STEPHEN CALHOUN #experimental #self-taught #cleveland #photographer #experimental #visionary #generative #artist and image auteur!
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July 12:2021 There is a new page featuring artworks created to be displayed in large cloth-faced back-lit LED light box. |
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July 11:2021 Work has been offered to Mouse House Party, a collective exhibition in partnership with Liz Maugans, Akron Art Museum and Current Cleveland. 150+ artists are creating works about how they filled the hole and are coming out to connect? The Mouse House Party will be installed at 78th Street Studios. Renowned all-rounder Dana Depew is fabricating the 150+ mouse houses. Into each house will go an artwork. The party commences with an opening on August 5. Mouse House Party on Facebook 78th Street Studios West 78 Street Cleveland, OH |
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June 23:2021 Charin Lemon Roots has been juried into the annual Peer Show at The Cleveland Print Room. Due to the pandemic this show, one of the few national calls on the local calendar, will take place online. The Peer Show opens July 2. I’m honored to be included in this exhibit for the second year in a row. The Cleveland Print Room’s spacious gallery is open to the public. Although the Peer Show will not inhabit this fine space this year, the gallery is always a must-see location on the region’s art map. The Cleveland Print Room 2550 Superior Avenue Cleveland, OH 44114 |
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June 17:2021 Fourteen artworks are installed at The Tree House in Tremont, a fast growing neighborhood near downtown Cleveland. This impromptu exhibit is part of The Cleveland Photo Fest’s secondary efforts to spin off shows for local photographers. The Tree House has been cycling exhibits through their large back room for sometime now. I’m honored to be showing in Tremont for the first time. The Treehouse,, Cleveland 820 College Ave, Cleveland, OH 44113 Hours: Monday-Thursday 4pm – 2am Friday-Saturday 11am – 2am Sunday 11am-3pm |
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June 1:2021 Two 12×12″ prints to aluminum are presented in The Beachwood Art Council’s online exhibit Small Wonders. The exhibit is available online through July, 2021. |
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May 21:2021 Everyday Ascent #1 has been juried into the 11th annual May Show at The Gallery at Lakeland Community College. This artwork is my most well known piece, albeit it was an excerpt that benefitted from its being on the cover of the CAN Journal’s second quarter, 2019, issue. Now anybody may see the full artwork. I’m very tickled to return to the May Show at Lakeland, one of the handful of regional shows that attracts hundreds of entries and sifts these down to, this year, 114 artworks. This exhibit always does an excellent job of highlighting some of our region’s best work. I am honored to be a part of this showcase. The Gallery at Lakeland Community College 7700 Clocktower Dr, Kirtland, OH 44094 Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday 9 am–9 pm Saturday 9am – 5 pm masks are mandatory |
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April 9:2021 Miracle at Savitthi is installed in The Member’s Show, The Archive of the Artists of the Western Reserve. The exhibit runs April 8—May 29, 2021. It is always an honor to exhibit at the AAWR because it joins my selection with the selections of esteemed regional artists, many of whom I count as close friends and colleagues. Artists Archives of the Western Reserve 1834 E. 123rd Street Cleveland, OH 44106-1910 Gallery Hours: Wednesday-Friday 10 am–4 pm Saturday 12 pm – 4 pm masks are mandatory |
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March 26:2021 UPDATE Today I receive my second Pfizer shot. Thank you very much! The second year of the Covid-19 pandemic begins now to unfold toward its hopefully favorable resolution, although this hope of mine reflects my privilege at the same time it underplays the differentials evident in various national approaches, some of which may weigh heavily on all nation’s public health. I have exhibited very little over the last year. I haven’t left the house much either and this has supported my most productive year for doing various experiments. This also results in the stockpiling of the most creamy results of over one hundred experiments. Yet I am not ready to be enthusiastic about exhibiting in the future. Certainly, I am looking forward to showing the world what I feel is my best recent work, but this is mediated by the challenge of the current conditions. Sadly, with the terminal deprecation of Adobe Flash, I no longer have access to Leonardo Solaas’s Doodl Dashboard, a Flash-based browser application that was the principal generative ‘re-painting’ tool I used for all my photo-generative art experiments since 2015. His programming was a work of genius. I am grateful to have figured out how to control its parameters in ways that allowed me to create a lot of very compelling work. Brisk Totem for example. A door closes, another opens. Right now I am learning how to control a autonomous blending application on the iPad for the sake of creating stochastic generative images—which is to say manipulating mostly original and some net art sources through procedural and combinatorial blending of layers. This process instantiates a high degree of randomness. It’s power is in (my) choosing sources while letting the randomness eventually blend the 2-8 layers into a candidate or keeper. Lo-Fi video symmetries and animations (for LED 8k video walls) are also eating up some of my mad experimenter’s time. Stay tuned. Be well. Stay safe. Stephen (Join me: Instagram | Twitter ) |
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October 20:2020 The upcoming Trippy Trip Exhibit at Yards Projects at Worthington Yards will include a selection of recent artworks. The group show aims to represent all sorts of varieties of trips. (I’m especially pleased to be showing with Kasumi Filmska, who is to my mind by far and away Cleveland’s most important, internationally renowned, artist.) The space is large, airy, and may well be the best exhibiting space outside of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Transformer Station, and MOCA. The exhibit opens November 14, runs through December 31. pictured: Ceremonial Chip #2 | Mind Buds is also installed in the exhibit. Yards Project at Worthington Yards 725 Johnson Court Cleveland, Ohio |
