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<![CDATA[AMY SCARPELLO - Live(In) Gallery Archive]]>Tue, 18 Nov 2025 05:02:01 -0800Weebly<![CDATA[We don't live her anymore]]>Wed, 30 Nov 2016 15:26:07 GMThttp://www.amyscarpello.com/livein-gallery-archive/we-dont-live-her-anymore

Dear friends, family, viewers, and artists WE DON'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE! Thank you so much for the past three seasons at Live(In)! As you may have noticed our summer break has turned into an extended absence. While we had intended to continue hosting shows and events, plans changed and new living opportunities arose. Thank you for supporting us in, and being wonderful houseguests these past few years! xoxo molly & amy

]]><![CDATA[if only awkwardly, all gots is words and crying]]>Mon, 09 May 2016 18:03:26 GMThttp://www.amyscarpello.com/livein-gallery-archive/if-only-awkwardly-all-gots-is-words-and-crying

Live(In) Gallery announces its May exhibition,
If only awkwardly, all gots is words and crying: new work by Zachary Rawe and Avril Thurman
May 7th - 30th
Opening reception: Saturday, May 7th, 7:00 - 11:00 pm

Cincinnati OH-Live(in) gallery announces its May show, if only awkwardly, all gots is words and crying: new works by Zachary Rawe and Avril Thurman. Both these artists, pulling language from poetry and critical theory, produce artworks that indulge their passivity and play with romantic notions of crying. For his part, in this exhibition, Rawe is pulling language from Eve Sedgwick’s A Dialogue on Love and collaging his own words amongst it, then placing the end textual result on custom objects designed on the internet. This results in corky, comical objects, such as doormats and pie dishes, that are inscribed with text that that exudes longing and loss. For example, one pie dish reads:

I’m not the type of person who does things
more likely, life leaves its own marks
on me… still limp beauty

pleasure within that grim surround
of public lives and public space
and resentment

For her part, Thurman is creating site-responsive sculptures and works on paper that transcribe bits and pieces of her own investigations in poetry. Often these works utilize a singular phrase or word transcribed on mundane found objects. Deadpanly, these works take the notion of a poetic artwork literally, flatfootedley speaking to the desire to push a poetic mindset into the physical and seeing what can be reaped. For example, an older work she made, Have a Bandit Day, is a white pushpin board with the work’s title stenciled across the top. The work’s linguistic suggestion moves into objectness tinged with the aura of self-help, placing the assertion into the stance of a daily reminder.

In conjunction with the exhibition’s opening night there will be two performances at 8:30. Thurman will read a selection of new poetry she has been working on for the past year, that playfully uses description as means of imbuing empathy into mundane materials and all-to-ordinary situations. Rawe will be presenting a script based on different passages from A Dialogue on Love to be read by two willing participants, which sets the stage for role-playing theory and thinking, enacting borrowed words alongside borrowed time. Generally, between the artworks and the events, this exhibition looks towards catharsis and crying as starting ground, while simultaneously trying to maintain an imaginary. Or, put another way by, Justin Vivian Bond recounts a conversation with Antony from Antony and the Johnsons and Tilda Swinton:

“we were talking about how so much of the art in the nineties was apocalyptic. Kiki was very apocalyptic: Everyone was dying, our world was ending. Now everyone knows the world is ending-to do apocalyptic art just seems a little redundant. So Antony said the idea is to do art where we acknowledge that we’re standing on the precipice of hope.”

Zachary Rawe is an artist, writer, and curator based in Philadelphia, PA. Rawe creates anxious objects and texts invested in affective responses generated from the dissolved relationship between work and leisure. Occasionally, he tracks his interests on his Tumblr at runonsentencereview.

Avril Thurman was born in a log cabin in Brown County, Indiana. Trained as a printmaker and poet at the Art Academy of Cincinnati, she has shown visual work in Brooklyn, Memphis, Reims, and many beloved Cincinnati galleries. Her poems have been published in the Madcap Poetry Review, and in Forklift, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking, and Light Industrial Safety. She lives in Northside.

