The Gallery at Trinity Commons

The Gallery at Trinity Commons — Creating Social Synergy through the Visual Arts

The mission of the Gallery at Trinity Commons is to promote and enhance the mission of Trinity Commons by using diverse expressions of the visual arts that will reflect, engage and inspire the community it serves. The Gallery at Trinity Commons is managed on behalf of Trinity Commons by M&PA.

The Gallery at Trinity Commons is located at Trinity Cathedral, 2230 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44115. Lighted parking adjacent to the building is available off Prospect.

in the Gallery at Trinity

Eye on the City
Friday, July 18 - Sunday, August 30
Opening Reception, July 18, 5:30-7:30 pm

Gallery Hours: Sundays, 9:00 am - 1:00 pm; Wednesdays, 1:00 pm - 6:00 pm; Saturday, 10:00 am - 3:00 pm

Photographer David Bergholz uses Polaroid and digital cameras to create complex collages of nature and cityscapes. During July and August, his new exhibit "Eye on the City" will be on view in the Gallery at Trinity.

Bergholz, who retired five years ago as the executive director of the George Gund Foundation after 14 years, has exhibited his work at the John Seiberling Gallery in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park, the Cleveland Botanical Garden, SPACES, the Cleveland Clinic, Murray Hill Galleries LLC, the Heights Arts Gallery, the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh and others.

Bergholz, whose work is represented by Bonfoey Gallery, is married to writer Eleanor Mallet and has three grown sons.

Artist's Statement
I have always had my eye on cities. I have watched them evolve, expand, build-up, clean up and decay. In fact, most of my career has been spent looking out for the well-being of cities and hurling what energy and resources I had to help make them better places for all their citizens to live and prosper in.

Though I did not achieve all that I had desired, my passion for urban places has never diminished.

Today, I love walking in cities with a small camera. I am struck by the offbeat, the human quirkiness and whimsy that manage to push their way through the concrete and steel.

I look for places often found in urban sites: buildings under repair wrapped in colored mesh; a vacant lot with the carefully crafted front stairs still in place; signage or graffiti with a sad or ironic message, intended or not.

Cities are engines and repositories of creativity and vitality, decline and destruction. In them we see what makes the human experience both hopeful and dismaying.

This collection of photos is drawn from recent ramblings; twelve places in all, from New York and Toronto to Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Tel Aviv, Israel.