When one hears the term “infrared photography,” one often thinks of technology that allows things to be seen in the dark. The word “Infrared” refers to a range of waves on the light spectrum that are unseeable by the human eye. Thanks to modern photography, images can be brought to life with spectacular results. Gallery+, located in 78th Street Studios, […]
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Michael Weil’s recent photographs of Lake View Cemetery remind me of Alvin Langdon Coburn’s 1917 comparison of photography and “black magic,” but not exactly because Weil’s pictures were taken at night and include a great deal of black. Coburn made this connection to introduce his “Vortographs,” some of the first photographs ever conceived as abstract art. In a period of […]
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A typical photography exhibition features pictures taken by a professional, or a group of them. What happens when you give disposable cameras to everyday people and a few pros? The answer has been brought to life in an exhibition at the East Cleveland Public Library, thanks to LYLESART. The Artography Cleveland Street Photography Project is the brainchild of artist Julius […]
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The photo exhibit A Collection of Stories, which was up at the Cleveland Print Room May 31-June 14, was divided into 7 titled sections. You could say it was like looking at the subject from seven different angles, in a Wallace Stevens, “Thirteen-Ways-Of-Looking-At-A-Blackbird” kind of way: the content and intention of each section were unified, but distinct, like seven […]
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Greg Donley’s photos of awe-inspiring places beg for consideration from several different perspectives. They’re compelling for their content, of course, which comprises some of the most sensational geography on the planet. But their form is inescapable, defining, and a really potent way of getting to the point. A collection of them are on view in Annotated Grandeur, March 13 – […]
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This upcoming Sunday, Shari Wilkins and Laura Ruth Bidwell will discuss their ongoing exhibit at the Massillon Museum, Art as Journal. The show encompasses two series of images depicting locales significant to the photographers. For Promised Land, Wilkins took miniature Polaroid-style snaps of her father’s Illinois hometown, Cairo (pronounced “Kay-row,” unlike the Egyptian capital). Bidwell’s The Great Tangles presents scenes […]
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Where does a piece of art end, and the rest of the world begin? Such odd, philosophical questions are posed by Dawoud Bey’s Night Coming Tenderly, Black, one of the exhibits comprising the first FRONT International Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art. For the artworks in this installation gain meaning not only from what they depict, but from the venue in […]
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You will not find Lundsville, Pennsylvania on a map. It is the invention of photographer and Cuyahoga Community College instructor Mike Majewski, and the setting of his exhibition at FORUM Artspace. Though Lundsville does not exist, Majewski describes his show as a “documentary” of sorts. Like a social realist painter or author of historic novels, he uses fiction to recombine […]
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Among the most moving contributions made by LGBTQ artists to new aesthetic and political perspectives are photographs – forthright, often sensuous testimony about self-concepts, social roles and gender identities. Mind-altering troves of recent contemporary portraits and studies of intimate or informal human interactions, expand upon the example of revolutionary photographers of the past several decades. Nan Goldin and Catherine Opie, […]
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It’s hard to draw conclusions about the talent and vision of a photographer in a group show featuring two images a piece by each, with artist statements/bios available for only half of them. Such is the case with many of the artists in Spitball, currently at the Cleveland Print Room. It opened Friday March 2 and will be on […]
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