22.5.12
Hoarders
In 840 gallery this week (May 21-25) there is a really compelling painting exhibition on display. Joe Hedges and Nick Scrimenti, the artists of the exhibition, seem to be exploring ideas of manic collection. The boxes (done by Joe Hedges) while multi-colored and varied in size don't exactly make me feel as overwhelmed as an episode of hoarders does or stepping into some people's basements. In fact there is an elegant organized chaos to them.I love the composition of the boxes as well, it offers that fullness that exemplifies the act of hoarding. Nick Scrimenti's self proclaimed messes however incites an anxiousness that straddles the border between comfortable and panic. That incantation is done beautifully. My iPhone photos don't do their pieces justice, so go check out 840. The reception is Thursday May 24th. See you all there!
16.5.12
University of Cincinnati, DAAP
8.5.12
Aisle Gallery
Opening on Friday May 11th from 5:30-8:30pm, show runs through June 8th
Taft Museum of Art
Artist Talk on Sunday May 13th at 2pm, - free, just RSVP online. Show runs through July 29th.
7.5.12
Visionaries and Voices
Opening reception this Thursday, May 10th from 5-8pm. Show runs through June 29th
Visionaries and Voices is located at 3841 Spring Grove Ave, Cincinnati 45223
3.5.12
Bromwells
Opening on Saturday May 5th from 7-10pm
located at 117 West 4th Street, Cincinnati 45202
DeSales Corner - East Walnut Hills
More information here and here
Sponsored by the Clay Alliance
28.4.12
23.4.12
University of Cincinnati, School of Art Lecture Series
The School of Art is pleased to present visiting lecturer Lisa Freiman, senior curator and chair of the dept of contemporary art at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and curator of "Gloria", the 2011 U.S. pavilion in the Venice Biennale.
10.4.12
Meyers Gallery - University of Cincinnati
Fakin' It
Props, Stage Sets, Case Studies and Forced Emotions. The fake in our lives is our life.
Opening Reception Thursday April 12 5-7 pm.
Show runs till May 20th 2012 in UC's Meyers Gallery (directions and info here)
Gallery Hours: Sun - Thursday 10 to 5
An exhibition that believes every object has layered authenticity. Coinciding with an exhibition of forgeries by Mark Landis, Fakin' It plays with the concept of "false" by showcasing a sincerity of materials and authentic voices of a group of international artists. Works question the continually blurring line between sculpture and painting. SOme explot the studio as stage for decoys and charlatans. While others are masterfully hand -crafted versions of debris and dollar store items. Fakin' It showcases the playfully acute struggle artists have with honesty.
Artists: David Herbert, Cynthia Gregory, Marc Horowitz, Alex Ebstein, Seth Alesberger,
Megan Shvaneveldt, Katie Bell, Roula Partheniou, Allan Ludwig, and Cabinet Magazine.
9.4.12
UC - School of Art Lecture Series
The podcast from Lead Pencil Studio's lecture at the University of Cincinnati, April 3rd 2012.
Thank you Annie and Daniel for such an amazing visit!!
5.4.12
Museum Gallery/Gallery Museum
Show opens Saturday April 7th from 7-10pm
Museum Gallery/Gallery Museum is located at 2161 Central Ave, Cincinnati 45202
Semantics
Semantics and Robert Fronk present: Industrial Compositions. Simply put, Fronk composed assemblages from vintage wood milled foundry patterns. Assisted Ready-mades; a sort of quasi - reverse - Bauhaus, where function instead follows form.The work is approached with equal amounts of unconditionality and intentionality. Fronk lived in Chicago for 18 years, painting sets for ballets, opera, theatre and amusement parks. He created faux finishes for painting studios in NYC and Chicago, worked on church restorations and commercial signage, all the while working on his personal paintings and assemblage. Born in Cincinnati, Fronk graduated from The Art Academy in 1981, w/ scholarships and concentration in Drawing and Printmaking. Show opens Saturday April 7th from 7-10pm
Semantics gallery
1107 Harrison Avenue
Cincinnati, OH 45214
tel. – 513-348-7261
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Third Party Gallery
"Art for Sport is dedicated to the proverbial jock, and in pure sport fashion is a celebration and contortion between fandom, competitive spirit and camaraderie/angst amongst peers. As a practitioner of art and dedicated sports fan, I find the similarities blaringly blatant, yet the two worlds overly separated due to opposing societal ideals. The work created for this show is centered on a neutral bias between the two professions if you will, by combining a function culmination of both."
Matt Wiseman is a huge sports fan, advocate of wasting your time memorizing sport stats, co-curator at Museum Gallery/Gallery Museum, member of SLAPface, and an occasional artist.
