April 23rd, 2016 | by Zack Hatfield | published in *, April 2016
A quick cyber-jaunt reveals surprisingly little about photographer Paul Kohl, but the internet did offer one interesting morsel, stored within the digitized archive of the Crimson. A 1974 review by Susan Cooke included a couple sentences about Kohl, whose work had been featured in a group installation of artists decidedly unburdened by the parameters of […]
April 23rd, 2016 | by Emil Robinson | published in *, April 2016
With The Liminal landscape at Marta Hewett Gallery, Guggenheim Award winner and Cincinnati native Frank Herrmann presents an enlightening shift in a body of work that has been remarkably consistent and serious for the last 15 years. I encourage you to go see the exhibition; Herrmann is the breed of artist that is rare in […]
April 23rd, 2016 | by Keith Banner | published in *, April 2016
Kenya Barris’s Black-ish, a Wednesday-night sitcom on regular old ABC television, is simultaneously zeitgeist-y genuine, frantically people-pleasing, and deliciously aware of its own precarious situation: a high-energy comic take on the foibles and follies of a loving upper-middle-class African American family living in the lap of Southern California luxury. That luxury and status are constantly […]
April 23rd, 2016 | by Matthew Metzger | published in *, April 2016
Turner-Yamamoto’s paintings and sculptures are so commanding yet austere that, depending on temperament, a viewer either pays little attention or becomes lost in front of them. The latter of course is preferable and, I would suggest, the point of art, conjuring an experience of a new thread of reality; and with any luck becoming a […]
April 23rd, 2016 | by Chelsea Borgman | published in *, April 2016
Clifton Cultural Arts Center (CCAC) is in very real of danger of losing access to the historical building it calls home. Leased from Cincinnati Public Schools (CPS), CCAC has been notified that Cincinnati Public Schools is considering prematurely terminating their lease. Committed neighborhood residents, artists, institutions and friends of CCAC have rallied to garner support […]
April 23rd, 2016 | by Julie Gross | published in April 2016
Professing to let your freak flag fly and actually raising it on one’s pole for all to see are two different things. More often than not, we succumb to social standards and allow a subliminal code to dictate how we look, feel and act. We can’t help but find comfort in ordinary belonging. However, when […]
April 23rd, 2016 | by Joe Pennington | published in April 2016
I never thought I would miss the smell of raw sewage. Being a graffiti writer can take you to a lot of places your average city-dweller never sees. Graffiti thrives in the underbelly. Hidden behind retaining walls, sound barriers, and drainage ditches is a culture very few have the privilege of knowing about, let alone […]
April 23rd, 2016 | by Joelle Jameson | published in April 2016
In February, I attended what I thought was the opening of Graffiti and Street Art Museum (GASAM) among the warehouses of Houston’s East Downtown. Much-hyped in local media since the fall, the museum currently lives in a fairly average gallery space populated by bright canvasses and display cases of graffiti ephemera. At the event, a […]
April 23rd, 2016 | by Fran Watson | published in April 2016
Hunt Slonem at Miller Gallery 3715 Erie Ave., Cincinnati, Ohio 45208 513-871-4420 millergallery.com April 15 – May 21, 2016 The concept of repetition isn’t new, nor is the simplicity of subject matter. Artists have long been expanding on these inspirations. Think Warhol. Hunt Slonem’s chosen milieux of birds, bunnies, and butterflies […]
April 23rd, 2016 | by Daniel Burr | published in April 2016
The story behind this exhibition, which runs through April 29 at the Clifton Cultural Arts Center, is important. In June 2015 Cincinnati artists M. Katherine Hurley and Jens G. Rosenkrantz, Jr., visited Havana for a week as part of a people-to-people cultural exchange, the only legal way for Americans to travel to Cuba. Such travel […]
April 23rd, 2016 | by Laura Sams | published in April 2016
