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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 fi nal 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

Cleveland fi gurative 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 fi rst-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 fi rst 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. Above: “Capture A Year” (2021) by Kelly Pontoni. Collage, acrylic, marker, found objects on board book structure. Image courtesy of Article 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 fl eeting 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 fi gures 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 selfi e with “I Want My Flowers Now!”, a 20-foot paper fl ower wall featured in “ReFuge.” Photo by Anna Arnold.

“More is More: Visual Richness in Contemporary Art” set up in the Judith Bear Isroff Gallery. Image courtesy of Akron Art Museum.

AKRON ART MUSEUM “More is More: Visual Richness in Contemporary Art” | Through March 27, 2022

The “More is More” exhibition at Akron Art Museum is an exploration of rich patterning, ornate surfaces and curious details. Artists explore historical styles and techniques and add unexpected twists to their works, with art hung fl oor to ceiling in a 300-year-old installation technique known as “salon style.”

The Akron Art Museum, located at 1 S. High St. in Akron, is open Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., and from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Thursdays. There are extended hours until 8 p.m. the second Friday of each month. : akronartmuseum.org

CANTON MUSEUM OF ART “Marvelocity: The Art Of Alex Ross”; “Tom Franco And The Ice-Creams: Beyond Struggle, When The Future Hello Meets Identities Deep Roots”; “Unsound: Hannah Pierce Ceramics”; and “POP/OP” winter exhibitions | Opens Nov. 23

Canton Museum of Art is planning a busy winter season, with four exhibitions opening on Nov. 23, three of which close March 6, 2022, and the fourth which closes April 3, 2022. The art will run the gamut, with one exhibition focusing on comic book art by Alex Ross; another featuring work by folk artist Tom Franco; one of ceramic sculptures by Hannah Pierce; and the last featuring American pop, and op art – or optical art – pulled from CMA’s collection and from lenders. Featured artists in the “POP/OP” show, open through April 3, 2022, include Julian Stanczak, Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons and Roy Lichtenstein.

Canton Museum of Art is located at 1001 Market Ave. North in Canton. It is open Tuesday through Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., and from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday through Sunday. It is closed on Mondays. : cantonart.org

Right: “Liz” (1964) by Andy Warhol (American, 1928-1987). Screenprint on paper, 24 x 24 in. Canton Museum of Art Collection, 77.54. © Andy Warhol Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Image courtesy of Canton Museum of Art.

THE GALLERY AT LAKELAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE “from WOMAN XV...Created by women, of women and about women” Feb. 20, 2022 – April 1, 2022

Curated by Lakeland gallery coordinator Mary Urbas, the “from WOMAN XV” exhibition is in celebration of Women’s History Month in March. After hosting the show virtually last year amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the show will return to the Gallery at Lakeland and feature work that focuses it means to be a woman, specifi cally the art of Kathy Skerritt, a local artist who recently passed away after battling cancer.

An artist reception will take place from 3:30 to 5 p.m. March 13, 2022. The gallery also collaborates with Lakeland’s Women’s Center, which produces a Women of Achievement awards event the same afternoon as the artist reception.

The Gallery at Lakeland is at 7700 Clocktower Drive in Kirtland, on the fi rst fl oor of Building D. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Friday, and from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturdays. The gallery is closed on Sundays. : lakelandcc.edu/gallery.

Above: “Life Force Descending 2,” (2016) by Kathy Skerritt. Mixed media on canvas, 36 x 36 inches. Image courtesy of Lakeland Community College.

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART “Currents & Constellations: Black Art in Focus” | Feb. 20, 2022 – June 26, 2022

Hosted in the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Julia and Larry Pollock Focus Gallery, “Currents & Constellations: Black Art in Focus” features a selection of seminal works by major Black artists alongside works by emerging and mid-career Black artists – all drawn from the museum’s current collection. The exhibition will invite audiences to forge new artistic, social, political and intellectual connections across time and geography, with Black art and the Black experience at the center.

CMA is at 11150 East Blvd., in Cleveland’s University Circle neighborhood. Hours are Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Wednesdays and Fridays. The museum is closed on Mondays. : clevelandart.org

Right: “Fragmented Figure Construction” (1963) by Richard Hunt (American, b. 1935). Welded steel; base: 35.6 x 66 x 66 cm; h. 143.5 cm. Gift of Arnold H. Maremont, 1969.16. Image courtesy of Cleveland Museum of Art.