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October 11:2020 Heaviness of Silence has been accepted into the 49th Annual Juried Art Exhibit at Valley Arts Center in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. This exhibit will open on November 6, and be on display through December 16 for in-person as well as online viewing. Valley Arts Center 155 Bell Street, Chagrin Falls, OH 44022 (440) 247 – 7507 |
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August 20:2020 Four slideshows have been created and added to the contents of the page, Exhibits/Curated Slideshows. Three of the slideshows present artworks exhibited at the three principal exhibitions of artwork. The other slideshow, Forty Four Favorite Artworks, collects together selections of artwork curated by the artist to represent his own favorites from his several bodies of work, (radially iterated, generative, photographic.) |
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August 15:2020 Be Counted, a photograph created for the purpose of promoting the 2020 census, was awarded an honorable mention in the professional division of the Why We Count art competition, hosted by The Cleveland Public Library. An upcoming gallery of winners will be posted online. |
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July 8:2020 My fourth solo exhibit is installed at Heights Arts in Cleveland Heights. Fifteen small artworks printed to aluminum are featured in a presentation that covers most of the range of my art practice. It is ready to be ‘virtually opened’ Friday, July 10th. The exhibit runs through August 23, 2020. Hours: Thursday—Saturday 1pm-7pm. Masks required. Gallery capacity limited. I will also be providing virtual opportunities to view the exhibit online or take a virtual tour with me. virtual opening tickets via eventbright: Stephen Calhoun Spotlight | Evolution 20th Anniversary Exhibit |
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July 1:2020 Library Street Collective, Detroit’s prominent gallery for contemporary art, working with Bedrock Detroit, a full service property developer, has purchased three large prints, Red Mandala #1, Red Mandala #2 and Hide and Sing. The artworks will be installed in the old May Company building downtown in Cleveland, (under the auspices of subsidiary Bedrock Cleveland.) I am pleased and honored to be chosen to join the initial group of Cleveland artists to be featured in the venerable 19th century building. The building has been undergoing restoration and renewal for the past several years. Hide and Sing |
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June 29:2020 Yards Projects at Worthington Yards, Cleveland, called for Cleveland artists to provide a single artwork representative of Art Made In the Shutdown. Renovator, a photo-generative artwork from April joins the exhibit. Worthington Yards is home of the Dalad Collection of art and is one of our stellar gallery spaces. Call to make an appointment to see the exhibit. 725 Johnson Court
Cleveland, Ohio 44113  (216) 570-0324 |
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May 31:2020 Everyday Is Somebody’s Birthday has been juried into the 2020 Waterloo Arts Festival. This annual exhibition will be presented virtually, and in the fall, at physical locations in The Waterloo Arts District. The lively street festival has been cancelled. Dates will be updated soon. |
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May 17:2020 Lasting Hearts Key Keeper, a photographic artwork from 2017, has been juried into the 2020 Peer Show. This annual exhibition will be presented at The Cleveland Print Room, 2550 Superior Ave, Cleveland, OH 44114, June 5 – July 18, 2020. (I am told the show will start as a virtual exhibit and then crossover to a physical exhibit with social distancing measures.) |
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April 27:2020 Carrie Wise, a producer for Ideastream, the local NPR broadcaster, interviewed me for an article on what Cleveland area artists are doing in response to the coronavirus pandemic. I was happy to tell her about artworks created expressly in response to the crisis. The online article Northeast ohio Artists Show Hope Through Pandemic Creations includes two artworks of mine and a brief slice of audio. |
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March 16:2020 Although the Bruegel Seminars: Guest Lecture was installed in the Member’s Show, The Artist’s Archives of the Western Reserve, the exhibit is unavailable due to the novel corona virus-19. The worldwide public health challenge is a 100 year event. Its most humbling aspect is its scale. Stay safe! |
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March 6:2020
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February 11:2020
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January 10:2020 Stella’s Art Gallery
THE MATCHWORKS BUILDING, 8500 Station St, Mentor, OH Black & White opens January 10 and runs through the end of the month.
(Owlchemy was awarded one of the juror’s prizes.)
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January 10:2020
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September 24:2019
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September 19:2019
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June 7, 2019
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June 21:2019
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April 10:2019
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March 7:2019 The exhibition will open on Friday, March 8, 2019 at Historic Matchworks Building
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March 1:2019 The CAN Journal is available at various art, magazine, and cafe/eatery locations throughout northeastern Ohio. (June 7, 2019: The issue with my art featured on the cover was one of the quartet of issues that earned CAN Journal the 2018-2019 Ohio’s Best Magazine honor.)
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January 11:2019 The exhibition will open on Friday, January 11, 2019 at Historic Matchworks Building
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January 10:2019 The exhibition opens on Thursday, January 10, 2019.
