February 24th, 2016 | by Jonathan Kamholtz | published in *
How newly-founded must an American art museum be not to be awash in paintings by the painters of the Barbizon School, either on display or, perhaps more likely these days, in storage? The works of Corot, Rousseau, Millet, Daubigny, and a number of artists loosely allied with them represent an important but frequently not fully […]
February 24th, 2016 | by Zach Rawe | published in *, February 2016
“and none of these is wholly compassed by a certain pernicious understanding of reading as escape. Escape from what? The “real world,” ostensibly, the “responsibility” of “acting” or “performing” in that world. Yes this reading posture registers as extroversion at least as much as introversion, as public as it does private: all a reader need […]
February 24th, 2016 | by Zack Hatfield | published in *, February 2016
Because we are so exposed to and distracted by images in our lives, we become desensitized to one of photography’s chief purposes: to observe. Jochen Lempert’s photography, now on display at the Cincinnati Art Museum in Field Guide: Photographs by Jochen Lempert, presents a captivating retrospective of the artist and biologist’s art, and one that, […]
February 24th, 2016 | by Matthew Metzger | published in *, February 2016
In the early part of last century abstraction began considering something as simple as the power of multiple intersecting lines. The clarity of the grid evolved to become, in Rosalind Krauss’ words, “modern art’s will to silence, its hostility to literature, to narrative, to discourse.” Matthew Kolodziej’s paintings begin at this point in more ways […]
February 24th, 2016 | by Marlene Steele | published in *, February 2016
The works chosen for this landscape exhibit represent one artist’s efforts at the easel on a Tuesday, any given week of his sabbatical year. Kevin Muente’s successful descriptive representations are on the spot plein aire paintings which were not additionally edited in the studio. The paintings depict common landscape, not ostentatiously landmarked but painted closely, […]
February 24th, 2016 | by Katie Dreyer | published in February 2016
Black Hoodie. Back Turned. Hands reaching in pockets. That’s all Dana Michel did at the beginning of her performance piece. She didn’t sashay out, say a word, or turn around. Yet this simple combination seemed to symbolize more than just a casual introduction. It reminded me of the “Ferguson” painting by Titus Kaphur that graced […]
February 24th, 2016 | by Katie Dreyer | published in February 2016
The Woodward Theater started as a movie house and this February it lit up again with the black and white flicker of Film. The cold light of ‘Nanook of the North’ seemed to produce an uncanny feeling of familiarity, as if this space remembered its calling as a silver screen instead of a punk rock […]
February 24th, 2016 | by Karen Chambers | published in February 2016
The thesis of “Vestiges” is set out on the announcement card: “. . . Brenda Tarbell, Cheryl Pannabecker, and Carrie Pate explore the natural world and relationships, bringing to the surface the unnoticed, hidden, or unexpressed.” There was something about the exhibition title that seemed off to me so I went to the dictionary. “Vestige” […]
February 24th, 2016 | by Hannah Leow | published in February 2016
First Impressions Looking at a body of work is like looking at a person. As the acquaintance (or viewer) you are given clues about the person but without context, you’re shown their present with no sense of the past, and it’s up to you to piece it all together into one sum of a human. […]
February 24th, 2016 | by Marlene Steele | published in February 2016
Jimi Jones, ever the graphic designer, is in the billboard business as evidenced by his current show at the Springfield Museum of Art. Jones views his role as an artist who explores and celebrates the African American cultural production as well as being a storyteller in an historical context. His large oil and acrylic canvases […]
February 24th, 2016 | by Jenny Perusek | published in February 2016
November 1973, the Palace of Versailles. In what is now known as The Battle of Versailles, five American designers took on five French designers in a runway show originally organized to help raise funds for the iconic palace. Everyone was there, and truth be told, it was well assumed that French designers Marc Bohan […]
February 24th, 2016 | by Ralph Rosenfield | published in February 2016
I have been involved in the arts as a collector/artist and model since I was five. For me Art of all sorts is a passion, one to be embraced and enjoyed. I was Co-Founder and Director of Katz and Dawgs the Gallery from 1986-1990. It was an experimental art gallery. And we mounted thirty-six shows […]
February 24th, 2016 | by Jane Durrell | published in February 2016
