Archived - Shows And Events

October 07, 2016 - March 12, 2017 - The exhibition leads the programming for the 2016 FotoFocus Biennial which explores the theme of the Undocument, or the blurry line between fact and fabrication in photography. Nearest Neighbor is the artist’s first solo museum exhibition in the U.S. and will present over 15 years of Ethridge’s photographs. This mid-career survey focuses on the artist’s shifts b...

October 1, 2016 – November 19, 2016 - The photographs in this exhibition depict various places in the American West. They were taken over a one-hundred-year period, from the 1870s through the 1970s. The photographers presented range from the completely unknown to some of America’s most distinguished practitioners of the medium, including Timothy H. O’Sullivan and Dorothea Lange. All images were so...

September 24, 2016 – March 12, 2017 - The exhibition is a portfolio of 20 prints made from a combination of woodcut and relief etching that narrates the tale of protagonist Only Enoch. The son of the only Jewish coal miner in Kentucky, Only Enoch is named after an apocryphal book left out of the Hebrew Testament.

September 13 - November 06, 2016 - The exhibition unites two major art institutions across Ohio—the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati and Columbus Museum of Art—to present art on billboards (and other road signage) that both mimics and critiques the theater of red-versus-blue politics during the U.S. presidential campaign. The respective banners acted as provocative, but non-partisan commenta...

September 09, 2016 - January 15, 2017 -This is the first solo museum exhibition in the United States to survey the work of renowned London-based artist Glenn Brown. Painting steadily over the last three decades, Brown crafts paintings with an immaculate, almost supernatural level of detail and fluidity. His work resonates as a model for the longevity of painting by turning the icons of this tradit...

August 31 - October 09, 2016 -Over eight years in the making, Brett and Jarred describe this exhibition as “a project of passion and dedication” with “an aesthetic that was uniquely our own.” It skillfully marries their individual drawing techniques, bringing Brett’s use of line and pattern to render the finished characters and environmental elements (e.g. trees, rocks, and clouds) together with J...

July 15 - November 6, 2016 - The exhibition is a wall-sized map of London and its environs reveals the 18th-century metropolis in astonishing detail. Measuring 7 x 13 feet, the map illustrates the London inhabited by Thomas Gainsborough, Joshua Reynolds, and other English painters in the Taft collection. The massive work on paper represents a monumental achievement in cartography, or mapmaking, an...

July 14 - October 20, 2017 - The exhibition mines deeper into Akunyili Cosby’s past, collecting portraits of her Nigerian family in a range of domestic settings. This exhibition will unite this seminal series for the first time, bringing together individual pieces from London, Johannesburg, New York and Los Angeles to celebrate a formative body in an artist’s rapidly emerging voice.

July 2–September 25, 2016 - The exhibition shows the progression of women’s fashion from figure-altering corsets and bustles to straighter profiles and shorter skirts. For men, the de rigueur white tie and tails for dinner gave way to the more relaxed dinner jacket with black tie. The exhibition will also draw connections to Charles Phelps Taft and Anna Sinton Taft, contemporaries of the fictitiou...

February 20-21, 2016 - The Queen City’s annual retrospective of vintage modern design: the avant-garde art, architecture, furnishings, decor and fashions that emerged between WW I and the Information Age. Fueled by new technologies, materials and popular culture, Modernist trends included Arts & Crafts, Art Deco, Machine Age, Streamline, Mid-Century Modern and Op/Pop styles. Many of these innovati...