Cedric Michael Cox makes use of Cincinnati’s ornamental Italianate architecture and gritty textures in city-themed paintings on display in a number of exhibitions. Soul Within Structure is a series of paintings at the Contemporary Arts Center’s UnMuseum that remain up until March 8. Concurrently, a new exhibition of Cox’s work is at the Carnegie Visual and Performing Arts Center in Covington.
Cox exaggerates the geometry of the city, color-coding it in brilliant reds, golds and blue-greens borrowed from luminous stained glass windows (or, in an alternative reading, patchwork quilts). Lively and fragmented, the jolt of the metropolis is depicted with sacred ardor. Urban Rapture opens at the Carnegie this Friday with a reception from 6-9 p.m. and continues through Feb. 19.
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This article appears in Dec 30, 2009 – Jan 5, 2010.