October 4th, 2014 | by Hannah Leow | published in *
Intellect and wit are a potent pair, and Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs have both. An exquisite composite of their work, The One-Eyed Thief, showcases the vast expanse of photography as a medium. Onorato and Krebs weigh our value system as a culture through our relationship to imagery. They reckon with a medium that has […]
October 4th, 2014 | by Katie Dreyer | published in *, September 2014
Museums tend to be places where the public congregates to ruminate over the reminders of past people, places, and objects. Somewhere between holy awe at the importance of the items around you and an unspoken fear that with a single misstep you may knock over one of these priceless pieces, there is a certain feeling […]
October 4th, 2014 | by Karen Chambers | published in *
Born in India and now living and working in Cincinnati, Radha Lakshmi is the first artist-in-residence at gallery One One and Brazee Street Studios. Founder and Director Sandy Gross and Leah Busch, creative director and gallery coordinator, had long discussed instituting an artist-in-residence program. It would include a solo exhibition to showcase the results of […]
October 4th, 2014 | by Sue Ann Painter | published in *, September 2014
The spirit of Daniel Burnham hovers over Fourth Street in Downtown Cincinnati. The famous Chicago architect and his associates created four commercial office buildings in Cincinnati’s financial district in the early twentieth century. And with the recent conversion of the shuttered Bartlett Building into a Marriott Renaissance hotel, the Burnham name is the buzzword for […]
October 4th, 2014 | by Jonathan Kamholtz | published in *
1989 was a watershed year for the art of photography in Cincinnati. Kristin Spangenberg published her catalogue Photographic Treasures from the Cincinnati Art Museum, which recorded the results of her having been given funding to purchase one hundred photographs to give the Museum’s existing but scattershot photographic holdings some shape and a sure anchor in […]
August 15th, 2014 | by Keith Banner | published in *, Summer 2014
Almost 25 years ago, Bill Ross and I had our first two-person art show in Indianapolis, Indiana at 431 Gallery. We were both 24 years old. The title was “The Fifteen Dollar Museum” and was a manifesto of sorts, an accidental action plan for the rest of our lives. 431 Gallery was a cooperative, artist-run, […]
August 15th, 2014 | by Saad Ghosn | published in *, Summer 2014
I returned from a visit to Lebanon in March 2014 with my head, eyes and emotions all over board, triggered in all directions, confused but at the same time fulfilled and satisfied. Lebanon was a chaotic whirlwind of energy, creativity, contrasts, contradictions, peaceful and agitated moments, fears of violence, restful encounters. It was the occasion […]
August 15th, 2014 | by Jane Durrell | published in *
In London, this time, we went to the source. The art-shows-open-to-the-public source, that is. The source itself is unlikely. It’s The Foundling Hospital, established two hundred and seventy-five years ago to care for unwanted babies but not long after also becoming England’s first public art gallery. William Hogarth, that caustic observer of the kind of […]
August 15th, 2014 | by Cynthia Kukla | published in *
In April and May of this year, during my second art research trip to Greece, I had many long discussions about art and politics with my good friend, fellow artist and professor Xenis Sachinis. When he told me of the special circumstances of his poignant print series, Traces and Memory, and that he donated one of them to Aristotle University for the commemoration of […]
August 15th, 2014 | by Matthew Metzger | published in *, Summer 2014
Deborah Butterfield’s sculptures are not like the sculptures of the civilized and perfectly groomed horses standing beneath important men that adorn public places. They’re just themselves, seemingly contemplating their own existence with a serenity that belies their power. At Zolla Lieberman Gallery most of them gently stand while one lays prone, each comfortable with their […]
July 26th, 2014 | by Chuck Heffner | published in *, Announcements
Manifest is an internationally recognized Cincinnati-based 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 2004 by students and professors dedicated to creating high quality experiences of visual art through exhibition, publication, artist-support, and education. CALL FOR ENTRIES PHOTOGRAPHY AND LENS-BASED ART $1000 Best of Show Prize ENTRY DEADLINE: August 26, 2014 http://www.manifestgallery.org/here NEITHER HERE NOR THERE An […]
July 11th, 2014 | by Chuck Heffner | published in *, Announcements
