News 2022+ - Stephen Calhoun

STEPHEN CALHOUN #experimental #self-taught #cleveland #photographer #iterative_artist #generative_artist #experiential_art #reflective_practice #lifelong_creativity

		November 20, 2024 Susan Snipes, gallerist, curator, artist, has invited me to provide two artworks for a group show I Only Have Eyes For You. Her gallery, Understory, is only one of a handful of places in Cleveland that focus on contemporary conceptual and post-conceptual art. Both artworks I will supply utilize diffusion-ai, albeit in two different ways. One is a pure prompt piece and the other uses an original photograph in a recursive diffusion process. Both pieces are weird! (Pictured to the left is Pareidolia Study, Anima Style.) Opens November 29 through January 19. Two 3rd Fridays are also implicated: December 20/January 17. 5-9pm UNDERSTORY 1305 W 80th Street, (at 78th Street Studios At Complex) RAMP level Suite 019, Cleveland, Ohio 44102
		October 10, 2024 The artists of ARTicle have invited me to provide artworks for their curated exhibit, Crossing Thresholds. This is an exciting opportunity because three fractal symmetries will be shown for the first time. (Pictured to the left is Loving Shout Up. In the show are two other fractal symmetries.) Crossing Thresholds November 1-December 28 opening reception: November 1, 6-9pm workshop facilitated by Christopher Reynolds (on Crossing Thresholds as a spiritual endeavor) November 16, 1:30-3:30 Artist’s Dialogue-December 6, 7pm ARTICLE 15316 Waterloo Road Cleveland, Ohio 44110
		October 1, 2024 Because a section of my art is zealously surreal, it was easy to supply a piece, Memory Function Box, to The Oddball Show at Stella’s Art Gallery. The juror gave a thumbs up. The artwork is among my most successful examples of my amalgamation of original photography, diffusion/AI technology, and both recursive and stochastic processing. It is odd and surreal. The Oddball Show October 11-November 4 reception October 11, 7-9pm Stella’s Art Gallery 38033 Euclid Ave Willoughby, Ohio 44094 hours: Sunday & Monday: Closed Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday 10am-6pm Thursday & Friday 10am-8pm
		August 21, 2024 SINGULART, headquartered in Paris, France, has, with the aid of a recruiter, pulled me through the application process and added me to their curated roster of international artists. SINGULART’s artist roster numbers less than 8,000, which is a modest total compared to, for example, Saatchi, or Fine Art America, both of which platform many hundreds of thousands of artists. In addition to their more focused roster, SINGULART leverages their expertise as an art advisory to work with their artists to market and merchandise their art works. They even assign a representative for the sake of this mission. As always, my various partnerships constitute experiments and here my hypothesis is straightforward: sell my art into European collections. I’m starting off with ten artworks in a measured roll-out. So far I really like all the thought they put into their infrastructure. SINGULART: STEPHEN CALHOUN
		August 18, 2024 Artist, art impresario, author/editor Scott Kraynack includes me in the follow-up to his well received coffee-table book, heART of Cleveland. heART of Cleveland 2 is to be released Wednesday November 13, 2024. A group show at Hedge Gallery (78th Street)will feature the book’s roster of artists. The exhibit preview takes place on November 13, and the celebration of the book release and exhibit open November 15, Hedge Gallery, 78th Street. I’ll be showing a small version of the very large artwork, A Crazy Enough Theory; itself part of the three artwork set, Negative Capability, that includes Long John Brown and Little Mary Bell, and Charin Lemon Roots. The heART of Cleveland 2 Hedge Gallery 78th Street Art Complex W.78th Street Cleveland, Ohio preview: November 13 \| 3:00-5:00pm reception: November 15, 5:00pm-8:00pm
		August 14, 2024 Floor Sage has been juried into The NewNow exhibit, currently the last extant regional juried exhibition that aims to highlight the region’s most provocative and/or masterly work. I am honored to have my photographic piece from last year in the show, the second time I’ve been so honored. Kudos also to The Artist Archives of the Western Reserve, the exhibit’s organizer and sponsor. The NewNow 2024 Tri-C Gallery east 4250 Richmond Rd. Highland Heights, Ohio opens: September 12 \| 6:00-7:30pm runs:September 12-October 17
