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Transformer Station

Name: Transformer Station
Address: 1460 W 29th Street, Cleveland, OH, 44113, US
Telephone: +12167076755
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A museum space for contemporary art in Ohio City, Cleveland. FREE and open to the public. Located at 1460 W. 29th St.

Transformer Station is a project of Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell Foundation that brings new contemporary arts exhibitions, events and programming to the west side of Cleveland. in Ohio City, the 1920’s era industrial building has been restored and transformed with a contemporary addition to create an innovative new exhibition space designed for contemporary art. Transformer Station is a place for t

he Fred and Laura Bidwell Foundation to share contemporary photo-based art from the Bidwell Projects Collection. In an innovative agreement with the Cleveland Museum of Art, half of each year's exhibition schedule will be curated and presented by the museum's contemporary art department. The museum will use this space to present contemporary art exhibitions and projects that will extend the reach and scope of the museum's commitment to the art of today. Transformer Station is a lively and engaged participant in the thriving arts and culture scene of Cleveland's West Side Market Square, Detroit Shoreway and Gordon Square neighborhoods.

03/01/2023

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After ten years and 40 shows, this month saw the end of the Bidwell-era for the Transformer Station.

The Bidwells gifted the gallery to the Cleveland Museum of Art earlier this year. While looking with anticipation to future exhibitions from the museum, we also take a look back at the Bidwells as catalytic figures in the revival of Hingetown and champions of art on the west side.

In 2015, Cleveland Magazine captured the Bidwells’ extraordinary journey from the advertising industry to art collectors. In 2010, the couple sought a space to house their more-than-800-piece art collection. 🖼️

Back then, Hingetown looked very different. Rising Star Coffee Roasters was an abandoned fire station. The Striebinger Block housed three gay bars, a head shop and a rarely open barbecue restaurant. Drugs and prostitutes were the marquee attractions. 🏚️

But the Bidwells bought into the vision of Graham Veysey and his then-fiancée, Marika Shioiri-Clark. Where a storefront was being used for storage, Veysey and Clark saw the Kutya Rev Ohio City Dog Haven. Where one window housed a bail bondsman sign, they envisioned Cleveland Tea Revival.

Where a 1920s power station sat, the Bidwells saw an art gallery.

👨‍💻For more about the Bidwells, Hingetown and the Transformer Station, click on the link in our bio.

🖊️Sheehan Hannan
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02/25/2023

Did you catch 'SHOCKWAVES' when it was on view for one weekend in 2015 (January 31–February 1, 2015) at Transformer Station?

The darkly comic 'SHOCKWAVES' is about a man whose traumatic memories of childhood send him on a hallucinogenic carnival ride of self-destruction and murder. Through a Möbius strip of alternate realities, shifting times and multiple dimensions, Shockwaves weaves a kaleidoscopic nightmare tapestry of abuse and revenge.

Media artist Kasumi deploys an astonishing 25,000 public domain film samples, rotoscoped and live action film clips, dance choreography, animation and “stunning” sound design to produce a “brilliant,” “darkly madcap,” “grotesque, beautiful and transcendent” exploration of the nature of memory and our collective consciousness.

Images: Stills from the Kasumi "SHOCKWAVE" by the Cleveland-based artist and filmmaker, Kasumi.

02/24/2023

Acclaimed conceptual artist Ann Hamilton presented a new installation of work from an ongoing project titled 'O N E E V E R Y O N E' for Transformer Station's 2014 exhibition, 'UNKNOWN: Pictures of Strangers' which was on view from June 27–September 27, 2014. Did you visit Transformer Station for this exhibition?

Image: 'Installation view of UNKNOWN: Pictures of Strangers'. June 27, 2014 – September 27, 2014. Image courtesy of Transformer Station.

