Maxwell Redder – January Poetry
by Maxwell Redder Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Crumpled Paper –Inspired by Wallace Stevens: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird I. Crumpled and torn the paper’s fluidity, like a loincloth draped against breasts, stiffened, becoming jagged, rigid, recyclable. II. Performing gymnastics, a piece of plain white dropped from a vibrantly checkered hot-air balloon […]
Nourse: the Painter
Nourse: the Painter By Marlene Steele I stood eye to eye with E. Nourse recently at her current exhibition “Rites of Passage” at the Cincinnati Art Museum. The painting: her own lifesized self-portrait. Not given to idealization even when concerned with her own features, she portrays herself actively at work with a clear and unblinking […]
PAIRINGS, Taming the Elements: Contemporary Japanese Prints and Ceramics
PAIRINGS Taming the Elements: Contemporary Japanese Prints and Ceramics Cincinnati Art Museum, October 12, 2-13 – January 5, 2014 By Fran Watson This just may be the perfect meld of mediums. Cool , exciting ceramics perform clay- defying acrobatics in successful combinations with 20th century Japanese woodcuts whose labor intensive prints match for a tempo […]
“Doug Navarra: Marking Time,” Manifest
“Doug Navarra: Marking Time,” Manifest By Karen Chambers Doug Navarra’s exhibition at Manifest Gallery is called “Marking Time.” It might also be called “Connecting” or “Making History Now.” Let me begin by describing some of the 11 drawings and two books* on view. On reclaimed antique documents, which are the support (literally and figuratively) of […]
Artists Robert Off and John Stobart Collaborate in Exhibit
Artists Robert Off and John Stobart Collaborate in Exhibit By Laura A. Hobson With a collaborative spirit, John Stobart, Robert Off and John A. Ruthven are exhibiting their recent works at Eisele Gallery of Fine Art located in Fairfax, Ohio from November 15 through December 29. All artists, they focus on different themes: John Stobart […]
Iconoclast’s Dilemma: Object of Devotion: Medieval English Alabaster Sculpture from the Victoria and Albert Museum
Iconoclast’s Dilemma: Object of Devotion: Medieval English Alabaster Sculpture from the Victoria and Albert Museum Dayton Art Institute October 26, 2013-January 5, 2014 By Jonathan Kamholtz In “Christ’s Entry into Jerusalem,” sculpted in alabaster in England sometime between 1450 and 1470, eight carved figures, full or fully suggested, greet Christ as he arrives on his donkey. […]
Crystal Night and The Boris Schatz Collection at Hebrew Union College
Crystal Night and The Boris Schatz Collection at Hebrew Union College October 11- January 31, 2014 by Fran Watson Art lifts, inspires, predicts the future and captures the past. The very pictorial basis of art makes this past ever-accessible, and permanent for widest world audience, preserving history in a way that mere words cannot. Yet […]
Manifest’s Tenth Anniversary
Manifest’s Tenth Anniversary By Kevin T. Kelly The November 8th opening at Manifest marked the gallery’s tenth anniversary as well as the grand opening of their much anticipated expansion, effectively doubling their exhibition space. For the past decade, Manifest has been challenging the continually shifting contemporary “brick and mortar” art gallery paradigm by defining and […]
Bruce Riley’s Science Fiction, at Miller Gallery
Bruce Riley’s Science Fiction, at Miller Gallery by Matthew Metzger Bruce Riley’s lyrical, organic forms glow through layers of paint and resin, resembling something we can’t quite remember, materializing from a ground we can’t quite locate, coalescing with other forms, then receding back into the abyss. The coalescence is like the moment in between sleep […]
STEVE ARMSTRONG: 20 Years of Mystery and Wonder
STEVE ARMSTRONG: 20 Years of Mystery and Wonder Celebrating an Acclaimed Artist’s Career November 15 – January 17, 2014 ArtsPlace Gallery 161 North Mill Street by Christine Huskisson When I turn the crank she plays her guitar and the lion, carved of yellow poplar, wags its tail, both seemingly moved by moonlight and melody. From […]