We huddle around our electronic hearths, looking at each other through the flames, with an ache to touch. When we rise, we look around at walls that enclose, finding safety in contemplative ways, uneasily worshipping these melancholy days. There is an important question that the William Busta Gallery and its projects have asked over and over and over: As artists […]
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These are empty hours, like times when you lay in bed, awake, uncertain of sleep. Usually the arts celebrate direct engagement, experience that is intellectual and emotional and physical all at once. In our current art life, mostly online, there are always things that are lost in translation, in the generations of reproduction. Simply put, standing in front of a […]
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In this installment of CAN Blog’s Art from a Distance series, painter Darius Steward talks about being at home with his family during the COVID crisis, and developing new ways to reach out to potential customers at a time when gallery exhibits are not an option. Steward’s work was featured both in FRONT International Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art […]
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The Waterways to Waterways cohort of Creative Fusion residents continues a long tradition of artistic response to the Cuyahoga. The general lay of the land surrounding Cleveland offers little drama to feed either artists’ or tourists’ desire for the extraordinary. Even the coast of our Great Lake offers little variation—with none of the outcroppings, peninsulas and offshore islands that usually […]
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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, […]
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In earlier articles in this series, I wrote about art careers from the perspective of what I observed in successful artists. Here, I am more subjective, writing about the art business from my own perspective, from my own intuitions. I am less confident here, because there are many models for a gallery business, and these suggestions and observations apply best […]
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If an artist wishes to stay part of the ongoing narrative of ideas that is part of the intellectual life of curators, gallerists, and art patrons, they need to stay in touch. You can’t presume that people will know what you are doing – or even that you still actively work as an artist – simply because you have a […]
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Like the breath of memory, the works of Gloria Plevin present a moment gracefully imagined and conscientiously realized in a personal consideration of time. In that time there is stillness and then a presentation, and then something of reflection. The works hold that stillness as a meditation without intent to surprise or disturb. But there is cautious mystery that takes […]
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Once in a while I have startled audiences at lectures with the provocative suggestion that I’ve met many artists who don’t like art. Sure, they like their own art, but they don’t seem to be that interested in art that’s done by anyone else, either now or in the past. If someone likes baseball, they read about it every day […]
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It is typical at art schools, colleges, and universities to offer some guidance to art students as they approach graduation. There are classes with titles like “Professional Practices” and, as an art dealer or gallerist, I have often been asked to give a visiting lecture. Over 25 years I have done this at Cleveland State University, Cleveland Institute of Art, […]
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