Maria Longworth Storer founded the Rookwood Pottery Company in 1880, not only to bring the art of pottery to Cincinnati, but also to provide a good wage to working women. We will celebrate Rookwood Pottery, recognized internationally as an example of fine art pottery.
Denver, CO — March 20 through May 10, large-scale images from Elena Dorfman’s Empire Falling series are on view at Robischon Gallery. EMPIRE FALLING (Damiani, Italy) by Elena Dorfman, featuring an essay by noted art historian and writer, Kevin Moore documents Dorfman’s most recent photographic project focused on abandoned, working, and re-purposed rock quarries in the American Midwest.
Join the Cincinnati Art Museum for Final Friday, February 28th, for Art After Dark: Bling + Beats as they celebrate their brand new exhibit, From the Village to Vogue: The Modernist Jewelry of Art Smith, organized by the Brooklyn Museum.
The Short North Alliance and 11 partner galleries and art institutions with the support of the Create Columbus Commission present the second iteration of the highly popular Short North Temporary Mural Series. The exhibition, titled Viewpoints: Murals by Young Professional Working Artists, with openings at each participating gallery in the Short North Arts District.
The CUT: Windows to Eternity, featuring the artwork of Eric Stanley, at Marta Hewett Gallery is extended through March 15th.
Comic books firmly straddle the space between visual art and literature. They are unique in format: the visuals are just as important to understanding the story as the words (unlike a traditional book, which may be republished several times with differing sets of illustrations). There are even some which include absolutely no text at all: no narration, no dialogue.
The Gratz Park Project, November 6, 2009, The Archive of Louis Zoellar Bickett The Gratz Park Project, April 30, 2013, The Archive of Louis Zoellar Bickett The Gratz Park Project, January 21, 2014, The Archive of Louis Zoellar Bickett
Manifest Gallery is entering its tenth season in Cincinnati and its reputation continues to grow both nationally and internationally. Their website states that Jason John’s solo show of eleven works was one of six proposals selected from a pool of 165.
The College Art Association just wrapped up its annual meeting at the Westin Hotel (February 12-15th) inside Chicago’s Loop, just six blocks south from of The Art Institute of Chicago. The conference highlights the academies offering of artist talks, panel discussions, workshops, interviewing sessions, and a book fair among other things.
Editor’s Note: Aeqai receives an increasingly large number of press releases for exhibitions in other cities. So we thought we would experiment, and try to review one from afar, without the direct experience of seeing it live. The first review, by Matt Metzger, is of a show by Ryan Coburn at the Nancy Margolis Gallery in New York, in conjunction with a talk by New York professor, critic and gallerist Jennifer Samet, Ph.D.
Hollis Hammonds has close encounters of the terrestrial kind in her new show at DAAP Galleries called “Worthless Matter.” A stockpile and survey of her recent work, the show displays Hammonds’ skills at drawing and lets us in on a consciousness that is both vividly sedate to the point of entrancement, and formalized stiffly like a sleepy afternoon in a 1950s drafting class.
“I was always interested in art,” says Amy Miller Dehan, 37, curator of decorative arts and design at the Cincinnati Art Museum. “My father Richard Miller was an artist, but he needed to find a career to support his family so he went into the transportation business in Washington, Pennsylvania. I remember lying on the floor with my dad. He drew anything I asked. These sketches came to life,” said Dehan.
It was Mark Twain who told us “Clothes make the man,” adding a Twain-ish thought about the little influence naked men have on society. Certainly the Manchu, who came roiling in from the northeast to take over the whole of China in the 17th century, bought the sentiment, for both men and women.
It all started with a Facebook post that read, “Buy or Burn: A one-night, solo art show like none other. All of Joshua Huettig’s paintings must be bought or they will be burned. There will be dancing, fire, music and wine will be served by the gallon!”
Life is a box of chocolates— You never know what you are going to get.
CUT: Windows to Eternity, the newest exhibition at the Marta Hewett Gallery, features the artwork of Eric Standley. When I first saw Standley’s artwork, I immediately thought of the matryoshka doll, commonly referred to as Russian nesting dolls. Russian nesting dolls are made of wood while Standley’s creations are made of laser cut paper, but they both have multiple layers.