02/23/2023

Thank you Fred and Laura and Cleveland Magazine! ❤️❤️❤️

“On Feb. 5, closed its doors on Fred and Laura Bidwell’s final show. The Bidwells gifted the Hingetown gallery to the after 10 years of use, during which the local collectors and museum alternated exhibitions. 🖼️

Fred Bidwell cites his involvement with , Cleveland’s triennial contemporary art festival, as a reason to refocus. But the couple isn't going far — they plan to build a house next door.

“You’ll be able to practically reach out and touch it,” says Fred, 70. “We’ve had such a successful run and it’s felt so satisfying. The museum will do an amazing job, and this will give us a little extra time to breathe.” 🏠

We asked the Bidwells to reflect on their catalytic project, as it propelled Hingetown and introduced Clevelanders to one of the top 100 private collections in the country, with more than 1,300 pieces of work curated since the Bidwells' first acquisitions in 1991.”

👨‍💻Head over to the link in our bio to read the Bidwells’ greatest hits.

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📸 Courtesy Fred Bidwell; Kevin Kopanski

02/21/2023

'Christian Patterson: Redheaded Peckerwood' was on view at Transformer Station from
March 28–June 14, 2014. Comment below if you caught this exhibition in person ⇩

“Redheaded Peckerwood, which unerringly walks the fine line between fiction and nonfiction, is a disturbingly beautiful narrative about unfathomable violence and its place on the land”
–Luc Sante

“Complexity, evidence and mystery lies waiting for our journey to explore, to dive in.”
–Jimmy Kuenhle, ArtHOPPER

Read more about this past exhibition here: https://transformerstation.org/exhibition/christian-patterson-redheaded-peckerwood/

Images: Christian Patterson: Redheaded Peckerwood. Installation view at Transformer Station. March 28, 2014–June 14, 2014. Image courtesy of Transformer Station

02/18/2023

Hope to see you today at Transformer Station's tag sale from 10am–4pm!

02/17/2023

Preview of items available at Transformer Station's tag sale tomorrow, Saturday, February 18 from 10am–4pm. See you there!

02/17/2023

Prints from the exhibition, 'Esther Teichmann: Heavy The Sea' available at tomorrow's tag sale (first image)!

'Esther Teichmann: Heavy The Sea' was on view at Transformer Station from January 14–April 30, 2017. 'Heavy the Sea' took us into an alternate orphic world, moving from beds to swamps and caves, from mother to lover, in search of a primordial return. Here, the photographic was loosened from its referent, slipping in and out of darkness, cloaked in dripping inks, bathed in subtle hues, evoking a liquid space of night.

Learn more about Teichmann here: https://transformerstation.org/exhibition/esther-teichmann-heavy-the-sea/

Transformer Station
1460 W 29th St., Cleveland, OH 44113
Tag Sale: Saturday, February 18 from 10am–4pm

02/16/2023

Vaughn Wascovich prints avaiable for puchase at Transformer Station's tag sale on Saturday, February 18 from 10am–4pm!

These dramatic, panoramic images of landmark Cleveland bridges by Vaughn Wascovich were commissioned by Bidwell Projects for the inaugural exhibition of Transformer Station.

Photo-intaglio print with relief roll, limited edition of 50. Signed and numbered by the artist. Dimensions: Paper Size, approximately 22" x 30". Image size, 7" x 17" Wascovich collaborated with printmakers Michael Loderstedt and Christi Birchfield at Zygote Press to create this print based on Wascovich’s photograph of Detroit-Superior Bridge, featured in the show "Bridging Cleveland" one of the inaugural shows at the Transformer Station. Loderstedt experimented with several different kinds of printmaking processes before settling on a combination of photo etching with relief roll. In his photographic work, Wascovich scans an image produced from a handmade pinhole camera and manipulated by hand in the darkroom. Loderstedt’s interpretation of Wascovich’s work, while respectful of its source, fundamentally changes the work by reintroducing traces of an artist’s hand.

02/16/2023

"SUPERBLACK: New Work by Jordan Tate" was on view at Transformer Station from March 28–June 14, 2014.

