A.C. Frabetti
A.C. Frabetti founded and directed his own private art gallery in San Gimignano, Italy, where he resided for ten years. In 2007 he earned an MFA, an MA (Philosophy/Aesthetics) and a Certificate in Art and Philosophy from Stony Brook University and its Manhattan program. His studies included a seminar with the renowned art critic Donald Kuspit. He also taught in the university's Program in Writing and Rhetoric.
He contributed feature articles for the Boston-based online journal ArtsEditor, a journal on which ÆQAI was initially modeled. He is the founder, designer (along with assistance from Dustin Pike) and editor (until mid-2010) of ÆQAI. A newcomer to the Cincinnati region (late 2008), he enjoys the accessibility of the art scene as well as the depths and strengths of its artists and curators.
He is currently (2010-) enrolled in the Doctoral Program in the Humanities at the University of Louisville.
For updates on his professional activities, such as lectures and workshops, please visit his blog.
Greetings! I am happy to announce the launch of the FARGO HOUSE project in Buffalo, which aims to invigorate the collective imagination of place through built projects, workshops, exhibitions and residency opportunities. As part of the project, I have officially begun my residency as the Albright-Knox Art Gallery’s 2012 Artist-in-Residence, and am working with local […]
Marcereau DeGalan will join the museum staff in late October. For more information about The Dayton Art Institute, please visit www.daytonartinstitute.org or call the museum at 937-223-5277.
Peripheral Vision: A View From Ohio Printmaking Cooperatives Reception: Friday | September 21 | 5 to 8pm OSU Urban Arts Space | 50 W. Town St. Suite 130 | Columbus, Ohio 43215 Parking: Metered on-street parking available, meters accept credit cards. A reflection on perspective, Peripheral Vision features works by artists associated with each of […]
Jen Stark To the Power Of Opening reception: Friday, September 28th from 6 to 9pm September 28 – November 3, 2012 Martha Otero Gallery is pleased to present Jen Stark’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles, To the Power Of. Jen Stark’s work is instantly recognizable for its breathtaking color spectrums rendered in mind-bending forms […]
Columbus, Ohio – The Ohio Cultural Facilities Commission approved $1,500,000 at its quarterly meeting today for the Cincinnati Art Museum. The Cincinnati Museum Association has operated the Cincinnati Art Museum since the 1880s. Located in Eden Park, the museum consists of the Art Museum proper and the adjacent former Art Academy building, which has been […]
OH! Snap is a recurring Facebook challenge in which we want to see YOUR photos. Here’s how it works: we issue a single challenge word, and you have a set amount of time (anywhere from 7 days to 12 hours!) to snap and upload a photo of what that word means to you. The winner […]
1954 Kaiser-Darrin Roadster on display at the Cincinnati Art Museum from August 22, 2012 through January 6, 2013. Cincinnati Art Museum 953 Eden Park Drive Cincinnati, OH 45202 voice: 513-639-2872 fax: 513-639-2883 kiley.brodeur@cincyart.org www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact • Kiley Brodeur, Marketing and Communications Associate (513) 639-2872 kiley.brodeur@cincyart.org Sarah Vanderlip: Drawings for Sculptures of Buildings Winner of the Marjorie Schiele Prize September 29–December 9, 2012 (Cincinnati, OH – August 17, 2012) Shimmering outlines of buildings hover in Sarah Vanderlip’s graphite and silvered Mylar drawings entitled Drawings for Sculptures […]
Contact: Cate O’Hara Taft Museum of Art (513) 684-4515, cohara@taftmuseum.org MEDIA ALERT Say so long to summer with hot steel drums and cold ice cream at the Taft Museum of Art HOT MUSIC-COLD TREATS Sunday, August 26, 2–4 p.m. Firelytes Steel Drum Band Continuing the old-fashioned tradition of a neighborhood band concert and ice cream […]
Join us this Thursday, 8/23, at 7:30 p.m. for ascend, a new, eight-member vocal ensemble dedicated to performing new works by Cincinnati composers. At the concert, you will hear the composers speak about their pieces, get to participate in the music process and get to hear new works by these composers. Come support new local […]
We encourage artists to subscribe to Art Deadline listings. They have both free and paid versions. Here is a sampling: October 15, 2012 THE ARTIST’S MAGAZINE ALL MEDIA ART COMPETITION The All Media Art showcases the work done in 8 major art media. It is open to artists of all ages from around the world. […]
Be sure to join us for our 4th annual outdoor exhibition featuring: 70 local artist vendors ABBY LANGDON of abbydid – all manner of plush goodness ALEX LINDBERG – prints + paintings AMANDA HOGAN CARLISLE – handmade cards, collage + acrylic paintings AMANDA NIELSEN of Swan Maiden Soap AMY GABLE – clothing for kids made […]
Walk on Woodburn is coming up this weekend!! Stop by and visit East Walnut Hills (Parking is available on surrounding streets) and all the wonderful galleries! PAC Gallery will be showing new works by Tony Dotson, Manifest gallery will be showing NUDE 4 An Exhibit of Works Exploring the Uncovered Human Form and we will […]
Cincinnati’s Home for Art and the city’s Oldest Tavern come together to offer an evening of music and more to the backdrop of the Taft’s summer “Art for All” program The Taft Museum Art will host a Happy Hour at Arnold’s Bar & Grill in conjunction with the Museum’s 80th Anniversary Art for All public […]
