April 26th, 2014 | by Mike Rutledge | published in *, April 2014, Features
by Mike Rutledge COVINGTON – Curator Daniel Brown assembled the exhibition called The Definitive Contemporary Landscape to robustly prove a point. “Somebody said to me not too long ago that he found landscapes boring,” Brown said. The art expert offered Brown this reason for his opinion: “Well, they’ve been doing them for 300 years.” Brown […]
April 26th, 2014 | by Shawn Daniell | published in *, April 2014, On View
by Shawn Daniell After last month’s lackluster experience at The Carnegie’s Art of Food, I was looking for something a little less mainstream. I was looking for something off the beaten path. I desired something fun and quirky. I’m always searching for new galleries or spaces that don’t see a lot of coverage. During one […]
April 26th, 2014 | by Jane Durrell | published in *
by Jane Durrell Atmosphere at Miller Gallery is a pleasurable show, hung so that the works feed off each other in interesting ways. computer science homework help The chosen subject matter is a jumping-off point to present artists moving in both original and time-tested ways, admittedly some more successfully than others. Karen Hollingsworth’s “Lake Effect,” […]
April 26th, 2014 | by Fran Watson | published in *, April 2014, On View
by Fran Watson The Carnegie, April 4 – May 17, 2014 The magnet piece in Recognized: Contemporary Portraiture at the Carnegie Arts Center was definitely “Biker Mice”. With the same fury seen in Jean-Michel Basquiat’s art, Marci Rosin splashed her signature subject based on the cartoon, “Biker Mice from Mars” with graffiti and speed. I […]
April 26th, 2014 | by Jane Durrell | published in *
by Jane Durrell Lily Mulberry’s long and difficult battle with cancer ended this month. For almost a decade her 1305 Gallery has given authenticity and continuing interest to the vivacity of the upper Main Street art scene and she herself was always a pleasure to encounter. The loss to the art community is both professional […]
April 26th, 2014 | by Laura Hobson | published in *
by Laura A. Hobson “I am going to be an art historian,” announced Cate Yellig, now 33, to her father Chuck when she was 20. Her dad told her to find a career that paid the bills. A native Cincinnatian, Yellig eventually wound up as art director of the Covington Arts Center. The Kentucky Arts […]
April 26th, 2014 | by Fran Watson | published in *, April 2014, Features
by Fran Watson Gatlinburg, Tennessee once was a quiet little town sporting one motel with rooms overlooking a rushing mountain stream and one restaurant. At least, it was on my first trip there. Several years later, I revisited it to find a commercial nightmare had descended upon it , its main street, and side two-lane […]
April 26th, 2014 | by Saad Ghosn | published in *, April 2014, Features, Poetry
by Saad Ghosn I. Images For A Better World: Ricci MICHAELS, Visual Artist Ricci Michaels was born and raised in Philadelphia, the seventh of eight daughters. Encouraged by her teachers, she started painting at a very young age, as far back as kindergarten. She liked to see her pictures hung often in her classroom. Being […]
April 26th, 2014 | by Daniel Brown | published in *, April 2014, On View
by Daniel Brown Two recently published books, one fiction, and one non-fiction, have recently come out, and both of them are utterly outstanding in trying to explain what is happening to our soldiers when they come back from either Iraq or Afghanistan. Phil Klay’s Redeployment is a work of unmitigated brilliance, and presents a powerful […]
April 26th, 2014 | by Maxwell Redder | published in *, April 2014, Poetry
by Maxwell Redder I. Production moving up is a scummy tank whose bubbles always read as green because the budget doesn’t allow for a thorough scrubbing II. Hierarchy: everyone has eyes that report to other sets like a wave, slowly and always concentrating on the tip: anticipate a breaking point. III. Low Management (Peace Keepers), […]
April 26th, 2014 | by Alissa Magenheim | published in *, April 2014, Poetry
by Alissa Sammarco Magenheim Like turning off a light, Time stopped The era was ended, And suddenly I sat Staring at myself In the mirror. Fingers tracing lines, Pretending that all my sorrows Were fulfilled and borrowed From someone else. Pretending that sighs stopped And crying had no more food When my laughter Cascaded across […]
April 26th, 2014 | by Louis Z. Bickett | published in *, April 2014, Poetry
