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February 2, 2026
Cleveland Art Game is a conceptual artwork for which I’ve initiated the design and handed it off to the
core team of THE QUEST, a growing artist-led initiative. I’ve been a part of the group since it was founded in late 2024.
The group’s aims are ambitious, transformative and oriented today around social art, experiential and participatory art. By design, the Cleveland Art Game unfolds over several months and hopes to engage tens of players, maybe hundreds!
My design will now go through a process of engagement, re-design, and polishing with an eye on a roll-out later this year. The concept melds together elements of a scavenger hunt, reality TV, card-deck gaming, and experimental practice.
On a personal note, it follows from my longtime work as an experiential toolmaker, and how this has become re-engaged as a conceptual art practice based around creative ways to evoke and support practical and extraordinary learning.
Join the private Facebook group here. Track THE QUEST’s activities on Facebook.
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January 22, 2026
LOVE, is the debut group exhibit of The Second Sunday Artist Collective. ARTicle in the Waterloo Arts District hosts the show that features Leslye Arian, Barbara Bachtell, Stephen Calhoun, Giancarlo Calicchia, Paula Damm, Andy Denney, Patty Flauto, Lauralee Hutson, Charlotte Lees, Barbara Martin, Tina Meeks, Maria Pelissier, Robert Putka, Rick Rollenhagen, John Saile, Jack St. John, Deborah Steytler, Lance Vernon, Robert Wright. We’re a decidedly older group with art practices anchored to stone sculpture, ceramics and clay, fiber, collage, metal work, mixed media, new media, digital art, photography, assemblage, representative and abstract painting.
Formed two years ago as a meetup group, the collective anticipates producing more exhibits. Roughly, the group’s collective experience exceeds 600 years!
Please note ARTicle is open to the public two days, 2/6 and 2/21, and otherwise is available by appointment. Contact me to see the show: (216) 269-5568.
LOVE, a group show
ARTicle
15316 Waterloo Road
Cleveland, Ohio 44110
opening: February 6 5:30-9pm
Walk All Over Waterloo
Brite Winter 2026: February 21, 2-9pm
Closing reception: Friday February 27, 5:30-9pm
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October 2, 2025
Cheap Surrealities, an affordable art exhibit and solo show will feature current and retrospective artworks in a welcome return to ARTicle. There will also be recent mobile cinema films and a slew of pieces that utilize to some degree Stable Diffusion.ai. A large portion of prints to paper key the affordable goal of this exhibit. I plan on presenting over 100 artworks.
The workshop allows me to demonstrate and collaborate with attendees on original artworks.
November 7: opening 5-9pm
November 8: noon-5pm
November 15: noon-5pm
November 22: noon-5pm
November 9: workshop 2:30-4pm
$25 adult · $15 kids 6-16
preregister · spots limited, will fill up fast!
sc.calhoun@gmail.com
ARTICLE
15316 Waterloo Road
Cleveland, Ohio 44110
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September 12, 2025
Quest For the Fest will provide a section of interactive, socially engaged installations based in its I Stand For___Fest
as part of A Paradise of Displacement, an installation by arts activist Naomi Lord. I will have a sculpture in the installation and also will be helping and interacting.
September 26-28, 2025
more info:
Ingenuity Fest ’25 · Forging the Future
5401 Hamilton Ave.
Cleveland, OH 44114
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September 11, 2025
Lasting Hearts Key Keeper has been provided to the Cuyahoga County Community College Community Art Exhibit at Tri-C West.
opens 5:30pm-8pm, September 15, 20255
runs through October 16, 2025
Gallery West
Western Campus Library (G112)
11000 Pleasant Valley Road
Parma, Ohio 44130
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September 1:2025
Quest for the Fest is reinstalling the collection of 2D and 3D jars, that I STAND FOR____FEST
orbits, at The Brownhoist. (This is the way point for Quest4theFEST’s experiential installation at Ingenuity Fest later in the month.) The exhibit also includes the community quilt and Thomas Smith House installation.
I have a 3D jar titled I Stand For All of Humanity in this pop-up exhibit and I also created several of the squares for the community quilt.
