CONVIVIUM (Latin), means to celebrate and feast. Convivium33 is a celebration of art and art is a feast for the mind and soul. The gallery is committed to showcasing some of Northeast Ohio’s greatest talents in all media categories.

CONVIVIUM33 GALLERY is located at
1433 East 33rd Street (one way/off Superior Ave)
Cleveland, Ohio 44114 in Cleveland's newly named Art Quarter.
216-881-7828

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CURRENT EXHIBITION

Cleveland Institute of Art Faculty and Students, Ceramics Program 1978-2008
Curated by George Bowes '84, Deirdre Daw '80

April 18, 2008 - May 18, 2008
Gallery Hours: For this exhibition only:
Daily by appointment or
Friday: 12pm-6pm & Weekends -10am- 2pm

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Closing Reception:
Sunday, May 18, 2008 from 12pm - 2 pm

Please join Convivium33 Gallery as it hosts the Cleveland Institute of Art Faculty and Students, Ceramics Program 1978-2008.

30 Years of CIA Ceramics will highlight the work of graduates and faculty from the CIA Ceramics Department. Spanning the decades from 1978 through 2008, the works reflect the 30 years during which Ceramics Department Professor Judith Salomon has been a guiding force at CIA.

Salomon, along with colleague Professor Bill Brouillard who has taught at CIA for 27 years, have created an exceptional environment for students to study, learn and embark upon a career in the arts. Department Director Salomon’s work has been exhibited in museums and galleries worldwide and she is represented in the collections of The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH; Los Angeles Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England; the Manchester City Art Galleries, Manchester, England; and the National Museum of History of Taiwan. Brouillard is represented in collections across the world, including Northern Clay Center in Minneapolis, MN; the Nara National Museum in Nara, Japan; Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Tom Judy Collection in Washington, DC; the Detroit Museum of Art [DIA], Detroit, MI; and The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH.

The program of the Institute’s Ceramics Department embraces both tradition and innovation, exposing students to the rich history of the ancient medium of clay while exploring its potential for expression of contemporary ideas. The exhibit illustrates this and showcases artists who are actively producing ceramicists. Featured alumnae work will include Eddie Dominguez, Linda Arbuckle, Lisa Clague, Neil Patterson, Kristen Cliffel, George Bowes, Deirdre Daw, Kevin Snipes, Julie Tesser, Susan Collett, and faculty members Judith Salomon, Bill Broulliard, Kirk Mangus, Eva Kwong, Susan Sipos, and Mary Jo Bole.

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Experience the achievements of this highly regarded department and its noted ceramic artists who are influential creators in the field today. Please join us to celebrate 30 years of CIA Ceramics.

PREVIOUS EXHIBITIONS

The Salvation of Reverend Albert Wagner: THE EXHIBITION

March 14, 2008- April 13, 2008

World-renowned Cleveland artist, Reverend Albert Lee Wagner passed away on September 1 of 2006 leaving his family, his ministry and his art behind. For Cleveland’s “Black Moses,” God and art were his salvation. The Salvation of the Reverend Albert Wagner is now coming forward; THE EXHIBITION showcases his art and shares his story. It is all very continuous, powerful and left up to interpretation.

Please join Convivium33 Gallery and his ministry, The People Love People House of God, as Convivium’s gallery doors open to a collection of works that speak to you and take you on a journey of redemption and salvation. Albert believed that his art was an extension of his ministry and his personal beliefs. As it grows in prominence, the Reverend’s work has become a powerful extension of his voice, allowing his message and mission to live on.


The Salvation of Reverend Albert Wagner: THE EXHIBITION is just one of three captivating simultaneous events focusing on the art and life of Reverend Albert Wagner.

ONE BAD CAT: The Reverend Albert Wagner Story is the focus of a new FILM recently awarded the coveted “Best Documentary” category at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, California and People's Choice Award in Cleveland Ohio.

http://www.sbfilmfestival.org Cleveland International Film Festival 866.865.FILM or www.clevelandfilm.org.

Visit http://www.onebadcat.net/Status.html to view a trailer.


WATERBOY: The Art and Life of Reverend Albert Lee Wagner is essentially an autobiographical book edited by Gene and Linda Kangas to be released nationwide in March. Albert conceived and began to write this book nearly fifteen years ago. In part the book is a carefully selected compilation of Albert’s paintings and drawings, each with its narrative in his own words. Essays by various contributors, including Albert, relate the complex intertwining of Albert’s passionate and artistic life.

www.CreeksideArtGallery.com or 440.352.5321


December 2007
CLE + design + style = functionalart 2007

Convivium33 Gallery is delighted to welcome guests to a special functional art exhibition, which will showcase new work, by twelve Cleveland Artists. Just as Cleveland is re-establishing an international profile as the design center, Cleveland's national profile has been growing. Throughout Cleveland's history, design, manufacturing and quality have been a consistent component in Cleveland's economic growth and national recognition. Convivium33 joins forces with Cleveland Designer, Greg Morris to showcase a selection of contemporary artists who walk the fine line of decorative and visual arts. The emphasis here is principally, though not exclusively sculptural.