		August 11, 2024 Much to my delight, my iPhone shot of our Maine coon mix, Sonny, was juried through a national call for the Cleveland Photo Fest exhibit Catography. This is the first time I submitted a non-iterative image to a juried exhibit. Sonny (Lipkin the Pipkin) was the most spectacular cat of the many many that have come into my life starting in the nineteen fifties. As we like to say “he was a people person” with “thousands of expressions.” The photograph is poignant because it was taken several weeks before he passed away from pancreatitis at the age of eleven. Catography \| 2024 Cleveland Photo Fest Bostwick Design Art Initiative 2731 Prospect Rd, Cleveland, OH 44115 opens: September 6 \| 6:00-9:00pm Public hours:Friday, 12 to 9 PM, Saturday and Sunday 12 to 5 PM
		July 22, 2024 My large artwork Alignocturne has been selected and purchased by the Cleveland Art Association. It joins other works in their 2024 collection. CARTA is the steward of a collector’s consortium that meets in the fall of every year to hold a lottery for the sake of placing artworks in their collection of prominent Cleveland area artists with their members. This allows artworks to both cycle through or be purchased and placed in member’s art collections. CARTA uses income to support various art education initiatives and programs in the region. This has been its mission since 1915. I am deeply honored to join CARTA’s 2024 collection. CARTA 13610 Larchmere Blvd • Cleveland, Ohio 44120 email 2024 Collection Preview and reception: October 17

		June 1, 2024 On August 11 I will be supplying iPhone cinema loops for a one day salon of mixed and multi-media and 3d artists, and, poets and writers, at the invitation of artist/curator Sarah Wisely Croley. This event spins off with a group show that will run July 3 through September 7. Eleven opens Wednesday July 3 closes Saturday September 7 reception & salon: Sunday, August 11, 1-3pm Art Gallery at The Beachwood Community Center 25325 Fairmount Blvd. Beachwood, OH
		May 31, 2024 Two, maybe even three, artworks with floral subjects will be my answer to the invitation of curator/gallerist Sean Mabin. He’s looking to fill his intimate art gallery with Nothing But Flowers! Nothing But Flowers opens Friday, June 08 6-10pm closes Friday June 28 Prama Artspace & gallery 5411 Pearl Rd Parma, Ohio
		May 3, 2024 Painter/printmaker/digital artist John Saile and I present Luxuries of Being at The Doubting Thomas Gallery. This duo exhibit is at the moment my biggest splash on the dance card for 2024. It’s a roomy bohemian space so I’m planning on combining new work with a mini-retrospective, looping video, a light box, and recent experiments in printing to African Mahogany veneer. For my good friend John’s part, he will be presenting a slew of new painting+printmaking works to canvas. We’ll be talking about our art June 29 at noon and this will be followed by a workshop at 1:30pm; ($15.) My workshops always end with participants receiving a printable collaborative artwork made together on the spot. Space is limited. Register by email. Luxuries of Being opens Friday, June 14 6-10pm open Saturday June 8/15/22 noon-4pm June 29: artist’s talk + workshop ($15) noon-3pm closes Sunday June 30 Doubting Thomas Gallery 856 Jefferson Avenue Tremont Arts District Cleveland, OH
		April 30, 2024 An iterated photograph printed to veneer, Wisdom Seat has been juried into the group exhibit Mirrored Perspective: The Art of Reflection at a new Cleveland Gallery, Understory Art Cleveland. I especially thrilled because my art practices are essentially centered by both the concrete sense of reflection and the psychological sense of reflection. In the latter case this additionally refers to my background in adult learning theory and experiential learning, both of which are anchored to reflection in its cognitive manifestation. Mirrored Perspective: The Art of Reflection opens May 15, 5pm closes June 21, after 3rd Friday. Suite 019, lower level W.78th Street Art Complex 1300 W. 78th Street Cleveland, OH
		April 10, 1014 2024 I was delighted to learn Bina, a friend’s daughter, offered up my small circular piece Carnival Button to the group exhibit Art of the Trade 2: Artists Collecting Artists. I gave the artwork to her years ago when she was 7 years old. Art of the Trade: Artists Collecting Artists 2 open Friday, April 12 6-10pm closes Saturday May 4 Doubting Thomas Gallery 856 Jefferson Avenue Tremont Arts District Cleveland, OH
		March 11, 2024 A new page about studio visits and workshops is now live. The cinema page and ai-art pages are temporarily unavailable. Did you know all the various nodes on my network including social media, print-on-demand partners and international partners are aggregated at a linktree page: Stephen Calhoun:linktree Recently I have joined both @threads and BlueSky (artistscc.bsky.social). @threads I’m concentrating on art. Head shot is brand new and from a slew of great photographs the brilliant Jack Valancy shot recently.
