The 2015 Canstruction has begun.

Walking home from work this evening, I couldn't help but that construction of this year's Canstruction was underway at Weston Art Gallery...


I'm already really digging the R2D2 made of cans! I can't wait to check out all the other Canstructions around downtown Cincinnati. :)

Weston Art Gallery.

We stopped by Weston Art Gallery to take a look at their latest exhibition of artworks...

This show is entitled "Todd Slaughter: AMERICAN PRIMITIVES."






I thought it was really neat that the artists sketches were included in the exhibition...























My favorite piece was a piece entitled, Safe Alone...

"Safe Alone juxtaposes a feeling of enclosure and temporal safety with the growing
threat of intrusion. Projected into the interior of the translucent roof is a video of an
increasing number of silhouetted visitors pressing together to form a dense crowd on
the roof, blotting out the light projected within, while the sounds of the crowd's restlessness
become progressively louder. The gallery visitor sits alone within the felt-padded house
sheathed with pairs of cast graphite fists until the video culminates in a total blackening
out of both the projection and the entire gallery room."


Looking up at the roof from inside the house...








You get a very unsettling feeling inside the house. Like being caught in the middle of a
paranormal investigation that's about to go horrible awry.


Another really interesting show. And definitely worth checking out if you're downtown.
Click to see all the photos I've taken at Weston Art Gallery. :)

Canstruction, part four.

I found a couple more Canstruction exhibits when I wandered out to get lunch today.
This one in the lobby of the Aronoff Center is called "We're not in CANsas Anymore"...


And I finally found a complete venue list at the Aronoff Center...

Just two days before the Canstruction is set to end. :/ Thankfully, I was able to stumble
across a lot of the exhibit locations on my own. :) I wandered over to Contemporary Arts
Center to check out the Canstruction exhibit there...

"Get a Handle on Hunger..."


And then I headed down the block to Center at 600 Vine...

"Rise Above Hunger..."



Really cool stuff. I've made it to all but one of the Canstruction locations. I saw the exhibits
at Weston Art Gallery. And the ones at the Main Library. And at the Hyatt. And now these
ones. Not too shabby. And there were a lot of really cool exhibits. :)

Click to see all the photos I took of the 2014 Canstruction.