Earthbound Photographs by Marcella Hackbardt Weston Art Gallery
An increasingly common approach to a contemporary photography show on the part of the viewer is to wonder what flotsam and jetsam in photography’s gristmill
Through a Dark Wood: New Glass Works by Steven Ramsey
Steven Ramsey’s exhibition of paintings on glass and glass vessels, “Through a Dark Wood,” is enchanting, but not “enchanting” the adjective meaning “charming.” It
Cincinnati’s SHINJI TURNER-YAMAMOTO WINS 2011 ARTPRIZE INTERNATIONAL JURIED AWARD
Cincinnati’s SHINJI TURNER-YAMAMOTO WINS 2011 ARTPRIZE INTERNATIONAL JURIED AWARD SITE: LAB + U OF M SCHOOL OF ART AND DESIGN RECOGNIZED AS OUTSTANDING VENUE DISAPPEARANCES
Two Projects, One Deadline: October 26 (The MANIFEST PRIZE and TAPPED)
MANIFEST GALLERY CALLS FOR ENTRY TWO SEPARATE PROJECTS: DEADLINE October 26, 2011 ONE.2 The Manifest Prize CASH PRIZE! Plus solo exhibit at Manifest for the
Curious George
“A Fine Line” at Malton Gallery Richard Allan George might be one of the most remarkable painters that you’ve never heard of. Born in Chicago
Epic Miniatures: Contemporary Pakistani Miniaturist Techniques
The Lois & Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art is on a roll. Coming off the success of their Keith Haring exhibition, Realms of Intimacy:
Remembering Thom at Art Beyond Boundaries
In 1973 the art critic of the Cincinnati Post wrote that Thom Shaw “a young Cincinnatian, Art Academy trained, is possessed of a powerful line
Carmel Buckley’s Universe
Carmel Buckley’s slice of the universe is filled with sheer unlimited creativity, topped, like the traditional cherry on a sundae, with surprises, as if the
Letter from New York: Maps and Legends
This is the first in a series of a quarterly letters, which will cover painting shows in greater New York If you want to experience
Lynne Ambrosini, Chief Curator, The Taft Museum
Bequeathed to the people of Cincinnati in 1927, along with its collections, the Taft Museum of Art opened in 1932. Once the home of Nicholas
Stupid on Purpose: “Peter Saul: Print Retrospective, 1966-2011”
Like doodles scribbled on the edges of homework, Peter Saul’s exquisitely moronic pictures (on display mostly in lithographic form at Carl Solway Gallery through December
Speed Trials
“Speed Trials” was an essay commissioned for the catalog accompanying the exhibition “Trial by Fire: New Glass Work by Darren Goodman” at the Cincinnati Art
The Miller Gallery presents Contemporary Realism
Currently on display at the Miller Gallery on Hyde Park Square, is an exhibition featuring 25 artists whose work offers outstanding examples of contemporary realist
Bessie Wessel, A Historic Model
Once I thought of Bessie Wessel with some pity, a victim of her times, when women were permitted to study, but not to enjoy a
Mitchell and Rammelsberg Furniture at the Cincinnati Art Museum
Despite having a PhD in Philosophy and Dr. of Divinity Degree I know very little art history. As a self taught artist, from an early
Dan Newman Studio Presents: Art by “MYRIX”
Dan Newman Studio Presents: Art by “MYRIX” “Archetypal Faces” Born in Kentucky and now living in Cincinnati, Ohio, Myrix is a self-taught artist,
Letter to the Editor- Kudos from New York
I am a New York resident who counts myself fortunate to receive AEQAI. Your latest issue is truly amazing in its scope, made even more
The Painter’s Table
The Painter’s Table, a blog which covers painting exhibitions nationally, has chosen four of AEQAI‘s columns in four months: Sheldon Tapley’s review of the Weston
Philip Guston’s Recklessness
“One morning, my wife, after the rain, pointed out a spider that was making a marvelous web, so I started doing a number of web
Presages: Gordon Smith’s Kentucky Coal Country Photographs
Gordon Smith’s (b. 1952) black-and-white photographs of Kentucky’s coal mining country and its people are disturbing documents of hardscrabble life. His images tell the story
PLASTIC HYPERBOLE: Rondle West at the Carnegie
Rondle West’s Pop-Rococo universe is something to behold. He is a maximalist working with miniatures, creating visual flourishes and earth-bound chandeliers out of thrift-store cast-offs,
Bridge to Asian Art – Dr. Hou-mei Sung
Dr. Sung has served as the curator of Asian art at the Cincinnati Art Museum since 2002. In her 2009 show, Roaring Tigers, Leaping Carp:
