Cincinnati artist Kay Hurley has just been asked to be The University Club’s Artist-in-Residence. The private club downtown, at 4th and Broadway, is unique in Cincinnati in having such a position; it is a three year appointment for one of our region’s best known artists. Her work is currently on display at LaPoste Eatery in Clifton.
Cincinnati Art Museum announced today it has selected the executive search firm of Russell Reynolds to help choose a new director after the announcement that current Director Aaron Betsky is stepping down. Betsky announced to staff January 2nd he would step down after his successor is named.
The Western Michigan University College of Health and Human Services Professor Gay Walker and Frostic School of Art Professor Bill Davis are partnering to host a Grand Rounds panel and the second KRESA/WMU Autism and Visual Art Exhibit in Kalamazoo, MI. Davis, a photographer and former Cincinnatian, has artwork in the permanent collection of the Cincinnati Art Museum.
Gallery talk with Melissa Vogley Woods on Wednesday, January 29 at 7 p.m. at the Weston Art Gallery in Cincinnati, during her exhibition Grammatical Errors, on view through February 23, 2014.
When I was in art school at The College of Brockport in Brockport, New York, ten years gone by now, I often wondered what kind of artwork my art professors were creating in their own studios, or if they were even creating at all. Students put a lot of money and trust into their art programs and the professors who guide them through said program.
Ron Thomas’ Take if from Me and Kim Krause’s The Eleusinian Mysteries ran concurrently at The Carnegie and Marta Hewett Gallery, offering a nice opportunity for a symposium (at least in writing) of two very different types of abstraction. I provide a bit more coverage for Thomas’ work simply because, to my knowledge, it hasn’t been written about before.
If you look to your left when you walk into Miami University’s cozy Hiestand Gallery, you’ll see “Lucy” (2013), a statuesque portrait of a standing baby. She is turning away from us, pleasurably but implacably following some agenda of her own. She could be a guardian figure at the temple of some distant religion.
Before I get to Robert Kushner’s exhibition at the Solway Gallery, let’s take a look at the Pattern and Decoration (P&D) Movement1, which he helped found.
Twenty years ago, in 1993, the Frans Hals Museum mounted an exhibition of the dozen authentic oil paintings of the ‘lost’ Judith Leyster (1609-1660). Banners throughout the city of Amsterdam proclaimed and celebrated this centennial of Leyster’s rediscovery. Why was this significant? Judith Leyster was a member of the guild of painters in Amsterdam along with Rembrandt and many notable northern European masters.
The Medium is the Message is a fitting title for the new show at downtown’s YWCA. In it four artists, each besotted by color, express themselves in individual mediums. Even the two painters use markedly different methods, contrasting with each other as well as with the fabric artist and the glass artist.
Aaron Betsky’s imminent departure as Director of The Cincinnati Art Museum brings up questions, in my mind, that have less to do with the pros and cons of his directorship, than of the methods by which directors are hired here in the first place.
Suited man steps onto a roadway in a low level lilliputian landscape. A nubile intrigante strides openly along a residence-obscuring hedge. Nude male, barefoot in the waning light, apprehensively considers a dismal deserted industrial plant.
Diane Landry’s “by every wind that blows” at the Contemporary Arts Center downtown (up through March 2, 2014) is revelatory and mundane at the same time, a beautiful mix of thought and action that shimmers in your mind a long time after witnessing it.
Although this is not a proper “show” of Selden’s work, there are 5 paintings displayed at the Eisele Gallery, more than one can usually find in one location by this respected Cincinnati artist and favorite student of Frank Duvenek. First the gallery: Eisele Gallery specializes in 19th and 20th Century paintings (and some prints) and often has work by some of Cincinnati’s historically most esteemed painters.
Paige Wideman, born in Indianapolis, Indiana, grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio. She has a BFA degree in sculpture from the Kansas City Art Institute (1989), and an MFA degree, also in sculpture, from the University of Cincinnati (1999). Wideman took 10 years off between degrees to figure out who she was as an artist and what was important to her to communicate and explore through her art.
In a straight line from the main entrance of the Cincinnati Art Museum, past the sequestered “Icons” spotlighted in black caves, through the spacious hallway, footsteps echoing loudly, stood the very dead “Tree of Life”; its roots unlaced and scrabbling for footing on the shining floor, its branches hung with strings and painted with white silicon paint.
Graphic designers are taught to confront and reconcile the relationship between form and content. Is one more important than the other, or equally so? Does personal expression, emotion, and humanity have a place in design, or should designers focus on legibility, clarity, and unity of content?
Crumpled and torn the paper’s fluidity, like a loincloth draped against breasts, stiffened, becoming jagged, rigid, recyclable.
There is an old parable devised by Plato in his Republic wherein the pre-enlightened man and woman are taught the ways of the world only through the play of shadows projected onto the walls of a cave. After being kept there for awhile, one can assume that the shadows would take on a reality of their own. Perhaps they would even name the shadows, and attribute certain qualities to them.
Over the last two decades, Summerfair has contributed more than $500,000 in awards and scholarships to individual artists as well as additional support to events and exhibitions, particularly small arts institutions. “Word is starting to spread about what we are doing,” says Sharon K. Strubbe, executive director since 2006. “We are supporting young artists, in high school, in college and graduates.”
Edward de Waal’s award winning memoir The Hare with Amber Eyes, published about three years ago, traces the ownership of a large group of Japanese netsukes from its original owner, the author’s great-great uncle, to the author himself. De Waal uses the history of these objects to explore and discover his own family history, and a fascinating one it turns out to be.
The exhibition features selected works from the artist presented for the first time in the U.S. The show will be honoring Jovanović’s artist’s book “Performing the Self” written by Kathy Battista. A book launch and panel discussion at the gallery will take place February 5, 2014, 6-9 pm.
Some Women, Some Stories, Artist’s Talk by William Messer [Sunday, February 16 @ 2 PM]: The photographer will discuss the diaristic image/text pieces currently installed at Iris BookCafe & Gallery, 1331 Main Street, Over-the-Rhine, Cincinnati, OH 45202. More info at 513.381.2665.
Poets from or connected to the Greater Cincinnati area are invited to submit up to three poems on themes of peace and justice for the 2014 annual book of poems and drawings. Selected poems will be illustrated in black and white by invited Greater Cincinnati artists, and the book will be launched at SOS ART 2014 at the Art Academy of Cincinnati.
The Manifest Drawing Center's winter offerings include a figure-in-place workshop, a free cast drawing day, a drawing machines workshop with visiting artist Pablo Garcia, expressing gesture, a drawing lab, open life drawing, special workshops and demonstrations, a private atelier, and gift certificates.
This exhibit has no predefined expectation for type or style of work to be considered or selected. Submissions can range from the most traditional to the most conceptual or experimental. The only criteria for entry is that works must qualify as works of photography and be made by artists living in Ohio, Kentucky, or Indiana. Works may include other processes or media, but photography must clearly be the primary media.
Portrait and Figurative Artist, Marlene Steele has been nominated and approved by the board of the Portrait Society of America for the position of Arts Ambassador of the State of Ohio. The mission of the State Ambassador program is to foster greater awareness of the Portrait and Figurative Art and to inspire interested artists toward consistent improvements in methods and techniques.
Due to an extensive webhost server outage on December 31, and to many requests for a slight deadline extension due to holiday travel conflicts, we are extending the deadline for submission to the INDA 9 to midnight January 10, 2014. We wish to thank those who worked hard to make the original deadline. Anyone wanting to update their entries between now and the new deadline are able to do so.
