“Looking Glass” reviewed in CityBeat
Looking Glass possesses compelling pieces, but their visual continuity is tenuous. Resisting the artist’s search for “the possibility of a different experience of reality,” the exhibition’s seven works never quite gel into a cohesive show. Alice Pixley Young is a National Boards certified Visual Arts Instructor and the recipient of multiple fellowships and grants. Her [...]
Dasha Shishkin: ‘Gorgeous and Grotesque’ in CityBeat
During the installation of her new show I surrender, dear at downtown’s Contemporary Arts Center, Moscow-born/New York-based artist Dasha Shishkin and I discussed a range of issues, including the possibility that she might be a witch. It’s true that divining rods, transubstantiation and the Russian Orthodox Church aren’t your standard meet-and-greet/photo-op topics. But Shishkin is [...]
“Material Witness” in ART PAPERS
Material Witness is simultaneously polished, ramshackle, naïve, ambitious, witty, and solemn. The six artists and one collaborative brought together by curator Matt Distel are organized around a thesis which claims their “material choices inform the conceptual readings of the work”. But I’d bet that somewhere along the line Distel came across the phrase ‘material witness’ [...]
New Paintings
These paintings are an extension of a series of still lives I composed a few months ago. I’ve been trying to complicate the space of these pieces while pushing a lot of color and incident to the edges. The results are mixed, but they’ve opened up some new possibilities for me.
‘Landscapes of Reflection’ in CityBeat
Monet in Giverny: Landscapes of Reflection at the Cincinnati Art Museum is a stunning collection of 12 works — many painted after 1910 — that offers something for art lovers of all stripes. Your granny will be happy to gaze at utterly inoffensive subject matter, while aficionados can sink their teeth into the artist’s assertive paint [...]
‘Light Passes Through It’ at the Fitton Center
“Still”, my new solo show at the Fitton Center, opens this Friday January 27th. The exhibition features a re-imagined version of my large-scale kinetic sculpture “Light Passes Through it”. Reception is from 6-8pm. The work will be on view through March 9th.
‘Born Again’ in Aeqai
I received a copy of Benjamin Hoff’s The Tao of Pooh when I was in the seventh grade. The book, an introduction to Eastern thought in general and Taoism in particular, came as a revelation to my young mind. For the first time I encountered a belief system not based on an all-knowing, omnipresent God [...]
Review of ‘A New Reality’ in CityBeat
According to curator Mary Heider, artists take “pieces and parts…and create from them something not previously conceived.” It’s hard to imagine a more elegant statement on the nature of visual art, and it’s the premise upon which A New Reality at Covington’s Artisans Enterprise Center rests. Featuring works by artists Robert Fry, Jennifer Grote, and [...]
‘In Love with Line’ in CityBeat
My review of Carmel Buckley’s retrospective at Clay Street Press is in this week’s issue of CityBeat. Check out the print edition, or read it online here.
Review of ‘A Fine Line’ featured on Painter’s Table.
Like his paintings, Richard George’s drawings are as perplexing as they are seductive. The 19 mostly 18”X24” works on paper are immersed in the tradition of nude figuration, but in idiosyncratic ways. Until the advent of Modernism, the erotic subtext of the nude was almost always contextualized by the discrete fantasy of heroic tales, vestal [...]