The paintings in “Altered States: New Paintings by Rob Jefferson and Jonathan Queen” (currently up on the walls at Miller Gallery in Hyde Park through November 23, 2012) are beautifully executed works that exemplify eerie perfection. The show is one of the best I’ve seen around town this year. Both artists display their oddnesses and obsessions without self-indulgence...
Don’t turn around now: there’s a rotting zombie closing in. But no worries, a high-tech hovercraft awaits to take you away to safety. No, this isn’t a movie I’m talking about; it’s the newest exhibit Apocalypse Now: New Works by Antonio Adams, Emily Brandehoff & Marc Lambert, curated by Thunder-Sky, Inc’s co-founder, Bill Ross, on display at Semantics Gallery.
In October 2010, I reviewed a two-person exhibition at the Cincinnati Art Galleries for aeqai. The opening sentence was “There are twin—fraternal twins—shows at Cincinnati Art Galleries: Leslie Shiels: Lost Dogs Found and Kevin T. Kelly: Embracing the Yin....
Rabbits, roosters, turtles and dogs. Leslie Shiels’ familiar animals dwell in large confrontational canvases and are exhibited opposite their painted twins, who somehow have popped into completely different bubble worlds. Twins can be monozygotic or “identical” meaning that they develop from one zygote.
My first visit to Montmartre was not the flamboyant, sin-drenched, total artistic emersion of which I had dreamed. It turned out to be a touristy square filled with prosaic artists producing prosaic art, with a strong eye to tourists’ expectations. Which may be just as well.
Eileen Southern in The Music of Black American wrote; “On the way to the cemetery it was customary to play very slowly and mournfully a dirge, or an ‘old Negro spiritual’ such as ‘Nearer My God to Thee,’ but on the return from the cemetery, the band would strike up a rousing, ‘When the Saints Go Marching In,’ or a ragtime such as ‘Didn’t He Ramble.’
Curiosity – that need to know what would happen if???? – can be a driving force for both creative and scientific ends. Artist/scientist Kent Krugh is a nimble practitioner in both fields.
The Cincinnati Art Museum is pleased to announce that it has received a generous gift from the Rookwood Pottery Company. The gift from Rookwood proprietors Marilyn and Martin Wade consists of award certificates, corporate records, minutes of the Board of Directors, and eight shape books. Shape books are books of blank paper with vase shapes drawn on the pages; each shape has a number.
Start your Thanksgiving festivities with a night out at the Mt. Adams Monastery for the “Gravity of Light” exhibition the night before Thanksgiving! We have extended our hours from 3-8pm on Wednesday. You can continue the merriment through December 30th.
