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On the Scene.

us at the R. Mug. Show.

Everyone can be Ryan Mulligan

I went to Ryan Mulligan's solo show at semantics this weekend and was impressed with the amount of work he produced for this show. There were two rooms of small paintings and drawings and a large Wall mural. I know his process is pretty quick, but I love the direction his work is going. It seems to be taking a more abstract turn from his last show I attended at the Westin last year. That show was much more about drawing/depicting real objects in a false space. This work seems much more about abstraction, movement, and design. I'm happy to seem him take a turn towards more expressive and less illustrative work. I am excited to see where he takes these forms and colors in the next few years. Objects of his drawings maybe?

One thing though, his color palette is very similar to someone else I know. He constantly tells this person he hates their color palette. Wonder who that could be.

By the way, since Ryan was in New York all weekend there were name tags all over the place with his name on them, and andy was taking pictures of everyone as ryan mulligan. The name tags were a great take away to bockfest going on downtown. Ryan you should be thanking us for all the free advertising, especially all over the women's bathroom at Neon's Bar. ::wink:: you're welcome.

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People Who Make Us Smile. U turn.

I don't know who made it out to Uturn gallery space on saturday with the rain and bockfest keeping everyone busy, but there was a show about humor that had some interesting work. The show was called People Who Make Us Smile. It was full of installation work and funny images. DVDs of funny shows and movies, A 75 dollar Bart Simpson "don't have a cow man" cup full of yellow liquid, collages, one featuring my favorite "Pizza the Hut", a running jersey that has "you have fat ankles" in a convincing logo, to list a few. All of the work was pretty light and a fun show to spend some time in. I was proud of the people who submitted work because while it did contain some one liner art, some of the pieces were a bit more than that, which was refreshing for a cincinnanti show about humor. It was a nice mix of objects and images that brought their wintertime viewers a bit out of their seasonal affective disorder.

Show highlight was a photograph in a studio/garage space of a typical midwest looking mom sticking her head through the "O" in a giant sign that said "Mom". She is grinning and standing on the remnants of where they cut out the "O". Her expression and dress combined with the surroundings made everyone laugh when they looked at this piece in a gallery setting.

Show sadness, my friends Chris Reeves and Loraine Wible had a couple video pieces that people kept turning the volume down on. I didn't even really get to hear the piece, bummer.

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Grad Poster Forum!

ok, so, end of the quarter exhaustion is setting in, but I told myself I would keep up with this blog, so sorry if half assed posts appear. It will get better once break comes I promise.

anyway, so THE GRADUATE POSTER FORUM!

As always we are invited to put up cool pictures we drew while we may or may not have been drunk amongst extreme curing cancer type research posters. At least we have a lot of experience now at making scientists laugh.

We had our own little gallery space at the beginning of the poster space where we set up our work at about 9am. A bunch of us had to leave to meet up with jimmy baker but we noticed before hand that there were tags and labels for a "carlos guitarlos". We know pretty much everyone in the program and as genuine of a name as carlos guitarlos sounds we were very curious who this person could have been. So when we came back for the crowning ceremony at around 2pm there was still no carlos. This made us all wonder if they really check peoples names because nick quickly realized "Hey I could have put in a picture of my famous FetalJuice under carlos' name and people would have never noticed." I guess that is true. There's always next year nicholas. Maybe Carlos will win one of these years.

I do want to give a big thank you to the poster forum staff too. Jennifer had all of these ceramic blackbirds that represented all of the blackbirds that are poisoned by the government as pest control. A couple of them were broken for emphasis as they were supposed to have fallen from the sky. When we can back at 2 suddenly there was this woman constantly complaining that she had to be the art guard because they were worried about work getting destroyed. I thought that was an interesting occurrence that made me angry and thankful at the same time. But all in all the poster forum was a good experience.

After all the votes were tallied and the girls had lined up in the ballroom for the crowning our lovely winner was shannon with her scientific detritus portraits. Very fitting for the medical and engineering type poster forum, and as always she works incredibly hard and deserves any recognition given so... CONGRATS SHANNON!

Contrast/MGGM

Contrast: Video installation work that examine the small details that make it all worth while. A long name for a show. This was made up of drawing/photo pieces by reid radcliffe, and video installation work by Austin Brown and Frank Malone. This was another show that was on the smaller side for Museum Gallery.

Reid's work were abstract expressionist type black ink drawings with photos of themselves adhered in the center giving them a mirroring, picture of a picture effect. It seemed like this work was in the beginning stages and though not really developed yet I am interested to see where it goes, if he decides to take it anywhere else. It seems like this is a pretty big digression from the other performance and installation work by reid.

The music installation in the second room was about 15 minutes long and had video sequencing of water and nature and outdoor urban landscapes, all with decent movement, but the strong point was really the music. I could take or leave the imagery but the music was worth the 15 minutes your time. It was mostly synthesized and had a good pace and enough variety to enjoy and keep your attention.

Show highlight though, a crazy freakishly strong hobo from OTR. Apparently while I was watching the video installation a man came in and tried to steal beer. Austin told him no, and he went a little crazytown. After being bounced out once he came back while I was in the first room, and now I had the opportunity to see him go berserk. It took five art nerds and two to hold the door open to restrain and get him out of there. With only one crushed ventallation pipe and one real punch thrown, every guy involved from the gallery had their egos inflated for at least an hour, yelling and strutting to follow. It was a fun show, but I am looking forward to something a bit stronger from MGGM coming up. I hope. Maybe summer is their season.

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