MANDEL SCHOOL
NEWS AND EVENTS
Gallery @ MSASS
January 19, 2010
Steve Knerem - "Contemporary Sci-fi / Fantasy" Drawings
Steve Knerem’s work incorporates elements of bio-mechanical art, which is characterized by fantasy settings where humans and other creatures are rendered with a high degree of realism.
November 17, 2009
Breezy Snyder - Artist
Breezy Snyder is a second year painting student at the Cleveland Institute of Arts. Her exhibit “Destiny of Dandelions” is her first solo debut in the Cleveland art community. Each ink drawing captivates the viewer’s mind; it is like poetry on paper.
August 13, 2009
Janice Reash - artist
Janice Reash a SASS graduate (1969), worked as a social worker until she retired in 1991. In 1991, Reash started to explore the different avenues of printmaking. Today she varies her techniques to that of the linocut, intaglio, wood cut and monotype. You can see her enjoyment and passion of the process as the images emerge on the paper.
August 13, 2009
Laurel Herbold - artist
Laurel Herbold is a freelance artist. After she graduated from Bowling Green University, in 1993, she started to exhibit her art work throughout the greater Cleveland area. Laurel is an artist who uses a variety of different mediums to express her creative outlets.
May 04, 2009
Pamela Dodds – Linoleum Block Prints
Exhibit Dates: May 4 - July 11, 2009
The current exhibit on the second and third floors of the Mandel School is a collection of linoleum block prints by artist Pamela Dodds. She uses a technique called linocut, which is similar to that of woodcut. The smooth, grainless texture of the linoleum allows for the cutting of a fluid, detailed line. After the image is cut in the linoleum plate, the surface is carefully inked and transferred to paper.
May 01, 2009
Paul Lender, Environmental Photographer
Exhibit Dates: May 1, - July 6, 2009
Paul Lender, an environmental photographer, has his work currently on display throughout the first floor of the Mandel School. According to his artist statement, he strives to capture the world around him as close as possible to the way he sees it. He aspires not only to highlight the beauty found in expansive landscapes, but also the magnificence found in small details.
November 25, 2008
Eric Meyer - Beauty and Function
On exhibit - first floor of the Mandel School until January 10, 2009
Eric Meyer welds and shapes handmade kitchen utensils out of pewter, silver, bronze, aluminum, and brass. His handmade objects, including a tea set, goblets, a tea infuser, and cutlery, have an opulence fit for royalty.
October 31, 2008
Judith Brandon – Recession Work
Exhibit Dates: October 24, 2008 -- January 10, 2009
Judith Brandon 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 her paintings. Her subject matter originates from the weather channel, travels and experiences. Oceans, rain, mist and ice, water in all of its forms and locations are an endless source of inspiration to her. Water is a dominant theme in her paintings.
October 31, 2008
John W. Carlson
Exhibit Dates: October 20, 2008 – January 10, 2009
John Carlson began his career as an artist by attending Cleveland’s Cooper School of Art. Inspired by the works of Egon Schiele, Franz Kline, Edward Hopper, and Lucien Freud, he strives to find a balance between expressive drawings and boldly executed paintings.
August 15, 2008
Margaret Denk-Leigh
45 Works on Paper: Print Exhibition
Exhibit Dates: August 13 - October 6, 2008
Meet the Artist Brown Bag Lunch - September 10
12:30 p.m., Second Floor Atrium
Maggie Denk-Leigh is an Assistant Professor and Printmaking Department Head at The Cleveland Institute of Art, where she has been an instructor for the last nine years. She also is the Board Treasurer of the Morgan Conservatory. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Printmaking, Design and Business from Xavier University and her Masters of Fine Arts from Clemson University in South Carolina.
August 15, 2008
Pamelinda O'Keefe
Oil Pastels on Sandpaper
Exhibit Dates: August 13 - October 6, 2008
Pamelinda O’Keefe’s show displays 30 prints depicting common objects enlivened with bold lines and bright colors. Inspired during a particularly gray day in February, O’Keefe felt compelled to create colorful images to counteract the dreariness of that time of year.
July 01, 2008
Aravindhan Natarajan and Moon Choi
Exhibit Dates: June 30 - August 8, 2008.
This summer the Gallery @ MSASS is displaying the works of Aravindhan Natarajan and Moon Choi, current Ph.D. students at the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences (MSASS). Even though their artistic expression is completely different from each other, they both share common threads in their work. These threads include being self taught, traveling extensively, and documenting their individual understanding of life events through their art.
March 27, 2008
Prints from Zygote Press Artists
Exhibit Dates: March 27 – May 19, 2008.
Zygote Press was founded in 1995 by Elizabeth Maugans (BFA ’89 KSU) and Joe Sroka, joined later by Bellamy Printz and Kelly Novak, to provide print facilities for artists interested in creating fine prints. Since its inception, Zygote Press has grown to offer many additional educational programs and exhibition opportunities in its expanded facilities.
January 14, 2008
Barbara Earley – Recycled Reflections
Exhibit Dates: January 14 - March 14, 2008.
Barbara Earley, a self-taught Cleveland artist, uses shattered mirrors by inserting a variety of recycled materials to create a rhythmic pattern within its frame.
July 01, 2007
The Gallery @ MSASS Features Jaquelyn Moravcik
Exhibit Dates: July 1, 2007 - September 7, 2007.
The Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences is hosting an exhibition by Jaquelyn Moravcik, a Cleveland artist. Jaquelyn's artwork captures the beauty not just found in blue skies and flowers, but exists in the middle of inner city concrete. Her work explores repetition, texture and color. The ways that we conceptualize the order and make sense of her artwork is through the visual patterns and design.
July 01, 2007
The Gallery @ MSASS Features Lolita Wilson
Exhibit Dates: July 1, 2007 - September 7, 2007.
The Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences is hosting an exhibition by Lolita Wilson. Comprised of bold lines and bright splashes of color, Lolita Wilson’s paintings conjure up images of exotic lands and timelessness. Yet other pieces bring the viewer back to more familiar surroundings—a baby, stretching cats, and a variety of common objects arranged in still-life sketches. Starting around age eight, Wilson, received training at the Cleveland’s Cooper School of Art and East Technical High School where she studied drawing, design and commercial art. Her training includes learning computer animation and studying art history with a strong emphasis on painting at Cuyahoga Community College.
May 08, 2007
The Gallery @ MSASS Features Keesha McMillian & Patrick E. Flanagan
The Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences is hosting an exhibition of photographs by local artists Keesha McMillian and Patrick E. Flanagan through the end of May. The exhibit features portraits of people and animals, and landscapes.
Viewing times are 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays, and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. during the weekend of May 12 and 13. During commencement on May 20, the exhibit will available to the public from 2-3:30 p.m.