Ohio City

2004

Ohio City, 2004. Thomas Roma (American, 1950-). Gelatin silver print; image: 24.3 x 32.2 cm (9 9/16 x 12 11/16 in.); paper: 27.7 x 35.3 cm (10 7/8 x 13 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the George Gund Foundation Collection in Honor of David Bergholz 2020.302 In 2004, the Foundation selected Brooklyn-based artist Thomas Roma, a masterful and sympathetic recorder of the urban environment, to photograph Ohio City on Cleveland’s near west side. He shows us a healthy neighborhood, one where the streets are busy and the businesses active. There are no great dramas or tensions, merely the daily dance of urban life. The George Gund Foundation annually commissions artists to photograph the Foundation’s areas of interest in Northeast Ohio for its annual reports.