August 21st, 2012 | by Kenn Day | published in Summer 2012
By Kenn Day Most galleries I visit are very professional. By this I mean that great attention has been paid to everything from the lighting and framing and placement to the carpet and the color of the walls. The art viewed in these places has been created to compete in a world in which the […]
July 29th, 2012 | by Regan Brown | published in *, Summer 2012
By: Regan Brown Photographs courtesy of Weston Gallery “. . . In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied the entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire, the entirety of a Province. In time, those Unconscionable Maps no longer satisfied, and […]
July 29th, 2012 | by Maria Seda-Reeder | published in *, Summer 2012
By: Maria Seda-Reeder “Found in Translation: Work by Cynthia Gregory, Christian Schmit and Greg Swiger” at Semantics Gallery is the kind of show at which you can get lost. The mostly miniature/sculptural works are tiny assemblages of objects that range from meticulously crafted to purposefully undone. Diminutive paintings, drawings, furniture, and found objects round out a densely […]
July 29th, 2012 | by Keith Banner | published in *, Summer 2012
By: Keith Banner “Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit,” currently on view through September 9, 2012 at the Cincinnati Art Museum, invokes the hush and grandeur of a nighttime cathedral with dark-toned walls and Midnight in Paris lighting, as if to set the stage for an upscale art-history coronation. Many of the paintings themselves give […]
July 29th, 2012 | by Daniel Brown | published in *, Summer 2012
By: Daniel Brown Uniting gestural abstraction and calligraphic mark making, Frank Satogata celebrates nature’s beautiful juxtapositions. TWO APPROACHES to the globalized art market, though widely different, have evolved on parallel tracks. On the one hand, there’s an internationalized art market predicated on our consumerist culture and the consequent adoration of and obsession with American […]
July 29th, 2012 | by Kevin Muente | published in Summer 2012
By: Kevin Muente I stand before George Inness’s Near the Village, October on the last hot day of June and long for fall. This medium size painting, 30 x 45 inches, seems larger to me. Perhaps its stately frame makes it feel more formidable. Near the center of the painting in the middle ground […]
July 29th, 2012 | by Amanda Dalla Villa Adams | published in Summer 2012
By: Amanda Dalla Villa Adams German philosopher Walter Benjamin’s angel of history surveys the past and “sees one single catastrophe, which unceasingly piles rubble on top of rubble and hurls it before his feet.” But instead of turning away, the angel is swiftly driven by an irresistible force – the storm of progress – […]
July 29th, 2012 | by Dustin Pike | published in Summer 2012
By: Dustin Pike “The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible.” -Albert Einstein This is my fourth article pertaining to the design field and again it is necessary to distinguish between art and design. Design in essence cannot be accomplished without specific degrees of control, and almost always has […]
July 29th, 2012 | by Maxwell Redder | published in Summer 2012
By: Maxwell Redder “Museum Gallery / Gallery Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio. 104 degrees; a new record: Saturday, July the seventh of twenty-twelve.” The fathers of existentialism often explored the concepts of being ‘thrown into existence.’ The fact that we neither asked for, nor gave permission to enter this universe as a conscious being, presents more challenging […]
July 29th, 2012 | by Daniel Brown | published in Summer 2012
By: Daniel Brown Donna Talerico wows us, once again, with her new paintings of France, currently on view at Greenwich House Gallery in O’Bryonville. Her annual trip to France has been generating some of the most energetic and engaging paintings in this region, where she lives. Talerico manages to be both an Impressionist and an […]
July 29th, 2012 | by Karen Chambers | published in Summer 2012
By: Karen S. Chambers The Thompson House Shooting Gallery’s exhibition — “All the Usual Suspects” — is oddly titled since it suggests artists who are well known or familiar. But the participants are emerging and unfamiliar to most people although co-curators and gallery directors Jennifer Edwards and Jennifer Feld know them well. This is the […]
July 29th, 2012 | by Larry Watson | published in Summer 2012
By Larry Watson Cincinnati Art Museum June 16-September 12, 2012 When viewing works that have a function, one wonders whether there is a critical distinction between art and craft; between creativity and structural formulas; between innovation and “form follows function?” The exhibit at the CAM gathers musical instruments from around the globe and across the […]
July 29th, 2012 | by Kathleen Kern | published in Summer 2012
By: Kate Kern The windows and skylight of my temporary studio faced east. Opening the door in the morning I was greeted by light flooding in across the work table and onto the floor. By the beginning of my second week at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, I came closer to a working rhythm […]
July 29th, 2012 | by Shawn Daniell | published in Summer 2012
By: Shawn Daniell Some students learn better visually. There are many students who are at risk of not graduating from high school and art can serve as a method to bridge that gap. As an artist and a current student, I see the value of using art as an educational tool. I think Lorin […]
July 29th, 2012 | by Susan Mahan | published in Summer 2012
By: Susan Mahan When my mother was 90 years old, I took her for her first visit to the Cincinnati Art Museum. She was a self-trained painter who worked from photographs taken from Ideals magazines. My mother was quite skilled in the art of copying photos. Drawing came easily to her and she could match […]
July 29th, 2012 | by Maxwell Redder | published in Summer 2012
By: Maxwell Redder Photographs taken by: Mark Patsfall Rarely does an artist have the opportunity to express so vividly an equal passion for music and visual art. Jon Langford’s solo exhibit which came down July 14, 2012, at Clay St. Press was able to achieve that dichotomy. In fact, he has lived on both sides […]
July 29th, 2012 | by Daniel Brown | published in Summer 2012
Book Review By: Daniel Brown Paul Theroux may best be known as America’s most engaging travel writer; the books that first brought him to my attention were The Great Railway Bizarre and The Old Patagonian Express, which he wrote almost four decades ago. Like Joan Didion, Theroux’s career includes writing both non-fiction and fiction, and […]
July 29th, 2012 | by A.C. Frabetti | published in Summer 2012, Uncategorized
Most galleries I visit are very professional. By this I mean that great attention has been paid to everything from the lighting and framing and placement to the carpet and the color of the walls. The art viewed in these places has been created to compete in a world in which the quality of the […]
July 29th, 2012 | by Marlene Steele | published in Summer 2012
By: Marlene Steele The Color Pencil Society’s 20th Anniversary International Exhibition is an extensive show filling the main gallery and 4 galleries on the second floor of the Carnegie Art Center. This organization, founded by Vera Curnow of Rising Sun, Indiana, seeks to lend stature to the medium of color pencil as a fine art […]
July 29th, 2012 | by A.C. Frabetti | published in Announcements, Summer 2012
As hard as it is to imagine, not many years ago the word “environment” was seldom used at all in ordinary conversation, and even less in conjunction with art. Now it’s almost a standard inclusion in everything, including paper towel commercials. One of the best, and most interesting, forays into the field is on display […]
July 13th, 2012 | by A.C. Frabetti | published in Summer 2012, Uncategorized
A glance at Miller’s “bewilderinger” exhibition invite reveals an unfinished work (in this case the head of a bird of prey) of apparent traditional draftsmanship. Thinking generally, it made me recall the non finito of Renaissance artists, or the framing of Classical fragments by Romantics. Yet, to be a non finito implies an unfinished wholeness […]
