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Professional Activities 1987 – 2018 Born 12/1950, Cleveland, OH Douglas Max Utter is an exhibiting painter and art critic based in Cleveland Ohio. He was educated in part at Case-Western Reserve University and has taught painting and drawing courses at the University of Akron, Kent State University, and Cleveland Institute of Art. Utter’s work in painting and criticism has been recognized with a 2011 Creative Workforce Fellowship (disbursed through CAC / CPAC), three Individual Fellowships from the Ohio Arts Council, the Best Painting Award at the Cleveland Museum of Art’s May Show (1987), and journalism awards from the Cleveland Press Club (among others). To date his prints and paintings have been shown in 40 solo shows in Cleveland, New York, Phoenix, and Germany. In addition he has published several hundred reviews, articles, and essays in the pages of Sculpture Magazine (Washington, DC), Architects Newspaper (New York), Art Papers (Atlanta), AfterImage (Rochester, NY), ArtPulse Magazine, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Northern Ohio Live, New Art Examiner (Chicago), Angle (a journal of arts and culture Utter co-founded with Amy Sparks and Dan Tranberg, 2003-2006), Artefakt, Dialogue, the Cleveland Free Times, Cleveland Scene Magazine, Fiberarts, Ceramics Monthly, and for MOCA Cleveland, the John J. McDonough Museum, Kent State University Press, The Sculpture Center (Cleveland), and various galleries and individuals. He is the recipient of a 2013 Cleveland Arts Prize, Lifetime Achievement Award. SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2019 Hedge Gallery, Cleveland, OH (April-June) Falling from the Sky of Now 2016 Feinman Gallery, Cleveland, OH (June) The Light Between the Shadows 2015 William Busta Gallery (March) Timelines 2011 William Busta Gallery (Sept.) BayArts Gallery, New Work (April) 2010 Asterisk Gallery (Cleveland, OH) Douglas Max Utter (May) The Art Scene (Vermilion, OH) Douglas Max Utter (June-August) Artists Archives of the Western Reserve (Cleveland, OH) Selected Works (Sept) 2009 William Busta Gallery (Cleveland, OH), Works on Paper (Nov) 2008 William Busta Gallery, Works on Paper 2006 1point618 Gallery (Cleveland, OH) Convivium 33 (Cleveland, OH) 12/06 2005 E. Gordon Gallery (Cleveland, OH) Gallery Ü (Cleveland, OH) 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001 Dead Horse Gallery Cleveland, OH) 2004 Zygote Press (Cleveland, OH) Prints and Paintings 1999 Lakeland College (Kirtland, OH) Fruit Avenue Gallery (Cleveland, OH) The Journey from Skin to Skin Mannequin Odd Gallery (Aurora, OH) Match after Match in the Blackness 1998, 1997, 1995, 1993, 1990, 1989 The William Busta Gallery (Cleveland, OH) 1998 Art Essence Gallery (Painesville, OH) 1996 The Hub Gallery (Phoenix, AZ) 1995 The Interchurch Center (475 Riverside Dr., NYC) 1993 Cleveland Independent Art (Cleveland, OH) Brooklyn 11205 Art (Brooklyn, NYC) 1991 Galerie Kneipe (Augsburg, Germany) Gallery Saireido (482 W. Broadway, NYC) Venustatis (104 W.14th St., NYC) 1990 International House Gallery, The Rockefeller Foundation (NYC) College of Wooster (Wooster, OH) Paintings of Douglas Utter The European Art Connection (Chagrin Falls, OH) Recent Paintings 1988 Joyce Porcelli Gallery (Cleveland, OH) Paintings and Photocopy Derivations 1987 Dobama Theater Gallery (Cleveland) SELECTED FOCUS EXHIBITIONS 2018 Dalad Group Collection, Worthington Project Inaugural Exhibit (Liz Maugans, curator) 2017 BayArts Gallery Between Presence and Projection Bay Village, OH January 6 Encore Heights Arts Gallery June-July ARTneo Museum (Cleveland, OH) Artmeow: The Cool Cats of Cleveland June-August 2016 Hedge Gallery, "Face Value" July, 2016 2015 Hedge Gallery, "Hedge Represents" (Sept-Nov) 2014 William Busta Gallery, Twenty-five (Jan) 2013 Survival Kit Gallery, Curious Things (late June) 2012 Loren Naji