Perhaps Cincinnati’s best and most ambitious alternative art space — U-turn in the Brighton District — is ending its impressive run with a closing party starting at 7 p.m. Saturday, and all are invited. There will be refreshments and music. This will also mark the last day of U-turn’s final show, the appropriately named Aloha Means Both Hello and Goodbye, which features work by the important Cincinnati artists, educators and curators Keith Banner, Paul Coors, Micah Freeman, Mark Harris, Rian Hunter, Justine Ludwig and Bill Ross. They were invited to participate in U-turn’s last show as gratitude for their support. Over the course of its two years, U-turn’s five curators/operators — including CityBeat art writer Matt Morris — have made their space look simple yet elegantly expansive, and have found artists from here and afar to present arresting, beautiful and serious work. It will be missed. So come say goodbye.
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This article appears in Jun 15-21, 2011.