You Know What I Mean: Joey Versoza and JR at the Contemporary Arts Center
You Know What I Mean: Joey Versoza and JR at the Contemporary Arts Center By Keith Banner Joey Versoza’s “Is This It,” at the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) through February 2, 2014, offers continual clues to a mystery that’s disintegrating while you stand inside its contexts and riddles. Versoza uses video, found objects, photography, […]
“Balance: an exhibition of contemporary ceramics by Terri Kern”
“Balance: an exhibition of contemporary ceramics by Terri Kern” By Sara Pearce Birds face off against one another at either end of a ladder-like seesaw, perch on the edges of nests, are trapped mid-flight by ladder rungs, and barely touch down atop stacks of ladders, branches and books. There is a sense of urgency – […]
LETTER FROM CORTONA, ITALY
LETTER FROM CORTONA, ITALY By Kevin Ott Cortona is a walled Etruscan hill town 1 ½ hours southeast of Florence by auto, mostly via the white-knuckling auto-strada. A bit less of a tourist destination than some other Tuscan towns—smaller than Siena, maybe less charming and trampled than San Gimignano—its nearly carless, cobbled steep and […]
DIS-SEMBLANCE: PROJECTING AND PERCEIVING IDENTITY
DIS-SEMBLANCE: PROJECTING AND PERCEIVING IDENTITY By Marlene Steele “We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.” — Marshall McLuhan 21C Museum Hotel Cincinnati, Cincinnati Ohio A multi-national array of artists dissect with various technological innovations the contemporary, multicultural perception of portraiture today. This artist is reporting a selection […]
One New Painting: Mark III
One New Painting: Mark III By Jane Durrell It’s like a party at The Galleries at Frame Designs, Loveland, where individual works by twenty-six artists fill the walls and more for the third edition of a show called “One New Painting,” running through September 28. The resulting mix of styles and approaches is almost like […]
Landscapes Re-Framed: Sculptures By Celene Hawkins
Landscapes Re-Framed: Sculptures By Celene Hawkins By Emil Robinson The traditional role of the frame in the presentation of art is not as simple as it once was. Many contemporary artists have found interesting ways to question it. Yet the frame continues to hold its traditional role as a way to assign importance to the […]
The Geometric Imperfection Of Design
The Geometric Imperfection Of Design By Danelle Cheney Typefaces, or fonts, sometimes have more complex histories than we might guess. Times Roman–or Times New Roman, depending on which OS you use–has a long and unclear history. It seems that it was created for British newspaper The Times in the 1930s and 40s, but that story […]
Happy Hour At The Academic Lounge
Happy Hour At The Academic Lounge By James Cummins “Men don’t like men. Maybe it’s something we got taught, or ate, but if you like women, you don’t like men.” “Or maybe you don’t like women, either?” “But would that mean you like men secretly, or unconsciously, or both?” “Maybe it means you like women […]
Photo Essay by Raymond Adams
Photo Essay by Raymond Adams Editor’s Note: Aeqai reviewed a new photography book by Raymond Adams a couple of issues ago, but we failed to include the photographs intended to go with the review. So, we asked Adams to create a small photo essay of his work to share with our readers, and what follows is […]
Doug Birkenheuer: 25 Year Retrospective
Doug Birkenheuer: 25 Year Retrospective Editor’s Note: Doug Birkenheuer was beginning his photography career in the early 90’s in Cincinnati, after his graduation from Antonelli College, where he studied photography. He has been in Chicago ever since, where he now teaches at the Art Institute of Chicago, and has had a flourishing career in both fine […]