Alternative Dreamers

Alternative Dreamers at Ascent Private Capital Management, Cincinnati 
BY APPOINTMENT ONLY
This exhibition is by appointment only - please schedule a time to view it by contacting info@alternateprojects.net

Alternate Projects is pleased to announce Alternative Dreamers, an exhibition presented by Ascent Private Capitol Management, Cincinnati in association with Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, Oregon and Alternate Projects, Cincinnati. Alternative Dreamers, installed throughout the private offices of Ascent Private Capital Management, is a show organized by Linda Schwartz, Director of Alternate Projects. 

Alternative Dreamers presents the work of five Cincinnati-based artists all united, as the show title suggests, by their unique visions and approaches. They are a mix of emerging and seasoned contemporary artists, several with representation and most with full exhibition histories. Though of the region, their work transcends it, and all reflect current art world trends. These are artists who have a strong contextual understanding of art history and its relation to their work. And, though the end result, how and why it got there, are intrinsically different, each artist  is process-driven, relying heavily on the act of making to dictate what a piece will become.

Whether pulling images from the Internet or using objects from his studio, as he did for the work in this show, Jimmy Baker’s paintings evolve out of a random search for imagery. These objects and/or images are juxtaposed together, eventually becoming the printed surface upon which Baker then begins to paint. From this complex process, Baker creates pieces that obscure the boundaries between painting and photography and between the abstract and what is real.

Michael Scheurer also relies on the random collection of “images.” The foundation for his work rests on vast stockpiles of materials Scheurer has collected over his forty-year career- scientific illustrations, maps, vintage Indian cinema posters, pages and illustrations from old books, fabrics…. Collaged together, the content behind Scheurer’s sumptuous imagery begs the viewer to explore it over and over again.

Jordan Tate, whose work is mostly photographic, is concerned with the visual and conceptual processes of image comprehension. To date, Tate has worked mainly with appropriated images like those seen in the show’s Gamut Warning series. His latest body of work, however, shows a shift in process. For these pieces landscapes are actually shot with 4 x 5 black and white film and then drawn on digitally. These new pieces appear easily accessible, pretty, and even a bit romantic. They represent a rejection against the sterile, scientific, slick, digitized images of most popular contemporary photography.

By combining such elemental materials as trees, fossils, and/or minerals in new and unexpected ways, Shinji Turner-Yamamoto creates pieces that are meditations on man’s relationship to the natural world and the universe beyond. Crystals cultured by Turner-Yamamoto form the content in the Quintessence series. Their beautiful unique white patterned surfaces, the result of material and natural processes, and equally, multiple layers of materials, are created not only through the artist's hand but as elsewhere, in the small sculptures of his Pentimenti series, by the processes of nature and time.

Joseph Winterhalter meticulously works the surfaces of his paintings so they appear to have been scraped raw or peeled repeatedly to suggest prior histories. The use of the tile motif in his paintings began not only for stylistic reasons, but also as a way for Winterhalter to investigate what he describes as the “…pervasive usage and reception of cold, antiseptic and passively oppressive ceramic tiles in the architecture of prisons, hospitals and institutional spaces…” In the show’s 2 paintings, though the tiles still take center stage, in LVG 21c #25, they look more like reflections on the outside of a building and in LVG 21c #24, they are becoming pixel-like.

Bios
Jimmy Baker (b. 1980 Dover, Ohio; resides Cincinnati, Ohio) is an associate professor in the Studio Department at the Art Academy of Cincinnati. He has exhibited work in New York, Los Angeles, Paris, London, Basel, Miami, Chicago, Dallas, and other American cities. His work has been featured in many publications, private collections, as well as permanent collections at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Zabludowicz Art Trust London, Taschen Foundation Berlin, Cincinnati Art Museum, Columbus Museum of Art, and Progressive Insurance Collection.

Michael Scheurer (b. 1954 Cincinnati, OH; resides Cincinnati, Ohio) is a collector- professionally, artistically and personally. Professionally, he is renowned as a connoisseur of ancient, antique, and modern decorative art objects. Scheurer studied liberal arts at Xavier University (Cincinnati) and textile design at the Fashion Institute of Technology (NYC). His work is held in private collections from New York to Sydney, Australia and has also been featured in numerous group shows across the country including at such venues as Zephyr Gallery (Louisville, KY), Michael Lowe Gallery (Cincinnati, OH), SOMArts (San Francisco, CA) and in 2017, it was the subject of a retrospective at the Alice F. and Harris K. Weston Art Gallery (Cincinnati, OH).

Jordan Tate (b. 1981 Louisville, KY; resides Cincinnati, Ohio), is an Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Cincinnati. Tate, a Fulbright Fellow (2008-2009), earned a Bachelor of Philosophy in Interdisciplinary Studies from Miami University and a Master of Fine Arts in Photography from Indiana University. His work is currently held in collections nationwide, including Rhizome at the New Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, The Bidwell Projects, the Cincinnati Art Museum, The Columbus Museum of Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Tate is represented by Denny Gallery (NYC) and his work recently showed at: Denny Gallery, New Shelter Plan, Herron School of Art, PH Gallery (UK), Higher Pictures (NYC), The Photographer Gallery (London, UK), and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland.

Shinji Turner-Yamamoto (b. 1965, Osaka, Japan; resides Cincinnati, OH) studied at Kyoto City University of Arts, and at Accademia di Belle Arti, Bologna. His is the recent recipient of a Kohler Residency and has also received grants from the NEA, The Ruth and Harold Chenven Foundation, The Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed Foundation Grant, and project support from Antioch College, Cill Rialaig Project and SiTE:Lab. Turner-Yamamoto shows globally both in exhibitions and with site-specific installations. His 2017 schedule includes SAPAR CONTEMPORARY, NY; Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA; Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH. His site-specific installation at SiTE:LAB, Grand Rapids, MI, received the 2011 ArtPrize International Juried Award and his work is held in world-wide collections.

Joseph Winterhalter (b. 1965 Cincinnati, OH; resides Cincinnati, OH) received his BFA in Painting from Ohio University in Athens OH, in 1991 and attended the graduate program in painting and drawing at Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, LA). He has had solo shows at Firecat Projects (Chicago, IL), Clay Street Press (Cincinnati, OH), IN SITU (Birmingham, MI) and Alice F. and Harris K. Weston Art Gallery (Cincinnati, OH). His work is included in both national and international private collections.

This exhibition is by appointment only - please schedule a time to view it by contacting info@alternateprojects.net
All of the artwork in this exhibition is available for purchase. Inquiries contact info@alternateprojects.net

Alternate Projects is an online venue specializing in artist multiples, editions, books, ephemera, and unique art from the 1960s to today. Exhibitions and other related projects are also presented periodically online as well as at various brick-and-mortar locales. All highly collectible and often historically significant, look for the uncommon and exceptional and visit Alternate Projects often for new arrivals and posts.

Linda Schwartz is the owner/director of Alternate Projects. She has been active in the midwest region for twenty years, first through her commercial gallery, and then as Linda Schwartz Projects.