Opening reception Friday, Sept. 21 from 6-8 PM for “Chris Engman: Prospect and Refuge” and “Wide Angle: Photography Out of Bounds”, the first shows of our 2018-19 exhibition season, and featured exhibitions in the 2018 FotoFocus Biennial!
An ongoing series from photographer Chris Engman (Los Angeles, CA), Prospect and Refuge investigates the medium of photography through complicated man-made juxtapositions. This body of work explores the relationship between illusion and materiality, nature and the man-made universe, and moment and memory. Through Engman’s laborious process of careful documentation and detailed recreation, the artist asks the viewer to consider how we understand photographs and how we experience the world. This exhibition is organized by FotoFocus 2018 and curated by FotoFocus Deputy Director Carissa Barnard (Cincinnati, OH).
Recognizing photography’s central role in collage, Wide Angle: Photography Out of Bounds includes artists who manipulate and recompose imagery to recontextualize narratives drawn from our current social, political, and cultural climate. These multimedia artists blur the lines between different mediums—challenging the high and low art conventions—and push the boundaries of photography by rearranging, patterning, and dramatically altering images to rewrite the traditional visual language. Through this manipulation, images are forced out of context in often bizarre, subversive, and humorous ways in a translation of the current culture.
Wide Angle includes international artists recognized in the genre alongside artists from the region working with collage-inspired techniques. Featured artists are Jimmy Baker, Kathe Burkhart, Harry Callahan, Tom Friedman, Robert Heinecken, John Houck, Mike Jacobs, Sol Lewitt, Goshka Macuga, Rick Mallette, Christian Marclay, Marilyn Minter, Laurel Nakadate, Seth Price, Robert Rauschenberg, Brett Schieszer, Sheida Soleimani, John Stezaker, Sigrid Viir, and John Wesley.
This exhibition is organized by FotoFocus 2018 and curated by FotoFocus Deputy Director Carissa Barnard (Cincinnati, OH).
Please join us for an informal and informative Gallery Talk with curator Carissa Barnard on September 26th at 7PM.
Admission is free and open to the public. Light refreshments provided.
*Image: Mallette, Rick - Hitchin
This event is Free and Open to the public!
Phone: 5139774170
Email: kodonnell@cincinnatiarts.org
2018/09/21 - 2018/11/18
Additional time info:
Open late on Procter & Gamble Hall performance evenings. Please call ahead for times.
Alice F. and Harris K. Weston Art Gallery
650 Walnut Street (corner of Seventh and Walnut streets), Cincinnati, OH 45202
The Weston Art Gallery is situated in the urban core of downtown Cincinnati. With more than 6,000 parking spaces within a two-block radius, there are a variety of parking options for patrons. On the street blocks of Sixth St., Walnut St., and Seventh St. there are several independent valet operators just footsteps from the Weston Art Gallery entrance. Valet stations are located adjacent to Nada Restaurant, Nicholson’s Gastropub, and Jeff Ruby’s Steakhouse.