I STAND FOR____FEST RECAP
Friday September 12, 6-8pm
THE BROWNHOIST
4403 St Clair Ave.,
Cleveland, OH 44103
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August 11:2025
Quest for the Fest, a growing self-organizing community of Cleveland artists and creatives present their third event the weekend of August 23rd at SPACES in Hingetown. I STAND FOR____FEST promises a carnival of engaging interactive, collaborative and experiential opportunities. This hand’s on approach reflects the Q4theFEST’s community’s commitment to building out socially engaged and egalitarian creative events. This particular production is focused on positive affirmations of what we each stand for in the best sense of dedicated commitments to principles and values and the universally generative and positive.
For my part, I have provided installation maven Ross Bochnek with several long loops of iterated fractals and mobile cinema to be screened at the event. I’m a volunteer too and will be on site for both days.
I STAND FOR____FEST
August 23, noon-5pm
August 24, 1-4pm
SPACES
2900 Detroit, Hingetown
Cleveland, Ohio 44113
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August 1:2025
I’m pleased to provide three artworks for the invitational group show Yards III. This exhibit anticipates the opening in the Spring of Franklin Yards, another urban residential development and art venue to be filled with works from the collection of Neil and Amy Viny. I’m in the mix of artists who have recently had their art added to the growing collection, one of a handful of collections focused on living regional artists. This exhibit features works of these artists.
YARDS III
opens 5:30pm-8pm, Thursday, August 25
runs through January 10, 2026
Worthington Yards
725 Johnson Ct.
Cleveland, OH 44113
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July 3:2025
Artist/gallerist/curator Susan Snipes pairs with me to present a very very unusual exhibit, Terms of Engagement, at her gallery Understory. The group show is completely about participation and so it enjoins the public to come in an create, conceptualize, join in dialog, improvise, and be a part of a variety of engaging participatory artworks. I will present a conceptual piece Getting to Know based in the renowned Pivot/Proust questionnaires, and, a questionnaire I have devised. I will also be collaborating with Susan on an interactive sound piece.
Susan and I are joined by Linda Post, Marian Wyndgaard, Carol Langley, Richard Ferris, Ross Bochnek, and Rex Young. We are working on an artist’s talk that adds a fourth date to the schedule.
Terms of Engagement
Opening reception: August 13, 2025 6-9pm
3rd Friday @78th Street Arts Complex
August 15, 5-9pm
September 19, 5-9pm
UNDERSTORY
1305 W 80th Street,
(at 78th Street Studios At Complex) RAMP level
Suite 019,
Cleveland, Ohio 44102
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June 30:2025
Enki, my personal favorite artwork from last year, will apear in 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.
2025 AAWR Member’s Show
opens 5:30pm-8pm, Thursday, July 17
closing reception 2pm-4pm, Saturday, September 20
Artists Archive of the Western Reserve
1834 East 123rd Street Cleveland, Ohio
Cleveland, OH 44106
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March 4:2025
I’m honored! My photographic artwork, Cleo’s Timepiece, has been accepted into The Bay Arts Juried Exhibition. It is my favorite circular artwork from last year.
Opening reception: March 14, 2025
Exhibit runs through April 5, 2025.
Sullivan Gallery at Bay Arts
28795 Lake Rd,
Bay Village, OH 44140
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March 3:2025
An aggregate of radially iterated photographs of dahlias (from my backyard garden) joins the flowery works of over one hundred regional artists in the group show, Cleveland Bouquet. It takes place at the estimable Yards Projects at Worthington yards.
Cleveland Bouquet
March 13-April 26, 2025
opening reception: March 13, 2025, 5:30-8pm
Worthington Yards
725 Johnson Ct.
Cleveland, OH 44113
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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.)
I Only Have Eyes For You
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 2024
Collection Preview and reception: October 17
13610 Larchmere Blvd
Cleveland, Ohio 44120
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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
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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
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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
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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
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April 10:2024
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
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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.
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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
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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
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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 1
open Friday, October 13. 6-10pm
Doubting Thomas Gallery
856 Jefferson Avenue
Tremont Arts District
Cleveland, OH
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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
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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!!!
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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
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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
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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
A Large Transmission
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
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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
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