Art and You... A Perfect Fit

For Our Ohio State Fans

2010-10-29T13:23:00.000-07:00

FOR OUR OHIO STATE FANS

"Woody in the Snow" - 22 1/2 x 26 1/2

"Old and New" - (Stadium shots) 30 x 24

"Script Heisman Panorama" 22 x 42

A set of four Inspirational prints

"Teamwork"

"Rivalry"

"Buckeye"

"Tradition"

Each is 18 1/2 x 22 1/2 - All are framed and ready to hang

The newest additions to our OSU print collection:

"THE OSU 1950 SNOW BOWL" - 12 x 8 or 24 x 16

"THE OSU BEEHIVE" - 12 X 8 or 24 x 16

New Thomas Kinkade Release

2010-10-26T12:23:00.000-07:00

When people think of Thomas Kinkade, they think of cozy little cottages with magical light in the windows and wonderful inspirational images that reinforce our faith. But, did you know that Thomas Kinkade is also the artist who is bringing our favorite Disney characters to life for our walls? No other artist has permission to recreate these characters and few could do it as well as the artist known as the “Painter of Light”,

The latest in his Disney Dreams series is entitled “Beauty and the Beast Falling in Love”, his sixth in this collection. These images are available on paper and canvas in limited edition at Thomas Kinkade dealers.

See http://www.alleyfineartandframing.com/ for more Kinkade images and information.

A great holiday gift for Disney fans of any age!!

It's not too early ...

2010-09-28T18:36:00.000-07:00

Unless you're planning to gift wrap that luxury car, as seen on TV commercials, now is the time to begin planning your holiday gift giving. The gift of art can be one of the most personal, most appreciated gifts one can receive. It can be as simple as finding a print you know someone really wants and having it framed; sneaking back and buying that amazing piece of original art you saw when you were out browsing together; transferring a favorite summer vacation or family reunion picture to canvas; or creating a shadow-
box of mementos from a special occasion.

Ann Hamilton at Solway Gallery

2010-09-25T16:34:00.000-07:00

Went to Ann's Opening last night check it out:

http://www.solwaygallery.com/

The solo exhibition, reading, at Carl Solway Gallery, marks the publication of new print editions by the internationally known artist, Ann Hamilton. The project is curated to draw together a selection of Hamilton’s recent work that engages the experiences, process and act of reading. The artist describes the experience of reading as one that might leave the reader forever changed, yet leave no material trace; Hamilton asks how this ephemeral act might become a form of materialized making, a form of drawing. These questions have informed large-scale architectural works recently installed at the Seattle Public Library, Guggenheim Museum, New York, and the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis, as well as the objects and prints that comprise this exhibition.

Blue prints titled reading, evidence Hamilton’s notations and underlinings in book passages. In its process of recording, this ongoing series becomes a diary of attention to word, line phrase and meaning as they emerge from the text blocks of a page.

Rotating video projections animate alphabetically organized spines of words photographed with a miniature surveillance video camera, which sits like a pencil in Hamilton’s hand and has functioned over the years as a central stylus of her making. Utilizing stills taken from this video, she has created a new series of printed words which emerge from the process of reading with a camera and fix in time its fleeting moment.

The series, book weights (human carriage), published with Carl Solway Gallery, were made by placing small stacks of cut and rejoined paperback book sections on a digital scanner. These archival inkjet prints have a monumental sculptural quality, but the original book stacks are the scale of a human hand. Book weights (human carriage), developed as an outgrowth of Hamilton’s installation human carriage, commissioned by the

Guggenheim Museum, New York, as part of the 2009 exhibition The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia 1890-1989. In this installation, the reconfigured book stacks acted as counterweights to a wheeled carriage housing two suspended Tibetan cymbal bells that traveled on a pipe following the spiral shape of the museum’s rotunda in a system exchanging weight for weightlessness and sound for the silence of reading. As the book weights were packed for shipment to the museum, Hamilton and her assistants placed them on a scanner as a method for recording the inventory. During the process an unexpectedly beautiful body of new work emerged.

Ann Hamilton is internationally known for large-scale multi-media installations. Her ephemeral environments create immersive experiences that poetically respond to the architectural presence and social history of their sites. In addition to these large installations, she is known for smaller- scale multiples and print editions. Among her many honors, Hamilton has been the recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship, NEA Visual Arts Fellowship, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture and the Heinz Award. She represented the United States in the 1991 Sao Paulo Bienal, the 1999 Venice Biennale and has been extensively exhibited around the world.

Born in Lima, Ohio in 1956, Ann Hamilton received a BFA in textile design from the University of Kansas in 1979 and an MFA in sculpture from the Yale School of Art in 1985. From 1985 to 1991, she taught on the faculty of the University of California at Santa Barbara. In 1992, she established her home and practice in Columbus, Ohio. Since 2001, she has been a Professor of Art at The Ohio State University.

Alley Fine Art / Framing Artist's View of New York 'Night Life' Getting National Attention

2010-09-23T09:42:00.000-07:00

Karen Benedetti, one of Alley's local artists, is being featured in the National Watercolor Society's 90th Annual Exhibition in California from October 30 through December 11. We, at Alley Fine Art / Framing would like to congratulate her on this prestigious honor!

Please see the link below for the article from the September 19th edition of the Dayton Daily News.

Local artist Featured in the NWS exhibition

You can also see Karen's work at our gallery, located at 269 West Central Avenue in Springboro, Ohio or online at our website by clicking the below link.

Alley Fine Art / Framing

Art and You, An Introduction, September 2010

2010-09-21T13:57:00.000-07:00

Welcome to Alley Fine Art and Framing's new blog. We will use this space to spotlight local artists, educate our "followers" on the latest trends in the art and framing world and, perhaps most importantly, discuss the emotions that art can bring to a person and their world.

Our gallery and frame shop is located at 269 West Central Ave. in Springboro, Ohio. This shop is certainly our home away from home and we pour our heart and soul into it just like our artists pour theirs into the art that it contains. We have a philosophy here that is pretty simple:

"A gallery is far more than the sum of its parts. It is a creation which is only as good as the artwork it holds. A gallery should embody the visions, motives and the inspirations of its creators and artists."

It is this philosophy that we hold dear day in and day out with our artists and our customers. Our artists and customers make up our extended family and they are treated as such.

So, with that said, we are officially blogging, we suppose... We look forward to bringing you the news from our little corner of the blogosphere! Check back soon for an update on what we have planned for the upcoming holiday season!

Thanks for stopping by!

Mike and Donna