Self 2012 : Standard Entry Deadline is Thursday May 31, 2012 11:59pm EST Within each work you create is a story of who you are as an artist. You’re invited to join the 3rd annual Self 2012 creative competition, a juried, international open call for creative works with the goal of launching the story of one […]
Archive for May, 2012
Self 2012: Artists Wanted
May 30th, 2012 | by Michael Abitz | published in Announcements, Uncategorized
Manifest Gallery: Artist Residency Award: Tyler Wilkinson
May 30th, 2012 | by Michael Abitz | published in Announcements
Key Dates: June 1, 6-9p.m. (opening of Rites of Passage – opportunity to meet the artist) July 13, 6-9p.m. (inaugural reception for the Residency program) Manifest is very pleased to introduce the recipient of the first Manifest Artist Residency Award: Tyler Wilkinson Manifest Artist in Residence 2012/13 Earlier this year Manifest announced the establishment of its residency program (the M.A.R. […]
parProjects presents Symphonic Stylings
May 30th, 2012 | by Michael Abitz | published in Announcements
parProjects presents Symphonic Stylings: Art, Fashion & Live Music at the Electric Warehouse On June 23rd, parProjects — the group that brought last October’s Factory Square Fine Arts Festival to Cincinnati — will be hosting one of its most important collaborations to date, “Symphonic Stylings.” In conjunction with ARTAYA (Washington, DC), The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, “concert:nova”, NVISION (Northside), and Sloane […]
Manifest’s 9th Exhibition Season (Sept. 2012 – Aug. 2013): Exhibit Proposal
May 23rd, 2012 | by Michael Abitz | published in Announcements
EXHIBIT PROPOSALS SEASON 9 – 2012/2013 Exhibit Dates: Manifest’s 9th Exhibition Season (Sept. 2012 – Aug. 2013) Types of proposals -Solo exhibits -Two person exhibits -Group shows -Curatorial project (call for entries proposal by curator) On average one-third of Manifest’s exhibits are dedicated to solo or proposed exhibits. Solo exhibitors have included local, regional, and national artists […]
SOS ART 2012
May 23rd, 2012 | by Michael Abitz | published in Announcements
A community art show and event of creative expressions for Peace and Justice June 1 – 10 at The Art Academy of Cincinnati, 1212 Jackson St, downtown Cincinnati. Program of Events (FREE and Open to the Public). Friday June 1 6pm: Opening of the Art show 7pm: Introductory notes by Jay Zumeta, Art historian and Professor, Art […]
Cincinnati Ballet Volunteers: World Choir Games Volunteers
May 23rd, 2012 | by Michael Abitz | published in Announcements
I’m the Venue Manager at the Aronoff for The World Choir Games, which consists of 23 Categories with 8,000 singers. Bunches of them will be in & out of the Aronoff for rehearsals and performances, and here’s why I thought of YOU. Choirs enter via the 5/3 Theatre Lobby on Main Street, move to one of the Warm […]
May Issue of ÆQAI is Online
May 17th, 2012 | by Daniel Brown | published in Announcements
Dear Readers, We are happy to bring you the May 2012 issue of ÆQAI, your journal of the visual arts in Greater Cincinnati. Although we are nearing the end of the art season, which runs parallel to the school calendar, there is no lessening of interesting shows or of a richness in the overall tapestry […]
Hidden Architect
May 17th, 2012 | by Selena Reder | published in *, May 2012, Profiles
Althea Thompson shapes generations of young artists at the School for Creative and Performing Arts On a rainy day in Over-the-Rhine I arrive at the school. It is an odd feeling pulling over on Central Parkway alongside parents dropping off children in front of this colossal feat of modern architecture. It is not the […]
The Possibility for Framing: Suzanne Silver’s Cartoon Geometry
May 17th, 2012 | by Amanda Dalla Villa Adams | published in *, May 2012
French sociologist Pierre Bordieu contended that all art functions as coded meaning for his study on art museums and their visitors in The Love of Art (1990). Differentiating between lower level of meanings – “superficial [and] fragmentary” – and higher level of meanings – which “incorporate and transform” – Bordieu maintained that both responses created […]
Production and Disclosure
May 17th, 2012 | by A.C. Frabetti | published in *, May 2012
In the current exhibition of Land of Tomorrow, E.V. Day’s Pollinator Series features pink-purple grid-like projections of the flowers from Giverny onto etched glass. They were constructed using digital scans of original flower pressings. So too was Serkan Ozkaya’s David (inspired by Michelangelo), a giant gold-painted, fiberglass double-sized reproduction of Michelangelo’s David, recently acquired by […]
Letter from Chicago: Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective
May 17th, 2012 | by Cynthia Kukla | published in *
Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective Art Institute of Chicago May 22 to September 3, 2012 “Whaam! Bratatat! Varoom! The Art Institute of Chicago explodes this summer with the energy of Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997) in the largest exhibition of the seminal Pop artist to date. More than 160 of Lichtenstein’s works, from the familiar to the completely […]
Master of the Not-So-Still Still Life
May 17th, 2012 | by Daniel Brown | published in *, May 2012