Studio(Cleveland, OH) Space Odysseys (curator and participant) 2011 WallEye Gallery Spacelift (Curator Kristin Bly) 2010 Kenneth Paul Lesko Gallery (Cleveland, OH) Cinema One 2009 Ingenuity Festival, Play House Square: Douglas Max Utter, Works Arts Collinwood Gallery (Cleveland, OH) Randall Tiedman and Douglas Max Utter (Sept) 2008 William Busta Gallery (Cleveland, OH) Summer Painting Exhibition 19 Asterisk Gallery (Cleveland) 2007 Cuyahoga Community College (Cleveland, OH) Five painters Exit (A Gallery Space) Beka Goedde and Douglas Max Utter: Articulating Space 1point618 Gallery Selected Gallery Artists 2006 Cleveland Foundation, Patricia Zinsmeister Parker and Douglas Max Utter Convivium 33 (Cleveland, OH) The Seven Deadly Sins 2005 Notre Dame University (Cleveland, OH) Making Eye Contact 2004 Sandusky Cultural Center (Sandusky, OH) Go Figure Zygote Press (Cleveland, OH) Prints Allegheny College, Bowman and Penelac Galleries, 8-Hour Drawing Exhibit 2003 McDonough Museum, Youngstown, OH Overflow Feb. Appalachian State University (Boone, NC) Halpert Biennial Exhibition 2002 Dead Horse Gallery Objects That Don’t Move January The Beck Center, Lakewood, OH The Many Faces of Cleveland: A Century of Portraiture BK Smith Gallery, Lake Erie College The Artists Project 2000 Dead Horse Galley (Cleveland, OH) Four Takes on the Figure Here Here Gallery (Cleveland, OH) Trail of Narratives 1999 Lewallen Contemporary Art (Santa Fe, NM) The Power of Paint Feb. Beck Center for the Arts (Lakewood, OH) First Ohio Print Biennial Sept. 1998 Ursuline College (Cleveland, OH) The Hallinan – Newman Religious Art Collection Jan-March The Mansfield Art Center (Mansfield, OH) A Body of Work June-July SPACES (Cleveland, OH) Howling at the Edge of a Renaissance 1997 Cuyahoga Community College (Cleveland, OH) Print Show Tribes Gallery (285 E. 3rd St., NYC) Poets and Painters II System (76 E.13th St., NYC) Works from Poets and Painters at Tribes Gallery 1995-1997 1996 Massilon Museum “Insights” 1995 Cleveland State University (Cleveland, OH) The Measure of All Things 1992 Cuyahoga Community College (Cleveland, OH) Finding Time 1991 Wesley Theological Seminary Center for the Arts and Religion (Washington, DC) Wrestling With the Angel 1990 Southern Ohio Museum and Cultural Center (Portsmouth, OH) Mother and Child The Governor's Residence Art Collection (Columbus, OH) Ohio Arts Council 1989 Sandusky Cultural Center (Sandusky, OH) Young and Restless 1988 SPACES (Cleveland, OH) Anna Arnold, Brian Azzarello, Douglas Utter 1987 Edinboro University of PA, Psychotronic and Neopunkedelic Art Exhibition SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS and EVENTS 2014 BayArts (Bay Village, OH) Eye of the Beholder (August) 2013 Studio Gallery (Cleveland, OH) Then and Now: Self Portraits Doubting Thomas Gallery (Cleveland, OH) Luminescence 2012 Bay Arts The Bomb Cleveland West Art League and Loren Naji Studio tall walls Doubting Thomas Gallery (Cleveland) Naked Gallery Wolfey (Cleveland) 20 Years Ago, or So Zygote Press Collected Gems II: Zygote Members Collect Rupnik Gallery (Cleveland, OH) Annual Group Invitational 2011 Zaller Gallery (Cleveland, OH) Controversy 2010 Hyperallergic (Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY) One Image One Minute 2006 Erie Art Museum 63rd Annual Spring Show (Erie, PA) 2004 Thrive Texture (Cleveland, OH) Heights Arts Gallery Show (Cleveland Heights, OH) 2003 Heights Art Gallery Winners 2002 Superior (An Exhibition Space) One 3/02 2001 1st Cleveland Biennial Exhibition (Cleveland State University) 10/01 2000 The Dead Horse Gallery Mixed Emotions (Cleveland, OH) 8/00 National Collage Society, 16th Annual Exhibit 1999 Independent Art Reopens (Cleveland, OH) 1/99 Independent Art Spring Group Painting Show (Cleveland, OH) 4-5/99 Studio Gallery Tremont Arts Festival September - October 1998 Metro Art Galleries (Cuyahoga Community College) Small Treasures December 1996 