by Louis Bickett OVERHEARD ON THE CORNER OF BROADWAY & MAIN, LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY Overheard on the street in front of Starbuck’s with a lb. of just ground Sumatra fresh in my nose, a weathered drunk screaming to no one in particular “We don’t need no machine to tell us what to do. We live in […]
April 26th, 2014 | by Daniel Brown | published in *, April 2014, Features
I would like to thank everyone who came to, or helped with, the aeqai benefit party at Marta Hewett Gallery on April 17th. The event was highly successful, and generated 125% more money than last year’s. We also want to thank all the artists who were kind enough to donate their work for our silent […]
March 25th, 2014 | by Daniel Brown | published in *, March 2014
AEQAI SPRING BENEFIT Thursday, April 17th 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm AEQAI, one of the fastest growing online art journals in America, offers critical reviews, informative profiles and features, and insightful essays and analyses. Join us as we celebrate four years of success and help to support another year of critical reviews, informative reports and […]
March 25th, 2014 | by Jonathan Kamholtz | published in *
by Jonathan Kamholtz Cincinnati Art Museum February 14, 2014-May 11, 2014 In Jean Restout’s “Pygmalion and Galatea,” the statue of Galatea, newly come to life, spreads her arms and bares her breasts to the adoring sculptor. She seems less surprised at her new incarnation than he does; he gazes at him with a sophisticated, impish […]
March 25th, 2014 | by Stephen Slaughter | published in *, Features, March 2014
by Stephen Slaughter “Buildering, Misbehaving the City” and KniveandFork Questions and Answers Space and Place The Ordinary and the Banal The objective of architecture is works of art that are lived in. The city is the largest, and at present the worst of such works of art. Functionalism (to speak roughly of the heroic period […]
March 25th, 2014 | by Karen Chambers | published in *
by Karen Chambers “CCAC (Clifton Cultural Arts Center) will have a beautiful show with these five artists.” That’s how the curator, Yvonne van Eitjden, described the exhibition of two photographers, two wood sculptors, and one painter (herself [Why, oh why, do curators include their own work in exhibitions? How about they make a pact with […]
March 25th, 2014 | by Marlene Steele | published in *, March 2014, On View
by Marlene Steele Gaela Erwin, Manifest Gallery Cincinnati Ohio Chi.a.ro.scu.ro: An effect of contrasted light and shadow. Origin Latin: chiaro ‘clear,bright’ + oscuro ‘dark, obscure’ Pas.tel pastel: noun: a crayon made of powdered pigments bound with gum or resin. adjective: of a soft and delicate shade or color. The interlude where I met Gaela Erwin […]
March 25th, 2014 | by Keith Banner | published in *, March 2014, On View
by Keith Banner In 1964, Susan Sontag wrote an essay called “Notes on ‘Camp’” that still wraps and winds its tentacles throughout culture today. Basically a survey of “Camp’s” meanings, practices and perversions, the essay reads like a Bible for drag, piss-elegance and artful political incorrectness used to both disembowel and deconstruct the mainstream. When […]
March 25th, 2014 | by Robert Wallace | published in *, March 2014, On View
by Robert K. Wallace Wild Card: The Art of Michael Combs, A Fifteen-Year Survey. One of the attractions Newport-on-the-Levee has brought to Greater Cincinnati is the tourist version of the World War II “duck boat” on which you can cruise the Ohio River. Those of us who remember the “duck boat” that got run over […]
March 25th, 2014 | by Trish Richter | published in *, March 2014, On View
by Trish Richter February 14 – March 14 Trailing behind the phenomenon of globalization is the individual’s growing awareness of its identity within a politically, socially, and environmentally global community. Old news, yes, but this concept is exponentially significant as the world continues to shift at the expense of both humans and the natural world. […]
March 25th, 2014 | by Julie Gross | published in *, March 2014, On View
by Julie Gross A recent graduate art student was contemplating the ideas set forth in the Bible. As he pondered the depth of the mysterious mind of God he reached for his plenty pack of chewing gum, unwrapped a thin stick of refreshment and carefully folded it into his mouth. As his thoughts were preoccupied […]
March 25th, 2014 | by Fran Watson | published in *, March 2014, Profiles
by Fran Watson From the Village to Vogue: The Modernist Jewelry of Art Smith February 14, 2014 – May 11, 2014 Cincinnati Art Museum “Bespoke” was hardly an often-used description of jewelry during the ’60’s when Art Smith created the highly original pieces seen in his current display at CAM, but it now seems to […]
