Archive for December, 2010

Todd Reynolds

December 15th, 2010  |  by  |  published in Digest, On View

Todd Reynolds

At The Weston Gallery Todd Reynolds’ oils’ and watercolors’ most salient contemporary features depict an America in which chronic violence is implied, hope is in abeyance. His quasi-narrative, usually large scale paintings rip the niceties and pieties off of middle class life, portraying, instead, a near-Surreal world of low-life characters, drug-induced or -inspired people in […]

Benedict Leca

December 15th, 2010  |  by  |  published in Features, Profiles

Benedict Leca

Curating to Delight and Inform “Hello, my name is Benedict Leca, and I am the curator of this show. Would you like me to give you a tour?” Leca visits the gallery that houses the Cincinnati Art Museum’s internationally acclaimed show Thomas Gainsborough and the Modern Woman (through January 2, 2011) two or three times […]

Sara Vance

December 15th, 2010  |  by  |  published in Profiles

Sara Vance

Art Collector and Patron Who does not have a collection? From Imelda Marcos (shoes) to Wayne Gretzky (coins), the urge to amass prized objects is widespread. When we fall in love with the tactile or the purely sensory, the things or events that talk back to us of their history, their beauty, their thrill, or […]

Towhey and Storer

December 15th, 2010  |  by  |  published in On View

Towhey and Storer

                      The Greenwich House Gallery’s current show, DUO, features new work by two prominent Cincinnati artists—Tom Towhey and Greg Storer. Tom Towhey’s paintings have been described as surreal fantasies—fairy tales conjuring thoughts of Alice in Wonderland. Towhey often fills his canvases edge to edge with […]

Diana Duncan Holmes

December 15th, 2010  |  by  |  published in On View

Diana Duncan Holmes

Movement, Light, and Chance Diana Duncan Holmes presents a body of photo-based work in her solo exhibition Movement, Chance, Light at the Alice F. and Harris K. Weston Art Gallery opening on December 17 and continuing through February 27th, 2011. Holmes’ work falls squarely within the contemporary mode of art-making in which traditional media are […]

Rosson Crow

December 15th, 2010  |  by  |  published in On View

Rosson Crow

The Artist is Present Place is the ostensible subject of Rosson Crow’s painted dreamscapes, and out of the seven canvases in her exhibition, Myth of the American Motorcycle, at the Contemporary Arts Center, only two are outdoor scenes. In all, the artist’s depiction of space is loose and layered, barely hinting at architectural detail or expansive […]

Goya at The Taft

December 15th, 2010  |  by  |  published in On View

Goya at The Taft

Los Caprichos at the Taft Museum of Art Francisco José de Goya was 53 years old, seriously deaf but acutely visual, when he published the extraordinary series of eighty images called Los Caprichos now on view at the Taft Museum of Art. Caprichos—the word means “whims” or “fancies”—in this artist’s hands become the thoughtless, often […]

Fire In The Sky

December 15th, 2010  |  by  |  published in On View

Fire In The Sky

  Looking Upward at Manifest Gallery Ivan Fortushniak returns to Manifest Gallery this month with a solo exhibition of 15 modest sized works that range from the prosaic to the superb. A god in his own way, Fortushniak fashions painted worlds that resonate with ambiguity and unease. In his universe figures from the past stare […]

Maurice Mattei

December 5th, 2010  |  by  |  published in Multimedia

Maurice Mattei

Pictures from Italy. Photographs by Maurice Mattei October 29, 2010-February 18, 2011 Iris Bookcafe and Gallery, 1331 Main Street, Cincinnati, Ohio 45202 There will be an artist talk on Sunday, December 5 at 2:00 p.m

Waseem Touma and Dronex Inc.

December 2nd, 2010  |  by  |  published in Announcements

Waseem Touma and Dronex Inc.

Disparate Lives Appropriately titled, UN related: A Giant Cap Gun and White Discs on view at Museum Gallery Gallery Museum features the work of Australia native Waseem Touma and the Lexington, Kentucky based pseudonymous corporate organization Dronex Inc. In addition to being formally and materially dissimilar, the works of Waseem Touma and Dronex Inc. are […]