The Currier Gallery of Art, (Manchester NH) Art, Healing and Friendship: The Dr. Albert Grokoest Collection 1995 Horsehead VII International (Cleveland, OH) SPACES (Cleveland, OH) Still Here Hallinan Center (Cleveland, OH) 40th Annual Newman Religious Art Show 1994 Ohio-India Portfolio The Chitrakala Parishad School of Visual Art, Bangalore Brooklyn 11205 Art (New York, NY) Small Medium and Large Northeast Ohio Art Dealers Association Fine Arts Exposition Studio Gallery (Cleveland, OH) Forgeries and Parodies 1993 Cleveland Museum of Art, May Show Asian American Arts Center (New York, NY) China, June 4, 1989 Northeast Ohio Art Dealers Association Fine Arts Exposition 1992 Hallinan Center (Cleveland, OH) 37th Annual Newman Religious Art Show 1991 Hallinan Center 36th Annual Newman Religious Art Show Atrium Gallery (Cleveland, OH) History of the Self Cuyahoga Community College (Cleveland, OH) Artists; As They See Themselves Hallinan Center (Cleveland, OH) 35th Annual Newman Religious Art Show Cleveland Museum of Art May Show 1990 Cleveland Museum of Art May Show Hallinan Center 35th Annual Newman Religious Art Show Community College Artists: As They See Themselves 1989 Cleveland Center For Contemporary Art, A to ZiZi Cleveland Museum of Art, May Show Joyce Porcelli Gallery (Cleveland, OH) Ten By Ten 1988 Cleveland Museum of Art, May Show Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art Off the Wall Valley Art Association (Chagrin Falls, OH) Contemporary Vignettes 1987 Cleveland Center For Contemporary Art Off The Wall Butler Institute of American Art (Youngstown, OH) Fifty-first National Midyear Exhibition Cleveland Museum of Art May Show 1986 Artspace Gallery (Sacramento, CA) Third International Artspace Exhibition Canton Institute of Art (Canton, OH) All Ohio Show Cleveland Museum of Art May Show 1982 The Valley Art Center Great Lakes Regional Art Exhibition (Cleveland, OH) 1983 NOVA Group Art Exhibit (Cleveland, OH) AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS 2013 Cleveland Arts Prize, Lifetime Achievement Award 2011 Creative Workforce Fellowship (CPAC Cleveland, OH) 2006 Artists Fellowship (New York, NY) Assistance Grant 2004 Zygote Press, Cleveland, OH Artist in Residence Program Fellowship Artists Fellowship (New York, NY) Assistance Grant Cleveland Press Club Excellence in Journalism Award Poets and Writers Guild of Greater Cleveland Special Award 2001 Best Painting Award, First Cleveland Biennial Juried Exhibition, CSU Gallery Ohio Arts Council, Individual Fellowship (Criticism) 1995 Award, 40th Annual Newman Religious Art Show 1995 Ohio Arts Council, Individual Fellowship (Criticism) 1993 Ohio Arts Council, Individual Fellowship (Painting) 1990 First Prize - Purchase Award, 35th Annual Newman Religious Art Show 1987 Best Painting Award, May Show, Cleveland Museum of Art PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Albert Grokoest Collection, Hamilton College, Hamilton NY, and 41 Union Square, Suite #1121 NY, NY Asian - American Society, New York, NY carta Collection (Cleveland Art Association) Case-Western University, School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH Cleveland Artists Foundation, Lakewood, OH Governor's Residence Art Collection, Columbus, OH Hallinan Center, Cleveland, OH 44106 John J. McDonough Museum, Youngstown, OH Kent State University Department of Fine Arts Progressive Insurance, Cleveland, OH MEDIA, CURATORIAL, MISC. (recent) Kent State University, Essential Motives and the Art of Painting, Lecture on Professional Practice 10/26/16 Waterloo Arts, Loren Naji micro-Gallery, Nickie Brown Selected Works, Curator September 2016 Judge, Ohio State Fair, Fine Arts Exposition, Columbus, OH June 2016 Fifth Annual Tower Press Artists Group Exhibition, Wooltex Gallery Curator June 2016 The National Arts Program Cleveland Ohio Exhibition, Juror, Waterloo Arts Gallery March 2016 Case Western Reserve University, Rust Belt Art: Is That a Thing? 