March 25th, 2014 | by Jane Durrell | published in *
by Jane Durrell At La Poste Eatery in Clifton, artist M. Katherine Hurley is telling a story over dinner. Her story, “Returning Home,” is on the walls, in colors good enough to eat – if she will forgive me for saying that – in a series of ten works that reflect a trip from Ohio […]
March 25th, 2014 | by Shawn Daniell | published in *, March 2014, On View
by Shawn Daniell The Carnegie’s eighth installment of The Art of Food has become an extravagant opening night affair. But in the days that follow, the viewing experience becomes anticlimactic and sadly underwhelming. I’ve perused photos of the opening night online. I’ve seen the Alice and Wonderland costumed characters. I’ve seen the exquisite food creations […]
March 25th, 2014 | by Kevin Ott | published in *, Features, March 2014
by Kevin Ott Iris BookCafe and Gallery is an uncluttered but homey café/gallery on upper Main Street. Main between Central Parkway and Liberty has retained its DYI vibe, the bars, restaurants, cafes and retail still feeling a bit less polished than its more 3CDC-ish neighbor, Vine Street. Both are great, but Main Street and places […]
March 25th, 2014 | by Dustin Pike | published in *, March 2014, On View
by Dustin Pike In the city we call Cincinnati, there lies nestled a hidden gem of a library founded by three brothers, John Uri, Nelson Ashley, and Curtis Gates Lloyd. They ventured here first and foremost, to further their knowledge and practice of pharmaceuticals, and as it turned out they were quite successful. Their combined […]
March 25th, 2014 | by Daniel Brown | published in *, Features, March 2014
by Daniel Brown As the search for a new director of the Art Museum continues, we have been made aware that the museum board places high priority on the director being part of the international art scene, known internationally. I wish that the board would be more specific in telling us why that is a […]
March 25th, 2014 | by Danelle Cheney | published in *, Features, March 2014
by Danelle Cheney 1455: Mainz, Germany. Johannes Gutenberg nears completion on the first edition of the forty-two line bible with moveable type and machinery he’s spent years developing. 1969: Los Angeles, USA. Charley S. Kline sends the first message across an early version of the internet: “LO.” He was attempting to type “LOGIN,” which he […]
March 25th, 2014 | by Elizabeth Teslow | published in *, March 2014, Profiles
by Elizabeth Teslow “Be open for growth and the unexpected nature of art-making.” Jeremy Plunkett “The year goes by fast. You cannot take a week for granted.” Nicholas Mancini After I completed my interviews with Jeremy Plunkett and Nicholas Mancini, Manifest’s second-year Artists in Residence, I was mentally exhausted. For two enlightening hours, Jeremy and […]
March 25th, 2014 | by Laura Hobson | published in *
by Laura Hobson From “The Indian Chief” by Henry Farny to “Mending the Nets” by Dixie Selden, The Eisele Gallery of Fine Art offers outstanding paintings from the 19th and 20th centuries. Owned and operated by President/Chief Executive Officer Doug Eisele since 2005, the gallery features works by both living and deceased artists. In addition, […]
March 25th, 2014 | by Saad Ghosn | published in *, Features, March 2014
by Saad Ghosn I. Images For A Better World: Kimberly HENSON, Visual Artist Kymberly Henson has been working in the arts for over 30 years. After graduating with an art degree from Edgecliff College she owned and operated a wearable art studio called “Kymber Originals”, producing one of a kind and limited edition hand-painted and […]
March 25th, 2014 | by Louis Z. Bickett | published in *, Features, March 2014
from the Louis Bickett Photo Archive What I Read Collection Daddy Collects Collection I IMAGINE THE OLD NIGGER WILL BE CHEAPER’, VINTAGE LETTER, 17 FEBRUARY 2011
March 25th, 2014 | by Cynthia Kukla | published in *
By Cynthia Kukla There is good art everywhere, just look. Look a little harder and you will find great art just about anywhere. Such is the case with the exhibition of Robert Motherwell and Lee Hall in Jackson Hole, Wyoming’s big ski country. Great art indeed. Tayloe Piggott, owner and namesake of her gallery, presented/paired […]
March 25th, 2014 | by Judith Fairly | published in *, Features, March 2014
By Judith Fairly The contrast between the gray people-moving facility I’d left in Dallas-Fort Worth and the airy concourse into which I disembarked at the Roanoke Regional Airport that the architect Ron Price envisioned as a “transition between earth and air” could not have been greater. Price’s design utilizes materials that look to both the […]
