- Kristen Boyesen
- Craig Bungo
- Evan Dubail
- Kelly Ferjutz
- Robert Goodrich
- Will Limkemann
- Michael Scott Manne
- Kevin White
- Johnny K. Wu
Keith Berr
An award-winning commercial photographer, Keith Berr has been producing remarkable images for his clients for more than 30 years. A graduate of the Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, Keith continually hones his skills to provide the absolute latest photographic digital-imaging techniques for every project.
Keith's unique ability to relate to his subjects allows him to capture their true personalities as few other photographers can. Keith is as comfortable photographing the presidents of Fortune 500 companies as he is the people in remote Cambodian villages.
His recent commercial work includes campaigns for Discover Card, Xerox, Things Remembered, Merrill Lynch, Wine Spectator, National City Bank, Pearle Vision, The Ohio Lottery, Burger King and General Mills.
Whether he's lighting products, food or people, Keith's dramatic images soon reveal his mastery of natural or created light.
Keith is available to travel worldwide and has studio locations in Cleveland, Ohio and Santa Fe, New Mexico. To review samples from his portfolio and for a complete listing of clients, visit www.keithberr.com. For more information, contact Linda at linda@keithberr.com or call 216.566.7950.
An award-winning commercial photographer, Keith Berr has been producing remarkable images for his clients for more than 30 years. A graduate of the Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, Keith continually hones his skills to provide the absolute latest photographic digital-imaging techniques for every project.
Keith's unique ability to relate to his subjects allows him to capture their true personalities as few other photographers can. Keith is as comfortable photographing the presidents of Fortune 500 companies as he is the people in remote Cambodian villages.
His recent commercial work includes campaigns for Discover Card, Xerox, Things Remembered, Merrill Lynch, Wine Spectator, National City Bank, Pearle Vision, The Ohio Lottery, Burger King and General Mills.
Whether he's lighting products, food or people, Keith's dramatic images soon reveal his mastery of natural or created light.
Keith is available to travel worldwide and has studio locations in Cleveland, Ohio and Santa Fe, New Mexico. To review samples from his portfolio and for a complete listing of clients, visit www.keithberr.com. For more information, contact Linda at linda@keithberr.com or call 216.566.7950.
Kristen Boyesen
This photographic kaleidoscope series is one of the many areas of the creative world that Kristen Boyesen explores.
Kristen began art instruction at age 13 with professor Curtis Stocking from Purdue University. She graduated from the State University of New York at Potsdam with a major in painting and currently displays her drawings, pastels, paintings and prints in the Gallery, Willoughby, Ohio; the Gallery, Canton N.Y.; Finger Lakes Gallery and Frame, Canandaigua, N.Y.; Creative Spirit, Potsdam, N.Y.; and at www.ImaginationArts.etsy.com.
Jan Philips, visionary thought leader and author of the award-winning book, The Art of Original Thinking, says "Kristen is a creative genius with an uncanny ability to unlock the creativity inherent in others. I highly recommend her if you're trying to jumpstart originality and innovation."
Jan's reference is to Kristen's workshops, "Imagination Arts", which use a simple anyone-can-do-it drawing technique to trick the brain into letting go of stress and activating the creative mind. The easy exercises will be a component of Kristen's new workshop series, "True Heart Arising", which will add meditation, informal writing, group discussion and the exploration of the inner self to the workshop experience. "Draw and Paint" classes meet every week. Call Kristen at 216- 577-9874 for information on current art classes and workshops. Class and workshop examples and discussion are available through the different links at www.Art-Experiences.blogspot.com.
Observation of the visual world and the psychosocial interactions of the mind-body organism are an ongoing life study expressed through Kristen's art, writings and teaching. She resides in the Greater Cleveland area.
Artist Statement:
Carl Jung said that a mandala symbolizes "a safe refuge of inner reconciliation and wholeness." It is "a synthesis of distinctive elements in a unified scheme representing the basic nature of existence." Tibetan monks and the Navaho Indians create sand mandalas to demonstrate the impermanence of life. Mandalas are used in meditative practices around the world.
The images inside a kaleidoscope are indeed impermanent. The movement of handing the device to someone to share a beautiful display can cause the components to rearrange themselves into a new image. These photographs are brief snapshots in time of a light and color display that stopped time in my brain as I looked at them. Letting go of time is to be immersed in the joy of the moment.
