November 19th, 2016 | by William Messer | published in *, October/November 2016
Two of the three FotoFocus 2016 exhibitions offered at the Art Academy of Cincinnati were curated by former AAC photography instructor, Will Knipscher. These included the historical body of work Evidence, created by Mike Mandel and Larry Sultan in the 1970s, plus two bodies of new work by Mandel with his new collaborator, wife Chantal Zakari, […]
November 19th, 2016 | by Daniel Brown | published in October/November 2016
Greater Cincinnati has lost one of its true Renaissance minds, with the death of Fran Watson at the end of October. A regular critic for aeqai, I’d known and worked with Fran for nearly forty years, and admired her as much as any writer/art critic I’ve known in my own long career as writer/critic. And […]
November 19th, 2016 | by Jane Durrell | published in October/November 2016
Remembering Fran Watson, I think first of the pleasure of being with her. We had a scad of things in common, and probably an equal number of things not in common, so conversation was both easy and informative. We were both mothers, both writers, both tuned into changes our longish lives allowed us to observe. […]
November 19th, 2016 | by Christopher Carter | published in October/November 2016
Over-the-Rhine has been home to Art Beyond Boundaries gallery for a decade. Curator Jymi Bolden hosts up to seven shows a year, and proudly claims the 2016 “Photospeak” as his sixtieth exhibit. The gallery features the work of artists with disabilities who live in and around Cincinnati, some of whom are long-time professionals and others […]
November 19th, 2016 | by Jane Durrell | published in October/November 2016
Foto Founders at Covington’s Behringer-Crawford Museum provided an interesting element in the flurry of Foto Focus exhibitions during its October run. Who were primary influences on many of today’s practicing photographers in the Cincinnati region? Five professors at three area academic institutions were spotlighted, with five to six works by each, usually including both color […]
November 19th, 2016 | by Karen Chambers | published in October/November 2016
“Old age should be a reward, not a punishment,” declares octogenarian Duane Michals. “I must recommend getting older.” 1 With his vigor, creativity, and capacity for impishness to poke at the sacred cows of the art world, he’s a great advertisement for old age. As part of FotoFocus, Carl Solway Gallery is presenting three […]
November 19th, 2016 | by Hannah Leow | published in October/November 2016
Connie Sullivan’s Ripples Through Time stood somewhat as a mystery. In an unannotated room, you are greeted with only her name, the exhibition title, and the compilation of archival lenticular prints to follow. Paired two by two, her artwork is staggered through the descending walls of HudsonJones gallery in Camp Washington. As you weave your […]
November 19th, 2016 | by Kent Krugh | published in October/November 2016
Selections and venue from FotoFocus Biennial 2016, The Undocument FotoFocus Biennial Photography curated exhibitions: http://www.fotofocusbiennial.org/see-art/#curated-exhibitions Kent Krugh is a fine art photographer living in Cincinnati. kentkrugh.com
November 19th, 2016 | by Annie Dell'Aria | published in October/November 2016
The third installment of the Mini Microcinema’s series on urbanism and the city co-sponsored by the UC Center for Film and Media Studies and School of Planning, took place on November 9. The selection of films on revolved particularly around the ruins of modernist design. Chad Freidrichs’s feature-length documentary The Priutt-Igoe Myth (2011) and documentary […]
November 19th, 2016 | by Daniel Burr | published in October/November 2016
Depending on where you stand when you view them, Kevin Muente’s landscapes can be two different paintings. When seen from a distance, they initially appear to be works of almost photographic realism. When you get close to the paintings and notice his finely detailed brush strokes, the formal composition of the work dissolves. Forest trees […]
November 19th, 2016 | by Jack Wood | published in October/November 2016
Camille Iemmolo’s The Lonely Stage opened at Thomas Master’s Gallery in Chicago on September ninth, and closed on the twenty-third. Importantly perhaps, this exhibition is returning of sorts because Iemmolo’s first solo exhibition was with Master’s some years ago. The exhibit was a collaborative effort between Iemmolo and famed Welsh ex-pat, Chicago painter, musician and […]
November 19th, 2016 | by Kim Rae Taylor | published in October/November 2016
Lebanese artist Nabil El Jaouhari has only been in Cincinnati a short time, but since his arrival six months ago, he’s created a body of work that continues his visual investigation into the power of memory. Through a variety of media and approaches, he reconsiders the fixed impressions from a childhood marked by conflict. Born […]
November 19th, 2016 | by Joelle Jameson | published in October/November 2016
Legally, “material responsibility” refers to an employee’s responsibility regarding a company’s material assets. Yet, the theme of responsibility in the Blaffer’s current exhibitions—and both artists’ deft exploration of diverse materials—begs a new definition for the term. Blake Rayne and Analia Saban manipulate paint and other media to shirk, challenge or subvert everyday responsibilities. Viewing Rayne’s […]
November 19th, 2016 | by Anise Stevens | published in October/November 2016
“It was in the black mirror of Anarchism that Surrealism first recognized itself.” -Andre Breton The timeliness of Elizabeth McGrath’s exhibition at Corey Helford Gallery strikes a seemingly eerie chord, given our president elect’s invocation of a flawed nostalgia and desire to return to a “better time.” Its title, “Dark Howl,” is a direct […]
November 19th, 2016 | by Jack Wood | published in October/November 2016
Michael Krueger (pronounced Kreeeger) has shown parts of the same body of work entitled Nondoing in two different places lately. Both exhibitions were two person shows: The first was held at Plant House Gallery in Midtown Manhattan which also featured Elizabeth Ferrill; it was called Possible Blueprint and ran from September thirteenth until the twenty-first […]
November 19th, 2016 | by Jack Wood | published in October/November 2016
Michael Scoggins’ Americansim opened at the Weil Gallery on September sixteenth and ran through the eighteenth of October. Scoggins’ exhibited work dates as far back as 2007, and it’s absolutely soul shaking how relevant these images have remained especially as I regard them now in lieu of the results of the presidential election. Nobody thought […]
November 19th, 2016 | by Daniel Brown | published in October/November 2016
A surprise novel of immense depth, Stefan Hertmans’ War and Turpentine is Proustian in its evocation of both memory itself and of a writer’s ability to keep it alive, or, in Proust’s word, regained. A man living in our own times finds two longish diaries written by his own grandfather, along with a number of […]
November 19th, 2016 | by Daniel Brown | published in October/November 2016
Jacqueline Woodson, a young African-American writer mainly noted for her children’s books, has written a flawless book for adults called Another Brooklyn. The novel follows the fortunes of four African-American girls, at first pre-pubescent, and then as adolescents, in the mostly poverty-laden streets of a part of Brooklyn in the ’80s. By using the trope […]
November 19th, 2016 | by Maxwell Redder | published in October/November 2016
The Blue Jay The blue jay flying, see it? The soft under of her wing rustling in the wind’s stream. How her tail provokes the jaundiced morning sky and her squawk, a planned shuttering reverb. She is one of us. Born to survive a foreign existence beginning before sight, tossed into life’s circus like […]
