On Monday, 1 Feb, 6-8pm, join the Cincinnati teaching artist, Cedric Cox as he discusses Soul within Structure, his first Contemporary Arts Center UnMuseum® exhibition. You will have the opportunity to gain firsthand insight into his painting methods and subject matter. Then, Cedric will demonstrate some of his favorite classroom lessons. This is a chance to give your students some hometown pride by highlighting one of Cincinnati’s artists.
This past fall I had the privilege and honor to visit Westwood Elementary School and Mt. Airy Middle School as a guest artist. At Westwood Elementary I was the instructor for the Cincy AfterSchool Art Club. For four weeks I worked with students on lessons in drawing, painting and collage. Continue reading
I am pleased to announce my latest painting exhibit, Urban Rapture, at The Carnegie Visual and Performing Arts Center. The opening reception is Fri 8 Jan, 6-ppm, and the exhibit will be on view through 19 Feb 2010. The Carnegie is located at 1028 Scott Blvd. in Covington, KY. Poster design by Maya Drozdz/VisuaLingual.
Untitled by Paul Klee
Over Thanksgiving holiday while visiting friends and family in New York I went to the Museum of Modern Art. On the sixth floor of the museum the exhibition Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity was going on. Bauhaus, or house of building, was a School in Germany that was famous for its unique workshops that forged new disciplines in design, architecture, fine art and crafts that contributed advances in modernist architecture and art. Continue reading
Arts writer Geoffrey Dobbins has thoughtfully reviewed Soul within Structure, my current exhibit at the Contemporary Arts Center, in WireTap Magazine:
Cox’s fragmented style — he often refers to it as “quilt-like” — is in full force in this latest exhibit. The artist sprinkles his cityscape “quilt” with references to the 19th century architecture found throughout OTR, like Italianate ornaments, Greek columns and Gothic arches.
Read more at WireTap Magazine.
Cedric Michael Cox 