The NEO Show 2005

The NEO Show marks a new approach to recognizing and presenting the art of artists living and working in Northeast Ohio. Reiterating the Cleveland Museum of Art's commitment to the arts in this community--a tradition upheld for 75 years by the May Show--the NEO Show presents represents the quality and complexity of artistic production in Northeast Ohio with an eye toward how the achievements of artists here relate to those in other communities, regions, and nations.

The 2005 NEO Show illustrates the diversity of this region, underscoring the reality that no singular set of practices defines the imagination of its people. Our goal was to represent the vigor, quality, and plurality of artistic expression in our community. The originality, inventiveness, craft, and thoughtfulness of the work in this exhibition are impressive by anyone's measure.

NEO 2005: The Art and The Artists Artists 18 years of age or older submitted for consideration anything that weighed no more than 1,500 pounds and measured no more than 8 x 14 x 5 feet. We welcomed every kind of art installation; Web-based, interactive, sculpture, painting, work on paper, photography, textile, dance, music, film/video, or performance as long as the artists lived, worked, or attended school full-time in one of 15 Northeast Ohio counties.

Three jurors reviewed the submissions, winnowing a field of 1,290 applicants to nearly 200 choices. These artists then brought their actual work (or a representational part of it) to the Intermuseum Conservation Association facility in Cleveland, where the jurors reconvened, choosing 80 works of art for the exhibition.

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The NEO Show 2005

KünstlerInnen: Suzanne Adams, Alexander B. Aitken, Herbert Ascherman Jr., Brian Asquith, Martin Ball, Nina Barcellona, Elaine Battles, Brian Benchek, John Beukemann, Christi Birchfield, Joe Booth and Lynn Deering, Angela Brackmann, Jill Brock-White, Philip Brutz, Kate Budd, Kathy Buszkiewicz, Debrah Butler, Steve Cagan, Shane Carrico, Christopher James Cary, Laurence Channing, Jeffry Chiplis, Terry J. Clark II, Dylan Collins, Blake Cook, Palli Davene Davis, Joan Fagan-Hoffman, Jeff Falsgraf, Jurgen Faust, Mary Lou Ferbert, Brendan Fitzgerald, George Fitzpatrick, Joe Fruce, Chad Gordon, Zachary Gorell, David Haberman, Yong Han, Masumi Hayashi, Bill Henry, Kenn Hetzel, Carol Hummel, Halim Ina, John Jackson, Ben Johnson, Andrea Joki, Hildur Jonsson, Adam Kadar, Kevin Kautenburger, Michael Kellers, Patrick Kelly, Benjamin Kinsley, Matthew Kolodziej, Eva Kwong, Jason Lee, Tracey Lind, Stephen Litchfield, Wyna Liu, Michael Loderstedt, Douglas Lucak, Kathy Lynn, Brigitte Martin, Andrew McAllister, Andrew McEachern, Holly Morrison & Carolyn Fraser, Jack Moulthrop, Jeffrey Mumford, Loren Naji, Paul O´Keeffe, Jose Quinones, Jeanne S. Regan, Mark A. Reigelman II, Dante Rodriguez, Carmen Ruiz-Davila, Judith Salomon, Douglas Sanderson, Russ Seligman, James Seward, Brian Sharp, Brinsley Tyrrell, Roberta & David Williamson