freshART

By Joe Hedges | Published: September 14, 2011
Devou Park Undergrowth

I am pleased to be participating in an art event called freshART at the Behringer-Crawford Museum in Devou Park Saturday September 17. The 19th annual event includes several Cincinnati-area artists.  During the day, artists will create works of art within the 700 acre Devou Park.  That night, the works will be auctioned during an elegant evening of cocktails, dinner, and conversation.

Advance reservations are recommended.
$65 per person.  6-9:30pm.

Behringer-Crawford Museum, in Devou Park
1600 Montague Rd
Covington, KY 41011
859-491-4003
http://www.bcmuseum.org
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The Romance Show at Museum Gallery/Gallery Museum

By Joe Hedges | Published: July 13, 2011

I am participating in an exhibition about romance at the incredibly hip and comically named Museum Gallery/Gallery Museum on Sycamore Street in Cincinnati.  I was honored and excited to be asked to create a piece especially for the event.  This is a unique call and response gallery show where “works by fourteen couples are re-evaluated/considered by thirteen singles”.  My painting is cute and whimsical a celebration of my relationship with my wonderful girlfriend Emma.  The piece will be displayed with an accompanying (and most likely mocking) work by another Cincinnati artist–an artist who is not in a relationship.  Please consider stopping by on opening night to see these two works as well as works from other couples and singles on Final Friday July 29 at 7:00pm to 10:00pm.

Friday July 29
7:00pm – 10:00pm
Museum Gallery/Gallery Museum
1218 Sycamore St.
Cincinnati, OH 45202
http://www.mg-gm.com

Artists include:
Wendy Desrochers and Randall F. Slocum
Dustin and Heather Smith
Katy and Zachary Tompkins
Lee Serbin and Alex Walp
John DiPuccio and Tilley Stone
Cassie and Steve Kemple
Lisa and Leif Fairfield
Sarah Jones and Andy Upton
Matt Morris and Eric Ruschman
Joe Hedges and Emma Wehmeyer
Rachel Fleischer and Wyatt Niehuas
Ken Bruce and Sheida Soleimani
Jacques Laramie and Tiffany Dawn Nicholson
Iwona Franczek and Alan Pocaro
Sara Corley
Abby Cornelius
Anne Flavin
John Knight
Casey Meter
Patricia Murphy
Nicolas Perkins
Reid Radcliffe
Eric Rieper
Emily Sites
Michael Smith
Avril Thurman
Nevels Von Trapp
Brian Wikoffwith

special virtual performance by:
Andre Alves

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Art’s Bizzarre with Elise Thompson

By Joe Hedges | Published: July 13, 2011

I am participating in the monthly Art’s Bizarre art show at The Leapin’ Lizard Gallery in Covington, Kentucky with my friend and fellow painter Elise Thompson on the evening of Sunday July 17.  Music by DJ Gerald.  It is free an open to the public.

Sunday July 17
7:00pm – midnight

Leapin’ Lizard
726 Main St.
Covington, KY 41011

http://www.leapinlizardgallery.com

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For a Better World 2011

By Joe Hedges | Published: May 12, 2011

I was asked to contribute an illustration to the book For A Better World 2011, a compilation of poems and drawings on peace and justice by greater Cincinnati artists, will be soon finalized. In the book, each poet’s poem(s) is/are illustrated with only one drawing by a greater Cincinnati visual artist.  The illustrations in the book will be included in a group art show of sociopolitical expressions for peace and justice, curated by Saad Ghosn that takes place at the Art Academy of Cincinnati May 27-June 5.

 

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First Place 2D Artists of the 21st Century Exhibition

By Joe Hedges | Published: April 23, 2011

My painting, “My Mother in the Evening”, won first place in the 2D category in the Artists of the 21st Century exhibition at the West Tennessee Regional Art Center in Humboldt, Tennessee! The Juror was Andrea D. Rudloff, the Community Relations Manager at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, TN. Andrea is also a professional visual artist and was recently appointed to a three-year term on the Kentucky Arts Council Board by Governor Steve Beshear.

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April Fools!

By Joe Hedges | Published: March 31, 2011

Self-Portrait as Mary Magdalene, 12" x 14", Egg Tempera, $450

I am pleased to be included in an upcoming Juried exhibition entitled Fools. The show will be held at Passages Gallery in Cincinnati and will feature humorous, dark, and deceptive art from regional artists including fellow NKU graduates, students, and my former painting instructor Kevin Muente.

