Welcome to the March issue of ÆQAI. We have again attempted to reflect the widest possible swaths of the visual arts scene in Greater Cincinnati. This issue includes reviews of exhibitions at our major institutions, commercial galleries, alternative spaces, and newer arts venues.
I would like to express my thanks to my husband, Richard Hoskin, who took time off from writing his novel, as I lay feverish from the flu at home, to meet with James Priest and ask questions I had prepared and some of his own...
This article marks the first of many articles to come in reference to the field of design. These articles will attempt to analyze and interpret the meanings of a vast number of subjects surrounding the design field, and enlighten the reader of their importance. However, before I get into my first subject on design I need to establish a foundation so that you, the reader, know where I’m coming from.
George Bernard Shaw once wrote, “There is no love sincerer than the love of food.” Food keeps us alive. It nourishes the body and keeps us growing healthy and strong. But food also serves as fuel for the artistic soul. That idea was embraced by the Carnegie Visual and Performing Arts Center in Covington, Kentucky with their newest exhibit, The Art of Food . The Art of Food is a feast for the eyes. In its sixth year running,...
The use of color for serious artistic expression has a long history in film, with hand-tinting, (from the beginnings and into the late 1920′s), though the advent and rise of Technicolor in the 1930s. This use of color as an element of interest in itself flowered in John M. Stahl’s Leave Her to Heaven and Michael Powell’s Black Narcissus (among others) in the 1940s, and continued in Powell’s Peeping Tom, and Age of Consent;...
A quick first take on Sara Pearce’s Expecting to Fly at 5 th Street Gallery downtown shows her a words person as well as a visual artist. And no wonder; words were her trade during her Cincinnati Enquirer years, when she reported on restaurants, books, sometimes visual arts, and was a features editor. What collages require, however, is a good eye; Pearce has it.
Every now and again, the literary and/or publishing worlds discover or rediscover an author, living or dead, whose writings are so exceptional that they change the way we read, understand the world, and reexamine the act of writing itself. Three or four years ago, I read Roberto Bolaño’s Savage Detectives, in which this recently dead Peruvian author combines the world of young poets, mainly in Mexico, his adopted homeland...
When old friends meet after a hiatus, there is little preamble before lapsing into friendly chat. This was the case a few weeks ago between AEQAI editor Daniel Brown, and Miller Gallery’s Laura Miller Gleason and husband, Gary Gleason. The two now run the 50-year-old gallery in Hyde Park Square. Laura’s parents are both deceased.
The Green Building Gallery hosts “The Vision of a Generation: Photographs from The Parklands of Floyds Fork.” From the press release, the exhibition “documents the landscape before, during, and after the creation of the 4,000-acre Parklands of Floyds Fork” by its artists over the last four years. The art world, like elsewhere, is engaging the theme of green.