Aeqai is pleased to note that the nationally recognized blog The Painter’s Table, which selects the best writings about painting exhibitions and/or paintings from around the country, has selected Daniel Brown’s article “Sheldon Tapley:The Not-So-Still Life” (June , 2012) and Kevin Muente’s essay on the George Inness painting at the Cincinnati Art Museum (summer, 2012) […]
Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center TWO CALLS FOR ENTRIES
The winners of the jurors’ awards for the previous edition of the Tallinn International Drawing Triennial, MANU PROPRIA, will be featured in a special exhibit as part of this year’s event, VOICE OF DRAWING. TALLINNA JOONISTUSTRIENNAAL Curated by Loit Jõekalda Aug 15-27 Opening reception: Wed, Aug 15, 5 pm Hobusepea Galerii Hobusepea 2, Tallinn Old […]
Most galleries I visit are very professional. By this I mean that great attention has been paid to everything from the lighting and framing and placement to the carpet and the color of the walls. The art viewed in these places has been created to compete in a world in which the quality of the […]
As hard as it is to imagine, not many years ago the word “environment” was seldom used at all in ordinary conversation, and even less in conjunction with art. Now it’s almost a standard inclusion in everything, including paper towel commercials. One of the best, and most interesting, forays into the field is on display […]
A glance at Miller’s “bewilderinger” exhibition invite reveals an unfinished work (in this case the head of a bird of prey) of apparent traditional draftsmanship. Thinking generally, it made me recall the non finito of Renaissance artists, or the framing of Classical fragments by Romantics. Yet, to be a non finito implies an unfinished wholeness […]
The Colored Pencil Society’s 20th Anniversary International Exhibition is an extensive show filling the main gallery and 4 galleries on the second floor of the Carnegie Art Center. This organization, founded by Vera Curnow of Rising Sun, Indiana, seeks to lend stature to the medium of color pencil as a fine art material and facilitate […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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: […]
The Land of Tomorrow in Louisville collaborated with Country Club to curate a broad show of many different artists, many of whom are well-known in Cincinnati (such as Aaron Morse and Jimmy Baker). Only certain artists were given their own individual rooms (The Land of Tomorrow’s group), and are my focus here: Taylor Baldwin, Lisa […]
MANIFEST ANNOUNCES MAJOR NEW PROGRAM M.A.R. Manifest Artist Residency CALL FOR APPLICATIONS <
The B. Deemer Gallery in Louisville presents a partial retrospective of the work of artist and educator Robert Knipschild (1927-2004). Paintings include works dating from the 1960s (a little over a decade after he was selected for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s renowned exhibition “American Painting Today”) through the 1990s. His style in this extensive […]
I am a New York resident who counts myself fortunate to receive AEQAI. Your latest issue is truly amazing in its scope, made even more remarkable when you consider that it is produced entirely gratis. Every artistic organization in America should study AEQAI at this time of massive declines in public support when paid staffs […]
The Painter’s Table, a blog which covers painting exhibitions nationally, has chosen four of AEQAI‘s columns in four months: Sheldon Tapley’s review of the Weston Gallery; Cole Carothers’ essay on Gerhard Richter; Alan Pocaro’s review of a painting show at the Phyllis Weston Gallery; and most recently, Kim Krause’s essay on Philip Guston in the […]
Third Party Gallery opened its first exhibition with a group show (the curator isn’t listed, but I assume it was Wyatt Niehaus, one of the co-founders) called Reductio ad Absurdum. According to the press release, the curator claims that its artists have “composed a dialogue between their work and a preexisting ideology, convention or concept […]
U-turn’s organizers reflect upon their “medicine for misanthropy.” (The following interview took place Sunday, June 14, 2011 in U-turn’s gallery in Brighton. Attending were the five organizers of U-turn, in alphabetical order: Molly Donnermeyer, Matt Morris, Patricia Murphy, Zach Rawe and Eric Ruschman. All are graduates of the Art Academy of Cincinnati. For the sake […]
In Garfield Place, the two bronze statues by Charles Henry Nihaus of former Ohio-born US presidents James A. Garfield and William Henry Harrison have been yarn bombed. Yarn bombing, for the uninitiated, is a form of street art that uses knit/crochet objects illegally placed in prominent public space. The term “bombing” arises from graffiti tagging […]
Rob Anderson’s 24 small (3.5×5″) paintings (2009-present) of mostly male faces form a file along the south wall of the Rieveschl Gallery at the Carnegie. Anderson’s skill with his medium is evident. He precisely renders diverse hues, in defiance of the small dimensions of the board. The background is graphically reduced to large swathes of […]
Keith Haring 1978-1982, the exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Center representing the formative period of the artist, reveals the diversity of his early artistic engagements. It confronts the visitor with his sketches of penises, affirming the youthful Haring’s newly liberated sexuality; narcissistic video work, alluding to a preoccupation with selfhood; and his curatorial roles, divulging […]
Bukang Kim and Emil Robinson Standing before Morning Calm (see image, right), the eye moves from the image of the window, to the feeling of the home from which one views it, to a subtle leap in perspective: one in which the window, house, etc. disappear into the balanced dissidence of boldly placed color and […]