The exhibit, “White People: A Retrospective” which opened on March 25 and runs through May 13, at Art Beyond Boundaries Gallery, delivers a captivating glimpse through the lens of photojournalist, Melvin Grier. A compilation of photos spanning Mr. Grier’s 33 year career with the Cincinnati Post, as explained by curator and gallery director, Mr. Jymi […]
April 23rd, 2016 | by Kent Krugh | published in April 2016
“Origins” In Origins artist and photographer Sal Taylor Kydd explores the essence of childhood and how it relates to our sense of place. The work is also a reflection on time and how we become aware of change and transformation both within us and in the world around us. As the title suggests, Origins […]
April 23rd, 2016 | by Jenny Perusek | published in April 2016
Versace’s Fall 2016 ready-to-wear collection was presented right around the time of the Moschino MFW runway show featured in last month’s AEQAI. While both brands have a penchant for drama, the collections couldn’t have been more different. Enough so that it deserves a second trip back to Milan during this runway off-season. The fashion […]
April 23rd, 2016 | by Laura Hobson | published in April 2016
A trip to The Irwin M. Krohn Conservatory, an indoor botanical garden with 3,500 plant species from all over the world, may be second nature to some Cincinnatians, but executive director Andrea Schepmann said she is always looking for new ways of displaying seasonal exhibits and special shows. Annual attendance is approximately 200,000. Botanical artist […]
April 23rd, 2016 | by Emil Robinson | published in April 2016
What are your ambitions as an artist? To work my fingers to the bone, as long as it makes me happy! Also to create works that revolve around human/environmental interactions. I will continue to explore new materials and discover new places in which they resonate. Describe your art in its current form. What […]
April 23rd, 2016 | by Susan Byrnes | published in April 2016
In late winter, when my skin’s its palest and the sky its grayest, I head southwest to get some sun and some heat. About 2700 degrees worth of heat – the temperature that melts scrap iron down into a molten pool that gets poured into a mold and becomes a sculpture. I’ve made artwork this […]
April 23rd, 2016 | by Jane Durrell | published in April 2016
Here and now mercilessly morphs into there and then, but sometimes a news release Now brings up a Then. The Museum of Modern Art reports a new hanging of some of its permanent collection, bringing to mind a visit I made to New York in late winter, 2005, to see what the Modern was showing […]
April 23rd, 2016 | by Daniel Burr | published in April 2016
From March 3 to 9, 2016, I traveled to Cuba, one in a group of 21 Americans and two Canadians. This immersion in a different culture, landscape, and climate was an intense experience for me. Cuba, for all its differences, is so close to the U.S. that I never left the time zone where I […]
April 23rd, 2016 | by Kevin Ott | published in April 2016
The quick road trip to Columbus just became even more worthwhile. The new addition to the Columbus Museum of Art is beautifully done with light filled spaces, clean lines, high white walls, wood floors and floor to ceiling windows at either end of the cantilevered gallery spaces. The New York firm of TodWilliamsBillieTsien were the […]
April 23rd, 2016 | by Laura Hobson | published in April 2016
Around one hundred people gathered at The Mercantile Library to listen to Scott Huler, author of Defining The Wind, and Robert Off, miniature rooms creator, on a cold March night. Under the direction of John Faherty, the library regularly sponsors lectures by guest authors. Off called Faherty and suggested the collaboration. Huler, an author of six […]
April 23rd, 2016 | by Jonathan Kamholtz | published in April 2016
If your appetite for Van Gogh was whetted by the five wonderful canvases shown at the Taft Museum’s current “Impressions of Landscape,” you should promptly schedule a road trip to Chicago where the Art Institute is showing “Van Gogh’s Bedrooms,” an exhibition designed to contextualize the three different versions Van Gogh painted of “The Bedroom” […]
April 23rd, 2016 | by Jack Wood | published in April 2016
Binary Harmonies was one of the more carefully assembled exhibitions of printmaking on display at this year’s Southern Graphics Conference International in the ever-eccentric Portland, Oregon. It opened on April second at Disjecta Contemporary Art Center. It didn’t even rain, and the exhibition was a joy. Dylan McManus curated the exhibition through the aesthetic interface […]
