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Curatorial Collective (CC) is dedicated to the promotion, appreciation, and analysis of contemporary visual art with an emphasis on works exhibited in Ohio.

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Miller Horn’s Estate Sale and Exhibition

Miller Horn’s Estate Sale and Exhibition

Harris Stanton Gallery Art Exhibition: Miller Horn’s Estate Sale and Exhibition Friday, May 6- Saturday, May 21, 2016 || Opening Reception: Friday, May 6th, 5:30-8:00 pm   Harris Stanton Gallery || 2301 W. Market St., Akron, OH 44313 (in Pilgrim Square) Gallery Hours: Tue-Fri 10:30-5:30pm, Sat 10:00-4:00 pm  The Akron Gallery will pay tribute to the late local artist, Miller Horns, in a special…

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Art Talk: Kehinde Wiley at EJ Thomas

Art Talk: Kehinde Wiley at EJ Thomas

Art Talk: Weds, Nov 11, 7:30pm New York-based portrait artist Kehinde Wiley will deliver a talk on Wednesday, Nov. 11, at 7:30 p.m. at E.J. Thomas Performing Arts Hall at 198 Hill St., on The University of Akron campus. The event, which is free and open to the public, is presented by The Mary Schiller Myers Lecture Series with support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.  A native of…

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Judy Pfaff - Art & Science Lecture

Judy Pfaff – Art & Science Lecture

UA Synapse Lecture:  Judy Pfaff Wednesday, November 4 Akron Art Museum Auditorium, 6:30 pm A pioneer in mixed media installation, Judy Pfaff explores the relationships between physical, emotional, and intellectual worlds. Between material and space, Pfaff creates work that is evocative of the invisible workings of the body, the energy of the cosmos, and the change happening in our everyday.…

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Extended Moments of Scattered Stories

Extended Moments of Scattered Stories

Art Review by Claudia Berlinski Andrea Modica’s work possesses a darkness and a peace that conveys a sense of human fragility and our inevitable mortality.   There is a general sense of tragic romanticism, and this appeals to those of us who seek solace in melancholy. Among the most sensitive in the show, and my favorite pieces, are selections titled Pine Plains, NY showing images of some of…

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Festival at The Wexner Center for the Arts

Festival at The Wexner Center for the Arts

October 29 – November 1 Discover the Wexner Center’s best-kept secret and a rich legacy of film and video created right here in Ohio. Over the years, the Film/Video Studio Program has welcomed a remarkable array of artists and filmmakers from around the world to work in our state-of-the-art postproduction facility. Picture Lock celebrates this illustrious history by…

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“Curious Distortions” by Mary Spain ON VIEW now through December 30, 2015 An exhibition of works by Mary Spain are on display just outside ARTneo's permanent gallery at 78th Street Studios.

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The Skull and Skeleton: Folk Art to Pop Culture

The Skull and Skeleton: Folk Art to Pop Culture

Artist Reception, Costume Party and Boneyard Market:  Thursday, October 29, 2015, 6 – 9 PM The Gallery at Lakeland Presents The Skull and Skeleton in Art IV… Folk Art to Pop Culture  On view through November 6, 2015 What started as an exhibition featuring 18 artists in 2009, grew to 55 artists in 2011, 64 artists in 2013, and this year boasts over 80 international, national, regional, and local…

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Fragments from an Enclosure: Works by Conor McGrady

Fragments from an Enclosure: Works by Conor McGrady

What are the links between architecture, spatial control, and ideology? Do our needs and desires determine architectural forms, or is it the other way around? How can contemporary art address this uneasy relationship? To learn more about these and other questions, please visit the exhibition Fragments from an Enclosure by Irish artist Conor McGrady at the University of Akron’s Emily Davis…

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New Works by Corrie Slawson at Shaheen