We have 'SUPERBLACK' catalogs available for purchase during our tag sale this Saturday, February 18 from 10am–4pm. Read more about 'SUPERBLACK' here: https://transformerstation.org/exhibition/superblack-new-work-by-jordan-tate/

“SUPERBLACK gives a nice peek into the limits. As science pushes forward, it reaches small breaks and plateaus allowing for contemplation. While art may help us ponder the void and the void in SUPERBLACK is the deepest and darkest you will most likely ever see… …It pushes forward to find and probe the void.”

–Jimmy Kuehnle, ArtHopper

Transformer Station
1460 W 29th St, Cleveland OH 44113

02/14/2023

'Excerpts from Silver Meadows' by Todd Hido was on view from May 24, 2013 – August 24, 2013 at Transformer Station. We have sets of Silver Meadows poster prints (some signed!) available at our tag sale this Saturday, February 18, 2023 from 10am–4pm!

Although Hido lives and works in California, he was born and raised in Kent, Ohio. Silver Meadows is the name of the neighborhood that Hido grew up in and this work has a strong auto-biographical undercurrent. This show was not a collection of individual photographs, but rather a world created through a sequence of images that are almost cinematic in scope and is inspired by both by Film Noir and breaking news. A story told through brooding landscapes, dangerous but vulnerable women, and lonely homes, Silver Meadows is a mixture of dark memory and hard truth.

Watch an interview with Hido: https://transformerstation.org/exhibition/excerpts-from-silver-meadows/

02/10/2023

Check the link below for a virtual tour of ‘In Concert: Photography and the Violin’ at the Art Museum of West Virginia University!

'In Concert: Photography and the Violin' was on view at Transformer Station from January 22, 2022–April 3, 2022. Transformer Station exhibited the first-ever iteration of 'In Concert: Photography and the Violin', which presented the instrument in dramatically different contexts across the history of photography. The 250 works are from the collection of Evan Mirapaul, an Ohio native and former concert violinist. The exhibition was organized by Dan Leers, Curator of Photography at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh.

'In Concert: Photography and the Violin' is currently on view from January 21–May 14, 2023 at the Art Museum of West Virginia University.

https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=wWYYy6xmi8R

02/10/2023

“The legacy of Cleveland as one of the great industrial cities of the United States can be felt in the vast interior of the Transformer Station. The building once functioned, quite literally, as a power transformer station for the Cleveland Railway Company, which, in the early part of the twentieth century, provided public transport for the population of one of the country’s most dynamic urban economies. More on Transformer Station on our website. Link in bio.”

Esther Teichmann, "Heavy the Sea", 2017 (exhibition view at Transformer Station, Cleveland)

02/09/2023

Throwing it back ten years to the first exhibition at Transformer Station: 'Bridging Cleveland: Photographs by Vaughn Wascovich' and 'Light of Day', both exhibitions ran concurrently from February 2, 2013 – May 4, 2013.

Dramatic, large-scale panoramic images of landmark Cleveland bridges by Vaughn Wascovich, were commissioned by Bidwell Projects for the inaugural exhibition of the Transformer Station. Light of Day was curated from the collection of Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell.

Images:
1. Vaughn Wascovich, Detroit-Superior Bridge. Image courtesy of Transformer Station.
2. Vaughn Wascovich, Innerbelt Bridge. Image courtesy of Transformer Station.
3. Light of Day Installation view. Matt Siber, Billboard Vinyl #2, 2012, Site-specific installation. Image courtesy of Transformer Station.

02/08/2023

🏷️ Transformer Station will be hosting a tag sale – keep an eye out for more details coming soon!

🏷️ Items for sale will include: furniture, kitchen items, office supplies, books, and more!

02/06/2023

Thank you to all who visited 'Gregory Halpern: 19 Winters / 7 Springs'! Transformer Station is now temporarily closed, please stay tuned for exciting updates!

02/05/2023

We're open today until 5pm for the last day to view 'Gregory Halpern: 19 Winters / 7 Springs'!

