Meyers Gallery Past Exhibits

January 22nd – March 31st, 2023

Reception: Thursday March 7th 2023, 5-7pm 

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Shortly before he died in 1996, Doug Darden worked with the printmaking studio of Osama Nakasuji, Osaka, Japan, to create a unique set of ten prints made from drawings of five of the theoretical projects from his architectural treatise Condemned Building. Darden, in the spirit of the century French architect Jean-Jacques Lequeu, used this title to convey ideas that may not fit into the canon of acceptable work.

The School of Architecture and Interior Design celebrates the importance of drawing in its many forms in an exhibit of Darden’s lithographs along with drawings from alumni of the School. While the conventions of architectural drawing are often for the legal production of building documents, architects have also used drawing as a form of speculation. The work shown includes travel sketches, conceptual drawings, drawings in the landscape, erotic forms of protest and work in video and AI as tools for investigation, fantasy, and projection.

 June 7th, 2023 - August 18th 2023

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Noel Martin is a graphic designer whose work changed the standard of museum graphics to this day. Born in Syracuse, Ohio in 1922, Martin studied at the Art Academy of Cincinnati, and later taught at the University of Cincinnati. He was hired as the Cincinnati Art Museum’s first graphic designer in 1947. He worked on the museum’s logo, installations, catalog layouts and more, which put the museum on the map. Martin’s work has been showcased in solo and group exhibitions across the nation to critical acclaim, showing how his minimalistic and modern designs, influenced by both  European Modernists and classical motifs, make art more appealing to the younger museum visitor. 

A small selection of works by Noel Martin is here on display, courtesy of a generous donation from the artist.  These designs, created in the last years of his life, show the exacting attention to detail and sheer abundance of creativity that changed an industry.

February 2nd - March 18th, 2023

Reception: Thursday, March 16th, 2023, 5-9pm

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The DAAP Galleries are proud to present the 2023 Multicultural Fellowship Exhibition in conjunction with The National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts. The exhibition will run concurrently with Current, the 57th annual conference for NCECA in Cincinnati, Ohio, March 15–18, 2023. This exhibition was curated from a call for participants whose cultural identities have been historically underrepresented in NCECA and the field at large.  The fellowship supports the travel and other expenses to participate in the NCECA conference. The exhibition is curated by Kelly and Kyle Phelps.

NCECA is a dynamic, non-profit organization that engages and sustains a community for ceramic art, teaching, and learning. In addition to deepening knowledge within the field, NCECA expands it by working to cultivate the next generation of ceramic artists and enthusiasts through programing that hopes to engage the wider community. Comprised of approximately 4,000 members from the United States and more than 20 foreign countries, NCECA reaches thousands more each year.

Featured Artists: Silvia Alvarez-Ritterling , Joo Young (Grace) Han, Minah Kim, Aida Lugo, Chris Malone, Pedro Ramirez, Vanna Ramirez , Adilene Rosales, Angelique Scott, Kopal Seth, Antra Sinha, Micah Sweezie, Kushala Vora, Cam Waller, Carletta Williams, Jordan Winiski

September 11th - November 20th, 2022

Reception: Thursday, October 6th, 2022, 5-7pm

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The DAAP Galleries in collaboration with the University of Cincinnati Art Collection will exhibit a wide selection of works by noted journalist and photographer Paul Briol. With more than 400 prints in the collection, this survey of will delve into the archive to examine Briol’s documentation of the built and natural environment during the first half of the twentieth century. The prints feature sites that define Cincinnati’s past, resonate in the present and promise to inform the shape of its future. These images, shot and developed in numerous iterations often on an 8-by-10-inch view camera mounted on a tripod, demonstrate a pursuit of aesthetic and technical perfection, with an astute sensibility for light and composition. Briol, known for his photographs of current iconic landmarks while still in their infancy, also thoroughly captured images of the Ohio River Valley and the seven hills of Cincinnati, and later, of his mid-century travels west leading to the coast. These documents capture the fleeting shadows and the still-enduring landmarks that form a shared sense of place, identity, and community. This collection stands as a testament to Briol’s contributions to the art of photography, while capturing a formative era in Cincinnati’s history.

