Fri 3/24 @ Sat 3/25 @ 5-9PM
Gary Thomas, founder of Ohio City Pasta, has a new thing going on in his space at 3125 Detroit Avenue in Ohio City’s Hingetown neighborhood. It’s a gallery he’s calling the Sixty Bowls Gallery, and it opens this weekend with receptions on both Friday March 24 and Saturday March 25 @ 5-9pm.
Chances are remote that you’ve seen any work by the artist he’ll be showing, a longtime friend of his named Roger von Golling. While northeast Ohio native Golling did album covers for Cleveland alternative acts such Lucky Pierre and System 56 in the 80s, and later, Prick in the 90s and early 2000s, his work hasn’t had much other public exposure.
After traveling around the country in the late 60s and early 70s, he spent some time at the now-defunct Cooper School of Art in the mid 70s when he got to know Thomas when they worked together in an area restaurant. He was in and out of the area for several decades, moving to Chicago, then back to Cleveland, then to Massachusetts where he now lives.
Golling’s show The Appearance of Art will feature his work from 1992 through today. Thomas drove out to Massachusetts and brought back about 300 pieces of Golling’s work to assemble what will be the artist’s first gallery show ever.