HOME ABOUT CLASSES EXHIBITS EVENTS SUPPORT US VISITOR INFO Final deadline extended to July 18 Full entry and eligibility requirements, fees and schedule >> This exhibit, open to artists living or working within a 25-mile radius of CCAC, features all fine arts disciplines, and is intended to celebrate the artists of our region! CCAC also […]
June 25th, 2014 | by Jonathan Kamholtz | published in *
by Jonathan Kamholtz Taft Musuem of Art, June 13, 2014-September 14, 2014 There is plenty of spiritual energy in the great landscape paintings of 19th century America, but it is usually Emersonian in nature–Christian by implication and default rather than intention. That spirit is sometimes dreamy and solitary, and sometimes busy with life and labor. […]
June 25th, 2014 | by Keith Banner | published in *, June 2014, On View
by Keith Banner Posh, intelligent and no-nonsense, “Cries in the Night: German Expressionist Prints around World War 1” (June 21, 2014 to August 17, 2014 at the Cincinnati Art Museum) is both a scholarly tour de force and a pleasure just to look at. Curated simply with blocks of necessary wall texts contextualizing and expanding […]
June 25th, 2014 | by Daniel Brown | published in *, Features, June 2014
by Daniel Brown As we near the end of another art season, which is generally thought to run from September through June, much like the academic year, some patterns have emerged which we should note. The predominant movement seems to be towards a near complete domination of the visual arts by non-profits, and the very […]
June 25th, 2014 | by Fran Watson | published in *, Features, June 2014
by Fran Watson from May 5 – August 24, 2014 A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, A Loaf of Bread—and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness— Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow! Nothing could be more natural than the mix of art and books. Both benefit, and the public is […]
June 25th, 2014 | by Laura Hobson | published in *
by Laura A. Hobson A visitor winds her way off interstate roads to reach artist Beverly Erschell’s home, tucked away in a house overlooking the Ohio River in Northern Kentucky. There, Erschell, 79, paints in a home studio. “All my paintings are discoveries,” she said. “I paint to learn.” Her preferred medium is oils, but […]
June 25th, 2014 | by Marlene Steele | published in *, Features, June 2014
by Marlene Steele The Manifest Artist in Residency Program has been expanded to include a double position this year. The work of Jeremy Plunkett and Nicholas Anthony Mancini produced during this residency term is exhibited at the Woodburn avenue gallery. ” ‘Container’ speaks of both the act of containing and a vessel that…holds or transports […]
June 25th, 2014 | by Karen Chambers | published in *
by Karen S. Chambers When I think of photos of musicians, I immediately visualize them caught up in the performance, on stage, perhaps dramatically lit, with maybe a glimpse of an appreciative audience – raucous or captivated. legal pharmacy online Don’t go to the Iris Bookcafé and Gallery expecting that. In fact, there are really […]
June 25th, 2014 | by Judith Fairly | published in *, Features, June 2014
by Judith Fairly Ah, Texas; is there any place that elicits such polarized opinion as the Lone Star state, regardless of whether one has actually set foot within its borders? Even my dad, whose Scottish forebears were in Texas for three generations before his parents left to start a school next door in New Mexico, […]
June 25th, 2014 | by Kevin Ott | published in *, June 2014, On View
by Kevin Ott The sulfur smell of the marsh, the waves of the Atlantic rolling up onto the surrounding beach communities, afternoon rain showers, the funky smell of the historic downtown streets on a hot, humid day…oh, and the restaurants, and of course, Spoleto. There is much to recommend in a visit to the Low […]
June 25th, 2014 | by Jane Durrell | published in *
by Jane Durrell June 18, 2014 We are cutting through calm waters in a ship so large, so superbly engineered that only now and then does a tremor indicate we are at sea. The Queen Mary II is majestic indeed, elegantly Art Deco in most respects and staffed by people so obliging they seem to […]
June 25th, 2014 | by Matthew Metzger | published in *, Features, June 2014
by Matthew Metzger It’s difficult to talk about the unnecessary rift between art, design and craft without being somewhat didactic and hypocritical. The “disciplines” need to be separated to some degree to begin a conversation about them in the first place. It’s ambiguous at best to later backpedal and claim that art, design and craft […]
June 25th, 2014 | by Elizabeth Teslow | published in *, June 2014, Profiles
