August 15th, 2014 | by Keith Banner | published in *, Summer 2014
Almost 25 years ago, Bill Ross and I had our first two-person art show in Indianapolis, Indiana at 431 Gallery. We were both 24 years old. The title was “The Fifteen Dollar Museum” and was a manifesto of sorts, an accidental action plan for the rest of our lives. 431 Gallery was a cooperative, artist-run, […]
August 15th, 2014 | by Saad Ghosn | published in *, Summer 2014
I returned from a visit to Lebanon in March 2014 with my head, eyes and emotions all over board, triggered in all directions, confused but at the same time fulfilled and satisfied. Lebanon was a chaotic whirlwind of energy, creativity, contrasts, contradictions, peaceful and agitated moments, fears of violence, restful encounters. It was the occasion […]
August 15th, 2014 | by Matthew Metzger | published in *, Summer 2014
Deborah Butterfield’s sculptures are not like the sculptures of the civilized and perfectly groomed horses standing beneath important men that adorn public places. They’re just themselves, seemingly contemplating their own existence with a serenity that belies their power. At Zolla Lieberman Gallery most of them gently stand while one lays prone, each comfortable with their […]
August 15th, 2014 | by Danelle Cheney | published in Summer 2014
In fall of 2009, I sat on my bed in a small apartment surfing the web with the fervor only a student soon-to-be graduate has. I wanted an internship—preferably an affordable one (a tall order in today’s arts economy, to be sure)—at a decidedly Really Cool Place. Somewhere along the way, I […]
August 15th, 2014 | by Elizabeth Teslow | published in Summer 2014
“Nobody admires my painting much but me.” ~Flannery O’Connor “I have come to think that the true likeness of Flannery O’Connor will be painted by herself, a self-portrait in words, to be found in her letters.” ~Sally Fitzgerald “I am always astonished at Flannery’s pictures which show nothing of her grace. She was […]
August 15th, 2014 | by Fran Watson | published in Summer 2014
“Cries in the Night” Cincinnati Art Museum June 21 – August 17, 2014 In spite of sailing scenes, landscapes, and portraits, it’s not possible to miss the sharp tang of cynicism in German Expressionism. Like all movements in art, it was initially founded on defeating the traditional bourgeois tastes of the majority. Both insider and […]
August 15th, 2014 | by Marlene Steele | published in Summer 2014
YWCA Women’s Art Gallery June 20 – Sept 11, 2014 A variety of work made by women artists born abroad are featured in this exhibit, expressing their diverse styles in a variety of mediums and formats. Selected from eight different national backgrounds, these artists live in the Cincinnati area. Their roots run deep in their […]
August 15th, 2014 | by Daniel Brown | published in Summer 2014
We have been hearing for several decades now that the arts have to compete with all entertainment. Since the advent of the “24/7” work schedule, wherein everyone is supposed to be available all the time, made significantly worse by the advent of technology, people who work have less and less available free time. The assumption […]
August 15th, 2014 | by Hannah Leow | published in Summer 2014
A dip into the waters of sculptural history reveals a spectrum of works ranging from the equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius (erected somewhere between 176 and 180 AD) to Dieter Roth’s 1972 biodegradable rabbit (excreted probably that same year). What defines sculpture as sculpture is ever evolving, and right there, swaying between dry land and […]
August 15th, 2014 | by Alice Weston | published in Summer 2014
It started me collecting contemporary art. During my college years I had taken Art 101, and had also seen an exhibit in New York City, at the then Museum of Non-Objective Art, of all Kandinski’s, which opened my eyes to abstract art. In 1946, when I returned home to Cincinnati, The Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center […]
August 15th, 2014 | by Daniel Brown | published in Summer 2014
Lois Rosenthal’s recent and untimely death gives pause to all of us as we think about her contributions to the arts and towards our increasingly unknown future with those same arts here. I have always thought of Lois, to use the language of business, as an entrepreneur, rather than a manager. Her great mind was […]
August 15th, 2014 | by Louis Z. Bickett | published in Summer 2014
The current display at Lexington’s most venerable of exhibition spaces, Institute 193, is the work of Atlanta native Shara Hughes. Hughes, a driving force of the Atlanta scene when she lived there, decamped to Brooklyn this year, where she currently lives and operates a studio. The show at ‘193’ (as the locals refer to the […]
August 15th, 2014 | by Laura Hobson | published in Summer 2014
“In my paintings, I am exploring uncharted territories and push at the boundaries I find,” said Anne Straus, 75, a multimedia artist who has lived in Wyoming, Ohio since 1963. “I see visions of forgotten times, and I paint them with the eye of my heart. I am an explorer, a messenger bringing back ethnic […]
August 15th, 2014 | by Karen Chambers | published in Summer 2014
Although it goes against my grain in a visual arts review to start with the verbiage surrounding an exhibition, it seems to be the best way to approach “American Primitives: Todd Slaughter” at the Alice F. and Harris K. Weston Art Gallery (his second there, the first being in 1996-1997). I was searching for something […]
August 15th, 2014 | by Christopher Hoeting | published in Summer 2014
It’s been nearly a decade since Kehinde Wiley graced the cover of Art in America (2005) and since, he has become one of the most collected contemporary painters in America. This high profile artist made his mark re-imagining the African American figure in grand/large scale paintings. Using classical poses from Western art historical references, Wiley’s […]
August 15th, 2014 | by Fran Watson | published in Summer 2014
Cincinnati Art Museum June 14- Sept 7, 2014 It was a dark and mysterious gallery, relieved only by spotlighted display cases of historic silver. Shining back at visitors with the liquid reflections of fine silver, a story of a mighty city’s beginning unfolded via the items its leading citizens chose to ornament their tables and […]
August 15th, 2014 | by Saad Ghosn | published in Summer 2014
I. Images For A Better World: Alison SHEPARD, Visual Artist Alison Shepard is a well-established artist and musician, born and raised in Cincinnati where she currently lives with her husband, Evan Hildebrandt, also an artist and director of Bromwell’s gallery. Shepard received her BFA from Northern Kentucky University and her MFA in printmaking from Miami […]
August 15th, 2014 | by Daniel Brown | published in Summer 2014
A very pleasant surprise is in store if you read Fourth of July Creek by Smith Henderson. This nearly epic novel is the author’s first, and he exhibits a maturity in his thinking, his writing, in the complexities of his plot, his delineation of character, and his extraordinary empathy for his people. Set in contemporary […]
August 15th, 2014 | by Daniel Brown | published in Summer 2014
Book 3 of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s six volume novel/autobiography/memoir has just been published. These novels have been widely praised all over the world for their use of a different model of what constitutes fiction, or the novel itself. I went a bought Book 1 and Book 2, to see what the hype is about. They […]
August 15th, 2014 | by Daniel Brown | published in Summer 2014
The Age of Aquarius, better known as the 60’s, brought a vital return to what became known as New Age spirituality, and its subsets in fields like medicine. As a chronic pain patient myself, I learned 28 years ago, when my “pain of undetermined origin” began, that the answers I was looking for were not […]
