Archive for January, 2013

2013 Miami University Young Painters Competition for the $10,000 William & Dorothy Yeck Award

January 30th, 2013  |  by  |  published in Announcements

Dec 13,2012 – Feb 15, 2013 2013 Miami University Young Painters Competition for the $10,000 William & Dorothy Yeck Award Friday, January 25 Juror Lecture: 4:00 p.m., 100 Art Reception: 5:15-6:15 p.m., Award Ceremony: 5:45 p.m. Hiestand Galleries Through the generous gift from William (Miami University Class of 1936) and Dorothy Yeck of Dayton, Ohio, […]

Carnegie Gallery Director Bill Seitz to Retire

January 29th, 2013  |  by  |  published in Announcements

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Shannan Boyer, Communications (513) 254-0715 Cell Carnegie Gallery Director Bill Seitz to Retire (COVINGTON) January 22, 2013 – Bill Seitz, Gallery Director at The Carnegie Visual and Performing Arts Center, has announced that he will retire on March 4, 2013. Seitz has been with The Carnegie since 1995. A working artist […]

ArtsWave 2013 Annual Community Campaign Kick-Off on Fountain Square

January 29th, 2013  |  by  |  published in Announcements

ArtsWave 2013 Annual Community Campaign Kick-Off on Fountain Square WHAT: ArtsWave 2013 Community Campaign Kick-Off on Fountain Square WHEN: Friday, February 8th at Noon. WHERE: Fountain Square, Downtown Cincinnati BACKGROUND: ArtsWave, the region’s largest funder of the arts, kicks off its annual community campaign on Friday, February 8th on Fountain Square at Noon. 2013 ArtsWave […]

National Film Festival Celebrates our Differences

January 29th, 2013  |  by  |  published in Announcements

National Film Festival Celebrates our Differences Film stars and advocates to visit for ReelAbilities: Cincinnati Film Festival this March Premiere Night Premiere Night for ReelAbilities: Cincinnati will take place at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center on March 9th. Cincinnati, Ohio – January 28, 2013 – Founded in 2007 in New York, ReelAbilities is the […]

CCAC partnering with Summerfair

January 23rd, 2013  |  by  |  published in Announcements

from the CCAC: We have an incredibly fun weekend coming up here at CCAC! First, join us Friday, January 25, from 6-8 p.m. for the Summerfair Emerging Artist opening. This annual show features the top students from area universities, chosen by their professors, and we are thrilled to be partnering with Summerfair to host this […]

Art Deadlines List – January 2013 Free Email Edition

January 23rd, 2013  |  by  |  published in Announcements

Art Deadlines List – January 2013 Free Email Edition ———————————————————————- Announcements: April 1, 2013 THE ARTIST’S MAGAZINE 30th ANNUAL ART COMPETITION More than $25,000 in cash prizes will be awarded, and Top Award Winners will be featured in the December 2013 issue of The Artist’s Magazine! All winners will also appear in a special online […]

Call for entries: Manifest Gallery

January 21st, 2013  |  by  |  published in Announcements

Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center CALL FOR ENTRIES (NEW MEDIA)

2013 Efroymson Contemporary Arts Fellowship

January 21st, 2013  |  by  |  published in Announcements

2013 Efroymson Contemporary Arts Fellowship Guidelines Released for Contemporary Visual Artists in Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota and Wisconsin About the Efroymson Contemporary Arts Fellowship Now in its 8th year, the Efroymson Contemporary Arts Fellowships were established to increase public awareness of contemporary visual art in the Midwest. The intent of the fellowship is to reward creativity […]

Changes in Covington arts management

January 21st, 2013  |  by  |  published in Announcements

Natalie Bowers was recently promoted as Covington’s Marketing & Communications Director. Bowers wrote the following: Cate Yellig has been named as the next Arts Director for the City and she started the job today. Last night, she was unanimously approved by the City and I am sure she will progress the city’s Arts initiative even […]

Letter From New York: 

Inheritance and Potential


January 20th, 2013  |  by  |  published in *, January 2013

Letter From New York:  

Inheritance and Potential


Letter from New York:  Inheritance and Potential   ~ Brett Baker After an autumn spent in the studio and with less time for gallery-going, I have recently been reflecting on several surprising shows from the past summer. The more mainstream of these included Josef Albers’ painterly studies at the Morgan Library, rarely seen works by […]

Rituals and Enactments: The Self-Portraits of Anne Arden McDonald

January 20th, 2013  |  by  |  published in *

Rituals and Enactments: The Self-Portraits of Anne Arden McDonald

Rituals and Enactments: The Self-Portraits of Anne Arden McDonald October 15, 2012 through February 22, 2013 Iris BookCafe and Gallery ~ Jonathan Kamholtz In Anne Arden McDonald’s “Self-Portrait #20, Utah, 1989” (her titles are generally not helpful or revealing), the artist depicts herself on her knees with a semicircle of lit candles in front of […]

The CAM: Time For A Dedicated Print Gallery?