Halpern encourages viewers to construct their own narratives and invites us to be active readers. In that sense, it can be said that this work is less about documentation than it is a study of small enigmas.

Organized by the photographer with Lisa Kurzner and Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell.

'Gregory Halpern: 19 Winters / 7 Springs'
November 4, 2022 – February 5, 2023

Transformer Station
1460 W 29th Street, Cleveland, OH 44113

Visiting Hours:
Wednesday – Sunday:
11am – 5pm

Installation view, 'Gregory Halpern: 19 Winters / 7 Springs'. Installation photography by Gregory Halpern.

02/04/2023

Open today from 11am to 5pm – Don't miss out on this exhibition, there's only a couple days left!
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Gregory Halpern: 19 Winters / 7 Springs
November 4, 2022 – February 5, 2023

Transformer Station
1460 W 29th Street, Cleveland, OH 44113

Visiting Hours:
Wednesday – Sunday:
11am – 5pm

Installation image by Gregory Halpern.

02/03/2023

Final weekend to view 'Gregory Halpern: 19 Winters / 7 Springs' at Transformer Station!

In addition to his photographs, Halpern has made a series of sculptures of modest houses inspired by the Buffalo landscape. Viewers can circle them and thus experience the landscape from various points of view, much as Halpern has over the years. The interiors of these houses contain abstract, sublime images of natural phenomena. For Halpern, these works are as much about architecture as they are about the interiority of life and the ultimate unknowability of others.

Organized by the photographer with Lisa Kurzner and Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell.

'Gregory Halpern: 19 Winters / 7 Springs'
November 4, 2022 – February 5, 2023

Transformer Station
1460 W 29th Street, Cleveland, OH 44113

Visiting Hours:
Wednesday – Sunday:
11am – 5pm

Installation view, 'Gregory Halpern: 19 Winters / 7 Springs'. Installation photography by Gregory Halpern.

02/02/2023

We're open today from 11am–5pm and admission is always free!

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Gregory Halpern: 19 Winters / 7 Springs
November 4, 2022 – February 5, 2023

Transformer Station
1460 W 29th Street, Cleveland, OH 44113

Visiting Hours:
Wednesday – Sunday:
11am – 5pm

Installation images by Gregory Halpern.

02/01/2023

We're open today 11am–5pm!

Installation view, 'Gregory Halpern: 19 Winters / 7 Springs'. Installation photography by Gregory Halpern.

01/31/2023

Don't miss out on the final week for 'Gregory Halpern: 19 Winters / 7 Springs' at Transformer Station!

These pictures are also about an interior world. Although rooted in the “lyrical documentary” tradition, Halpern’s work reaches beyond realism, into the poetic and the tangential. They are the intuitive observations of a particular sensibility and mood, and a celebration of a strange kind of splendor in the everyday. In a sense, they create a space of their own, a realm Halpern describes as “documentary surrealism.”

Organized by the photographer with Lisa Kurzner and Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell.

'Gregory Halpern: 19 Winters / 7 Springs'
November 4, 2022 – February 5, 2023

Transformer Station
1460 W 29th Street, Cleveland, OH 44113

Visiting Hours:
Wednesday – Sunday:
11am – 5pm

Image: Installation view, 'Gregory Halpern: 19 Winters / 7 Springs'. Installation photography by Gregory Halpern.

01/25/2023

Final two weeks to view 'Gregory Halpern: 19 Winters / 7 Springs' at Transformer Station!

For the past twenty years, Gregory Halpern has been photographing in and around his hometown of Buffalo, New York. In the simplest sense, these pictures represent Halpern’s observations of the exterior world—the results of looking closely at his surroundings over many years.

Organized by the photographer with Lisa Kurzner and Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell.

'Gregory Halpern: 19 Winters / 7 Springs'
November 4, 2022 – February 5, 2023

Transformer Station
1460 W 29th Street, Cleveland, OH 44113

Visiting Hours:
Wednesday – Sunday:
11am – 5pm

Installation view, 'Gregory Halpern: 19 Winters / 7 Springs'. Installation photography by Gregory Halpern.