Nellie Taft was a hometown girl, born in 1937 in Indian Hill and died in 2012 in Boston. She attended Lotspeich and Hillsdale Schools in Cincinnati, which answers the burning question among natives: Where did you go to high school? She finished her high school education at St. Timothy’s School in Baltimore.
If you are a working artist living in Cincinnati, and you don’t have a salaried position within one of our prestigious arts institutions, you know how difficult it is to live from commission to commission, adjunct position to street fair, open studio sales evening to short-term project. There are thousands of us out here.
We are regularly informed that the arts have become big business; the investment potential of a work of art has become far more important in late capitalist culture than whether the art is any good, what it says, how it’s made, or whether it matters. It may surprise people under 50 that the financial potential of artwork was never discussed until the 1980’s, the same era that gave us the ubiquitous word “lifestyle”.
Born in Dayton, Ohio, Leigh Waltz took drawing lessons at an early age. In high school, he traveled through Europe and spent a year on the island of Borneo. There, he learned photography and darkroom techniques with Amarjit Singh, a local photographer. He lived in Vienna and Amsterdam with a painter and a photographer, and then returned to study at the Art Academy of Cincinnati.
The light! The light! No wonder artists, passing through, change their minds and never go away. The town is tucked in an upper layer of mountainous terrain, peaks rising on three sides and the fourth side open toward Albuquerque, sixty-some miles away.
The February issue of aeqai has just been posted, and we hope that you find some of our new essays informative.
Patterson Center was packed to the brim with the most difficult people in the city: artists. Mostly lady artists. Each of whom knew in her heart of hearts that she was vastly underrated and pushing valiantly to right this obvious wrong. I was one of these, as determined and convinced of my life goal as any in the building.
Gary Shteyngart is a veritable force of nature, a whirlwind of words, anxiety, mania. Having spent the first seven years of his life in the old Soviet Union, in Leningrad, he and his parents emigrated to America during Carter’s presidency. Carter traded grain to the Soviet Union in trade for letting millions of Jews and some Christian fundamentalists leave, mainly for America and for Israel.
In the past two years or so, America has generated some fantastic new young writers, among them Amber Dermott, Jim Gavin, Jamie Quatro, Eleanor Henderson, Chad Harwick all come to mind. Now, there is the remarkable Jenny Offill, she of the unfortunate name, with her second novel, Dept. of Speculation.
Our family’s car drove by A small white sign Bordered in black Placed by the side of the road Covered with masses of wildflowers Vermont, it said Green mountains dusted the horizon At fourteen, my soul lept Towards the home I’d just found.
Two cardinals and a murder of crows distinctly chatting between neighboring branches; barren minus twisting auburn vines slunk like somnolent tails, and an occasional jostling squirrel. Snow swallows hooves as a deer herd leaps along my father’s fence.
It was a rather good year for films, to my pleasant surprise. I found myself making meta-value judgments to sort out all the contenders, so many of which had many serious merits. It was a pleasure. 1. American Hustle. Great serious screwball script that sustains its complicated logic throughout.
The Taft Museum of Art has unveiled Portrait of an Italian Woman by 19th-century Cincinnati artist Frank Duveneck. A recent gift from Stanley and Frances D. Cohen, this painting is featured in Small Paintings from the Taft Collection, on view until June 22, 2014.
BOSI Contemporary is pleased to present Soft Corps a solo exhibition by Israeli artist Shony Rivnay. Combining sculpture, photography, video, and painting, the exhibition reveals a unique body of work that simultaneously embraces beauty and the post-apocalyptic.
Performance art is so “in” right now. Just ask Jay Z, or Lady Gaga, or Shia LaBeouf. Each of these figures of contemporary pop culture have recently dipped their toes (or jumped headfirst into a fiery lake of PR hell) into the world of performance art.
From the Village to Vogue: The Modernist Jewelry of Art Smith, organized by the Brooklyn Museum of Art, features 24 pieces of silver and gold jewelry created by African American artist, Art Smith. This exhibit also includes select pieces by Smith’s contemporaries.
