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Title Round Daniel Kelly Noir , 2024 Woodblock, Echizen Kozo paper unframed, 23 x 28 inches Estimated Value Range: $2,500 - $3,500 Starting Bid: $1,250 Bidding increments: $250 The Fowlers met Daniel Kelly in a bar in Japan. As fellow Americans traveling abroad, they began talking and sharing their travels and interests. Drawn to Kelly’s devotion to Japanese culture and intrigued by his aesthetic, the Fowlers acquired several of his artworks over the years and maintained a strong friendship with the artist. Kelly (b. 1947, Idaho Falls, ID) is an American painter, printmaker, and multimedia artist based in Kyoto, Japan. His work seamlessly blends Western and Eastern influences, particularly through his expertise in Japanese woodblock printing, while also embracing contemporary techniques. Kelly’s art reflects a deep exploration of texture, cultural fusion, and symbolic narratives, offering a unique perspective on both personal and collective histories. More: Daniel Kelly Artistic Practice Kelly’s artistic process begins with creating three-dimensional collages, which often incorporate materials indigenous to Japan, such as tatami mats and bamboo. These collages serve as a foundation for his mixed-media paintings, where he explores the relationship between space, form, and symbolism. In his printmaking, Kelly works primarily with woodblock and lithography, using chine-collé techniques to integrate elements like antique Japanese book pages, ukiyo-e prints, and calligraphy. By fusing these materials into his prints, Kelly creates intricate visual narratives that draw from both Eastern traditions and his Western background. Kelly’s woodblock prints are notable for their large scale—he is believed to have created the largest woodblock prints ever made in Japan. The detailed and layered nature of his work is both a technical feat and a rich reflection of his ongoing dialogue with cultural memory. In his paintings, Kelly continues to explore the themes of texture, cultural exchange, and the natural world, often incorporating elements of personal and mythological symbolism to infuse his work with deep emotional resonance. Notable Works and Exhibitions Kelly’s work has been featured in major exhibitions and collections worldwide, and his prints and paintings are celebrated for their striking technical precision and cultural depth. His exhibitions have spanned continents, showcasing his contributions to the world of printmaking and painting. He has also been instrumental in bringing traditional Japanese techniques to a wider audience, all while incorporating elements of his own cultural heritage. About the Artist Kelly’s interest in art began in childhood, particularly through his exposure to the Western works of C.M. Russell, whose depictions of the American West left a lasting impression. His formal art education began at the University of Oregon, where he studied glassblowing and ceramics before discovering his passion for Japanese art. A pivotal moment came when he purchased a book about Japanese woodblock prints by Tomikichirō Tokuriki, which led him to travel to Kyoto. There, he studied under Tokuriki, eventually becoming an apprentice. This apprenticeship would shape his artistic voice and propel him into a career dedicated to the exploration of traditional printmaking techniques within a modern context. Kelly’s prints and paintings blend the historical with the contemporary, inviting viewers to contemplate themes of identity, history, and the natural environment. His work, often described as poetic and meditative, captures the subtle nuances of cultural exchange and the universality of human experience. Selected Collections Museum of Modern Art, New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York British Museum, London Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Library of Congress, Washington, DC National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC Cincinnati Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH New York Public Library, New York, NY