January 20th, 2013  |  by  |  published in *, January 2013

The CAM: Time For A Dedicated Print Gallery?

The CAM: Time For A Dedicated Print Gallery? ~ Kevin Ott The Cincinnati Art Museum is nearing completion of the former Art Academy building which will house the Mary Schiff Library, offices and other spaces, including a beautiful terrace with outstanding views. Most importantly, this will result in an increase of 15,000 square feet or […]

“Osmosis” Blinded me with Science

January 20th, 2013  |  by  |  published in *, January 2013

“Osmosis” Blinded me with Science

“Osmosis” Blinded me with Science ~ Stephen Slaughter Biology Osmosis: A process by which molecules of a solvent tend to pass through a semipermeable membrane from a less concentrated solution into a more concentrated one, thus equalizing the concentrations on each side of the membrane. Physics The Pauli Exclusion Principle: The quantum mechanical principle that […]

New Magic & Costume Shoppe

January 20th, 2013  |  by  |  published in *

New Magic & Costume Shoppe

New Magic & Costume Shoppe: Paintings by Yohana Junker, Masks by David Earl Johnson, & Clown Costumes by Raymond Thunder-Sky, Thunder-Sky, Inc. ~Karen Chambers “New Magic & Costume Shoppe” is the title of the show at Thunder-Sky, Inc., featuring David Earl Johnson’s masks, Yohana Junker’s paintings, and Raymond Thunder-Sky’s clown costumes and drawings. Bill Ross, […]

“Straight from the Soul”

January 20th, 2013  |  by  |  published in January 2013

“Straight from the Soul”

“Straight from the Soul” ~ Christopher Hoeting “Straight from the Soul,” Kevin Cole’s exhibition at the Alice F. and Harris K. Weston Gallery, opened to a warm reception amid Cincinnati’s winter season.  Cole is no stranger to Cincinnati, as indicated by the presence of numerous friendly faces.  I would be remiss if I did not […]

Sorting through 80 Years of Taft History

January 20th, 2013  |  by  |  published in January 2013

Sorting through 80 Years of Taft History

Sorting through 80 Years of Taft History  ~ Tamara Lenz Muente, Assistant Curator, Taft Museum of Art The Taft Museum of Art celebrated its 80th anniversary on November 29, 2012. To commemorate the occasion, museum staff mined the archives for documents that could illustrate the history of the museum in a way never before seen […]

Geometrically Ordered Design: The Great Eight

January 20th, 2013  |  by  |  published in January 2013

Geometrically Ordered Design:  The Great Eight

Geometrically Ordered Design:  The Great Eight ~ Dustin Pike This is my eighth article pertaining to the design field and its relationship with mathematics. Design in essence cannot be accomplished without specific degrees of control, and almost always has a definitive point to make. How well the ‘point’ can be made is attributed to how […]

Review, Frank Satogata at Xavier University Art Gallery

January 20th, 2013  |  by  |  published in January 2013

Review, Frank Satogata at Xavier University Art Gallery

Review, Frank Satogata at Xavier University Art Gallery ~ Jane Durell The surest antidote to a bleak winter day could be the joyous exhibition of paintings and prints by Frank Satogata at the Xavier University Art Gallery now through February 15. Satogata loves color as surely as Romeo loved Juliet, but with happier consequences. He […]

PulP Art: Exploring Paper as an artistic medium

January 20th, 2013  |  by  |  published in January 2013

PulP Art: Exploring Paper as an artistic medium

PulP Art: Exploring Paper as an artistic medium  ~ Shawn Daniell Paper had its beginnings sometime around AD 105 in China and has become a staple in many facets of our lives. But if you can’t look beyond paper’s basic uses such as a writing surface, advertisement materials, product packaging, or books, then you’re blinding […]

Hick And Willie At The Art Institute

January 20th, 2013  |  by  |  published in January 2013

Hick And Willie At The Art Institute ~ James Cummins   Hick:  “Seeing paintings by Beckman and Matisse, one understands the S/M dance of Germany and France a little better, ‘eef yoo pleece.’ ”   Willie: “All the kids seem to love Monet— and if someone insists on trumpeting him, well, I say, heck, let […]

THE NUDE: Self & Others

January 20th, 2013  |  by  |  published in January 2013

THE NUDE: Self & Others

THE NUDE: Self & Others ~ Marlene Steele This year’s Lexington Art League Nude show exhibits portraiture and figurative work with a marked emphasis on conceptual undercurrents of personal and sexual identity, the body as object, the body as experience, societal pressures, politics and violence. The first hall presents a series of figure wall hangings […]

Cedric Cox and the New Cubism

January 20th, 2013  |  by  |  published in January 2013

Cedric Cox and the New Cubism

Cedric Cox and the New Cubism – Maxwell Redder Few artists in Cincinnati have emerged so quickly and ubiquitously as Cedric Michael Cox.  A 1999 Bachelor of Fine Arts graduate from the University of Cincinnati’s Design, Architecture, Art and Planning Program, he has in the last four years landed four solo exhibits at top exhibition […]

