October 18th, 2011 | by David Kirley | published in Announcements, October 2011
Cincinnati’s SHINJI TURNER-YAMAMOTO WINS 2011 ARTPRIZE INTERNATIONAL JURIED AWARD SITE: LAB + U OF M SCHOOL OF ART AND DESIGN RECOGNIZED AS OUTSTANDING VENUE DISAPPEARANCES Uses 350 Million-Year-Old Fossils To Comment On Interconnectedness Of Life Across Time DISAPPEARANCES – an eternal journey 2 East Fulton Street, 2nd floor, Grand Rapids, MI, USA 21 September – […]
October 18th, 2011 | by David Kirley | published in October 2011
MANIFEST GALLERY CALLS FOR ENTRY TWO SEPARATE PROJECTS: DEADLINE October 26, 2011 ONE.2 The Manifest Prize CASH PRIZE! Plus solo exhibit at Manifest for the jury-selected prize-winning work. Full-color catalog produced, including winner plus five semi-finalists. Postmark Deadline for Entry: October 26, 2011 The Manifest Prize was launched in 2010 as an annual offering. The […]
October 15th, 2011 | by Alan D Pocaro | published in October 2011
“A Fine Line” at Malton Gallery Richard Allan George might be one of the most remarkable painters that you’ve never heard of. Born in Chicago in 1935, Richard George spent three years at the Art Students League under the tutelage of the legendary Frank Reilly before going on to graduate studies at Miami University. Later […]
October 15th, 2011 | by Maria Seda-Reeder | published in October 2011
The Lois & Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art is on a roll. Coming off the success of their Keith Haring exhibition, Realms of Intimacy: Miniaturist Practice from Pakistan, is yet another visually compelling and conceptually astute exhibition. Close reading of the title no doubt echoes curator Justine Ludwig’s major point: the traditional practice of […]
October 15th, 2011 | by Jane Durrell | published in October 2011
In 1973 the art critic of the Cincinnati Post wrote that Thom Shaw “a young Cincinnatian, Art Academy trained, is possessed of a powerful line and sense of balance within his works.” An exhibition of Shaw’s black and white masonite block prints was at the Miller Gallery, then on Edwards Road. I was the art […]
October 15th, 2011 | by Fran Watson | published in October 2011
Carmel Buckley’s slice of the universe is filled with sheer unlimited creativity, topped, like the traditional cherry on a sundae, with surprises, as if the universe were not enough. With a twist of wire, a dollop of clay, and a few well-used found objects, her sculptures blossom with curious freshness and drawings and prints become […]
October 15th, 2011 | by Brett Baker | published in *, Features, October 2011
This is the first in a series of a quarterly letters, which will cover painting shows in greater New York If you want to experience the New York art scene from afar, watch James Kalm’s videos. Kalm tirelessly travels the city documenting art openings and exhibitions from Manhattan to Brooklyn. His videos are a selective, […]
October 15th, 2011 | by Cynthia Osborne Hoskin | published in October 2011, Profiles
Bequeathed to the people of Cincinnati in 1927, along with its collections, the Taft Museum of Art opened in 1932. Once the home of Nicholas Longworth and then Charles Phelps Taft, the house was originally finished in 1820 by Martin Baum, Cincinnati’s first millionaire and founder of the Miami Exporting Company, which in 1803 became […]
October 15th, 2011 | by Keith Banner | published in *, October 2011, On View
Like doodles scribbled on the edges of homework, Peter Saul’s exquisitely moronic pictures (on display mostly in lithographic form at Carl Solway Gallery through December 22, 2011) have a rote yet somehow ominous quality, a blurry merger of the popular and profane. While seeming to be birthed from boredom and cynicism like punk rock, they […]
October 15th, 2011 | by Karen Chambers | published in *
“Speed Trials” was an essay commissioned for the catalog accompanying the exhibition “Trial by Fire: New Glass Work by Darren Goodman” at the Cincinnati Art Museum (CAM). Goodman was selected by the 4th Floor, an associated group of the Museum, for its biennial 4th Floor Award, a competition to promote local artists. j-hokkaido.com The organization […]
October 15th, 2011 | by Laura P. Yoo | published in *, October 2011, On View
Currently on display at the Miller Gallery on Hyde Park Square, is an exhibition featuring 25 artists whose work offers outstanding examples of contemporary realist painting. A movement towards figurative painting among artists has accelerated in the past five to eight years. Whether artists are painting portraits, interiors or still lifes, the work is incredibly […]
October 15th, 2011 | by Fran Watson | published in October 2011, On View
Once I thought of Bessie Wessel with some pity, a victim of her times, when women were permitted to study, but not to enjoy a full, satisfying career. Men, like Bessie’s husband, Herman, would pursue success in the world, while the ladies, God bless ‘em, tended the comforts that would enable the men to fight […]
October 15th, 2011 | by Dan Newman | published in *, Digest, October 2011
Despite having a PhD in Philosophy and Dr. of Divinity Degree I know very little art history. As a self taught artist, from an early age, I have had creative abilities in drawing and woodworking. I draw in pencil or charcoal. I learned tools and skills from my mother. I was, therefore, immediately drawn to […]
October 15th, 2011 | by Shawn Daniell | published in Multimedia, October 2011
October 15th, 2011 | by David Kirley | published in Announcements, October 2011
Dan Newman Studio Presents: Art by “MYRIX” “Archetypal Faces” Born in Kentucky and now living in Cincinnati, Ohio, Myrix is a self-taught artist, working in pencil and charcoal. His talent for creating images of hard-working men has not gone unnoticed. Galleries have shown his distinctly masculine images to audiences in locations from San […]