News + Read more at W Magazine Tuesday, November 29, 2022 by Kat Herriman Photographs by Jesper D. Lund The artist’s college years are the focus of a new exhibition at the ICA Miami. The New York-based artist Nina Chanel Abney punches eyes out one at a time. Her life-size paper dolls don’t seem to mind. They crowd around the ankles of her standing desk, in blank anticipation, patiently waiting for her to finish their faces so they can go on to their destiny as protagonists in her primary-colored collages. Abney points down at the huddle encircling her feet. “It’s a dance scene,” she says. Assembling her dancers requires meticulous choreography. “One millimeter can shift an expression,” Abney says. Despite the precarity, Abney feels at home in this cut-and-paste world. Over the past decade, her figurative collages depicting the lives and stories of Americans like herself—Black, queer, working class individuals—have become a fixture of the art world. Her exuberantly colored paintings, executed with stencils and spray paint, mimic Abney’s collage aesthetic and make me think of artists like Henri Matisse, Kara Walker, and Lari Pittman—but Abney bats away these art-historical touchstones. She says her mother, who is also an artist, is the one responsible for her love of drawing and collaging. “I’ve been cutting and pasting since childhood,” Abney says. “I like the familiarity of it.” Raised in Chicago by her mother, Abney used drawing as a way to connect. In school, she and her sister invited their mostly white classmates to commission portraits of Black celebrities from them. Abney earned a BFA from Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois before heading to Parsons, where she graduated with a masters degree in 2007. In 2008, she participated in the groundbreaking group show 30 Americans at the Rubell Family Collection in Miami, and as the exhibition traveled around the country her exuberant images depicting Black joy and pain began appearing in museums alongside fellow participants like Rashid Johnson, Renée Green, and Kerry James Marshall. In 2017, she had an exhibition with Jack Shainman Gallery in New York, and after that she was featured in monographic museum shows. Abney vibrates on a cultural frequency all her own and has also collaborated to create Air Jordan sneakers, as well as a version of the classic game card Uno. Her most visible pop cultural moment, an album cover created last year for Meek Mill’s Expensive Pain , was a tearful cartoon portrait of the rapper surrounded by nude women, a yacht, a motorcycle, and dollar signs. The ICA Miami exhibition of Nina Chanel Abney: Big Butch Energy, on view during Art Basel, focuses on Abney’s college years, when the artist was less assured in her queer identity and struggled to find a community that reflected the kind of person she wanted to be. An epic shower scene, notably, dwells on the awkwardness and discomfort of forced group dynamics. Abney was attracted to the universality of coming-of-age scenes; she is devoted to mediums freighted with childhood resonance and stories she knows can be found on the tip of the tongue. The conceptual second half of the Miami presentation opens at the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland on January 27. Those works focus instead on the more positive side of Abney’s collegiate experience, and the energy is festive. “Like coming into myself and the celebration,” Abney says. The keystone work here depicts a raucous dance party like the ones Abney would have liked to attend. After the MoCA Cleveland show and a well-deserved break, Abney will be doubling down on her efforts to focus on public art and shift her language into three-dimensional sculptures. She’s not sure what they will look like yet, but she does know she wants those artworks to depict the lives of those unsung in the Western canon and be accessible to the public at all hours. “I always want the viewer to be able to feel like they have a connection with the work and recall some of their own similar experiences,” she says. “I’m good at finding communities that wants their stories told. I don’t feel like there is enough representation of Black masculine-presenting or queer women in media, so if I can bring my experience to life and it inspires others then I feel like I’m doing a good job. In earlier work, I was trying to make the content more ambiguous—now, it’s leaning toward the opposite.” Previous Next

Date Title One sentence desciption + more Add a Title Add a Title Title + more Add a Title Add a Title Title + more Tue.-Fri. December 2, 2025 Art Fairs NOW: Art Basel Miami Beach -Dec 5, 2025 at Art Basel: Miami Beach moCa NOW Donor Event: Invitation Only JOIN TODAY Exclusive Art Basel: Miami Beach access experience, featuring private tours, an intimate dinner, and a cocktail invitation. *Travel and accommodations not included. ART NOW Donor members will receive email communications on how to RSVP. Curator Level & above