You are invited to come this Saturday, February 22 at 3:00 at the Carnegie in Covington to see THE ART CARVERS OF MUSIC HALL by Melissa Godoy.Jan Brown Checco will also be there to speak about the important role of public art in Cincinnati and to announce how to apply for next year’s arts grants.
Art Comes Alive (ACA) is an annual, juried arts competition open to artists working in any medium and style. Artists can enter up to four images of their work online. After all the submissions are in, our list of prestigious Jurors from all around the country cast their votes for the top 150 artists.
The DAAP Galleries is proud to introduce the Friends of DAAP Galleries March program schedule, inviting the community to participate in a range of experiences taking place within the Galleries in conjunction with current exhibitions.
Do you know a fine artist, designer, craftsperson who is looking for opportunities to sell their wares, or earn a nice stipend for a day’s work in the charming setting of Clifton’s Gaslight business district? CliftonFest 2014 is the ticket!
THE BLACK TONGUE LEXICON, is a new performance by visual artist, Gary Setzer, currently on tour in the United States.
Manifest launches DRAWN, its first annual international exhibition of contemporary drawing, in its tenth season. The gallery welcomes works in any medium, style or genre, and submissions close March 3, 2014.
Iris’s curator William Messer gives a rare Artist’s Talk in conjunction with his exhibition Some Women, Some Stories.
Photographers of all levels and styles are invited to participate and be considered for over $100,000 in awards, including a world-class NYC Exhibition and a dream getaway to New York determined by our jurors from Monocle Magazine, MILK Studios, Lens Culture, W Hotels & more. EXPOSURE is your chance to show your work in the gallery of one of the most respected organizations in photography.
The organizers of echo Art Fair are pleased to announce the 4th annual echo Art Fair, which will take place on September 6 and 7, 2014 at the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library’s Central Library (BECPL) in downtown Buffalo, NY.
A partnership that began in 1995 and continues to this day as The Search for the Spiritual through Art will present “Spiritual Pilgrimage in Art,” a five-part series designed to explore how Jewish, Christian, Islamic and Hindu pilgrimage traditions are manifested through artistic expression, beginning Wednesday, February 19, at the Cincinnati Art Museum.
After 30 years with a 1st floor retail gallery, we have decided to move upstairs and share space with CAG Framing and Restoration on the 2nd floor of our building.
Images of animals in art have existed parallel to those of humans for as long as images (and objects) have been made by people. Our social, creative, and psychological evolution is inextricably tied to our relationships with animals.
Two-day pastel portraiture workshop at The Baker Hunt Art & Cultural Center in Covington, Kentucky, on Mondays, March 10 and 17, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. It covers proportion, color, drawing techniques and anatomy of the human face. The cost is $40.
LACDA 2014 International Juried Competition is accepting submissions for a juried competition for digital art and photography. Entrants submit three JPEG files of original work. All styles of artwork and photography where digital processes of any kind were integral to the creation of the images are acceptable.
The Inspired Exhibition features artists who created works of art inspired by the people and places that inspire them.
Common Surprise features the artwork of Antonio Adams, Cedric Michael Cox, Monique Brent, Vince Gray, Jimi Jones, Marc Lambert, and Nancy Williams at Gallery Salveo at Interact for Health, with an opening reception on Wednesday, February 5th, from 5 to 7 pm.
The Clara M. Eagle Gallery presents the solo exhibit of Tennessee artist Mike Calway-Fagen. The gallery is located at Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky. The exhibit will include sculpture, collage, video, photography, and found image and object work. A lecture by the artist will be held February 6 at 5 p.m. with the opening reception immediately following from 6-7:30 p.m. Exhibit runs through February 28.
I Kan Do Dat Exhibit features 80-90 artists, at three gallery spaces, in Chelsea and Brooklyn, New York. Local Cincinnati artist Cedric Michael Cox’s artwork will be on exhibit at the Skylight Gallery in Brooklyn.
This exhibition, one of the longest running events at the Museum of Science and Industry Chicago, features over 100 works of art from artists around the globe.
The 15th Annual WAH Salon Art Exhibition, curated by Yuko Nii, is on view at the Williamsburg Art and Historical Center in Brooklyn, New York, through February 23rd, 2014.
