Sunday, May 07, 2000
America's best illustrators at Art Institute
Two local artists among the famous
By Owen Findsen
The Cincinnati Enquirer
It's the art you see the most but almost never see in a museum or gallery. It's illustration, the art that graces the pages of magazines, books and posters. Even though you see lots if it, you rarely see the original art the published work is made from.
Original work by 40 of America's best illustrators can be seen in the New York Society of Illustrators Show at the Art Institute of Cincinnati, the new name of the ACA College of Design, 2528 Kemper Lane in Walnut Hills.
The New York Society of Illustrators was started in 1901 by such famous artists as N.C. Wyeth, Howard Pyle, Frederick Remington and Maxfield Parish. The annual exhibitions include only the best work from the best artists, and serve as a benchmark to current styles. Among illustrators in the current show are Cincinnati artists C. F. Payne and Loren Long.
The exhibition is open noon-4 p.m. Monday through Friday until May 31. For information phone 751-1206.
Rauschenberg honored: Robert Rauschenberg, the artist who turned abstract expressionism into pop art, is the winner of the eighth Wexner Prize of the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus. The artist who triggered a revolutionary change in art in the 1950s will receive $50,000 and be honored at a series of events at the Wexner in May. The prize presentation on May 22 is private but there are two public events celebrat ing the artist's career.
The stage of Ohio State University's Mershon Auditorium will be filled with arts celebrities on May 19, in a symposium featuring architect Frank Gehry, filmmaker and choreographer Yvonne Rainer, artist Jessica Stockholder and journalist Calvin Tompkins.
Mr. Gehry, designer of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, and the Vontz Center for Molecular Studies at the University of Cincinnati, is a longtime friend of Mr. Rauschenberg. Ms. Rainer, who has collaborated with Mr. Rauschenberg, was the winner of the Fourth Wexner Prize. Ms. Stockholder creates art that extends Mr. Rauschenberg's concepts, and Calvin Tompkins is the author of numerous books on contemporary art including Off the Wall, a book about Mr. Rauschenberg.
On May 31, Time magazine art critic Robert Hughes will present “A Completely Biased Homage to Robert Rauschenberg” at Mershon Auditorium. The Australia-born art critic is the writer and star of two public television series, The Shock of the New (also a book) and American Visions.
Tickets are $10 for the May 19 symposium and $15 for the May 31 lecture. Phone (614) 292-3535 for tickets and information. The Wexner Center for the Arts is at 1871 N. High St. on the Ohio State University campus.
Touch of glass: Art glass lovers will flock to Louisville this month as the Kentucky Art and Craft Foundation premieres a major exhibition; Millennium Glass: An International Survey of Studio Glass. Curators selected work by 70 of the best glass artists from a dozen countries for the exhibition. It opened April 28 and continues through July 8. Among the featured artists are Cincinnati native Dante Marioni and Kentucky artist Stephen Rolf Powell, whose work is in many Cincinnati collections.
The Kentucky Art and Craft Foundation is at 609 W. Main St., Louisville. A reception for artists will be 5-7:30 p.m. Friday. The gallery is open 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday-Saturday. Phone (502) 589-0102.
Art from Down Under: One nation that's not included in the Louisville exhibition is Australia, but Marta Hewett has that continent covered with the exhibition Vibrant Visions, through June 17. Six artist from Australia are shown along with the colorful abstract paintings of Australian Robert J. Morris, whose studio is in Cincinnati.
The Marta Hewett Gallery is at 1209 Main St., Over-the-Rhine. Gallery hours are 10 a.m.- 5 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, noon-5 p.m. Saturday. Phone 421-7883 or visit www.martahewettgallery.com on the Web.
And James Michael Kahle, a glass artist from Indiana, opens an exhibition of his work at the Design Consortium Gallery, 2012 Madison Road, O'Bryonville. The artist will attend the opening, 6-9 p.m. Friday, and he'll be giving away one of his works as a door prize. Gallery hours are 10 a.m-5:30 p.m. Monday-Saturday. 321-1800 or visit www.consortiumgallery.com on the net.
Go ask Alice: The glass is only in the title of the Dayton Art Institute's exhibition Reflections in a Looking Glass.
This one's for fans of Alice in Wonderland and its creator, Lewis Carroll. His real name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1899), and he invented stories to tell to children that he photographed between 1856 and 1880.
The adventures of Alice are well known, but the photographs of Alice and other children are less known. Mr. Dodgson was an accomplished photographer, mathematician, inventor of games and more. The exhibition includes rare editions of his books, manuscripts and artifacts.
The exhibition continues through June 11 at the Dayton Art Institute, 456 Belmonte Park North in Dayton. The museum is open daily 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Cambodian contrasts: Louisville's Speed Museum, 2035 S. Third St., has just opened the exhibition Cambodia: Splendor and Darkness; Photographs by DinhQ Le (May 9-July 5).
The Cambodian photographer contrasts the beauty of 400-year-old monuments at Angkor Wat with images of the death camps of the Khmer Rouge during the dictatorship of Pol Pot in the 1970s.
Gallery hours are 10:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, 10:30 a.m.-8 p.m. Thursday, 10:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and noon-5 p.m. Sunday. Call (502) 634-2700 or visit www.speedmuseum.org
@tag:Owen Findsen is Enquirer art critic. Write him c/o Tempo, The Enquirer, 312 Elm St., Cincinnati 45202; fax, 768-8330.
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