March 25th, 2014 | by Daniel Brown | published in *, Features, March 2014
by Daniel Brown The Apartment, a new novel by Greg Baxter, is a very compelling, beautifully crafted and written book wherein all the action takes place on one single day in an unnamed Eastern European capital, most likely but not necessarily, Prague. The American narrator is a forty-one year old former Navy man with experience […]
March 25th, 2014 | by Daniel Brown | published in *, March 2014, Poetry
by Daniel Brown Lucy Her eyes of sapphire blue Challenge you under quizzical brows. Like a Vermont wildflower, She was tough and unspoiled. Plucked, She might fail to survive. The girl from those green hills Wanted to try art school. She was our daily server At an elegant small mountain resort. I helped her to […]
March 25th, 2014 | by Maxwell Redder | published in *, March 2014, Poetry
by Maxwell Redder But Little Blips I. Seeping from my brain like sap from a pine, slowly building into a sticky clump. I clean the wax from my ear and ponder is it formed from wasted energy of my pale thoughts — never written on paper — the ones but little blips, like rain particles […]
March 25th, 2014 | by Daniel Brown | published in *, March 2014
The March issue of aeqai has just posted, and it’s a very large issue, full of reviews and essays and profiles and Letters from other cities. We are trying to put these different categories of article into groups, and the headings should help our readers go directly to what they want to read, and, too, […]
February 23rd, 2014 | by Kevin Muente | published in *, February 2014, On View
by Kevin Muente Recent Paintings by Jason John at Manifest Gallery Manifest Gallery is entering its tenth season in Cincinnati and its reputation continues to grow both nationally and internationally. Their website states that Jason John’s solo show of eleven works was one of six proposals selected from a pool of 165. John delivers. When […]
February 23rd, 2014 | by Matthew Metzger | published in *, February 2014, On View
by Matthew Metzger Editor’s Note: Aeqai receives an increasingly large number of press releases for exhibitions in other cities. So we thought we would experiment, and try to review one from afar, without the direct experience of seeing it live. The first review, by Matt Metzger, is of a show by Ryan Coburn at the […]
February 23rd, 2014 | by Danelle Cheney | published in *, Features, February 2014
by Danelle Cheney Comic books firmly straddle the space between visual art and literature. They are unique in format: the visuals are just as important to understanding the story as the words (unlike a traditional book, which may be republished several times with differing sets of illustrations). There are even some which include absolutely no […]
February 23rd, 2014 | by Laura Hobson | published in *
by Laura Hobson “I was always interested in art,” says Amy Miller Dehan, 37, curator of decorative arts and design at the Cincinnati Art Museum. “My father Richard Miller was an artist, but he needed to find a career to support his family so he went into the transportation business in Washington, Pennsylvania. I remember […]
February 23rd, 2014 | by Jane Durrell | published in *
by Jane Durrell It was Mark Twain who told us “Clothes make the man,” adding a Twain-ish thought about the little influence naked men have on society. Certainly the Manchu, who came roiling in from the northeast to take over the whole of China in the 17th century, bought the sentiment, for both men and […]
February 23rd, 2014 | by Keith Banner | published in *, February 2014, On View
by Keith Banner Hollis Hammonds has close encounters of the terrestrial kind in her new show at DAAP Galleries called “Worthless Matter.” A stockpile and survey of her recent work, the show displays Hammonds’ skills at drawing and lets us in on a consciousness that is both vividly sedate to the point of entrancement, and […]
February 23rd, 2014 | by Julie Gross | published in *, February 2014, Profiles
by Julie Gross It all started with a Facebook post that read, “Buy or Burn: A one-night, solo art show like none other. All of Joshua Huettig’s paintings must be bought or they will be burned. There will be dancing, fire, music and wine will be served by the gallon!” When I first read this, […]
February 23rd, 2014 | by Shawn Daniell | published in *, February 2014, On View
by Shawn Daniell CUT: Windows to Eternity, the newest exhibition at the Marta Hewett Gallery, features the artwork of Eric Standley. When I first saw Standley’s artwork, I immediately thought of the matryoshka doll, commonly referred to as Russian nesting dolls. Russian nesting dolls are made of wood while Standley’s creations are made of laser […]
