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Chuck Close @ Contessa Gallery
The works at Contessa include one-of-a-kind pieces and rare limited editions as well as recent prints that have never before been exhibited. The result is a knockout show that proves Close, at age 69, to be continually increasing his range by delving into new media, formats and techniques. »
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. »
Nancy McEntee
One thing Nancy McEntee never tells her subjects before she photographs them: "Smile." But in many other ways, the work of this Cleveland native plays off the common conventions of traditional family snapshots. She often uses her suburban home in Fairview Park as a backdrop and her 10-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, as a subject. »
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... »
Paul Travis @ Metropolitan Galleries
Artist Paul Travis (1891-1975) is best known for the vivid, exotic paintings he produced following an eight-month trip to Africa in the 1920s. An important member of the Cleveland School, Travis has been well-known locally for the better part of the past century. But in the national art market, he has until recently remained... »
Michaël Borremans @ The Cleveland Museum of Art
We’re all trained from childhood to read pictures like stories. But the pictures of Belgian artist Michaël Borremans don’t work that way. Full as they are with seemingly narrative elements, they’re deliberately befuddling. That’s part of what makes them so mesmerizing. »
“Andres Serrano: America and Other Work”
Photographer Andres Serrano joined an ever-growing list of maligned and misunderstood artists when his notorious “Piss Christ” was singled out in 1989 by U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms as proof that the artist was “taunting the American people.” »
Hernan Bas @ Daniel Reich Gallery
Twenty-four-year-old Miami-based artist Hernan Bas is one of a growing number of emerging artists who makes figurative paintings a la Henry Darger, working in an awkward painterly style that blatantly favors psychologically rich narratives over technical mastery. But unlike his stylistic counterparts (Elizabeth Peyton, for instance) Bas delves into a highly charged social landscape,... »
Kerry James Marshall @ MCA Chicago
For more than two decades Kerry James Marshall has been making art about being black in America, producing a diverse body of work that probes historical, cultural and social perspectives. His major touring exhibition One True Thing: Meditations on Black Aesthetics, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago through January 18, is a culmination... »
Max Beckmann @ Centre Georges Pompidou
Beckmann worked as a nurse in WWI, a little fact that may account for his early fascination with human atrocities. He is said by some to have been an arrogant, unpleasant man who preferred his own company to anyone else's, and often went out in formal attire to sit alone and drink champagne at... »