01/24/2023

'Halpern’s photographs exude the damp chill of a rainy day in March, the muffled silence of falling snow, the ragtag patterns of torn, chain-link fences around shuttered factories, the black wetness of crumbling asphalt pavement in mud season, the moldy fug of badly maintained, century-old wood-frame houses.

Clevelanders should easily be able to relate to the show’s wintry moods, rough textures, and muted tones. Halpern has an exquisite knack for discovering the offbeat beauty of a place often disregarded and disrespected by the rest of the country.'

Images: Gregory Halpern, Untitled 2004–2022 © Gregory Halpern

–By Steven Litt for Cleveland. com Read more: https://buff.ly/3FvYZuz

01/23/2023

Stanley Walakau-Wananbwa and Gregory Halpern in conversation at Transformer Station ()this past Saturday, January 21, 2023. If you missed it, the conversation was recorded and will be available online in the near future!

19 Winters / 7 Springs is on view through Sunday, February 5, 2023.

Visiting hours:
Wednesday–Sunday
11am–5pm

1460 W 29th St
Cleveland, Ohio 44113

Image:

01/23/2023

'The photographs are masterful in their precise focus on well-defined subjects, their classic elegance, and their superbly muted palette of grays, blues, and soft ambers.

Halpern has a quirky eye that focuses on telling details. For example, there’s a tightly cropped shot of someone’s wrinkled hand gesturing toward a pencil drawing of an angel scrawled on a white-painted wall, like the hand of God reaching for Adam in Michelangelo’s Sistine Ceiling.

Halpern’s landscape subjects range from a blue-painted outhouse glimpsed in a snowy field in the blue-gray light of dusk to an image of black-painted steps with the word “Until’’ portentously scrawled on one of the risers in bright yellow paint.'

Installation view, 'Gregory Halpern: 19 Winters / 7 Springs'. Installation photography by Gregory Halpern.

–By Steven Litt for Cleveland .com Read more: https://transformerstation.org/exhibition/gregory-halperns-outstanding-photographic-portrait-of-buffalo-closes-out-the-bidwell-era-at-transformer-station/

01/21/2023

Join us TODAY for artist Gregory Halpern in conversation with Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa on '19 Winters / 7 Springs' at Transformer Station at 6:00pm.

FREE, Registration required: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gregory-halpern-in-conversation-with-stanley-wolukau-wanambwa-tickets-492843838187

Halpern and Wolukau-Wanambwa will discuss the evolution of his first major US solo exhibition, Halpern’s attachment to being a local photographer, the distinctions for photographers between book and wall, and his changing relationship to documentary practice and traditions.

Gregory Halpern was born in Buffalo, New York and has published six books of photographs. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and is an Associate Member of Magnum Photos. He teaches photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa is a photographer and writer. His book, One Wall a Web, was featured in Undercurrents: A Photobook Exhibition at Transformer Station from October 25, 2019 – January 26, 2020. His exhibition review of 19 Winters / 7 Springs is due out with Art—Agenda in January 2023.

Images:
1. Gregory Halpern. Image by Gregory Halpern
2. Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa. Image by Daniel Shea.

-Wanambwa

01/21/2023

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1460 W 29th Street
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Thursday	11am - 5pm
Friday	11am - 5pm
Saturday	11am - 5pm
Sunday	11am - 5pm

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http://www.transformerstation.org/

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Thank you @ideastreamneo! ・・・ This art installation is hands on! In fact, how people interact with it is the point. Here's a preview of “SM-2N: sldrty?” by artists Sarah Oppenheimer and Tony Cokes at Transformer Station in Cleveland for @FrontTriennial. This video is part of a series looking at the FRONT Triennial. Check out new posts daily this week. #contemporaryart #fronttriennial #Cleveland