February 23rd, 2014 | by Karen Chambers | published in *
by Karen Chambers Alice F. and Harris K. Weston Art Gallery through March 22 Nellie Taft was a hometown girl, born in 1937 in Indian Hill and died in 2012 in Boston. She attended Lotspeich and Hillsdale Schools in Cincinnati, which answers the burning question among natives: Where did you go to high school? She […]
February 23rd, 2014 | by Marlene Steele | published in *, February 2014, On View
by Marlene Steele Life is a box of chocolates— You never know what you are going to get. Love letters, love birds, bottled passion and romance — this lighthearted look at the thread of romance in all phases of life and experience is as varied in message and medium as the artists selected to exhibit. […]
February 23rd, 2014 | by Jan Brown Checco | published in *, Features, February 2014
by Jan Brown Checco If you are a working artist living in Cincinnati, and you don’t have a salaried position within one of our prestigious arts institutions, you know how difficult it is to live from commission to commission, adjunct position to street fair, open studio sales evening to short-term project. There are thousands of […]
February 23rd, 2014 | by Daniel Brown | published in *, Features, February 2014
by Daniel Brown We are regularly informed that the arts have become big business; the investment potential of a work of art has become far more important in late capitalist culture than whether the art is any good, what it says, how it’s made, or whether it matters. It may surprise people under 50 that […]
February 23rd, 2014 | by Christopher Hoeting | published in *, Features, February 2014
by Christopher Hoeting The College Art Association just wrapped up its annual meeting at the Westin Hotel (February 12-15th) inside Chicago’s Loop, just six blocks south from of The Art Institute of Chicago. The conference highlights the academies offering of artist talks, panel discussions, workshops, interviewing sessions, and a book fair among other things. Or […]
February 23rd, 2014 | by Saad Ghosn | published in *, February 2014, Profiles
by Saad Ghosn I. Images For A Better World: Leigh WALTZ, Visual Artist Born in Dayton, Ohio, Leigh Waltz took drawing lessons at an early age. In high school, he traveled through Europe and spent a year on the island of Borneo. There, he learned photography and darkroom techniques with Amarjit Singh, a local photographer. […]
February 23rd, 2014 | by Jane Durrell | published in *
by Jane Durrell The light! The light! No wonder artists, passing through, change their minds and never go away. The town is tucked in an upper layer of mountainous terrain, peaks rising on three sides and the fourth side best essay writing services open toward Albuquerque, sixty-some miles away. We had come for a winter […]
February 23rd, 2014 | by Louis Z. Bickett | published in *, February 2014
The Gratz Park Project, November 6, 2009, The Archive of Louis Zoellar Bickett […]
February 23rd, 2014 | by Fran Watson | published in *, Features, February 2014
by Fran Watson Patterson Center was packed to the brim with the most difficult people in the city: artists. Mostly lady artists. Each of whom knew in her heart of hearts that she was vastly underrated and pushing valiantly to right this obvious wrong. I was one of these, as determined and convinced of my […]
February 23rd, 2014 | by Daniel Brown | published in *, February 2014, On View
by Daniel Brown Gary Shteyngart is a veritable force of nature, a whirlwind of words, anxiety, mania. Having spent the first seven years of his life in the old Soviet Union, in Leningrad, he and his parents emigrated to America during Carter’s presidency. Carter traded grain to the Soviet Union in trade for letting millions […]
February 23rd, 2014 | by Daniel Brown | published in *, February 2014, On View
by Daniel Brown In the past two years or so, America has generated some fantastic new young writers, among them Amber Dermott, Jim Gavin, Jamie Quatro, Eleanor Henderson, Chad Harwick all come to mind. Now, there is the remarkable Jenny Offill, she of the unfortunate name, with her second novel, Dept. of Speculation. When a […]
February 23rd, 2014 | by Daniel Brown | published in *, February 2014, Uncategorized
by Daniel Brown Our family’s car drove by A small white sign Bordered in black Placed by the side of the road Covered with masses of wildflowers Vermont, it said Green mountains dusted the horizon At fourteen, my soul lept Towards the home I’d just found.
