Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but it can also be a sincere source of creativity. That tenet is confirmed by “Still[ed] Life: Katie Parker and Guy Michael Davis” at the Taft Museum of Art.
In collaboration these two area artists (Parker is an assistant professor at the University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning and heads the ceramics program, and Davis is an adjunct...

Manifest Gallery’s “3rd Annual NUDE” international competition showing through September 9, offers more than the vast undulating landscape of skin to be considered. The subjects have been folded, stretched, posed and exposed in every manner from hypnotic fragility, as in Bain Butcher’s “Untitled” graphite rendering of a young woman, to the Diebenkorn-ish palette knife interiors of Edmond Praybe, two of whose large paintings...

It’s satisfying to identify the first seeds of what we become, and to what we commit.  The mentor who sowed my life into a fertile ground of art and travel is clear:  Uncle Bob gave me my first art history book in 1962 upon return from one of his many international adventures.  A Renaissance man, he drew and painted, sang, wrote, and acted in theatre at Ohio State University, where he also professed a seminal marketing history...

“The Art of Charlie and Edie Harper in Needlepoint Exhibit” is exactly that. Charming and humorous, exquisitely designed and perfectly executed, each of these renditions of the famous Harper pieces in the clockwork precision of needlepoint seems just what the two artists would have anticipated as a future for their works. The late Harpers’ prints and reproductions may be the most recognizable hometown art in Cincinnati, but good design is ageless...

Emerging Artists Exposed is a film series dedicated to emerging artists from the Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky region, offering an intimate look at the experiences, ideas, and personal histories that shape their work. In this installment, the featured artist reflects on her path from business studies to the visual arts and on a deeply social practice centered on the human body, medical histories, vulnerability, and the conversations through which personal experience is transformed into visual form.