		March 1, 2024 Once again I am honored to volunteer an artwork, Ever Be, into this year’s member’s show of the Artists Archives of the Western Reserve. The AAWR provides curated archiving services to current and past Cleveland area artists. The organization’s mission is to preserve the legacy of Cleveland artists who have been asked to have select works archives. Additionally, another key element of their mission is to present curated exhibitions and educational programs focused on regional artists. more info 2024 Member’s Show, AAWR opens 5:30pm Friday, March 1 — May 3, 2024 (closing reception) Artists Archive of the Western Reserve 1834 East 123rd Street Cleveland, Ohio
		December 15, 2023 I am super excited to kick off 2024 with a group show that aims to highlight some of the best collaborative images created by 21 of the participants of two workshops I gave in the fall. The workshops were designed to demonstrate and teach the bare bones of how I build set-ups in small containers. These set-ups provide the subjects for photographs and their subsequent manipulation. Using an iPhone some manipulations were demonstrated during the workshops. Later, I fashioned completed works from the numerous very ripe outputs of the original collaboration. Thirty or so small artworks make up this show. Together they showcase lots of variety and lots of collaborative verve. Among the collaborators were artists and non-artists — although the latter group are artists for the purpose of this show. Finally, this is the first time I have integrated my background in adult experiential learning with a group project. This was bound to happen at some point! (depicted is a collaboration between Ann Bort & Stephen Calhoun) When Everybody Is An Artist opens Friday, January 5, 2024 February 2, 2024 (Walk All Over Waterloo 1st Fridays) by appt: (216) 220-9974 Maria Neil Art Project 15517 Waterloo Rd The Gold Building Waterloo Arts District Cleveland, OH 44110
		October 11, 2023 Curator, colleague, Cleveland Photo Fest maven, friend Laura D’Alessandro has invited an artwork I gave her in a trade to represent the transaction in an upcoming group show Art of the Trade: Artists Collecting Artists. It takes place at the lovely bohemian art outpost, The Doubting Thomas Gallery. The show is part of The Cleveland Photo Fest. I have provided a second artwork, Owlchemy. Art of the Trade: Artists Collecting Artists open Friday, October 13. 6-10pm Doubting Thomas Gallery 856 Jefferson Avenue Tremont Arts District Cleveland, OH
		October 1, 2023 I’m honored to have been invited for a fourth time to provide art works for a group show at Worthington Yards by Yards Project curator Liz Maugans. The exhibit, Stranger Things, promises to bring together nothing but ‘far out,’ down-the-rabbit-hole, art works. For my own part I have given to the show three artworks of new media wildness, each of which has some A.I. prompt art in their making. Yard Project Presents Stranger Things October 19—November 18, 2023 Worthington Yards 725 Johnson Ct Cleveland, Ohio open: October 19 \| 5:30-8:00pm
		September 12, 2023 The Skull & Skeleton group show is a biennial treat curated by the indefatigable Mary Urbas. The exhibit centers the artistic Halloween season by providing a scary/weird/over-the-edge collection that takes over the large Gallery at Lakeland. This time around I have chisen pieces from my ongoing AI prompt art conceptual project, Weedlandia. The Skull and Skeleton in Art VIII Folk Art to Pop Culture September 21 – November 3, 2023 The Gallery At Lakeland Lakeland Community College Kirtland, Ohio reception: October 26 \| 6-9pm \| costumes!!!
