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Seth Rosenberg
Originally from Connecticut, artist Seth Rosenberg lived in Washington, D.C., for 24 years before he and his wife moved to Cleveland in 2005. He spent two decades as the owner of a framing business and art gallery, and then gave it all up to become a full-time artist. »
Mark Fox @ Shaheen Gallery
Ohio native Mark Fox is known for his delicate and airy wall-mounted assemblages, made from hundreds of small, quirky cutout drawings that are attached to each other using tiny strips of linen tape. Like lace, they create playful shadows as light passes through them and dances on the walls beyond. »
Andrea Joki
Crisp dark lines emerge from misty gray washes, forming skeletal structures that resemble scaffolding or netting. But just as easily as such images appear, they almost fade from view as deeper layers of information come into focus. In the newest works on paper by Andrea Joki, networks of lines and shapes coexist like stratum,... »
Neil MacDonald @ Akron Art Museum
Neil MacDonald's paintings begin with an interest in the way that disparate information leads to confusion. As a result, his complex and meticulous paintings are perplexing at first glance; in many of them, it's hard to know exactly what is happening. That's part of the point. In the solo show "Dreamland: Recent Paintings by... »
Susan Squires
Latest work by Cleveland artist is based on geometry, structure By Dan Tranberg Painter Susan Squires has long been among a venerable group of Cleveland artists who are highly regarded by their local peers but whose work has received its greatest recognition in places far beyond Northeast Ohio. Over the past decade, Squires has developed professional... »
Bob Peck @ Artchitecture Gallery
As an artform, graffiti has evolved rapidly in recent years -- due largely to social and political forces aimed at squelching it. Once identified solely with gangs, vandalism and other criminal activity, graffiti has now been embraced wholly by the art world, high-end fashion designers, and, most recently, corporate manufacturers of everything from gym... »
Jennifer Omaitz @ 1point618 Gallery
The paintings of Jennifer Omaitz often appear at first like blurred photographs of variously colored swirling lights. But up close, they're all about paint. Omaitz, a current graduate student in the painting department at Kent State University, uses her own photographs as a starting point for her paintings, which often evoke the sights and... »
Ivelisse Jimenez and Lorri Ott @ exit (a gallery space)
From the mid-1960s on, many artists have explored the elastic boundaries of painting as a unique form by abandoning its most obvious conventions. Traditional materials such as canvas and rectangular wooden stretchers were among the first to go. More recently, like-minded painters have made use of an array of commercially manufactured materials such as... »
Lissa Bockrath @ Wooltex Gallery
Moving from Cleveland's gritty urban landscape to the winding roads and dramatic terrain of Chagrin Falls would probably transform just about anyone. For area artist Lissa Bockrath, the change is most evident in her paintings' imagery, which, over the course of a few years, has evolved from city scenes to vivid abstractions of natural... »
Audra Skuodas @ 1point618 Gallery
Many artists settle into a particular style of working at some point in their careers, and then comfortably continue on that way for the rest of their lives. Not so with Oberlin artist Audra Skuodas. Well-known in and beyond Northeast Ohio for her elegant figurative paintings dealing with spiritual and mystical themes, Skuodas has... »