“Jim Killy: Mostly Wood”
“Jim Killy: Mostly Wood” By Larry Watson As I began to wander the gallery at Brazee Studios, a young lady, Kayla, age 7, starts interacting with the sculptures with little hesitation, immediately reaching up and sliding the half-brick forward on a long, metal track, while instructing her mother to do the same with the opposing […]
Perishable: New sculpture by Shawna Gulp
Perishable: New sculpture by Shawna Gulp Phyllis Weston Gallery Photography by Tom Baril September 18 – November 9, 2013 By Kenn Day Perishable succeeds in producing a coherent symbolic experience of the human condition, at least from Shawna Gulp’s perspective. Her sense is apparently that we are fragile and perishable creatures in a natural world […]
Embrace the Ambiguity: Illusion and Immersion
Embrace the Ambiguity: Illusion and Immersion By Shawn Daniell We live in a world full of ambiguity. Like many people, I find myself having to travel this world with little or no direction. It gets confusing out there trying to interpret the signs, especially when some of those signs may have multiple interpretations. It stands […]
New Works on Findlay
New Works on Findlay By Chris Hoeting New Works, which opened on September 6th, features a group exhibition of four-experienced artist from former gallery owner (PAC Gallery) now turned not-for-profit director (The Gallery Project) Annie Bolling. Bolling selected the work of the best and brightest female artists from her former PAC Gallery stable in an […]
ART FOR A BETTER WORLD
ART FOR A BETTER WORLD by Saad Ghosn • Images For A Better World: Kimberly SHIFFLETT, Visual Artist Kimberly Shifflett was born in Champaign, Illinois, grew up in Las Cruces, New Mexico, and settled for a few years in Tucson, Arizona. After skipping her art classes at the University of Arizona to learn to weave, […]
AARON COWAN, DIRECTOR OF DAAP GALLERIES
AARON COWAN, DIRECTOR OF DAAP GALLERIES By Laura A. Hobson As the son of a carpenter from a working class background with family based in Norwood, Aaron Cowan, 42, has risen progressively through the ranks to become director of the Design, Art, Architecture and Planning (DAAP) Galleries at the University of Cincinnati. There, he manages […]
B 4
B 4 By Susan Amis Today you are four years old. A time when you started thinking in a creative and lively way. There was no analytical thinking, no logic, just a pure unconscious mind. I suspect it is safe to say that each of you owned a box of colors. Some would call them […]
Book Review
Book Review By Daniel Brown Years elapse between novels by Alice McDermott, one of America’s most accomplished novelists. It’s been seven years since her last offering, and her new novel, Someone, is one of those occasional perfect pieces of fiction that you read slowly, marvelling at the simplicity of her writing style, her easy narrative […]
Maxwell’s Poetry Corner
Maxwell’s Poetry Corner By Maxwell Redder Manta Mantra Like pulling a tennis ball ten feet beneath the water and releasing so the molecules inside, fiercely rejecting suffocation, jet through the liquid’s surface into careless air, so does the manta ray leap with force between the waves. Does it meet the air leaping vertically to […]
The Emperor’s Contemporary Clothes: Contemporary Art as Temporary Con
The Emperor’s Contemporary Clothes: Contemporary Art as Temporary Con. by Regan Brown I. This Page Left Intentionally Blank. II. To bleed or not to bleed? A Trickster’s Yip Echoes in Plato’s Cave. “Cage described Rauschenberg’s white paintings as ‘airports for the lights, shadows, and particles…’ “. —James Pritchett from “Writings on Cage”. [1] “To Whom […]