Tag: Waterloo Arts

Exploring Other Worlds: This Summer at Waterloo Arts

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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How Do We Look? at Waterloo Arts

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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Rachel Feinstein: Meat On Her Bones, at Waterloo Arts

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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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Settling/Unsettling: Xia Gao at Waterloo Arts

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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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Transition/Dislocation: Mobile Home at Waterloo Arts

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Krista Tomorowitz and Timothy Callaghan are artists and residents of Collinwood, living in the geographically unique, culturally diverse community along the Lake Erie shore, which includes the Euclid Beach Mobile Home Park. The mobile home park is unusual in that it offers affordable lakefront living to people in mobile homes. In June, the owner of the mobile home park (Western […]

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Waterloo Arts Asks, Neighborhoods: Community or Commodity?

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In June and July, Waterloo Arts gallery will host three artists who have recently created bodies of work by playfully experimenting with the objects, space or subject immediately available to them, creating sculpture from everyday mass-produced objects, painting domestic space and capturing shadow images using a cellphone. Jennifer Irene Masley is a sculptor who has been researching form, irreverently using […]

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Springtime at Waterloo Arts Brings Color and Joy

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On view in Waterloo Arts’ main gallery through March 25 is I Paint Houses, a site-responsive collection of three-dimensional paintings by Alex Vlasov. Undercutting the art historical weight of the term “painting,” Vlasov’s newest body of work playfully constructs a relationship between raw building materials, fluorescent color, and the everyday as a canvas. Mitered angles of construction lumber halo lively […]

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The Garage, the Field, and the Table Enter Waterloo Arts

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Seneca Kuchar opens Waterloo Arts’ fall exhibition season in the main gallery honoring the community and camaraderie of an American auto body shop. In On Blocks: Repair Manual for an American Dream, Kuchar presents saturated and oily diagrammatic paintings that depict exploded automotive systems alongside the “real deal” mechanic’s repair kits required for the car’s reassembly. On Blocks evokes the […]

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All A – DayGlo

One of the joys of the annual DayGlo show at Waterloo Arts (February 4 – 26) is that it celebrates something so very Cleveland: an industrial product that is right at home in the art world. DayGlo is a Cleveland-based industrial manufacturer of fluorescent pigment: their customers are other manufacturing companies that use the pigment to make vividly colorful packaging […]

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