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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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