Forming Fearless Faces: A Free Mask-Making Family Workshop Nov 8, 2024 REGISTER TODAY! OFFSITE at Julia de Burgos Cultural Arts Center, 2800 Archwood Ave, Cleveland, OH 44109 5:30PM – Meet & Greet with light refreshments 6PM – Mask-making begins Explore a variety of materials—from man-made and recycled to natural elements—as you create a mask that tells a story all your own. No experience is necessary. The workshop is led by native Mexican artist, Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya. Afterward, make sure to check out Ruben's first solo U.S. exhibition which is on view at moCa Cleveland through December 29, 2024. ✨ Presented by moCa Cleveland & Julia de Burgos Cultural Arts Center About REGISTER TODAY! OFFSITE at Julia de Burgos Cultural Arts Center, 2800 Archwood Ave, Cleveland, OH 44109 5:30PM – Meet & Greet with light refreshments 6PM – Mask-making begins Explore a variety of materials—from man-made and recycled to natural elements—as you create a mask that tells a story all your own. No experience is necessary. The workshop is led by native Mexican artist, Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya. Afterward, make sure to check out Ruben's first solo U.S. exhibition which is on view at moCa Cleveland through December 29, 2024. ✨ Presented by moCa Cleveland & Julia de Burgos Cultural Arts Center REGISTER TODAY! OFFSITE at Julia de Burgos Cultural Arts Center, 2800 Archwood Ave, Cleveland, OH 44109 5:30PM – Meet & Greet with light refreshments 6PM – Mask-making begins Explore a variety of materials—from man-made and recycled to natural elements—as you create a mask that tells a story all your own. No experience is necessary. The workshop is led by native Mexican artist, Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya. Afterward, make sure to check out Ruben's first solo U.S. exhibition which is on view at moCa Cleveland through December 29, 2024. ✨ Presented by moCa Cleveland & Julia de Burgos Cultural Arts Center

Studio Access w/ Manabu Ikeda May 10, 2024 Experience the artist create onsite at moCa as he develops a new monumental artwork over the course of the Winter/Spring season. About Experience the artist create onsite at moCa as he develops a new monumental artwork over the course of the Winter/Spring season. Experience the artist create onsite at moCa as he develops a new monumental artwork over the course of the Winter/Spring season.

Studio Access w/ Manabu Ikeda May 19, 2024 Experience the artist create onsite at moCa as he develops a new monumental artwork over the course of the Winter/Spring season. About Experience the artist create onsite at moCa as he develops a new monumental artwork over the course of the Winter/Spring season. Experience the artist create onsite at moCa as he develops a new monumental artwork over the course of the Winter/Spring season.

Jun 27, 2025-Jan 4, 2026 Maggie Menghan Chen Body Building Exercise Jun 27, 2025-Jan 4, 2026 Maggie Menghan Chen, Body Building Exercise, 2020 (still). Video, sound; 4 minutes 36 seconds. With a 2020 social media release in response to global quarantine, Maggie Menghan Chen’s Body Building Exercise offered a playful response to her depression and sedentary lifestyle during COVID-19. After a week in bed during lockdown, Chen began this project to create a message of optimism, solidarity, and joy. Body Building Exercise combines performance, spirituality, and the broadcast power of digital culture. It features Chen and Vivian Yao dancing to the soundtrack created by Shanghai-based producer and PC Music-affiliate, felicita. Liu Cunjun‘s videography references the user interface of an arcade dance machine, and Chen and Yao wear costumes designed by Yu Wei, styled by Morrissey Yang and S/ash. The tutorial incorporates dance and music elements from Zumba, hip hop, krump, vogue, and ultimately metal to offer an outlet for the pent-up energy of an international community in isolation. Now, five years after the start of the pandemic, moCa Cleveland presents this artwork for the first time to give museum visitors a chance to release energy and emotion by moving together in public. About the Artist Maggie Menghan Chen Maggie Menghan Chen Maggie Menghan Chen (b. 1998, Beijing) lives and works in Beijing and London. She obtained her MA degree in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Arts following her BA degree in Art History at New York University.

