Recent Exhibitions
October 21, 2023 - February 3, 2024
Exhibition X: An Utterly Incomplete Examination of Collage in Contemporary Art
Curated by Matt Distel and Scott Speh
1028 Scott Boulevard
Covington, KY 41011 (map)
Exhibition X is a loose examination of collage strategies and techniques across a range of media. Rather than organizing the exhibition from a particular thematic point of view, the curators opted for a messier, open-ended approach to bringing work together under one building. The exhibition itself adopts a collage strategy to the overall process of assembling an exhibition by piecing together elements that may seem disparate but create a balanced whole.
Image: Michael Scheurer, Untitled #20 (Designs for the Wings of Moths Series), 2022, 9.75 x 6.75"
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February 10 - May 22, 2022
The Cut-Up
Henry Burdsall
Terence Hammonds
Mike Hancock
Michael Scheurer
Amy Cluxton
Pamela Dwertman
5345 Medpace Way
Cincinnati, OH 45227 (map)
Image: Michael Scheurer, Untitled #4 (Art Historical Series), 2008, 6.75 x 5" including Indian mat
July 9 - Sept. 30, 2021
New Works: Michael Scheurer at the Poetry Gallery
Curated by Bill Renschler
Solway Building/Renschler Framing
424 Findlay St # 3
Cincinnati, OH 45214 (map)
A survey of works created by the artist during the pandemic year of 2020 accompanied by outstanding pieces of tribal art and Oceanic figures from the Michael Scheurer Collection.
February 2019
In Search of Charm: Art and Change
130 West Court Street
Cincinnati, Ohio 45202 (map)
Experience 15 Cincinnati based artists, featuring a wide variety of mediums including painting, drawing, sculpture, textile, and photography.
Image: Michael Scheurer, Untitled #1 (Byzantium Series), 2017, m-m collage, 9.5 x 6.25"
Image: Michael Scheurer - Untitled #3 (Summer Series), 2010-17, mixed-media collage on paper, 9.75 x 7.25" image
February 1 - March 31, 2018
Assemblage and Collage
Elizabeth Leach Gallery presents Assemblage and Collage, a group exhibition featuring artists who create work through layered materiality and unexpected juxtapositions. Collage has remained a touchstone of expression throughout art history and is particularly resonant during times of social unrest and chaos. The artists included in the exhibition experiment, innovate and transform existing materials to create something new and unanticipated.
The artists in the show range from internationally renowned artists, Ann Hamilton and Vik Muniz, to emerging artist Charlie Perez-Tlatenchi, a recent Reed College graduate to work from the estate of New York artist, John Evans. Well-known regional artists include Lee Kelly, Melody Owen, Pat Boas and Michelle Ross, with new work by Seattle artist Claire Cowie. Cincinnati artists Jimmy Baker and Michael Scheurer make unique contributions to the show with Kara Marie, Brion Nuda Rosch and Myrna Tatar sharing their vibrant and complex work from San Francisco. Northwest artist, Eunice Parsons, has been making collaged work her entire life and at 101 years of age is the senior artist in the show.
417 N.W. 9th Avenue
Portland, OR 97209 (map)
Image: Michael Scheurer, Untitled #16 (Inky Series), 2014, 8 x 5.75"
Fall 2017 - February 8, 2018
Alternative Dreamers
A group show, including the work of Michael Scheurer, Joseph Winterhalter, Jordan Tate, Jimmy Baker, and Shinji Turner-Yamamoto, curated by Linda Schwartz.
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. - Linda Schwartz
Ascent Private Capital Management
U.S. Bank Tower
425 Walnut Street
Cincinnati, Ohio 45202 (map)
June 10 - August 4, 2017
Pop Press
Cincinnati graphic designer Scott Bruno provided local artists with surreal clippings from his collection of strange treasures from community newspapers, TV listings, advertising circulars and other sources in the mainstream press to inspire this exhibition. Eighteen artists then used these bizarre news clippings and personal ads as fodder for their own artwork creations in an investigation of everyday absurdity. Participating artists include Michael Scheurer, Rachel Rampleman, Christian Schmit, Michael Stillion, Avril Thurman and Chris Vorhees.
4573 Hamilton Avenue
Cincinnati, Ohio 45223 map
April 28 - June 18, 2017
Signature Scheurer: A Retrospective of the Works of Michael Scheurer
Selected by CityBeat staff in the Best of Cincinnati 2018 issue as the Best All-Seeing Retrospective of an Artist. Read the full article here.
In a career spanning more than forty years, Michael Scheurer (Cincinnati, OH) has developed a unique aesthetic of sumptuous and richly worked collages which complements his reputation as a connoisseur of ancient, antique, and modern decorative art objects. His signature motifs of fanciful pen and ink drawings, bulbous nosed silhouettes, and perky girl/boy portraits from the 1970s and ‘80s have evolved into visually sophisticated collage series constructed from the disparate source material he finds in his inveterate antiquing research. Scheurer routinely mixes splattered paint, found drawings, handwritten manuscripts, cartoon snippets, fabric, Indian cinema posters, old chromolithographs, and torn advertisements that, in his inimitable style, become enigmatic works of timeless wonder. His clever and sometimes inscrutable references—reverent and sardonic—invite the viewer to ponder the picture space.
The Alice F. and Harris K. Weston Art Gallery
Aronoff Center for the Arts
650 Walnut Street
Cincinnati, Ohio 45202 map