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Show Closing: Contemplation Room & Library of Love

This exhibit will be closing December 11, 2021 at the Contemporary Arts Center:

The movement of water has become increasingly important in the work of Brazilian artist Sandra Cinto, from churning seascapes and rhythmic ocean waves to the graceful cascade of glacial passage. In this immersive installation, she channels the latter to cultivate the contemplation of time and being – employing delicate washes of diluted paint to transform this room into a multi-sensory sanctuary. In this room, Cinto activates the sensory spectrum through guided verbal meditations and soft soundscapes presented via headphones.

Tactility enters the environment via the Library of Love, an exhibition within the installation curated by Cinto that features the work of over 200 artists from around the world. Each was invited to author a book/object which reflects the quality and complexity of love in its many forms. As objects to be touched and stories to shared, this library speaks to Cinto’s larger objective to channel the Portuguese meaning of contemplation – transcending solitary meditation to offer a shared experience where we give, and are gifts to one another. By reflecting upon that which makes us fundamentally human, she offers an implicit remedy to the politics and ideologies that divide.

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Show Closing: Audio Tour

This exhibit will be closing Dec. 11, 2021 at Contemporary Arts Center:

The Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) is proud to launch Audio Tour by Cincinnati-based artist and professor Britni Bicknaver. Under the guise of an audio guide museums typically employ to present references and objective information to visitors, Bicknaver presents a surreal hybrid that lyrically blends fact and fantasy. In concert with self-composed music, song, meandering meditations, obscure chronicles, mathematical formulae and wordplay, she weaves a surreal map of this center and its colorful history.

This work was initially presented as part of Bicknaver’s thesis project in the University of Cincinnati’s Master of Fine Arts Exhibition at the CAC in 2017. She has since expanded the work and re-mastered the audio, upgraded the technology and expanded the platforms it can be accessed. The work is available free of charge to CAC visitors during regular gallery hours and will be offered on an indefinite run. Audio Tour can be experienced via MP3 players that can be checked out at the front desk, or via cell phones and direct streaming from a dedicated website.

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Show Closing: Sandra Cinto

This exhibit will be closing July 24, 2020 at Contemporary Arts Center:

Throughout her career, Brazilian artist Sandra Cinto has developed a rich vocabulary of symbols and lines to create lyrical landscapes that swirl between fantasy and reality. Using drawing as her point of departure, Cinto evokes mesmerizing environments including turbulent seascapes, swirling rainstorms and celestial skies.

For inspiration she draws upon Japanese ukiyo-e prints and Hokusai’s iconic The Great Wave off Kanagawa, as well as European Romanticism and dramatic scenes such as Théodore Géricault’s 1818 painting The Raft of the Medusa, which depicts a famous sea disaster. Cinto also engages with her surrounding architecture on a frequent basis, immersing the viewer in a sea of waves to evoke the illusion of a weightless, spiraling universe. In so doing, she evokes stories of human hardship and redemption, as well as a larger metaphor for the human odyssey and our relationship with the environment.

At the CAC, she will summon these adventures for a new installation that spans the Lobby and Lobby Lounge. More specifically, an epic landscape will unfold across the two major columns in the Lobby – turning static pillars into dynamic portals for the eye and imagination to explore.

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Show Closing: Ebony G. Patterson… while the dew is still on the roses…

This exhibit will be closing Sept 29, 2019 at Speed Art Museum:

The Speed Art Museum will present the work of artist Ebony G. Patterson in the comprehensive solo exhibition …while the dew is still on the roses… Organized by the Perez Art Museum, the project is the most significant presentation of Patterson’s work to date and includes work produced over the last five years, embedded within a new installation environment that references a night garden.

Patterson’s works investigate forms of embellishment as they relate to youth culture within disenfranchised communities. Her neo-baroque works address violence, masculinity, “bling,” visibility, and invisibility within the post-colonial context of her native Jamaica and within black youth culture globally. Throughout her career, Patterson has often placed her individual works within entirely constructed environments, through the use of distinct wall colors, cloth wall papers or by mixing two-dimensional with three-dimensional elements. …while the dew is still on the roses… will transform the entire gallery environment into a highly decorative theatrical space. Ebony G. Patterson lives and works in Kingston, Jamaica and Lexington, Kentucky.

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Show Closing: Family ARTventures

This exhibit will be closing Aug. 31, 2019 at the Cincinnati Art Museum:

Take a docent-led interactive tour with fun facts and hands-on activities for the whole family. Meet a trained museum docent in the Front Lobby.

Public tours are always FREE and meet in the front lobby

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Show Closing: Public Tour, Highlights of the Permanent Collection

This exhibit will be closing Aug. 30, 2019 at Cincinnati Art Museum:

Tours offer the highlights of the Cincinnati Art Museum's world-class permanent collection.

Public tours are always FREE and meet in the front lobby.

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Show Closing: Public Tour, Highlights of the Permanent Collection

This exhibit will be closing Aug. 25, 2019 at Cincinnat Art Museum:

Tours offer the highlights of the Cincinnati Art Museum's world-class permanent collection.

Public tours are always FREE and meet in the front lobby.

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Show Closing: Family ARTventures, Art Stop

This exhibit will be closing Aug. 25, 2019 at Cincinnati Art Museum:

For everyone, every age.

Here’s the chance to interact with “touchable” art objects. These family-oriented interactive stations actually allow you to do just that, and are led by our knowledgeable Cincinnati Art Museum docents. These tours are a favorite way for the family to get to know our collections.

