Light Show opens at Heights Arts on January 16

After a pretty nice fall—but one with not quite enough sunshine to hold us over until next spring—Heights Arts is taking back the light from January 16 to February 28 with the aptly named Light Show, a new exhibition in its gallery at 2175 Lee Road.

Organized by Cleveland Heights artist and founding Heights Arts board member Sharon Grossman, Light Show presents nine contemporary Northeast Ohio artists who work with materials, processes, and visual languages that speak to the theme of light. Works include neon sculpture, photography, glass, furniture and jewelry, as well as the more functional translation: lamps.

Artists featured in the exhibition are Claudia Berlinski, photography; Kevin Busta, furniture; Jeffry Chiplis, neon; Dana Depew, sculpture; Scott Goss, glass; Nancy Luken, lamps; Ben Parsons, stained glass; Geoff Riggle, jewelry and sculpture; and Andrew Simmons, ceramics.

Light Show opens Friday, January 16 with a public reception from 6–9 p.m. A curator/artist talk and reading by regional poets—featuring original poems created in response to works in the exhibition—will be held in the gallery on Thursday, Feb. 5 at 7 p.m.