On View: June 24 - August 26, 2011
Reception: Friday, June 24 from 6-8 pm

Gallery Geeks: July 14, 11am-1 pm - All 3 artists plan to attend!

Treeline

Photos by Robert Mullenix thru Aug 5

Paintings by Robert Robbins thru Aug 17

Paintings by Kent Krugh thru Aug 26

Experience changes of mood in landscapes by three Ohio artists. Be wonderstruck by Kent Krugh’s timeless black and white photos of the massive ancient Angel Oak on South Carolina’s Johns Island. Become lost in the eerie stillness and filtered light of Robert Mullenix’ forest scenes that capture a tension between media technology and the hand-made object. Feel pleasantly overwhelmed by the buzz and hum of Robert Robbins’ large energetic paintings of thriving underbrush. (Krugh, Fairfield OH; Mullenix, Oxford OH; Robbins, Westerville OH)

Check out this review on photos by Kent Krugh by local author and art critic Karen Chambers. It is published in the online art review website for Cincinnati, Aeqai.com.

 

SPONSOR: Penny Brooks

View installation progress: August 22-September 22
Reception: Friday, September 23 from 6-8 pM

On View: thru October 29, 2011

Gallery Geeks: September 27 from 5-7 p.m. before Music Cafe at 7 p.m.!

undercurrents

a recycled, site-specific, collaborative installation with Jennifer Van Winkle

Undercurrents will be a recycled, site-specific, collaborative installation throughout the Fitton Center. The intent of Undercurrents is to express dreams, hopes, actions and even fears and doubts which move below the surface of the everyday experience.

This large-scale installation will contain several visual and tactile components, including the following: Our Stream of Consciousness, a river designed with braided and woven paper and words and found objects, will flow from the upstairs galleries and lobby to the downstairs lobby and unite with a fantastical, SteamPunk-inspired ship constructed from reclaimed wood, cardboard, metal, and found objects. A soundscape blending spoken words and sounds from daily will also be featured.

University students, high school students and community groups and individuals will work on-and off-site with artist and arts choreographer, Jennifer Van Winkle to construct this large-scale artwork. Art Center visitors may view and pARTicipate! in the making of Undercurrents with the artist from August 22-September 22, 2011. Visitors will also be able to add their messages (words and images) to undercurrents thru October 27.

Premiere Sponsors: Miami University Hamilton, Butler Tech and Penny Brooks.

Supporting Sponsors: Bethart Printing Solutions, City of Sculpture and Hamilton Scrap Processors A Division of Cohen Brothers Inc.

Contributing Sponsors: Butler County Recycling and Solid Waste District, Chris and Anne Flaig, Rumpke and Bill Wilks.

On View: November 19, 2011 – January 6, 2012
Reception: Saturday, November 19, 2011 from 6-8pm before an EntertainmentPlus! performance by Susan Werner

Gallery Geeks: December 1 from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Seekers

Prints by Mary Batstone Woodworth

Glass by Margot Jacobson Gotoff & Steve Meyer

Ceramics by Bruce Grimes

Drawings by Randy Simmons

Seek insights, memories and mysteries of life in the human and animal figures generated by five regional artists. Journey through an allegorical narrative in Mary Batstone Woodworth’s mysterious prints on paper and fabric. Discover the beauty and complexity of the human form that inspire the glass sculpture of Margot Gotoff. Find balance and unity in structure and surface in Bruce Grimes’ raku works that celebrate living creatures. Observe the movement and captured memories that animate Steve Meyer’s natural forms in glass. Look for the subtleties and ambiguities within human relationships in Randy Simmons’ large-scale charcoal drawings. (Batstone Woodworth & Gotoff, Cincinnati OH; Grimes, Cedarville OH; Meyer, Fairfield OH; Simmons, Paducah KY)

SPONSOR: Gerry Hammond

On View: January 27 – March 9, 2012
Reception: Friday, January 27, 2012 from 6-8pm

Gallery Geeks: Tuesday, February 21, 2012, 11:30-1:30pm

Still

Multi-media environments explore the imposed or chosen patterns of communication and distillation of ideas that impact social and political relationships.

installations by Dawn Gettler & Alan D. Pocaro

Using materials that refer to social constructs, Dawn Gettler makes soft, quiet environments containing repetitive objects and imagery that explore compliance. Examining the manipulation of language and landscape by contemporary authority figures in and effort to obscure our perception of truth, Alan Pocaro’s multi-layered atmospheres utilize light, drawing, painting, and printmaking.

a multi-media group show curated by Jennifer Pearson Yamashiro PhD featuring  Carlos Diaz, Edward Montgomery & Jon Yamashiro

Selections of photos, collage, drawings, and prints in Jennifer Pearson Yamashiro’s Without a Sound: Visual Silence convey meaningful experience, thought and states of existence by invoking found, attained, self-imposed or enforced silence.

(Gettler, Chicago IL; Pocaro, Cincinnati OH; Yamashiro, Miami University Hamilton)

On View: April 7 – May 18, 2012
Entries Accepted: Monday, March 19, 2012 From 5-8pm and Tuesday, March 20, 2012 From 9-noon.

 

 

Closing Reception & Auction: Friday, May 18, 2012 from 6-8:30pm

Gallery Geeks: TBD

3rd Biennial Fitton CenterMember Showcase

Art and heirlooms by Fitton Center member families with an auction of quilts by Jacque Huber

This show highlights personal and family bonds that are expressed through art-making. Enjoy both historic and contemporary artworks and the stories behind them, submitted by our community of artists. Try your luck by bidding in both silent and live auction for a selection of eclectic hand-made quilts by Jacque Huber. Proceeds from the auction will benefit the Gertrude M. Huber Scholarship Fund, providing arts experiences for children, and the Fitton Center’s educational programs.

PREMIERE SPONSOR: Art on Symmes-Sherry & Lou Armstead

SUPPORTING SPONSORS: Anonymous and Mike & Cindy Dingeldein.

CONTRIBUTING SPONSORS: American Printing, Hamilton Caster & Manufacturing Company, Miami University Hamilton, WAL-MART Stores, Pat & Debbie Pawling, and Terry Stewart.

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