Paul Briol: Passed Forward is part of the 2022 FotoFocus Biennial. Now in its sixth iteration, the Biennial activates over 100 museums, galleries, universities, and public spaces throughout Greater Cincinnati, Northern Kentucky, Dayton and Columbus, Ohio in October 2022.

Sponsored by Fotofocus

October 13th - November 19th, 2021

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September 7th - September 26th, 2021

The DAAP Galleries are proud to present Continuum, an exhibition by the students in the 2020 Sophomore Research studio instructed by Lorena Molina and Kyle Angel. All 18 students were specifically chosen by the Fine Art Faculty based on their portfolios and performance in the Foundations Review at the end of their first year.

During the fall 2020 semester, students proposed a project that they developed through critiques and individual student-professor meetings. One of the main focuses of the studio was to investigate different forms of research. Students achieved this goal by doing independent research, class readings discussions, and examining how other artists conduct research in their practice. Throughout the semester, student groups conducted periodic Webex interviews with contemporary artists in order to understand how research and process affect their everyday practice.

Because of socially distanced learning during the semester, the students created and curated their own online exhibition at the end of the semester, and this is the physical manifestation of that exhibition.

Featured Artisits:    Katherine Donaghy - Samuel Edwards - Ethan Humrichouser - Vicky Lee - Kenna Lewis - Natalie Lorenz - Lauren Maenle - Kendall Matsey - Samantha Mckee - Hugh Moscoe - Fiona Schade - Katherine Taylor - Tucker Wood - Kara Yeomans

February 22nd - March 22nd, 2021

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The DAAP Galleries are proud to present the Multicultural Fellowship Exhibition 2021 in conjunction with The National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts.  NCECA is a dynamic, 501(c)3 organization that engages and sustains a community for ceramic art, teaching and learning. In addition to deepening knowledge within the field, NCECA expands it by working to cultivate the next generation of ceramic artists and enthusiasts through programing that affects professional artists, K-12 schools, community centers, universities, museums, galleries, businesses, organizations, collectors and enthusiasts of ceramic art. Currently comprised of approximately 4,000 members from the United States and more than 20 foreign countries, NCECA reaches thousands of additional individuals each year through its programs, publications, events, exhibitions and resources.

NCECA was founded as a non-profit organization in 1966 after several years of affiliation with the Ceramics Education Council of the American Ceramic Society. NCECA’s founding charter was developed by forward-thinking ceramic artists who saw the benefits of a professional organization in its ability to create identity, definition and support for the ceramics teacher and artist, and to promote advancement of the ceramic arts.

November 3rd–December 5th, 2019

This exhibit documents historic and contemporary signage found along American’s legacy US highways. Over a five-year period, Hank and Chris made 15 road trips to collect photographic and experiential data about signage design, placement and context, They drove 3,073 miles east-to-west across the middle of America on highway US 50 from Ocean City, Maryland to Sacramento, California; 1,407 miles south to north on highway US 61from New Orleans to the Canadian border; over 2,000 miles on historic Route US 66; and additional trips to places such as Williston, North Dakota, Branson, Missouri and Huntsville, Alabama.  In all, they logged over 10,000 miles and collected over 15,000 digital images. This exhibit depicts the use and evolution of road signage to communicate public safety, wayfinding and commercial messages along some of America's most iconic highways, and establishes the special importance of signs as indicators of our nation's past and present cultures and diversity.