The Art of Daily Reflection
When I talk to people who don’t think they know very much about art, I say, “Just look. What do you see?” If someone can
Second Chat With the Editor – “Self Expression is a Form of Narcissism”
Daniel Brown, AEQAI editor, is a writer, internationally known art critic, collector and curator, a positive stickler for clarity and above all, the objectivity that
Glass Ceiling? Guess Not
The paintings that mark a gradual return to across-the-board contemporary art at Marta Hewett Gallery, where glass objects have held the floor, are themselves almost
Island Reflections
“We’re the reflections of our ancestors / we’d like to thank you for the building blocks you left us / ‘cause your spirit possessed us”
New Gallery Opens with an Exhibition in Visualizing Ideologies
Third Party Gallery opened its first exhibition with a group show (the curator isn’t listed, but I assume it was Wyatt Niehaus, one of the
Art: A Conversation of Souls
Art, at its best, is an asynchronous dialogue between the soul of the artist and the soul of the viewer. It is a conversation of
Still[ed] Life: Katie Parker and Guy Michael Davis
Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but it can also be a sincere source of creativity. That tenet is confirmed by “Still[ed] Life:
Take It Off
Manifest Gallery’s “3rd Annual NUDE” international competition showing through September 9, offers more than the vast undulating landscape of skin to be considered. The subjects
International Artists Exchanges, a la mode “Sister Cities”
It’s satisfying to identify the first seeds of what we become, and to what we commit. The mentor who sowed my life into a fertile
Pointedly Perfect
“The Art of Charlie and Edie Harper in Needlepoint Exhibit” is exactly that. Charming and humorous, exquisitely designed and perfectly executed, each of these renditions
2011 Fellowship Guidelines Announced for Contemporary Visual Artists in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio
Central Indiana Community Foundation (CICF) is now accepting applications for contemporary visual artists that reside in select cities and counties in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky and
Alice Frieder Weston, Artist, Arts Patron and Collector
Alice Frieder Weston is by no means an obscure figure now nor has she been over the many years she and husband, Harris Weston, encouraged
James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Editor’s Note: What follows is the second in Aeqai’s series, where we ask artists in Greater Cincinnati to select one work of art in the
At War With The Obvious
“Not Just Pretty Pictures: The Carl M. Jacobs III Collection” at the Cincinnati Art
Thunder-Sky’s the Limit
“Hard Knocks: Art without Art School” is a loosely curated collection of more than one hundred works of art by thirty-one artists from around the
In Company with Angels:
Seven Rediscovered Tiffany Windows Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933) has been a crowd-pleaser for decades (except for the period
Interview with Aaron Betsky on Schmidlapp Gallery Re-Installation
Tucked in the multi-page announcement of the Cincinnati Art Museum’s 2011-12 exhibition schedule is a portent of change beyond the new season. Re-installation of the
Fun Between the Covers
Books. From the tiniest , “Musical Boxes” by Mark Palkovic measuring a mere 1” X 1 1/2”, to the largest, also qualifying as the most
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Harry Reisiger at The Phyllis Weston Gallery Clement Greenberg once said that “the superior artist is one who knows how to be influenced” and the
An Air-Conditioner-Side Chat With the Editor
With apologies to psychiatrists and brain surgeons, I think one can watch a mind at work. The way the eyes move, the head takes up
What’s The Big Idea? “Body of Art” at Prairie Gallery
“Body of Art,” the exhibit currently at Prairie Gallery (on display through August 20, 2011), is a group show in which the weirdness and greatness
Ode to Trendiness
Initial Impression: Darkened rooms, interestingly arranged for multi-screened film projections. Walls and partitions simultaneously displaying black and white events. A slim man scatters a white
It’s Oh So Quiet
Andre Alves’ Mute Motives at Semantics In the late1950s and into the 1960s, the philosophies