]]><![CDATA[A Voice is Heard Echoing]]>Fri, 01 Apr 2016 18:00:27 GMThttp://www.amyscarpello.com/livein-gallery-archive/a-voice-is-heard-echoing

Live(In) Gallery announces its April show,
A Voice Is Heard Echoing, work by Elena K Dahl
April 2 - 30, 2016
Opening reception: Saturday, April 2, 7:00 - 11:00 pm

Live(In) Gallery announces its April show, A Voice Is Heard Echoing, work by Elena K Dahl. A Voice is Heard Echoing documents multiple narratives involving the creation and preservation of Neolithic temples in Malta through diptychs and images of museum text. Many of the legends portrayed in the country’s two Archaeology museums revolve around female figures: one story goes that the structure Ġgantija was built by a giantess named Sansuna who lugged boulders on her back while breastfeeding her baby and eating honey, and some believe that the sitewas once used by a matriarchal society for worshipping a fertility goddess (before a new influx of peoples came and instilled a patriarchal order.) Modern archaeologists are less keen to make such specific and gendered claims about the purpose of this place and others like it, instead acknowledging that while such spaces do indicate some kind of religious worship, there is no proof of that worship being grounded in the veneration of a divine feminine power.

The photographs invite a viewer to see double, to visually process two points of view or separate moments in time, to simultaneously gather contradictory “ghost stories” claiming authentic interpretations of prehistory. Ġgantija was made by a matronly giantess, or no, it was made by Le Corbusier’s “brother across time.” The figures found in and around Neolithic sites in Malta are female, or no, they are not. Photographs of Malta and its “sister island,” Gozo, along with images referring to other mythological and religious female figures associated with the islands like Calypso, Pandora, and Mary, populate the series. Because there is no written record or much material context to explain the function of prehistoric architecture and artifacts, the analysis of prehistoric art is often speculative and especially reveals the values of the researcher/looker/chronicler. Therefore I frame mirrors, screens, and display cases alongside the wider environments that become repositories for knowledge and meaning in prehistory, revealing patterns, portals, and comparisons along the way.

Elena K. Dahl is an interdisciplinary artist and Visiting Assistant Professor of Art at Earlham
College in Richmond, IN. Dahl received her MFA in Photography from the School of Art + Art
History at the University of Florida in 2013 and has exhibited her work nationally and
internationally. Her work examines confluences of architecture, myth, history and desire through
digital photography and installation. http://www.elenakdahl.com/

Live(In) Gallery announces its March show, Please come celebrate the opening of A Voice Is Heard Echoing at Live(In) Gallery on April 2nd!

]]><![CDATA[cotton or fruit/flowers]]>Tue, 01 Mar 2016 18:57:29 GMThttp://www.amyscarpello.com/livein-gallery-archive/march-01st-2016

Live(In) Gallery announces its March show, Cotton or Fruit/Flowers, new works by Traci Fowler & Trevor Schmutz.

Cotton or Fruit/Flowers commemorates two moments of celebration –four years as partners, two years as co-directors. Last March Traci Fowler and Trevor Schmutz worked together on common law, an exhibition at Kitchen Space, the space they co-run in their apartment in Chicago. Picking up where they left off, Fowler and Schmutz probe further into the idiosyncrasies of their parallel relationships: as partners and as artists/facilitators.

Where their individual practices overlap is where things start. Cotton or Fruit/Flowers will exist in the arena of conversation, where the individual strengths of Fowler and Schmutz will propel one another’s forward. The artists will work collaboratively, but individually. Fowler will construct sculptures and installations that structure the visual virtues of their relationship. She will act as an interior decorator, staging Live In as the landscape for their relationship to exist in. Schmutz will script. Texts will interact with and be directly influenced by or influence the sculptural and physical.

In this way, Fowler and Schmutz will structure an exhibition in which they reveal themselves to one another in new ways, while simultaneously deepening a curatorial, collaborative and emotional connection

Traci Fowler is a fat queer feminist artist and curator from Houston, Tx currently living and working in Chicago, IL. Her work has previously been exhibited at Neon Heater (Findlay, Oh), Franklin Street Works (Stamford, Ct), DfbrL8tr (Chicago, Il) and Threewalls (Chicago, Il) among others. She was a 2013 and 2014 resident at 8550 Ohio before taking on the role of head chef this summer. Her work is multidisciplinary and currently she works in sculpture, installation, photography, video and performance. Traci is excited by humor, femininity and cheap materials.

Trevor Schmutz is an artist and independent curator. He has previously curated exhibitions at the Hokin Gallery and Kitchen Space. His practice has been dormant for the better part of the last few years, but ordinarily he makes small scale paintings and installations. More recently he has collected still images from television and movies. He is interested in finding opportunities within art making to question active and passive participation.

