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 Lily Mulberry | published in December 2013
“Repartee” at the Phyllis Weston Gallery By Lily Mulberry In Repartee, the current exhibition at the Phyllis Weston Gallery, the gallery brings together the work of classic, modern, and contemporary artists which appear to come mostly from the gallery’s existing inventory, a display of mostly paintings spanning both eras and regions. Although it bears mentioning […]
December 23rd, 2013 | by Sara Pearce | published in December 2013
“The Modern Table” at The Riffe Gallery By Sara Pearce Workmen were setting up large, plastic-topped folding tables outside the Riffe Gallery in Columbus just as I began wandering through “The Modern Table” exhibition. I could see them through the gallery’s large glass windows. The sight provided a perfect juxtaposition: ugly, mass-produced tables versus beautifully […]
December 23rd, 2013 | by Laura Hobson | published in December 2013
Three Young Furniture Designers Make Their Mark in Cincinnati By Laura A. Hobson Three young furniture designers in Cincinnati are making their mark. Here are their stories. How does a man with a law degree become a furniture designer? It was a gradual process for Matthew C. Metzger, now 31, who made the transition from three years […]
December 23rd, 2013 | by Kevin T. Kelly | published in December 2013
A Farewell to J.D. Biggs by Kevin T. Kelly A quarter century ago I hitched a ride upon a comet. And although I didn’t realize it at the time, this ride would take me to the deepest recesses of inner space that I never even knew existed. Today we watch that wonderful, beautiful spark of […]
December 23rd, 2013 | by Dustin Pike | published in December 2013
Geometrically Ordered Design: The Solids of Plato By Dustin Pike “The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal.” -The Republic, Plato With this installment I will be covering the ubiquitous ‘Platonic Solids’, named after the one and only Plato of Ancient Greece. From a strict and logical standpoint, these forms are […]
December 23rd, 2013 | by Regan Brown | published in December 2013
Fifty Shades of Slave. by Regan Brown I. From Freedom to Bondage in the Blink of an I. ” ‘Master thyself, then others shall thee beare/ Pull down thy vanity”. —Ezra Pound “Canto 81”. “I try to keep a lid/ On my crazy id/ I don’t know what I did/ Let go my ego!” —Dead […]
December 23rd, 2013 | by Kevin Ott | published in December 2013
The Teacher and His Student: Johann Schmitt and Frank Duvenek: A Look at Their Church Murals By Kevin Ott In 1859 Johann Schmitt painted the murals inside the Church of the Immaculata in Mt. Adams. Fifty years later, in 1909, Frank Duvenek painted his 3 murals in St. Mary’s Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption in […]
December 23rd, 2013 | by Jane Durrell | published in December 2013
Speaking of Color: Trish Weeks at The Carnegie By Jane Durrell Trish Weeks calls her show at The Carnegie Speaking of Color, a topic her work explores with zest and spirit. Weeks is enamored of color, besotted by it, can’t get enough of marvelous shades. She slips easily from almost naturalism (a couple of renditions […]
December 23rd, 2013 | by Shawn Daniell | published in December 2013
The Marriage of Nature and Machine By Shawn Daniell Andrew Dailey’s illustrations take viewers into a world populated by hybrid creatures, part machine and part animal oddities. Genus Machina, on display in the Hutson Gallery, one of six galleries housed in the Carnegie, consists of sixteen drawings focused on the idea of manmade versus animal. […]
December 23rd, 2013 | by Saad Ghosn | published in December 2013
ART FOR A BETTER WORLD by Saad Ghosn • Images For A Better World: Roscoe WILSON, Visual Artist Roscoe Wilson was born and raised in northern Indiana and southern Michigan. His environmental values were shaped in this mostly rural Mid-western setting which enabled him to experience nature and discover an awareness that only a […]
December 23rd, 2013 | by Daniel Brown | published in December 2013
Best of Fiction 2013 Daniel Brown 2013 was an odd year for new fiction: months of mediocre offerings were mitigated by the occasional novel of excellence and/or excitement. Although I can almost always fill this annual list with at least ten new offerings, and will again now, 2013’s dominant themes were frequently redundant and/or too […]
December 23rd, 2013 | by Maxwell Redder | published in December 2013
Poetry by Maxwell Redder City Walks (Winter) I. Hypnotic eyes watch passing strangers whistle tunes of new pop culture, lugging thirty packs like a mother a lulling baby – careful not to drop or shake it for fear it might explode. Hypnotic sunset splendor igniting clouds gorgeously with chemical pinks and elegant golds, carefully […]
December 23rd, 2013 | by Daniel Brown | published in Announcements, December 2013
Letter from the Editor The December aeqai is now ready for your holiday reading; we apologize that it’s a couple of days late. December/the holiday period is an odd one in the visual arts (we have no “Nutcracker”, for example, though we do recommend the annual holiday show at The Taft Museum of Art; it’s […]
