Art off Pike is Kentucky’s premier urban art fair specializing in affordable artwork and lively creations for you and your friends. This year AOP features over 80 artists, designers, and makers to delight the senses.
Looking for affordable art? Shirley A. Hudson is holding the second Affordable Art Sale.
Restoration experts will be available in the Eisele Gallery on Wednesday October 2nd from 9AM until 7PM to inspect and provide complimentary estimates to clean, restore and preserve your damaged or deteriorated Art and Antiques.
viDEo sAVant w/ GEISHAFOLD presents The Drowned World, an “Extrapolationist Fiction Mash Up” of live audio-visual improvisation at Other Cinema, San Francisco, on Saturday, October 5, at 8:30 pm.
Cortona is a walled Etruscan hill town 1 ½ hours southeast of Florence by auto, mostly via the white-knuckling auto-strada. A bit less of a tourist destination than some other Tuscan towns—smaller than Siena, maybe less charming and trampled than San Gimignano—its nearly carless, cobbled steep and narrow streets meander the hillside.
I don’t know how many exhibitions have been organized around the theme of “vessel,” or the number of shows of craft materials where the vessel form is the natural result — wheel-thrown clay, blown glass, lathe-turned wood, and spun metal. The final count would be in the thousands.
DAAP Galleries at the University of Cincinnati present the Album des Jeunes Architectes et Paysagistes (AJAP) 2010 exhibition in the Philip M. Meyers Jr. Memorial Gallery, August 28-October 4, 2013, showcasing the winning projects of architects and landscape architects practicing in France who are under the age of 35.
It’s like a party at The Galleries at Frame Designs, Loveland, where individual works by twenty-six artists fill the walls and more for the third edition of a show called “One New Painting,” running through September 28. The resulting mix of styles and approaches is almost like a gathering where everyone is talking at once and all seem to be having a fine time.
Typefaces, or fonts, sometimes have more complex histories than we might guess. Times Roman–or Times New Roman, depending on which OS you use–has a long and unclear history.
Birds face off against one another at either end of a ladder-like seesaw, perch on the edges of nests, are trapped mid-flight by ladder rungs, and barely touch down atop stacks of ladders, branches and books. There is a sense of urgency – places to go, things to do, ideas to express – in “Balance,” Terri Kern’s solo ceramic exhibition at downtown’s Humler & Nolan.
A multi-national array of artists dissect with various technological innovations the contemporary, multicultural perception of portraiture today. This artist is reporting a selection of pieces viewed in the first floor galleries of this engaging exhibition.
Aeqai asked Raymond Adams to create a small photo essay of his work to share with our readers, after failing to include the photographs intended to go with its review of his new photography book.
New Works, which opened on September 6th, features a group exhibition of four-experienced artist from former gallery owner (PAC Gallery) now turned not-for-profit director (The Gallery Project) Annie Bolling. Bolling selected the work of the best and brightest female artists from her former PAC Gallery stable in an exhibition revisiting her recent past as gallery director.
The question of what contemporary art is begs the issue of modernism. Strictly speaking, any work that is done now is contemporary; it is, in other words, modern, or our modern or current age. That in turns presumes that we are always making something new; that we live in distinct moments that we can separate out, that we are continually changing our world; and that we are making progress towards some future goal.
Today you are four years old. A time when you started thinking in a creative and lively way. There was no analytical thinking, no logic, just a pure unconscious mind. I suspect it is safe to say that each of you owned a box of colors. Some would call them Crayons™, but I prefer colors like a 4 year old. You probably had 12, 24, or the spoiled brat box of the 64-color assortment with the built in sharper, debuted in 1958.
Perishable succeeds in producing a coherent symbolic experience of the human condition, at least from Shawna Gulp’s perspective. Her sense is apparently that we are fragile and perishable creatures in a natural world that is cold, hard and potentially damaging to us. While not all of us share this view, it is common enough to resonate with many.
Like pulling a tennis ball ten feet beneath the water and releasing so the molecules inside, fiercely rejecting suffocation, jet through the liquid’s surface into careless air, so does the manta ray leap with force between the waves.
In observing the ever increasing polarization of virtually every facet of society, I’ve noticed the art world has also essentially split into two distinct camps: what I refer to, for lack of better terms, as the Conceptual and the Traditional.
Kimberly Shifflett was born in Champaign, Illinois, grew up in Las Cruces, New Mexico, and settled for a few years in Tucson, Arizona. After skipping her art classes at the University of Arizona to learn to weave, she started a needlework design business, and moved to Cincinnati in 1993.
What is contemporary art? This increasingly important topic is complex and it is debated with no clear-cut conclusions, since current conditions fold back upon themselves and older conditions re-emerge anew and new technologies create seismic shifts in artistic practices.
In August I traveled to Chicago to see shows at the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Art Institute. Recently when I visit these institutions I sometimes feel as if I am a citizen of one of those contested provinces such as Alsace, or a small state in the Balkans, or perhaps I am even a member of a minority population dissolved and diluted within a larger population. Will my artistic passport be recognized?
Contemporary art is a moving target. That is as close as I have ever come to hearing a suitable definition of contemporary art. It is also the reason I am still interested in some version of a career in the arts.
Thirteen is the infamous and mystical number we fear, dark, enigmatic and magical. The number thirteen is associated with ill-luck, the conjured, the dangerous, the forbidden and the unknown, but many have no conception of the mathematical laws which govern it. Most are convinced of its magical powers, and most are uninformed of its numerical elegance or significance.
