Colored Pencil Society of America
The Colored Pencil Society’s 20th Anniversary International Exhibition is an extensive show filling the main gallery and 4 galleries on the second floor of the Carnegie Art Center. This organization, founded by Vera Curnow of Rising Sun, Indiana, seeks to lend stature to the medium of color pencil as a fine art material and facilitate […]
Benefit Party and Corrected Online Donation link
ÆQAI, GREATER CINCINNATI’S CONTEMPORARY ARTS JOURNAL, CELEBRATES ITS THIRD ANNIVERSARY AT THE CARNEGIE VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, COVINGTON, KY ON MARCH 21, 2012 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: […]
Idiosyncracies, the Mundane, and More at The Land of Tomorrow
The Land of Tomorrow in Louisville collaborated with Country Club to curate a broad show of many different artists, many of whom are well-known in Cincinnati (such as Aaron Morse and Jimmy Baker). Only certain artists were given their own individual rooms (The Land of Tomorrow’s group), and are my focus here: Taylor Baldwin, Lisa […]
Letter to the Editor- Kudos from New York
I am a New York resident who counts myself fortunate to receive AEQAI. Your latest issue is truly amazing in its scope, made even more remarkable when you consider that it is produced entirely gratis. Every artistic organization in America should study AEQAI at this time of massive declines in public support when paid staffs […]
The Painter’s Table
The Painter’s Table, a blog which covers painting exhibitions nationally, has chosen four of AEQAI‘s columns in four months: Sheldon Tapley’s review of the Weston Gallery; Cole Carothers’ essay on Gerhard Richter; Alan Pocaro’s review of a painting show at the Phyllis Weston Gallery; and most recently, Kim Krause’s essay on Philip Guston in the […]
New Gallery Opens with an Exhibition in Visualizing Ideologies
Third Party Gallery opened its first exhibition with a group show (the curator isn’t listed, but I assume it was Wyatt Niehaus, one of the co-founders) called Reductio ad Absurdum. According to the press release, the curator claims that its artists have “composed a dialogue between their work and a preexisting ideology, convention or concept […]
Looking Back
U-turn’s organizers reflect upon their “medicine for misanthropy.” (The following interview took place Sunday, June 14, 2011 in U-turn’s gallery in Brighton. Attending were the five organizers of U-turn, in alphabetical order: Molly Donnermeyer, Matt Morris, Patricia Murphy, Zach Rawe and Eric Ruschman. All are graduates of the Art Academy of Cincinnati. For the sake […]
Yarn bombing in Garfield Place
In Garfield Place, the two bronze statues by Charles Henry Nihaus of former Ohio-born US presidents James A. Garfield and William Henry Harrison have been yarn bombed. Yarn bombing, for the uninitiated, is a form of street art that uses knit/crochet objects illegally placed in prominent public space. The term “bombing” arises from graffiti tagging […]
‘New Male’ Portraiture at the Carnegie
Rob Anderson’s 24 small (3.5×5″) paintings (2009-present) of mostly male faces form a file along the south wall of the Rieveschl Gallery at the Carnegie. Anderson’s skill with his medium is evident. He precisely renders diverse hues, in defiance of the small dimensions of the board. The background is graphically reduced to large swathes of […]
Haring’s Creative Approach and Its Reception
Keith Haring 1978-1982, the exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Center representing the formative period of the artist, reveals the diversity of his early artistic engagements. It confronts the visitor with his sketches of penises, affirming the youthful Haring’s newly liberated sexuality; narcissistic video work, alluding to a preoccupation with selfhood; and his curatorial roles, divulging […]