Title Round Simone Shubuck Pouter , 2006 Lithograph, edition of 40 Framed: 19 3/4 x 15 1/2 inches Estimated Value Range: $500 - $800 Starting bid: $200 Bidding increments: $50 More: Simone Shubuck Born in 1969, Simone Shubuck received a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. She has had a solo exhibition with Zach Feuer Gallery (LFL) in New York and has exhibited works in New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo and San Francisco. Her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Tokion, Elle, The Fader, ARTnews and is included in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art. Shubuck’s work is informed by a range of experiences, from her days as a graffiti artist in San Francisco in the early 90’s to her years as a flower designer in New York City. She professes an affinity for Viennese Secessionists and Art Nouveau practices as well as the work of such outsider artists as Edmund Monsieul and Lee Godie. Her visual style parallels her obsession with the layered sampling of hip-hop artists like Jay-Z, Dipset, Cam’ron and Young Jeezy. Another notable influence comes from her maternal grandmother and great-grandmother, who were skilled bakers and embroiderers.

designExplorr designExplorr Design Learning Challenge Workshops Feb-May 2024 moCa Cleveland is partnering with designExplorr and Dr. Jacinda Walker to demonstrate the power of design to a new generation. Explore how a professional designer approaches problems, designs solutions, and find out what a career in design might look like. It’s time to unlock your creative potential—the world needs your ideas! In these workshops developed by designExplorr, Dr. Jacinda Walker—facilitator, and founder of designExplorr—will help you design and create something from your own imagination. Join us across select Saturdays from Feb-May 2024. Family Fun on moCa Saturdays supported by PNC About designExplorr DesignExplorr is a social impact organization aiming to address the diversity gap within the design profession by expanding design education and raising awareness among community partners. DesignExplorr accomplishes this mission through collaborating on educational youth programs, coordinating diversity-building initiatives, and connecting stakeholders to resources. Find out more at designexplorr.com and Instagram . Related Events: ▶ designExplorr Design Learning Challenge Workshop Sat. Feb 17, 12-4PM ▶ designExplorr Design Learning Challenge Workshop Sat. Mar 09, 12-4PM ▶ designExplorr Design Learning Challenge Workshop Sat. Mar 30, 12-4PM Offsite at designExplorr Experiential Learning Center 3800 Euclid Ave. ▶ designExplorr Design Learning Challenge Workshop Sat. Apr 13, 12-4PM ▶ designExplorr Design Learning Challenge Workshop Sat. May 11, 12-4PM

Title Round Teun Hocks Untitled (Man Playing with Train) , 1996 Color silkscreen 30 x 40 inches Estimated Value Range: $1,800 - $2,400 Starting Bid: $900 Bidding increments: $100 Teun Hocks (b. 1947, Leiden – d. 2022, Rotterdam) was internationally celebrated for his tragicomic photo-paintings—works that combined photography, performance, and painting into richly staged tableaux. A pioneer of staged photography, Hocks became known for portraying himself as the resigned, endearing anti-hero in meticulously crafted theatrical scenes. His dreamlike, slightly absurd environments often placed an ordinary man—himself—amid surreal tasks or ambiguous predicaments. These worlds, rendered in black-and-white photography and hand-colored with oil paint (or digitally in later works), toe the line between humor and melancholy, clarity and mystery. Hocks’ works emerged from carefully developed drawings that explored visually interesting, surreal, or droll situations. These sketches served as blueprints for the elaborate sets he built in his studio. Once constructed, Hocks photographed himself within the scene using analogue black-and-white photography, then hand-painted the resulting prints in delicate layers of oil. In later years, he began digitally coloring his photos to create editioned works while preserving the painterly aesthetic of his practice. More: Teun Hocks Artist Statement & Approach Hocks never saw himself as a traditional storyteller. “Because the basis of my work is a staged scene, the image suggests that it involves an event that actually happened in reality,” he explained. But rather than offer a clear narrative, Hocks aimed to create open-ended situations, seldom titling his works to encourage individual interpretation. Each image feels like a moment suspended in time—something is about to go wrong, or perhaps has just gone awry. The result is work that is at once deeply human, oddly comic, and subtly unsettling. Critic Ken Johnson, writing in The New York Times , captured the poetic tension in Hocks’ work: “Teun Hocks’ works are truly profound, like the one of an artist who, unaware of the sun burning on the horizon behind him, focuses on the candle light in his hand—a metaphor, perhaps, about the human limits of spiritual perception.” About the Artist Hocks studied at the St. Joost Academy in Breda from 1966 to 1970, and was active early on in performance and collaborative art projects. While many artists in the Netherlands during the 1970s leaned into conceptualism, Hocks pursued a more accessible, visual storytelling approach. His early photo-performances eventually led to the hybrid photo-paintings that defined his mature work. Over his career, Hocks exhibited internationally and became an icon of Dutch staged photography. His work appeared in solo and group exhibitions throughout Europe and the United States, and he earned cult status for his unique ability to bridge photography and painting with narrative poignancy. Legacy & Final Years In the spring of 2021, Hocks held his final exhibition, Drawings , at TORCH Gallery. It featured works made during his period of isolation at home in central France—testament to his lifelong commitment to drawing, a practice that often remained in the background of his more well-known photographic works. Hocks also contributed as an educator, teaching drawing at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and the Design Academy Eindhoven. Teun Hocks leaves behind a legacy of work that defies easy categorization—simultaneously staged and spontaneous, humorous and haunting. His images invite us to pause, reflect, and imagine the stories unfolding within.

