Welcome to Tregoning & Company
David Batz
An Impassioned Journey
A Life in Ceramics and Painting
Opens April 20, 2018

   T&Co is delighted to offer Cleveland collectors and enthusiasts, the ceramics and works on paper by DAVID BATZ (1944-1994), in an exhibition and sale: “DAVID BATZ | Impassioned Journey: A Life in Ceramics and Painting.”  Not seen since 2000, David’s delightful, and frequently awesome ceramic works fill the gallery, set off against many of his paintings on hand-made paper. Batz was a BFA/MA graduate from Rhode Island School of Design, and became a teacher of ceramics at the Cleveland Institute of Art from 1970-1974, before opening the Fiori Gallery in Little Italy, and working full time as an artist in his own studio. His works were selected for exhibition in over 17 Cleveland Museum May Shows, as well as numerous other exhibitions. David tragically died in 1994 in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. His art has been under the care of his surviving partner Robert Jursinski ever since, and was last seen in a retrospective show at the Cleveland Artists Foundation/now ARTneo/in Lakewood in 2000.
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Now available for this exhibition is the catalog, David Batz: An Impassioned Journey. Limited supply, Order now!

J. Allon Hall
Recent Works

   Born in Mentor, a suburb east of Cleveland, Ohio, artist J.Allon Hall started his College Education at The Cleveland Institute of Art. Today Hall is immersed in his oil painting, and also is in collaborations with "VIDA", a global clothing and home furnishings manufacturer where his artwork and photography is incorporated on their product line, sold all over the world.

  "I choose to paint skyscapes, landscapes and seascapes in oil using mostly tonal shades of color. I feel that keeping my palette uncomplicated helps me concentrate on the subtle blending and brushwork to help me create mood and movement. My work tends to swing like a pendulum. From nothingness to realism, from ambiguous, atmospheric sky and seascapes to literal landscapes of somewhere, which could be anywhere and back again. They defy specific geographical reference and while often inspired by places, they transcend time and space to become much more about personal experience. Characterized with subtle shifts of light and space, I try to envelope my viewer with their romantic melancholy"~ J. Allom Hall
Click here to read Michael Butz's article on Baggage Claim in CANVAS
Mike Butz's interview with Darius Steward is now available in GalleryTalk, click here for more.
Read the article from Cleveland Scene about Baggage Claim here

Baggage Claim

by Darius Steward
December 8, 2017 - January 20, 2018

   Darius Steward is a visual artist, and educator currently living in Cleveland Ohio. "Coming out into this exhibition are issues I had to deal with when my mom passed. All that weight to clear my closet, so to speak...When a loved one dies, you gotta clean out all their stuff, this is some of her bags of stuff ... this is what I end up being with: memories and plastic bags filled with stuff... what I feel like I have to carry around, and even though I am not carrying them physically, I am thinking about them constantly." - Darius Steward

SUMMITS & LIGHT

      Last year, an artist introduced himself to me: Richard Vaux. He was armed with a binder of photos of his recent paintings that I examined and responded very well to. “How is it we’ve never crossed paths?” I had to ask. “I’ve recently moved to Ohio –Hudson –from New York City,” he replied.
     A studio visit confirmed my first response to his art: it is robust, yet diaphanous painting of the landscape. I also became aware of a relationship it had to George Kozmon’s art, and I made a point of introducing these two painters to one another. Out of that introduction has come “Summits & Light.” I invited each artist to curate a joint show of their work from the other’s body of art, and enjoyed watching the exhibition unfold through their eyes and selections.
     Don’t miss this introduction of Richard Vaux into the Cleveland art scene, along with a rare opportunity to see all of George Kozmon’s recent paintings and drawings. Together, these gentlemen have found Cinergy between them. We’re all very excited with this show, and look forward to learning of YOUR responses. Come by the gallery soon!
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GalleryTalk with Kozmon and Vaux
Missed our conversation with the artists of Summits & Light? Watch it here

Eterovich on Ideastream!

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Listen to the T&Co interview here with Ideastreams' Dee Perry on The Sound of Applause!  Perry speaks to curators Bill Tregoning of Tregoning & Company and the Cleveland Institute of Art's Bruce Checefsky about the work of Cleveland artist and educator Anthony Eterovich and the city-wide exhibition celebrating the centennial of his birth.

78th Street Studios - Third Friday Art Walks featured on WKYC 3

CLEVELAND -- The building is a former automotive factory and once was the American Greetings headquarters. Now the 78th Street Studios is the largest fine art complex of it's kind in Northeast Ohio and it's drawing artists and crowds to the Gordon Square art district every month. Although the building takes up the majority of a city block, it still feels like a hidden gem. Inside, 47 creative businesses occupy different creative spaces on three floors.