February 23rd, 2014 | by Maxwell Redder | published in *, Features, February 2014
by Maxwell Redder I Two cardinals and a murder of crows distinctly chatting between neighboring branches; barren minus twisting auburn vines slunk like somnolent tails, and an occasional jostling squirrel. Snow swallows hooves as a deer herd leaps along my father’s fence. II True, a fence is like an hourglass: flipped one way to […]
February 23rd, 2014 | by David Schloss | published in *, Features, February 2014
by David Schloss It was a rather good year for films, to my pleasant surprise. I found myself making meta-value judgments to sort out all the contenders, so many of which had many serious merits. It was a pleasure. 1. American Hustle. Great serious screwball script that sustains its complicated logic throughout. Great ensemble cast, […]
February 23rd, 2014 | by Daniel Brown | published in *, February 2014
The February issue of aeqai has just been posted, and we hope that you find some of our new essays informative. We are attempting to link the reviews we write with other issues going on in our community in the visual arts, with how the city is or isn’t integrating the arts into the wider […]
February 22nd, 2014 | by drew1 | published in *, Features, February 2014
By Drew Klein Performance art is so “in” right now. Just ask Jay Z, or Lady Gaga, or Shia LaBeouf. Each of these figures of contemporary pop culture have recently dipped their toes (or jumped headfirst into a fiery lake of PR hell) into the world of performance art. Or, at least that’s what they […]
January 25th, 2014 | by Jonathan Kamholtz | published in *
by Jonathan Kamholtz December 12, 2013-February 3, 2014 If you look to your left when you walk into Miami University’s cozy Hiestand Gallery, you’ll see “Lucy” (2013), a statuesque portrait of a standing baby. She is turning away from us, pleasurably but implacably following some agenda of her own. She could be a guardian figure […]
January 25th, 2014 | by Karen Chambers | published in *
by Karen Chambers Before I get to Robert Kushner’s exhibition at the Solway Gallery, let’s take a look at the Pattern and Decoration (P&D) Movement1, which he helped found. Ben Johnson’s curatorial notes for the 2012 exhibition “ReFocus: Art of the 70’s: Pattern and Decoration” at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Jacksonville, FL, sums […]
January 25th, 2014 | by Matthew Metzger | published in *, January 2014, On View
by Matthew Metzger Ron Thomas’ Take if from Me and Kim Krause’s The Eleusinian Mysteries ran concurrently at The Carnegie and Marta Hewett Gallery, offering a nice opportunity for a symposium (at least in writing) of two very different types of abstraction. I provide a bit more coverage for Thomas’ work simply because, to my […]
January 25th, 2014 | by Shawn Daniell | published in *, January 2014, On View
by Shawn Daniell When I was in art school at The College of Brockport in Brockport, New York, ten years gone by now, I often wondered what kind of artwork my art professors were creating in their own studios, or if they were even creating at all. Students put a lot of money and trust […]
January 25th, 2014 | by Daniel Brown | published in *, Features, January 2014
by Daniel Brown Aaron Betsky’s imminent departure as Director of The Cincinnati Art Museum brings up questions, in my mind, that have less to do with the pros and cons of his directorship, than of the methods by which directors are hired here in the first place. I believe that the processes have been flawed […]
January 25th, 2014 | by Cynthia Kukla | published in *
by Cynthia Kukla Twenty years ago, in 1993, the Frans Hals Museum mounted an exhibition of the dozen authentic oil paintings of the ‘lost’ Judith Leyster (1609-1660). Banners throughout the city of Amsterdam proclaimed and celebrated this centennial of Leyster’s rediscovery. Why was this significant? Judith Leyster was […]
January 25th, 2014 | by Keith Banner | published in *, January 2014, On View
by Keith Banner Diane Landry’s “by every wind that blows” at the Contemporary Arts Center downtown (up through March 2, 2014) is revelatory and mundane at the same time, a beautiful mix of thought and action that shimmers in your mind a long time after witnessing it. Landry uses banal objects like empty water-bottles, plastic […]
