Meyers Gallery Current Exhibit

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In the Middle of the Endless Water

"Still Life" (detail) by Julia Orquera Bianco, 2017-2025

September 20th - November 22nd 2026

Reception: Thursday, October 15th, 5-7pm

A solo exhibition by Julia Orquera Bianco that brings together more than ten years of the artist’s work.

The exhibition traces a journey through different territories and stages in Bianco’s practice, from her early experiences of migration to her most recent work in the United States. In this movement, distance from the artist’s home in Argentina opens questions around forms of belonging, family, and cultural heritage. The ongoing hybridization between what one carries with them and what one discovers in each new geography becomes increasingly apparent in the work.

The exhibition also explores fieldwork as a narrative device, attuning to the place-making dimension of Bianco’s most recent research into Andean-Amazonian cosmology and her work with plants from South and North America. Process, laboratory, and experimentation displace the idea of the finished artwork, making room for expressing relationships of mutual care.

Water runs through the exhibition as a connecting thread: always the same, always different, linking us to the past through its cycles.

Curated by Carolina Cuervo

Thanks to The Isabel Meta Wolfstein Fine Arts Fund in School of Art

JULIA ORQUERA BIANCO is an Argentinian artist and ecologist based in Cincinnati, Ohio. She earned a BFA from Universidad del Museo Social Argentino in 2012. In 2018 she graduated from the MFA program at Roski School of Art and Design, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Bianco earned a Certificate on Sustainability from UCLA in 2020, was an intern in the Medicinal Plant Conservation Program at United Plant Savers in 2022 and earned a Certificate in Permaculture Design from Cincinnati Permaculture Institute in 2023. Since 2024, Bianco is a student of Shipibo Maestra Estela Pangoza, traveling to the Peruvian Amazon regularly to study the medicinal Plants of the rainforest.

Julia Orquera Bianco’s practice challenges static ideas of belonging by using her family and cultural heritage, her research on Andean-Amazonian cosmovision, and her work with plants of South and North America. Her work reflects on the changing nature of identity and belonging and their entanglement with the past, the present, and the place. She uses her family legacy of labor, craft, music, and storytelling as strategies of home-building, experiencing while remembering.

CAROLINA CUERVO holds a Bachelor's Degree in Painting from the National University of Córdoba, where she also completed postgraduate studies in Cultural Management and Administration. She earned a Master’s Degree in Visual Arts Curating from the National University of Tres de Febrero. Since 2012, she has worked at Fundación OSDE's Espacio de Arte, focusing on curatorial work and exhibition management, alongside her role as an independent curator.

Her approach highlights travel as a method for contemporary artistic production.

Lives and works in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

About Meyers Gallery

The Philip M. Meyers Jr. Memorial Gallery is located in the Steger Student Life Center in the heart of the University’s Main Street. Situated across from the recreation center and the Tangeman Student Center, we are located in the hub of student life and bring visual culture and practice to the university at large as well as to the surrounding region. The Meyers Gallery exhibitions address two main objectives: first, to expose the wider university community to the practices within DAAP; and second, to present exhibitions that address the practices of other colleges within the university, generally historic or scientific in focus. The intention is to provide the university population with access to a greater understanding of the visual presentation of complex ideas and concepts.

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The Meyers Gallery is staffed by current students in order to provide them with a range of knowledge and understanding of exhibition techniques and practices. This experience provides student artists, art historians, and art educators a setting in which to explore and implement the theories and concepts of their academic and studio practices into a working setting. DAAP Galleries employees are equipped with the necessary skills to present and discuss a variety of visual materials with a broad audience, enabling them to better articulate the visual communication of complex ideas and foster a better understanding of visual communication.

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The Meyers Gallery

Hours: Sunday - Thursday 10am-5pm

Phone: 513-556-3088

Address: Room 418 (Ground Floor), Steger Student Life Center, 500 UC MainStreet, Cincinnati, OH 45221

Location and visiting instructions for the Meyers Gallery:

When visiting the Meyers Gallery, metered parking is located on Martin Luther King Dr. or in the Woodside or Campus Green Garages for an hourly fee.
Enter campus from either MLK or the garages walk along Woodside Dr. past the new College of Business, and continue up the hill following the paver drive (UC Main Street).
The Meyers Gallery is located halfway up the hill on the right-hand side in the Steger Student Life Center on the ground floor, directly across from Nippert Stadium.

Directions: From ML King enter Woodside Dr. (Langsam Library) for Woodside Garage (accepts cash or credit). Walk up UC Main Street to the Steger Student Life Center. Gallery is on the right across from Nippert Stadium, see neon sign.

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