Artists: Chris Auffrey, PhD, Associate Professor, SOP and Henry Hildebrandt, RA, Professor, SAID

June 2nd – August 11th, 2019

This special exhibit is intended to create a restful space for UC students, faculty, staff, and other community members to (re)connect with plants. The exhibit features works by artists Sharon Bladholm, Michael Galinsky, Mark Knight, and Arturo Vazquez, as well as prints of antique botanical illustrations from the collection of the Lloyd Library, located in downtown Cincinnati. The selected works highlight the many ways in which plants are healing for humans and the planet, from the molecular scale of plant chemicals to plant-rich settings as spaces for healing. The inclusion of a range of visual experiences that communicate botanical science and the value of plants through art in this exhibit on UC’s urban campus confronts the growing problem of plant blindness. 

Curated By: Susan Allen
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January 28th - March 10th, 2019

Reception: April 11th 5-7pm

This exhibit brings together twenty artists who intuitively use abstraction to ask questions. These questions drive their respective studio practices. Some of the artists are exploring formal qualities of space, others are exploring how aesthetic and domestic values overlap, and still others are mining their personal and cultural heritage to better understand their identity. The paintings, sculptures, works on paper, fibers, video, and photography in the show not only demonstrate the diversity of different explorations, but also reveal areas of both formal and conceptual overlap. These kinds of investigations and the dialog they can create are now more important than ever, as the norms of communication shift more and more to shouting but never listening – telling but never asking. 

Artists: Liz Ainslie, Natessa Amin, Lee Arnold, David Aylsworth, Rachel Beach, Nadine Beauharnois, Mark Brosseau, Martha Clippinger, Mark Joshua Epstein, Rubens Ghenov, Clare Grill, Anna Kunz, Meg Lipke, Lucy Mink, Nicholas Nyland, Alex Paik, Emil Robinson, Caroline Santa, Anne Seidman, and Kirk Stoller

January 18th – March 7th, 2018

Reception: February 15th, 5-7pm

The DAAP Galleries are pleased to present new work by artist Paige Williams. Her work utilizes dichotomous materials that explore contradictory extremes; transitory materials hover over impenetrable surfaces. Silver is a catalyst; a transition metal and recurs throughout the work in a variety of media. It foils our perception and impedes logic; it is transient, ephemeral and potentially fleeting.

The grid, though varied in form, is a recognizable constant throughout the work and its use acknowledges a tendency towards uniformity. Her work reminds us that regardless of our attempts at perfection, what is intriguing is our fallibility or that which makes us human: varied degrees of elegance, awkwardness, clumsiness and grace.

September 5th – October 18th, 2017

Reception: Thursday, September 7th, 5-7pm

Artist Joseph Winterhalter’s meticulously worked paintings appear to have been scraped raw or peeled repeatedly, revealing layers of material data and information which manifest an intricate history.

While these works are predicated on the interplay of paintings inherent presence as object with allusions to historical episodes and cultural tropes -- including High Modernism, post-structuralist philosophy, revolutionary movements and music, radical theory and practice -- Winterhalter’s conceptual synthesis of these subjects investigate the abstract linkages and subsequent degradations of past and present historical narratives, suggesting new information that is still evolving and in the process of revealing itself.

As painting, this approach provides coordinates for the corollaries between - and nuanced interruptions and contradictions in - the lineage of narrative ‘fictions’ (and non -fictions) which inform and condition our contemporary experience, and serve to question the inadequacies of current -- and possibly future -- political actions.

January 22nd – March 2nd, 2017

Reception: Thursday March 2nd, 5pm–7pm

This exhibition exams the body of work of Bukang Yu Kim, which reflects a tension between the artist’s cultural identities and sense of self through mark making. Kim’s distinct calligraphic brush strokes result in a gestural abstraction that goes beyond the binary of Eastern and Western art practices. Kim’s dual national identity (South Korean and American) creates a complicated interplay between two conflicting perspectives that come together in deceptively seamless forms. The dynamic brush strokes contain layers of meaning that are expressed through the act of painting, which result in a visceral aesthetic experience that is reminiscent of American Abstract Expression but with calligraphic markings that boldly declare a deep sense of intentionality.

