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I have been involved in the arts as a collector/artist and model since I was five. For me Art of all sorts is a passion, one to be embraced and enjoyed. I was Co-Founder and Director of Katz and Dawgs the Gallery from 1986-1990. It was an experimental art gallery. And we mounted thirty-six shows […]
Profile of Frank Satogata
Frank Satogata’s studio is deep in the Brazee Street complex of artists’ work spaces, down one hall and then another, up stairs and along another hall before a knock on a door brings this pleasant, smiling man to open it and a little flurry results as his companion Elle, a West Highland terrier, is equally […]
Kate Kern’s Floating World
Kate Kern is a visual artist who works primarily in drawing, although her work ranges from making artist books to installations, as well as an occasional curatorial endeavor. In 2013, she curated “Wounded Home” at the Lloyd Library and Museum, and was also a featured artist in the print collection Cincinnati Portfolio IV by Clay […]
Behringer-Crawford Museum Offers a View into Northern Kentucky’s Past
Where can you see a mastodon jawbone from 10,000 B.C. and a streetcar built in 1892 in one location? The Behringer-Crawford Museum in Covington, Kentucky offers 450 million years of Northern Kentucky history and culture viewed through the lens of transportation – rivers, roads, rails and runways. Ongoing creative, innovative and family programs are also […]
When does a photograph become fine art?
There is no black-and-white answer to this question. No a color answer, either. But perhaps this is a good starting point: A photograph always depicts a subject. Most photography begins and stops with the idea of a “capture”: the goal is to achieve a literal representation of the subject. It doesn’t even have to be […]
Photo Essay – Catherine Aboumrad
“Capturing Stillness” – artist statement The Great North of Canada is composed of an infinite and inaccessible number of desert spaces. The smallness of Self within the infinitely great is a call to introspection. The serenity and silence of the place reveal a disturbing and giddy emptiness. Within this space, there is a presence called […]
The Clash of Nature and the Human Imprint in “Farewell, Eden”
During the 19th century, landscape painting was a popular form of expression for artists to celebrate mankind’s dominion over nature. Pastoral scenes of manicured lawns, tamed gardens and ripe harvests depicted a peaceful, almost perfect world where man and nature thrived in harmonious union. Currently on view at Descanso Garden’s Sturt Haaga Gallery, “Farewell, Eden” […]
“I should have brought a philosopher”: 3 from DiverseWorks’ “What Shall We Do Next?”
1: “Refresh (zine)” by Kristin Lucas, 7 stacks of 8.5×11” sheets of paper, stapler. In 2007, Kristin Lucas began her ongoing “Refresh” series, in which she decides to legally change her name. But, it’s only a “refresh,” in the same way one would refresh a page on an internet browser: she was Kristin Sue Lucas, […]
Documentary Review: “Adam Driver Brings Monologues to the Military: Arts in the Armed Forces (AITAF)”
December of 2015 Vice News (a rapidly emerging online media outlet for the “connected generation”) premiered an intriguing documentary entitled, “Adam Driver Brings Monologues to the Military: Arts in the Armed Forces”. Led by Marine-turned-actor Adam Driver (Girls, Star Wars: The Force Awakens), and his wife AITAF’s Artistic Director Joanne Tucker, we follow can’t-quite-place their […]
Maxwell’s Poetry Corner
Vinaigrette Disregarded drips collecting along the bottom rim of my mug, staining rings on Grump’s old desk, prove combined similarities can leave a mark. My city, similar in thorough collectivity, patient in method, observant of other’s moves, reminds me that stained history is tough to disregard. Those rings will not be […]