“My work is very specifically not logically based, and I think some people really hate that.”

Jake Kelly churns out a ton of work – fliers, comics, murals, gallery works and even smoke drawings. They’re almost always black and white illustrations…and typically “strange” in their subject matter

“…the unconscious is everything that we’re not. It’s the other, of which we’re always looking for and always afraid to find.”

There’s this whole strange other world of pissed-off monsters and worker eggs that he’s created.

Photograph and Interview by Ian P.E.

Once in awhile Cleveland actually picks up a creative talent instead of losing one. With Terry Ryan’s recent move from the San Francisco Bay Area to Cleveland’s Westside, another eccentric oddity has been added to the sound and visual landscape here. The move makes sense to me – Mr. California [...]

By Ian P.E.

Like it or not, graffiti based street art is the wave/genre/school of art that will be remembered, written about and studied by future generations regarding our current point in art history. Artists like Shepard Fairey (formerly of OBEY Andre the Giant stencil fame…and now – the “hope” Obama poster) have knocked down the [...]

By Ian P.E.

Scott Pickering is an artistic maniac. A lightning rod of creative energy – the canvas doesn’t stand a chance! It’s like Little Red Riding Hood walking through the forest…I can picture him leering at that nice little white canvas, thinking of all the ways he can eat her up. And you can see [...]

By Ian P.E.

(Johnny Wu on set)
Independent filmmaking is a tough business. The deck is always stacked against you…limited budgets, lack of star power, few options for distribution and there’s always somebody else out there with a better connection and a more commercially viable film on
their hands.
Despite the odds against success, local film director Johnny Wu [...]

 By Butch Fredrick Collins
 
Terri Gerrard. This is a name that conjures up so many images. There are many artists in this town of great talent, and it’s sad to see some of them going. We haven’t seen Terri in three years and most “art-people” didn’t even notice. Sure, in a few dark corners of the [...]

“The Ohio Landscape paintings can best be dubbed ‘doubtful landscapes’…”