Oct. 3–9 exhibitions, performances and events

CURATOR CORNER: 'Toe Tag' by Juliellen Byrne

In the right hands, contemporary art can serve to contextualize current events and provide pointed commentary on the world around us. “Toe Tag” – which through the lens of the Iraq War remarks on the toll war takes on communities – demonstrates that Juliellen Byrne’s hands are quite capable in this regard. By combining doll-like heads and praying hands with slips of paper that list the names of people killed during the eight-year war, Byrne explores one of humanity’s oldest dualities – innocence versus violence – while seeking to sculpt viewers’ perspectives along the way.

Kaleigh Pisani-Paige, curator of collections and registrar at the Canton Museum of Art, discusses the piece – part of the museum’s permanent collection – and what can be learned from it.

“Toe Tag” is in the museum’s permanent collection and is on display during the museum’s “ Spirit of Clay” exhibition through Oct. 20.

CURATOR CORNER: 'Toe Tag' by Juliellen Byrne

STAFF PICKS

Openings, events and performances to look for the week of Oct. 3–9.

Oct. 3

Emily Davis Gallery

Attend an artist reception for " Stranger Beings: Hieronymus Objects & Other Curiosities" from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Emily Davis Gallery in Folk Hall, home to the Myers School of Art at the University of Akron. The familiar becomes twisted, morphed and surreal in Emily Davis Gallery’s new exhibition, which has works from the regional Hieronymus collection, including pieces from Kiki Smith, Keith Haring, David Salle and Tip Toland, in conjunction with six Ohio artists. Collectively, the works create an exhibition of evocative imagery through a variety of mediums. The result is a fusion of hyperrealism with a sensual masquerade of the bizarre.

Image: "Bit Your Tongue," 2018, oil on panel by Katy Richards. Courtesy Emily Davis Gallery.

Oct. 4

Framed Gallery

Meet artist Buchi UpJohn from 6 to 9 p.m. at the the artist reception for the October art exhibit, " Exhilarant." UpJohn reaches deep into his cultural heritage and spiritual experiences to come up with truly exhilarating pieces.

Hudson Gallery Hop

Visit Hudson's art galleries during the " Pink-tober" Gallery Hop from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. During Breast Cancer Awareness month, each gallery will be accepting donations for The Gathering Place. Participating galleries include Uncommon Art, Hudson Fine Art and Framing, Fair Trade on Main, The Red Twig, and Standing Rock Gallery.

Image courtesy Hudson Gallery Hop.

Solon Center for the Arts

Attend the opening reception for the Tricia Kaman "From Life" solo exhibition from 6 to 8 p.m. This show is a comprehensive group of paintings "from life," featuring still life, en plein air and people. Each reflects a direct response to working from a living subject versus working from a photographic reference. The exhibition continues through Nov. 1.

Oct. 5

KINK Contemporary

Attend the opening reception for Anna Mikolay's exhibition " Color Pop! Color Hum! See the Vibrations" from 6 to 9 p.m. The space will exhibit the Pittsburgh artists's neo-minimalist paintings and installations. The exhibition runs through Nov. 15.

Image by Anna Mikolay.

The Morgan Conservatory

Attend Morgan Rising, an autumnal art party, from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. The public is invited into The Morgan Conservatory's studios to feast on the arts with workshops in papermaking, printmaking, book binding, indigo dyeing, paper marbling and more. At the end of the night, take home treasures from your creative adventure. National Endowment for the Arts apprentice Hong Hong will be demonstrating her large-scale paper pours for the public, and Midlevel bookbinder Jim Croft will be demonstrating plough and knife book trimming. The evening includes a print sale, DJ, cash bar and food truck.

Image: Flyer by Justin Michael Will, courtesy The Morgan Conservatory.

Oct. 5–26

Image courtesy Cleveland Public Theatre.

Cleveland Public Theatre

Attend the world premiere of " Rastus and Hattie" by Lisa Langford, the 2018/2019 Nord Family Foundation Playwright Fellow & 2019 Joyce Award Winner. Needra and Marlene enjoy a perfect post-racial friendship until “black” robots walk into their lives. These automatons, based on Westinghouse’s 1930 brown-skinned robots, place them at opposite ends of society in an alternate past. This hilarious comedy delves into our traumatic legacy and explores new ideas about how to move forward.

Editor's note: Lisa Langford was featured as a Scene Stealer in the Fall 2019 issue of Canvas.

Oct. 6

Transformer Station

Attend a performance by Sarah Davachi from 7:30 to 9 p.m. The composer and performer of electroacoustic music is primarily concerned with disclosing the delicate psychoacoustics of intimate aural spaces, utilizing extended durations and simple harmonic structures that emphasize subtle variations in overtone complexity, temperament and intonation, and natural resonances. Her sound manifests an experience that lessens apprehension of consonance and dissonance in likeness of the familiar and the distant.

ON STAGE

Theater reviews from Canvas' sister publication, the Cleveland Jewish News.

none too fragile

Bob Abelman: " These Mortal Hosts" gets an earth-bound turn at none too fragile (on stage through Oct. 12)

Great Lakes Theater

Bob Abelman: Great Lakes Theater serves up a spellbinding " The Music Man" (on stage through Nov. 10)

From earlier newsletters

"Glengarry Glen Ross" at Beck Center for the Arts (through Oct. 6)
"Into the Breeches!" at Cleveland Play House (through Oct. 6)

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MUSEUMS

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