Opening Friday, September 11, 5 - 8 PM
A selection of prints from over four decades of Cincinnati printmaker Mark Patsfall's collaborations with artists. Beginning in 1981 as a Masterpiece Press, the press evolved into Mark Patsfall Graphics and then to its present day Clay Street Press. Working with Carl Solway Gallery, Peter Huttinger and Volatile, and on its own, the press worked with many Cincinnati, national and international artists to create fine art prints in a wide range of printmaking techniques.
Additional Print Sale: Saturday, September 12, 2026, 12 - 5 PM
Ave Pildas (b. 1939), Thelonious Monk (Cincinnati, Ohio), 1962, Epson Ultra Premium Luster Photo Paper, Edition of 3, 1/3, 19 x 13 inches
Nineteen black-and-white portraits of legendary jazz musicians, including John Coltrane, Nina Simone, Thelonious Monk, Wayne Shorter, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, and Cannonball Adderley, by Cincinnati-born photographer Ave Pildas, who now lives in Los Angeles. These photographs were taken during performances in nightclubs, after-hours venues, and jazz festivals in Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, and Chicago while Pildas worked for DownBeat magazine in the 1960s.
“Up until now, those images have been entirely forgotten, languishing in a loose-leaf binder full of negatives and contact sheets, secreted in a storage space in his home. His willingness to revisit those times and places give us a unique window on the music from two cities that were considered secondary markets in the business of jazz.” - Kirk Silsbee
Special Event
Yoko Ono (b. 1933), PEACE is POWER, 2017, Poster, 14 x 17 inches
First presented in 2017 as a full-page advertisement in The New York Times at the invitation of The Museum of Modern Art, and subsequently installed as a wall of responses prominently at The Museum of Modern Art, PEACE is POWER transforms a simple phrase into both a declaration and a call to action. Since then, it has appeared on billboards and posters around the world, in museums and exhibitions, and in a wide range of other public and printed forms, reflecting Ono's longstanding belief that peace is something we create together through thought and action.
Free poster available during the Solway Gallery exhibitions
Continuing Exhibition
Tom Marioni (b. 1937), One Second Sculpture, 1969, Black and white photograph, Edition of 3, Digital print from original negative, 30 x 36 inches
A selection of drawings, prints, sculptures, photographs, and ephemera from 1969 - 2025.
Tom Marioni was born in 1937 in Cincinnati, Ohio, class of 1959 Art Academy of Cincinnati, and afterwards moved to San Francisco, where he still lives. A pioneer of conceptual, social, and sound art, he founded the Museum of Conceptual Art (MOCA) in 1970, one of the first alternative art spaces, and is best known for works such as One Second Sculpture (1969) and The Act of Drinking Beer with Friends is the Highest Form of Art (1970). His work has been exhibited internationally at major museums including the Centre Pompidou, Tate, Guggenheim, and SFMOMA, and is held in the collections of MoMA, SFMOMA, Centre Pompidou, and other leading institutions.