This photographic kaleidoscope series is one of the many areas of the creative world that Kristen Boyesen explores.
Kristen began art instruction at age 13 with professor Curtis Stocking from Purdue University. She graduated from the State University of New York at Potsdam with a major in painting and currently displays her drawings, pastels, paintings and prints in the Gallery, Willoughby, Ohio; the Gallery, Canton N.Y.; Finger Lakes Gallery and Frame, Canandaigua, N.Y.; Creative Spirit, Potsdam, N.Y.; and at www.ImaginationArts.etsy.com.
Jan Philips, visionary thought leader and author of the award-winning book, The Art of Original Thinking, says "Kristen is a creative genius with an uncanny ability to unlock the creativity inherent in others. I highly recommend her if you're trying to jumpstart originality and innovation."
Jan's reference is to Kristen's workshops, "Imagination Arts", which use a simple anyone-can-do-it drawing technique to trick the brain into letting go of stress and activating the creative mind. The easy exercises will be a component of Kristen's new workshop series, "True Heart Arising", which will add meditation, informal writing, group discussion and the exploration of the inner self to the workshop experience. "Draw and Paint" classes meet every week. Call Kristen at 216- 577-9874 for information on current art classes and workshops. Class and workshop examples and discussion are available through the different links at www.Art-Experiences.blogspot.com.
Observation of the visual world and the psychosocial interactions of the mind-body organism are an ongoing life study expressed through Kristen's art, writings and teaching. She resides in the Greater Cleveland area.
Artist Statement:
Carl Jung said that a mandala symbolizes "a safe refuge of inner reconciliation and wholeness." It is "a synthesis of distinctive elements in a unified scheme representing the basic nature of existence." Tibetan monks and the Navaho Indians create sand mandalas to demonstrate the impermanence of life. Mandalas are used in meditative practices around the world.
The images inside a kaleidoscope are indeed impermanent. The movement of handing the device to someone to share a beautiful display can cause the components to rearrange themselves into a new image. These photographs are brief snapshots in time of a light and color display that stopped time in my brain as I looked at them. Letting go of time is to be immersed in the joy of the moment.
Craig Bungo
In addition to being an artist, I am also employed as a middle-school art teacher in the Parma City Schools. I have a B.A. from Cleveland State University, where I majored in art and minored in education. I am currently earning my masters degree from The Ohio State University. I have exhibited in galleries in Cleveland, Columbus and Chicago.
Artist statement
I use a variety of materials to communicate the ideas I am working on. The concepts I have examined closely in my art over the years are relationships, power, identity and mythology. I think of my collages as sparse stages and off-stage notations, in which I place actors and controllers. I am not interested in strictly defining the spatial environment of the scene or setting episodes at one point in time. The images are, therefore, in multiple time frames and environments shown simultaneously. The disparate images create tensions and possibilities. The collages are narratives, although they are not meant to be linear story telling. I am interested in presenting the actors, developing the mood and insinuating the story's direction through the title, but I do not dictate exactly what story is being told. I want viewers to derive their own interpretations, by bringing their own content to the situation in the art work. This leads to various narratives, which I find much more intriguing than scripted story telling.
In addition to being an artist, I am also employed as a middle-school art teacher in the Parma City Schools. I have a B.A. from Cleveland State University, where I majored in art and minored in education. I am currently earning my masters degree from The Ohio State University. I have exhibited in galleries in Cleveland, Columbus and Chicago.
Artist statement
I use a variety of materials to communicate the ideas I am working on. The concepts I have examined closely in my art over the years are relationships, power, identity and mythology. I think of my collages as sparse stages and off-stage notations, in which I place actors and controllers. I am not interested in strictly defining the spatial environment of the scene or setting episodes at one point in time. The images are, therefore, in multiple time frames and environments shown simultaneously. The disparate images create tensions and possibilities. The collages are narratives, although they are not meant to be linear story telling. I am interested in presenting the actors, developing the mood and insinuating the story's direction through the title, but I do not dictate exactly what story is being told. I want viewers to derive their own interpretations, by bringing their own content to the situation in the art work. This leads to various narratives, which I find much more intriguing than scripted story telling.
