December 22nd, 2015 | by Cate Becker | published in *, December 2015
Dear Art Loving Friends, It’s with great excitement that I write to you today. The last weeks were wrought with emotional highs, lows and a little bit of everything in between. We were knee deep in preparation for Modern Living: Objects and Context, an exhibition in the works for nine months which BLDG co-curated with […]
December 22nd, 2015 | by Craig Ledoux | published in *, December 2015
Located in the Incline District of East Price Hill, The Flats Art Gallery sits in a renovated apartment building across the street from BLOC Coffee Company, and only a few minute’s walk from the immensely popular Incline Public House. On an overcast day, in an unseasonably warm December, the neon OPEN signs behind the gallery’s […]
December 22nd, 2015 | by Daniel Brown | published in *, December 2015
Phyllis Weston’s recent death, after a very long and singularly fruitful career in the arts in Greater Cincinnati, certainly represents the end of an era, and I think that the era which she helped to define and in which she dominated, may have been a gentler one, certainly one in which the force of a personality […]
December 22nd, 2015 | by Fran Watson | published in December 2015
“Sean Scully Etchingss for Federico Garcia Lorca” Cincinnati Art Museum Nov. 21, 2015 – Mar. 20, 2016 It’s hidden away so carefully behind the current exhibit “High Style” from the Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection, that I could only find it with the help of the Cincinnati Art Museum’s security staff. Ah, but it was truly worth […]
December 22nd, 2015 | by Hannah Leow | published in December 2015
In the words of 1970’s hardcore punk band, Black Flag, Gimmie Gimmie Gimme is “a loaded gun.” Dealing with everything from civil rights to Watergate, from feminist to schizophrenics, the exhibition narrates the human experience on many (many) levels. With such weighty topics, the gallery makes an even bolder move in toying with the structure […]
December 22nd, 2015 | by Marlene Steele | published in December 2015
“Stars Under the Sky” is the title of the latest exhibit curated by Melissa Sammarco at the three room gallery over the Greenwich Jazz Club in Walnut Hills. Recognized multimedia abstractionist Mary Barr Rhodes shows several works. Glittering iridescence dominates two canvases in the middle room. No recognizable elements here as the stubble studded surface […]
December 22nd, 2015 | by Jenny Perusek | published in December 2015
As the holidays are among us, aeqai’s fashion retrospective moves back a few weeks to early December with Italian fashion house Valentino. The brand was founded in 1959 by world-renowned fashion designer Valentino Garavani and is currently under the creative direction of Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli. The two designers have taken Valentino’s […]
December 22nd, 2015 | by Kent Krugh | published in December 2015
Rachel Girard Reisert is an artist and educator working in Cincinnati, OH. Her work combines historic and digital photographic processes to address the complexities of perception and the intersection where personal experience is both unique and universal. Reisert has exhibited nationally and internationally including, Canada, Italy and Hungary. Her 6’ x 7’ Genesis piece is […]
December 22nd, 2015 | by Jane Durrell | published in December 2015
An artist, says artist Cole Carothers, must be patient and inquisitive. Carothers has been a working artist since the 1970s so speaks from experience. For his own paintings and prints, he says it’s a matter of simplifying, simplifying, pushing toward “a reduction of elements, simplicity of masses, trees becoming shapes.” What is happening here is […]
December 22nd, 2015 | by Laura Hobson | published in December 2015
Retired art teacher Susan Mahan has found a second career in making art. She taught all forms of artfrom drawing to jewelry design at Mariemont High School from 1981 to 2006. She also coached varsity gymnastics, cheerleading and served as scenic art designer for the plays. Her early inspiration came from her mother Bette who […]
December 22nd, 2015 | by Joelle Jameson | published in December 2015
I built you a room of a thousand daisies… That’s not a quote from artist Anila Quayyam Agha, although it appropriately describes “Intersections,” her installation that was featured at Rice Gallery this fall. This line belongs to Saba Husain’s poem, “The Keeper,” and opened this fall’s Words & Art reading. “Intersections” hung in the center […]
December 22nd, 2015 | by Anise Stevens | published in December 2015
“Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.” – Bertrand Russell Los Angeles-based artist Dani Dodge has paid witness to more than her share of devastation. A former journalist and war correspondent, Dodge was embedded with the 1st […]
December 22nd, 2015 | by Elisa Mader | published in December 2015
Roger Shimomura, “Great American Muse,” Greg Kucera Gallery, Nov. 5-Dec. 24 A sensuous, bare-shouldered woman with a broad, red smile. An homage to an artistic influence in the form of a framed Roy Lichtenstein print hanging on the wall. An arrangement of everyday household products on a table, visible beyond the (very yellow) curve of […]
December 22nd, 2015 | by Daniel Brown | published in December 2015
2015 was an odd year for fiction, unsettled, lacking greatness in general, but heartening to see so many younger writers from around the world taking to fiction, to writing novels, in spite of all the technological changes and the failing assumption that the physical book, the object, will soon be a thing of the past. (I […]