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Show Closing: Andrew Leicester, Cincinnati Gateway Revisited

This exhibit will be closing Aug. 25, 2019 at the Cincinnati Arts Association:

Celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Cincinnati Gateway sculpture created as the entry to Cincinnati’s Bicentennial Commons in 1988, award-winning artist and sculptor Andrew Leicester (Minneapolis, MN) returns to create a new work that revisits the once controversial public sculpture that went on to launch a million flying pigs.

Leicester’s new installation will be complemented by photo documentation of the Gateway project along with earlier and later public projects (both completed and unrealized) that he proposed in the United States and abroad.

Noted art historian Erika Doss, who has written extensively about public sculpture and its unique presence, will present a lecture addressing Leicester and other artists’ approaches to public art and public space.

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Show Opening: Alicja Kwade

This exhibit opens July 12, 2019 at the Contemporary Arts Center:

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Show Opening: Bubi Canal Woke Dreamers

This exhibit opens July 12, 2019 at the Contemporary Arts Center:

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Show Opening: Saya Woolfalk

This exhibit opens July 12 at the Contemporary Arts center:

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Show Opening: Andrew Leicester, Cincinnati Gateway Revisited

This exhibit opens June 28, 2019 at the Cincinnati Arts Association:

Celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Cincinnati Gateway sculpture created as the entry to Cincinnati’s Bicentennial Commons in 1988, award-winning artist and sculptor Andrew Leicester (Minneapolis, MN) returns to create a new work that revisits the once controversial public sculpture that went on to launch a million flying pigs.

Leicester’s new installation will be complemented by photo documentation of the Gateway project along with earlier and later public projects (both completed and unrealized) that he proposed in the United States and abroad.

Noted art historian Erika Doss, who has written extensively about public sculpture and its unique presence, will present a lecture addressing Leicester and other artists’ approaches to public art and public space.

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Show Opening: Ebony G. Patterson… while the dew is still on the roses…

This exhibit opens June 22, 2018 at the Speed Art Museum:

The Speed Art Museum will present the work of artist Ebony G. Patterson in the comprehensive solo exhibition …while the dew is still on the roses… Organized by the Perez Art Museum, the project is the most significant presentation of Patterson’s work to date and includes work produced over the last five years, embedded within a new installation environment that references a night garden.

Patterson’s works investigate forms of embellishment as they relate to youth culture within disenfranchised communities. Her neo-baroque works address violence, masculinity, “bling,” visibility, and invisibility within the post-colonial context of her native Jamaica and within black youth culture globally. Throughout her career, Patterson has often placed her individual works within entirely constructed environments, through the use of distinct wall colors, cloth wall papers or by mixing two-dimensional with three-dimensional elements. …while the dew is still on the roses… will transform the entire gallery environment into a highly decorative theatrical space. Ebony G. Patterson lives and works in Kingston, Jamaica and Lexington, Kentucky.

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Show Closing: Rachel Rampleman, Oh! You Pretty Things

This exhibit will be closing June 16, 2019 at the Cincinnati Arts Association:

Cincinnati native and Brooklyn-based multimedia artist Rachel Rampleman presents a survey of her documentary and experimental video work featuring single and multi-channel installations from the last decade.

Best known for her bodies of work that explore subjects such as gender, artifice, and spectacle, Rampleman showcases exuberantly bold and irrepressible female/femme-identifying personalities who revel in challenging common clichés associated with masculinity and femininity.

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Show Closing: Making Time, The Art of the Kentucky Tall Case Clock, 1790–1850

This exhibit will be closing Jun 16, 2019 at the Speed Art Museum

Today, we can’t escape time; our phones, tablets, smart watches, and social media feeds remind us constantly. It wasn’t always so. In early nineteenth-century Kentucky, clocks and watches were a costly investment—especially tall case, “grandfather” clocks. Making Time, the first exhibition devoted to Kentucky tall clocks, will bring together more than twenty outstanding examples of these towering creations. When shown side-by-side, the clocks reveal the distinctive hands of many Kentucky cabinetmakers and clockmakers; illustrate the hidden world of gears, bells, weights, and pendulums that kept a clock running and chiming; and record the complex webs of craft, taste, and trade needed to make these practical works of art.

This first-of-its-kind exhibition will use the clocks themselves as well as new research to consider the following:

What are the clues that insiders use to understand Kentucky tall case clocks and connect them to certain places and makers?

What made up a tall case clock and how did it work? What do the clock works look like and how do they operate?

What types of artisans were involved in making a tall case clock and what were their jobs?

Who would have used tall case clocks and where would they have been used?

What was the significance of personal time-keeping in the early nineteenth century?

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Show Closing: Ben Russell, River Rites

This exhibit will be closing Jun 9, 2018 at the Newfields:

Filmed in one take and played in the reverse, this captivating and ambitious work by filmmaker Ben Russell, titled River Rites, is an exercise in what the artist called “psychedelic ethnography.” However, far from functioning as an objective document, this film works aggressively against the notion of representing an ethnographic ‛other’.

Filmed in a rural community on the Upper Suriname River in Suriname, South America, River Rites explores a riverside bank where children and young adults congregate, wash garments, and frolic in shallow waters. The magic of film comes with Russell’s undoing of time, playing with viewers’ perceptions and understanding of what may or may not come next (or, in this case, before). The film’s immersive installation involves a free-standing screen and reflective floor.