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Altered Value
The Art of Funny Money
October 19, 2018

  Usmani believes that value is an abstract concept, and as a society, we use money to measure worth between various, unrelated goods and services. However, he argues that in our capitalistic society money has become a coveted symbol of value itself. By drawing directly on actual bills, Josh encourages viewers to explore creative expression and question the concept of value itself. He has certainly altered these notes’ worth, but whether Josh has increased or decreased their value is up to each viewer to decide
 

"In an age of hyperinflation in the art market, I believe that turning money into art and back into more money is the most appropriate response to the reality of the current situation." - Josh Usmani




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."









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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!

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.