Archive for November, 2020

Our World and Others: “Art Ascendant: Creativity Triumphs Over Chaos,” at Cincinnati Art Galleries, October 23, 2020-November 27, 2020

November 25th, 2020  |  by  |  published in *, November 2020

Our World and Others: “Art Ascendant: Creativity Triumphs Over Chaos,”  at Cincinnati Art Galleries, October 23, 2020-November 27, 2020

“Art Ascendant” at Cincinnati Art Galleries on 6th Street is a great show to see on a fall day. It’s a full show, with about 100 works on display by about 20 artists covering all of the gallery’s walls. The exhibit drew upon many of the CAG’s stable of living painters (and one sculptor). In […]

Weary, but Awake: Black and Brown Faces at the Cincinnati Art Museum

November 25th, 2020  |  by  |  published in *, November 2020

Weary, but Awake: Black and Brown Faces at the Cincinnati Art Museum

The Cincinnati-based Paloozanoire organization dedicates itself to creative collaborations and community health, linking the arts to the pursuit of mental wellness. In 2020, when the ravages of a pandemic combined with the shockwaves of racist violence, the need to support psychological and social wellbeing could hardly be plainer. Paloozanoire’s Black and Brown Faces at the […]

Issues of the Day: How They Relate to Art

November 25th, 2020  |  by  |  published in *, November 2020

Issues of the Day:  How They Relate to Art

Emerging Arts Leaders had a creative and Facebook conversation about The Catalyst of Black Art on October 28.  Participants included Emmitt Rider, education and community engagement coordinator, Cincinnati Arts Association, panelists Asha White, Latausha Cox, Brandon Hawkins, Adoria Maxberry, Cedric Michael Cox and Vinay Duncan.  They talked about their experience in creating the Black Lives […]

Allora & Calzadilla’s “Specters of Noon” at The Menil Collection, Houston

November 25th, 2020  |  by  |  published in *, November 2020

Allora & Calzadilla’s “Specters of Noon” at The Menil Collection, Houston

Like the skies’ lightning, a flash of energy has come … to infuse its magic into history’s wavering course. …Then the gates of the possible swung wide. – Georges Bataille Two lightning strikes bracket Allora & Calzadilla’s exhibition at The Menil Collection in Houston. The first is a pine tree which the artists have presented […]

“War Zone” at Gallery Askew, 2868 Colerain Ave. Hours: 12:00-4:00pm Friday and Saturday. October 10 – November 21, 2020

November 25th, 2020  |  by  |  published in *, November 2020

“War Zone” at Gallery Askew, 2868 Colerain Ave. Hours: 12:00-4:00pm Friday and Saturday. October 10 – November 21, 2020

On a dry breezy November Saturday morning I was greeted at the door of Gallery Askew by Stewart Goldman, creator of “War Zone.” The exhibit had opened October 10th during Camp Washington open studios and gallery day. Attendance had been minimal as it has been for most gallery exhibits during the pandemic. Indeed, I was […]

Archie Rand: 60 Paintings from the Bible

November 25th, 2020  |  by  |  published in November 2020

Archie Rand: 60 Paintings from the Bible

“Whenever you are doing a painting or a series, you have to leave something electric in the picture, something horrifying on a personal level.”  casual quote by Rand from the Journal of Delacroix A must-see exhibition held over at the Skirball Museum is Archie Rand’s: “60 Paintings from the Bible”. Rand, currently a professor at […]

New Religion in the Wake: Mark Steven Greenfield fights White Supremacists with “Black Madonna” and Baby Jesus

November 25th, 2020  |  by  |  published in November 2020

New Religion in the Wake: Mark Steven Greenfield fights White Supremacists with "Black Madonna" and Baby Jesus

Tucked within a plaza of galleries you’ll find the William Turner Gallery in Santa Monica. On view until November 28th is the Black Madonna exhibition by Mark Steven Greenfield, a native Angelino (the exhibition is also available to view online, though you’ll miss much of the size and scope). I’d glossed a couple of the […]

Milano Chow Pulls Back the Curtain of Society’s Window Dressing, Peeking into Strangers’ Inner Lives

November 25th, 2020  |  by  |  published in November 2020

Milano Chow Pulls Back the Curtain of Society's Window Dressing, Peeking into Strangers' Inner Lives

