News – Stephen Calhoun

STEPHEN CALHOUN #experimental #self-taught #cleveland #photographer #experimental #visionary #generative #artist and image auteur!

		January 10:2020 Owlchemy (2019) has been juried into Black & White at Stella’s Art Gallery, Mentor, Ohio. This is the second year in a row a photograph of mine has been welcomed into this yearly exhibit. 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.
		January 10:2020 Two artworks, Mind Buds and Ceremonial Chip #2, were juried into the group show, FRESH 2020, at Summit Artspace in Akron Ohio. This 16th presentation of FRESH supposes “Art that will be accepted as part of this annual exhibition must be innovative and challenging to both the viewer and the artist. Accepted artists will have pushed the boundaries of what art can be– stylistically, conceptually, or technically– and will challenge the viewer to see the world through a new lens. Accepted work will feature novel styles, original thinking, and demonstrate a high level of skill in the artist’s chosen 2D or 3D media.” I’m deeply honored to have two of my image-making approaches recognized for their innovation. This is the second year in a row I have been so honored. Summit Artspace’s main gallery, 140 East Market Street, is open weekly Thursdays and Fridays, noon to 7 p.m., and Saturdays, noon to 5 p.m. Additional hours include 4-7 p.m. on Jan. 16 for 3rd Thursday and the Feb. 1 Artwalk, 5-9 p.m. FRESH 2020 opens Friday, January 10 at 6pm. (pictured is Mind Buds » 2019)
		September 24:2019 Five artworks will be featured in the group show, Beyond the Camera, at Prama Artspace in Parma Ohio. The exhibit, curated by noted photographer Laura D’Allesandro, is part of the inaugural Cleveand Photography Festival. The festival showcases over one hundred artists working in the photographic medium. The Cleveland Photo Festival runs through October at numerous galleries and venues throughout the region. (pictured is The Magicians » 2019)
		September 19:2019 The Gallery at Lakeland (Community College) presents its biennial Skull and Skeleton Show from September 19 to November 8, 2019. The exhibit is an invitational for which the curator Mary Urbas selects and invites regional artists to submit 2d and 3d work about the general theme of skulls, skeletons, and bones. It is timed to coincide with Halloween and other fall rituals. For the third straight edition I am honored to be an invitee. My generative artwork, Head Shot, will be pinned to one of the many walls in one of our region’s most beautiful galleries.
		June 7, 2019 I’ll Fly Away, Oh Glory, a composite of an original fractal and a Hubble image, has been accepted into the 2019 Waterloo Arts Festival Juried Exhibit. The photograph is installed at Waterloo Arts, one of the sites for this multi-site exhibit. The exhibit runs from June 7 until July 12 in The Waterloo Arts District, east of East 156th Street, Collinwood, Cleveland, Ohio.
		June 21:2019 Newly reopened RampArts Gallery (at 78th Street) will be presenting two major mixed process photographs from 2018, Long John Brown and Little Mary Bell, and, Everyday Ascension #1. A crop of the latter was featured on the cover of the spring issue of the CAN Journal. I really happy to be showing for the first time at 78th Street, Cleveland’s art mecca. Thank you Randy, Mark and the RampArts team for creating the opportunity for the public to view large artworks up close. View new art works in Cleveland at: RampArts Gallery Suite #202 78th Street Cleveland, Ohio 44102

		April 10:2019 Over one hundred 5inch x 5inch single edition archival prints will be offered in a pop-up exhibition May 3rd and 4th at ARTICLE in the Waterloo Arts District, Cleveland. The opening on May 3rd coincides with Walk All Over Waterloo. On May 4th I will present an artist’s talk on Serendipity and Creativity, at 2:00pm. (In the early aughts the nature and implication of serendipity was a principal research focus of mine.) The 5×5″ prints will be signed and priced, $20 for the first purchase, and $10 for each additional purchase. As many of my NEO colleagues understand, one of my artistic missions is to place my artworks in as many locations as possible. As I am moved to remind: ubiquity, not rarity. Pop-up exhibit in Cleveland at: ARTICLE 15316 Waterloo Road Cleveland, Ohio 44110

		March 7:2019 Back to the Fillmore #4 will be exhibited at Stella’s Art’s in Mentor Ohio as part of their juried Influenced By Music Show. Most of my art practice is influenced by my background in, and love of, music. This artwork has been looking to be exhibited for years. I’m honored to have it juried into this exhibit. The exhibition will open on Friday, March 8, 2019 at Historic Matchworks Building 8500 Station Street Mentor, Ohio 44060

		March 1:2019 Everyday Ascension #1 is excerpted for the cover of the spring Collective Arts Network quarterly journal. Inside there is a very perceptive profile too. This is a huge honor and I am happy to help herald the blooming of spring in northern Ohio. 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.)

		January 11:2019 The Magician will be exhibited at Stella’s Art’s in Mentor Ohio as part of their juried Black & White Show. The exhibition will open on Friday, January 11, 2019 at Historic Matchworks Building 8500 Station Street Mentor, Ohio 44060

		January 10:2019 Bright Shout #3 will be exhibited online as part of Manhattan Arts International’s The Healing Power of Art 2019 juried exhibit. I’m honored be in this show featuring a global roster of artists. The exhibition opens on Thursday, January 10, 2019.

		December 28:2018 Family System I. will be exhibited at the 15th FRESH Art Juried Exhibition 2019 at Summit Artspace, Akron, Ohio. FRESH seeks to showcase innovative art practices. 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.

		December 18:2018 Colortone Staging and Rentals provided a demonstration of their 8k 20×12′ LED video wall. Such technology figures into my 2019 plan to include a lot more backlit experiences. Colortone Staging and Rentals

		September 21:2018 To celebrate International Peace Day, Manhattan International Arts (NYC) and Healing Power of Art.org put together a juried online exhibition of fifty artists from around the world. The Artists For World Peace Exhibition includes my artwork from 2017, Four Noble Truths In a Nutshell.

		July 26: 2018 Everyday Ascent #1 (2017,) a mixed process photograph, has been juried into My Treasures Are Within: 12th Annual Ohio Online Visual Artist Registry (OOVAR) Juried Exhibition–to be held at the Columbus Metropolitan Main Library, 96 South Grant Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43215 from November 29 through January 12, 2019. This honor has been accorded to my artwork for the third year in a row by various jurors for this statewide show.

		July 26: 2018 The group show *Here and Now: Four Mindful Art Practices* includes artworks by Lainard Bush, Eva Volf, Kathy Skerritt, and myself. The exhibit runs from July 26-August 18, the gallery at The Beachwood Community Center. I’m honored to be showing at one of the regions crispest galleries. Thank you Susan Merdler, gallery director. (photo:Knysna Blue Welcome)

		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.

		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.

		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.

		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.

		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.)

		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.

		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.

		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.

		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.

		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.

		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″.

		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.

		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.) Pictured is one of Mr. Valero’s favorites, Marcoz’s Ibozo Break.

		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.

		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.

		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.