11/4/15 Kent State University, Lecture On Professional Practise 9/30/15 WRUW (91.1 FM) Radio Italia, Le Quatre Gats 5/23/15 (6pm) Art Fur Animals Benefit 6/15 Cleveland Arts Prize, Juror, Visual Arts Panel 2015 Wired and Ready to Hang (CIA Student Exhibit) Juror, Hedge Gallery (Cleveland, OH) 4/15 William Busta Gallery Timelines talk, 4/11/2015 Juror, Arts Collinwood I Am Trans Art Show (4/15) CAN Journal Benefit 7/14 Art Fur Animals Benefit 6/14 Zygote Press “The Big Show” Annual Benefit 4/11/14 ArtCares 2014 MOCA Annual Benefit 4/6/14 Kent State University, “Imagining Touch” (lecture) 4/8/14 Cleveland Arts Prize, Juror, Visual Arts Panel 2014 Cleveland Arts Prize, “Eyes on the Prize 2014,” the Transformer Station, CAP Annual Benefit (donor) Randall Tiedman: Genius Loci, A Retrospective Exhibition, Hedge Gallery & Kokoon Arts Gallery (co- curator, author of catalogue essay) Cleveland, OH Oct 2013 – Jan 2014 Imagining Touch, Reconfiguring Sight Ellen Johnson Guest Lecture, Oberlin College 10/14/13 Y2CAN Benefit, Convivium 33 6/29/2013 Cleveland Arts Prize Awards Ceremony, Acceptance Remarks, Cleveland Museum of Art 6/27/13 Around Noon with Dee Perry WCPN (Douglas Max Utter 2013 CAP winner talks about his art) 6/25/13 Art Fur Animals Benefit 5/11/2013 ArtCares 2013 AIDS Benefit 5/20/13 Zygote Press 100 X 100 Annual Benefit 5/5/13 Kent State University Unprofessional Practices 2 (lectures on art writing) 2/4-5/13 Cleveland Artists Foundation Cleveland Collects (contributing collector) 12/12 Market Square Garden Rust Belt Chic (Reading of Genius Locii) 11/13/12 Convivium 33 American Institute of Architects Exhibition “Architects Draw” Juror, 11/2/12 Kent State University Unprofessional Practices (lecture on art writing) 10/18/12 Arts Collinwood Gallery Artist’s Talk with Dustin Nowlin 4/26/12 BAYarts Monoprint Workshop, Instructor, August 14-15, 2012 1point618 Gallery (Cleveland, OH) Artist’s Talk with Jenniffer Omaitz, 4/12/2012 SPACES Gallery, American Greetings 33rd Annual Fine Arts Show, Juror, April 2012 Arts Collinwood Gallery Artist’s talk with George Kocar 2/23/2012 William Busta Gallery (Cleveland, OH) Artist’s Talk with Barbara Polster 1/24/2012 Around Noon / Ideastream (broadcast 1/10/2012) Northeast Ohio Public Radio Discussion of CAN Journal CAC/CPAC Video Presentation, Douglas Max Utter 2011 Cleveland Artists Foundation, Curator Shirley Aley Campbell Retrospective: The Way of All Flesh 9-10/2011 Beck Center for the Arts, Convivium 33, Tri-C East Gallery Virginia Marti School, COSE Professional Practices Panel Discussion 5/30/2011 Lakeland Community College, Juror 2nd Annual May Show, 2011 Kent State University, Visiting Artist, Professional Practice Class 10/26/2010 BayArts 48th Annual Juried Show, Juror 2010 Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation (Baltimore, MD), Consultant, Fellowship juror Sept.2009 Cleveland Museum of Art The Color Blue Gallery Tour 10/8/2009 Oberlin College, Art Criticism – Lecture 4/14/2008 Cleveland State University, Student Art Show, juror 3/21/2008 Cleveland State University, Lecture (Sculpture Dept.) 2/29/2008 MOCA Cleveland, Contemporary Conversations (with Pulse artist Craig Lucas) 2/28/2008 MOCA Cleveland, Contemporary Conversations (with Pulse artist Peggy Kwong-Gordon) 2/22/2006 BIBLIOGRAPHY Adams, Henry Overflow (catalogue essay, John J. McDonough Museum, Youngstown OH) Feb 2003 Aichacher Zeitung, Schwerpunkt Fleisch Augsburg, Germany 8. Mai, 1991 Augsburg Scene (USMC Augsburg) American Artist Exhibits Here 4/30/91 pg.14 Aurora Advocate, First exhibit set at gallery 3/15/00 pg.6 Bedford, Christopher, Exhibit Shows Strategy Works The Plain Dealer 3/18/03 pp.E1,E3 Repositioning the Referent: Obstruction of the Symbolic Order in the Art of Douglas Max Utter (privately published essay written for the Dead Horse Gallery, 6/01) Berardi, Marianne, Catalogue: "In