Evan Dubail
Evan Dubail lives in Northeast Ohio, where he studies music and experiments with a variety of visual media, including photography. This unusual series of digital images was made outdoors by moving the camera in different ways at the moment of shooting.
Evan Dubail lives in Northeast Ohio, where he studies music and experiments with a variety of visual media, including photography. This unusual series of digital images was made outdoors by moving the camera in different ways at the moment of shooting.
Lisa Cortese
www.lscdesigns.com
For 15 years, Lisa Cortese of LSC Designs has been fabricating custom wood furniture from trees harvested from urban areas, mostly for contemporary interiors. During the past few years, Lisa has been including other materials in her wood designs and has been exploring using metals to frame mirrors in unique ways.
All pieces are custom fabricated using mostly cold-rolled steel. They are top-coated with a clear lacquer. Place in dry locations only.
www.lscdesigns.com
For 15 years, Lisa Cortese of LSC Designs has been fabricating custom wood furniture from trees harvested from urban areas, mostly for contemporary interiors. During the past few years, Lisa has been including other materials in her wood designs and has been exploring using metals to frame mirrors in unique ways.
All pieces are custom fabricated using mostly cold-rolled steel. They are top-coated with a clear lacquer. Place in dry locations only.
Judith Brandon
www.jmbrandon.com
I graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1987 with degrees in drawing and enameling. It is the enameling techniques of scribing metal and the layering of transparent and opaque colors that are the foundation for my paintings.
I have had several solo shows and have been invited to participate in shows all across the country from California to New York. I'm known in Cleveland for showing thoughtful, provocative works on paper and for having the only full scale art exhibit at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo. I created over 70 works of art to raise awareness of the dwindling rhino populations. Currently, I am showing my abstract landscapes in several exhibits. I am taking advantage of the opportunities the internet provides to connect with other artists and galleries interested in environmental issues, particularly concerning the freaky weather.
My subject matter originates from the weather channel, travels and experiences. Oceans, rain, mist and ice, water in all of it's forms and locations are an endless source of inspiration me. I use a lot of water in my paintings; it is like music to me. The tides of the ocean, the power of a tsunami or hurricane, the calm of a wetland - each event and waterscape is an opportunity to explore the earth's beauty and fragility. Where I once drew animals struggling in ambiguous landscapes; I now see these vast environments melting away under the forces of man and nature.
In a lot of ways my work is about the materials I use. There is an action happening in my landscapes, sometimes violent tearing and dripping from water and dye soaked paper. I also use many layers of scored and erased textures. Thin graded washes of color and overlapping blackness of ground charcoals add a technical depth to the immediate drama. I try to create a "silent urgency" through a combination of detail and color, echoing the mesmerizing and complex qualities of water. My goal is to lure the audience into experiencing beauty with an uneasy feeling imminent danger and destruction. I live in Cleveland where the weather changes every hour; the grass is green and the sky is gray. Such is life!
www.jmbrandon.com
I graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1987 with degrees in drawing and enameling. It is the enameling techniques of scribing metal and the layering of transparent and opaque colors that are the foundation for my paintings.
I have had several solo shows and have been invited to participate in shows all across the country from California to New York. I'm known in Cleveland for showing thoughtful, provocative works on paper and for having the only full scale art exhibit at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo. I created over 70 works of art to raise awareness of the dwindling rhino populations. Currently, I am showing my abstract landscapes in several exhibits. I am taking advantage of the opportunities the internet provides to connect with other artists and galleries interested in environmental issues, particularly concerning the freaky weather.
My subject matter originates from the weather channel, travels and experiences. Oceans, rain, mist and ice, water in all of it's forms and locations are an endless source of inspiration me. I use a lot of water in my paintings; it is like music to me. The tides of the ocean, the power of a tsunami or hurricane, the calm of a wetland - each event and waterscape is an opportunity to explore the earth's beauty and fragility. Where I once drew animals struggling in ambiguous landscapes; I now see these vast environments melting away under the forces of man and nature.
