Welcome to the March issue of ÆQAI. We have again attempted to reflect the widest possible swaths of the visual arts scene in Greater Cincinnati. This issue includes reviews of exhibitions at our major institutions, commercial galleries, alternative spaces, and newer arts venues. Since art activity is taking place in so many different neighborhoods, the […]
Archive for March, 2012
Review of “Monet in Giverny: Landscapes of Reflection” at Cincinnati Art Museum
March 18th, 2012 | by Jane Durrell | published in *
Pleasing the crowd was not Monet’s aim in life, but after the Impressionists’ convention-flaunting beginnings had simmered into acceptance he had a following that allowed him to live a life style of his own choosing and to paint as he pleased. He had more or less always done the latter; the former had been chancy. […]
Looking Glass: Work by Alice Pixley Young
March 18th, 2012 | by Karen Chambers | published in *
It took a while to fall under the spell of Alice Pixley Young’s solo exhibition, “Looking Glass,” at PAC Gallery, through April 14. This was not aided by the persistent and annoying high-pitched sound that emanated from “You are looking for something that no longer exists” tableau. I’m certain it was an attempt to transport […]
The Painter of Light
March 18th, 2012 | by Fran Watson | published in *, March 2012
WATERCOLORS TO BOOKS Sinton Gallery, Taft Museum of Art February 10 to April 15 2012 Even compared with our contemporary view of art, J.M.W. Turner was an extraordinary talent. Accepted at the Royal Academy in London at age 14, often deliberately irascible, flaunting his cockney background at hopeful moneyed patrons, and justifiably confident of […]
David Miretsky’s Allegory of Painting
March 18th, 2012 | by Emil Robinson | published in *, March 2012
David Miretsky immigrated to the United Sates in 1975 after being jailed for the satirical and naturalistic content of his paintings in Kiev. Miretsky made Cincinnati his home and Phyllis Weston presented his first solo show at The Closson Gallery downtown. Miretsky is still tackling tough subjects these days, as a biting but often humorous […]
Dear Nostalgia
March 18th, 2012 | by Maria Seda-Reeder | published in *, March 2012
I visited the Lois and Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art for the purpose of reviewing the music video exhibition, “Spectacle: The Music Video.” Although I was overwhelmed with the exhibition’s nostalgic content involving the history of the visual components related to music, what I found myself captivated by was the work of artist Dasha […]
Mythology Under Construction: Jennifer Purdum at the Clifton Cultural Arts Center
March 18th, 2012 | by Keith Banner | published in March 2012, On View
The mystery in Jennifer Purdum’s paintings and drawings is flagrantly upfront, like a joke with a disturbing punch-line that really has nothing to do with the joke outside of being connected to it. In many of the pictures in “Inside/Out: Drawings and Paintings by Jennifer Purdum” now on display at the Clifton Cultural Arts Center […]
Reflection at Red Pond
March 18th, 2012 | by Marlene Steele | published in Digest, March 2012
Helen Frankenthaler 1928-2011 A phone call from a long time friend of mine alerted me to the passing of this reknowned woman whose approach to painting contributed to and influenced the gestural abstract movement of the 50′ s and 60’s. “I never usually read the obits in the New York Times” Marilyn began,” but I […]
Photographing Parklands
March 18th, 2012 | by A.C. Frabetti | published in March 2012
The Green Building Gallery hosts “The Vision of a Generation: Photographs from The Parklands of Floyds Fork.” From the press release, the exhibition “documents the landscape before, during, and after the creation of the 4,000-acre Parklands of Floyds Fork” by its artists over the last four years. The art world, like elsewhere, is engaging the […]
Miller Gallery – Fifty Years a Family Tradition
March 18th, 2012 | by Cynthia Osborne Hoskin | published in March 2012, Profiles
Miller Gallery, in the middle of the block on Erie Avenue When old friends meet after a hiatus, there is little preamble before lapsing into friendly chat. This was the case a few weeks ago between AEQAI editor Daniel Brown, and Miller Gallery’s Laura Miller Gleason and husband, Gary Gleason. The two now run the […]
“The Third Reich” (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux) (2011)
March 18th, 2012 | by Daniel Brown | published in March 2012
Every now and again, the literary and/or publishing worlds discover or rediscover an author, living or dead, whose writings are so exceptional that they change the way we read, understand the world, and reexamine the act of writing itself. Three or four years ago, I read Roberto Bolaño’s Savage Detectives, in which this recently dead […]
Sara Pearce's Expecting to Fly at 5th Street Gallery
March 18th, 2012 | by Jane Durrell | published in March 2012
A quick first take on Sara Pearce’s Expecting to Fly at 5th Street Gallery downtown shows her a words person as well as a visual artist. And no wonder; words were her trade during her Cincinnati Enquirer years, when she reported on restaurants, books, sometimes visual arts, and was a features editor. What collages require, […]
Films in Review: Some New Uses of Technology in the History of Film as Art: Color and 3D
March 18th, 2012 | by David Schloss | published in March 2012, Multimedia
Films in Review: Some New Uses of Technology in the History of Film as Art: Color and 3D – with recent examples: Pina (Wim Wenders); Hugo (Martin Scorsese); The Artist (Michel Hazavicous) The use of color for serious artistic expression has a long history in film, with hand-tinting, (from the beginnings and into the late […]
The Art of Food: A Taste Sensation for the Eyes
March 18th, 2012 | by Shawn Daniell | published in March 2012, On View
George Bernard Shaw once wrote, “There is no love sincerer than the love of food.” Food keeps us alive. It nourishes the body and keeps us growing healthy and strong. But food also serves as fuel for the artistic soul. That idea was embraced by the Carnegie Visual and Performing Arts Center in Covington, Kentucky […]
Geometrically Ordered Design: Design Intervention
March 18th, 2012 | by Dustin Pike | published in Features, March 2012
This article marks the first of many articles to come in reference to the field of design. These articles will attempt to analyze and interpret the meanings of a vast number of subjects surrounding the design field, and enlighten the reader of their importance. However, before I get into my first subject on design I […]
James Priest, Head Gardner at Giverny
March 18th, 2012 | by Cynthia Osborne Hoskin | published in Features, March 2012
I would like to express my thanks to my husband, Richard Hoskin, who took time off from writing his novel, as I lay feverish from the flu at home, to meet with James Priest and ask questions I had prepared and some of his own. The Gardens at Giverny, home of Claude Monet from 1883 […]
Benefit Party and Corrected Online Donation link
March 8th, 2012 | by A.C. Frabetti | published in Announcements
ÆQAI, GREATER CINCINNATI’S CONTEMPORARY ARTS JOURNAL, CELEBRATES ITS THIRD ANNIVERSARY AT THE CARNEGIE VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, COVINGTON, KY ON MARCH 21, 2012 Event: Third Annual Celebration and Benefit Party for ÆQAI: The Journal of Critical Thinking, Review, & Reflective Prose on Contemporary Art in Greater Cincinnati Date: Wednesday, March 21, 6-8 pm. Location: […]
Dance Preservation Fund Announced
March 8th, 2012 | by David Kirley | published in Announcements
Attention Alumni of the Ohio State University Department of Dance, The 2012 Application for the Dance Preservation Fund has been announced. Applications due Friday, April 6, 2012. Established in 1994 to further the recording of dance through awards to current students, alumni, current faculty and emeriti, the fund is also available to visiting artists, researchers, […]
