Photo: Joseph Girandola
Contemporary artists who use non-traditional media to
create their work often muddy the lines between categories of drawing,
sculpture and painting. Philadelphia-based Joseph Girandola is one such
artist who pushes those boundaries, and his large-scale drawings of
iconic cultural symbols as the Taj Mahal, the leaning Tower of Pisa and
Stonehenge will be on display at DAAP Galleries Philip M.
Meyers, Jr.
Memorial Gallery through the end of March. Girandola, former director of
the MFA Program/Studio Art at the University of the Arts in
Philadelphia, builds up his canvas with layers of brightly colored duct
tape, which he folds and bends in ribbons, like a painter might if
applying thick impasto work with a palette or painting knife. Artist
Reception 5-7 p.m. Thursday. Sunday through Thursday. Through March 31.
Inside Steger Student Life Center at the University of Cincinnati,
Clifton. For more info, visit daap.uc.edu/galleries.
