February 20th, 2013 | by Sheldon Tapley | published in *, February 2013
Gaela Erwin: My Mother, My Sister, Myself Lexington Art League January 12 – March 3, 2013 by Sheldon Tapley Know Yourself: An ancient maxim. We find it hard to understand, difficult to pursue, and perhaps impossible to fulfill. Philosophers have discussed the imperative for centuries. Socrates gave primacy to self-knowledge. Seeking it properly takes courage, […]
February 20th, 2013 | by Gideon Fink Shapiro | published in *, February 2013
Design Analysis: The Redesigned Schmidlapp Gallery and the museum as frame ~ Gideon Fink Shapiro Just as modern painting did away with the picture frame, modern art museums have typically downplayed their role as spatial frames. Increasingly neutral galleries suppressed architectural qualifications—color, texture, material, form, ornament—in a quest to make artworks immediately available to the […]
February 20th, 2013 | by Daniel Brown | published in *, February 2013
Magical Realism Editor’s Note: Deborah Morrissey-McGoff’s new paintings are included in a group show at The Miller Gallery in Hyde Park titled “Local Artists”. Aeqai is thus reprinting a feature that Editor Daniel Brown wrote for The Artist’s Magazine on Morrissey-McGoff’s paintings . www.artistsmagazine.com – September 2010 Influenced by Italian Renaissance masters and naïve painters, […]
February 20th, 2013 | by Dustin Pike | published in February 2013
Geometrically Ordered Design: Cloud Nine By: Dustin Pike This is my eighth article pertaining to the design field and its relationship with mathematics. Design in essence cannot be accomplished without specific degrees of control, and almost always has a definitive point to make. How well the ‘point’ can be made is attributed to how well […]
February 20th, 2013 | by James Cummins | published in February 2013
Hick and Willie Judge a ‘Video’ Contest by James Cummins Hick: Whaddya got for the video contest? I hope a rave. Just watched a piece about the David on Sister Wendy’s show. Didn’t her dad start the hamburger chain, ‘Wendy’s’? Or was that another Dave? Willie: I got sucker-punched by ‘The […]
February 20th, 2013 | by Karen Chambers | published in February 2013
Hadley Holliday: One with the Sun: New Paintings, Carl Solway Gallery by Karen Chambers The work of L. A. artist Hadley Holliday is nothing if not complicated although that might not be immediately apparent as her colorful stained canvas paintings are delightful. What she’s achieved is not far from Matisse’s articulated goal: What I […]
February 20th, 2013 | by Fran Watson | published in February 2013
Immortal Close-Ups Taft Museum of Art through April 7 by Fran Watson It doesn’t take much to excite lovers of Chinese art, which makes the 14 pieces of Kangxi porcelain on exhibit in the Sinton Gallery of the Taft Museum a true holiday for such aficionados. It’s also a great opportunity to […]
February 20th, 2013 | by Shawn Daniell | published in February 2013
Beautiful Macabre The Tower: New Works by Brian Uhl ~ Shawn Daniell Think punk and metal music. Think graffiti art. Think occult symbolism. Think comics. Think ink and paper. Meld all of those together and you’ve got Brian Uhl’s artwork, a study of precision with ink. The Tower: New Works by Brian Uhl, Static Age […]
February 20th, 2013 | by Kenn Day | published in February 2013
Female Gaze – After the Fall Prairie 4035 Hamilton Avenue Cincinnati, Ohio 45223 From February 9 through April 6 Review by Kenn Day Perhaps much of the chaotic nature of this exhibition is due to its subject matter. As the press release states: “After the Fall presents a snapshot in time and place of how […]
February 20th, 2013 | by Marlene Steele | published in February 2013
HIGH: A Survey of Realism Manifest Gallery by Marlene Steele Realism is defined as art that convinces the viewer that the described visible subject exists outside the art itself. Successful illusionistic and highly descriptive representation that is closely aligned to what the eye sees with little interpretation or manipulation of the […]
February 20th, 2013 | by Fran Watson | published in February 2013