New Works by Corrie Slawson at Shaheen

OPENING RECEPTION: Saturday, September 26, 2015,  6:30-8:30pm SHAHEEN is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by Corrie Slawson entitled, “A desert of magnificence… (a glittering waste of laborious idleness.)” According to Corrie Slawson: “My work is a constant visual consideration of places that teeter between vitality and vacancy. From this research, using my own composited photography…

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FUTURE PAST opens at Survival Kit

FUTURE PAST opens at Survival Kit

OPENING RECEPTION: Friday , September 18, 5-9pm POPEYE PRESENTS FUTURE PAST: Benji Diaz, Andy Dreamingwolf, Jamey Hart, Mike Lombardy and Meg Wilson Survival Kit, Suite 303 78th Street Studios 1305 W. 80th St. Beginning September 2015, Popeye Gallery takes over curating duties at Survival Kit. POPEYE PRESENTS FUTURE PAST includes work by Benji Diaz, Andy Dreamingwolf, Jamey Hart, Mike Lombardy…

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Matthew Gallagher presents "Growth Mantra, Solvent Formula"

Matthew Gallagher presents “Growth Mantra, Solvent Formula”

Meet the Artist Reception: September 13, 2015, 2:30-4:30pm Come meet Cleveland artist Matthew Gallagher and learn about the techniques and aesthetics he employs in the works on exhibition in “Growth Mantra, Solvent Formula” at Kendal at Oberlin. This event is free and open to the public. 600 Kendal Dr, Oberlin, OH 44074

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Charles Beneke's "Spectre" questions waste in a big way

Charles Beneke’s “Spectre” questions waste in a big way

Art Review by Christina Day The cloud is a giant worm, starting small and almost invisibly. Its mouth, however, is large and thick and threatening to swallow you up into its weightlessly heavy doom. Walking into the Judith Bear Isroff Gallery at the Akron Art Museum, the impact is immediate. The cloud is exhaust, oil and coal, dirty and toxic. It’s comprised of countless smaller components, which…

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Directors at the Dog: The Akron Art Museum

Directors at the Dog: The Akron Art Museum

ART TALK: Wednesday, September, 16, 2015 – 7:30pm Join us at the Happy Dog at the Euclid Tavern for the first of what we hope will be a series of conversations with Directors and Curators of the many incredible Art Museums in our region! First up, The Akron Art Museum. Fred Bidwell, former Director at the Cleveland Museum of Art and Co-Founder of The Transformer Station, will moderate a…

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“A Hole in the River” by Bradley Hart A photographic series by Bradley Hart of in-camera multiple exposures, organized in sequences, contesting the perception of experience and the mere memory of it.

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BEYOND CRAFT opens at Canton Museum of Art

BEYOND CRAFT opens at Canton Museum of Art

The Canton Museum of Art will present the first major traveling exhibition of the Leatrice S. and Melvin B. Eagle Collection, a dazzling assemblage of artworks — ceramics, fiber work, furniture, glass, jewelry and works on paper — acquired by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston in 2010. Beyond Craft: Decorative Arts from the Leatrice S. and Melvin B. Eagle Collection opens August 27, 2015 and will…

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Come Rebel with The Wild Ones at Summit Artspace

Come Rebel with The Wild Ones at Summit Artspace

Art Review by Roza Maille Rebellion and art are one of those perfect combinations in life, like peanut butter and chocolate.  Curator, Rob Lehr brings together some of the most unruly, rebellious contemporary artists in the region (and beyond) with the group show The Wild Ones.  This salty and sweet perfection is strewn all over the walls at the Summit Artspace gallery in downtown Akron, creating…

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Michaël Borremans: As Sweet as it Gets

Michaël Borremans: As Sweet as it Gets

ART BOOK: Michaël Borremans – As Sweet as it Gets Since the late 1990s, when he first began to produce drawings and paintings, Michaël Borremans has created an extraordinarily mature body of work that has captured international attention. The disparate spaces he imagines in his paintings, drawings, sculptures and films are unified by an uncanny sense of dislocation and an often unsettling beauty.…

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