In a lot of ways my work is about the materials I use. There is an action happening in my landscapes, sometimes violent tearing and dripping from water and dye soaked paper. I also use many layers of scored and erased textures. Thin graded washes of color and overlapping blackness of ground charcoals add a technical depth to the immediate drama. I try to create a "silent urgency" through a combination of detail and color, echoing the mesmerizing and complex qualities of water. My goal is to lure the audience into experiencing beauty with an uneasy feeling imminent danger and destruction. I live in Cleveland where the weather changes every hour; the grass is green and the sky is gray. Such is life!
Kelly Ferjutz
www.theseniorreader.com
My Dad was a camera nut, so of course I followed eagerly in his footsteps.
He had a fold-up Kodak (which I was not allowed to touch!) and gave me my first camera for my 13th birthday. It was a Kodak Hawkeye. Remember them? The boxy look-down-into-the-viewer thing? Talk about awkward - but even so, from the very beginning, I received compliments on my photos, mostly because I usually managed to get both head and feet of my subjects in the photo, even while standing closer to said subject than others did! I didn't 'shoot' all that many people, however, being very attracted then, as now, to unusual designs or interesting effects, or to nature. Or all three at the same time.
Even after I grew up, I loved the smaller, direct-viewer camera models, but discovered a whole new world with my first SLR—a Pentax ME. From there I moved to an MX, until I needed reading glasses and had difficulty with settings. So, I went back to easier-to-use cameras and actually quite enjoyed the throw-away variety. Being recyclable, they made eminent sense to me. During my first 10-day trip to Europe, I went through 19 of them!
I was a latecomer to digital, having to be almost dragged—kicking and screaming all the way—into it. But now, most of the time, I'd have to be forced to use a film camera. Currently I have a Kodak and a Pentax, and am very fond of them both, as they each have their own individual 'best at' capabilities. I suppose I like the Kodak best, because it has a view-finder.
My greatest passions are classical music and writing, so it pleases me greatly that I write about music (and other things) for www.CoolCleveland.com and other sites. I also write books and teach classes on writing. I have a blog (who doesn't?) at www.theseniorreader.com.
www.theseniorreader.com
My Dad was a camera nut, so of course I followed eagerly in his footsteps.
He had a fold-up Kodak (which I was not allowed to touch!) and gave me my first camera for my 13th birthday. It was a Kodak Hawkeye. Remember them? The boxy look-down-into-the-viewer thing? Talk about awkward - but even so, from the very beginning, I received compliments on my photos, mostly because I usually managed to get both head and feet of my subjects in the photo, even while standing closer to said subject than others did! I didn't 'shoot' all that many people, however, being very attracted then, as now, to unusual designs or interesting effects, or to nature. Or all three at the same time.
Even after I grew up, I loved the smaller, direct-viewer camera models, but discovered a whole new world with my first SLR—a Pentax ME. From there I moved to an MX, until I needed reading glasses and had difficulty with settings. So, I went back to easier-to-use cameras and actually quite enjoyed the throw-away variety. Being recyclable, they made eminent sense to me. During my first 10-day trip to Europe, I went through 19 of them!
I was a latecomer to digital, having to be almost dragged—kicking and screaming all the way—into it. But now, most of the time, I'd have to be forced to use a film camera. Currently I have a Kodak and a Pentax, and am very fond of them both, as they each have their own individual 'best at' capabilities. I suppose I like the Kodak best, because it has a view-finder.
My greatest passions are classical music and writing, so it pleases me greatly that I write about music (and other things) for www.CoolCleveland.com and other sites. I also write books and teach classes on writing. I have a blog (who doesn't?) at www.theseniorreader.com.
Robert Goodrich
www.moonbase-films.com
Robert Goodrich (writer, director) is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. He has worked in both theatre and film for the past 20 years. A staged reading of his play "Occam's Razor" was presented at the prestigious Cherry Lane Theatre in New York in 2001. He was awarded Best Director for his short film Spaceship at The Palm Beach International Film Festival, Voices of Local Film. Robert has directed two digital features, and nearly a dozen shorts. Four of his plays have been produced. He is currently an Artist in Residence at Florida Stage.
www.moonbase-films.com
Robert Goodrich (writer, director) is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. He has worked in both theatre and film for the past 20 years. A staged reading of his play "Occam's Razor" was presented at the prestigious Cherry Lane Theatre in New York in 2001. He was awarded Best Director for his short film Spaceship at The Palm Beach International Film Festival, Voices of Local Film. Robert has directed two digital features, and nearly a dozen shorts. Four of his plays have been produced. He is currently an Artist in Residence at Florida Stage.
