Artists At Tower Press
List of support
Bill Bechenbach
Blue Robot
Bonfoey Gallery
Bonnie
Speed.com
Burning River Gallery
Crystal Byrd
Councilman Joe
Cimperman
Cleveland School of the Arts
Datsmart
Cavana
Faithwalker
Gap Communication Group Inc.
George Fraser
Maria
Gatmaytan
William Jean
Donna Johnson Faithwalker
Mardi Gras
Dan
Nainiger
Phoenix Coffee
Plain Dealer
Scott Ramsey Esq.
Romaje.com
Sankofa Fine Art Plus
ScandiaSpa.com
Kathy
Skerrritt
Spaces
Hector Vega
Hector Vega
Fantastic art, food, java and juice are sure to make a splash
at this unique gathering place for visitors and residents at the Tower Press. A
casual meeting space for art connoisseurs, artists and business professionals to
converse and collaborate.
Will Napoli began self-publishing his concrete poetry, previously called “subprose” but now called “protext”, in 1990. Soon after the opening of Earthman’s ApARTment Gallery™ he held the first annual Subprose Summit, where concrete poets gathered
Robert Banks
Concept, composition, characters, camera angles, dialogue,
direction, lighting and action…These are among the multi-faceted elements that
make Robert Banks a well-recognized name among Cleveland filmmakers today.
Kathy Skerritt
My work is a commitment to visually investigate the form…
continuously being revealed from behind or under or within the deconstructed
form. …beyond the surface to that underlying substance or process, to a more
fundamental source condition.
Georgio Sabino III
"I create art that stimulates the imagination,
challenges the intellect, propelling the viewer towards celestial heights where
they can explore, discover, and uncover their polyrhythmic identities through my
work."
Dexter Davis
"I view my work as an experience or journey. I like to think
of it as forever changing in both the physical and psychological state... I
create with a spontaneous repeated gesture...repeated patterns." My new work is
about "New Birth". These works are self-portraits.
Mike McNamara
Musician
Mike McNamara is a guitarist of contemporary and flamenco music.
His work
creates live rhythms and complex subtleties of melody and tempo in vibrant
percussive tones. He performs regularly throughout the city.
Remember the
name.
Billy Nainiger, a native Clevelander, has been an inspiring artist since early childhood. He is concentrating on his painting: working with acrylics, oils and watercolors. He also paints murals in people’s homes. Notice the bold swatches of contrasting color that distinguishes his work.
Carlos Montes de la Oca
Carlos Montes de la Oca is a native of Chile now
established in Cleveland art circles. He recently did a solo exhibition at
Spaces Gallery on the near west side.
Cushmere Bell
"My painterly desires are reflected in my photography. I am
deeply influenced by the Impressionists, although most of my photos are in black
and white. My expressionistic usage of light to convey the subject matter is
highly evident."
Mike Greenwald
"My paintings are a visual translation of personal
observations, experiences and reactions to life and my place in the world. I
hope that the viewer feels drawn into and engaged by my work. I like to think of
my paintings as meditative, eliciting introspection and contemplation."
Bruce Biro
"Sculptural activity involving the interplay of positive and
negative space in three dimensions is the primary concern. In a sense I am
adding absence:
the reductive process...I want each work to be visually
engaging and spatially active in 360 degrees."
Nathan Wasserbauer
Nathan's work deals with industrial infringement upon
the organic world.
Using imagery that falls between abstraction and
representation... The
resulting layouts dissect a temporal expansion...
displaying two parallel
worlds of forced coexistence.
Damon Reaves
Reaves is an accomplished fine and scenic artist whose work
expresses a deep curiosity for the relationship between figure and environment.
He is the
2004 Sankofa Fine Art Plus Emerging Artist.
Dana Oldfather
Dana Oldfather serves as a Gallery Assistant at The Bonfoey
Gallery of Cleveland. She has shown her work in numerous group and juried
exhibitions, has hosted her own solo exhibition and had her work published in
the 2003 “Living, Working, Creating” article of The Builder’s Exchange.
Richard Durrah
"My delight with photography started at a very early age,
when my father purchased the family's first Polaroid Land Camera in 1967. Taking
pictures of my family and friends was the beginning of my astonishment with the
art and science of photography."
Bruce Conforti
Bruce Conforti is well known for his incomparable use of
color and his brilliant style of painting. He also has been a mentor to other
artists at the Tower Press Building.
Bruce Conforti B day
Reminiscing over
the Cosmopolitans, the red Merlots, the white Zinfandels and the community of
the Tower Press and friends
Tower Press Photo
This view of the Tower Press Building was taken from
Bill Bechenbach's office (of the Quadrangle District.
Photo by Georgio Sabino
III
Oscar Night 1
Parties like the Oscar night celebration give the residents
of the Tower Press Building the opportunity to come together as a community, not
just as neighbors of a multi-tenant building, but as friends. Come join us.
Design by GS3
Oscar Night 2
An aerial view of the crowd at the Oscar Nite party Design
by GS3
Night Shot of City of Cleveland
A scenic panorama of the city nightlife at
the top of the Tower Press Building provides a hint of Cleveland's beauty, one
of the many features that make Ohio the heart of it all. Photo by GS3
Burning River Gallery Photo
Step into the Burning River Glassworks and you
are greeted with glass blossoms of bold colors suspended from above, and the hot
breath of glassblowing ovens along the space fronting the street. It is a
wonderful blast of warmth in cool Cleveland.
Designed & Photographed by
GS3
Photo of People
Bill Bechenbach, Georgio Sabino, Richard Durrah, Kathy
Skerritt (seated, front), Janus Small, Bruce Biro, Hector Vega and Nathan
Wasserbauer
Photo of People
Hector Vega, Georgio Sabino, Damon Reaves, Dave Perkowski,
Richard Durrah, Ada Carolina Ortiz and Will Napoli
Photo of people
Georgio Sabino III, Cushmere Bell, Suave Gotti, Dexter
Davis, Robert Banks, Mike Knowledge and Aaron Smith
Photo of people
Billy Nainiger, Will Napoli, Councilman Zachary Reed,
Damon Reaves, Sarah Porzig, Kate Renaud and Tanisha Feliciano This group and
others collaborated on the creation of a mural at E.116th & Kinsman
Photo of people
Bruce Biro,
William Jean,
Bill Bechenbach, Jerry
Hoegner, Marina Marquez-Zenkov, Shirley Stineman, William Gould, Connor Coakley
and Georgio Sabino III