Curated by: Sso-Rha Kang, Exhibition Coordinator, DAAP Galleries and Aaron Cowan, Director, DAAP Galleries

September 4th - October 2nd, 2016

Reception: Thursday, September 8th, 5-7 pm

CYE Moves to UC: Past, Present and Future showcases the history and multidisciplinary reach of Children, Youth and Environments (CYE) journal, and celebrates the move from the University of Colorado to its new home, the University of Cincinnati.

CYE had been housed and published by the University of Colorado, Boulder since 1984. In 2015, Dr. Vicki Carr, Dr. Rhonda Brown from CECH and Dr. Vikas Mehta from DAAP and were selected as the next co-editors of CYE from a pool of more than a dozen competing institutions. Since January 2016, CYE is published by UC.

Children, Youth, & Environments is an international, multidisciplinary online journal with readers in over 160 countries that disseminates peer-reviewed research articles, in-depth analyses, cutting-edge field reports, and critical book and film reviews on children, youth and the environments where they live, learn, work, play, discover the natural world, participate in their communities, and find basic services.

The goal of the CYE journal is to promote inclusive, sustainable, and healthy environments for children and youth everywhere, with special attention given to papers that focus on children and youth in environments of disadvantage and those with special needs, as well as papers that recognize the capacity of youth as stakeholders. The journal is endorsed by UN-Habitat and is guided by a distinguished international Editorial Board.

The exhibition will highlight the journal’s rich history, spotlight prominent articles, the global photo library collection, and feature current initiatives on UC’s campus. Join us in commemorating this occasion and to learn how you can connect with the Children, Youth and Environments network here at UC.

January 28th - March 10th, 2016

Reception: Thursday, March 10, from 5-7pm

Award winning American cartoonist, painter, writer, educator and comedian Carol Tyler has garnered acclaim and notoriety from both her peers and the public for her vision and unabashed openness. Her illustrated autobiography Soldier’s Heart: The Campaign to Understand My WWII Veteran Father, A Daughter’s Memoir” (2015) describes the relationship she had with her father and how his PTSD shaped her childhood. The adverse affects of her upbringing results in a tale of truth, connection, and finally resolution. The recent release of the book and the tangible culmination of ten years of work come to fruition as we find Tyler exploring the next chapter of her creative endeavors. This exhibition serves as the purging of the past with fragments of past projects, objects from her past and her fathers work shop. In addition, we present a collection of artifacts from her life and studio practice, which provides a look into the mind and spirit that molds her vision of the world.

September 13 - October 25, 2015 

Reception: Thursday, September 10, 2015, 5pm-7pm

DAAP Galleries at the University of Cincinnati are pleased to present NUANCES by artist Stewart Goldman. Minimalist visions of fragmented landscapes emerge from figurative realism in fissures of isolated colors.

Goldman has received numerous artist grants, exhibited in Cincinnati and Munich, had a 33-year tenure at the Art Academy of Cincinnati, and currently holds a position as a Cincinnati Art Museum Board member. With over 60 years of experience, his work transitioned from figurative to abstract, reminiscent to the ideological shift of painters throughout art history. An aesthetic that withstands through time, his work refines landscape into distilled lines of color and form, an exploration that captures space and dimension within the creases of paint and canvas.

Curated by Aaron Cowan

June 1 - August 2, 2015

Reception: Thursday, June 11, 2015, 5–7 p.m. 

The DAAP Galleries at the University of Cincinnati are proud to present the work of native Kentucky artist, Andy Fausz. Fausz's work confronts viewers with arresting images of turmoil and affection in a raw, yet sensitive, manner, providing insight into the challenges we face as a community.

Fausz recieved his BFA from Northern Kentucky University and continued his education at the University of Cincinnati, which allowed him to further explore themes of social justice. His seamless integration of social activism into his work gave him the platform to explore social, political, and cultural issues. While establishing himself as a talented artist, Andy fell ill and passed in November of 2012 having both his life and voice cut short. We invite you to join us in this exhibition of works by an artist who continues to speak through the compelling work he has left behind.