The Fairfield Community Arts Center presents the Community Artist Showcase, an annual opportunity for area artists to exhibit their work. The exhibition is free. Artwork will be on display through Nov. 13. Featured artwork will include fine art, paintings, drawings, prints, photography, jewelry, sculpture and more. The Fairfield Community Arts Center is at 411 Wessel Drive in Fairfield. For more information, visit www.fairfield-city.org.
The BOOM! Exhibition, a collaborative partnership between the Fitton Center for Creative Arts and Artspace Hamilton/Strauss Gallery, will be on display at the Fitton Center through, Oct. 30. “When you see the exhibition, the quality of the work shines through. It’s outstanding, and it brings vibrancy and life, and color and energy to the Fitton Center, and you can feel it,” said Ian MacKenzie-Thurley, executive director of the Fitton Center. BOOM!, an explosion of sights and sounds, features electric art, aerosol art and a mossy piece that seems alive. For more about the exhibition, go to www.fittoncenter.org.
Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park & Museum presents a new contemporary exhibition, Leverage by Bret Price. The 10-piece monumental sculpture exhibition will on display at the park until September 2022. The exhibition features a retrospective of the artists’ monumental work in the medium of steel sculpture from 1999–2020. Price is a contemporary multidisciplinary sculptor. In his work, one of Price’s main objectives is to convey a sense of unexpected movement and balance while confronting the challenges of the materials he uses. The artist bends and twists steel, manipulating the material to create sculptures that remind the viewer that our preconceptions can be limiting. Find out more at www.pyramidhill.org.
Miami University Art Museum and Sculpture Park and the Department of Art have partnered to present the Department of Art Faculty & Alumni Exhibition, on display through Dec. 11. The joint exhibition features artwork from current and emeritus faculty of the Department of Art, along with selected alumni. “We rarely have the opportunity here to see faculty work, and even to see the alumni work, because most of them move on. We have works that are coming from across the country for this exhibition,” said Jason Shaiman, curator of exhibitions, Miami University Art Museum. Featuring 55 different artists, the quadrennial exhibition features a diverse representation of art forms including sculpture, painting, ceramics, photography, video printmaking, collage, mixed media works and scholarly publications. The 64 pieces in the exhibition deliver an array of topics and meanings, through diverse forms, materials and presentation. For more details, check out www.miamioh.edu/cca/art-museum/.
Portopia is a one-of-a-kind, immersive art installation that transports visitors to another dimension, one of wonder and delight, through art and creativity, of unparalleled utopia. Located at the historic Torchlight Pass in Middletown, Portopia is a collective of 10 artists dedicated to creating the unexpected. The exhibition leverages dimensional art, sound, light, touch, and scent within a 5,000-square-footspace. Portopia is a short-term, temporary art exhibit that will launch each year with a new theme and a different team of artists, offering a whole new experience for guests. The current exhibition will be on display through Sun., Dec. 19. For more info. and to purchase tickets, go to www.portopia.org.
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