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.

Rhinegeist

NEAR*BY Curatorial Collective announces LIGHTGEIST, a one-night exhibition of light and projected art at Rhinegeist. Built within the skeleton of the old Moerlein bottling plant in Over-the-Rhine, the name of the brewery means, “ghost of the Rhine,” and, (though often intangible,) light and art can likewise be said to haunt or inhabit space.

For LIGHTGEIST, NEAR*BY has selected seventeen artists / artist collaboratives to exhibit projected videos, sculptural and environmental installations.  These intra-disciplinary works will demonstrate the ways in which contemporary artists are currently embracing the dematerialization of the image, and how that manifests within the confines of a non-traditional art space.

EVENT DETAILS:  Thursday November 20, 7 – 10 p.m. 1910 Elm St, Cincinnati, OH 45202, Over-the-Rhine.  FREE and open to the public.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:Brandon Abel * Jen Berter * Nicki Davis * DAAP Clay & Glazes, headed by Katie Parker and Guy Michael Davis (featuring the work of Olutoba Akomolede, Christine Barron, Amanda Bialk, Michael Broderick, Linnea Campbell, Catherine Gilliam, Theresa Krosse, Sarah Maxwell, Megan Stevens, Christine Uebel, Allison Ventura & Victoria Wykoff) * Lizzy Duquette * Sam Ferris-Morris * Mark Governanti * John Hancock * Joe Ianopollo * Maidens of the Cosmic Body Running * Andy Marko * Alice Pixley Young * Play Cincy * Lindsey Sahlin * Caroline Turner * Justin West * C. Jacqueline Wood * Charlie Woodman

 NEAR*BY is an untethered curatorial collective that seeks to bypass the art institution, working as liaison between artists and pluralistic audiences. We aim to create ephemeral and interdisciplinary exhibitions that connect art with location and meld curatorial and artist practices while blurring the boundaries between installation and white cube.
Press contact:  nearby@nearby.gallery

For more information:  http://nearby.gallery/

Reed Gallery at DAAP (UC)