January 25th, 2014 | by Marlene Steele | published in *, January 2014, Profiles
by Marlene Steele Suited man steps onto a roadway in a low level lilliputian landscape. A nubile intrigante strides openly along a residence-obscuring hedge. Nude male, barefoot in the waning light, apprehensively considers a dismal deserted industrial plant. Leaps of faith and expressions of ecstasy, escapes and admonitions, reactions to the unseen and the unforeseeable, […]
January 25th, 2014 | by Jane Durrell | published in *
by Jane Durrell The Medium is the Message is a fitting title for the new show at downtown’s YWCA. In it four artists, each besotted by color, express themselves in individual mediums. Even the two painters use markedly different methods, contrasting with each other as well as with the fabric artist and the glass artist. […]
January 25th, 2014 | by Kevin Ott | published in *, January 2014, On View
by Kevin Ott Although this is not a proper “show” of Selden’s work, there are 5 paintings displayed at the Eisele Gallery, more than one can usually find in one location by this respected Cincinnati artist and favorite student of Frank Duvenek. First the gallery: Eisele Gallery specializes in 19th and 20th Century paintings (and […]
January 25th, 2014 | by Fran Watson | published in *, January 2014, On View
by Fran Watson “The Tree of Life”, Cincinnati Art Museum, November 29, 2013 – January 1, 2014 In a straight line from the main entrance of the Cincinnati Art Museum, past the sequestered “Icons” spotlighted in black caves, through the spacious hallway, footsteps echoing loudly, stood the very dead “Tree of Life”; its roots unlaced […]
January 25th, 2014 | by Saad Ghosn | published in *, January 2014, Profiles
by Saad Ghosn I. Images For A Better World: Paige WIDEMAN, Visual Artist Paige Wideman, born in Indianapolis, Indiana, grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio. She has a BFA degree in sculpture from the Kansas City Art Institute (1989), and an MFA degree, also in sculpture, from the University of Cincinnati (1999). Wideman took 10 years […]
January 25th, 2014 | by Dustin Pike | published in *, Features, January 2014
by Dustin Pike “The phenomenon of UFOs does exist, and it must be treated seriously.” –Mikhail Gorbachev There is an old parable devised by Plato in his Republic wherein the pre-enlightened man and woman are taught the ways of the world only through the play of shadows projected onto the walls of a cave. After […]
January 25th, 2014 | by Laura Hobson | published in *
By Laura A. Hobson Over the last two decades, Summerfair has contributed more than $500,000 in awards and scholarships to individual artists as well as additional support to events and exhibitions, particularly small arts institutions. “Word is starting to spread about what we are doing,” says Sharon K. Strubbe, executive director since 2006. “We are […]
January 25th, 2014 | by Danelle Cheney | published in *, Features, January 2014
by Danelle Cheney Graphic designers are taught to confront and reconcile the relationship between form and content. Is one more important than the other, or equally so? Does personal expression, emotion, and humanity have a place in design, or should designers focus on legibility, clarity, and unity of content? The first Bauhaus manifesto states: “Together, […]
January 25th, 2014 | by Daniel Brown | published in *, January 2014
by Daniel Brown Edward de Waal’s award winning memoir The Hare with Amber Eyes, published about three years ago, traces the ownership of a large group of Japanese netsukes from its original owner, the author’s great-great uncle, to the author himself. De Waal uses the history of these objects to explore and discover his own […]
January 25th, 2014 | by Maxwell Redder | published in *, Features, January 2014
by Maxwell Redder Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Crumpled Paper –Inspired by Wallace Stevens: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird I. Crumpled and torn the paper’s fluidity, like a loincloth draped against breasts, stiffened, becoming jagged, rigid, recyclable. II. Performing gymnastics, a piece of plain white dropped from a vibrantly checkered hot-air balloon […]