Frank Satogata’s studio is deep in the Brazee Street complex of artists’ work spaces, down one hall and then another, up stairs and along another hall before a knock on a door brings this pleasant, smiling man to open it and a little flurry results as his companion Elle, a West Highland terrier, is equally […]
February 24th, 2016 | by Susan Byrnes | published in February 2016
Kate Kern is a visual artist who works primarily in drawing, although her work ranges from making artist books to installations, as well as an occasional curatorial endeavor. In 2013, she curated “Wounded Home” at the Lloyd Library and Museum, and was also a featured artist in the print collection Cincinnati Portfolio IV by Clay […]
February 23rd, 2016 | by Laura Hobson | published in February 2016
Where can you see a mastodon jawbone from 10,000 B.C. and a streetcar built in 1892 in one location? The Behringer-Crawford Museum in Covington, Kentucky offers 450 million years of Northern Kentucky history and culture viewed through the lens of transportation – rivers, roads, rails and runways. Ongoing creative, innovative and family programs are also […]
February 23rd, 2016 | by Eric K. Hatch | published in February 2016
There is no black-and-white answer to this question. No a color answer, either. But perhaps this is a good starting point: A photograph always depicts a subject. Most photography begins and stops with the idea of a “capture”: the goal is to achieve a literal representation of the subject. It doesn’t even have to be […]
February 23rd, 2016 | by Kent Krugh | published in February 2016
“Capturing Stillness” – artist statement The Great North of Canada is composed of an infinite and inaccessible number of desert spaces. The smallness of Self within the infinitely great is a call to introspection. The serenity and silence of the place reveal a disturbing and giddy emptiness. Within this space, there is a presence called […]
February 23rd, 2016 | by Anise Stevens | published in February 2016
During the 19th century, landscape painting was a popular form of expression for artists to celebrate mankind’s dominion over nature. Pastoral scenes of manicured lawns, tamed gardens and ripe harvests depicted a peaceful, almost perfect world where man and nature thrived in harmonious union. Currently on view at Descanso Garden’s Sturt Haaga Gallery, “Farewell, Eden” […]
February 23rd, 2016 | by Joelle Jameson | published in February 2016
1: “Refresh (zine)” by Kristin Lucas, 7 stacks of 8.5×11” sheets of paper, stapler. In 2007, Kristin Lucas began her ongoing “Refresh” series, in which she decides to legally change her name. But, it’s only a “refresh,” in the same way one would refresh a page on an internet browser: she was Kristin Sue Lucas, […]
February 23rd, 2016 | by Steven Havira | published in February 2016
December of 2015 Vice News (a rapidly emerging online media outlet for the “connected generation”) premiered an intriguing documentary entitled, “Adam Driver Brings Monologues to the Military: Arts in the Armed Forces”. Led by Marine-turned-actor Adam Driver (Girls, Star Wars: The Force Awakens), and his wife AITAF’s Artistic Director Joanne Tucker, we follow can’t-quite-place their […]
February 23rd, 2016 | by Maxwell Redder | published in February 2016
Vinaigrette Disregarded drips collecting along the bottom rim of my mug, staining rings on Grump’s old desk, prove combined similarities can leave a mark. My city, similar in thorough collectivity, patient in method, observant of other’s moves, reminds me that stained history is tough to disregard. Those rings will not be […]
February 23rd, 2016 | by Daniel Brown | published in February 2016
Upstate New York, beginning with Buffalo/Niagara Falls, and running through Rochester, Syracuse, due East to Utica, and then up Northeast to Troy and Schenectady, lost most of its industries in the early to mid 1960s, as mill towns lost their mills, and leather tanneries, one of the area’s major employees, closed when New York State […]
February 23rd, 2016 | by Daniel Brown | published in February 2016
Acknowledging as a starting point that Joyce Carol Oates is never dull, never less than fascinating, and one of America’s greatest writers with one of the most fertile imaginations on earth, this maestra returns with her fascinating The Man Without a Shadow. As background, Oates was, in the past few years, widowed and remarried, and […]
February 23rd, 2016 | by Daniel Brown | published in Announcements
February issue of Aeqai (go to www.aeqai.com) has just posted. It reflects the very wide range of exhibitions currently on display throughout the region; we’ve got nearly 25 reviews and profiles this month, and it looks like next month’s going to be a big one, as well. Highlights of this issue include Jonathan Kamholtz’s review of […]