Kulture Kids
Kulture Kids is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting and enhancing arts and culture through performances, workshops, residencies and products. It was founded by Robin Pease, a longtime teacher of drama, dance and speech at such educational institutions as Hiram, Notre Dame and Lakeland Community colleges and Hawken and Laurel high schools.
Kulture Kids is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting and enhancing arts and culture through performances, workshops, residencies and products. It was founded by Robin Pease, a longtime teacher of drama, dance and speech at such educational institutions as Hiram, Notre Dame and Lakeland Community colleges and Hawken and Laurel high schools.
Will Limkemann
I have always been a bit of an innovator and inventor, crafting many works from wood and dabbling in electronics since I was a teenager. You're welcome to take a look at some of my crafts on www.wolcraft.com.
My day job as a business counselor is to help entrepreneurs develop and build healthy, productive, and profitable businesses. An accredited associate of the Institute for Independent Business, I have been helping business owners in the Cleveland area for over four years. To learn more about how I assist businesses, I invite you to visit www.neobizadvisor.com.
An outgrowth of my own business experiences, as well as those of clients I have helped, is a book to be published soon by Doubleware Publications, called The Successful Home Business Guide. Further information about the book can be seen at www.doublewarepub.com.
I have always been a bit of an innovator and inventor, crafting many works from wood and dabbling in electronics since I was a teenager. You're welcome to take a look at some of my crafts on www.wolcraft.com.
My day job as a business counselor is to help entrepreneurs develop and build healthy, productive, and profitable businesses. An accredited associate of the Institute for Independent Business, I have been helping business owners in the Cleveland area for over four years. To learn more about how I assist businesses, I invite you to visit www.neobizadvisor.com.
An outgrowth of my own business experiences, as well as those of clients I have helped, is a book to be published soon by Doubleware Publications, called The Successful Home Business Guide. Further information about the book can be seen at www.doublewarepub.com.
Tracey Lind:
Tracey Lind often does her work in unexpected places. As a photographer, an Episcopal priest and as the Dean of Trinity Cathedral in Cleveland, Ohio, Lind has explored the spirit of cultures and communities across the United States and around the world. Through the lenses of her camera and of her beliefs, she works for peace and justice, interfaith relations, sustainable urban planning, arts and culture, and the diversity of the Episcopal Church.
Lind's digital photography combines emotional questing of soul with the unflinching honesty of journalism, revealing the struggles, love, humor and hope that characterize the human condition, as well as the paradoxical loveliness of even the poor and mundane places where people live.
Her work has been exhibited in the Cleveland Museum of Art, New York/New Jersey-area juried shows and in individual exhibits at the Chautauqua Institution, New Communities in Newark, NJ, Cleveland State University, the University of Michigan, The Episcopal Diocese of Michigan, The South Wing Gallery of St. Paul's Church, and Trinity Cathedral. She has authored a book of images and essays, "Interrupted by God: Glimpses from the Edge," and received several commissions, including a permanent exhibit of her Holy Land photographs to be installed at Christ Church Cathedral, New Orleans. In summer 2005, on a sabbatical fellowship from the Lilly Endowment, Lind was a resident at the Santa Fe Photography Workshop, and in the early fall 2005 she explored, through study, photography, and prayer, the theology of the Italian piazza. Her exhibit "Looking for God" featured photographs from this period of renewal. Her current exhibit, "Holy Ground," is now traveling to cathedrals throughout North America.
To learn more about Trinity Cathedral and its ministries and to read a selection of sermons by Tracey Lind, please visit www.trinitycleveland.com. For more information on Interrupted by God: Glimpses from the Edge (The Pilgrim Press 2004), please visit www.pilgrimpress.com.
Tracey Lind often does her work in unexpected places. As a photographer, an Episcopal priest and as the Dean of Trinity Cathedral in Cleveland, Ohio, Lind has explored the spirit of cultures and communities across the United States and around the world. Through the lenses of her camera and of her beliefs, she works for peace and justice, interfaith relations, sustainable urban planning, arts and culture, and the diversity of the Episcopal Church.
