Clay Street Press: Cincinnati Portfolio I-IV
Over Time: William Messer, John Lanzador, David Parks
November 20, 2014 – February 7, 2015
Opening Reception: THURSDAY, November 20, 2014 | 6 – 9pm
Join us for a preview conversation with the artists at 5:30pm
Both exhibitions explore artist projects that have unfolded over a significant amount of time.
Over Time takes place in the upper galleries presenting the work of 3 artists. John Lanzador
has drawn inspiration from a small plastic figurine of a female bowler.
For over twenty years he has revisited this image to create over 200
bas relief wood carvings with the figurine as a central component. For
twenty years, photographer William Messer has routinely
visited Monet’s garden at Giverny to create black and white photography
that seeks to reveal the changing environment and landscape from which
Monet drew inspiration. The use of black and white photography allowed
the artist “to expose more of the garden’s underlying structure rather
than attempting to replicate the paintings.” During the 1970s and 80s, David Parks
worked as a senior instructor in aviation engineering in Denver while
also exploring an interest in photography. Often on bike, Parks started
documenting his travels around Denver in a decade long spiral out from
the city center. Parks did not develop these images until his recent
retirement from GE. The result of these images is a lengthy portrait of
an urban center’s gradual change and one photographer’s relationship to
his environment.
In the Ohio Financial Services Gallery Clay Street Press: Cincinnati Portfolio I-IV
opens that same night. Clay Street Press is a Cincinnati print shop
that is run by Mark Patsfall. Patsfall is a highly respected printmaker
who has created editions and prints for artists such as Vito Acconci,
Jay Bolotin, Mark Fox, Chris Johanson, Tony Luensman, Jon Langford, Matt
Mullican, Joel Otterson, Nam June Paik, Kay Rosen, Carolee Schneemann,
and Hannah Wilke. In 1983, Patsfall invited ten artists living and working in the
region to participate in a print portfolio. The shop has produced a new
portfolio of ten artists every ten years. This is the first exhibition
to bring together all forty works from the first four portfolios and
serves as a survey of some of the most interesting artists working in
the region over the past 30 years.
This exhibition runs concurrently with the exhibition Printer’s Proof, a survey of 33 years of prints and editions produced by Clay Street Press at the University of Cincinnati’s DAAP Galleries.
Exhibition gallery hours are Wednesday – Saturday, 12 – 5pm.
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