Search of a New Mind: Douglas Max Utter,"(with essays by William Busta and Christopher Richards, introduction by Hilary Gent) ARTNeo Museum, 2020 (ISBN: 978-0-578-57827-9) Catalogue, American Cancer Society Designer Hope House 1992 pg.17 Catalogue, The Governor's Residence Art Collection 1990-91, The Ohio Arts Council pp.60-61 Catalogue, Fifty-first National Midyear Exhibition, Butler Institute of American Art (1987) pg.29 Catalogue, NOADA 1993 Illustrated Exhibition Catalogue and Membership Directory pg.12 Catalogue, Howling at the Edge of the Renaissance: SPACES and Alternative Art in Cleveland, 9/1998 pp.42,66, 80 Catalogue, The Measure of All Things / The Body and the Human Condition CSU 1995 Catalogue, Mother and Child / Variations on a Universal Theme, Southern Ohio Museum 1990 Catalogue, National Collage Society Sixteenth Annual Exhibit 2000 Catalogue, Psychotronic and Neopunkedelic Art Exhibition Edinboro University of PA 9/87 pg.3, pg.19 Catalogue, Young and Restless Sandusky Cultural Center March 1989 Chagrin Valley Times, Utter Shows at Art Connection 4/5/90 pg.B7 Chico, Beth, Erotic Economy: Contours of Desire Dialogue, Sept/Oct. 1993 pg.21 Clark, Joseph, A Lifetime Represented Scene Magazine, July 17-23, 2013 pg.40 The Cleveland Review, Ambivalence (cover illustration), Ecce Homo (back page illustration) Winter 1992 The Cleveland Review, Madonna and Child (cover), The Abduction of Persephone (interior page) Winter, 1995 Columbia University Record (Columbia University, NYC), Transfiguring Reality (3/10/95) Cullinan, Helen, The Plain Dealer A May Show with oomph 4/26/87 pg.11 A Mean Streak at the May Show 5/13/86 pg.4D Huge Art Big at May Show 6/27/89 May Show Varied, Dynamic 4/21/87 pg.13A More than a name change, FRIDAY 12/29/89 pg.12 Paintings of Poignant Impact 6/9/89 FRIDAY 6/9/89 pg.10 Seeing every face as a work of art FRIDAY 9/28/90 pg.3 Solid Professionalism Dominates the Yearly Event 5/29/88 pg.7H Spoofs in with April Fools Day opening FRIDAY 4/1/94 pg.18 The May Show FRIDAY 5/6/90 pg.17 Varied Works Displayed at Newman Show FRIDAY 2/23/90 Works to disturb, challenge 2/12/88 Depke, Nancy E. An artful way to gather funds The Plain Dealer 2/24/00 pg. 4F Desmett, Don Art with an edge: the William Busta Gallery Dialogue 5-6/90 pg.21 DiPiero, Dianne D. The Juggling Act The Plain Dealer Sunday Magazine 8/26/01 pg.19 When Worlds Collide Northern Ohio Live 4/99 pg.26 Dottavio, Peg Museum is ready The Massillon Independent 5/11/96 pg.1 Freligh, Rebecca Arts council distributes grants The Plain Dealer 10/31/92 pg.2E Fedevich, Julie Douglas Utter CLE Magazine, #5 6/97 Gibans, Nina Freedlander Creative Essence / Cleveland”s Sense of Place Kent State University Press 2005 pp.84-6, 118 Gill, Michael, Lunar Paraphrase: The Terrain of Intimacy Cleveland Scene Magazine 6/30/10 pg.28 More Than the Sum of Our Parts CAN Journal, Summer 2013, pg 47 Green, Frank The Body as Self, Wound The Free Times 2/8/95 Transcending the Body The Free Times 3/11/98 Art Appreciation The Free Times 4/28/99 pg.58 Douglas Max Utter at Dead Horse Art in America 1/02 pg.116 The Dead Horse Whinnies Northern Ohio Live 2/02 pp.12-13 Preview, Utter and Kasner at the Dead Horse Northern Ohio Live 9/02 pg.95 Harvey, Don Utter genius (letter, Cleveland Free Times 8/9-15/00 pg.5) Hellerman, DJ Vacation Cleveland Free Times 7/16/08 pg22 Hershey, Rice Artists at Work Northern Ohio Live 1/91 pg.33 Busta’s Last Stand Northern Ohio Live 3/98 pp. 24-5 Hinson, Tom The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art April 1987 pg.149 and back cover Jack, Carolyn A Gallery for Today The Plain Dealer 2/25/02 pg.C4 Jack, Carolyn Vocal for the Locals The Plain Dealer 9/10/02 pg E1,3 Johnson, Christopher Douglas Max Utter (bio) Cleveland Arts Prize Program, 6/27/13 pp 8-11 Photos by Robert Muller Kennelly, Laura Face Value Scene 3/14-20/02 pg.26 Kurtz, Robert Exhibit has talent “Overflow” The