Sheilah Wilson: If Becoming This
Herndon Gallery
Antioch College
South Hall
Yellow Springs, OH 45387
(937 )768-6462
Tuesday through Saturday 1 pm– 4 pm
and by appointment
August 31–November 16
Exhibition Reception
Thrusday, August 30, 7 pm–9 pm
If Becoming This features photography and video by Sheilah Wilson. Drawn to the romantic and absurd, the artist perceives the body as a translation machine of experience and story. A believer in the potential of the personal voice, she uses photography, video, and text as performative and documentary tools for my various explorations through the seams of narrative and image.
An Assistant Professor of Photography and New Media at Denison College, Granville, Ohio. Wilson has been the recipient of numerous awards in the US and Canada. She shows her work nationally and internationally.
Photo: Sheilah Wilson, You Are My Favorite Photograph, (detail), 2012, resin coated photo paper; installation of one month of descriptions of favorite photo memories slept on with undeveloped resin coated paper and developed the following morning, 16 x 20 inches each, Courtesy of the Artist
The Cincinnati Panorama
Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County
Joseph S. Stern, Jr. Cincinnati Room, 3rd floor
800 Vine Street
Cincinnati, OH 45202
(513) 369-6900
Monday through Wednesday 9 am–9 pm
Thursday through Saturday 9 am–6 pm
Sunday 1 pm–5 pm
permanent display
Gallery Talk · Steamboats through an Early Lens by Patricia Van Skaik
Saturday October 13, 3pm
In September 1848, photographers Charles Fontayne and William S. Porter mounted their camera on a rooftop along the Ohio River in Newport, Kentucky. They panned the camera across Cincinnati’s waterfront, each time capturing a different segment of the growing city’s skyline. The experiment yielded eight whole-plate daguerreotypes, simply titled Daguerreotype View of Cincinnati. Taken from Newport, Ky. Recognized then and now as one of the finest daguerreotype sets of its kind, this dramatic view of Cincinnati is known today as The Cincinnati Panorama and is featured at the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County.
Photo: Charles Fontayne andWilliam S. Porter, The Cincinnati Panorama, (detail), 1848, plate 2/8 whole-plate daguerreotypes. From the Collection of The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County
Jodi Boatman
This will be a Long Lonely Year
Voltage
3209 Madison Road (1st floor)
Cincinnati, Ohio 45209
Tuesday through Saturday 10am–5pm
September 19–October 26
It is the thought of loss that keeps me cataloging, tracing and re-tracing my steps. I catch myself staring at the freckles on a man’s eyelids or the matted texture of a worn carpet, remembering. It is the eventual loss of these moments that I dread. I am searching for a meaningful and profound connection to my past. Through the use of the photograph I hope to comprehend my fixation with failed relationships, childhood dwellings and the death of my paternal Grandmother: all themes that perpetually bind me to the past. This work is about self-exposure, misunderstanding and failures.
Photo: Jodi Boatman, I Wanted to Leave Before You Woke Up, I Wish I had. Scabious Study: Unfortunate Love, Widowhood, (detail), 2011, Inkjet, second surface mounted onto digitally dye-cut and etched plexi-glass, 30x 40", courtesy of the artist