December 23rd, 2013 | by Marlene Steele | published in *, December 2013
Nourse: the Painter By Marlene Steele I stood eye to eye with E. Nourse recently at her current exhibition “Rites of Passage” at the Cincinnati Art Museum. The painting: her own lifesized self-portrait. Not given to idealization even when concerned with her own features, she portrays herself actively at work with a clear and unblinking […]
December 23rd, 2013 | by Fran Watson | published in *, December 2013
PAIRINGS Taming the Elements: Contemporary Japanese Prints and Ceramics Cincinnati Art Museum, October 12, 2-13 – January 5, 2014 By Fran Watson This just may be the perfect meld of mediums. Cool , exciting ceramics perform clay- defying acrobatics in successful combinations with 20th century Japanese woodcuts whose labor intensive prints match for a tempo […]
December 23rd, 2013 | by Karen Chambers | published in *
“Doug Navarra: Marking Time,” Manifest By Karen Chambers Doug Navarra’s exhibition at Manifest Gallery is called “Marking Time.” It might also be called “Connecting” or “Making History Now.” Let me begin by describing some of the 11 drawings and two books* on view. On reclaimed antique documents, which are the support (literally and figuratively) of […]
December 23rd, 2013 | by Laura Hobson | published in *
Artists Robert Off and John Stobart Collaborate in Exhibit By Laura A. Hobson With a collaborative spirit, John Stobart, Robert Off and John A. Ruthven are exhibiting their recent works at Eisele Gallery of Fine Art located in Fairfax, Ohio from November 15 through December 29. All artists, they focus on different themes: John Stobart […]
December 23rd, 2013 | by Jonathan Kamholtz | published in *
Iconoclast’s Dilemma: Object of Devotion: Medieval English Alabaster Sculpture from the Victoria and Albert Museum Dayton Art Institute October 26, 2013-January 5, 2014 By Jonathan Kamholtz In “Christ’s Entry into Jerusalem,” sculpted in alabaster in England sometime between 1450 and 1470, eight carved figures, full or fully suggested, greet Christ as he arrives on his donkey. […]
November 24th, 2013 | by Fran Watson | published in *, November 2013
Crystal Night and The Boris Schatz Collection at Hebrew Union College October 11- January 31, 2014 by Fran Watson Art lifts, inspires, predicts the future and captures the past. The very pictorial basis of art makes this past ever-accessible, and permanent for widest world audience, preserving history in a way that mere words cannot. Yet […]
November 24th, 2013 | by Kevin T. Kelly | published in *, November 2013
Manifest’s Tenth Anniversary By Kevin T. Kelly The November 8th opening at Manifest marked the gallery’s tenth anniversary as well as the grand opening of their much anticipated expansion, effectively doubling their exhibition space. For the past decade, Manifest has been challenging the continually shifting contemporary “brick and mortar” art gallery paradigm by defining and […]
November 24th, 2013 | by Matthew Metzger | published in *, November 2013
Bruce Riley’s Science Fiction, at Miller Gallery by Matthew Metzger Bruce Riley’s lyrical, organic forms glow through layers of paint and resin, resembling something we can’t quite remember, materializing from a ground we can’t quite locate, coalescing with other forms, then receding back into the abyss. The coalescence is like the moment in between sleep […]
November 24th, 2013 | by Christine Huskisson | published in *, November 2013
STEVE ARMSTRONG: 20 Years of Mystery and Wonder Celebrating an Acclaimed Artist’s Career November 15 – January 17, 2014 ArtsPlace Gallery 161 North Mill Street by Christine Huskisson When I turn the crank she plays her guitar and the lion, carved of yellow poplar, wags its tail, both seemingly moved by moonlight and melody. From […]
November 24th, 2013 | by Keith Banner | published in *, November 2013
Clear as a Bell: Peter Halley at Solway Gallery By Keith Banner Sometimes I walk in the dead mall near where I live when I want to clear my head. Tranquility emanates from all the shut-down luxury, the rubbed-off logos above vast empty storefronts, the black-garbage-bagged entrances surrounded in high-gloss marble and hard-wood. […]