Vindicator, 3/12/03 Lawson, Ellen Nickensie Abstracts out, images in among May Show works 4/30/87 The Sun Press pg.B1 Lewis, Zachary Utterly Fresh The Plain Dealer FRIDAY 12/3/04 pp.40, 41 Litt Steven Erotica exhibition could use shadings of subtlety The Plain Dealer 5/17/93 pg.4C An artistic statement on homoerotica 1/8/94 pg.6E Artists mirror violence 2/14/95 Busta Gallery winds down on high note FRIDAY 1/2/98 pg.12 Elegant Constructions beguile, hold promise 4/14/99 pp. 1-6E Horsehead Show extends innovative art movement 8/10/95 pg.7E Portraits of Cleveland: Exciting,fresh exhibit ties past to present 3/8/02pp.1,3E Utter exhibit shows why Busta Gallery will be missed 3/19/98 pp.1,4E Long, Karen Writers weigh in on problematic, scruffy Cleveland The Plain Dealer 10/20/12 pg E1 McCoy, Mary Angel at the Dadian Gallery The Washington Post 9/28/91 pg.D2 Muse (literary magazine, first issue, summer 2008), cover illustration, “Silence, #2” Northern Ohio Live Awards of Achievement 10/99 pg.14 Plain Dealer: Ohio Arts Council awards 133 grants 5/12/95 pg.6E Putre, Laura, Night and Day Cleveland Scene 4/15-21/99 Raygun, Issue #3: Syzygy (Anima) (Utter's painting reproduced on the centerfold) Ecce Homo (detail on questionnaire) Issue #4 March 1993 "J" (full-page portrait of the German singer) Anger (Utter's painting inset in interview text) Adam and Eve (back page) Issue #5 O, What Shall I Hang on the Chamber Walls (full-page reproduction, Raygun subscription page) Rosenberg, Donald Cleveland Arts Prize honors gifts of the gifted among us The Plain Dealer pg. E8 6/23/13 Douglas Max Utter makes art with brushes and words www.Cleveland.com 6/21/13 Rosenthal, Mary Owen Douglas Utter The New Art Examiner March 1994 pg.45 Sandstrom, Karen Art with heart The Plain Dealer 11/23/98 pg.3E Sandusky Register New Ideas at Center 3/9/89 pg.B4 Santer, Rikki Douglas Utter: Paintings and Photocopy Derivations Dialogue 3/4/89 Shinn, Dorothy Erotic Paintings Masterful The Akron Beacon Journal 5/23/93 pp.E1, E4 The Meaning of All Things: The New Art Examiner May 1995 pg.55 Slawson, Corrie Zygote Press Working Archive Project CAN Journal Summer 2013 pg.27 Sockel, Tom Classic Dynamic The Plain Dealer 8/11/96 pg.18 Sparks, Amy We need a May Show that matters Cleveland Edition 6/23/88 pg.15 Yearning for Sex and Magic Free Times 5/26/93 pg.14 An Intensity of Painters Northern Ohio Live January 1988 Stuff to Look at 2 Cleveland Free Times 9/15-21/99 pp.37-8 Flogging the Art Scene Cleveland Free Times 8/9-15/00 pg.57 Congratulations are in order (announcement of OAC Fellowship) Cleveland Free Times 12/20/00 The Stuff of Life Cleveland Free Times 1/16/02 Stenina, Maria speechless at e. gordon Artefakt 9-10/05 pg.15 Stockdale, Eileen New Douglas Max Utter works at BAYarts Westlake / Bay Village Observer 4/5/11 Tranberg, Dan Fine Prints Cleveland Free Times 9/27/99 pg.63 Art of Darkness Cleveland Free Times 10/4/00 pg.54 An Unruly Mishmash Cleveland Free Times 10/25/00 pg.26 Painter injects fresh life into old subjects The Plain Dealer FRIDAY 6/8/01 pg.23 Non-traditional materials convey meanings The Plain Dealer 6/21/01 pg.4E Spotlight is on local artists in out-of-town exhibits The Plain Dealer FRIDAY 4/5/02 pg.59 Into the Shadows Cleveland Free Times 9/11/02 pg.59 Douglas Max Utter Retrospective (catalogue essay for Dead Horse Gallery, 10/03) Landscapes of the Mind Cleveland Free Times 9/26/07 pg.19 Paint Crush: Tiedman and Utter at Arts Collinwood Cleveland Scene Magazine 9/23/09 pg26 Turner Anderson Commitment on display Akron Beacon Journal 5/5/2019 Pg D1, Pg. D4 Twocoatsofpaint.com, Douglas Max Utter notices a tendency 12/04/08 Tobacco tax money supports 20 artists 6/9 & 18/09 Usmani, Josh Optique: Curious Things at Survival Kit Gallery CoolCleveland.com 06.19 – 06.26.13 Is Tremont Still an Art Community? CoolCleveland.com/blog 7/22/2013 Washington, Julie 20 local artists are awarded $20,000 