Lind's digital photography combines emotional questing of soul with the unflinching honesty of journalism, revealing the struggles, love, humor and hope that characterize the human condition, as well as the paradoxical loveliness of even the poor and mundane places where people live.
Her work has been exhibited in the Cleveland Museum of Art, New York/New Jersey-area juried shows and in individual exhibits at the Chautauqua Institution, New Communities in Newark, NJ, Cleveland State University, the University of Michigan, The Episcopal Diocese of Michigan, The South Wing Gallery of St. Paul's Church, and Trinity Cathedral. She has authored a book of images and essays, "Interrupted by God: Glimpses from the Edge," and received several commissions, including a permanent exhibit of her Holy Land photographs to be installed at Christ Church Cathedral, New Orleans. In summer 2005, on a sabbatical fellowship from the Lilly Endowment, Lind was a resident at the Santa Fe Photography Workshop, and in the early fall 2005 she explored, through study, photography, and prayer, the theology of the Italian piazza. Her exhibit "Looking for God" featured photographs from this period of renewal. Her current exhibit, "Holy Ground," is now traveling to cathedrals throughout North America.
To learn more about Trinity Cathedral and its ministries and to read a selection of sermons by Tracey Lind, please visit www.trinitycleveland.com. For more information on Interrupted by God: Glimpses from the Edge (The Pilgrim Press 2004), please visit www.pilgrimpress.com.
Michael Scott Manne
Michael Scott Manne has been designing award-winning buildings for the past 20 years. A graduate of the University of Cincinnati, he currently resides with his family in Cleveland, Ohio, where he works at Middough Inc. as a Lead Design Architect. In addition to being an architect, Michael is an avid painter and sculptor. His work has exhibited and sold throughout the region. Michael has also been a participating artist in a number of public art exhibitions and a finalist in several public art competitions. Recently, he has written and directed two short independent films, and he is currently working on his first full-length independent feature film.
Michael describes his work as narrative, but inherently architectural:
"The underlying presence of architecture is hard to escape in everything I do, whether it's building design, sculpture, painting, or even film. I can't help but think three-dimensionally, focusing on space and its expression through the use of color, texture and light."
Michael Scott Manne has been designing award-winning buildings for the past 20 years. A graduate of the University of Cincinnati, he currently resides with his family in Cleveland, Ohio, where he works at Middough Inc. as a Lead Design Architect. In addition to being an architect, Michael is an avid painter and sculptor. His work has exhibited and sold throughout the region. Michael has also been a participating artist in a number of public art exhibitions and a finalist in several public art competitions. Recently, he has written and directed two short independent films, and he is currently working on his first full-length independent feature film.
Michael describes his work as narrative, but inherently architectural:
"The underlying presence of architecture is hard to escape in everything I do, whether it's building design, sculpture, painting, or even film. I can't help but think three-dimensionally, focusing on space and its expression through the use of color, texture and light."
Mary Lou Sneyd
She's 50. She's a mom and a wife. She lives in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, and works as a page designer at The Plain Dealer, Ohio's largest daily newspaper. Mary Lou Sneyd has been making and creating things all her life, following in the footsteps of generations of folk artists in her family. She likes to recycle and repurpose found items in her jewelry. Most recently, though, she has been drawn to the sculptural elements of wire. The shapes and colors, combined with the accents of beads, mimic aspects of nature that fill the windows around her as she works.
She's 50. She's a mom and a wife. She lives in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, and works as a page designer at The Plain Dealer, Ohio's largest daily newspaper. Mary Lou Sneyd has been making and creating things all her life, following in the footsteps of generations of folk artists in her family. She likes to recycle and repurpose found items in her jewelry. Most recently, though, she has been drawn to the sculptural elements of wire. The shapes and colors, combined with the accents of beads, mimic aspects of nature that fill the windows around her as she works.
Robert Thurmer
I was born in 1953 in Vienna, Austria, and first came to the U.S. as an exchange student to a New York high school, where I met my future ex-wife. Married in 1973, I divorced in 1987. I have a daughter, Kate (born in 1981), and a son, Clayton (born in 1986).
I attended Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, majoring in sculpture and painting, followed by an MA program in American painting and sculpture at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. I graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1981 with an MFA in sculpture and film.
