Thu 5/28 @ 5:30-7PM

Cleveland artist John Saile began his creative career later in adulthood, but since that commitment he’s become well known for his abstraction printmaking-based work that draws on photography and painting as well. He’s an archived artist at the Artists Archives of the Western Reserve and he was a key figure in the founding of the annual DayGlo Show. He’s had a long-time collaboration with printmakers Rebekah Ann Wilhelm at Zygote Press.

His new show See Me…See Yourself, opening at Tinnerman Lofts this week, features something a little new and different for him: silkscreen prints, with portraits of Wilhelm and others featured in Benday dot prints on mirrored Mylar. He describes the show as “a kitschy digital reflection of people we know, largely influenced by the work of Roy Lichtenstein, whose work exemplified the comic technique and the use of Benday dots.”

The show opens with a free public reception Thursday May 28 from 5:30-7pm. It also marks the final show for gallery director and creative community sparkplug Liz Maugans, who is giving up directorship of both the Tinnerman Lofts Gallery and the Yards Project at Worthington Yards for a full-time teaching position.