Eva Buttacavoli

About Eva Buttacavoli

A Dayton transplant from Austin, TX, via Florida and New York, Eva became Executive Director of DVAC in December 2011. Most recently she served as the first executive director of FilmDayton for the past two years, where she promoted Dayton and it’s filmmakers as a resource for the industry through fundraising and marketing.
Previously, she served as curator/director of exhibitions and education at the Austin Museum of Art (AMOA) and director of education at the Miami Art Museum (FL).

51 Artists’ Handcrafted “giftables” in DVAC’s Holiday Gift Gallery

November 8, 2014 By Eva Buttacavoli

Sparkling glass ornaments, hand-turned wood bowls, eclectic jewelry, painted silk and chunky hand-knit scarves, charming pottery, architecturally-inspired ceramic, letterpress cards, black and white photography and small whimsical painting are what’s on view at DVAC to kick-off the Holiday Season.

DVAC’s annual gift gallery has become the BEST one-stop-shopping for friends, loved ones, workmates and …yourself! Everything is one of a kind and made by a DVAC member artists—either experienced or just starting out. All items are priced competitively and were chosen for their originality, quality craftsmanship and
contemporary or classic stye.

This year’s featured fine art and fine craft was selected jurors Kim Megginson, Owner/Buyer, ZIG ZAG Gallery, Dayton; Litsa Spanos, President, ADC Art Design Consultants, Cincinnati; and Betty Talbott, Executive Director, Ohio Designer Craftsmen and Ohio Craft Museum, Columbus.

DVAC helps sustain the arts community by providing a place for artist to exhibit, market, and sell work and also helps satisfy the needs and wants of art-lovers who have a place to see art and, often, meet the artists – it is how DVAC connects the dots in visual arts. In 2013 DVAC ARTtoBUY artists received over $18,000 in art sales commissions. At its core, DVAC advances art for the community and a community for artists.

DVAC’s popular Beer & Peanuts Shopping Party is back December 17, 5-8 p.m. featuring beers selected by Joe Waizmann of Warped Wing Brewing Company

The Dayton Visual Arts Center provides art for the community and a community for artists. DVAC receives operating support from the Ohio Arts Council, Culture Works, Dayton Power & Light Foundation, Montgomery County Arts & Cultural District, the Virginia W. Kettering Foundation; Community Partner Members Houser Asphalt & Concrete, LWC Inc., Mousaian Oriental Rugs and Premier Health; and Members.

DVAC is located at 118 N. Jefferson St in downtown Dayton. Ample metered parking; free after 6pm and on weekends. Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 11am-6pm. Closed Sunday and Monday.

DVAC Presents Abstract Paintings By Dayton’s Susanne Scherette King

November 2, 2014 By Eva Buttacavoli

Inspired by the bold, graphic lines of American expressionists Robert Motherwell and Franz Kline (ca. 1940-60s); and steeped in the palette and organic architecture stylized by Frank Lloyd Wright and paralleled in her Oakwood home, Susanne Scherette King‘s abstract shapes, dynamic brush strokes, tones and textures are visual poetry.

DVAC’s solo exhibition of Dayton-based painter, Susanne Scherette King is on view November 7 through December 27, 2014 King’s work was selected for solo exhibition amongst 120 applications for DVAC’s 2012 Biennial Call for Exhibitions.

Born and raised in Indiana, with a B.A. from Valparaiso University (IN) and an M.S. in Education from University of Dayton, she’s been a resident of Oakwood since the early 1980s. She found her creative outlet in garden design and began painting seriously in 2004 while teaching writing at Oakwood Junior High. She quickly reached a level of accomplishment leading to shows in Dayton and Columbus in 2009 and Philadelphia in 2010. Her work was briefly interrupted by a serious automobile accident in the Fall of 2011 and subsequent illness. Remarkably, however, the work displayed in this show, as well as other large-scale work, was produced predominantly from the Summer of 2011 to the present, during what was supposed to be a period of rest and recovery.

She says of how she approaches her canvas: “Each canvas is approached without any preconception. Color evokes emotion; emotion evokes color. The creative-process used on these paintings involves continual change, moving through layers and layers of color and medium. This process evolves into an expression of translucent, organic form. Like nature, sometimes the elements have a life of their own. Paint, water, and oil mix and create a synergy emerging on the canvas.”

