Cincinnati's Contemporary Figurative Artists

The Weston Art Gallery is now showing Narrative Figuration, which features five of the city's premier realists: Robert Anderson, Daniel O'Connor, Tim Parsley, Emil Robinson, and Tina Tammaro. These are easily some of my favorite local artists. Jackie Demaline's recent profile of Emil Robinson presents how influential they are to each other.

I had the opportunity to interview Robinson for this blog almost two years ago. Demaline's story reminds me of Robinson's genuine graciousness. Whenever you ask him about his work, he so often defers to those who influence him.

Narrative Figuration may suggest a short list of artists for me to interview in the near future.

Emil Robinson is Smithsonian Portrait Finalist

Congratulations to Emil Robinson who was named a finalist of the Smithsonian's Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition for Showered. You can find all of the finalists here.

My recent interview of Emil is here.

Review of Emil Robinson's "Axis Mundi"

The Taft Museum of Art is now exhibiting Axis Mundi, a solo show by Cincinnati artist Emil Robinson. As noted in my interview with the artist, my review of the show is now available to read in AEQAI.

In the review I explore how this realist painter celebrates his ties to abstraction.