Matt Reed is an artist, educator, and radical leftist currently living in Cincinnati, OH. His work has appeared in galleries in Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Louisville, Los Angeles,...
Horns Horns of hartebeest inspiring the drawn heart (tip as spine and curves as breasts) were removed to use as tools.
I had the flu for 6 weeks, so saw comparatively few films during this time. The standouts were Zero Dark Thirty by Kathryn Bigelow, with Jessica Chastain; Rust and Bone by Jacques Audiard, with Marion Cottillard and Matthias Schoenaerts (now On Demand, and reviewed in more depth next time, perhaps); Amour by Michael Haneke, with Emmanuelle Riva and Jean-Louis Trintagnant;...
Food and Art, always-longtime staples of any self-respecting opening, are being increasingly conflated, even hard-spliced together in a veritable hotbed of recent exhibitions and “social practice” shows [1]. Most people go to the big openings to eat hors d’oeuvres, commune with friends and drink the wine anyhow, maybe even impress a hot date, not meditate on the art so much.
The exhibition, March on Women, currently on view at Harvest Gallery in Over-the-Rhine includes twenty-two female artists from Greater Cincinnati. Many are recognizable names like Kay Hurley, Alice Pixley Young, Paige Wideman, and Jennifer Grote and rounding out the roster are emerging artists such as Ruthie Allen Lincoln and Melissa Sammarco.
From the Renaissance through the neoclassical period, figure painting based on close observation and skilled execution was the most prestigious form of artistic expression. Though this status was considerably diminished during the Romantic, Modern, and Post-Modern periods, it is clear today that realistic figure painting has made a quiet but definite comeback. The exhibition Real, Realer, Realist, curated by Daniel Pfalzgraf...
I have worked in the theatre as a director for most of my working life. I have also worked for many years as a theatre reviewer—first for Public Radio, then for my own theatre blog (I have reviewed over 150 productions). As a reviewer, I don’t generally spend a lot of time focusing on costumes.
This is my tenth article pertaining to the design field and its relationship with mathematics. Design in essence cannot be accomplished without specific degrees of control, and almost always has a definitive point to make. How well the ‘point’ can be made is attributed to how well the design was carried out. This cannot be said about all art-forms.
The March issue of aeqai should inform all our readers and members of the arts communities here how to get a good handle on the directions into which aeqai is moving. We hope that you like the mix of articles that will become more regular and familiar as we meet visual artists and writers in other cities within our own region, and others, too,...