The Opening Reception is November 7, 5-8 p.m. and is free and open to the public. King will be giving a fee Gallery Talk on December 11, at 6:15 p.m. The exhibition runs through December 27.

The Presenting Exhibition Sponsors are Jon & Diana Sebaly; Exhibition Partners are Bill & Mary Koch; and Education & Public Program Sponsors are Dr. Bob Brandt, King Orthodontics and Michael E. Peters, Esq.

DVAC is located at 118 N. Jefferson St in downtown Dayton. Ample metered parking; free after 6pm and on weekends. Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 11am-6pm. Closed Sunday and Monday.

Looking Back At The Best In Visual Art For 2013

January 3, 2014 By Eva Buttacavoli 1 Comment

It’s not too late to look back at the best in visual art for 2013. Here are some of my favorites

Longing: Sculpture and Photography, curated by Francis Schanberger, Dayton Society of Painters and Sculptors (DSPS)

I wanted to somehow use the terms languid, languorous and louche to describe the photos in this show paired with coy, clever sculptural counterparts. And just lovely in the elegant setting of the recently gussied-up High Street Gallery.

Jud Yalkut: Visions and Sur-Realities, curated by Jeanne Phillip, Gallery 249, Roesch Library 1st & 2nd floor Galleries, and Art Street Gallery, University of Dayton

Almost too much to take in. Heady.

Meme: Culture in Transition, curated by Dennie Eagleson and Susan Byrnes, Herndon Gallery, Antioch College

“Artists coming as close as one can to grasping such a speeding concept.”

Works on Paper 2012, juror Robert Robbins, Rosewood Arts Centre

Ongoing proof of the region’s artististic mastery of watercolor, drawing, printmaking and photography. Oceans of achingly good lines.

Construction of Space: Tess Little and Jennifer Rosengarten, self-curated, Dayton Visual Arts Center

Enveloped by swirling jewel and pastel-toned flowers, grasses, weeds and scribbles embedded in a forest of earth, stone, metal. Preternatural.

The Fixed Shadow: Camera–less Photography, juried by Carol Panaro-Smith and James Hajicek, The Robert & Elaine Stein Galleries at WSU

How do I love thee, let me count the ways: photograms, scanograms, lumen prints, chemigrams, and photogenic drawings. Mysterious and beautiful.

Storm: Paintings by April Gornik, curated by Jane Black, Dayton Art Institute

Spectacular. Too few of these roaring waterscapes by this underappreciated Cleveland-born nationally recognized painter.

Jack Earl: Modern Master – A Retrospective, curated by Charlotte Gordon, Springfield Museum of Art

A keen sense of humor, magical tableaus, regional references, family values. In porcelain. Turned this painting snob into a ceramic stalker.

Your Turn: A collaborative exhibition by Bridgette Bogle and Francis Schanberger, self-curated, organized by Peter Benkendorf and Mark Chepp, The Collaboratory

Obvious and not-so-obvious quietly trippy photo and explosive painting pairings by this husband-wife team that made you so fascinated by their shared visual vocabulary that you poke your significant other and say [insert random snarky spousal barb here] as a reality check.

TODT: Heartland, presented by Gallery 249 and ArtStreet, University of Dayton

A retrospective of the Cincinnati-born, globally exhibited anonymous artist collective of works depicting a futuristic world controlled by science and government. Possibly on this list for the mere fact that it surprised the students that such bad-ass work was happening in the 90s.

Where is the Love I Playing for Change, Video, produced by CityFolk, Music by Puzzle of Light, various Dayton performers.

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Warm, dance-like-nobody’s-watching, beautifully shot.

Stanley Lewis: Works on Paper, self-curated, The Robert & Elaine Stein Galleries at WSU

A beautiful mess of the best kind of sure-handed mark-making. Like peering at the world through a “sketchbook” filter. Wonderous.

Streets of Dayton, Video, Reinvention Portraits, Steve Bognar, Julia Reichart and the Reinvention Team, Dayton Art Institute and www.reinventionstories.org.

A riveting looped video that merged three perspectives of travelling up and down the city streets. Literally unraveling and then raveling the city up again and again. Heartpulling. Spectacular.

