This fall the Waterloo Arts Gallery and Cafe will feature Familiar Strangers, highlighting work by local artists Cullen Houser, Josh Luboski and Will Wilson. This group exhibition presents a collection of figurative pieces, and each explores the absurdity of the characters and the worlds in which they exist. Including paintings, prints, and illustration, Familiar Strangers showcases the ways in which […]
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This summer the Waterloo Arts Gallery and Cafe will feature the work of ten local artists in a group show, curated by Davon Brantley, titled Blooming Tides. From the curator: “This exhibition features Black, AAPI and Latinx Artists and is intended to explore the interconnection, influence and/or impact of their cultures amongst each other through various media. This exhibition allows […]
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This spring, the Waterloo Arts Gallery and Cafe will feature the work of two local printmakers: Zoe Brester-Pennings and Meryl Engler. In the Main Gallery, Zoe Brester-Pennings will be presenting Buck Soft, the third chapter of her Buck Wilde series of works. Combining elements of printmaking, found object, and the tactility of quilting, this exhibition presents a series of quilted […]
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To start the new year, the Waterloo Arts Gallery and Cafe will feature the work of Dana Lynn Harper and Brian Fencl in January. Dana Lynn Harper is a mixed media artist based in Columbus, Ohio. In Veiled Histories, Harper combines the evocative and tactile textures of paper clay, velvet, rice, pearls, dried flowers, and masses of glass beads to […]
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This fall, the Waterloo Arts Gallery and Cafe will be full with the works of Hadley K. Conner, Megan Dardis, and Paige L. Morris. Each artist will draw from their own experiences to highlight the social constructs which impact feminine expression. Hadley K. Conner’s mixed media Voyager series portrays female figures navigating their surroundings. Exploring the visual articulation of anxiety, […]
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by Imani Badillo This summer, Elisa Albrecht and Steven Mastroianni are transporting visitors into a world of surrealism at Waterloo Arts. These Cleveland-based artists are using highly intuitive processes to illustrate the pieces and parts of fictional realms. Elisa Albrecht’s Unearthed series explores the passage of time within a landscape, gathering inspiration from both historical and figurative structures. Working mainly […]
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Waterloo Arts is excited to host the upcoming exhibition How Do We Look? this April and May. Exploring the translation of nature to abstraction, Ohio-based artists Elizabeth A. Emery (Cleveland) and Laura Bidwa (Columbus) will exhibit work which gains inspiration from breathing, looking, and moving outdoors. While both artists excel at creating abstract paintings, How Do We Look? will showcase […]
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In Meat On Her Bones at Waterloo Arts, photographer Rachel Feinstein explores the complexities of modern womanhood using midcentury visual references. A New York-based artist and Kent State alumnus, Feinstein extracts elements from vintage advertisements, fashion, and classic cinema. She then reinterprets them in compositions that challenge our perceptions of traditional femininity and patriarchal systems. “Growing up, I was enchanted […]
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Waterloo Arts rang in the new year with the opening of Settling/Unsettling, Daydream of Jiangnan. A solo exhibition featuring the works of Michigan-based textile artist Xia Gao, Settling/Unsettling was a multifaceted and thought-provoking exhibition that raised pertinent questions about modernization, adaptation, and the rapid socioeconomic changes taking place in China and beyond. Gao, a Chinese immigrant and professor at Michigan […]
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The 11th annual DayGlo show at Waterloo Arts will open on March 1 and run through March 30 with extended gallery hours throughout the month. As usual the black-light exhibit will open with a festive bash of art, music, and painting. Fifty artists will create new work with fluorescent paint, courtesy of DayGlo Color Corp, responding to the prompt, How […]
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