by Elizabeth Teslow I’m staring at a Maker’s Mark glass. It’s quirky. It has a red plastic base that gives it the appearance of dipped and dripped wax. “Oh, Liz, Go ahead, take it. It’s a great souvenir.” It did make sense to take it home. It wasn’t exactly in perfect condition, but that was […]
June 25th, 2014 | by Saad Ghosn | published in *, Features, June 2014
by Saad Ghosn I. Images For A Better World: Andrew AU, Visual Artist Andrew Au, a Cincinnati-based artist, was born in1972 in Chicago, IL; he grew up in Keyser, WV. Au has drawn ever since he was able to put pen to paper, influenced from an early age by science fiction, religion, reading and art. […]
June 25th, 2014 | by Daniel Brown | published in *, Features, June 2014
by Daniel Brown Clever Girl, by English writer Tessa Hadley, establishes her in great tradition of English women writers whose symbolic ancestor remains Jane Austen. I admit to being something of a sucker for family sagas, including The Forsythe Saga by John Galsworthy, and Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann. Contemporary writers in this genre, which expands […]
June 25th, 2014 | by Daniel Brown | published in *, Features, June 2014
by Daniel Brown Just as I had stated last month that Francine Prose’s novel The Chameleon Club is the best novel of 2014 to date, I read Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See, which I think it’s safe to call a masterpiece. Written over a ten year period but just published, Doerr’s novel […]
June 25th, 2014 | by Maxwell Redder | published in *, June 2014, Poetry
by Maxwell Redder A Father’s Roof I. Terracotta tiles lain on bamboo stalks; fired earthen rain protectors, decorous and new. The roof of past was treacherous due to brilliant swoops of egret flocks landing, loosening grass ties as they gawked, waiting while others caught up. Cankerous, thwarted surreptitiously; cancerous, the rotted old roof was carefully […]
June 25th, 2014 | by Jane Durrell | published in *
THREE POEMS BY JANE DURRELL LONG TIME GONE Who cried, in that other time from now, Whose heart hurt, unhealed, until Bliss intruded, out of nowhere, and then was gone again. Old carings, rustling like cicada shells Form intact, being gone Remembering remembering. THOUGHTS GOING SOUTH ON I-75 I cannot read in Tennessee The mountains […]
June 25th, 2014 | by David Smith | published in *, Features, June 2014
By David Smith The Cincinnati Art Museum recently announced the acquisition of a clock by Jean Puiforcat. The c. 1930 desk clock, made of nickel-plated brass and rosewood, is to be installed in the museum’s Gallery 211 by the end of June 2014. The design is a tour-de-force of late Art Deco/Art Moderne aesthetic and […]
June 25th, 2014 | by Daniel Brown | published in *, Features, June 2014
The June issue of aeqai is now ready for your aesthetic pleasure and intellectual enjoyment. We are just beginning that time of year when the pace of the arts and urban culture relaxes a little, so this is a smaller edition of aeqai. Two of the most important shows at area museums have just recently […]
June 24th, 2014 | by Chuck Heffner | published in *, Announcements
CAM Announces Exhibition Schedule for 2014-2015 View this email in your browser FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Jessica Stringfield Marketing and Communications Associate (513) 639-2872, jessica.stringfield@cincyart.org *High Res Images Available Upon Request Website: www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org Address: 953 Eden Park Drive, Cincinnati, Ohio 45202 General Info: 513-639-2995 Cincinnati Art Museum Announces 2014-2015 Exhibition Schedule Conversations around American Gothic Aug. 30 […]
June 15th, 2014 | by Chuck Heffner | published in *, Announcements
HOME ABOUT CLASSES EXHIBITS EVENTS SUPPORT US VISITOR INFO It’s that time of year again! The Clifton Cultural Arts Center is honored to celebrate the talented artists in our region and warmly encourages all artists of fine arts disciplines living and working within 25 miles of CCAC to participate in year five of The Golden […]
June 15th, 2014 | by Chuck Heffner | published in *, Announcements
America’s Eden: Thomas Cole and “The Voyage of Life” Opens Today On view through September 14 Discover a landmark of American art by Thomas Cole, a leader of the Hudson River School. Cole’s allegorical paintings, The Voyage of Life, depict the course of a man’s life as a river journey through four magical landscapes. Cole’s […]
June 15th, 2014 | by Chuck Heffner | published in *, Announcements
Sunday, June 15, 2:00PM – 3:00PM and 6:00PM – 7:00PM Note: Meet at the band stand at Washington Park! Austrian choreographer Willi Dorner will work with Cincinnati area dancers to present Bodies in Urban Spaces in downtown Cincinnati for two performances. Bodies in Urban Spaces is a moving trail of site-specific interventions, choreographed for a […]