The Dayton Visual Art Center Presents Close to the Edge: Paintings by Vera Scekic

December 8, 2013 By Eva Buttacavoli Leave a Comment

Although some critics argue that painting is an obsolete art form, artists like Vera Scekic are demonstrating that contemporary work can reference 2D works on canvas yet encapsulate the physicality of other media; it can challenge traditional applications propelling it into new territory. Scekic’s inventive manipulation of this fluid medium allows her to explore textures and a vibrant palette of “unnaturally natural” colors in assemblages that become sculptural. Her interest in biology finds form in metaphoric images evoking cells, the fundamental building blocks of all nature.

Scekic pours viscous acrylic paint onto prepared surfaces and then either air-dries the wet layers to create cracks and fissures or waits for natural processes to dry the paint into smoother finishes. After the pours have dried, she cuts and layers shapes to compose new combinations of color and form that she affixes to wood panels, canvases or walls. She juxtaposes nature’s hues with chromatic, chemically-produced colors to reference the endemic condition of our environment in which we accept that organic and manufactured exist side-by-side, seamlessly intermeshed; whether it is in the food we eat, the dye-infused flowers we buy, the pharmaceuticals we ingest, or the genomes we alter in labs.

Imagery from the biology lab fuels Scekic’s work. She states that she is “interested in not only what is presented (cells and their constituent parts) but how that information is presented: in isolation from the whole organism, magnified, backlit, colorized, on a monochromatic background and typically framed by a clean circle or square. This act of isolating and framing irregularly shaped, highly particular contents generates a compelling visual and conceptual tension. Cells have been analyzed and manipulated extensively, and they are at the forefront of recent developments to synthesize novel life forms.”

DVAC is thrilled to present Scekic’s paintings as form and content in her explorations are fused so deftly to express ideas at the confluence of representation and abstraction; painting and sculpture; science and art; natural and synthetic; traditional and contemporary.

Vera Scekic’s work is a 2012 Biennial Call for Submissions juried selection.

This exhibit will be on display through December 21st.

Contributed by Lesley Neufeld, Guest Essayist

Dayton Visual Art Center Puts Fine Art and Fine Craft Into Context

November 24, 2013 By Eva Buttacavoli Leave a Comment

As a complementary exhibition to DVAC’s wildly popular SHOP LOCALSHOP ART-themed annual ARTtoBUY: Holiday Gift Gallery, DVAC is presenting selections from the Ohio Designer Craftsmen’s “Best of 2013.”

While ARTtoBUY provides a showcase for the finest of our region’s contemporary craft artists, these additional works by members of the ODC provide an opportunity to extend the conversation beyond the Miami Valley. For this exhibition, DVAC chose pieces by artists who integrate traditional craft and contemporary art-making concepts; whose work commands unique and bold mastery of materials and techniques; and whose ideas are declared in artful interpretations.

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Cynthia Cetlin’s wool sculptures resemble deep-sea creatures. Collar, echoing the shapes found in coral reefs, is wearable.

Many of these artists fuse function with fine craft, such as in the delicate wool and silk “Collar” by Cynthia Cetlin, the dynamism of “Storm’s Eye Ring” by Sharona Muir, and the intimacy of “Relations” by Rebecca Szaparagwoski. Others inject fresh perspective into time-honored craft materials in decorative objects, such as fiber in Deborah Bewley’s “House with 37 Balls III” and ceramic in Denise Romecki’s “Super Storm.”

Juror of the ODC’s Best of 2013, Michael W. Monroe, a renowned expert in the field of fine art craft, and director emeritus of the Bellevue Arts Museum, (Washington) stated that the objects he selected “were those in which the artists made conscious attempts to add fresh ideas to our visual world rather than merely restating previously existing ones. I was attracted to pieces presenting original emotions and ideas—emotions and ideas that encouraged me to respond in unanticipated patterns of thinking and feeling.”

DVAC honor’s the spirit of Mr. Monroe’s curatorial intent, that “visitors to the ‘Best of 2013’ exhibition will find new visual expressions, both provocative and pleasurable.”

DVAC is pleased to partner with the Ohio Craft Museum and the Springfield Museum of Art in presenting selections from the Ohio Designer Craftsmen Best of 2013 Annual Juried Exhibition, now in its 30^th year.

This traveling exhibition of more than 100 works by ODC members from 44 states and Canada was first shown in Columbus, Ohio from May 5 to June 23, 2013; in Portsmouth, Ohio from July 12 to September 20; and is now on view in the Springfield Museum of Art from October 8 to December 1, 2013.

