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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. »
Tiedman and Utter @ Arts Collinwood
Tiedman has made a major breakthrough in recent years with his brooding, multifaceted landscape paintings, which he calls "inscapes." He produces the works purely from his imagination, which opens up endless possibilities for rendering the landscape as a metaphorical minefield. His densely layered landscapes invite viewers to mentally drift in and out of dimly... »
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. »
Michelle Muldrow
A recent transplant from San Francisco, Michelle Muldrow has already established herself as one of Cleveland's most outstanding painters. Earlier this summer, she was chosen by the Community Partnership for Arts and Culture as one of only 20 local artists to receive a $20,000 Creative Workforce Fellowship. »
Amy Casey
In the 10 years since she graduated with a degree in painting from the Cleveland Institute of Art, Amy Casey has become one of Northeast Ohio's most visible emerging artists. She has held solo shows in Chicago and Los Angeles and has participated in more than 25 group exhibitions nationwide. In addition to being... »
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... »