April 23rd, 2016 | by Anise Stevens | published in April 2016
Spearheaded by Los Angeles based painter David Spanbock, BLAM debuted its first show, “Concrete,” at their Los Angeles exhibition space on Saturday, April 16. A bicoastal artist collective created for the purpose of establishing an invigorating synergy between two very diverse yet thriving art scenes, BLAM’s mission is to showcase works by emerging and mid-career […]
April 23rd, 2016 | by Elisa Mader | published in April 2016
The Formal Behind the Surreal: “Abstract Alternatives,” Jeff Mihalyo, Dendroica Gallery, April 14 to May 8, 2016 Seattle-based artist Jeff Mihalyo has built an international reputation on his mesmerizing, large-scale narrative artworks depicting surreal architectures and fantasy worlds in brilliant oil colors. This versatile creator has also experimented with cast-paint objects, and his video […]
April 23rd, 2016 | by Jack Wood | published in April 2016
Hard Luck Honky Tonk showcases the devilish and defiant screen printing of Carlos Hernandez at Austin’s premier venue for the printed multiple, Flatbed Press and Gallery. Importantly, Hernandez has been synonymous with his shop Burning Bones Press in Houston, TX for six years now in partnership with one-time Flatbed Master Printmaker, Pat Masterson. Burning Bones […]
April 23rd, 2016 | by Steven Havira | published in April 2016
Louisville, KY is a town known for many southern aesthetic qualities. Bourbon, horses and poignantly relating to this article, Muhammed Ali. The Muhammed Ali Center exists in the heart of downtown Louisville where it stands tall representing more than its biographically titled occupancy; the center most importantly exists to represent cultural awareness and heroism. A […]
April 23rd, 2016 | by Maxwell Redder | published in April 2016
Three Steeples Three steeples patina glimmering mossy green after rain. Green as copper does after salt and pollutant-filled raindrops clobber for years, after intermittent wind burns and sun bleaches beat their surface like flint for fire; the parts most exposed are most faded, as with us humans. Three steeples centered in the heathen […]
April 23rd, 2016 | by Louis Z. Bickett | published in April 2016
“…sweating like Judas tired of dying…”—Samuel Beckett (from Enueg II) MY SINS REMEMBERED In the confessional, ramrod straight, mouth cotton dry, lips like crazed china, hands a fidget, I concentrate, rehearse, wait my turn. The window slides open. Father Keller’s ghostly image emerges, dour silhouette, a mystery barely discernable through the thin curtain. I cross […]
April 23rd, 2016 | by Daniel Brown | published in April 2016
Two novels by young American women writers popped onto the literary scene in the past month or so; Wreck and Order (perhaps poorly titled), is a debut novel by Hannah Tennant-Moore, and Innocents and Others, the fourth offering by Dana Spiotta, one of the world’s most astonishing newer talents. What these two novels have in […]
April 23rd, 2016 | by Daniel Brown | published in April 2016
Dana Spiotta’s Innocents and Others is a truly remarkable–brilliant–novel, centering around two young women from the Greater LA area, who attended a private high school specializing in film studies/film history. Meadow Mori, the real narrator/protagonist of the novel, is, no doubt, aptly named, as she begins to create films of her own back in high […]
April 23rd, 2016 | by Daniel Brown | published in April 2016
The Year of the Runaways, by Sunjeev Sahota, is the best novel to date of 2016, and may well end up as one of the year’s finest. Sahota, an Indian man living in Sheffield, England, follows the lives of four young Indians from the Punjab, all of whom come to England (by methods most reminiscent of so […]
April 23rd, 2016 | by Daniel Brown | published in April 2016
Yet another superb small novel appeared in the past couple of months, titled Thomas Murphy, and written by Roger Rosenblatt, better known to many as a playwright. This novel is roughly equivalent to last year’s small, splendid Academy Street, little noticed by critics, but listed on my “top twelve” books of the year as third. […]
