Please join me for an exhibition of paintings at Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, opening January 4, 2013.
The Cincinnati Preservation Association is delighted to announce a major grant from the Haile/U.S. Bank Foundation for the restoration of the gardens at Pinecroft, the estate of Powell Crosley, Jr. CPA received the house and 18 acre site as a gift from Mercy Health in 2011.
The day after 21C Cincinnati, the lush hotel/museum right next door to the Contemporary Art Center, opened, I went for a visit. I didn’t want a tour; I just wanted to experience the place the way it gets experienced most often, as a walk-in, a tourist. It was a chilly Friday night, and from the get-go the place felt haunted yet brand new simultaneously.
What Makes Reindeer Fly? Why does Santa wear red and white? Decoding such seemingly innocuous and symbolic “kid’s play” can often lead to profound results, yet it’s often like peeling the humble onion, which seems to have no real center and whose particular odor and chemistry may have evolved with the specific intention of a hermetically layered inoculation against such a process...
In 1974’s Spence v. Washington, the United States Supreme Court stated, “A person gets from a symbol the meaning he puts into it.” I’m inclined to agree with that statement. For me, the American flag represents a symbol that is open to interpretation, in that it means something different for each person, whether that is as a symbol of freedom, honor, power, or America itself...
Cincinnati is no stranger to the work of internationally recognized artist Shinji Turner-Yamamoto. He marveled viewers with his site-specific Hanging Garden installation (part of his larger Global Tree Project) at the Holy Cross Church in Mt. Adams in 2010. Developing site-specific work is Turner-Yamamoto’s strength.
Sarah Vanderlip’s show at the Cincinnati Art Museum, September 29, 2012-December 9, 2012, entitled Drawings For Sculptures of Buildings, is the inaugural show for the new triennial competition, The Marjorie Schiele Prize. Marjorie Schiele was a Cincinnati artist who spent her life traveling between the US and Europe. She left a large endowment to the museum for the exhibition of contemporary painters and sculptors.
If you start your Cincinnati Art Museum trip by heading up the stairs off the lobby and go right and then proceed through the first large room, you will come to a smaller room that contains several great religious paintings, mostly from the 15th century and mostly Spanish. “Saint Preaching”, just to the left of the entrance, is by Jorge Ingles. That sounds Spanish, I suppose, but it translates to “George the Englishman”.
This is my seventh 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.
If you believe you can never have too much of a good thing, you will be feasting on outside-the-box creativity at the Carnegie Arts Center this month.
In a brief curatorial statement we get the gist of the exhibition Slide: Sculptural Installations by Pamela DeCoker and Alysia Fischer, Paintings by Kim Krause and CK Nichelson. It mingles four Ohio based artists who utilize physical materials and action for the revelation of their artwork. Viewing myriad abstractions, we are asked to consider how they offer both playful and dangerous associations with movement.
In Jane Alden Stevens’s “Windbreak Netting,” a mesh curtain hangs between us and the apples growing on a tree in Aomori Prefecture, Japan. The curtain protects the apples, but also serves to keep us at a distance, like a theater scrim. It also serves to remind us that in Stevens’s work, we see and experience nature through a filter of human intention and intervention.
Although The New York Times Books Review’s editors found 2012 to be an exceptionally exciting year for new fiction, I found the opposite to be the case: 2012 was one of the weakest years , overall, for new fiction in over a decade. Of course, good and some excellent fiction appeared,most all of it after Labor Day: releasing books isn’t supposed to parallel the Academy Awards stunt,...
“A world without rules and controls, without borders and boundaries. A world where anything is possible where, we go from there is a choice I leave to you.”
On a chilly Cincinnati evening – December 4, 2012 – in the company of two friends, I ascended Mount Adams after being picked up from Over-the-Rhine. We were in search of a dose of seriously diverse and hopefully thought-provoking art and culture: specifically, an evening of percussion, dance and photography, set in two separate venues...
A cheerful holiday exhibition lines the walls at Collector’s Art Group, second floor at 225 Sixth Street, downtown, conveying all sorts of interesting ideas without a Santa Claus to be seen. That is to say, this annual holiday show is a gathering of the work of nineteen area artists, the only unifying theme being an admirable level of skill and invention, shored up by neither Rudolph nor holly.
I’m considering films that showed in Cincinnati this past year, so here are my lists, in order of their playing here– a kind of top 20 playlist of films worth seeing. For the near future, Zero Dark Thirty, by Kathryn Bigelow, and Rust and Bone by Jacques Audiard, (The Prophet) which should come too late for 2012, are the ones I’m most waiting for.
Robert Pulley has found the perfect medium for his sculptures with their allusions to the earth’s geological history: clay, which is just mud, and perhaps symbolic of the primordial ooze of the beginnings of life. The results can be seen in “Standing in Time’s Flow” exhibition on view at the Alice F. and Harris K. Weston Art Gallery through February 17, 2013.
The INDA is an award-winning high-end publication launched as the flagship project for Manifest Press in 2005. The goal of the INDA is to support the recognition, documentation, and publication of excellent, diverse, and relevant works of current drawing from around the world.
Artists Wanted for Showcase on Times Square Billboard in NYC. Participate for Free before December 31st! Calling all artists! Share your work on See.Me – a new creative community – and have a chance at over $125,000 in awards, including a massive billboard display of your work in Times Square, New York City.
I ‘d like to invite you to join in helping to complete an exciting new documentary and arts education project called: Art As Action. This film began one year ago when I decided to make a small personal film about my mother, painter and fabric artist Gloria Torrice.
OVERVIEW: Mystery Build is offering $15,000 in awards to participants who can create something amazing using only the materials in a Mystery Build Kit, without knowing what they will have to work with. You can expect to find some common sculpting materials like wood, clay, metal, fiber, and plenty more. The kits are 12″ x 9″ x 3″ and contain 5 lbs. of materials. All 2013 Mystery Build Kits are identical.