From the meticulous to the obsessive, attention to detail, recycling, piecing and repetition are processes that result in a dramatic variety of forms and subjects. Morris brings to the forefront Cleveland’s growing and progressive design community during this Holiday season. Among the areas featured in this exhibit, these progressive artists highlight expressions in furniture and jewelry as areas of exploration. Interest in this exhibition revolves around the idea that functional art has the ability to engage with critical ideas on a multiplicity of levels, from the visual to the tactile, and from the conceptual to the utilitarian.


April 2007
ARTE: PHYLLIS SELTZER

Recent works by internationally recognized Cleveland painter and printmaker Phyllis Seltzer were featured in ARTE, an exhibition at Convivium33 Gallery from April 6 through May 27, 2007. Like churches throughout Europe, Convivium33 Gallery (a former Catholic Church) was a perfect setting to temporarily house Seltzer’s most recent masterpieces.

Phyllis Seltzer is arguably Cleveland’s most successful living woman artist. A resident of Cleveland for nearly 75 years, she has held exhibitions at galleries and museums around the world. Seltzer’s works are part of numerous public collections, including the Cleveland Museum of Art, MOCA Cleveland, the Museum of the City of New York, and the U.S. Department of the State. Her work is also a part of more than 50 corporate collections including the Cleveland Clinic, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Sherwin Williams, the Gund Foundation, and Citibank in New York, Progressive Insurance Company, and BP America in London.

Seltzer is an award-winning master of the heat transfer printmaking technique, a contemporary method that is archivally secure. From conception to final print, Seltzer blends her skill as a master painter with her background in architecture, and then applies her knowledge of advanced technology to create prints of her paintings. The resulting pieces are as grand in scale and size as some of the great works encountered in art history.

Seltzer earned her Bachelor and Master of Fine Arts degrees at University of Iowa, majoring in printmaking under Mauricio Lasansky. She completed postgraduate work in architecture at University of Michigan, as well as at Case Western Reserve University where she studied the History of Technology.

www.phyllisseltzer.com

Convivium33 Gallery at Josaphat Arts Hall is the proud recipient of 2006 AIA Cleveland (a chapter of the American Institute of Architects) and the Cleveland Restoration Society award for the adaptable re-use of a historic structure.


1st Anniversary Exhibition -December 2006

CHRISTOPHER PEKOC- EVOLUTION 1964-2006

curated by Henry Adams, a Professor of Art History at Case Western Reserve University and former curator of American Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art, Adams is an award-winning art historian and author of more than 200 publications on American Art. Exhibition featured a catalogue written by Henry Adams, “There’s something dark, tough and roughly textured about Pekoc’s work that captures the creative essence of Cleveland,” he notes. “His imagery is both repressed and intensely sensual.”

Over the last twenty years, Pekoc’s unusual mixture of photography and other media has quietly attracted the attention of an international group of discriminating photography collectors. Pekoc’s father, grandfather and great grandfather were in the hardware business in Cleveland, and Pekoc attributes his interest in the art of assemblage to the early exposure to tools and construction projects he received in his father’s store. In his cramped studio, Pekoc works with photographs that he has taken himself, or clipped from magazines, and which he scratches, crumples, sands, and coats with paint, varnish, and shellac, before cutting them up and stitching them together in unusual configurations. In an essay on Pekoc’s assemblages in 21st: The Journal of Contemporary Photography, photography historian John Wood and editor of 21st has compared their effect to the “shimmering mosaics of Ravenna” and “the paintings of Gustav Klimt,” while noting that their process of cutting and stitching suggests “a metaphor for the psychological repair and stitching back together of the self.”

Pekoc is represented by the Bonfoey Gallery in Cleveland, OH for 30 years and the John Stevenson Gallery in New York City, NY. In 2002 his work was featured in a limited edition publication, 21st The Journal of Contemporary Photography, Vol. V, titled Strange Genius (2002) featuring new directions in photography. Pieces by him are in major public collections, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Czech Center of Photography, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and Harvard’s Fogg Art Museum. Many Clevelanders will remember him for the award-winning pieces he has shown in seven May Shows at the Cleveland Museum of Art, as well as for work by him that was selected for the 1994 Invitational at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

Christopher Pekoc was recognized in June of 2007 and received the Cleveland Arts Prize for his career as an artist.

www.clevelandartsprize.org
http://www.wksu.org/news/story/20337

September 2006
The Van Duzer Perspective showcases the work of this legendary 20th Century artist.