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FRONT (@fronttriennial) is offering paid summer internships and volunteer opportunities for high school students! Join us for a special Youth for FRONT information session, pizza and art will be served! WHEN: Saturday, March 5, 2022 3:30–4:30pm ET WHERE: Transformer Station (@transformerstation) 1460 West 29th Street Cleveland, OH 44113 Get a preview of the biggest arts event of next summer and learn more about how you can get involved as an advocate, a volunteer, or even as a paid intern. Register now at the link in bio for this exciting opportunity to be in on the FRONT lines of the art world this summer. #FRONTART2022 #Summer #Internship #YouthForFRONT https://www.frontart.org/event/youth-for-front-information-session

Listen as our talented Gallery Attendant Naomi (@vocal_columna) sings to the art at Transformer Station! You can also catch her this weekend with Quire Cleveland (@quirecleveland). Details below! https://www.quirecleveland.org/bohemian-treasure/ Friday, March 4 at 7:30 PM St. John Cantius Church (Cleveland: Tremont) 906 College Avenue Cleveland, OH Saturday, March 5 at 5:30 PM St. Vitus Church (Cleveland: St. Clair-Superior) 6019 Lausche Ave. Cleveland, OH Sunday, March 6 at 4:00 PM St. Elizabeth of Hungary Church (Cleveland: Kinsman) 9016 Buckeye Rd. Cleveland, OH Admission is free. Seating is open, and no tickets or reservations are required. A freewill offering will be taken (suggested donation $25 per person). Masks are required for all attendees, regardless of vaccination status. _____ Transformer Station 1460 W 29th St Cleveland OH 44113 Hours: Wednesday–Sunday 11am–5pm IN CONCERT: PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE VIOLIN January 22, 2022–April 3, 2022 #TransformerStation #Violin #Photography #EvanMirapaul #DanLeers #Art #ArtExhibition #VintagePhotos #Cleveland #Ohio #ArtMuseum #Free #Music #ArtCollection #Repost @vocal_columna ・・・ singing goodbye to the art so it knows…….I’ll be Bach 🤦‍♀️ 👹 1st rehearsal tonight for some passion music with @quirecleveland !!! *freeee* concerts: 3/4-3/6 🎉 & come on down to ‘In Concert: Photography and the Violin’ @transformerstation thru 4/3 :) #captiveaudience 🗣🖼🖼🖼 #photography #freeconcert #passion #Bach #violin #cle

#Repost @f22prints: ・・・ “I came across “Main Street, Ludlow, Illinois 2018” late one evening and found the quiet, peaceful ambiance of this small rural Midwestern town in direct contrast to the threat of whether or not it will survive another generation due to the depopulation of so many rural farming towns that are slowly fading away. Large corporate farming entities have reduced the existence of these small rural towns and their cultural identity is slowly disappearing from the landscape.” @dave.jordano This limited edition print is available through Thursday or until it is sold out. Link in bio. ____ Photographer Dave Jordano was invited to come to Cleveland in the Summer of 2019 to explore the city. Born in Detroit and now living in Chicago, Jordano has had a long interest in the places and people of the urban industrial cities of the midwest. The work that Jordano created in Cleveland is a continuation of a theme he explored in his 2018 book, A Detroit Nocturne which explores the nighttime cityscapes of Detroit’s vernacular architecture and reveals the marks of its trials and determination of its people. The 14 haunting new images of Cleveland in (Human) Landscape are sparsely populated and yet full of implied life and untold stories. “Dave Jordano: (Human) Landscapes” was presented at Transformer Station 9/18/20–1/31/21.