June 15th, 2014 | by Chuck Heffner | published in *, Announcements
Come (in person or in spirit!) to the opening reception this Saturday for “Convergence” at the Korean Cultural Art Center of Chicago. 5 – 8PM. This is a curated, invitational group exhibition. Pictured is one of my first 2013-2014 sabbatical paintings from my “Arcadia” series which is among the four paintings of mine that will […]
June 15th, 2014 | by Chuck Heffner | published in *, Announcements
“He Bites” 6×6 Oil on Panel 2014 Old Town Art Fair this weekend (June 14-15) My annual journey to downtown Chicago is upon me. To all of my Chicagoan collectors and friends, I hope to see you this weekend for another great Old Town Art Fair in Old Town Chicago. To all […]
June 15th, 2014 | by Chuck Heffner | published in *, Announcements
Manifest is an internationally recognized award-winning non-profit organization founded in 2004 by students and professors dedicated to creating high quality experiences of visual art through exhibition, publication, artist-support, and education. CALL FOR ENTRIES FOR WORKS EXPLORING THE UNCOVERED HUMAN FORM DEADLINE: Friday, June 27, 2014 (gallery exhibit) http://www.manifestgallery.org/nude NUDE 6th Annual Exhibition Exploring the Uncovered […]
June 11th, 2014 | by Chuck Heffner | published in *, Announcements
Manifest is an internationally recognized Cincinnati-based 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 2004 by students and professors dedicated to creating high quality experiences of visual art through exhibition, publication, artist-support, and education. CALL FOR ENTRIES REGIONAL CALL FOR ARTISTS IN OHIO, KENTUCKY, & INDIANA ENTRY DEADLINE: JUNE 30, 2014 http://www.manifestgallery.org/regional REGIONAL SHOWCASE WORKS OF SCULPTURE by Artists […]
June 11th, 2014 | by Chuck Heffner | published in *, Announcements
COLLECTIVE VISION: OPEN STUDIO THURSDAY JUNE 19 6-8PM NORTHSIDE You are invited to the Visionaries + Voices Northside Studio on Thursday, June 19 from 6-8 pm for the inaugural event in our series of Open Studio Art Making Evenings.Please come to our studio to make art + participate in our Fall exhibition: “Envelope: A Mail […]
June 11th, 2014 | by Chuck Heffner | published in *, Announcements
Manifest is an internationally recognized award-winning non-profit organization founded in 2004 by students and professors dedicated to creating high quality experiences of visual art through exhibition, publication, artist-support, and education. CALL FOR ENTRIES FOR NON-PROFIT JURIED PUBLICATION DEADLINE: June 30, 2014 (publication + cash awards) For details and online entry visit: http://www.manifestgallery.org/inpa5 INPA 5 The 5th […]
June 7th, 2014 | by Chuck Heffner | published in *, Announcements
THE SUB-MISSION: CALL FOR PROPOSALS 2015 APPLICATION PROCESS IS NOW OPEN THE MISSION presents: THE SUB-MISSION, an alternative installation project space dedicated to the development of artists living and working in Chicago. Located below the main gallery, THE SUB-MISSION is a natural progression toward fulfilling our mission statement. Specifically, THE SUB-MISSION was created to showcase […]
June 3rd, 2014 | by Chuck Heffner | published in *, Announcements
Art Off Pike is Covington’s creative urban arts festival and it’s a perfect opportunity to sell your artwork in Northern Kentucky! This year, we celebrate our 10th Anniversary and you won’t want to miss what’s in store for September 28th. For more information and to apply click https://www.zapplication.org/event-info-public.php?fair_id=3354. Deadline to apply is August 4, 2014. In […]
June 2nd, 2014 | by Chuck Heffner | published in *, Announcements
Visionaries + Voices in conjunction with Western Exhibitions, Chicago, is proud to announce the Cincinnati Art Museum’s purchase of Courttney Cooper’s “Cincinnati Map”. This piece was shown in connection with Courttney’s first museum show, “Cincinnati Everyday”; on view at the Cincinnati Museum of Art last May-September 2013. The piece will reside in the Museum’s […]
June 2nd, 2014 | by Chuck Heffner | published in *, Announcements
ΣΟΛΟΜΩΝ ΝΙΚΡΙΤΙΝ – ΤΖΟΡΤΖ ΓΚΡΟΣ. ΠΟΛΙΤΙΚΟΣ ΤΡΟΜΟΣ & ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΚΗ ΠΑΡΑΚΜΗ ΣΤΗΝ ΕΥΡΩΠΗ ΤΟΥ ΜΕΣΟΠΟΛΕΜΟΥ Σχέδια & Χαρακτικά SOLOMON NIKRITIN – GEORGE GROSZ. POLITICAL TERROR AND SOCIAL DECADENCE IN EUROPE BETWEEN THE WARS Drawings & Prints Σολομών Νικρίτιν, “Μνημείο” 1930, ΚΜΣΤ- συλλογή Κωστάκη / Solomon Nikritin, “Monument”, 1930, SMCA-Costakis collestion Τζορτζ Γρος, “Η Συνάντηση” […]
June 2nd, 2014 | by Chuck Heffner | published in *, Announcements
THE HIGH MUSEUM OF ART/ATLANTA HAS RECENTLY ADDED CONTEMPORARY ARTIST ERIC MACK TO THE PERMANENT COLLECTION!