ART FOR A BETTER WORLD

January 20th, 2013  |  by  |  published in January 2013

ART FOR A BETTER WORLD

by Saad Ghosn “Art For A Better World” is a new column that will regularly feature Greater Cincinnati Artists who use their art for a message and for a change. Each column, divided into two sections titled respectively “Images for a Better World” and “Words for a Better World”, will give the stage to a […]

Where Do Broken Hearts Go? The Periphery Gets Centralized in Enlightened

January 20th, 2013  |  by  |  published in January 2013

Where Do Broken Hearts Go?  The Periphery Gets Centralized in Enlightened

Where Do Broken Hearts Go?  The Periphery Gets Centralized in Enlightened ~Keith Banner   In the freakishly astute situation comedy Enlightened (Sunday nights at 9:30 pm on HBO), tall and stately Laura Dern plays Amy Jellicoe, a great big loser beyond compare.  Amy’s whole life has gone into a black hole she seems hell-bent on […]

Book Review: The Middlesteins by Jami Attenberg

January 20th, 2013  |  by  |  published in January 2013

Book Review:  The Middlesteins by Jami Attenberg ~ Daniel Brown   Early in the new year, a young novelist’s new , or sometimes first, book is published and surprises me with its quality; last year, it was Nell Freudenberger’s The Newlyweds, a splendid look at an American man and a Bangladeshi woman who meet over the […]

Other Films of Note from 2012

January 20th, 2013  |  by  |  published in January 2013

Other Films of Note from 2012 –David Schloss There were many films I saw in Cincinnati last year that I thought deserving of honorable mentions. My best of 2012 list from last month was based on the same pool as the Golden Globes and Oscars Best Picture nominees, with a few exceptions: Django Unchained and […]

AEQAI Poetry Corner

January 20th, 2013  |  by  |  published in January 2013

Poetry by Maxwell Redder   Garden Thought   Lifting the large rock, smooth with a few dimples like my grandfather’s face, I found positivity living in the mud under it: Worm-wiggle squirms, needle-toothed beetles, and karma-dowsed larva mingling in harmony. Paper Mountain   I’d tear down a building With a hammer and teardrop And move […]

Letter from the Editor

January 20th, 2013  |  by  |  published in January 2013

Letter from the Editor The January aeqai is full of reviews, as well as a few new regular columns and some essays. A lot of institutions and most commercial galleries hold their December or fall shows through the first few weeks of January, as the remains of the holidays (bills, in most cases) wend their […]

Carnegie Galleries Announce 2014 Call to Artists

January 15th, 2013  |  by  |  published in Announcements

January 14, 2013The Carnegie Galleries Announce 2014 Call to Artists Deadline to apply: April 15, 2013 COVINGTON, KY – The Carnegie Visual and Performing Arts Center has opened its annual Call to Artists for the 2014 exhibition season. More than 30 solo and group shows will be selected for the six galleries in the upcoming […]

ARTiculate: Jimmy Baker, January 16, 7 – 8 p.m.

January 15th, 2013  |  by  |  published in Announcements

A NEW CINCINNATI ART MUSEUM SERIES: ARTiculate: Jimmy Baker January 16, 7 – 8 p.m. Fath Auditorium The Cincinnati Art Museum continues its long history of supporting local artists with ARTiculate, a new series of talks exploring process and practice with Art Museum Director Aaron Betsky and Cincinnati artists. ARTiculate premieres with Jimmy Baker, Adjunct […]

Blindfold gallery opening

January 15th, 2013  |  by  |  published in Announcements

Comfort: Fabrications February 6th – March 3rd Opening Reception – Thursday February 14th 6-9pm Our mailing address is: Blindfold Gallery 1718 E Olive Way Suite A Seattle WA, 98102 P: (206) 328-5100 Web: blindfoldgallery.com

Manifest Extended deadline Drawing annual

January 9th, 2013  |  by  |  published in Announcements

Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center FINAL CALL FOR ENTRIES (DRAWING)

Fitton Center for Creative Arts Accepting Art Entries

January 7th, 2013  |  by  |  published in Announcements

46th Greater Hamilton Art Exhibition ON VIEW: March 16 – May 31, 2013 …on the Riverfront in Downtown Hamilton! Accepting Art Entries Valentine’s Weekend! Designed to showcase the fine variety of work being created by area artists, this juried exhibition is a competition open to visual artists residing within 50 miles of Hamilton, Ohio. Entries […]

EXHIBITION EXTENDED through January 31, 2013 / Shinji Turner-Yamamoto

January 7th, 2013  |  by  |  published in Announcements

Shinji Turner-Yamamoto DE RERUM NATURA: on the nature of things site: Phyllis Weston | GALLERY 2005 1/2 Madison Rd., Cincinnati 513.321.5200 date: November 9, 2012 – January 31, 2013 hours: Tuesday – Saturday 11:00am – 5:00pm and by appointment BOOK SIGNING for Shinji Turner-Yamamoto | GLOBAL TREE PROJECT | DAMIANI | 2012 | at Joseph […]