Abstract
the Cincinnati Arts Association’s Alice F. and Harris K. Weston Art Gallery in the Aronoff Center for the Arts will open Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie, a two-pronged effort, curated by Todd Pavlisko, with an underlying punk aesthetic showcasing contemporary installation-based artists from Boston, New York, and Cincinnati along with an eclectic and provocative selection of seminal artworks gleaned from some of the most important private collections in Cincinnati.
Inspired by the punk band Black Flag’s influential 1981 song of the same name, artist, independent curator, and Cincinnati native Todd Pavlisko (Boston, MA) will present two multifaceted exhibitions that examine the varied experience of amassing objects and the practice of collecting. In the Weston’s street-level space, Pavlisko will take a unique approach to this idea by selecting artists who accumulate objects as well as collective concepts to form sculptural installations. Artists include Antonio Adams, John Carrico, and Adam Henry (all Cincinnati, OH); Tory Fair and Joe Wardwell (both Boston, MA); and Alfred Steiner (New York, NY).