Fri 9/20 @ 5-8PM
Once again, it’s Third Friday at 78th Street Studios. And this month there are several new things to check out in addition to the multitude of artist studios, galleries and maker retail shops whose doors will be open to share the creativity.
Sarah Curry’s newest show, Common Threads, opens at HEDGE Gallery. In it the figurative artist/educator how women today and 50 years ago differ and how they’re the same in her series “The Gap,” while her “O-Liz” series is a group of colored monoprints that blends images of 20th-century actress Elizabeth Taylor and contemporary pop musician Lizzo, both of whom dealt public examination of their appearance when they rose to fame.
Upstairs at Context Galley — go to the top floor and ALL the way back (it’s worth it) — a new show called Digitalismf eatures work by three artists — Jenniffer Omaitz, Andrew Reach and Meagan Smith — who incorporate digital imagining in their processes to create abstract geometric works.
At Kenneth Paul Lesko Gallery, Del Rey Loven’s new solo show goes on view. The artist says, “”My goal is to explore and cooperate with natural processes…to return the pigments to a primordial state and to coax from them emergent patterns suggestive of natural phenomena such as liquification, gases, solidification, erosion, debris flows and sedimentation.”
Stop in at the Cleveland Artists Foundation (ARTneo) to see its new 40th Anniversary Show, with the theme Comparison and Contrast, and check out Billy Naininger’s Karcterz II, opening at E11even2 Gallery.
That’s only scratching the surface of what there is to check out on the building’s four sprawling floors, including guest artisan-vendors from Northcoast Promotions in the event spaces, and musicians throughout the building including Shelly Lazzarro who plays percussion instruments from around the world, singer/songwriter Bill Van Jura, and Denis De Vito, frontman for the long-running swamp rockers Cats on Holiday. DJ Sunset will be spinning as well, Local West will have food available, and BARneo will be pouring drinks on the RAMP level.
Third Fridays are free and open to all. And they’re family- and pet-friendly!