Organized for DVAC by guest curator Lesley Neufeld

ArtPrize 2013 Day 1 & 2

September 28, 2013 By Eva Buttacavoli Leave a Comment

Amway/Rick DeVos funded (1 prize $250k to 1 artist; 20k to most popularly voted venue, 560k in prize money total) + 1,524 artists and 168 venues who sign-up to partner via a to a “speed-date system + vibrant, walkable downtown who welcome an additional 500k visitors for 2 weeks (bringing an estimated 15m economic impact) + ANYBODY can vote for their fave, not once (“ugh, don’t make me feel dumb by asking me to pick the best work of art!”) but vote for as many things that float your boat + really high production value in graphics, wayfinding, “info hubs,” and apps (google Grand Rapids impact history of design) + a guiding principle to spark conversations about and around art = a one of a kind art experience / social experiment. That’s gotta be good right?

But what about the art?

I arrive in Grand Rapids Thursday afternoon by driving up one of the main drags downtown that curves around right in front of the Grand Rapids Art Museum – a very modern multi-level glass and angled thing sprawled in the center of park, nestled with food trucks, a Maya Lynn public amphitheater and bustling small town/downtown city sidewalks. And I mean bustling. Folks with maps in their hands. Wait. With smartphones in their hands. Hundreds of “em. Voting via the geo-targeting ArtPrize app. Right there in broad daylight in the middle of the street.

And thus begins the adventure.

As a guest of my former colleague (read: my old boss invited me to tag along) I enter the staff side of the museum, intros all around and we’re off. Up the street we run, past many more Amway-funded entities to DeVos Hall – basically a convention center filled with art. Atrium, hallways, you name it. Hours. Hundreds of pieces. Hundreds of people voting. Everywhere.

On a Thursday afternoon. Some artists sitting near their works like at art shows/festivals, some with short list, top 25, popular and guest juror designee signage. All with clear, distinct signage, artist info (international but 90% of what I saw US/Midwest) artists statement, info about media. Some good art. Some bad art. Some artists I recognize. Or recognize what they are trying to do. I’m told the first few years works had to be no more than 1 year old to keep things fresh, contemporary.

After a few enterprising artists re-purposed works year after year, organizers figured screw it and opened it up to any year by living artists. Nice dinner with a group of collectors and then a pub tour of sorts, including stops at a burning man type outdoor street party and a few brew pubs (note Dayton: GR calls it self the beer city). Did I mention hundreds of people voting? everywhere. After a walk back to the hotel, a nightcap and a slide show to complete strangers in the hotel bar of my top 40 of the day, I called it a night.

Friday began with a tour of GRAMs Top 25 ArtPrize show in which contenders were paired w notable works from the collection, a brunch with the artists and ArtPrize DirectorChristian Gaines (4 mos new from the LA independent film scene) and we’re off again. This time via trolley to Kendall College, a stop to see last year’s winner “Elephants,” a monumental graphite on paper allegorical “Peaceable Kingdom” type drawing (installed amidst a plethora of clever merchandising (My 2 cents about that maybe tomw)), to the sleek, expansive LaFontsee Galleries (good regional contemporary, framing and design-y merch and then to meld food and art culture at the Downtown Market (25 varieties of pink salt and almond biscotti ice cream).

We finished our evening at the home of the city’s most eclectic private art collection. What can you say about collectors like this? Old masters hung salon style along side graffiti art above a custom case of Japanese netsuke, a Van Gogh drawing in the atrium a Wolf Kahn in the bedroom and rows upon rows of unknown, but compelling to the owners small, medium large, accomplished and a bit raw, paintings. My favorite kind of collector is what I say. Just a great reminder of living with art you love.

So. Wildly liberating to view art in museums, galleries, hotel lobbies, an auto-body shop, a few brew pubs, a yoga studio, cathedrals, community centers, sidewalks, Starbucks, pizza joints, a sports arena,

city parks, Buffalo Wild Wings, a courthouse, a presidential museum, a bank and a nice cream parlor, huh? And did I mention hundreds of people … you know.

Here’s a smattering of pics in no order. See what you thin and tom’w Ill tell you more about what the artists think of all this and how it all may benefit Dayton.

Music for Teacups: Melissa Haviland & David Colagiovanni

September 10, 2013 By Eva Buttacavoli Leave a Comment

A composition in image and sound, the exhibition “Music for Teacups” employs video, sculpture and installation that utilize one object —the teacup—as a whimsical metaphor through which to explore and subvert notions of class and etiquette.