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December 28:2018 The exhibition will open on Friday, January 11, 2019 with a reception from 5 – 8 pm, and will run through February 16, 2019. Gallery hours are Thursdays and Fridays from 12 until 7 pm and Saturdays from 12 until 5 pm. The show will be open for extended hours during Artwalk, Saturday, February 2, 2019 from 12-9 pm.
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December 18:2018
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September 21:2018
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July 26: 2018
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July 26: 2018
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July 20: 2018 The Background of a Habit (2015) has been provided to The Church of Art, an element of the 2018 edition of Rooms to Let, July 28/29, Slavic Village, Cleveland. |
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| July 13: 2018 In response to an open call, I have provided an artwork not seen before now in Cleveland, Wired Mandala, to the WE CAN Exhibit at The Doubting Thomas, in Tremont, Cleveland, Ohio. |
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March 2: 2018 Cleveland artist Kathy Skerritt hosted a pop-up exhibit of my artwork in her studio in the Waterloo Arts District Cleveland. This led to lots of rewarding interactions. Twenty artworks were installed in one of her studio’s room and in the hallway behind the prominent gallery, Article. I was delighted to showcase large artworks from 2015 and mandalas from 2017, giving people a chance to see pieces up close for the first time. |
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January 1: 2018 Blue Baraka (2017)) was selected to appear in Academy Graphic Communications 2018 desk calendar. It is showcased on the facing page to week eleven. |
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| November 15: 2017 The Experiential Learning Community of Practice (IEL) has accepted my proposal for a presentation at next year’s annual conference. Creative Choices, Intuitive Realizations- An Interactive Exploration and Inquiry is the title and it will be presented June 23, 2018. I last presented in 2016. (I’m also an independent researcher in the field of experiential and transformative learning in adult development.) |
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October 9: 2017 This semester at DePaul University, professor Lin Bathsheva Kahn asked her dance students to create dances inspired by their experience with my art work, Sonny Sharrock In Heaven. |
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August 23: 2017 Wired Mandala, a photographic mixed process piece printed to 34″ laser cut aluminum circle, has been juried and accepted into the Ohio Arts Council’s annual OOVAR Exhibit. The exhibit–what I call the ‘state show’–runs from November 24 to January 6, 2018 at the main library, Columbus Public Library, in the Carnegie Building. |
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| August 14: 2017 At the invitation of gallerist/curator Mary Urbas, I have submitted two art works to be exhibited at the annual Skull & Skeleton Show at The Gallery at Lakeland, Lakeland Community College, Kirtland, Ohio. The show runs September 21-October 26, 2017. | ||
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June 2: 2017 A photographic self-portrait guest conducted by Roger Talbott, has been included in Liz Maugan’s collective piece, The Artists’ Trust. This artwork is featured in MOCA Cleveland‘s regional group exhibit, Constant As the Sun. The Artist’s Trust brings together around four hundred 8 1/2 x 11 self-portraits of local working artists. The open call for contributions apparently has ended up as one of the largest assemblies of portraits of a creative community installed in one place. |
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May 11: 2017 Explosive Ideas and Namita’s Twenty-Twins were both accepted into The 8th Annual May Show at Lakeland Juried Art Exhibition at The Gallery at Lakeland. (The gallery is on the campus of Lakeland Community College in Kirtland, Ohio.) The exhibit runs from May 18-July 14. Dr. Louis A. Zona, Executive Director/Chief Curator at the museum of the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown is this year’s juror. |
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May 1: 2017 Angelic Blues (2015) has been accepted into the 2017 Waterloo Arts Juried Exhibition that takes place from June 2 to July 21, 2017 in the Collingwood neighborhood of Cleveland. I submitted an 18×12 proof printed to acrylic because of the exhibit’s dimensional parameter. The one-of edition is 40×28″. |
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| April 10:2017 Oh Good Party, a private fine art concierge/advisory based in Toronto and Shanghai, invited me to submit artworks for the consideration of their members at the end of last year. An interview was conducted in March, and it can be read on their web site. |
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March 1:2017 Art Valero, founder of emergART, invited me to submit a small portfolio of artworks to be evaluated for inclusion his curated virtual gallery. Check out the introductory video to get an idea of what his cutting edge concept of a curated virtual gallery is all about. (update: December 1, 2017 – my portfolio of artworks joins the roster of international artists of emergART.) |
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October 14 :2016 Photographs Kabuki Warrior (2014) and Welcome to the Mardi Gras (proof-2014) have been installed in the 22nd Annual Peoples’ Art Show at the Galleries at Cleveland State University. The exhibit opens October 28. Pictured is Kabuki Warrior. |
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October 6:2016 Confucian Feminine Conduction #1 has been selected to be exhibited at the 10th Annual Ohio Online Visual Artist Registry Juried Exhibition. It will be held at the Columbus Metropolitan Main Library November 3, 2016 through January 7, 2017 at the main library downtown in Columbus, Ohio. |
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May 6:2016 Gallerists Deba Gray and Serena Harrigan, owners of Gray’s Auctioneers, have installed and will present for the next year an exhibit of fifteen pieces in their sun-filled main gallery. Ms. Gray discovered my artwork in 2014. |