		September 7, 2023 A second interactive workshop, associated with my solo show will unfold at Gallery 202 at W.78th Street art complex on Saturdau October 7. It uses the same model of collaborative and experiential learning the workshop at the AAWR uses. In this instance I will haul a rich collection of various materials from my studio to fuel the collaborative creation of source set-ups. These will be informally and (somewhat!) formally photographed, manipulated and shown back to the group. Participants will later receive images finished in my studio. Kaleidoscoping October 7, 2023 noon-2pm Gallery 202 Suite 202 W.78th Street Art Complex 1300 W. 78th Street Cleveland, OH reserve via phone 216.407-3685
		September 4, 2023 Kathy Skerritt, the last Cleveland painter, was not only a close friend, she was the person whose mentoring was the most critical to my figuring out what it is to be a late blooming artist. Additionally, we enjoyed each other’s art and art practices, and we both did the wondrous and necessary deep dive that is the foundation of taking any artist very seriously. In 2019 she gave me bags of sorted-by-color acrylic paint chips. These fragments and shards were scraped off of some of her paintings over many years. As she told me at the time, “I knew she was saving these for this reason, to gift you with them. With the help of my colleague Kelly Pontoni, we figured out one way to redeploy the chips. To this end I am excited to announce the ‘Skerritt chips’ will make up the material basis for a collaborative workshop at the Artists Archives of the Western Reserve, Beyond Abstraction, and also joins their ongoing series Art Bits. My background in experiential learning, adult and organizational development underpins the interactive process through which participants will be shown the simple means for iterating source images. Then, together, we will create various sources in boxes and circular containers and then submit them for manipulation and iteration using an iPad and iPhone. Finally, I will finish the images in my digital studio and provide artworks to the participants. Spaces are limited. Art Bits: Beyond Abstraction September 30, 2023 1-3pm Artists Archive of the Western Reserve 1834 East 123rd Street Cleveland, Ohio reserve via eventbrite
		September 1, 2023 Seven large photographic artworks, and one radially iterated generative artwork constitute the first Cleveland solo exhibit of such sizable works since 2016-2017. (Six of the pieces were exhibited last summer at The Mansfield Art Center.) A Large Transmission unfolds for five weeks at Gallery 202 at [W] 78th Street. I am pleased and honored to enjoy the support of the Gallery 202 crew, and was happy to be on the roster of their predecessor Ramparts. The artworks represent a big portion of the creme of my output from the pandemic chapter 2020-2021. Along with two older pieces and a single artwork from 2022 this show is an apt portrayal of my immersive aims opens Friday September 15, 2-9pm — through October 21 3rd Friday, October 20 2-9pm Wednesday 4-7pm Saturday 12-4pm Fridays (other than 3rd Fridays) 12-5pm Gallery 202 Suite 202 W.78th Street Art Complex 1300 W. 78th Street Cleveland, OH
		August 31, 2023 The Cleveland Photo Fest is back in action with a group show and six feature exhibits. A single piece of mine, Four Learning Field Functions, has been provided for its large group exhibit. Cleveland Photo Fest ’23 Bostwicki Design Initiative 2731 Prospect E Cleveland, Ohio 44106

		July 7, 2023 Prominent Cleveland curator Mary Urbas asked 27 Cleveland artists to supply “really big art” for an ambitious group show stretched between four different venues. My artwork, Knysna Blue Welcome will be installed as part The Biggest Big @ss @rt Show at The Gallery at Lakeland. Although the piece is 4×7 feet, and is the second largest artwork I’ve produced over nine years, it will be one of the smallest pieces in The BIGGEST Big @ss @rt Show. I’m really looking forward to what my colleagues come up with. The Big @ss @rt Show July 7-August 23, 2023 Valley Arts Center Chagrin Falls, Ohio July 13-August 26, 2023 The Artist Archives of the Western Reserve University Circle Cleveland, Ohio July 14-August 14, 2023 BAYarts Bay Village, Ohio July 23-September 8, 2023 The BIGGEST Big @ss @rt Show The Gallery at Lakeland Lakeland Community College Kirtland, Ohio opens at 2pm with a presentation by various NEO art institution leaders
