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Beginning August 12, 2026, Collective Impressions brings together recent work by members of Tiger Lily Press at The Annex Gallery. Rooted in Cincinnati’s tradition of printmaking, the exhibition highlights the range of approaches sustained by this artist-run community, from established processes to contemporary experimentation. More than a group show, it offers a portrait of a studio culture built through exchange, technical knowledge, and collective practice, while affirming the vitality of print today. The exhibition runs through August 28 at 1310 Pendleton Street, Cincinnati. An artists’ reception will be held Saturday, August 15, from 11:30 AM to 4 PM, followed by an artist talk on Final Friday, August 28, from 5 to 8 PM.
2026 FotoFocus Biennial
In the mid-1990s, I had many printed copies of the Financial Times in my hands. Probably sometime between 1995 and 1997. I was fascinated by its design, the wan salmon of its pages and Ingram Pinn’s illustrations: its visual identity, basically. As for reading it, very little, I confess. It was an almost purely retinal experience, and little else. But it became clear to me that its texts were written for professionals —people who make decisions on the basis of verified information—
The smell of fresh ink on a print just lifted from the press has a remarkable ability to turn devotees into addicts. So do the uneasy intervals built into the process, which forge a very particular bond with the craft. This lies at the origin of nearly every printmaking and screen-printing workshop. Another trait they tend to share is an unusual capacity for endurance...
Since Wednesday, August 12, Annex Gallery has been presenting Tiger Lily: Collective Impressions. Tiger Lily Press is a cooperative printmaking workshop founded in Cincinnati in 1979, conceived as an open space for practice, teaching, and the preservation of artistic printing techniques...
Given its scale and significance, I will present my analysis of this project in several installments. These are the ten design proposals shortlisted for the next series of euro banknotes. At this moment, they are under the gaze of millions. Citizens of the euro area have been invited to choose their favorites in a survey that will remain open until September 21...
Designing the banknotes destined to circulate throughout a monetary area such as Europe is among the most prestigious and consequential commissions a professional or design studio can receive. Creating an image to be shared by millions of people, condensing an identity into visual form, and meeting complex demands of legibility, security, symbolism, and instant recognition constitute a task at which even a demigod like Hercules might have failed...
The Sound of Trust
Beginning July 15, 2026, The Sound of Trust presents a selection of photographs by Jim Marshall, the American photographer and photojournalist born in Chicago in 1936 and raised in San Francisco’s Fillmore District. Over a career spanning five decades, Marshall produced some of the most enduring images of twentieth-century music, working from an exceptional proximity to the artists he photographed, on stage, backstage, in studios, hotel rooms, prisons...
Thresholds. The Long Road Home
Although I am an avowed admirer of her solo work and have known her for nearly twenty-five years, I do not remember ever having spoken in person with Liudmila Velasco. About her work, about the weather, about how unbearable this or that artist can become. When I left the island, Liudmila was already practically an institution within Cuban women’s photography...
Docile Metals and Memory
On June 3, Leticia Sánchez Toledo opened Docile Metals and Memory at The Annex Gallery, a series that delved into the material and affective memory of objects. The pieces were conceived from metal trays unearthed on Facebook Marketplace, at Sunday flea markets, and in secondhand venues. They were objects few still wished to keep in their original state — easy to come by, hard to maintain, awkward to place...