My painting, “Self-Portrait as Mary Magdalene” is loosely based on a painting by Bernardino Luini, a painter who worked in Leonardo Da Vinci’s workshop. My painting was made using egg tempera paints, a technique that requires mixing pigment with egg yolk and painstakingly overlaying many fast-drying strokes. Until Leonardo and others realized the benefits of using slow drying oil as a medium in the 15th century, egg tempera was the chosen medium of painters.

Passages Gallery at Goodman is a new not-for-profit art gallery housed in a historic, 1920s, former elementary school in North College Hill, Cincinnati. The gallery’s mission is to bring art to the students and community of North College Hill.

Fools Opening Reception
Free and Open to the Public
Saturday April 9th, 6pm-9pm
Passages Gallery
1731 Goodman Avenue
North College Hill, OH, 45239-4844

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Passages-Gallery/124280864290817

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Artist of the 21st Century: West Tennessee Regional Art Center

By Joe Hedges | Published: March 25, 2011

My Mother in the Evening, Oil on Canvas, 36" x 36", $550

My painting, “My Mother in the Evening”, has been selected to be included in the Artists of the 21st Century exhibition at the West Tennessee Regional Art Center in Humboldt, Tennessee. The exhibition will contain works from artists in Tennessee, Kentucky, and surrounding southern states. My painting was selected by the juror Andrea D. Rudloff, the Community Relations Manager at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, TN. Andrea is also a professional visual artist and was recently appointed to a three-year term on the Kentucky Arts Council Board by Governor Steve Beshear.

Artists of the 21st Century
Opening Reception April 7, 5-7pm
Exhibit runs from March 30 – April 21
West Tennessee Regional Art Center
Humboldt, TN

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Motherlodge

By Joe Hedges | Published: March 20, 2011
Two Hands

Two Hands, Acrylic and Oil on Canvas, NFS

I have been selected to participate in Motherlodge Live Arts Exchange in Louisville, KY. This weekend, March 24-26, Motherlodge Live Arts Exchange will present an art exhibit titled “Shelter”, featuring myself and over twenty other regional artists, as part of its Spring Live Arts Festival at the Rudyard Kipling, Louisville KY. Entrance to the “Shelter” Pop Up Gallery is free. Tickets for Motherlodge Live Arts musical and theatrical live acts are available in advance at motherlodge.com. The exhibit opens March 24, Thursday 7-10pm and will remain open for the duration of Motherlodge Spring Live Arts Exchange, March 24-26. For a complete list of all live music, theatre, and events of Motherlodge Spring Exchange please visit www.motherlodge.com.

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Passages Gallery

By Joe Hedges | Published: January 24, 2011
View from My Bedroom

The View from my Bedroom in Over the Rhine, Oil on Canvas, 3' x 3'

I am pleased to have a piece selected to be included in an upcoming Juried exhibition entitled Emergence. This show includes art from regional BFA students and recent graduates like me. The show is at Passages Gallery and opens on February 5 from 6-9 p.m. Please consider coming out to see my piece and the work of other students from the University of Cincinnati, Miami University, and Northern Kentucky University.

Passages Gallery at Goodman is a new not-for-profit art gallery housed in a historic, 1920s, former elementary school in North College Hill, Cincinnati. The gallery’s mission is to bring art to the students and community of North College Hill.

Emergence Opening Reception
Saturday February 5th, 6pm-9pm
Passages Gallery
1731 Goodman Avenue
North College Hill, OH, 45239-4844

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Passages-Gallery/124280864290817

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Northern Kentucky University BFA Thesis Show of Paintings

By Joe Hedges | Published: November 2, 2010

On December 2nd at Northern Kentucky University there will be an art opening for an exhibition featuring myself, several graphic designers and a ceramicist. Fifty feet of wall space in the main gallery at Northern Kentucky University will be set aside for my paintings. It is open to the public, all ages, family friendly, free, and with free food! The gallery is a beautiful, well-maintained space–one of the nicest and largest in the area. I am extremely excited to have so much of my hard work on display in such a great setting.

This is my senior thesis show, as I will finally be receiving a bachelor of fine arts with an emphasis in painting in December, after some long breaks over the years to tour and record music albums. The show will include some paintings from the Alchemy album art that I had on the walls for the music video premiere last month, as well as newer paintings that have never been exhibited.

I have truly put my heart and soul and whole body into painting over the last few years. I hope that you will consider coming out to see the culmination of hundreds of long days and late nights splattering, pouring, tightly rendering, wiping away, thinking, starting over, wanting to give up, and finally feeling satisfied at the completion of each new work.

The exhibition opens December 2nd with a reception from 5 – 7 p.m. The exhibition continues until December 10, 2010. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. For more information contact me joehedges at joehedges.com or the gallery director David J. Knight at Knight at nku.edu or 859-572-5148. Parking is available in the Welcome Center Garage.

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