SIDE BY SIDE BY OMID
SIDE BY SIDE BY OMID AEC Gallery, Covington, Kentucky, through February 16, 2013 by Fran Watson Very few art exhibits simply happen. They started someplace, out of great and not so great thoughts, from the hearts and minds of creative individuals, and in some cases, from a combination of several kinds of creativity. “domino02” at […]
Philip LaVelle at 1305 Gallery
Philip LaVelle at 1305 Gallery ~ Jane Durrell Philip LaVelle’s vibrant show of new work at 1305 Gallery on Main Street opened immediately after the January aeqai appeared and closed immediately before this issue. Its visual and intellectual content encouraged a belated review. At first glance LaVelle might be proposing a future in which […]
PAUL WOLVEN at the Greenwich House Gallery
PAUL WOLVEN at the Greenwich House Gallery by Kevin Ott Dawn or dusk, abstract or realist, defined and indefinite: Paul Wolven’s oil paintings are worth seeing, their blurry edges and mood evoking palette urging the viewer to resolve these diverse directions. Wolven is a Cincinnati painter and his scenes are Cincinnati scenes. But, often, the […]
Double Meaning: “African American Art since 1950: Perspectives from the David C. Driskell Center” at the Taft Museum of Art
Double Meaning: “African American Art since 1950: Perspectives from the David C. Driskell Center” at the Taft Museum of Art by Keith Banner The Taft Museum of Art’s “African American Art since 1950: Perspectives from the David C. Driskell Center,” running from February 15 through April 28, 2013, tries very hard to live up to […]
To Look, To Turn and Why this Painting is Important to Me: My Reflections on Richard Diebenkorn
To Look, To Turn and Why this Painting is Important to Me: My Reflections on Richard Diebenkorn Interior with View to Buildings American, 1962 The Edwin and Virginia Irwin Memorial Cincinnati Art Museum By Sheila Fleischer Editor’s Note: Aeqai asked Cincinnati artist Sheila Fleischer to select a work of art from The Art Museum and […]
Ruth Dickey – Founding Executive Director of Clifton Cultural Arts Center
Ruth Dickey – Founding Executive Director of Clifton Cultural Arts Center By Laura A. Hobson Walking into the office of the Clifton Cultural Arts Center at 3711 Clifton Ave., one is immediately struck by an interactive quilt with movable faces created by textile artist Barbara Sferra. What an apt introduction to the Clifton Cultural Arts Center […]
The Occasional Collector: A PLACE ON THE WALL
Tha Occasional Collector: A PLACE ON THE WALL By Susan Amis Editor’s Note: Aeqai has asked Susan Amis, a free-lance writer and art enthusiast in Cincinnati, to write about art that she sees and which interests her in her travels around town and other places she finds herself. In future issues of aeqai, Susan Amis […]
ART FOR A BETTER WORLD
ART FOR A BETTER WORLD By Saad Ghosn Images For A Better World: Farron ALLEN, Visual Artist Farron Allen grew up in the mountains of southern West Virginia, product of three generations of coalminers. He was raised by loving and religious grandparents who imparted to him the rigorous teachings of their Southern Baptist faith. […]
Camille Paglia, Glittering Images: A Journey Through Art from Egypt to Star Wars
Camille Paglia, Glittering Images: A Journey Through Art from Egypt to Star Wars Book review by Daniel Brown Camille Paglia is herself a cultural necessity, an icon of exceptional brilliance, a no-nonsense analyst of Western culture and ideas of the first rank. She trucks no theoretical hijinks, refuses labels, isn’t associated with any particular school […]
Maxwell’s Poetry Corner
Maxwell’s Poetry Corner by Maxwell Redder Carbon Vacuums Diamonds & dead leaves: carbon vacuums venatically sucking off the latter to slowly birth the former. My fiancée’s finger is banded: exploding rainbow rays bounce and zoom from three carbon births trapped in gold & loyalty. The latter Proverbs recommends wearing like a necklace, the former is […]