A Thought Is a River
March 11 – August 20, 2022
“A Thought is a River,” is a group exhibition of artists from the Greater Cincinnati and Louisville areas. These two locations are connected by the Ohio River. Much as that body of water meanders and creates tangential paths, the works in this exhibition become locations between related ideas, materials, aesthetics or experiences. The “river” is a poetic launching point to draw connections and create conversations within a diverse and at times divergent group of art and artists.
The exhibition is structured to both facilitate moving quickly between each artist and allow for deeper investigations into more focused bodies of work. The large gallery on the first floor, the former location of the library’s circulation desk, houses a selection from each artist in an environment that encourages viewing multiple works by multiple artists at once. As the viewer moves upstairs, where most of the library’s book stacks were located, they encounter more discrete spaces to consider multiple works or installations by a single artist. In this way, the curator invites a certain amount of exploration that is rewarded in differing ways within each space in the building.
“A Thought is a River” features Kiah Celeste (Louisville), Matt Coors (Cincinnati), Adrienne Dixon (Cincinnati), Albertus Gorman (Louisville), Chris Hammerlein (Cincinnati), Dale Jackson (Cincinnati) and Letitia Quesenberry (Louisville). The exhibition is curated by John Knuth (Los Angeles).