The Cincinnati Art Museum’s collections are in demand from museums around the world. Local and regional institutions also draw on our holdings to enhance their exhibitions. In November I travelled to Louisville, Kentucky, to help install two drawings by Cincinnati-based artist Gee Horton at KMAC Contemporary Art Museum.

One drawing, The Sweetest Thing, is a large mixed media piece incorporating Kanekalon® braids placed inside the shadow box frame and wrapped around and descending from the outside of the frame. The braids make handling this heavy work tricky. To hang the drawing, two KMAC preparators moved the frame while I held the bundle of braids at the bottom, letting them fall after the frame was secured on the wall. Mr. Horton was in the gallery at the time. He is always looking for new ways to present his art, and he had some ideas for how to arrange the loose braids. In the end, the configuration is much the same as the Cincinnati Art Museum’s 2022 installation.  The braids are spread across a low, white platform; the white provides more contrast than the dark wood floor, so the braids are more visible and, in turn, more dramatic.

Gee Horton’s two drawings—The Sweetest Thing and Black on Both Sides—are on view at KMAC Contemporary Art Museum (in Horton’s hometown) in this solo exhibition, Gee Horton: Chapter 3, Be Home Before the Streetlights through March 2, 2025.