Two for the Show
If You Go
Opening reception: Driven and Digital Realities
Friday, Nov. 4, 5 to 8 p.m.
The McClure and Pearlman Galleries
1212 Jackson St. in Over-the-Rhine
More information at www.artacademy.edu/exhibitions.
For more than 150 years, the Art Academy of Cincinnati has been at the center of bringing local artists and students together and showcasing their work.
This Friday, two new exhibitions open with work from community artists from Visionaries + Voices and AAC faculty member Thomas Osorio.
The artists working at Visionaries + Voices (V+V) studio often create artwork with a heavy reliance on repetition, process, and intuition. At times, the process of following one’s intuition is more important than the work being shown in traditional spaces. When repetition is viewed in its entirety, it can communicate something larger about the everyday, and offer a look at the shared human experience. Driven, curated by Geoffrey “Skip” Cullen, includes works by V+V artists Kenny Barger, Antonia Baxter, Rob Bolubasz, Danielle Boyd, Curtis Davis, Aaron Evans, and Adam Maloney.
Established in 2003, Visionaries + Voices is a non-profit organization that provides exhibition opportunities, studio space, supplies, and support to more than 125 visual artists with disabilities. V+V artists actively contribute to the greater arts community through creative, educational, and strategic partnerships with local and regional artists, schools, and business leaders.
Cullen is a conceptual artist working in Cincinnati. He is a member of the artist collective Slapface and a co-founder of Adobe Books and Arts Cooperative in San Francisco. He is a co-founder of WavePool, a Cincinnati-based non-profit, creating community fulfillment through artistic possibilities. He currently balances his own practice while working as the exhibitions director for Visionaries + Voices.
AAC adjunct professor Osorio works in the foundations department. He is a Cincinnati-based artist who works with glitch, collage, video, and digital painting. He received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2018, and has exhibited work in galleries and DIY spaces in New York, Chicago, and Cincinnati, as well as online.
“Since 2013 I have been experimenting with creating digital pieces of art in Adobe Photoshop and later the iPad’s Procreate app,” Osorio says in his artist’s statement. “The creation of these works involves a search for imagery which is then copied, pasted, cut out, adjusted, and finally digitally painted on to create complex collage and painterly compositions. These works in many ways start as meditations and reactions to the increasingly complex physical/virtual worlds that are being built around us. They draw inspiration from dream-like worlds and a blurred distinction between what is real and imaginary.”
The AAC galleries are open Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The galleries will be closed November 23 to 25 for Thanksgiving.
For more information visit www.artacademy.edu.