Clarence E. Van Duzer may be most recognized to Clevelanders for his piece at Cleveland Hopkins International airport- Global Flight which was erected in 1976 to celebrate the airports fiftieth anniversary, but this 86-year-old Cleveland School of Art graduate and Agnes Gund Scholar has been recognized for his innovative works since entering art school almost 70 years ago. With a Master of Fine Arts Degree from Yale University and a B. S. from Case Western Reserve University, Van Duzer is truly a remarkable American artist.

Van Duzer’s awards and scholarships include the Edwin Austin Abby Memorial Scholarship for Mural Painting, the 21st National Midyear Show-First Prize 1956- The Butler Institute of American Art, Prix de Rome National Competition Bronze Medal 1947. His work can be found in museum collections, which include the National Academy of Design - New York, Carnegie Museum of Art -Pittsburgh PA, Dallas Museum of Art-Dallas TX, Detroit Institute of Art-Detroit MI, Orlando Museum of Art-Orlando, FL, Denver Museum of Art-Denver, CO., Cincinnati Museum of Art-Cincinnati, OH, Cleveland Museum of Art-Cleveland, OH and Butler Institute of American Art-Youngstown OH.

The Van Duzer Perspective undoubtedly will leave gallery goers with a feeling of greatness. This extraordinary artist has sustained a viable art career in a city that often makes it seem that earning a living in art is impossible. Van Duzer, who continues to produce work from his Cleveland studio, has left his mark in Cleveland’s history.

Van Duzer, who retired from teaching after 30 years currently, has the honor of being Professor Emeritus from the Cleveland Institute of Art.

for additonal information link to:
http://www.pluggedincleveland.com/events/12503/van-duzer-live-tour-beyond-the-gallery.html
www.sculpturecenter.org
Browse:Ohio outdoor sculpture inventory
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www.viktorschreckengost.org/inthenews/News/99bday


May 2006
The 7 Deadly Sins
curated by Douglas Max Utter / Download Resume

As the dusk of the Dark Ages gathered in the intellectual skies of Christian Europe, Evagrius of Pontus (AD 345-399) was among the first to enumerate and rank the so-called “mortal” sins. His inventory began with Gluttony (the least offensive), followed by Lust, Avarice, Sadness, Anger, Acedia, Vainglory and Pride. The list of seven handed down to us today was formulated during the pontificate of Pope Gregory (AD 590-604), at which time Vainglory was subsumed under Pride. Though St. Thomas Aquinas later rejected the idea that sins could be given relative value (or lack thereof), traditionally each of these moral lapses is a sort of yardstick, measuring the distance between the sinner and God’s love.

We are all sinners, but those responsible for the works of art on view at Convivium33 are also distinguished by their expressive and aesthetic accomplishments. Comprising a cross-section of humanity, men and women, young and old, student and seasoned professional have been included (just as in Purgatory).
They are:

Pride: Giancarlo Calicchia
Sloth: Amy Casey
Anger: Misha Kligman
Lust: Clay Parker
Gluttony: Cecelia Phillips
Envy: Douglas Max Utter
Avarice: Jess Wheelock


March 2006
Herb Ascherman
Mythology Series/Platinum Prints
www.ascherman.com

"...it is by no means to everyone that the gods grant a clear sight of themselves."
-Homer, Odyssey 16.160

So, if the gods appeared to us today... what would they look like?
THEY WOULD LOOK LIKE US!
In May of 2004, Herb Ascherman Jr. called for models in the classified section of the Scene Magazine Weekly Publication. The Mythology Series, rendered in platinum, was realized using an 8x10 view camera in studio, lit by natural light. Ascherman is internationally recognized for his black and white and platinum portraiture and photographs of people in creative, commercial, and social settings. The Ascherman studio produces photography of individuals, families, and social events throughout the country. Ascherman has personally photographed nearly 1700 social affairs since 1975. Ascherman's personal work in black and white and platinum has been exhibited and published widely in Europe and Japan over the past 31 years of his career.

This is the second exhibition for the newly renovated and recently opened Convivium33 Gallery.
*This exhibition contains nudity.
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Our Debut December 2005
The début exhibition featured new work from Cleveland Hts. painter Thomas Frontini. Frontini, who studied at The Institute of Art and Restoration in Florence, Italy is a graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art and received his M.F.A. in painting from Ohio State University. Frontini is recognized for his superior painting ability as well as his subliminal depiction of contemporary issues. Frontini, is a recipient of many awards, including the OWS (Ohio Watercolor Society) Award of Excellence and received Special Recognition in Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art, May Show 1990.

www.thomasfrontini.com