Please come celebrate the opening of Cotton or Fruit/Flowers at Live(In) Gallery on March 5th!

]]><![CDATA[semantics of love]]>Mon, 01 Feb 2016 18:53:31 GMThttp://www.amyscarpello.com/livein-gallery-archive/semantics-of-love

Live(In) Gallery announces its first show of 2016
The semantics of Love
February 6, 2016 - February 29, 2016
Opening reception: Saturday February 6, 2016, 7:00 - 11:00 pm

Submission Deadline: January 29, 2016
Opening Reception: February 6, 2016

It’s been a bit colder in Brighton since the closing of our neighbor, the long-running alternative arts space semantics. This space and the folks who lovingly ran it for nearly 22 years has meant so much to the Cincinnati arts community during its existence.

With that in mind we are inviting artists, creatives, anyone who feels this loss as we do to help us show a little love by creating a valentine for semantics. Submissions received will be included in the first show at Live(In) Gallery to take place on February 6, 2016

Show your love for semantics in whatever form you see fit. Paintings, installations, performance etc.
There is no limit on number of Valentine's you choose to send.

In submission packet along with art make sure to include:
Your name
Title and Media
Instructions for installation if necessary
Self Address Stamped Envelope (if you will not be available for pick up from gallery.)

Valentines should be submitted no later than JANUARY 29 to ensure inclusion. Please mail your work via USPS to:
Live(In) Gallery
2159 Central Avenue #5
Cincinnati, OH 45214

You can also drop off submissions to Amy or Molly if that is more convenient. Send us a message and we’ll work it out.
Submissions will also be accepted during the opening.

Submission Deadline: January 29, 2016
Opening Reception: February 6, 2016

Please come celebrate the opening of the semantics of love at Live(In) Gallery on February 6th!

]]><![CDATA[Lick: New works by amy scarpello]]>Sat, 14 Nov 2015 16:07:16 GMThttp://www.amyscarpello.com/livein-gallery-archive/lick-new-works-by-amy-scarpello

Live(In) Gallery announces its November show,
Lick: New works by Amy Scarpello

November 14 - November 30, 2015
Opening reception: Saturday, November 14, 2015, 7:00 - 11:00 pm

To end its second year Live (In) Gallery presents Lick: New Works by Amy Scarpello.
Scarpello presents new site specific sculptures which are passively interactive. By using repetitive processes to create, the resulting fiber and fabric works simultaneously stand out and blend seamlessly into the domestic setting inhabited by their maker.

Scarpello is interested in creating a physical relationship with her sculptural work. By creating blocked passages and other adaptations, such as a shower curtain and tablecloth, to the apartment space she hopes to evoke a sense of discovery. Lick the first piece the viewer encounters consists of 20 hand dyed satin panels suspended at face level, when stepped through the viewer experiences the sensation of being licked. Additionally this particular work blocks the front entrance of the gallery, the viewer is immediately confronted by the piece and in order to gain access to the rest of the space, must walk through the work or crouch to pass thus causing a passive interaction.

The opening will feature sounds by DJ Stacks, with whom the artist has worked to create a mood to accompany the works.

Amy Scarpello was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, she currently resides in Brighton, a part of the the city's West End neighborhood. She attended the Art Academy of Cincinnati (AAC), earning a BFA in Sculpture, in 2010. During her time at AAC she participated in an exchange semester attending the Maryland Institute College of Art. In 2010, she was awarded the Steven H. Wilder Traveling Scholarship, which allowed her to travel throughout Europe to continue her studies.

Amy is an active member of the Cincinnati art community. She is a recent recipient of a People’s Liberty Project Grant, for the project PLOP! to be completed in 2016 with Abby Cornelius. Other projects she is involved with included co-running Live(In) Gallery, a curatorial member of the Important People reading series, and recently beginning a girl powered screen print studio, Pull Club. She has shown work at the Dayton Institute of Art, Semantics Gallery, and the Rosenberg Gallery in Baltimore. Amy is passionate about public art, placemaking, and engaging young, emerging and student artists.

Please come celebrate the opening of Lick: New Works by Amy Scarpello at Live(In) Gallery on November 14th!

