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Drawings, paintings, comics, objects.
Peter Kuper's illustrations and comics appear regularly in
Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, and MAD, where he illustrates
SPY vs. SPY.
Peter Kuper graduated from Cleveland Heights High in 1976. He attended
Kent State University 1976-1977, then moved to New York and studied
at Parsons School of Design and Pratt Institute in New York. In 1979
he co-founded (with Seth Tobocman) the political comix magazine World
War 3 Illustrated.
His most recent books are adaptations of Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis,
Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, and Sticks and Stones (a wordless
graphic novel about the rise and fall of empires).
16 Artists Presenting 4 Works of Art at $200 each
Virgie Patton Ezelle, Pamela Argentieri, Yong Han, Nathaniel Parsons, Bellamy Printz, Mark Howard, Matthew Kolodziej, Craig Lucas, Derek Hess, Thomas Frontini, Lori Kella, Craig Bungo, Brent Kee Young, Wendy Collin Sorin, Kirk Mangus, Raphael Valdivieso
In the Project Room:
Photographs by Bucky Shewitz
Art collected by the Cleveland art critic.
Art collected during her 30 years as the Plain Dealer art reporter. Artists include Anna Arnold, Herbert Ascherman, Louis Bosa, Shirley Aley Campbell, H.C. Cassill, Clara Deike, Roy Lichtenstein, Pablo Picasso, Dorothy Rutka Porter, Robert Rauschenberg, Viktor Schreckengost, Phyllis Seltzer, Phyllis Sloane, William Sommer, Julian Stanczak, Paul Travis, and more.
oil on canvas, 24" x 30"
Chance to win painting by Joseph O'Sickey
A chance to win Garden Still Life is available with each $50 donation to HeightsArts from March 19 until July 17, when the winner of the painting, valued at $6000, will be announced at HeightsArts benefit at Lopez. Contributions to HeightsArts, a nonprofit community arts organization, are tax deductible and can be sent to HeightsArts, 2163 Lee Road #104, Cleveland Heights, Ohio 44118.
Garden Still Life is donated to HeightsArts in support of the arts in the community by Joseph O'Sickey and Vixseboxse Art Galleries in honor of his friendship with Helen Cullinan.
Joseph O'Sickey, born in Detroit in 1918, has been an artist his whole life. Like many other artists who grew up in Cleveland, as a child he attended Saturday classes at the Cleveland Museum of Art, which has one of his paintings in its permanent collection, and the Cleveland Institute of Art, where he received a bachelor’s degree in 1940. As an undergraduate, he studied with Henry Keller, Paul Travis, Frank Wilcox, William Eastman, Carl Gaertner, Rolf Stoll, Kenneth Bates, and Victor Schreckengost. Afterwards he served in the U.S. Army in Africa, India, and Burma. He and his artist wife, Algesa, married in 1947 and have literally colored the arts in Cleveland and beyond ever since. The O’Sickeys currently live in Kent, Ohio, where Joe taught at the university from 1964 until his retirement.
O’Sickey won the Cleveland Arts Prize in 1974, and in addition to the Cleveland Museum of Art his work is in the permanent collection of the Canton Art Institute, Butler Institute, Roy Lichtenstein Collection, Leonard Baskin Collection, German Seligmann Collection, and many more. He has had numerous one-person exhibitions throughout his career, and received many awards.
O’Sickeys oil paintings are lush, vibrantly hued landscapes and still lifes characterized by brushstrokes that make no pretense to be invisible. Rather, the colorful abstract marks cling together to create recognizable objects. O’Sickey paints endless variations of his and Algesa’s garden and studio, and the same objects and vistas appear again and again in different configurations or painted in a different light, a different season, or even a different state of mind.
Additional Joseph O’Sickey oil paintings and watercolors, as well as pastels and paintings by Algesa O’Sickey, are available at Vixseboxe Art Galleries, 12436 Cedar Road, Cleveland Heights (in the Cedar Fairmount neighborhood) Wednesdays through Saturdays 11 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. or by appointment by calling 216.791.2727.
working drawings, documents, and models by the artists of Sculpture in the Heights*
Tim Cassell, Micheal Costello, Barry Gunderson, Matthew Hollern, Robert Huff, Carol Hummel, Paul O’Keeffe, Brinsley Tyrrell, Laila Voss
*Sculpture in the Heights is a two-year-long outdoor exhibition by nine Ohio sculptors, opening at Severance Town Center in July.
Reliquaries in Contemporary Metals
This national exhibition of artists working in metals is presented as one of a series of special events held during the Society of North American Goldsmiths Conference in Cleveland.
Artists: Cappy Counard, Nathan Dube, Sandra Enterline, Patti Fields, Jennifer Howqard Kicinski, Richard Mawdsley, Frederick J. Miller, Mary Pearse, Kristin Mitsu Shiga, Jennifer Trask
curated by William Busta and Catherine Butler
More about the SNAG conference
Heaven is a Place Where Nothing Ever Happens
Paintings and Sculpture
These two artists look back on the 20th century modernism with 21st
century understanding. Langsam's paintings set minimalist sculptures
against modernism's "other", the romantic landscape.
Becket's work recycles the modernist credo of form-follows-function
to give life to the detritus and frenetic energy that had long been
swept under the modernist rug. Together, their works explode conventional
interpretations of landscape and the machine age.
Art, crafts, books and CDs by 100 Heights artists, writers,
and musicians
Shop at the Holiday Store and support the arts in your
neighborhood!
November 12–December 30
Opening Saturday, November 12, 11 am to 9 pm
Holiday Store Hours:
Sunday 1 to 5 pm
Tuesday–Saturday 11am to 9 pm
Closed Mondays except for December 19, 11 am–9 pm
December 24 hours: 10 am to 4 pm
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