A space for emerging & established artists
Located inside 78th Street Studios in the Gordon Square Arts District, EP Studio is a mixed-use gallery space on the lower RAMP level, offering over 20 feet of wall space for a three-month artist residency. We welcome both emerging and established artists looking for a professional, accessible setting to share their work.
Exhibitions are timed to align with 78th Street Studios’ THIRD FRIDAY Art Walks, placing your work in front of a steady flow of visitors from across Northeast Ohio and beyond.
EP Studio is operated by Extraordinaire Photos, founded by Aireonna and Julian Dubé. Aireonna’s background in gallery management informs a thoughtful, artist-centered approach, while Julian brings extensive experience working within the arts, supporting exhibitions, installations, and creative production. Together, they’ve created a space designed to support artists while fostering genuine connection with the community.
With each THIRD FRIDAY, the building comes alive with energy—drawing a curious, engaged audience. Exhibiting at EP Studio means becoming part of that rhythm and contributing to one of the region’s most active creative environments.
Joe Dill Designs | Figures in Nature
January-March 2026
Current Exhibition
Cara Romano | Layered Light
Friday April 17
/ Opening Reception
WEdnesday, May 13
/ Artist Talk
friday, june 20
/ closing reception
Through layered compositions in watercolor, ink, and collage, Cleveland-based artist Cara Romano explores the fleeting interplay of sunlight and shadow. Rooted in a decades-long practice, her work blends abstraction with delicate detail, creating meditative, time-based images that honor both the cosmic and the everyday. Influenced by her background in sculpture, performance, and art history, Romano’s process is both intuitive and intentional—each piece a visual record of presence, observation, and light.
Upcoming Exhibitions
lauren Scacchi
Lauren Scacchi is a contemporary practicing artist working in Cleveland, Ohio. She is a graduate from the Cleveland Institute of Art with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree. Although her major and primary focus is painting, she works with a variety of mediums to be a well-rounded artist. Lauren’s practice is driven by the brilliance of nature. She finds value in reminding her audience the importance of living organisms, and how we as humans are connected to them and to all of nature. Lauren’s work crosses between abstraction and representation. Using soft organic forms, and a soothing color palette. Lauren focuses to instill a calm feeling within her viewers, and to create a meditative experience while reminding on the significance of taking time to stop and quiet our minds during daily chaos finding peace to just be present in a moment of time.
Michelle Trogdon
Cleveland-based designer Michelle Trogdon presents a deeply personal body of work shaped by her background in fine art, graphic design, and years in Charlotte’s pop-up and maker scene. Now returned to her roots, she merges craftsmanship with storytelling, transforming lived experience into tactile, sculptural forms.
Unfolding in three movements, the work traces a path from rupture and realization, through introspection and rebuilding, and into renewal. Symbolic objects and layered materials explore themes of emotional weight, resilience, and self-reliance, drawing from influences like Lotería imagery, mineral structures, and natural landscapes.
The result is an intimate exploration of transformation—an evolving narrative of breaking, rebuilding, and stepping into a more fully realized self.
Cory Overbeck
Cory Overbeck is a digital artist based in Lakewood, Ohio, whose work merges photography with imagination to create surreal explorations of color, texture, and light. A graduate of Michigan State University with a degree in Media Arts and Technology, he brings a deep understanding of visual composition and advanced image-editing techniques to his intricate, multi-layered creations.
Working primarily in Photoshop, Overbeck layers original photographs, digitized family archives, and an expansive library of textures and patterns. Through richly detailed layering techniques, he builds immersive compositions that weave these elements into unified, otherworldly environments. His work moves beyond realism, inviting viewers into spaces where imagination and nature converge.
Gregory Johnson
Emerging from Brook Park just outside Cleveland, Gregory Alan Johnson’s artistic journey is rooted in instinct, perseverance, and a lifelong devotion to mark-making. What began as childhood doodles on discarded forms evolved into a distinctive visual language defined by the bold precision of felt-tip pen. After studying at the Cooper School of Art, Johnson developed a signature style rich in color, rhythm, and intricate detail. Now, following years of quiet dedication and a later-life resurgence, his work has gained momentum through exhibitions with the Ohio Art League and galleries across the state. This upcoming exhibit offers an intimate look into his vividly constructed world—inviting viewers to experience the work of an artist whose practice proves it’s never too late to fully step into one’s creative voice.