If you ever passed artist Jay Bolotin on Main Street near the old Kaldi’s coffee house, or walking on Beekman Street near his North Fairmount home you could sense his calm and quiet presence. He wore a weathered black vest and white dress shirt with the sleeves rolled up. He was, as the Delmore Recording Society described: “A man from another time and space.”
Time stopped for Jay in May, when the well-known Cincinnati artist and musician died at age 75. He will be remembered by his children Simone and Ezra and his many friends and students. And he lives on in his music, his monumental wood sculptures, his woodcuts and his films.
The Delmore Recording Society released an album of Jay’s early music in 2018. Simone describes it as a collection of haunting folksongs from the 1970s.
The University of Kentucky Art Museum will have an exhibition of Jay’s work beginning January 17.
On Cincinnati Edition we discuss Jay Bolotin’s life and creative work.
The song in this interview, "Dear Father" is credit Jay Bolotin; Numero Group
Guests:
- Matt Distel, executive director, The Carnegie
- Emily Sites, gallery assistant
- Mark Flanigan, author
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