GalleryTalk

Masumi Hayashi
Panoramic Photo Collages 1976 - 2006

August 18, 2018 with Barbara Tannenbaum, Photography Curator of CLE MUS

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 subjectsm 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." ~ Barbara Tannenbaum

Baggage Claim
Darius Stewart

Sat, January 20, 2018

Artist Darius Steward discusses his new exhibition, inspirations, and techniques with CANVAS editor Michael Butz.

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

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SUMMITS & LIGHT
George Kozmon and Richard Vaux

Sat. November 11, 2017

Artists George Kozmon and Richard Vaux discuss their inspirations, methods, and review each others' work in their combined exhibition.

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Cosmic Shift
James Massena March

August, 2017

Cleveland artist James Massena March discusses his new exhibition, techniques, and the evolution of his style with Joseph Clark of CAN Journal.

The idiom of my body of new work I like to call Op-Expressionism. It is a combination of Geometric Abstraction and Op Art techniques that I have been employing for the last 10 to 15 years with Abstract Expressionism, which is fairly new to me. My last show, Cassini in 2015, was when I started to merge these 3 disciplines in my painting, my premise being the exploration of outer space, like the NASA space probe of that name. Cosmic Shift is not about altering the trajectory of my search but merely a slight shift in focus -- which is more about exploring different aspects of style than about content. ~ James Massena March

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FOR LOVE OF ZOAR

Exhibition celebrating the Bi-centennial of Zoar Village’s founding: Lecture by Cleveland art historian Larry Waldman
Don Whitemyer assembled a fine collection of Zoar paintings executed by German-American artists best recognized as members of the generic ‘Cleveland School’: Adam Lehr, George Adomeit, August Biehle, Ferdinand Gottwald, William Sommer –all of whom delighted in weekends and trips away from Cleveland, enjoying illicit home-brewed spirits, camaraderie, and painting in both Zoar village and the adjacent countryside. Tim continued to expand the collection he inherited from his dad with purchases from the annual Whitemyer invitational show held in Zoar, made up of paintings depicting Zoar Village. Both men had close ties to Youngstown painter and Butler Museum director Clyde Singer; there are numerous paintings, drawings and prints by this American master as well represented in the Whitemyer Collection.

Light of Day | Light of Night
Recent Paintings by Jamie Morse

I paint landscapes on location, still life paintings from observation, and works from memory and imagination. In my paintings, I try to capture the beauty and essence of each subject. My main focus is landscape painting, and I am constantly seeking new and diverse subjects to explore. I am interested in light, seasons, moods, and emotions inherent in the places I paint, with the goal of providing the viewer with a vivid, familiar, and memorable sense of place and time.~Jamie Morse

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THE SOURCE
A Life in Sculpture by Giancarlo Calicchia

November 16, 2016 - Douglas Max Utter discusses with Giancarlo Calicchia the work of his life, including pieces in the exhibition at Tregoning & Company.