ÆQAI resumes its regular monthly edition with this September issue. We welcome everyone to a new and fresh fall art season, and are pleased to offer a number of reviews, essays, profiles and special guest columns. The entire visual arts community is now preparing for the region-wide celebration of photography, fotofocus, which runs through all of October...
I first encountered Katie Swartz’s work in “All the Usual Suspects” at Thompson House Shooting Gallery (see aeqai.com, July 2012). She showed three crocheted animals: “Bartholomew,” 2010, an 11” tall, cuddly bear, and two friendly octopi: “Mario,” 11” tall, and “Myron,” 9” tall, both 2011. In that review, I placed her work in the context of the DIY – do-it-yourself – aesthetic/culture.
Superheroes get on my nerves. Enough already. In our fan-boy, Big-Baby-Man culture, where Batman and Spiderman are given as much significance and gravitas as King Lear and Hamlet, action figures have become prized status symbols, and Comic-Con has become the main place to measure pop-culture significance, it’s easy to see why.
Size matters. Seeing Jonathan Queen’s mural, “Fresh Harvest,” on Kroger’s corporate headquarters downtown in reproduction is nothing like standing in front of it. (It’s visible from Walnut and Central Parkway.) Queen, who is represented by Miller Gallery, is primarily known for his small-scale still life paintings.
Take a stroll down the main drag of Historical Rabbit Hash, Kentucky and you never know what you may find, whether it is motorcyclists, hippies, artists, musicians or a local relaxing on the porch of the general store. Recently, on a late summer day my fiancée and I decided to take an afternoon adventure on the back roads of Kentucky. Historical Rabbit Hash, a small river town
Last Saturday I was fortunate enough to have plans, and luckier still those plans included attending a multi media event at Third Party Gallery in Cincinnati’s West End. The performance was the zenith of the annual art exhibition Autumedia, a show held, in part, at Semantics Gallery, featuring local sound and video artists whose current interests this year range from the sublime to the absurd.
Pairing the work of Judith Godwin and Arlene Shechet seems odd. But that’s just what Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts has done in Judith Godwin: Early Abstractions and Arlene Shechet: That Time at the Anderson Gallery in Richmond, Virginia. The two rooms on the first floor feature Shechet’s work while Godwin garners the larger and more desirable second floor, comprised of three rooms...
A couple of decades ago, I was challenged by Richard Schade, a colleague in the German Studies Department at The University of Cincinnati, to team-teach a course in international literature of the seventeenth century, and to call it a course in “The Baroque.” It will tell you something about English Departments of that time to know that for an English Department...
“It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families.” -Pythagoras This article is my fifth article pertaining to the design field. Design in essence cannot be accomplished without specific degrees of control, and almost always has a definitive point to make.