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Happy New Year! #2022 #TransformerStation #Cleveland #ArtExhibitions

#Repost @dmcphcle ・・・ One project that I’m excited about organizing for @fronttriennial is the series of limited edition, artist-designed, screen printed t-shirts that we are doing in collaboration with @nyceco Prints. With this project we wanted to produce wearable, collectible, and affordable art. nyceCO Prints was started in @clevelandheightsohio by Keenan KNYCE Williams in 2017 with business & life partner Brittany DeMudd @brittsocreative who is the Creative Director. Our first t-shirt collab was with artist Loraine Lynn @loraineruetz and it was ready just in time for FRONT’s preview exhibition opening night party this past Friday. Loraine is a Cleveland Institute of Art @cleinstituteart grad based in Toledo, OH. She has exhibited work nationally and internationally in South Korea, Ireland, and Italy and she’s one of the many artists participating in FRONT 2022. In this Reel, you you’ll see Keenan/nyceCo unveil Loraine’s t-shirt to us in a gallery featuring Loraine’s colorful and vibrant work, and a very pleased Annie @annie_wischmeyer , associate curator for FRONT. FRONT International is a free, summer-long, citywide, art festival (exhibition) that takes place across two dozen or so venues in Northeast Ohio every three years. FRONT 2022 is already happening and manifesting beginning with the Preview Exhibition, “Grand Prototypes, Humble Tools,” on view at Transformer Station October 7-January 2, 2022. Be sure to go see this show at @transformerstation (admission is free!) and while you’re there, pick up a Loraine Lynn/nyceco t-shirt! • • • #frontart2022 #contemporaryartist #lorainelynn #transformerstation #screenprinting #screenprinted #nycecoprints #nyceco #blackownedbusiness #smallbusinessowner #smallbuisness

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Support for this exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art was provided by Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell, co-founders of Transformer Station and avid art collectors! PROOF: Photography in the Era of the Contact Sheet Fri, 02/07/2020 to Sun, 04/12/2020 The Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation Exhibition Hall FREE

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Watch: Preview FRONT International

#TransformerStation is a proud presenting partner of @FrontArt! Learn more about this groundbreaking exhibition, coming to Cleveland this summer. www.Frontart.org #FRONTart2018

It’s becoming a #winterwonderland in #cleveland and #hingetown ! Escape the snow with us today ❄️ our exhibitions have two and a half weeks left for viewing!

The Countdown Begins!

The countdown is officially on! #FRONTart2018, a large-scale, multi-venue, citywide program of #ContemporaryArt, opens a year from now in #Cleveland and we are so thrilled to be part of it. The Triennial opens July 14, 2018 and runs through September 30, 2018. More info at www.frontart.org FrontArt

Transformer Station artist @estherteichmann filmed canoeist Carlos Tapuy in the Amazon for ten days, travelling with him daily on his journeys. A silent trance like meditation ensues.

Today is your last day to see Dan Graham/Rocks! Stop in from 11am to 5pm to get a last look. 🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽

This is your last weekend to see Dan Graham/Rocks at Transformer Station. Exhibition closes Dec. 4! Stop by today!🤘🏽🎸🎤

Hooray!!! 🎉Transformer station is open late every Thursday! Now, that is something to get excited about. Stop by, we'll be here until 8pm.

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The Cause Collective is back again! Come share your version of the truth the afternoon till 6pm

Cleveland Image Festival

Introducing Cleveland Image Festival. See the video and vote for it starting tomorrow at www.CACGrants.org/vote

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Transformer Station

Combining a landmark historical building with a contemporary minimalist addition, the Transformer Station is a new anchor destination in Cleveland's rapidly evolving Ohio City neighborhood. The project brings a new cultural facility to a mixed residential and industrial neighborhood within walking distance of the restaurants and shops of the Market District and blocks away from the Gordon Square Arts District. Visiting Hours are Wednesday-Sunday 11am-5pm and Thursday 11am-8pm.

