Tangents: Abstract & Geometric Art in Northeast Ohio

Artists Archives of the Western Reserve

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• Date Thursday, November 02, 2023 - Saturday, December 16, 2023
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Founded in 1996 by notable Cleveland sculptor David E. Davis and eight other prominent Ohio artists, including Shirley Aley Campbell and Patricia Zinsmeister Parker, the Artists Archives of the Western Reserve (AAWR) emerged from a shared vision. Recognizing the risk... more

In 1988 Ursula Korneitchouk curated Geometric Abstraction: A Cleveland Tradition. The exhibition was installed at the Lausche state Office building in downtown Cleveland, and included the works of 17 artists – Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA) Faculty, and alumni from all over the USA. This ran concurrently with Richard Anuszkiewicz’s solo show at the Cleveland Institute of Art. Later in 2001 The Cleveland Artists Foundation presented Harmonic Forms on the Edge, Geometric Abstraction in Cleveland at the Beck center. Artists like John Clague, David Davis, Samuel Butnik, John Pearson, Ed Mieczkowski and Julian Stanczak were all a part of this last exhibition.

Tangents: Abstract and geometric Art in Northeast Ohio continues on in this tradition by gathering together a collection of diverse and prolific NEO artists who are choosing to work in a nonrepresentational way. While their various works include forays into: Color, optical interplay, mathematics, space, surface, texture, process, and the built environment, all explore their individual pursuits in geometry and abstraction.