Still life is the most problematic—and most abstract—of genres, as the paintings seem to lack the grandeur associated with landscapes or with figures that can assume allegorical or mythological-religious resonance. Because the objects depicted are taken from ordinary life, however, they intimately speak to our daily existence and to our interior lives. Sheldon Tapley revitalizes, […]
Botanical
May 17th, 2012 | by Cole Carothers | published in May 2012, On View
The Bible tells the story of Adam and Eve (mankind) expelled from the Garden of Eden for picking fruit from the tree of knowledge. Katie St. Clairʼs, The Hierarchy of Living Things gives us little comfort in whatever knowledge we have gleaned from that singular fruit. Here, naked as the day she was born, a […]
Ohio to the White House: Photographs by Matthew Albritton, Taft Museum of Art
May 17th, 2012 | by Karen Chambers | published in May 2012
In the exhibition “Ohio to the White House,” appropriately at the Taft Museum of Art, Matthew Albritton has documented the birthplaces and boyhood homes of the seven Ohio-born presidents. Their terms account for half of presidential service between 1869 and 1923. During that time only three presidents hailed from outside the Buckeye state. Albritton’s lush […]
TRIO
May 17th, 2012 | by Fran Watson | published in May 2012, On View
Layered Abstractions at AEC April 13 thru May 11 Abstract they are; some more than others. Yet sculpture by Robert Pulley, palette knife paintings by Trish Weeks, and painted comments on humanity by Paige Williams, were pulled together by the common, if tenuous, thread of nature. Robert Pulley has spent decades in sculpture. With a true […]
"Reverse Psychology" at Thunder-Sky Gallery
May 17th, 2012 | by Jane Durrell | published in May 2012
“Dance?” asks one of a pair of figures in a collaborative painting by the two artists in Thunder-Sky Gallery’s current exhibition, Reverse Psychology. “Sorry, not my type,” answers the other. The two inhabit a dreamy, fragmented setting; the pop-star-like woman wears a beehive hairdo, a polka dot dress and a prosthetic arm and the man […]
Art in a box: Christiane Berridge admires the detailed roomboxes created by Robert Off
May 17th, 2012 | by Christiane Berridge | published in May 2012
Editor’s Note: Cincinnatian Robert Off has been designing and fabricating miniature rooms,which he calls roomboxes, for over ten years, easily, but has begun to display them in gallery and museum settings to enormous audience and peer delight. Off begins each piece, an individual art unto itself, in his imagination; some of his ideas are spinoffs […]
Area Sculptor 3D Sculpture at CAM
May 17th, 2012 | by Margot Gotoff | published in Digest, May 2012
When I was first approached about writing this appreciation of a piece at the Cincinnati Art Museum, I was absolutely confident in my choice. As many times as I had entered through those majestic doors, I knew where I was first drawn. No matter what new exhibit had just opened, I had to make my […]
Geometrically Ordered Design: Two to Tango
May 17th, 2012 | by Dustin Pike | published in Features, May 2012
“So God created man in his own image.” -Genesis 1:27 This is technically my second article pertaining to the design field and again it is necessary to distinguish between art and design. Design in essence cannot be accomplished without specific degrees of control, and almost always has a definitive point to make. How well the […]
“Diaspora/Miasma” at Marta Hewitt Gallery
May 17th, 2012 | by Larry Watson | published in May 2012, On View
Dichotomy and paradox often create the tension in representational artwork, taking us beyond the visual depictions in the work and tapping into our visceral connections. And so it is with the exhibit “Diaspora/Miasma” on exhibit at Marta Hewett Gallery March 30 through May 19th. Both Kevin Veara and Eoin Breadon have brought us to awareness […]
VAGA: Protecting the rights of artists since 1976
May 17th, 2012 | by Shawn Daniell | published in Features, May 2012
As an artist and a person in the media, images play an important role in my professional and personal life. The idea of ownership and rights is a key element when talking about the use of images in the media. For instance, did you know that just because you may own a work of art, […]
“At Last” By Edward St. Aubyn (Farrar, Strauss, & Giroux 2011)
May 17th, 2012 | by Daniel Brown | published in May 2012
Possibly because England is such a small and relatively isolated country, the literature that predominates, both past and present seem to be the relatively modest-in-scope psychological drama. Many of England’s finest living novelists clearly continue to be influenced by the great Jane Austen, the novel’s greatest depicter of manners and morals in all of literature. […]
Family Matters
May 17th, 2012 | by David Schloss | published in May 2012
There were a number of films that engaged “family matters’” shown in Cincinnati these past two months, most significantly the long-running Academy Award-winning Iranian A Separation, which truly deserved such acclaim. This heartbreaking drama of well-intentioned people drawn into conflicts over their differing agendas shows the difficulties of accommodating others’ (and one’s own) sincerely held […]
