10/25/2024
“Comparisons and Contrasts”, Cleveland Artists Foundation 40th Anniversary Exhibition, continues at ARTneo!
The exhibition focuses upon a variety of thematic and stylistic dialogues between older Cleveland School artists and those working from midcentury to the present. The juxtapositions raise provocative questions about what is distinctive about Cleveland art.
In the exhibition multiple pairs of artwork are juxtaposed, including work from Phyllis Sloane and Shirley Aley Campbell. In comparing and contrasting their artwork Marianne Berardi writes, “The human figure was the primary subject of two prolific Cleveland women, Phyllis Sloane and Shirley Aley Campbell. Both outstanding draftswomen, Sloane displayed her enviable skills particularly in printmaking, while Campbell excelled as a painter of female nudes both in oil and acrylic. Sloane’s works are chromatically punchy, bold designs often verging on Pop Art effects, while Campbell’s are much more mysterious, often showing women in ambiguous spaces with simmering social undercurrents, and frequently monumental in scale.”
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Image 1: Phyllis Sloane (1928-2009), “Helen Weinberg”, silkscreen in color, 21.5” x 17.5” 1969
Image 2: Shirley Aley Campell (1925-2018), “Dorian Dennis”, oil on masonite, 48” x 36”, 1977, Gift of Joseph M. Erdelac