June 1st, 2014 | by Keith Banner | published in *, May 2014, On View
by Keith Banner A few months back I went to see the Mike Kelley retrospective at the New York City Museum of Modern Art PS 1 space, and I was floored. More than floored actually – more like cosmically overwhelmed. The show was exhaustive and high-style and punk and stupid and hyper-intelligent and mean-spirited and […]
June 1st, 2014 | by Karen Chambers | published in *
by Karen Chambers For the last three years, gallery one One’s juried summer exhibition has focused on color. This year it’s another basic design element – “shape: Circle.” The circle represents “perfection, completeness, and freedom from distinction or separation.”1 It’s the cosmos, creation, and time. The circle is perhaps the most universal of shapes, appearing […]
June 1st, 2014 | by Jonathan Kamholtz | published in *
by Jonathan Kamholtz April 8, 2014-May 16, 2014 Joomi Chung’s “Atlas 4” (2011) is an acetate scroll of indeterminate length, standing like an elephantine roll of film on one of its edges, allowing us to scrutinize some of its intricate webs of markings. It has been covered with networks of (mostly) black ink, some of […]
June 1st, 2014 | by Laura Hobson | published in *
by Laura Hobson Abby S. Schwartz and The Cincinnati Skirball Museum Comprised of seven thematic galleries that portray the cultural, historical and religious heritage of the Jewish people, the Cincinnati Skirball Museum has a long history as one of the oldest repositories of Jewish cultural artifacts in America, according to its website. The seeds for the museum […]
June 1st, 2014 | by Christopher Hoeting | published in *, Features, May 2014
by Christopher Hoeting After a five-year hiatus, the Alice F. and Harris K. Weston Art Gallery turned its compass to the northern side of Cincinnati to revive popular studio tour/art walk North By Northside. On May 18, 2014, event organizers Dennis Harrington and Kelly O’Donnell produced a rare opportunity to experience a comprehensive look at […]
June 1st, 2014 | by Keith Banner | published in *, May 2014, On View
by Keith Banner The exhibit currently haunting Semantics Gallery in Brighton is called “The Moon Show,” and it has the stylish quiet and unnerving grace of a palace right after a coup, or a vast suburban mall that’s just about kaput. The whole thing is about a lot of stuff (fiction vs. nonfiction, art vs. […]
June 1st, 2014 | by Chuck Heffner | published in *, Announcements
Blast Off an exhibition at Arcilesi / Homberg Fine Art Opening Reception Thursday June 5th 6 – 9pm Blast Off Arcilesi / Homberg Fine Art Opening Reception Thursday June 5th 6 – 9pm Regular Gallery hours: Wednesday – Sunday 12pm – 6pm and by appointment. 111 Front Street, Suite 222, Brooklyn, NY 11201 For more information, follow this link
May 30th, 2014 | by Chuck Heffner | published in *, Announcements
Sunday, June 1, 2:00pm – 4:00pm Come meet the Artists and Teachers Enjoy the Beautiful Gardens Reconnect & Meet New Friends More Information at www.bakerhunt.org or call 859.431.0020 The Baker Hunt Art & Cultural Center 620 Greenup Street Covington, Kentucky 41011 859.431.0020
May 29th, 2014 | by Chuck Heffner | published in *, Announcements
The 24th Annual A Taste of Duveneck June 5, 2014 6:00pm-9:00pm CINCINNATI (4-8-2014)- The official fundraiser that kicks off summer, A Taste of Duveneck, returns to the Cincinnati Art Museum on Thursday, June 5th, from 6pm-9pm. Last year, the event brought in more than 700 guests. This year, the 24th annual wine tasting festival will […]
May 29th, 2014 | by Chuck Heffner | published in *, Announcements
Cincinnati Art Museum Art After Dark: Cincinnati Pride Night Friday, May 30, 2014 5pm to 9pm CINCINNATI, OH (5/22/14) – This month, join us as we celebrate the past and present with Art After Dark: Cincinnati Pride Night! After After Dark, the Cincinnati Art Museum’s Final Friday Happy Hour is proud to be involved with […]
May 26th, 2014 | by Chuck Heffner | published in *, Announcements
INAUGURAZIONE 27 Maggio 2014, 18:30 Pascal Ancel Bartholdi, Anna Burel, Anna Capolupo, Yasmine Dainelli, William Howard, Rupert Jaeger, Yuri Pirondi, Jaime Valtierra, Ines Von Bonhorst La Fondazione Biagiotti Progetto Arte è lieta di presentare Mnemonic City, un progetto del collettivo Magma nella città di Firenze. Il collettivo, nato nel 2009, ha sede a Londra ed […]