Since then, I have worked in the art-museum field for 25 years as exhibition designer (Cleveland Museum of Art), curator (Everson Museum of Art), and university art gallery director (Cleveland State University). I have also taught studio art, art history, and museum studies for 25 years at various institutions.
As an artist, I am primarily concerned with ontological and epistemological phenomena; I am not interested in the social universe. I like to work with light and ideas. My work is often "elemental." I have an active international exhibition record. Highlights include one-person exhibitions in Paris, France; Stuttgart, Germany; and an exhibition at the Hudson River Museum in New York, as well as exhibitions in Beijing, China, and St. Petersburg, Russia.
The present series of drawings emerged from my contemplation of the conventions of image-making with graphite and charcoal on paper in the Western tradition.
In very reduced terms, an image exists typically as a combination of a "figure" and a "ground" - with the "mark" often, but not always, representing the figure, and the blank paper representing the ground.
These drawings explore various simple combinations of making marks, with the astonishing result that images emerge in a sense "automatically" by simply applying rudimentary paradigms for laying down the medium.
These images are truly "discovered" - they are a gift!
I was born in 1953 in Vienna, Austria, and first came to the U.S. as an exchange student to a New York high school, where I met my future ex-wife. Married in 1973, I divorced in 1987. I have a daughter, Kate (born in 1981), and a son, Clayton (born in 1986).
I attended Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, majoring in sculpture and painting, followed by an MA program in American painting and sculpture at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. I graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1981 with an MFA in sculpture and film.
Since then, I have worked in the art-museum field for 25 years as exhibition designer (Cleveland Museum of Art), curator (Everson Museum of Art), and university art gallery director (Cleveland State University). I have also taught studio art, art history, and museum studies for 25 years at various institutions.
As an artist, I am primarily concerned with ontological and epistemological phenomena; I am not interested in the social universe. I like to work with light and ideas. My work is often "elemental." I have an active international exhibition record. Highlights include one-person exhibitions in Paris, France; Stuttgart, Germany; and an exhibition at the Hudson River Museum in New York, as well as exhibitions in Beijing, China, and St. Petersburg, Russia.
The present series of drawings emerged from my contemplation of the conventions of image-making with graphite and charcoal on paper in the Western tradition.
In very reduced terms, an image exists typically as a combination of a "figure" and a "ground" - with the "mark" often, but not always, representing the figure, and the blank paper representing the ground.
These drawings explore various simple combinations of making marks, with the astonishing result that images emerge in a sense "automatically" by simply applying rudimentary paradigms for laying down the medium.
These images are truly "discovered" - they are a gift!
Kevin White
Ohio artist Kevin White suffered a spinal cord injury when he was young, as the victim of a drunk driver. The accident left him a quadriplegic, dependent on a wheelchair and with very limited use of his hands. Kevin had attended art school prior to his accident with the intention of working toward a career in art. With encouragement and support from SIL staff (Services for Independent Living, a United Way partner agency) Kevin began to pursue his dream. Kevin designs and creates his artwork on a personal computer with special equipment that coordinates the computer cursor with his head movement. Kevin's work has been shown at Ashtabula (Ohio) Art Center, Painesville Art in the Park, Rabbit Run Community Theatre and HeARTworks in Cleveland's Galleria. See more of Kevin's work at www.donsphotos.com.
Ohio artist Kevin White suffered a spinal cord injury when he was young, as the victim of a drunk driver. The accident left him a quadriplegic, dependent on a wheelchair and with very limited use of his hands. Kevin had attended art school prior to his accident with the intention of working toward a career in art. With encouragement and support from SIL staff (Services for Independent Living, a United Way partner agency) Kevin began to pursue his dream. Kevin designs and creates his artwork on a personal computer with special equipment that coordinates the computer cursor with his head movement. Kevin's work has been shown at Ashtabula (Ohio) Art Center, Painesville Art in the Park, Rabbit Run Community Theatre and HeARTworks in Cleveland's Galleria. See more of Kevin's work at www.donsphotos.com.
