Early
American Quilts & Coverlets
Opening
Reception: Thursday,
January 7,
6-8pm
Anne Weissman & friends: Tin Hearts TransformedOpening Reception: Thursday, February 4, 6-8pm
Picture an old tea canister filled with your grandmother's collection of odd buttons, or a heart shaped red candy box stuffed with postcards and Polaroids. Imagine what a group of artists could make from thirty empty heart shaped cookie tins! Anne Weissman invited a group of book artists, collage makers, sculptors and potters to take tins to their studios and transform them using the materials and methods of their choice. The resulting artworks range from the contemplative to the exuberant . They are as individual as are the hearts and imaginations of their creators.
Village Art Studio: Pastel Paint Wax
Opening Reception: Thursday,
March 4, 6-8pm
Ronnie Jeter, Melinda Placko, and Shelley
Robinson meet weekly
at the Village Art Studio. As mixed
media artists, they create images which unite a variety of materials
including
pencil, paint, paper, pastel, wax, charcoal, photo collage, and fabric. By pushing the limits of creativity and
material, they are discovering natural textures, gutsy landscapes,
southwest
color, and the meditation of silence. Come
and join the exploration.
Altered
Book Group: Time
Opening Reception:
Thursday, April 1, 6-8pm
Sheila N. Markowitz
-- Hangin' at the Gaugin CafeOpening Recpeption: Thursday, May 6, 6-8pm
Sheila N. Markowitz uses her computer to merge her photographs, snapshots and scans of other materials in myriad and subtle ways. She sees her process as a metaphor for how the mind overlays experiences, blurs and blends them in memory, reconciles disparate points of view to create coherence. Markowitz works intuitively, dialoguing with her art as it evolves throught a host of incremental decisions. Each montage element connects to a personal story that is rarely evident in the finished work. Instead visual surprises, ambiguitities, and hints of narrative invite viewers to construct their own artful fictions.
Flea
Market Specials
Flea Market &
Festival Day:
Saturday, July 3
Judith Brandon, Karen Kunc & Randall
Tiedman -- This Turbulent, Beautiful
Earth Opening Recpeption: Thursday, July 8, 6-8pm
Judith Brandon likes to scratch, stain and paint her mixed media on paper works to the extent that they become more like the turbulent weather or cataclysmic events they portray.
Meili's
Acquisitions -- Chinese
Papercuts & Peasant Paintings Opening Reception: Thursday, August 5, 6-8pm
Paper
cutting is an ancient art developed by the peasants in China.
Papercuts are made all over China and each region has its own
characteristic
style. Many of the papercuts in this collection are from Ansai
and
Luochuan Counties – remote areas in Shaanxi Province. Peasant
Painting
began in an effort by the Chinese Communist Party to develop a new art
form
which would come from the peasants, the backbone of the Communist
movement. With the relaxing of Party control, the themes of
modern folk
painting focused on the customs, habits, legends and work of the
laboring
people.
September 2 - 30Eugenia Vainberg -- Illustration in Embroidery
Openinig Reception: Thursday, September 2, 6-8pm
Eugenia Vainberg learned the art of embroidery as an eight year old child living in Ukraine. She emigrated to the United States in 1977, where she became involved with a quilting group in Cleveland. Of her work, the artist says, “Colors are music to me. Tonalities of colors, shades and hues create the feeling of melodies in me. Embroidery became an important part of my life, a way of self expression and reflection. It is very exciting to translate from the languages of different media into the tongue of embroidery.”
Yoshida -- Japanese Nature Photography
Lauren Pacini
-- Urban Photography Opening Reception: Thursday, November 4, 6-8pm
Lauren
Pacini returns to Loganberry Books with selected black and white
photographs from three urban-themed collections. The first details "The
Death and Rebirth of the Midwest Industrial City," while the second
examines the work of "urban artists," whose canvas includes walls,
water towers, under-passes, and rock formations. The third is from a
collection called "Reflecting on Cleveland." The exhibit of black
and white fine art photography focuses on familiar sights which we
drive past daily but which we rarely really see.
Dede Moore -- Woven Treasures