CLEVELAND, Ohio — At the entrance of 100 Years, All New People, Brooklyn-based artist Jessica Segall‘s exhibition at SPACES, is an enlarged headline and a snippet from an article that ran in a Miami newspaper on May 22, sometime between 1921 and 1924. “To Deport Smuggled Jews to Cuba,” the headline reads. It […]
CLEVELAND, Ohio—There is a specific subset of US identity that holds the Second Amendment especially dear. Our country’s militaristic roots have formed a kind of echo chamber, and these days the prominence and pitch of gun violence in everyday US society has increased to terrifying levels over the past half-century, manifesting […]
Here’s a closely-guarded secret of the art world, one of those things I believe no one is supposed to admit aloud: nobody knows what is supposed to happen during a studio visit. The studio visit is regarded as one of those crucial times, where a visiting dignitary will alight upon […]
I want to talk about who we choose to tell our stories, and what it means to be entrusted with that obligation. I’ve never been on a residency before; I don’t know how to do it. I had to make my own way. I knew for certain the right way […]
Excited to officially announce that I’ll be this summer’s Art Writer-in-Residence at SPACES in Cleveland. Looking forward to getting to spend to some real time in this city! As SPACES’ fifth Art Writer-in-Residence, Sharp will use her time to research a new interdisciplinary work, Tree of Knowledge. Her project considers […]
CLEVELAND, Ohio — The inaugural FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art is described by founder Fred Bidwell as an all-out effort to put Cleveland on the radar as an international art destination, and described by The New York Times, in an article cited prominently on the festival website, as an endeavor that “offers […]