		July 7, 2023 Much to my delight, Navigators Travel In Circles of Time was selected by potter Diane Pinchot to be among the artworks in an exhibit, The Art We Live With. The group show features works from Article’s studio artists and from their own collections. I learned of my own participation on July 7th, the first Friday on which Walk All over Waterloo takes places. The exhibit will also be open to the public August 5. Article 15316 Waterloo Rd, Cleveland, OH 44110
		June 12, 2023 Seventy artists were asked to provide an artistic statement using an ostrich egg so that, in turn, the Artist Archives of the Western Reserve could fund raise by selling a token for a spot in an egg hunt. The jaw dropping collection of ostrich eggs then was made available for each egg hunter to claim an egg after completing the hunt within the confines of the famous Lakeview Cemetery. The egg I was charged to convert into a masterpiece instead became the only conceptual artwork in the collection. My green ugly duckling did use a beautiful glass pipe stand as a pedestal yet its aim was to find someone to operate it. What was the operation? I filled my egg with over ninety strips of paper, each with a unique advisory, aphorism, or quotation. Tweezers are used to extract each strip of paper. With a bow toward Brian Eno, I titled this piece Ostrich Strategies. The user deploys the egg like an oracle. It refers back to my decades spent designing experiential tools for use in organizational and adult development. It found its owner! Artist Archives of the Western Reserve 1834 East 123rd Street Cleveland, Ohio 44106
		March 16, 2023 As is the custom for the member’s show of The Artists Archive of the Western Reserve, I and tens of my colleagues have each supplied a small artwork for the 2023 exhibit. Opens March 23, 2023 through May 7, 2023 Artist Archives of the Western Reserve 1834 East 123rd Street Cleveland, Ohio 44106

		February 28, 2023 Two photographic artworks join the roster of The Cleveland Print Room’s 2023 Member Show.This will be the last exhibit in the soon-to-be legacy gallery. The Cleveland Print Room move to a new location in the spring. Opens March 3, 2023 Cleveland Print Room Artcraft Building 2650 Superior Ave. Cleveland, Ohio
		February 23, 2023 Two artworks have been provided to curator Sean Mabin for a group exhibit Now That’s What I Call Art Vol. 1. The show is being presented at Parma Artspace and Gallery. Opens February 24, 2023 Prama Artspace & gallery 5411 Pearl Rd Parma, Ohio
		January 10, 2023 Yards Project has asked me to contribute a 12×12″ artwork to their first group show of 2023, Foot Squared. Future Shock, a new iterated AI-prompt artwork will join the line-up. Opens January 19, 2023 5:30-8pm Worthington Yards Johnson Ct. Cleveland, Ohio
		January 4, 2023 New Head Trip (2022) has been juried into FRESH 2023! at Summit Art Space, Akron. I’m honored to make my third appearance in this annual show devoted to innovative art practices. January 13—March 18, 2023 FRESH! Summit Art Space 140 E Market St, Akron, OH 44308
		December 14, 2022 On this new page is the slideshow for last summer’s contribution to the group show (at The Mansfield Art Center) The Eye’s Mind. The Eye’s Mind
		December 2022 Gallery 202 shows and sells selected artworks from their second floor space at 78th Street. Their small showroom next to their exhibition space is a finely curated art store. Unique! Some of my favorite artists in Cleveland join me on the store’s roster, and Gallery 202 highlights all of us during the holiday season. Gallery 202 78th Street Studios Cleveland, Ohio
		December 2, 2022 The Heaviness of Silence will appear in the group show, Calm Spaces, Hectic Places, at The Doubting Thomas. Curated by Jamie Richey, I am honored to be in her edgy group of photographic fine artists. The exhibit is part of the Cleveland Photo Fest. Decmber 9—January 2023 The Doubting Thomas Gallery 856 Jefferson Ave. Cleveland, Ohio
		November 1:2022 I finally supplied ten photographs to Cleveland Foto Fest’s social art project that seeks to collect and compile one million photographs. CPF is launching the first public showing of the current state of the project, 173,000+ photographs, at the Bostwick Design Gallery in Cleveland November 18. (November 19—last night at the opening a friend excitedly reported to me that he had discovered one of my thumbnail size photographs in one of the seven eight foot tall montages. CPF:One Million Photographs Bostwick Design Partners 2729 Prospect Ave East Cleveland Novemer 18—December 31, 2022