May 24th, 2014 | by Matthew Metzger | published in *, May 2014, On View
by Matthew Metzger Kay Hurley’s art has been, quite simply but very profoundly, an exploration of the beautiful. Luminous, tonal, unpeopled landscape has unabashedly been her exclusive “genre”. Her commitment to her art has been steadfast, second only to actually living life. Or more aptly put, perhaps, would be to say she has appropriately combined […]
May 24th, 2014 | by Christine Huskisson | published in *, May 2014, On View
by Christine Huskisson Nearly fifteen panels of translucent silk hung at the entrance of the Tuska Gallery for Contemporary Art on the campus of the University of Kentucky. They overlapped in such a way as to block any clear access to the interior of the gallery space that housed the B.F.A. exhibition of Roya Ramezankhani […]
May 24th, 2014 | by Jane Durrell | published in *
by Jane Durrell Raveled – Unraveled starts off with a a linguistic challenge. In most usages “ravel” and “unravel” carry the same meaning, but for the purposes of this exhibition they are taken to be opposites. If that were always the case, MacBeth would have had no need to knit up his raveled sleeve of […]
May 24th, 2014 | by Emil Robinson | published in *, May 2014, On View
by Emil Robinson Shall I tell you the secret of the whole world? Painting Parody and Disguise at the Contemporary Arts Center presents a range of painterly practice from sculptural to traditional, conceptual to formal. As such it is a coup for the Contemporary Arts Center, whose recent presentations can seem to under-represent the current […]
May 24th, 2014 | by Hannah Leow | published in *
By Hannah Leow Story is an unmatched force. Stories possess the power to transcend time, to connect human experience, to cross cultures, to resonate on both individual and global scales, to permeate emotion and logic, to unite adversaries, to shift perspectives, to revitalize past, present (especially present), and to renew the future. Collated on the […]
May 24th, 2014 | by Marlene Steele | published in *, May 2014, On View
by Marlene Steele There is a little something for everyone in the Figurative Invitational at Miller Gallery. Their selection of artists, both local and international, accommodates several of the trendy approaches considered current today. Moscow native, Larissa Morais’s oil painting entitled “Solace” captures a beautiful single figure kneeling anonymously behind a black bladed samurai sword. […]
May 24th, 2014 | by Fran Watson | published in *, May 2014, On View
by Fran Watson Once in a great while, people appear who truly care about art and artists. At 506 Ash this rare miracle has morphed into a highly successful, bottom line-less, mutually advantageous, limited opportunity to allow collectors access to the finest of area art in a most unlikely space. The show-place is, in fact, […]
May 24th, 2014 | by Mike Rutledge | published in *, May 2014, On View
By Mike Rutledge COVINGTON – Viewing Marc Leone’s hanging artworks, one can almost see a planet being formed. Tectonic plates collide. Mountains rise. Lava oozes from gigantic cracks on the planet’s crust. And the craters show striations from millions of years of erosion. Leone, a 44-year-old associate professor at Northern Kentucky University who teaches drawing […]
May 24th, 2014 | by Marlene Steele | published in *, Features, May 2014
by Marlene Steele National Portrait Gallery Feb. 7 – Sept 7 2014 This photography exhibition presents several decades of historic, artistic and contemporary images of American icons who embody the concept of “Cool”. What are the criteria of “coolness” for inclusion in this exhibition? ⁃ Original artistic vision with innovative signature style. ⁃ Represents cultural […]
May 24th, 2014 | by Louis Z. Bickett | published in *, Features, May 2014
AARON SKOLNICK’S 20 PAIRS OF SHOES, MAY 5, 2014, The Archive of Louis Zoellar Bickett SAM FOY IN THE ARCHIVE GARDEN, MAY 5, 2014, The Archive of Louis Zoellar Bickett
May 24th, 2014 | by Jens Rosenkrantz | published in *, Features, May 2014