Milano Chow’s intricate black-and-white drawings at Bel Ami depict a dreamy world where decorous women peer out of elegant townhouses and pose languidly against ornate clocks that seem to double as architectural follies. This show, “Park La Brea,” is titled after an iconic Los Angeles mega-development of mid-century apartment buildings. However, despite its plausible reference […]

Mindful Comparisons: Jennifer Grote at Indian Hill Gallery

November 25th, 2020  |  by  |  published in November 2020

Mindful Comparisons:  Jennifer Grote at Indian Hill Gallery

Jennifer Grote’s work on display at Indian Hill Gallery is an exhibit for our time, for the very moment in which we are living.  A large number of the works were completed in 2020.  The title of one even references social distancing.  But this show is not about the terrors of the virus or the […]

The Queen and The Crown

November 25th, 2020  |  by  |  published in November 2020

“Let’s meet digitally” … the phrase many  hear most often these days. In addition to work meetings and social gatherings being moved to virtual formats, so have many fashion exhibits from major museums around the world. Exhibits about Christian Dior and his life’s work (from the Musée des Arts Décoratifs), Elsa Schiaparelli and her foray […]

“Landscapes of America: Joseph Orr” at Eisele Gallery

November 25th, 2020  |  by  |  published in November 2020

"Landscapes of America: Joseph Orr" at Eisele Gallery

As leaves of autumn transition in our try-state region, Eisele Gallery presents twelve descriptive plein air paintings by Joseph Orr. Orr’s contemporary depictions of rural American landscape are executed in acrylic, a medium he has championed over 40 years. Orr, along with his wife Rita and two other artists, founded the National Oil & Acrylic […]

“Metamorphosis,” Kennedy Heights Art Center, through Dec. 23

November 25th, 2020  |  by  |  published in November 2020

“Metamorphosis,” Kennedy Heights Art Center, through Dec. 23

Kennedy Heights Art Center’s holiday exhibition is “Metamorphosis.” Featuring artists from the Kennedy Artist Collective, Mallory Feltz, director of exhibitions and public art, explains that the show’s title, was chosen because of its meaning of change–either personally, professionally, and/or artistically. This year has brought about a lot of change for many of us, and some of that is […]

Fotofolio: John Chakeres

November 25th, 2020  |  by  |  published in November 2020

Fotofolio: John Chakeres

“Planar” John’s statement and bio: I see the world as an image from which I choose parts to create my photographs. For me, a wall begins as a canvas, a two-dimensional surface, a foundation on which to build an image. Each wall is like a found object, filled with the information I incorporate into my […]

“Cold Millions” by Jess Walter

November 25th, 2020  |  by  |  published in November 2020

Among the finest historical fiction of 2020, Jess Walter’s novel “The Cold Millions” is one of the very best (the other two I’ve read this year that are as excellent as Walter’s novel are “The Pull of the Stars” and “An Elegant Woman”).  Walters examines a relatively little known aspect of the development of The […]

“Afterlife” by Julia Alvarez

November 25th, 2020  |  by  |  published in November 2020

Julia Alvarez’s new novel, “Afterlife”, is one of those relatively short but nearly perfect novels that I used to associate so strongly with the late Anita Brookner’s fiction. It’s beautifully written, and its tone subtle and elegant, just pitch perfect.  The narrator/protagonist, Antonia, has just retired from teaching in a small college in Vermont (in […]

“Shuggie Bain” by Douglas Stuart

November 25th, 2020  |  by  |  published in November 2020

“Shuggie Bain”, by Douglas Stuart, just won the prestigious Booker Award for fiction; I read it a couple of months ago, and it is an astonishing first novel. The narrator/protagonist is a young boy named Shuggie, for his father Shug, a cab driver married to the boy’s mother, Agnes. The relationship between Agnes, who’s increasingly […]

Aeqai Benefit Art Sale

November 16th, 2020  |  by  |  published in Announcements

Aeqai Benefit Art Sale

Aeqai is pleased to offer the following works for sale as part of our Annual Benefit.  To purchase, please contact Cedric Cox at 513 485 0180 or cedricmichaelcox@cedricmichaelcox.com.