BRG is proud to have three artists included as part of the OHIO Art's Council Riffe Gallery's 2023 Biennial Juried Exhibition! BRG artist Jolene Powell served as on of the three jurors for the exhibition, which featured two more of our artists, Jason Morgan and Bernard Palchick. They are two of 63 artists whose work was chosen from 1,661 submissions from artists all across Ohio.
Cancer and art: One artist’s journey through treatment and rebuilding. "'Boundless’ is my therapy piece,” Palchick says. “I am a painter and this is my way to make sense of this journey.”
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Myers also presently has two other exhibitions on view at The Akron Museum of Art and the Herron School of Art and Design.
"Land Jam" is on view at the Akron Art Museum through May 12th and "Materialize" is on view at The Herron School of Art & Design through January 13th.
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Twenty years ago this spring, Newcity launched its first Breakout Artists edition, working with no mandate other than to champion emerging creative forces before the culture-at-large. The world tends to celebrate its prominent artists so vigorously that it’s easy to overlook the fact that thousands of artists do their work in relative anonymity in careers driven more by muse than purse. By shining a light on a handful of artists we think most promising today, perhaps we can make a small difference at a time when it’s needed most.
Similar in their surrealism, storytelling and use of vibrandt color, artist Catlin Cartwright and contemporary mixed-media artist LaShae Boyd paired at Brandt-Roberts Galleries, located at 642 N. High St. in the Short North, for the gallery's current exhibition "Wisdom in the Marigolds".
Talle Bamazi, Christopher Burk, and Jason Morgan receive Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Awards. Individual Excellence Awards are recognition of artists’ bodies of work that exemplify specific disciplines and advance the larger creative community. These awards support artists' growth and development and recognize their work in Ohio and their cultural influence beyond the state.
“I am thrilled to be serving as a juror for the OAC Biennial Juried Exhibition because it allows me the chance to be part of a larger conversation about artwork in Ohio, and to help showcase the work of talented artists in the state,” said Powell, McCoy Professor of Art and Director of Gallery 310.
Artist Christopher Burk recently spent two months at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation Residency in Bethany, Connecticut. In addition to focused time on his own artwork, Burk also had access to the Foundation's archives and library.
"Fashion meets visual art at Gallery Hop event launching collaboration." Michelle Brandt, owner of Brandt-Roberts Galleries and Yohannan "Yogi" Terrell, founder of the Columbus Fashion Alliance, came up with the idea for the "Fashion is Art" exhibition. On May 7, fashion designers and artists who have collaborated on pieces will begin sharing their work in Short North galleries.