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May 24th, 2014 | by Daniel Brown | published in *, Features, May 2014
by Daniel Brown Shawn Daniell: In Memorial Shawn came to see me in 2010, when I had just taken over as Editor of aeqai. She was shy but certain that she had an idea that would be good for aeqai and for her. I remember her literally sitting on the edge of my couch, until […]
May 24th, 2014 | by Robert Wallace | published in *, Features, May 2014
by Robert K. Wallace (submitted for the May 2014 issue of AEQAI) I first met Shawn as a journalist. In February 2011 she covered a lecture by the French artist Claire Illouz for The Northerner, NKU’s student newspaper. Illouz visited our campus on the way back from the Codex Book Fair in Berkeley, California, where […]
May 24th, 2014 | by Daniel Brown | published in *, Features, May 2014
by Daniel Brown The recent trip to New York by our symphony, The May Festival Chorus, The Cincinnati Opera, The Cincinnati Ballet, The Art Museum, The Taft Museum, The Ariel String Quartet from CCM, and seven area chefs represents a new opening wedge in branding and marketing Cincinnati nationally. What at first appeared to be […]
May 24th, 2014 | by Daniel Brown | published in *, Features, May 2014
by Daniel Brown Aeqai congratulates the CAC as it celebrates its 75 anniversary year. We have decided to help the festivities by asking two people a month to let us know what the CAC has meant to them. Aeqai will be asking former staff and board members, as well as artists who have shown there, […]
May 24th, 2014 | by Jane Durrell | published in *
When we joined the CAC in the 1950s we were just back from two months abroad, having saved our money and quit our jobs to make the trip. CAC was young and so were we, and I think we were fired with the idea of keeping our culture level high and open. Also, it didn’t […]
May 24th, 2014 | by Dustin Pike | published in *, Features, May 2014
by Dustin Pike In this article I will be dissecting the notion that letters and numbers have shared an integral relationship with each other since their very beginnings, which, in ancient Greek times, was called ‘Gematria’ or ‘Isopsophy’. The basic idea is that since numbers, and their inter-relationships, form the key to every science, it […]
May 24th, 2014 | by Danelle Cheney | published in *, Features, May 2014
by Danelle Cheney Shortly after World War I in April 1919, Das Staatliche Bauhaus—The State Home for Building—opened under the leadership of 31-year old Walter Gropius. The new Bauhaus was a merger of two existing schools: the Weimar Arts and Crafts School and the Weimar Art Academy. This marriage of applied arts and fine arts […]
May 24th, 2014 | by Kevin Ott | published in *, Features, May 2014
by Kevin Ott Midway through my exploration of BLDG, the Covington based branding/art studio/creative think tank/gallery, Jay Becker said “It all starts with the art”. I was trying to grasp ahold of the many tentacles that BLDG seems to be, and this statement described the head of the octopus. When you walk into BLDG on […]
May 24th, 2014 | by Saad Ghosn | published in *, Features, May 2014
by Saad Ghosn I. Images For A Better World: Nathan WEIKERT, Visual Artist Nathan Weikert was born and raised in Kettering, Ohio. He graduated from Miami University with a BS in art education (1998), a BFA in painting (1998), and a MA in art education (2002). In 2013 he had a solo exhibition at 1305 […]
May 24th, 2014 | by Daniel Brown | published in *, May 2014, On View
by Daniel Brown A virtual plethora of new African writers is taking the literary world by surprise and by storm. Last year’s Amerikah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ended up on The New York Times’ five best novels of the year, most deservedly (I had not, at that time, read it). The writer’s narrator is a […]
May 24th, 2014 | by Daniel Brown | published in *, May 2014, On View
by Daniel Brown Francine Prose’s newest novel, Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932, is both her finest to date as well as the best novel of 2014 to date. The book is written from several different points of view, and by several different narrators/protagonists. Prose takes us to Paris in the late 20’s, and […]
May 24th, 2014 | by Maxwell Redder | published in *, May 2014, Poetry
