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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. »
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. »
Christian Wuffen @ Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland
The art of Christian Wulffen is all about deeply questioning the identity of and meaning behind everyday materials, objects and experiences. In his solo exhibition "It Is, It Is Not," on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland through Sunday, May 10, he presents 17 pointedly austere works – drawings, photographs, sculptures and... »
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... »
Group Show: “Phenomena(l)” @ SPACES
Art and science are often mistakenly thought to be near opposites, like comedy and tragedy, or passion and reason. But the activities in which artists and scientists engage can be quite similar. And in the same way, the work they do can lead to a comparable sense of awe and wonder at the nature... »
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... »
“John Szarkowski: Photographs”
John Szarkowski is widely known as a career maker. As director of photography at the Museum of Modern Art in New York from 1962 to 1991, he introduced some of the greatest photographers of the 20th century. But long before he accepted that position, he was a photographer — not an amateur, but a... »
“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.” »
W. Eugene Smith @ Carnegie Museum of Art
"Dream Street: W. Eugene Smith's Pittsburgh Photographs'' a exhibition of 193 master prints that Smith produced between 1955 and 1957, is a fittingly monumental tribute to a body of work that many consider to be Smith's finest. The project began just after Smith resigned as a photographer for Life Magazine. He was already famous.... »