ON DECK
Upcoming openings and events from around Northeast Ohio Event details provided by the entities featured. Compiled by Becky Raspe. ARTICLE GALLERY / ART IN CLEVELAND “Bits and Pieces” | Through Nov. 28 Article Gallery will host “Bits and Pieces: A Collage Show,” featuring works by Susan Squires, Zoe Murphy, Kelly Pontoni, Kathy Skerritt and Kim Bissett. The exhibition explores a variety of collage expressions, from landscapes to iconography. Each artist offers the viewer a unique way of discovering an order to what begins as chaos and fragments, and in their final forms, offer a new vision of reality and experience, according to a news release from the gallery. Article/Art in Cleveland is at 15316 Waterloo Road in Cleveland. : facebook.com/artincle
WOLFS GALLERY “Dancing on the Moon” | Through Dec. 23
Above: “Capture A Year” (2021) by Kelly Pontoni. Collage, acrylic, marker, found objects on board book structure. Image courtesy of Article Gallery.
Cleveland figurative painter Ken Nevadomi’s “Dancing on the Moon” exhibition features select works by the artist from 1986 to 1993. His art chronicles the close of the Industrial Age and the birth of the Information Age. Nevadomi, who was born in 1939, paints with themes of beauty, poetry, horror, meaningless violence, obsession, sex, silliness and fantasy. He is also an art professor at Cleveland State University, and has been included in numerous juried shows and at least 10 solo exhibitions since 1975. His work has been regularly shown at the Cleveland Museum of Art’s May Shows, winning several first-place prizes in painting. He was also awarded the 1988 Cleveland Arts Prize for Visual Arts. This exhibition follows WOLFS Gallery’s presentation of a selection of Nevadomi’s art in New York, giving the 82-year-old artist his first one-man New York debut. The show is at WOLFS, 23645 Mercantile Road in Beachwood. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. : wolfsgallery.com
Right: “Sleeping Head” (1993) by Ken Nevadomi. Acrylic on canvas, 43.5 x 53 in. Image courtesy of WOLFS Gallery. HEDGE GALLERY “David King: Transience and the Gift of Curiosity” | Through Dec. 31 David King’s solo exhibition, “Transience and the Gift of Curiosity,” pulls inspiration from family movie reels. He found these video memories, transferred them to DVD and transformed them into contemporary paintings, rearranging the subject matter to suggest the fleeting moments of life. The work features bold color palettes, working oil paint onto aluminum panels. In this medium, he can stamp words, cut and etch into the surface. According to a news release from the gallery, King says some figures have “literally been cut out and left as a void, exploring the fact that we are only here for a short time.” HEDGE Gallery is in the 78th Street Studios at 1300 W. 78th St., Suite 200, in Cleveland. Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesdays and Thursdays, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Fridays and from noon to 4 p.m. on Saturday. : hedgeartgallery.com
Left: “Phishing” (2021) by David King. Oil on aluminum, 48 x 36 in. Image courtesy of David King. URSULINE COLLEGE’S WASMER GALLERY “ReFuge: The Last Days of Wonder” | Through Jan. 28, 2022 Conceived and curated by Florence O’Donnell Wasmer Gallery director Anna Arnold, “ReFuge” transforms the gallery space into a surreal fantasy forest of recycled materials, created by Arnold and four invited installation and mixed-media artists from Cuyahoga County. The artists, including Arnold, are Joyce Morrow Jones, Jacques Payne Jackson, Claudio Orso and Ron Shelton. Wasmer Gallery is at 2550 Lander Road in Pepper Pike. Gallery hours are noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday. A companion exhibit is housed at the Nature Center at Shaker Lakes, featuring two-dimensional work by the featured artists using recycled and mixed-media materials. This show runs through Jan. 16, 2022. The Nature Center is at 2600 South Park Blvd. in Shaker Heights. Gallery hours are from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. : ursuline.edu/wasmer-gallery
Right: Wasmer Gallery director and curator Anna Arnold takes a selfie with “I Want My Flowers Now!”, a 20-foot paper flower wall featured in “ReFuge.” Photo by Anna Arnold.
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