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What are you up to this weekend, Cleveland? ✨

Here’s what we’re most excited for:

🎶 A Night of Broadway Favorites at The Cleveland Pops Orchestra
🎥Cleveland International Film Festival at Playhouse Square
🍷 Cleveland International Wine Festival at Lago Custom Events
🎤Cousin Stizz at Grog Shop
🎻 In Concert: Photography and the Violin at Transformer Station
🎩Joshua Adam Jay at Mandel Jewish Community Center
🎭 Much Ado About Nothing at Great Lakes Theater
🎵Past Masters, Master Teachers, and Modern Artists Opening Concert at Cleveland History Center
🏎️Summit Racing Equipment Piston Powered Auto-Rama at I-X Center
🧶 Threads Moving Backward and Forward: Contemporary Textile Artworks from Ohio at Massillon Museum

🖊️Becky Boban
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Cuyahoga County Board of Developmental Disabilities and Maximum Accessible Housing of Ohio met with staff from FrontArt to help make the FRONT PNC Exhibition Hub at Transformer Station more accessible and inclusive. Transformer Station, an independent contemporary art museum in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood, will serve as the starting point for the FRONT triennial exhibition. The FRONT triennial will run July to October 2022 and will showcase artists from Cleveland and around the world at over twenty museums, galleries, and non-traditional locations across Northeast Ohio.

A beautiful write up for In Concert: Photography and the Violin, from the collection of Evan Mirapaul, currently on view at Transformer Station. The show will be up until April 3rd, and we encourage you to check it out if you’re in the Cleveland area!

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"In Concert: Photography and the Violin" is on view now, visit Wednesday–Sunday 11am–5pm!

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Installation photography by Field Studio

Transformer Station
1460 W 29th St
Cleveland OH 44113

Hours:
Wednesday–Sunday
11am–5pm

IN CONCERT: PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE VIOLIN
January 22, 2022–April 3, 2022

Masks required for all visitors.

A new exhibition featuring 250 works from the collection of the founder and co-director of the PGH Photo Fair, Evan Mirapaul, opens this month at Transformer Station. If you’re in the Cleveland area, make sure to check out In Concert: Photography and the Violin, an incredible survey of the violin across the history of photography.

This exhibition will be on view from January 21st-April 3rd, 2022. Click this link to check out a conversation between Evan and Dan Leers, curator of photography at the Carnegie Museum of Art about the exhibition before it opens! https://www.pghphotofair.com/news/2021/9/19/evan-mirapaulnbspin-conversation-withnbspdan-leersnbsp

Today's Movement Workshop at Transformer Station has been cancelled due to growing health and safety concerns. Transformer Station is open for visitors from 11am–5pm; masks are required.⠀
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Transformer Station⠀
1460 W 29th St ⠀
Cleveland OH 44113⠀
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Hours: ⠀
Wednesday–Sunday⠀
11am–5pm⠀
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Now On View:⠀
FRONT 2022 () Preview Exhibition: "Grand Prototypes, Humble Tools"⠀
October 8, 2021–January 2, 2022⠀
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Photography by Jacob Koestler ()⠀
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We'll be at Transformer Station tomorrow making mandalas! Join us!

It's the final weekend for a visit to the Transformer Station in Cleveland, OH where "New Histories, New Futures" features work by 2020 pilot resident Johnny Coleman. Johnny's sculpture, sound, and projection installation is in homage to the history of an enslaved family. For the past several years, Johnny has meticulously chosen sites and materials to bring this story to the public and shed light on its forgotten past.
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Organized by The Cleveland Museum of Art, the exhibition closes this Sunday, September 12. Link below for tickets and more information!

https://transformerstation.org/exhibition/new-histories-new-futures/

Image: "New Histories, New Futures," June 26–September 12, 2021. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Transformer Station. Photo © The Cleveland Museum of Art
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Get over today and have some fun with the CMA:
🌈 for Community Wednesday. FREE admission to Private Lives
🌈 Live: City Stages at 7:30 pm Transformer Station
🌈 Spend a night at the museum - we're open until 9 pm

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Today's forecast: we've got you covered (rain or shine) with FREE events and programs.

⭐ on Community Wednesday. Get FREE admission to Private Lives
⭐ Virtual program: Painted Pets at 6 pm
⭐ Live: City Stages at 7:30 pm Transformer Station

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City Stages are back!

CMA's FREE acclaimed summer concerts feature the best in global music.

Dates: August 18 and 25
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Place: Outside of Transformer Station

More info at cma.org/events/music-and-performances/city-stages-2021

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