by Maxwell Redder A Journey to Discover what I Already Know I. Driving North America’s main arteries, I nod to Hudgins’ Cadillac in the Attic while snapping a shutter, amused that the attic car will never visit Cadillac Ranch; I nod to Amarillo. II. Airplane window. Vast lines: canyons, roads, and rivers; the Earth’s nervous […]
May 24th, 2014 | by Daniel Brown | published in *, Features, May 2014
by Daniel Brown The month of May has been full of art exhibitions, indoor and outdoor, and lots of benefit parties to raise money for them. We are nearing the end of the official art year, in June, as the art season is more or less the same as the school year. Aeqai will post […]
April 26th, 2014 | by Jonathan Kamholtz | published in *
by Jonathan Kamholtz Dayton Art Institute February 22, 2014-May 18, 2014 Many years ago, I saw a group of photographs of tulips in bloom, pulled out of the ground, dirt still clinging to the bulbs and roots, captured after they had been laid out horizontally on a table. They were part of a group show […]
April 26th, 2014 | by Matthew Metzger | published in *, April 2014, On View
by Matthew Metzger Fresh Air: Art from the Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest at the Ascent Private Capital Management building was curated by Elizabeth Leach of Elizabeth Leach Gallery in Portland Oregon, with direction from Martha Slaughter, Bernheim’s Visual Arts Coordinator. It presents works by current and past artists in residence at the Bernheim Arboretum, […]
April 26th, 2014 | by Regan Brown | published in *, April 2014, Features
by Regan Brown The Burden of Violence: Todd Pavlisko’s “Crown” at the Cincinnati Art Museum through June 15th. I. Shoot to Thrill. “At 7:45pm I was shot in the left arm by my friend. The bullet was a copper jacket .22 long rifle. My friend was standing about 15 feet from me.” ―Chris Burden, “Shoot”, […]
April 26th, 2014 | by Daniel Brown | published in *, April 2014, Features
by Daniel Brown The recent death of Millard Rogers, Director Emeritus of The Cincinnati Art Museum, not only brings back some extremely fond memories for many of us who knew him well, but also reminds me that we are searching now for another director of the art museum. I am hoping that we can remember […]
April 26th, 2014 | by Keith Banner | published in *, April 2014, On View
by Keith Banner The basement space at the Weston Art Gallery has always felt claustrophobic and a little spooky to me, like a staged scene in a really serious movie about abduction, no matter what art goes on the walls. It’s the ceiling that does it, kind of looming over the whole area like a […]
April 26th, 2014 | by Karen Chambers | published in *
by Karen Chambers In “Under the Sun” (what a great title for an exhibition of photograms made by the sun), Anita Douthat is presenting four series — “Transparent Uniforms,” “Bridal Suite,” “Alterations,” and “Candelabras for Constantin (Brancusi)” — in a solo show at the Alice F. and Harris K. Weston Art Gallery. Photograms were among […]
April 26th, 2014 | by Daniel Brown | published in *, April 2014, Features
by Daniel Brown We are deeply saddened to let our readers know of the untimely death of Lily Mulberry, who invented and ran a gallery in OTR called 1305 Main. That gallery showed some of the finest exhibitions, mainly of area talent, of any gallery in the region. Lily herself had a very fine eye […]
April 26th, 2014 | by David Smith | published in *, April 2014, Features
by David G. Smith For years a particular painting, sculpture, a piece of jewelry or a piece of furniture was a badge amongst the cognoscenti-modernism was like a secret club. In conjunction with its exhibit, “From the Village to Vogue: The Modernist Jewelry of Art Smith” (Feb. 22, 2014 – May 18,2014), the Cincinnati Art […]
April 26th, 2014 | by Matthew Metzger | published in *, April 2014, On View
by Matthew Metzger Alice Aycock’s Super Twister at the University of Cincinnati Medical Science Building Alice Aycock was a seminal presence in the New York avant-garde art scene in the 1970s, and has since continued to create work that simultaneously dissects and combines aspects of monumental sculpture, architecture, science and modern machinery. In stride with […]