Johnny K. Wu
Johnny K. Wu is a veteran filmmaker, media specialist, events producer and teacher, with an MBA degree in marketing. Since 1998, when he co-founded Media Design Imaging, he has been involved in the creation of video and audio services, helping small and medium businesses to develop focused media campaigns through promotional and corporate videos and commercials. At the same time, Wu has become a film artist, creating short feature films and documentaries that have enjoyed DVD distribution and been shown online, on television and around the world at film festivals and conventions. Wu belongs to the American Federation of Film Producers; he also co-founded the Cleveland Indieclub, a monthly networking group for local Cleveland, Ohio, filmmakers. His short film, "A Joker's Card," has been shown at festivals across the U.S. and the globe. It won a 26th Telly Award for Best Entertainment/Film and Video and was chosen Best Comedy Short at Ontario's 2005 Wreck-Beach International Film Festival.
Johnny K. Wu is a veteran filmmaker, media specialist, events producer and teacher, with an MBA degree in marketing. Since 1998, when he co-founded Media Design Imaging, he has been involved in the creation of video and audio services, helping small and medium businesses to develop focused media campaigns through promotional and corporate videos and commercials. At the same time, Wu has become a film artist, creating short feature films and documentaries that have enjoyed DVD distribution and been shown online, on television and around the world at film festivals and conventions. Wu belongs to the American Federation of Film Producers; he also co-founded the Cleveland Indieclub, a monthly networking group for local Cleveland, Ohio, filmmakers. His short film, "A Joker's Card," has been shown at festivals across the U.S. and the globe. It won a 26th Telly Award for Best Entertainment/Film and Video and was chosen Best Comedy Short at Ontario's 2005 Wreck-Beach International Film Festival.
Michael Zelenka
Michael Zelenka creates sculpture and functional objects from glass. A native and resident of Cleveland, Ohio, where he maintains his studio, he has established a reputation that reaches across America and Europe, keeping him in demand as an artist and teacher by some of the world's premier institutions. Michael's work can be found at the world headquarters of Sony in Tokyo, Novalis in Atlanta and General Motors in Detroit; at Denmark's Museum of Modern Glass in Ebeltoft, The Netherlands National Museum of Glass in Leerdam and at the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio; and in the private New York collection of painter Philip Perlstein. Michael holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Toledo and is also an alumnus of Seattle's Pilchuck School of School of Glass and the Haystack School of Arts and Crafts in Deer Isle, Maine. He has taught at The Netherlands' Glass Unica Workshop in The Hague and at Maxwell Crystal in Tiffin, Ohio, where he also held the position of designer glassblower. A longtime demonstration glassmaker of 19th-century reproductions at Hale Farm & Village in Bath, Ohio, he also maintains an association with the Oxbow School of Arts and Crafts in Saugatuck, Mich., where he is a visiting artist. Michael's glass creations have been featured in exhibitions in Seattle; Wichita, Kan.; Louisville, Ky., Atlanta; Bethesda, Md., Evanston, Ill.; and Youngstown. In Europe, they have been exhibited in Weert and Den Haag, the Netherlands; and in Brussels.
Michael Zelenka creates sculpture and functional objects from glass. A native and resident of Cleveland, Ohio, where he maintains his studio, he has established a reputation that reaches across America and Europe, keeping him in demand as an artist and teacher by some of the world's premier institutions. Michael's work can be found at the world headquarters of Sony in Tokyo, Novalis in Atlanta and General Motors in Detroit; at Denmark's Museum of Modern Glass in Ebeltoft, The Netherlands National Museum of Glass in Leerdam and at the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio; and in the private New York collection of painter Philip Perlstein. Michael holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Toledo and is also an alumnus of Seattle's Pilchuck School of School of Glass and the Haystack School of Arts and Crafts in Deer Isle, Maine. He has taught at The Netherlands' Glass Unica Workshop in The Hague and at Maxwell Crystal in Tiffin, Ohio, where he also held the position of designer glassblower. A longtime demonstration glassmaker of 19th-century reproductions at Hale Farm & Village in Bath, Ohio, he also maintains an association with the Oxbow School of Arts and Crafts in Saugatuck, Mich., where he is a visiting artist. Michael's glass creations have been featured in exhibitions in Seattle; Wichita, Kan.; Louisville, Ky., Atlanta; Bethesda, Md., Evanston, Ill.; and Youngstown. In Europe, they have been exhibited in Weert and Den Haag, the Netherlands; and in Brussels.