fellowships 12/11/10 pp. E1, E5 Two alternative monthlies hit the streets The Plain Dealer 3/7/03 pg.E1 Yannopoulos, Charles Tales From the City Scene 11/2-8/00 pg.26 Yellow Silk (Issue #47, 1994) (Cover and all art by Douglas Utter) SELECTED PUBLICATIONS Douglas Max Utter is the author of reviews, articles, book introductions, and catalogue essays commenting on visual art, published since 1989 by Dialogue (Columbus, OH), New Art Examiner, The River Burns (Cleveland), Link (The Cleveland Institute of Art Alumni Magazine), The Cleveland Historical Society, The Cleveland Free Times, Ceramics Monthly, Northern Ohio Live, FiberArt Magazine, Angle: A Journal of Arts and Culture, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, Artefakt Magazine (Great Lakes region), Kent State University Press, MOCA Cleveland, The John J. McDonough Museum (Youngstown), Art Papers (Atlanta), Sculpture Magazine (Washington DC), Architects Newspaper (New York), Cleveland Scene Magazine, and CAN Journal. Douglas Max Utter is the author of the following reviews, articles, book introductions, poems, and catalogue essays commenting on visual art and other things, published from 1989 to the present: Chapelle Letman In Memoriam CAN Journal Spring 2020 Thick and Thin: Louis B. Burroughs CAN Journal Spring 2020 Stranger Beings: Hieronymous at KSU Gallery CAN Journal 10/19 Darius Steward at Bonfoey's CAN Journal 10/19 Seen Unseen catalog essay AAWR Oct. 2019 Loren McKensie at Kink Gallery CAN Journal 4/19 Mandem CAN on line 4/19 Liz Maugans at Hedge CAN Journal 4/19 Lawrence Baker CAN Journal 4/19 Billie Lawless: The Politician CAN Journal 4/194/19 Matthew Dibble in NYC CAN Journal 4/19 Jerry Birchfield at Akron Art Museum CAN Journal Summer 2018 Jess T. Dugan at Transformer Station CAN blog, 4/2018 The Next Level: Dana Schutz at Transformer Station CAN Journal Spring 2018 GV Catalog Essay Cleveland State University January 2018 The Pelagic Worlds of Eva Kwong Ceramics Monthly, Nov. 2017 The Seismic Power of Women in Prints CAN Journal Winter 2017-2018 Inset (Map of the Past ) (poem) Encore (Heights Arts publication) June 2017, pg.10 Dan Tranberg, In Memoriam CAN Journal Blog May 31, 2017 Focus on Abstraction (CSU) CAN Journal Fall 2017 Death from the Skies:The Art of Mahwish Cheshty CAN Journal Summer 2017 Puzzled Bipeds: Matt Dibble at Tregoning Fine Art Artslant.com April 2017 Mike Meier: Man out of Time at Forum Art Space CAN Journal Blog post April 2017 Intuitive Geometries: Del Ray Loven at Lesko Gallery catalog essay March 2017 Keith Lemley CAN Journal Blog post 2/2017 George Mauersberger CAN Journal Spring 2017 Christy Wittmer CAN Journal Blog post, 2/2017 Miller Horns CAN Journal Blog post, 2/2017 Waking and Sleeping, Nico Pico Train at Loren’s Art Lounge Gallery Catalog Essay, Waterloo Arts, Sept-Oct, 2016 Elephants and Winnebagos: Eric Ripper at Maria Neil CAN Journal, Fall 2016 Hyperallergic.com In Cleveland Two Artists Picture the Ugly Realities of American Politics posted 7/26/16 Canjournal.org Northern Exposure (Amy Casey in Alaska) posted 7/13/16 Canjournal.org So Sweet (Dana Oldfather at Zg Gallery) posted 7/13/16 Eric Rippert at Maria Neil CAN Journal, Fall 2016 So Sweet: Dana Oldfather at Zg Gallery CAN Journal blog post, June 2016 Northern Exposure: Amy Casey in Alaska CAN Journal blog post, June 2016 Juror’s Statement Ohio State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition Catalog [PART BODY BODY BEING] two scripts for Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s “Wrist Action” and “Ce Nonobstant” by Valerie Blass, performed at MOCA Cleveland 4/8/2016 by Benjamin Gregg and Darius Stubbs Cleveland Neighborhood Guidebook Observatory, Sea Monster (poem) Rustbelt Publishing May 2016 Kate Sopko’s Fixers CAN Journal Spring 2016 Lane Cooper: What Dreams May Come CAN Journal, Spring 2016 Historical Present (Qian Li Curates at CSU Galleries) Arthopper.org March. 