April 1, 2013 THE ARTIST’S MAGAZINE 30th ANNUAL ART COMPETITION More than $25,000 in cash prizes will be awarded, and Top Award Winners will be featured in the December 2013 issue of The Artist’s Magazine! All winners will also appear in a special online gallery. There are 5 categories for you to compete and win. Plus, there’s a Special Student/Beginner Division for new artists.
This exhibit will occupy two gallery spaces at Manifest from January 25 through February 22, 2013 and will be accompanied by a full color catalog documenting the included works. Eligibility: HIGH (realism’s realism) is open to everyone. Professionals as well as students are encouraged to enter. The only limitation is that entries must represent original works of art.
The 3rd annual Light Up Over-the-Rhine (Light Up OTR) is back again, here to celebrate community and the new developments, and the restaurants, and store fronts that make our community a vibrant mecca of posterity.
To the artists, sculptors, designers, illustrators, painters, and creators: you are invited to celebrate your creative passion with an international community of over half a million members on See.Me.
Cranberry juice, funneling through prickled paths of beard hair, drips from my Adam’s apple to my crotch – gray jeans turned sanguine. They won’t give me paint, only cranberry juice. Me, juice, chair, alone in a white cube – fluorescent tubes buzz...
The small West Side neighborhood is quiet in the early morning of November 22nd, 2010. The dark green Subarus bump down Cherry Avenue, on a mission to pick up the last-minute necessities for the lavish dinners taking place that evening. A woman runs by with her black Lab leading her to the small park on the corner of Cherry and Ableton.
Ming-Liang Tsao’s “Goodbye Dragon Inn” (2003), is a very odd film, indeed. Nothing much “happens” in this 90-odd minute film, but an atmosphere of regret, elegy and surprising surreal tension is often evoked and sustained. It was shown twice, years ago, at the Cincinnati Art Museum by The Cincinnati Film Society, now defunct...
“God produced the entire mass for the adornment of his majesty in six days. On the seventh day, he consecrated it with a blessing” – Victorinus (on the creation of the world) This is my sixth 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.
If you go to “Building Sight(s),” Cole Carothers’s new exhibit at the 5Th Street Gallery, looking forward to seeing works in the artist’s traditional look, you may be disappointed. For more than three decades, Carothers has produced paintings that explore the continuities and discontinuities of space.
In the multimedia installation at Thunder-Sky, Inc., Mary Pember has assembled a historical “snapshot” of her experience as a part of the Native American paradox for her and for her mother. This installation, “Digital Wigwam” stretches the medium of photography into a personal experience to include audio and environment, which is a reflection of the traditional Lodge that was used on multiple levels for visual, auditory...
Dean and Britta and their band brought their live show, “13 Most Beautiful…Songs for Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests” to the Emery Theater, Friday, December 9th. In conjunction with the CAC’s FotoFocus show of Andy Warhol’s photography, the musically accompanied screen tests demonstrated the remarkable results of the melding of the arts across disciplines: the slow motion photo-realism of Warhol’s spectacular screen tests...
BODY/OBJECTS is one of three FOTOFOCUS exhibitions currently on view at the Carl Solway Gallery. It features the work of 10 photographers, including: Cindy Sherman, Anita Douthat, Sarah Charlesworth, John Coplans, Ann Hamilton, Suzy Lake, Laurel Nakadate, Amanda Means, Cynthia Greg and Hannah Wilke. Some of the work in the exhibition relates to the theme of the exhibition— body as object—more directly than others.
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.
The Cincinnati Art Museum is excited to announce that Phase II of the popular permanent exhibition "The Collections: 6000 Years of Art" will be on view beginning November 17, 2012. The Cincinnati Art Museum opened Phase I of The Collections: 6000 Years of Art in December 2011, displaying nearly two thousand pieces drawn from the Art Museum's collection of more than sixty thousand objects.
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.
NKY Restoration Weekend steering committee is seeking artists for the 2013 NKY Restoration Weekend Poster Competition. The winning design will become the official visual icon for Northern Kentucky’s annual restoration fair and educational event with a cash prize of $250.
