Welcome to Tregoning & Company

MASUMI HAYASHI
PANORAMIC PHOTO COLLAGES   1976 - 2006

   For two decades, Masumi Hayashi used art to awaken people gently but insistently to societal ills. Her photo collages applied photography's most seductive traits -- believability and formal beauty -- to explore disturbing subjects including deserted Rust Belt landscapes, decaying abandoned prisons, EPA Superfund sites, and desolate ruins of the relocation camps where Japanese Americans were interned during World War II. Hayashi meant these photographs "to be appreciated for their beauty on one level yet, on another, to create irony and tension."








CAN Triennial at T&Co
July 6 - 25, 2018

Come to Tregoning for the CAN Triennial. We are hosting exhibitions provided by
Thomas French Fine Art, LLC  and  Art Neo. The shows display excellent works for Louise Nevelson (1899 - 1988) and many of Northeast Ohio's famed artists. The Nevelson collection is available for purchase.

LOUISE NEVELSON
Collage, Jewelry, Photographs, Prints, and Sculpture
"But when I fell in love with black, it contained all color. It wasn't a negation of color. It was an acceptance. Because black encompasses all colors. ... You can be quiet and it contains the whole thing. There is no color that will give you the feeling of totality. Of peace. Of greatness. Of quietness. Of excitement. I have seen things that were transformed into black, that took on just greatness. I don't know a lesser word." -- Louise Nevelson

Nevelson gained much of her recognition through her numerous exhibitions worldwide. Her rise to fame was driven by Arnie Glimcher's opening of PACE Gallery in Boston and shortly after moving to New York City. Her earlier dealers included Nierendorf Gallery and Martha Jackson Gallery, both hugely influential in establishing Modern Art in America. She embodied and emblazoned the moniker 'tortured artist.'  For decades, Nevelson vehemently fought the patriarchy and her male peers not wanting to be known for her gender, but for her pure talent.

Nevelson was influenced heavily by her mother's sense of fashion and beauty. She coined herself "the original recycler" a scavenger and one  can draw parallels and inspiration to and from Marcel Duchamp's found object sculptures of her early career. 

This exhibition will be open to the public throughout the month of July and will feature numerous Nevelson creations given to her longtime studio assistant, Diana MacKown, and works from the collection of Arthur Brandt. These works run from the 1930's through her death in the late 1980s, showing the entire course of her life's creativity.








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David Batz
An Impassioned Journey
A Life in Ceramics and Painting
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
Read the article from Cleveland Scene about Baggage Claim 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.