Thin Air Studio, installation view, 2009
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Site-Specific Installation by Thin Air Studio
June 26 - August 30, 2009
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A collaborative of Cincinnati artists, Christopher S. Daniel and Kirk Mayhew, Thin Air Studio has been creating unique sculptural installations since 2002. Constructed primarily of organic materials that include tree branches, rocks, and plant material, their environmental installations create intimate spaces of discovery and contemplation.
Working within the enclosed glass facade and soaring expanse of the Weston Art Gallery's street-level exhibition space, they constructed a multi-level series of canopies and undulating forms from tree limbs and manila rope, merging elements of the natural world into an artificial environment.
Christopher S. Daniel works in Cincinnati as a sculptor, teacher, and fabricator. He received his bachelor of fine arts from West Virginia University in 1994, and his master of fine arts in 1997 from the University of Cincinnati's College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning. His solo and collaborative works can be seen throughout the Cincinnati area as well as Munich, Germany, and in collections in Maryland, West Virginia and South Carolina. Currently he serves as an adjunct instructor for the Art Academy of Cincinnati where he teaches welding and blacksmithing. In addition to his work with Thin Air Studio, Daniel operates Blue Hell Studio, a metal fabrication shop.
Kirk Mayhew works in Ohio and Kentucky as a sculptor and a professor. He received his bachelor of arts from Coe College in 1997 and his master of fine arts in 2000 from the University of Cincinnati's College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning. He currently serves as an adjunct professor teaching ceramics at Northern Kentucky University, community education classes at the Art Academy of Cincinnati, and pottery at the Clifton Recreation Center and Funke Fired Arts. He has participated in group and solo exhibitions throughout Cincinnati in addition to his collaborative work with Thin Air Studio.
| Gallery Talk Series: | Tues., June 30 at 7 p.m. |
| Families Create! | Education Workshop: Sat., July 18 at 10 a.m. with Thin Air Studio |
| Exhibition Sponsor(s): | Elizabeth Stone |
Thin Air Studio, installation view, 2009
Thin Air Studio, installation view, 2009
Thin Air Studio, installation view, 2009
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Green Spaces
Small Garden Communities of Dresden, Germany: Photographs by Ardine Nelson
June 26 - August 30, 2009
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Traveling with fellow photographer Fredrik Marsh to Dresden, Germany, Ardine Nelson (Columbus, Ohio) became intrigued with the community of private garden associations whose members are families seeking green spaces in urban areas. With large-scale color photographs, she documents her visual interest in landscape imagery through the formal organization of space and our imprint on the natural environment. Green Spaces features Nelson's ongoing exploration into these personal garden creations including a new series of photographs from recent trips to Dresden that incorporates the proud gardeners.
Ardine Nelson earned a bachelor of science in art education from Northern Illinois University (DeKalb, Ill.) in 1970 and a master of arts in sculpture and photography in January 1972. She received her master of fine arts in photography in August 1972 from the University of Iowa (Iowa City, Iowa). She has been the recipient of grants and fellowships from the Greater Columbus Arts Council, Ohio State University, and the Ohio Arts Council. In 2008, she received a prestigious John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship award. She has been a frequent lecturer and participated as a visiting artist at Hope College (Holland, Mich.), Otterbein College (Columbus, Ohio), and Kenyon College (Gambier, Ohio). She has received numerous jurors' awards and has an extensive exhibition history with her photographs featured in regional group and solo exhibitions throughout the Midwest and internationally in Aleppo, Syria, and Dresden, Germany.
| Gallery Talk Series: | Tues., July 7 at 7 p.m. |
| Families Create! | Education Workshop: Sat., June 27 at 10 a.m. with the Docentitos |
| Exhibition Sponsor(s): | Kathy and Mark Sackett, Vanessa and Richard Wayne |
Ardine Nelson, signage wall, 2009
Ardine Nelson, installation view with column, 2009
Ardine Nelson, "Gardener #155," 2006
Ardine Nelson, "Gardener #2243," archival ink-jet print, 2008
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Trace
Recent Sculpture and Drawings by Carmel Buckley
June 26 - August 30, 2009
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In her most recent sculpture, Carmel Buckley (Cincinnati, Ohio) reactivates discarded objects; creating environments where the viewer can imagine narratives for them. In these new settings, the found items can still be recognized as what they originally were while simultaneously marking the threshold of a transformed world, like the charmed objects in fairy tales. In her two-dimensional work, Buckley invents drawing systems that repeatedly mark the paper with pens and non-traditional tools to form unpredictable networks.
Trace includes a new series of reinterpreted and altered found objects Buckley discovered on the wooded lot surrounding her home on the outskirts of Indian Hill. Included among them is a rustic garden shed that serves as a nexus for the individual sculpture and an accompanying video featuring the landscape setting. Exploring the transformative implications of fairy tale representations in a different direction, Buckley has developed enigmatic drawings from selected marks and motifs of Kay Nielsen illustrations. In a further set of works on paper, large monoprints alter the appearance of the found materials used to make them, forming delicate images of ambiguous substance.
Born in Derby, England, Carmel Buckley received a bachelor of arts in sculpture from Newcastle upon Tyne Polytechnic (United Kingdom) in 1978 and continued her studies at the Escuela de Bellas Artes of Madrid University from 1979-80 and the San Carlos Academy of Fine Arts in Mexico City from 1983-84, through a Mexican Government Scholarship. She earned a master of fine arts in sculpture from the School of Visual Arts, New York as a Fulbright Fellow in 1988. She has been the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Art Sculpture Award and an Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Award. In 1994 she had a solo exhibition at the Wexner Center in Columbus, Ohio. Her work has been featured in exhibitions in Newcastle upon Tyne, England (2005); at Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio (2006); Hopkins Hall Gallery at Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; at the Reed Gallery at the University of Cincinnati's College of Design, Architecture, Art & Planning (2008); and at E:vent Gallery, London (2009). She currently serves as an associate professor in the Department of Art at Ohio State University.
| Gallery Talk Series: | Tues., July 7 at 7 p.m. |
| Families Create! | Education Workshop: Sat., June 27 at 10 a.m. with the Docentitos |
Carmel Buckley, signage wall with Untitled (2007)
Carmel Buckley, installation view from east gallery with Untitled (2009), found object (garden shed)
Carmel Buckley, installation view with monoprints and drawings, 2009
Carmel Buckley, installation view of Untitled (gate) and Untitled (bucket) with silver paper, 2009 both
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