Art: White People: A Retrospective at Art Beyond Boundaries

Jymi Bolden, director of Art Beyond Boundaries gallery, has curated an encore exhibition of work by award-winning former Cincinnati Post photojournalist Melvin Grier that “looks at the majority through a minority’s eyes.”

Mar 23, 2016 at 1:49 pm

Jymi Bolden, director of Art Beyond Boundaries gallery, has curated an encore exhibition of work by award-winning former Cincinnati Post photojournalist Melvin Grier that “looks at the majority through a minority’s eyes.” Bolden and Grier have known each other since Bolden interned for the photographer as a student at the Art Academy in the 1980s. And although Grier retired from journalism when the Post folded in late 2007, 33 years of working in the field often led him to capture moments and circumstances in which he was the only person of color in the room. If it’s anything like the artist’s exhibition of the same name at the Kennedy Heights Arts Center in 2011, White People: A Retrospective will employ a black male lens aimed squarely at white America.


On view through May 13. Free. 1410 Main St., Over-the-Rhine, artbeyondboundaries.com.