The Lens

Don’t Just Talk About It, Be About It is a multimedia retrospective based on the life of James "Omar” Childress in collaboration with Cincinnati-based artist Mike James. A Cincinnati native, Omar is deeply tied to decades of local history and the African American experience. Omar’s father, James Palmer Childress, became the first Black detective in the Cincinnati Police Department in the 1950s, cultivating his son’s strong foundation and deep tie to the city. Omar became a successful entrepreneur at a young age, operating many small businesses including the Washington Limousine Service, Diplomat Night Club, and several remodeling and deck construction companies.... Continue reading Don’t Just Talk About It, Be About It

How do social practice artists foster a sense of trust and belonging using lens-based practices that do not feel extractive to the communities they're working in? A Thousand Words features the visual remnants of artists who use the camera, embodied research, and ongoing community engagement to tell a story that requires more than capturing a mere snapshot in time.

Interdisciplinary artist Rebecca Copper presents Waterways (of Ohio), an ongoing, socially engaged lens-based project that centers different forms of knowledge, deep looking, and social relationships with the non-human life of local rivers, creeks, and... Continue reading A Thousand Words

As part of Ian Strange’s artist residency at the Art Academy of Cincinnati, Strange developed a site-specific installation that offers further dimension to the artist’s longstanding engagement with ideas of home and domestic disturbance. This intervention at the Art Academy Annex complements his SITE 1212 survey exhibition, Ian Strange: Disturbed Home, presenting projects of the past twelve years and includes a new body of work produced in Cincinnati, highlighting the effects of environmental and economic conditions on homes in the region.

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FotoFocus and Weston Gallery present Liz Roberts: Post Blonde at CampSITE Sculpture Park. Post Blonde brings together new iterations of two works. In this site-specific work, the auto is immobilized and repeatedly disembodied to form a large movie screen made from salvaged windshields. The video projections in car windows and on screen question the notion of an afterward and what it means to try and create a record through video documentation.

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The Carnegie brings together five curators working inside and outside of the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky region to select and develop projects based on linking artists across different geographies. For the past several exhibition seasons, The Carnegie has explored curatorial models that prioritize the process of connecting artists with a range of curatorial voices that can provide new contexts for their work. These Things Are Connected continues that effort by inviting Esther Callahan, Matt Distel, Daniel Fuller, Cameron Granger and Tif Sigfrids to introduce artists from outside of this region to pair with artists closer to the Cincinnati/Covington area. Rather than relying on an... Continue reading These Things Are Connected