Local Designers Participate in Annual Re-Purposing Contest
Organically Grown
The Hilton Brothers' photography focuses on fresh and natural collaborations
A Room with a View
Back Again: Figurative Painting
Jim Williams’ Landscapes Suggest a State in Flux
0 Comments · Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Printmaker Jim Williams sets himself
strict limitations of size and color range but proceeds to produce a
diverse, intellectually stimulating group of mono-prints for his current
Clay Street Press exhibition. His artist’s statement describes the new
work in Hybrid Structures as his “search for a visual equivalent
to the daily dynamic interplay that occurs between the man-made and the
natural environment.”
Experimental Investigations
The Love Boat (abandoned) and Out of the Gray demonstrate quirky interest in the artist’s craft
0 Comments · Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center’s latest exhibition is the work of Travis Townsend in The Love Boat (abandoned), which is presented in conjunction with Out of the Gray, a group showing of works made using graphite.
There’s Still Hope
Beyond Emancipation traces black history through nine artists’ work
0 Comments · Tuesday, January 31, 2012
As the nation observes Black History Month, Beyond Emancipation
acknowledges that sometimes it’s tough to keep hope alive. But, even
more, the show celebrates the fact that hope has always been there and
always will be.
Potent Potential
City Council reinstates individual artist grants
0 Comments · Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Good news from City Hall? Yes, actually.
City Council has voted to re-instate and improve a long-established
program providing grants to individual artists, which was cut for
budgetary reasons in 2009.
Suitable For Display
Mixed Media artist Nick Cave brings his Soundsuits to Cincy
0 Comments · Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Nick Cave refers to himself as a “trans”
artist because his work transcends so many categories — sculpture,
fashion, performance, dance, fine crafts, contemporary art — that it
turns the whole notion of artistic categories upside-down. His artwork — known as Soundsuits — also
deserves to be considered “trans” because seeing it can be a
transformational experience for the viewer.
Democratizing Art
Thunder-Sky exhibit of abstract works leaves room for visitors’ own interpretations
0 Comments · Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Infrastructure represents opportunity.
That was the thinking of “construction clown” Raymond Thunder-Sky, the
quiet, self-taught artist and downtown icon who saw possibility for
improvement whenever a wrecking ball swung. In his world, police
stations gave way to amusement parks.
Art For Everyone’s Sake
Miami University campaign reaffirms art’s importance
1 Comment · Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Miami University’s New Year’s resolution
came in August, when it declared the 2011-2012 term the “Year of the
Arts.” Part II of Out of the Shadows: The Rise of Women in Art,
opens Tuesday at the Miami University Art Museum.
Breathtaking Views
CityBeat’s visual arts writers pick their favorite 2011 exhibitions
0 Comments · Wednesday, December 28, 2011
This past year had its ups and downs for
the visual arts. The major museums had good shows, but nothing that
captured the public imagination on the order of 2010’s Shepard Fairey: Supply and Demand at Contemporary Arts Center or Wedded Perfection at the Cincinnati Art Museum.
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Spirited In the Material World
Weston exhibit showcases imaginative pieces from a range of materials
0 Comments · Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Material Witness at downtown’s
Weston Art Gallery is all about the physical. The stuff of hardware
stores — plywood, drywall, insulation — remains exposed in the work. If
there’s a common thread, it’s the artists’ “careful and considerate
material choices,” guest curator Matt Distel says.
‘Reality’ Show
A New Reality defies typical notions about local artists and Midwestern art
1 Comment · Wednesday, December 14, 2011
According to Mary Heider, the curator of the current A New Reality
exhibit at Covington’s Artisan’s Enterprise Center, artists take
“pieces and parts … and create from them something not previously
conceived.” It’s hard to imagine a more elegant statement on the nature
of visual art, and it’s the premise upon which the show rests.
Knitting a New Landscape
Cincinnati BombShells aim to soften an otherwise harsh environment
0 Comments · Wednesday, December 7, 2011
When does an age-old craft like knitting
become hip fiber art, street art and performance art? When it’s
practiced by the Cincinnati BombShells yarn bombers, approximately 15
women ages 25-65 with sassy alter egos, Jackie O sunglasses and platinum
wigs.
A Whole New World
Third Party Gallery’s December exhibition takes flight
2 Comments · Wednesday, December 7, 2011
When artist Sheida Soleimani was 6, her
Iranian upbringing became the focus of intrigue among her Cincinnati
classmates. They wanted to know if she had a flying carpet like Aladdin.
Mixed Results
The pros and cons of CAM’s new ‘Greatest Works’ gallery
0 Comments · Tuesday, November 22, 2011
This is an old museum with benefits
bestowed by several generations of collectors, some of them inspired.
But is this the best way to see these works? The installation flies in
the face of accepted museology — not necessarily a bad thing — but I’m
uncertain if it accomplishes its stated aim: to bring people and art
closer together.
Crafty Visions
CAC tries to make video art fun for museumgoers
1 Comment · Wednesday, November 16, 2011
My dream is to see some new museums — maybe even one right here in Cincinnati — devoted just to video art. I’ve mentioned this before to arts
professionals, including curators, and have heard the reasons against:
video art is an integral part of the contemporary-art world and
shouldn’t be separated.
In Love with Line
Buckley’s prints and sculpture at Clay Street Press
1 Comment · Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Carmel Buckley is an artist infatuated
with line and uncertainty. An associate professor at Ohio State
University and a native of England, Buckley is enjoying her third
Cincinnati exhibition in a little over a year. Featuring a series of
drawings and etchings along with freestanding and wall-mounted objects, Prints and Sculpture
at Clay Street Press in Over-the-Rhine is a retrospective look at her
creative output from the early 1990s through the present day.