Joey Versoza’s “Is This It,” at the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) through February 2, 2014, offers continual clues to a mystery that’s disintegrating while you stand inside its contexts and riddles.
Editor’s Note: Doug Birkenheuer was beginning his photography career in the early 90’s in Cincinnati, after his graduation from Antonelli College, where he studied photography. He has been in Chicago ever since, where he now teaches at the Art Institute of Chicago, and has had a flourishing career in both fine art and commercial art photography.
Painter Cole Carothers answers “What is contemporary art?” by weighing the branded spectacle of the art world and Chris Burden’s provocations against painting that slows down to record change, the passage of time and the imperfect.
It’s slow going on a Sunday afternoon in the new installation of European Paintings (1250-1800) at the Metropolitan Museum. The handsome spaces have been spruced up and galleries once given over to temporary shows now are part of the logical flow of ideas and innovations that can be found in this stunning stretch of time in Western art.
The traditional role of the frame in the presentation of art is not as simple as it once was. Many contemporary artists have found interesting ways to question it.
A poem by James Cummins: a happy-hour dialogue in clipped verse that spirals through liking, desire and illusion, each answer reversing the last.
As I began to wander the gallery at Brazee Studios, a young lady, Kayla, age 7, starts interacting with the sculptures with little hesitation, immediately reaching up and sliding the half-brick forward on a long, metal track, while instructing her mother to do the same with the opposing piece.
We live in a world full of ambiguity. Like many people, I find myself having to travel this world with little or no direction. It gets confusing out there trying to interpret the signs, especially when some of those signs may have multiple interpretations.
Years elapse between novels by Alice McDermott, one of America’s most accomplished novelists. It’s been seven years since her last offering, and her new novel, Someone, is one of those occasional perfect pieces of fiction that you read slowly, marvelling at the simplicity of her writing style, her easy narrative prose, her uncomplicated sentences, and the grace in her characters.
As the son of a carpenter from a working class background with family based in Norwood, Aaron Cowan, 42, has risen progressively through the ranks to become director of the Design, Art, Architecture and Planning (DAAP) Galleries at the University of Cincinnati.
Regan Brown reads Plato’s allegory of the cave through the Trickster of myth, from Cage’s silence and Rauschenberg’s white paintings to Banksy, and through the story of the man behind his documentary “Trickster,” to ask whether contemporary art is a con or the clearest mirror of our shifting reality.
Influenced by the late work of Monet and Modernist abstraction, a number of today’s landscape painters have isolated and focused on specific elements, and this series will consist of three parts: 1. skyscapes, 2. waterscapes, and 3. paintings with traditional landscape viewpoints.
When asked to write something answering the question “What is contemporary art?” I was uncertain where to begin. I mean, isn’t it obvious?
The fall art season has begun, with exhibitions of high quality all over the region. Aeqai is back with its monthly reviews, profiles, and issues, following our one summer issue. Our September issue is the largest we have ever posted, reflecting the growth in numbers of venues showing art here.
Covington, KY – Covington Arts announces Etsy Workshop presented by Larry Watson on September 18, 9 am to 12 pm.
At some point many generations ago society reached a level where ordinary people could spend a lifetime perfecting their ability to mix and apply paint, in extraordinary ways. For only its second time in ten seasons Manifest will present a competitive group exhibition focused exclusively on painting.
Dhani Jones’ BowTie Foundation hosts its first polo event at Wilshire Farm, home of the Cincinnati Polo Club, on Sunday, September 15, to benefit a Cincinnati Art Museum and Breakthrough Cincinnati art program for urban middle school students.
Judy Pfaff, a MacArthur grant winner, will have her artwork displayed at the EXPO CHGO, the International Exposition of Contemporary/Modern Art & Design, September 20-23, 2012 at Navy Pier.
On Saturday, September 14, 11 a.m.- 5 p.m., the Westwood Civic Association presents the 5th Annual Westwood Art Show. This Saturday's event includes artwork by more than 70 artists, live musical performances, local food vendors, crafts for kids, performances by the MadCap Puppets, face painting, and much more.
Cincinnati-based artist, Celene Hawkins, has her artwork currently on display at the Taft Museum of Art through October 2o. Celene Hawkins will give a free talk on Sunday, September 15 at 2 p.m.
Northern Kentucky University and the Baker Hunt Art & Cultural Center work together to present an informative 5 week session focused on historical preservation. This program includes two walking tours of Covington, KY and Cincinnati, Ohio.
Oakley, OH – Brazee Street Studios’ gallery One One has opened its annual call for entry for MULTIPLICITY/HANG IT UP.
What did Cincinnati look like in the 19th century? Take a walking tour and explore the historic Lytle Park neighborhood outside the Taft (19th-century Cincinnati’s “East Side”) with former Taft Associate Curator of Public Programs Cate O’Hara.
The beautiful and vibrant city of Thessaloniki will be transformed into a mega- laboratory of contemporary art, with works signed by artists from all over the world for four months, from September 18, 2013 until January 31, 2014, during the 4th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art.
Manifest is offering a variety of programs this fall: The Figure in Place workshop, the Drawing Lab, half-price Sunday life drawing through September 15, and a free life drawing day for high school students and teachers on Sunday, September 15.