The video Music for Teacups, 2013 is a composition in image and sound that recombines captured footage of falling and breaking teacups. Like the “Drop Art” movement of the early 1960s and more recently a 1995 photographic triptych by prominent dissident Chinese artist Ai Wei Wei in which he is shown dropping a Han dynasty urn in an irreverent gesture to the worship of China’s past, the artists are in good company making art that expressive and even beautiful in its destruction. Central to Music for Teacups, however, are the sounds you are hearing as a direct representation of what you are seeing. Watch how the artists have captured both the image and sound of the moment a teacup or bell opens up, bounces on the ground or violently shatters and find the musicality hidden within these transformative events.

A Host of Options (wallpaper), 2013 is an installation of 2,400 small laser cut teacup shapes to create a fluttering wallpaper effect in the gallery. Installed with mother-of-pearl headed corsage pins, the teacups dangle by the handle—shifting as the viewer walks through the space. The black silhouette emphasizes the patterns that begin to develop as well echo true multiplicity available in porcelain production.

In addition, the video For Best, 2013 and the installation, To rend and to mend, 2013 document a performance in which the artists walk a simple, oval shaped balance beam (12′ long by 5′ wide) while Haviland balances china on her head. After balancing and breaking five full sets of china the remnants of the performance are mended and presented as sculpture. Haviland and Colagiovanni have said “Porcelain for us isn’t precious and neither are the roles associated with its use. We hope our work can communicate the fragility of both.”

Haviland and Colagiovanni are artists who live and collaborate in Athens, Ohio. Haviland, who is Associate Professor of Art, Ohio University, straddles the boundaries between printmaking and installation-performance exploring lineage, ritual, and practice within objects that are gendered and classed. Colagiovanni, who also teaches at Ohio, is a video and sound artist with interests in the reconfiguration of image and sound and the effects of gravity and immersion in virtual and physical space. They have exhibited nationally both singly and as a duo; been awarded numerous grants, fellowships, and residencies and have works in several permanent collections. In October, Music for Teacups will be included in the 2013 British Ceramics Biennial in England’s former Spode factory. You can learn more about the artists and their work on their websites: www.colagiovanni.net and www.melissahaviland.com.

The exhibition was selected from 117 applications through DVAC’s 2012 Biennial Call for Exhibitions.

You can check out this exhibition through October 19th at DVAC, located at DVAC 118 North Jefferson, downtown Dayton. The galleries are open Tuesday through Saturday from 11am to 6pm.

DVAC Opens “In Vivo” – Artists, Scientists, Photosensitive Lab Coats and Wine in the Studio

September 13, 2012 By Eva Buttacavoli Leave a Comment

Erin Holscher Almazan - "Elaine" from the series Tethers

To kick-off its fall season, the Dayton Visual Arts Center (DVAC) presents In Vivo: Erin Holscher Almazan, Francis Schanberger and Diane Stemper, opening for Urban Nights, Friday, September 14, 5-10 pm and running through October 20. A homegrown showcase of the area’s most talented artists, the exhibiton features drawing and prints by University of Dayton (UD) faculty member Erin Holscher Almazan; photographs and prints by UD Artist-in-Residence Francis Schanberger; pen & ink drawings and artist’s books by Diane Stemper; and is curated by Bridgette Bogle, painter and art department Associate Professor, Sinclair Community College.

In Vivo: Latin for “within the living” exemplifies the artists’ investigations into biology, cosmology and anatomy. They approach their chosen subjects—classifying, categorizing and organizing—with a degree of the romantic, humorous, political or metaphorical.

Special Site Specific Project: Anthotype and Photogram Coats by Francis Schanberger

Get ready for this: Schanberger will be tackling a fugitive photographic process called Anthotype—considered “fugitive” since the the image is created by the fading power of light.

With a background in biochemistry and cell biology, Schanberger’s affinity to lab coats is tied to their appeal as a symbol for a scientist, doctor or nineteenth century naturalist as well as an early experience in which his lab supervisor admonished him to “Never wear your lab coat outdoors. If you do, you will bring back spores that will contaminate our cell lines.”

Since 2004, he experimented with a dark ground (cyanotype) and light ground (anthotype) photogram designs on coats. For him, it is a way of brnging the outdoors back inside to “contaminate” the research being displayed. Experiments of the naturalists, both processes were used and invented by an early photographer.