Title Round Derek Hess William Busta Gallery exhibition , 1995 Serigraph, ed. 144/250 Framed: 27 x 18 inches Estimated Value Range: $400 - $800 Starting Bid: $200 Bidding increments: $50 More: Derek Hess Born in Cleveland in 1964, Hess’ ascendance in the arts should probably come as little surprise. His father, Roy Hess, was a noteworthy designer, and chairman of the lauded industrial design department at the Cleveland Institute of Art. From a young age, Hess was correctly trained in classical art and design. Hess studied at that school, and at the Center for Creative Studies in Detroit, but he never landed in his father’s department, trying out illustration and graphic design before settling on a major in printmaking. It was that discipline, combined with his love of music, that led Hess to poster art fame. He had begun booking post-hardcore and underground rock concerts at the Euclid Tavern, a divey blues bar across the street from the Cleveland Institute of Art, and he drew his own fliers to promote his shows.

AIR: Amber N. Ford AIR: Amber N. Ford Artist-in-residence Jan 29-Jun 5, 2022 Left: Amber N. Ford; Right: Amber N. Ford, Power Knots , 2020. Archival pigment print, 36 x 24 in. (91.44 x 60.96 cm). Courtesy the artist Amber N. Ford is an artist based in Cleveland, OH. She received her BFA in Photography from the Cleveland Institute of Art (2016). Interested in race, and identity, she is best known for her work in portraiture, which she considers a collaborative engagement between photographer and sitter. Her work was shown at ThirdSpace Action Lab as a part of Imagine Otherwise , and has been featured in exhibitions at Kent State University, Transformer Station, SPACES Gallery, The Morgan Conservatory, The Cleveland Print Room, Zygote Press, and Waterloo Arts, as well as in outdoor public spaces on the Capitol Theatre Building located at the corner of Detroit and West 65th. Recent awards include Gordon Square Arts District Artist-In-Residence (2019) and the Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award (2017). Find out more about Amber N. Ford at ambernford.com . The AIR program is generously sponsored by Margaret Cohen and Kevin Rahilly, with additional support from Char and Chuck Fowler. About moCa AIR: Developed to support and highlight the work of emerging or early-career artists in Cuyahoga County, moCa AIR allows the museum to work alongside artists through 5-month, long-form onsite engagements. Artists-in-residence receive an honorarium, program support, a dedicated studio space inside the museum, professional development opportunities, access to the museum’s production studios, and administrative support. During their time in residence, each artist will develop a site-specific project that activates a site in the building outside of the traditional gallery spaces with production funds provided by moCa. Related Exhibition ▶ Amber N. Ford: Someone, Somewhere, Something