Hot off the presses is our largest serigraph yet –20×28 inches, and three colors. The print shows the Ohio River, downtown, Over-the-Rhine, Mt. Auburn, Clifton, the University of Cincinnati, and parts of Queensgate, the West End, and Mt. Adams. You can recognize the major buildings and landmarks by their distinctive shapes. The coordinates in the lower left corner reference the heart of Fountain Square.
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Just completed is our brand-new table runner depicting the Ohio River as rendered in a surveyor’s 1766 drawing, before the founding of Cincinnati. Printed in chocolate brown ink on heavy-weight linen, it measures 19×59 inches and is available in pale green or pale blue at MiCA 12/v in Over-the-Rhine.
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Oh, how I wish I were in NYC today! This ceramic tile installation, a collaboration between Ayumi Horie and Andy Brayman, opens today in celebration of the Greenwich House’s Centennial and the wildlife in Greenwich Village in 1609, when Henry Hudson first sailed into New York harbor.
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Bierbergen Oedelum Black by Ian Hundley
The Canadian artist Ian Hundley is now based in Brooklyn, where he finds inspiration in the cartographic representations of places. His topographically-inspired landscapes take form as intricate, pieced quilts.
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Many thanks to those of you who attended our opening at MiCA 12/v last month. Mike and Carolyn have been generous enough to keep the display up for another month and we, in turn, have updated the wall with some other prints. This coming Friday night, we’ll have another reception coinciding with Final Friday in Over-the-Rhine so, if you haven’t been to MiCA 12/v in a while, please stop on by!
Enjoy Your Weekend: from gangsters to comedians, and practically everyone in between, there’s tons of fun to be had this weekend in Cincinnati.
The New American Dream: Renting: “Home should be a place to build a household and a life, a respite from the heartless world, not a pot of gold.”
Home Is a Four Letter Word: the concept of home in art examined by the excellent SFMOMA blog.
What Should Brooklyn’s Currency Look Like?: the Ithaca Hours currency model is gaining traction in Brooklyn!
The Big Draw of a GPS Run: “they are neo-cartographers, jumbo-size doodlers and bipedal pencils, mapping their track lines across cities, roads and farms, and sharing them online.”
ReBurbia: A Suburban Design Competition: check out the results that rethink McMansions, big box stores, strip malls, parking lots and more.
This Is One Wall Shepard Fairey Wants to Keep Free of Self-Expression: pot, meet kettle.