SIDE BY SIDE BY OMID AEC Gallery, Covington, Kentucky, through February 16, 2013 by Fran Watson Very few art exhibits simply happen. They started someplace, out of great and not so great thoughts, from the hearts and minds of creative individuals, and in some cases, from a combination of several kinds of creativity. “domino02” at […]
February 20th, 2013 | by Jane Durrell | published in February 2013
Philip LaVelle at 1305 Gallery ~ Jane Durrell Philip LaVelle’s vibrant show of new work at 1305 Gallery on Main Street opened immediately after the January aeqai appeared and closed immediately before this issue. Its visual and intellectual content encouraged a belated review. At first glance LaVelle might be proposing a future in which […]
February 20th, 2013 | by Kevin Ott | published in February 2013
PAUL WOLVEN at the Greenwich House Gallery by Kevin Ott Dawn or dusk, abstract or realist, defined and indefinite: Paul Wolven’s oil paintings are worth seeing, their blurry edges and mood evoking palette urging the viewer to resolve these diverse directions. Wolven is a Cincinnati painter and his scenes are Cincinnati scenes. But, often, the […]
February 20th, 2013 | by Keith Banner | published in February 2013
Double Meaning: “African American Art since 1950: Perspectives from the David C. Driskell Center” at the Taft Museum of Art by Keith Banner The Taft Museum of Art’s “African American Art since 1950: Perspectives from the David C. Driskell Center,” running from February 15 through April 28, 2013, tries very hard to live up to […]
February 20th, 2013 | by Sheila Fleischer | published in February 2013
To Look, To Turn and Why this Painting is Important to Me: My Reflections on Richard Diebenkorn Interior with View to Buildings American, 1962 The Edwin and Virginia Irwin Memorial Cincinnati Art Museum By Sheila Fleischer Editor’s Note: Aeqai asked Cincinnati artist Sheila Fleischer to select a work of art from The Art Museum and […]
February 20th, 2013 | by Laura Hobson | published in February 2013
Ruth Dickey – Founding Executive Director of Clifton Cultural Arts Center By Laura A. Hobson Walking into the office of the Clifton Cultural Arts Center at 3711 Clifton Ave., one is immediately struck by an interactive quilt with movable faces created by textile artist Barbara Sferra. What an apt introduction to the Clifton Cultural Arts Center […]
February 20th, 2013 | by Susan Amis | published in February 2013
Tha Occasional Collector: A PLACE ON THE WALL By Susan Amis Editor’s Note: Aeqai has asked Susan Amis, a free-lance writer and art enthusiast in Cincinnati, to write about art that she sees and which interests her in her travels around town and other places she finds herself. In future issues of aeqai, Susan Amis […]
February 20th, 2013 | by Saad Ghosn | published in February 2013
ART FOR A BETTER WORLD By Saad Ghosn Images For A Better World: Farron ALLEN, Visual Artist Farron Allen grew up in the mountains of southern West Virginia, product of three generations of coalminers. He was raised by loving and religious grandparents who imparted to him the rigorous teachings of their Southern Baptist faith. […]
February 20th, 2013 | by Daniel Brown | published in February 2013
Camille Paglia, Glittering Images: A Journey Through Art from Egypt to Star Wars Book review by Daniel Brown Camille Paglia is herself a cultural necessity, an icon of exceptional brilliance, a no-nonsense analyst of Western culture and ideas of the first rank. She trucks no theoretical hijinks, refuses labels, isn’t associated with any particular school […]
February 20th, 2013 | by Maxwell Redder | published in February 2013
Maxwell’s Poetry Corner by Maxwell Redder Carbon Vacuums Diamonds & dead leaves: carbon vacuums venatically sucking off the latter to slowly birth the former. My fiancée’s finger is banded: exploding rainbow rays bounce and zoom from three carbon births trapped in gold & loyalty. The latter Proverbs recommends wearing like a necklace, the former is […]
February 20th, 2013 | by Daniel Brown | published in Announcements, February 2013
Letter from the Editor Greater Cincinnati visual arts venues returned in earnest in February, with the holidays laid to rest. The February issue of aeqai should reflect the wealth of exhibitions, the variety of talent, and the very different types of art being made and shown, both in our own region and nationally. Aeqai is […]