2016 A Little Magic / Mary Spain (catalogue Essay) ArtNEO Museum January, 2016 Body Language / Lee Heinen (catalog essay) January, 2016 Folding and Holding / Deb Lawrence, CAN Journal, Fall 2015 Ashes to Ashes, Arthopper. www.arthopper.org 7/2015 On the Money: Josh Usmani at Tregonig Fine Art Scene Magazine, May 13, 2014, pg.34 Lori Kella, William Busta Gallery )catalog essay) June 2015 Strange Country (autobiographical essay for Timelines exhibit) William Busta Gallery, March 13, 2015 Last Words / TR Ericsson at Transformer Station CAN Journal, Spring 2015 pp.62-65 Stephen Yusko, William Busta Gallery (catalog essay) May 2015 Marilyn Farinacci, Bonfoey Gallery (catalog essay) March 2015 Taryn McMahon, William Busta Gallery (catalog essay) January 2015 Eight Essays, W2S (Window to Sculpture Emerging Artist Series 2014 catalog) Julie Schenkelberg, Colleen Toledano, David Colagiovanni, Sara Holwerda, Amanda Briede, Ryan Legassicke, Janet MacPherson, Jenny Fine, 2014 Kirk Mangus / MOCA Cleveland Arthopper, www.arthopper.org 12/2014 The Newspaper Project William Busta Gallery (review) Artpulse Magazine, Miami, FL 12/2014 Lainard Bush Wolf Gallery (catalog essay) November 2014 Him in Pursuit (Don Harvey)William Busta Gallery (catalog essay) November 2014 Tide and Time / Kate Budd William Busta Gallery (catalog essay) October 2014 Of Sheltering Skies / Bellamy Printz William Busta Gallery (catalog essay) September 2014 Random Order / Harriet Moore Ballard Bonfoey Gallery (catalog essay) September 2014 Cross Roads / Christi Birchfield William Busta Gallery (catalog essay) April 2014 Michael Loderstedt / William Busta Gallery (catalog essay) March 2014 Wide Open SPACES / Christina Vassallo CAN Journal Spring 2014 Enact Afterimage Magazine (Rochester, NY) January 2014 (Vol.41, No.4), pp.24-25 Meaning in the City, 25 Years / 25 Artists William Busta Gallery (catalog essay) January 2014 Frank Oriti CAN Journal Winter 2013 Mark Howard / William Busta Gallery November 2013 Randall Tiedman: Genius Loci Hedge Gallery and Kokoon Art Gallery (catalog essay) October 2013 Brinsley Tyrrell / William Busta Gallery October 2013 Lorrie Ott / William Busta October 2013 H.C.Cassill / William Busta Gallery Sept 2013 Shockwaves: Kasumi CAN Journal Fall 2013 Laila Voss / William Busta Gallery June 2013 Kristin Cliffel / William Busta Gallery June 2013 Jeff Chiplis: The Great White Mountains and the Cold Cathode Plains Sculpture Magazine 2013 Ecotone: The Boundary Land of Matthew Kolodziej William Busta Gallery April 2013 Toward a New Vitruvian Man: Douglas Sanderson’s Vision William Busta Gallery March 2013 The Nine CAN Journal Volume 2 Issue 1 Spring 2013 Audra Skuodas: The Flower Knows Its Archetype (catalogue essay) 2013 Cleveland Artists Foundation Andrea Joki: The Unseen William Busta Gallery February 2013 Dana Oldfather: The Motion in Emotion (catalogue essay) 2013 Butler Museum of American Art Joseph McCullough: Of Bombers and Bottle Farms (catalogue essay) Artists Archives of the Western Reserve January 2013 Julie Friedman: Roots and Shadows William Busta Gallery January 2013 Harriet Moore Ballard: The Pathfinder (privately published catalogue essay) 2012 Thomas Frontini (catalogue essay) William Busta Gallery December 2012 Hildur Jonsson (catalogue essay) William Busta Gallery November 2012 Plugged In CAN Journal Volume 1 Issue 4 November, 2012 Timothy Callaghan (catalogue essay) William Busta Gallery October 2012 Written in Water CAN Journal Volume 1 Issue 3 Genius Locii: Randall Tiedman (essay) Rustbelt Chic, Rustbelt Chic Press 2012, pp 164-169 West 78th Street Art Berg CAN Journal Volume 1 Issue 2 June 8, 2012 Christi Birchfield at William Busta Art Papers May/June 2012, pg.44 Why a successful artist stretched herself (Sarah Kabot) The Plain Dealer 4/22/2012 E3 Nature Revealed at Kokoon Arts The Plain Dealer 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