The anthotype process is a very “green” photographic process that utilizes the fading power of light to “etch” an image on material coated with plant pigments. Berries, flower petals and beet roots are the favorite of practitioners of this photographic technique. It is considered a fugitive photographic process since the image is created by the fading power of light.

For DVAC’s Site Specific installation, the progress will be seen on Ash Seed Coat (In Progress During Exhibition), a saffron stained coat which will get about two hours of late, late afternoon exposure. He will also create an ash seed light resist which will form an image on both sides of the garment. The coat will have the added context of using a fabric dye used by monks in Asia. This final coat will be a mixture of the spiritual and scientific; an ephemeral recording of its time at the Dayton Visual Arts Center.

Francis Schanberger - "Don't Take This Personally"

Wait. What’s this About Wine in the Studio?

Picture this: a late Saturday afternoon: start at UD’s Print Studio; get an up-close and personal view of three artists’ materials and methods in a casual, behind-the scenes gathering; follow-up with a glass of wine or beer with the artists at Jimmie’s Ladder 11; head-out with your very own signed, limited edition print to start or add to your collection by one of your new artist friends. Ends before your Saturday night plans.

And that’s just what DVAC has organized for a small group of 24 guests. Studio Visit: A DVAC Field-trip will take place on Saturday, September 22, 2012. Tickets available on a first-come; first-served basis and are $85 each; $100 couples. For Field-trip only (studio + 1 drink ticket each): $35 each, $50 couples. A new experience. A deeper connection to art. A good time. RSVP to [email protected] or call 937.224.3822.

Diane Stemper - "Tropical Pursuits"

About the Artists

All three artists live, work and teach in Dayton; have won numerous grants and fellowships; and whose artwork is known and widely collected throughout the region and across the country. They will be featured in DVAC’s Fall exhibition: In Vivo: Erin Holscher Almazan, Francis Schanberger and Diane Stemper, Sep 14-Oct 20. Erin received her BFA from Minnesota State University Moorhead and her MFA in Printmaking from Rochester Institute of Technology, New York and is Associate Professor of Printmaking and Drawing at the University of Dayton. Francis received a BS in Biochemistry and Cell Biology from University of California San Diego and MFA in Photograph and Digital Imaging from The Ohio Stte Unveristy and is Artist-in–Residence at the University of Dayton. Diane received a BFA in Printmaking from the San Francisco Art Institute and an MA in Interdisciplinary Arts from San Francisco State University.

A Limitless View at DVAC

May 11, 2012 By Eva Buttacavoli Leave a Comment

"Distance In Itself Invisible" - by Stefan Chinov

Selected from over 100 exhibiton proposals received from our its 2010 Biennial Call for Exhibitons, DVAC brings it close to home for it’s fourth and final exhibiton of the season. The two-person exhibition features painting, photography, sculpture and painting by Dayton-based artist Stefan Chinov and Cincinnati painter Craig Lloyd.

Titled Limitless View, artists Chinov and Lloyd explore different methods of understanding and re-thinking limitless landscapes—both real and imagined.

Primarily a sculptor and draftsman, Stefan Chinov’s new work was inspired by his recent residency on the Bulgarian, Chilean, Spanish and Russian bases of Antarctica. Chinov imprints the Antarctic landscapes with sculptural installations in ice and volcanic ash and documents its untouched vastness in photographs and video that underscore its mythic presence. Additionally, Chinov plays with the lines of landscape in his geometric studies rendered in three-dimensions in two large floor sculptures; and in two-dimensions in three large scale drawings. Chinov, born in Bulgaria, lives in Dayton and is currently an Assistant Professor at Wright State University.

Craig Lloyd

Craig Lloyd’s paintings of landscapes in central and southern Ohio and northern Kentucky capture the sensation of stopping to take in a more careful and contemplative view. Working in the field or developing images further in the studio, Lloyd optimizes light, atmosphere and seasonal changes to create an idealized version of contemporary frontiers where open space has become a commodity. His fine brushwork captures a clear summer day’s perfect puffy clouds as they perch above a vast expanse of rolling hills, densely-leaved trees, and storybook curves in the road. Lloyd lives in Cincinnati and is an Associate Professor at the College of Mount St. Joseph.

Together, these artists make for a remarkable exhibiton.