]]><![CDATA[What Happens To Us In the Future?]]>Sat, 03 Oct 2015 18:22:04 GMThttp://www.amyscarpello.com/livein-gallery-archive/what-happens-to-us-in-the-future

]]><![CDATA[Drunk Art History 102]]>Sat, 05 Sep 2015 18:22:22 GMThttp://www.amyscarpello.com/livein-gallery-archive/drunk-art-history-102

Last Fall we introduced a night of boozy lectures and fun in the form of Drunk Art History here at Live(In) Gallery. This night of food, friends, and mostly made-up art historical lectures was such a roaring success we are bringing it back in the form of Drunk Art History 102.

To celebrate the end of the summer season we invite you to join us in the courtyard downstairs from Live(In) Gallery for a grill-out and a whole new line-up of art movements and artists who need some ‘splaining! Join us under the stars (weather permitting) for this not to be missed second installment!

Feast!
Like last time we’ll provide the plates, cutlery, and cups. Additionally we’ll have some meats and veggies for grilling.
...and a few other treats.

You provide the sides, drinks, and other courses (BYOB).

Fun!
Inspired by the wildly popular program Drunk History, your hostesses have devised a new spin.
We give you DRUNK ART HISTORY!
Upon your arrival you will select your assigned art history movement or artist. Your mission while feasting and imbibing, is find out as much as you can about your chosen image, or be prepared to improvise, in a live presentation to your fellow party goers.

We have a few new tricks up our sleeve for some fun new twists on last year’s event. Be prepared to be graded by our tough to impress Professor!

We're extending the run of Crappy Magic // New work by David Hellams through September. Make sure to view the show during the event.

]]><![CDATA[Crappy Magic // New Works by David Hellams]]>Sat, 01 Aug 2015 18:16:12 GMThttp://www.amyscarpello.com/livein-gallery-archive/crappy-magic-new-works-by-david-hellams

Live(In) Gallery announces its August show,
Crappy Magic, new works by David Hellams
August 1 - 30, 2015
Opening reception: Saturday, August 1, 7:00 - 11:00 pm

Live(In) Gallery announces its July show, Crappy Magic, new works by David Hellams. David Hellams makes art out of, and about, stuff. Each painting, photograph, and video presents a collection of consumer goods as a distinct aesthetic proposition. The works vary from paintings of meditative furniture arrangements, to musical animations and snapshots taken at thrift outlets. These projects coalesce into a broad and continually expanding catalog of manufactured consumer goods. Hellams works to salvage the imaginative value in things by incorporating them into playful forms that suggest an interactive world of variety and possibility.

Copies of the artist’s publication Crappy Magic will be on hand at the opening.

David Hellams is an artist living in Nashville, Tennessee. Further images of his work can be found at the artist website, http://davidhellams.com/. For more information on Crappy Magic please visit http://crappymagic.tumblr.com/.

Please come celebrate the opening of Crappy Magic at Live(In) Gallery on August 1st!

]]><![CDATA[Tunnel of Love // New Works by Britni Bicknaver]]>Sat, 11 Jul 2015 18:14:35 GMThttp://www.amyscarpello.com/livein-gallery-archive/tunnel-of-love-new-works-by-britni-bicknaver

Live(In) Gallery announces its July show,
Tunnel of Love, new works by Britni Bicknaver
July 11 - 26, 2015
Opening reception: Saturday, July 11, 7:00 - 11:00 pm

Live(In) Gallery announces its July show, Tunnel of Love, new works by Britni Bicknaver. Tunnel of Love is a body of work examining vital components for life, inspired by the desires of our farthest ancestors. Bicknaver’s work often delves into history, both real and imagined. Her work involves sculptural elements, some of which call back to dioramas and other specimen-like or heritage objects.

The subject of these newest works is inspired by elements which motivate us, and connect us to our earliest ancestors. She carefully constructs objects that become icons for what drives humans, both now and historically. Through these works the viewer is able to create a time line connecting themselves to our ancestors. In one such work Bicknaver creates a rock, from which a single four leaf clover grows. In a second work she sculpts a breast, which hangs from the wall, disembodied.

Britni Bicknaver is an artist living in Cincinnati. She received her BFA from the Art Academy of Cincinnati and is entering DAAP's MFA program this fall.

Please come celebrate the opening of Tunnel of Love at Live(In) Gallery on July 11th!

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