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Contemporary Community Gallery

Heights Arts will soon have two exhibit locations:

The gallery description, exhibition information, artist and curator application forms can be found here.
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2006 Exhibition Schedule

January | February | March| April | May | June-July | Aug |Sept | Oct | Nov-Dec


January 14 - February 26, 2006

Paradigm Shift

Works by Michelle Murphy and Angela Oster
Curated by Kristen Baumlier , Assistant Professor, TIME -Digital Arts, and Gary Sampson , Associate Professor, Art History, Liberal Arts, both at the Cleveland Institute of Art . Sponsored by CCF Innovations .

Philosopher Thomas Kuhn described scientific revolutions as transformations that lead us to see the world differently. Art is an agent in this process by allowing us to “become an inhabitant of the scientist's world, seeing what the scientist sees and responding as the scientist does” (Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions , 1962.)

Michelle Murphy received her BFA in photography and digital media from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 2004. Since graduation she has been with RS Information Systems at the NASA Glenn Research Center as a Photographer, Digital Imaging Specialist, and Videographer.  In Paradigm Shift , Murphy combines her interest and experience in contemporary art and science. 
She uses a variety of objects (including screen-printed t-shirts for sale) and projected imagery to explore the world of genetically modified plants and animals.

Angela Oster graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 2005 with a BFA in digital media. She is currently Editor of Ohio Citizen Action's website .  Her cross-disciplinary interests are conveyed through a combination of drawing, animation, fabric, and sculpture.  In her work for Paradigm Shift , Oster experiments with a comic aesthetic applied to scientific theory.  She uses animation, sound, and other media for a humorous look at “matter organizing itself,” specifically relating to reproductive issues and evolution.

more info in the gallery catalogue...



March 4 - April 16, 2006

Collector's Choice, Third Annual

15 artists, three works each (and more in reserve).
$200 to $600 with at least one piece by each artist at $200.

David Bergholz Photography, collage
Christi Birchfield Print, drawing
David Brichford Photography
Catherine Butler Jewelry
Jeff Chiplis Neon Sculpture
Bonnie Dolin Pastel
Gretchen Goss Enamel
Margaret Kimura Chine-collée prints
Jean Kubota Cassill Intaglio
Lisa Meek Oil pastel paintings
Robert Muller Photography
Michael Romanik Cloisoné enamel
Lisa Schonberg Printmaking: monoprint
  and relief woodcuts
Kevin Snipes Ceramics
Mark Sudduth Glass

Opening Reception Saturday, March 4, 6–9 pm
Through April 15. Gallery hours Wed–Sat, 12–9 pm, Sunday, 1-5.

Photo: Jeff Chiplis’s neon piece We BE

more info in the gallery catalogue...



April 22 - June 2, 2006

New Artists in the Mix Machine

curated by Liz Maugans and Scott Sherer

Wes Friedrich, Troy Richards, Dylan Collins, Thu Tran and Kortney Niewarski

These new arrivals to the Cleveland scene and freshly-minted art school graduates feel the Zeitgeist of both wireless connection and iPod seclusion as they navigate through their over-extended schedules. They respond with a mix of organized energy and unsanctioned risk.
The sweet smell of sampling culture and its amalgamations that are not-quite-this and not-quite-that are represented in Mix Machine. These hybrid approaches stretch across disciplines reflecting the potpourri of fractured landscapes, objects and inhabitants of today's visual stews.

Digital Print by Troy Richards: Rippon Farm

more info in the gallery catalogue...


June 9 - July 22, 2006

Modern Vision, Classical Methods

curated by Herbert Ascherman, Jr.

Opening Friday, June 9, 6–9 p.m.
Continues through July 22, 2006
Guest curator talk June 17, 5:00 p.m.


Herbert Ascherman, Jr.
    platinum palladium prints
Jerald Brodkey
    platinum prints
Ryan Durdella
    lith prints
Bob Herbst
    platinum/palladium prints
Jeannette Palsa
    wet-collodion process patented in 1851;
   ambrotypes on black glass and ferrotypes on aluminum
Robert Puckett
    pictorialist-style vertical platinum nudes
Roy Woda
    platinum/palladium prints
Richard Wolf
    palladium/platinum landscape type subjects

Photo by Herbert Ascherman, Jr.: Abby, 2005 platinum print

Read the Plain Dealer review...

More info in the gallery catalogue...



August, 2006

The gallery is closed during the month of August.



September 8 - October 28, 2006

After Katrina

Photographs by Linda Butler, Daniel Levin, and Jonathan Wayne
curated by Tom Hinson.

at Heights Arts Gallery

Guest curator Tom Hinson has gathered the work of area photographers Linda Butler, Daniel Levin, and Jonathan Wayne, each of whom traveled to the gulf coast in the fall of 2005 in the weeks after Hurricane Katrina. This exhibition presents a selection of images from each artist: Butler's meditative black-and-white prints that make still-lifes out of tangled debris, Levin's panoramic composites whose disjointed assembly reflects the broken landscape, and Wayne's large color images that combine two or three square frames to present oddly peaceful compositions of the aftermath of the storm.

Listen to Daniel Levin 's recording of Gulf Coast conversations:
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On Thursday, October 12 at 7:00 p.m., Gary Sampson, dean of the School of Graduate Studies at the Cleveland Institute of Art and a historian of photography, presents a free talk in the gallery, "Picturing Katrina: Photography and the Portrayal of Disastrous Events." A seminar the following week at CIA continues the discussion.

Photo by Daniel Levin: Jefferson Davis’ Pleyel Piano in his Beauvoir woods, Biloxi Mississippi 2005, UltraChrome K3 print

In the Glass Case

Ceramics by Theresa Yondo

Functional claywork designed to mix, match, and stack together, creating an unfolding visual imagery.

Photo of Salt and Pepper Shakers by Dan Milner.



September 15 - December 30, 2006

Open Spaces

Paintings, Drawings, and Prints by Cathie Bleck

First show at our new exhibition space at Heights Arts at the Library.

Open Spaces exhibits the work of nationally known Cleveland Heights artist Cathie Bleck. The paintings, drawings, and prints are from her new book, Open Spaces, featuring her fluid and multi-dimensional style of storytelling.

Bleck began her career working as an art director and illustrator for the Chicago Tribune. Her illustrations are frequently published in national publications including Time, Esquire, The New York Times and National Geographic Adventure.

Thursday, Sept 21 at 7 PM Gallery Talk by Cathie Bleck with Glenn Ratusnik (of Zygote Press) about their collaboration and the evolution of the book project.

Read the review of this show in Chicago on artscope.net



November 11 - December 30, 2006

Holiday Store

at Heights Arts Gallery

Everything by Local Artists

Opening: Saturday November 11, 12 noon

Holiday Store hours:
Sunday 1 - 5 pm
Tuesday - Saturday 12 - 9 pm
Closed Mondays
December 24: 1 - 4 pm
Closed December 25

Art, crafts, books and CDs by 100 Heights artists, writers, and musicians. Shop at the Holiday Store and support the arts in your neighborhood.



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