Back Again: Figurative Painting
Selling Short Vine
Creatives look to re-energize Corryville with new gallery, monthly events
Daguerreotypes Come to Life in Taft Show
Daguerreotypes Come to Life in Taft Show
0 Comments · Wednesday, June 5, 2013
Daguerreotypes: someone sitting stiffly,
right? Ninety-nine percent of daguerreotypes would fit that
description, says Tamera Muente, the Taft Museum of Art’s installing
curator for its current show, Photographic Wonders. The surprise of the show, she adds, is that virtually all of it is drawn from that other one percent.
Selling Short Vine
Creatives look to re-energize Corryville with new gallery, monthly events
1 Comment · Tuesday, June 4, 2013
This Friday, Dotson will debut 71
Gallery, a space for artists and up-and-coming graphic designers. The
opening also will kick off Artbeat on Short Vine, a monthly event to
encourage people to rediscover a street largely ignored since the
mid-1990s.
Back Again: Figurative Painting
0 Comments · Tuesday, May 21, 2013
We’ve been here before, but it wasn’t quite the same. The frequently sun-struck paintings in the engaging exhibition, Continuity and Change: The Return to Figurative Painting,
now at Cincinnati Art Galleries, are the work of seven area artists...
Local Designers Participate in Annual Re-Purposing Contest
0 Comments · Wednesday, May 15, 2013
For the past three years, Building Value has included a “designer challenge” element at their ReUse-apalooza fundraiser, which demonstrates the remarkable work that artists and creative types can make out of the materials the nonprofit acquires from various deconstruction jobs, donations and retail recycling projects.
Organically Grown
The Hilton Brothers' photography focuses on fresh and natural collaborations
0 Comments · Wednesday, May 8, 2013
The Hilton Brothers — photographers
Christopher Makos and Paul Solberg — have arrived in Cincinnati with
food on their minds. They don’t specify that it needs to be organic, but
it might as well be. The term pops up repeatedly as the New Yorkers
discuss their natural, open-ended approach to life, art and
collaboration.
A Room with a View
0 Comments · Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Not many libraries can claim to be a room
with a view. The Mary R. Schiff Library of the Cincinnati Art Museum,
now in its new space and again open to the public, has a spectacular
one.
'Falling' For Photos
Elena Dorfman exhibits her surreal photographs of quarries at Phyllis Weston Gallery
0 Comments · Tuesday, April 23, 2013
The huge stone quarries that hide in the
landscapes of Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky are strange things, monsters of
ruggedly carved-out negative space that — when abandoned and filled
with water — attract illicit swimmers and divers.
Art Freaks Meet Geeks in Two Must-See Shows
0 Comments · Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Two grand experiments fusing art, science and technology will be revealed Friday night.
When Opportunity Knocks
At the helm of the local visual arts scene, Matt Distel explores new positions at Cincinnati Art Museum and The Carnegie
0 Comments · Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Matt Distel, an almost constant presence
in the Cincinnati art scene for the last couple of decades, suddenly
seems to be everywhere at once. But no, he’ll not be working three jobs
Visionaries and Voices: The Evolution of a Nonprofit Gallery
0 Comments · Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Visionaries and Voices (V&V) has
experienced many changes in the decade since it was first incorporated
as a nonprofit organization...As the organization has evolved, so has its administrators’
approach to curating exhibitions.
'Capturing the Essence' Exhibits Gordon Baer's Rare Prints
0 Comments · Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Handsomely composed, deeply moving,
timeless or inextricably of their time and place; Gordon Baer’s
photographs, now on view at the Kennedy Heights Arts Center in a
career-spanning exhibition, are all of the above.
Artists at Home
0 Comments · Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Conversation between Pam Korte, maker of pots; her husband, Richard
Hague, maker of poems; Terri Kern, sculptor; and her husband, David
Umbenhour, printmaker, brought forth the question: Why not a show of
work by couples, focusing on interaction of ideas and mutual reliance
and support?
The Vagina Dialogues
1 Comment · Wednesday, March 6, 2013
The vagina: About half of Americans have one and a good deal more Americans than that actually came out of one...This sex organ is the center of medical,
legislative, domestic and sexual conflict, and yet we can’t look at it
or talk about it objectively.
Young Women Take on Age-Old Issues of Image, Identity
0 Comments · Wednesday, February 13, 2013
The teen and twentysomething artists of After the Fall, Women Representing Women are just beginning to explore what being a woman means. I’m twice their average age, but I can relate. I
am still sorting out questions of feminine beauty and identity.
Water Is the Core of AEC's Collaborative, International Exhibit
0 Comments · Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Domino 02: Aqua, an exhibition at
Covington’s Artisans Enterprise Center (AEC), features an “international
collaboration” by 12 artists, each one creating a painting on half of
two canvases, which are then distributed to another artist to finish the
other side.
