Glory Be! Exhibition Opening

Maria Seda-Reeder
CityBeat

The compulsion to create is something with which many artists struggle. Whether a possessed urge for prolificacy on one hand or writer’s block on the other, the genuine need to make art can often surpass such pragmatic concerns as time, funding or even pride. Former member of the now-defunct Publico Gallery and local artist Britni Bicknaver will show her first body of work in six years created for gallery exhibition.

Bicknaver’s discrete sculptural monuments to romanticized Anglophile narratives will be on view alongside Cincinnati artist Matthew Waldeck’s suite of whimsical visual vignettes and Louisville, Ky.-based Paul McGurl’s text-based tributes to American presidential history as part of Thunder-Sky’s Glory Be! (A Historical Romance). The exhibition opens Friday with an opening reception 6-10 p.m. Friday-Sunday. Thunder-Sky Inc., 4573 Hamilton Ave., Northside. raymondthundersky.org .