Third Party Gallery, located at 2159 Central Ave, Cincinnati 45214
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28.3.12
University of Cincinnati - Visiting Artist Series
website
University of Cincinnati, Reed Gallery (DAAP)
Show runs through May 20th
27.3.12
Phyllis Weston Gallery
Opening on Friday April 6th from 5-9pm
Exhibition continues through Saturday May 5th
9.3.12
The LIGHT Show
The first show of the quarter, and an awesome one at that. The theme of the show was in fact Light. And while light was used directly in some pieces others utilized the light in the presentation of the work. I love the extensive use of ceramics. Even though the title and theme I believe referenced the visual kind of light, there was a play on the adjective aspect of light with hanging porcelain strips. (one of my favorite pieces). Porcelain. Usually considered a weightier material in my mind isn't usually used to represent light-weight or "airy," so it was good to see that portrayal. Unfortunately my camera didn't quite capture the "lighted" pieces so I say go see this show in 840 gallery tomorrow before noon! It's definitely worth it!
3x5 Sophomore show
What better way to take a break during finals week than to go see some art. And you don't even have to leave the comforts of DAAP. A group of 15 sophomores have a show, 3x5, the opening reception of which is Wednesday, March 14th from 6-9pm. Sounds like a good time and hope to see everyone there!
7.3.12
Carnegie Visual and Performing Arts Center
Event: Third Annual Celebration and Benefit Party for ÆQAI: The Journal of Critical Thinking,
Review, & Reflective Prose on Contemporary Art in Greater Cincinnati
Date: Wednesday, March 21, 6-8 pm.
Location: The Carnegie Visual and Performing Arts Center
1028 Scott Blvd, Covington, KY 41011
Details: $15 suggested donation
Hors d’oeuvres, cash bar. ÆQAI editor Daniel Brown will speak at 7:00 p.m.
Cincinnati, Ohio – ÆQAI, Greater Cincinnati’s premier journal for critical thinking, review, and reflective prose on contemporary art, will celebrate its third year of publications on March 21, 2012 at the The Carnegie Visual and Performing Arts Center in Covington, Kentucky.
Last year, ÆQAI was viewed by 22,000 unique visitors from around the world. No doubt this was in part due to several of its articles garnering national attention through their appearance on The Huffington Post. ÆQAI publishes over a dozen such quality articles monthly, ranging from critiques of current exhibitions to creative responses to exemplary museum works. The journal's editor, long-time established writer, critic, and curator Daniel Brown, has continued to expand the intellectual and creative horizons of the journal's readership. His efforts, as well as the diligent and thoughtful production of the ÆQAI 's many dedicated contributors and volunteers, has drawn national attention to area thinkers, artists, galleries, and museums.
ÆQAI is presently funded through donations, sponsorships and advertising. There is no cost to subscribe to the ÆQAI.com email list. The journal is now in the final steps in the process of incorporating as a non-profit institution. Donations can also be made through PayPal online by clicking here. Details for tax-deductibility are forthcoming. For more information, please refer to the above contact information or send an email to editor@aeqai.com.
Prairie
Prairie is located at 4035 Hamilton Avenue.
Hours 10-6 Tuesday through Friday, 10-4 Saturday
Opening Reception Saturday March 10th from 7-9pm
Opening Reception Saturday March 10th from 7-9pm
Airstream is a solo exhibition by veteran artist Peter Haberkorn showing at Prairie Gallery from March 10 through May 5, 2012. Airstream includes new work consisting of Haberkorn's trademark "three dimensional collages" which combine found materials with original photographs. In this body of work, the artist uses parts culled from vintage Airstream trailers as framing devices for photographs produced during his extended driving trips.
Originally inspired by his architectural restoration activities, as well as by the finishing materials he used in fine art framing, Haberkorn became fascinated with the formal and evocative potential of cast-off, recycled and industrial components. Subsequently, he began creating specific new elements to mix in with the found materials. More recently,he has developed three bodies of work: collages incorporating textures and associations of animal forms and skins; constructions using telephones; and photography combined with found windows. Airstream consists of a series of images framed by fragments of vintage Airstream trailers. Haberkorn inserts his images into windows and door frames which have been crudely removed from the original trailer chassis. The images inserted into the empty frames act as a fictitious replacement for the world originally viewed from these openings.
Haberkorn's combinations of new images with materials drawn from vintage trailers acts as a slight diversion from photography's usual method of transporting the viewer into a realm beyond the present. While photographs imply reality by virtue of their mechanical production from highly sophisticated recording devices, their meaning stems partly from fictitious worlds created by their viewers. Those details such as time of day, setting, mood and what happened just before and after the creation of any given photograph are normally generated entirely in the mind of the viewer. Haberkorn short circuits this process in one significant way by framing his images of the road with devices which themselves imply a specific mood and narrative about one kind of life on the road. The Airstream trailer itself represents the pinnacle of family luxury in the post-World War II population boom and subsequent suburban expansion in America. In this context, Haberkorn's images represent adventure, luxury, possibility and optimism; the American dream. His work is a welcome addition to a plethora of socially engaged contemporary art which tends to dwell more on social inequality and repression than idealism.
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