021, and the gallery’s first time exhibiting Fischer’s abstract constructions and paintings. Howard continues his industrious approach […]
Read more
Winner of the 2025 Cleveland Arts Prize for Lifetime Achievement is painter and sculptor Mark Howard. Howard’s work is held in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art, and is visible in public art around the city. He has exhibited internationally and was included in the Biennale Internazionale dell’ Arte Contemporanea, Florence, Italy, 2001. He’s currently represented by HEDGE […]
Read more
This September, HEDGE Gallery is thrilled to open IN COLOR, an exhibition of new work by Mark Howard. His recent projects include further investigations of abstraction and the interaction of color and shape. Expressive forms reflecting a wide range of emotions are carefully balanced in paintings and collage. While Howard attended the Cleveland Institute of Art from 1981 to 1986, […]
Read more
While 2020 ushered in so many unexpected changes followed by new beginnings, Cleveland artist Mark Howard had already begun shifting his practice, instilling incremental new ideas. Much of Howard’s past work maintained a Black sensibility and an urban theme, using life in the streets as his primary influence. He recently began questioning the relevance of figurative subject matter which has […]
Read more
Painter Mark Howard’s public art work is ubiquitous—from trash cans downtown and in the Heights to the walls at Hopkins Airport and beyond. Once a regular presence in the art scene, he’s been low-key in recent years. We caught up with him to talk about what makes the right gallery, what public art owes to the public and big-time foot […]
Read more
The number of artists who applied to the curated CAN Triennial exhibition was enormous, and the range of their experience and accomplishment, the diversity of their techniques and perspectives all were inspiring. We should not be surprised: this is emblematic of the energy and intensity visible every week in the Cleveland art scene. In all, curators William Busta, Angelica Pozo, […]
Read more
You must be logged in to post a comment.