Poet James Cummins returns to aeqai with new poetry about Hick and Willie and their ongoing adventures in the art world Maxwell Redder’s new poems are entirely different, but reflective of his interior contemporary world. Saad Ghosn continues his new monthly column about Peace and Justice: a curator, writer, collector (and medical doctor), Ghosn selects an artist from the region each month along with a poet, whose work he believes helps enhance the quality of life, and of our quest for peace and justice: the artist this month is UC sculptor Farren Allen.Īnd our guest writer this month who examines a work of art from The Art Museum which has influenced her world and her art, is Sheila Fleischer, a pastel painter who moved to this region about two years ago Fleischer gives a very personal account of the museum’s painting by Bay Area artist Richard Diebenkorn. Laura Hobson’s profile of Ruth Dickey, Director of The Clifton Cultural Center, appears this month, and will be followed by profiles of directors of the Kennedy Heights Arts Center and the arts leaders at The Women’s YWCA downtown. Amis has an engaged interest in the visual arts, and we have asked her to serve as aeqai’s Baudelaire, our flaneur, so she will wander around this region and others to which she travels and give us her observations on the visual culture she encounters, and tell us about art she may buy and why. Dustin Pike continues his series on the analysis of design itself, offering his analysis of the number nine Pike will join Shapiro in offering our readers insights and critiques of the worlds of design.Īeqai also welcomes writer Susan Amis, whose column The Occasional Collector begins this month. We asked him to analyze the renovated Schmidlapp Galleries at The Art Museum, as many have pondered the new design, but we think that few understand it and its importance: Director Aaron Betsky’s design ideas run through the renovation. We introduce Gideon Fink Shapiro to our readers Shapiro is a student of design, and he will write occasional articles for aeqai, and we are calling the column Design Analysis. 22 to be Miller Gallery day in Cincinnati, as the gallery celebrates 53 years in the art business run by the same family. Aeqai is reprinting a feature article I wrote for The Artist’s Magazine about Cincinnati artist Deborah Morrisey-McGoff, whose new paintings are part of a group show at the Miller Gallery in Hyde Park called “Local Artists”. Centre College Professor of Art Sheldon Tapley is back with a very thorough and insightful analysis of Gaela Erwin’s paintings, on display in Lexington, Kentucky. Aeqai is introducing some new writers and columns again this month, and we continue to ask writers in other cities to send us information so we can link the arts here with what goes on nationally and internationally.Ĭynthia Kukla returns this month with her “Letter from Chicago”, which focuses on the art of William Kentridge Kukla’s understanding of his work is profound. The February issue of aeqai should reflect the wealth of exhibitions, the variety of talent, and the very different types of art being made and shown, both in our own region and nationally. Greater Cincinnati visual arts venues returned in earnest in February, with the holidays laid to rest.
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