U·turn

2009-2011

Molly Donnermeyer

Matt Morris

Patricia Murphy

Zach Rawe

Eric Ruschman

U·turn Art Space was located at 2159 Central Avenue in the storied Brighton neighborhood in Cincinnati’s West End. U·turn Art Space was a collective-run alternative arts space that was initiated in fall 2009 and operated until summer 2011. The U·turn Art Space collective comprised five Cincinnati-based artists: Molly Donnermeyer, Matt Morris, Patricia Murphy, Zach Rawe and Eric Ruschman. In its several years of operation, U·turn exhibited more than 80 artists with diverse aesthetics that were based in the Cincinnati region, as well as across the world, including Berlin, Germany; Chicago, IL; London, England; Miami, FL; New York, NY; Philadelphia, PA; and San Diego, CA. U·turn proceeded from the objective to bring shows into Cincinnati that are relevant; that provide an opportunity for discourse, ideas, and play to be forced together, awkwardly or elegantly, and offer itself to a viewing audience. Along with art exhibitions, U·turn hosted a range of accompanying readings, stand-up comedy nights, performances, and events that sought to raise probing questions and plural perspectives. Publications were made for every exhibition with numerous commissioned new essays and works of scholarship. U·turn addressed audiences in the surrounding Brighton district, Cincinnati at large and the whole of the Midwest.