		August 22:2022 Two artworks, Namita’s 23 Sisters, and Four Observers v2, are installed in the Robert Thurmer 24th People’s Show at The Galleries at CSU. Robert Thurmer 24th People’s Art Show opens August 22, 2022 \| closes November 26, 2022 The Galleries at CSU 1307 Euclid Avenue Cleveland, Ohio
		August 1:2022 I’m happy to provide Dringwiya Chorus to Prama Artspace for their open call group exhibit, All Together Now! All Together Now opens August 26, 2022 5-10pm Prama Artspace 5411 Pearl Rd Parma, Ohio
		July 15:2022 A fractal/generative artwork, Lightworking will be provided to WeCAN, at The Doubting Thomas Gallery in Tremont. This group show echoes the CAN Triennial by featuring artworks refused by their cutorial team. Count me out but count me in! Actually, Lightworking wasn’t submitted to the CAN Triennial, but WeCAN curatorJohn Saile saw it, and had an empty lightbox, so, back to the Doubting Thomas Gallery I go for a second appearance in the group show of refuseniks. WeCAN opens August 12, 2022 6-10pm The Doubting Thomas Gallery 856 Jefferson Ave. Cleveland, Ohio
		July 12:2022 Fraternal Twins, a mixed process, photo-generative, stochastic artwork has been accepted into the NewNow 2022 Biennial. The Artist Archive of the Western Reserve is the principal presenter. NewNow 2022 September 15 – October 28, 2022. Tri-C Gallery East, 4250 Richmond Road, Highland Hills, OH 44122
		July 12:2022 (update) June 14:2022 Dringwiya Chorus is installed in the Heights Arts Member’s Show. In addition, the artwork has been selected by a Cleveland poet to respond to in an upcoming installment of the ongoing series Ekphrastacy. Because my late twin brother Timothy Calhoun was a prominent poet, I am deeply touched by this selection. Heights Arts Member’s Show June 17—August 14 Ekphrastacy July 21, 7:00pm Eventbrite registration Heights Arts Gallery 2175 Lee Road Cleveland Heights, Ohio
		May 19:2022 Three years ago I provided over 125 5×5” single edition prints for a pop-up exhibit at Article, Waterloo Art District. This summer this affordable art concept will be rolled out again, this time featuring 5×5/8×8/12×12 prints and small studio proofs. The pricing between $15-$150 is part of the point of the show. My art is accessible, is for all ages, and so it is always a lot of fun to add or jump start people’s collections. *Find Your Fave* Stop in ARTICLE during “The Waterloo Arts Festival “- Saturday August 27, 2022 12-6 PM Opening Reception: Friday September 2, 2022 “Walk All Over Waterloo” Artist’s Talk – Saturday September 3, 2022 1-3 PM Gallery Visits – September 4-26 2022 by Appointment ARTICLE 15316 Waterloo Road Cleveland, Ohio 44110
		March 22:2022 The Eye’s Mind, a group show comprising envelope-pushing photographic work created by Jeff Benedetto, Stephen Calhoun, Braxton Daniels III, J. Leopold Francl, Tina Gutierrez, Larry Hamill, Irv Oslin, Kate Shannon, will be exhibited at The Mansfield Art Center, Mansfield, Ohio August 28 through October 16. The exhibit will be installed in the spacious, light-filled Elizabeth T. Black Gallery, the second floor of one of Ohio’s premier exhibtion spaces. The opening is September 4. I am super excited to have the chance to exhibit large photographic artworks in this stellar space. Because of the pandemic, I have been stockpiling the first rank of my iterative photographic body of work. Most of what I have plotted out for this exhibition will be shown for the first time. Exhibit runs August 28 — October 16, 2022 The Mansfield At Center 700 Marion Avenue Mansfield, Ohio 44906
		March 01:2022 Gallery 202 at 78th Street has invited me to provide a handful of iterative artworks rooted to botanical theme for a group show, Botanica! As it happens a substantial body of work of mine is anchored to flowers and plants, and to my backyard garden. I was happy to oblige with a selection of both large and small photographic artworks. Exhibit runs March 18 — April 14, 2022 Gallery 202 78th Street Studios West 8th Street, Level 2 Cleveland, Ohio
		March 1:2022 Qawwali #2 is my favorite of the hundreds of radially iterated artworks I have created. It’s small, 24×24” edition has been submitted to the Artist Archives of the Western Reserve for their annual member’s show. The exhibit runs March 24—May 6, 2022. Artist Archives of the Western Reserve 1834 East 123rd Street Cleveland, Ohio 44106

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