September 21st, 2015 | by Katie Dreyer | published in *, September 2015
Walking into the Woodward Theater in OTR, the first person I noticed was Quinn. We had never met before, but judging by the swiftness of his steps and his frequent motion of hand to chin during the warm up I could tell that he had a lot to say. As it turned out, Quinn had […]
September 21st, 2015 | by Keith Banner | published in *, September 2015
Stationed inside the Cincinnati Public Library’s downtown branch, in the International Fiction alcove, is an archipelago of funky institutional wooden tables topped with glass rectangular boxes. Inside the glass boxes are 55 illustrations by three artists depicting the cities Italo Calvino poetically maps in Invisible Cities, the shapely novel/epic-poem/dialogue that has an effortlessly epic quality […]
September 21st, 2015 | by Daniel Brown | published in September 2015
Abstraction has made an explosive return to the visual arts in the past five years or so, and every now and again, an artist who is relatively unknown will surface with work that’s astonishingly fine. Dayton-area based Beth Hertz is just such an artist. An acolyte of Stanton MacDonald-Wright and Morgan Russell, Hertz was fascinated […]
September 21st, 2015 | by Sue Ann Painter | published in September 2015
Downtown Cincinnati is experiencing the biggest cultural building boom since the 1880s. If planning capital projects for arts and education is an indication of confidence in the economy, it appears that we are moving out of the so-called “Great Recession.” Museums, theaters, and Downtown restaurants are bustling with popular performances at the Aronoff Center, which […]
September 21st, 2015 | by Kevin Ott | published in September 2015
The Bois de Boulogne is a large Park on the outskirts of central Paris. It is a serene, green space with ponds and paths and playgrounds and now, an astounding Frank Gehry designed private museum. It was commissioned by Bernard Arnault, Chairman of LVMH, the luxury goods conglomerate and owner of Louis Vuitton to, in […]
September 21st, 2015 | by Karen Chambers | published in September 2015
I had high hopes for “Fiber: The Next Dimension” at the Kennedy Heights Arts Center. The photograph of Amy Wallace’s Nature’s Vessel that accompanied the press release bolstered those hopes. I’d also seen guest curator, Carole Gary Staples’ 2013 “Vessels: All the Eyes Can Hold” at Kennedy Heights, and liked it a lot (see aeqai.com, […]
September 21st, 2015 | by Craig Ledoux | published in September 2015
As I drove to C-LINK Gallery, located at Brazee Street Studios in Oakley, Cincinnati, I realized I’d never actually been inside the building. I’d driven by it, once, while searching for an elusive community garden, and had noted the decaying Shepard Fairey paste-up on an exterior wall. The mural, installed in conjunction with Fairey’s twenty-five-year […]
September 21st, 2015 | by Hannah Leow | published in September 2015
Unknown Elements is this strange passage of time. Walking into the quaint exhibition space is as if walking into a long lost living room. Images of family members grace the walls, ranging from a war-time portrait of your heroic uncle to your mother’s failed attempt at documenting your annual vacation out West; from monochromatic flash […]
September 21st, 2015 | by Jenny Perusek | published in September 2015
The publishing of this AEQAI article couldn’t come at a better time as fashion month is officially in full swing with designers showcasing their Spring 2016 collections across the globe. It first begins in the United States with New York Fashion Week, and then migrates to London, Milan, and Paris. Generally speaking, as the […]
September 21st, 2015 | by Marlene Steele | published in September 2015
The Brazee Studios Art gallery, tucked away in the suburb of Oakley, is currently featuring the well paired work of painter M. Katherine Hurley and sculptress Margot Gotoff. Hurley’s big sky motifs in dramatic color dominate the main room. The viewer’s vantage points are varied: sometimes earthbound sometimes mid-flight, atmospherically enveloped in the cloud cover. […]
September 21st, 2015 | by Laura Hobson | published in September 2015
M. Katherine Hurley grew up in Gates Mills, a small, rural community, 40 miles east of Cleveland. While her first love was horses, she later focused on landscapes. They both became sanctuaries for her when life grew challenging. She found comfort and beauty in solitary places. Hurley’s interest in art comes from her family. Her […]
September 21st, 2015 | by Anise Stevens | published in September 2015
Shortly after the release of Justin Van Hoy’s 2012 curatorial publication Milk & Honey: Contemporary Art in California, his life came to an untimely end. At just 31, the accomplished artist lost what had been his second battle with cancer. While Van Hoy had found success at a relatively early age due to his prodigious […]
September 21st, 2015 | by Anise Stevens | published in September 2015
Los-Angeles based artist Jennifer Gunlock has often looked to nature for inspiration. While her work seems abstractionist, it also embodies elements that link her to surrealism: Gunlock has an uncanny ability to interweave elements of the urban world with tree-like formations that, together, produce futuristic landscapes. Intrigued by the camouflaged cell phone tower, poorly fashioned after […]
September 21st, 2015 | by Louis Z. Bickett | published in September 2015
JON BALES DYING Your once handsome face had morphed into a mask of dry leather. You were hard to look at. Yet your eyes were still an improbable blue that could have sucked in the dead. I was lying next to you in your hospital bed your elbow pressed against my […]
September 21st, 2015 | by Maxwell Redder | published in September 2015
Folds of Paper A workman’s glove trampled, tattered abandoned on the sidewalk. Pointing to the sky. The index finger signals: look up. The great blue, A half moon between wires, A plane inching. Why reveal the obvious to a wandering man seeking answers? Are they there hidden like words beneath […]
September 21st, 2015 | by Daniel Brown | published in September 2015
English writer Helen Macdonald’s memoir H is for Hawk is one of the most brilliantly conceived and written books of the year. I passed on buying it three times, as I couldn’t decide if it might be fascinating, or boring, or some kind of gimmick (alas, one does approach so much culture with those stipulations and/or concerns […]
September 21st, 2015 | by Daniel Brown | published in September 2015
Saad Ghosn’s new and superb book, Artists as Activists, is now out, with a book signing and sale that just took place at Joseph Beth at Rookwood on September 19th. It’s a splendid offering, full of individual interview essays that Ghosn wrote himself from a selection of many of this region’s finest artists. Let me recommend up […]
September 21st, 2015 | by Daniel Brown | published in September 2015
Two recent novels, The Sympathizers, by Viet Thanh Nguyen, and Dragonfish, by Vu Tran, are debut novels by two Vietnamese-American men, and the books have many elements in common (besides their excellence). The ndmerican media have been assuring us since Vietnam reunited, and since Western businesspeople began to go there to seek business opportunities, that the Vietnamese, […]
