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.
