Hick: Whaddya got for the video contest? I hope a rave. Just watched a piece about the David on Sister Wendy’s show. Didn’t her dad start the hamburger chain, ‘Wendy’s’? Or was that another Dave?
Influenced by Italian Renaissance masters and naïve painters, Deborah Morrissey-McGoff paints imagined worlds in the most traditional of ways. Deborah Morrissey-McGoff’s paintings are mesmerizing. As if we viewers were in a trance, a landscape will seem to open to a book-lined room, as if a hill were cut away.
It doesn’t take much to excite lovers of Chinese art, which makes the 14 pieces of Kangxi porcelain on exhibit in the Sinton Gallery of the Taft Museum a true holiday for such aficionados.
This is my eighth 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 Drawing Center in New York featured the art work of William Kentridge in 1998, a year after he premiered at Documenta X, Kassel, Germany. The MCA-Chicago first presented the work of South African Kentridge in 2001 in his first American survey and it was during this time period that Kentridge’s star rose in America.
Started with demos by David Kassan and Shane Wolf, Manifest now continues its popular series of public artist demonstrations at its Drawing Center studio in Madisonville. Shelby Shadwell will be conducting a four-hour demonstration of his drawing process at the Drawing Center (4905 Whetsel Ave. Floor 2 in Madisonville), including a live auction of the demo drawing as a benefit for Manifest’s studio program.
“Preserving Modern Architecture in the Midwest: a Two-Day Symposium at the Rauh House” will highlight the opportunities and challenges of preserving the recent past.
MAYOR’S PROCLAMATION: February 22 is now MILLER GALLERY DAY in Cincinnati!
This is a reminder that the application deadline for the 2013 Efroymson Contemporary Arts Fellowship is Thursday, February 28, by 5:00 PM EST. This message is being sent to individual artists, art departments and schools, galleries, museums and media. Please forward this announcement to anyone in your network that would be eligible to apply.
