Exhibitions
Looking For Family
Featuring the works of Richard “Duarte” Brown + TRANSIT ARTS Youth Program, Larry Winston Collins, and pieces from the Smokey Brown Collection.
American Heroes
American Heroes
Works by Larry Winston Collins
Larry Winston Collins was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Before pursuing a career as a fine artist, Collins worked as a graphics designer. Collins received his BFA degree from Columbus College of Art and Design, in Columbus, Ohio, USA and his MFA degree from the Maryland Institute, College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland. Collins considers himself to be a Mixed Media artist, working in a variety of materials and techniques. His past works include Drawings, Mixed Media Paintings and Sculptures, Collage, and Printmaking. Collins sometimes combines various disciplines to create a technique he refers to as “Art Fusion”. Collins exhibits nationally and internationally. Collins, also an educator, taught at Columbus College of Art and Design for several years and is a Retired Associate Professor from the Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Collins now lives in Cincinnati, Ohio.
My interest in linoleum block printing peaked after I enrolled in a printmaking course with master printmaker Robert Blackburn, founder and director of the well-known Printmakers Workshop in New York City. He encouraged me to explore creating prints using traditional wood and linoleum block techniques. I enjoy using the linoleum block printing process because of its graphic yet spontaneous effect.
Featuring:
What Is Real?
Ohio Representational Art Collective Inaugural Exhibit
Curated by Hiroshi Hayakawa
Meanwhile
Featuring the works of Michael D Casselli, Matt Wedel, Keith Allyn Spencer, Jason Lahr, Shawn McBride, Mychaelyn Michalec, and Alan Crockett.
Home Is Here Too
Featuring the works of Jepthah Bentsil-Kobiah, Daniel Nartey, Theresah Ankomah, Amina Toure-K, and Solomon Adu. Work courtesy of Contemporary Art Matters.
For the Love of Pattern
For the Love of Pattern, on view in the Beeler Gallery Project Space Sept. 7 through Oct. 7, 2023, features work by CCAD Fine Arts Professor Kaname Takada (Fine Arts, 1998) and Sumiko Takada, husband and wife artists who work in ceramics as Studio Takada.
Wake … Sleep … Dream
Featuring the works of Julia Christensen, Manami Ishimura, Rachel Ferber, Angela Sprunger, Tracy Featherstone, Carmel Buckley, Sheila Wilson ReStack + Dani Leventhal ReStack, and Soo Sunny Park.
CHROMA 2023
Featuring the works of Abigail McClure, Kaye Lillian, Emme Smith, Kory Albert Johnson, Noah Syrkin, Avri Thomas, Leela Waters, Diamond Young, Savannah Zupan, Aishel Brooks, Madyson Burton, Tess Chatfield, Melani Fields, Hannah Fitzgerald, Raphael Hayes, Jacquiline Kahler, Haleigh Karr, Kasie Kissel, Jess Schwarz, Abigail Gates, Danasha Edgington, Jayla Ray, Jhad Judeh, Lindsay Berndt, Noor Faour, Sarah Yost, and Hannah Plympton.
MFA Thesis Exhibition 2023
Thursday, March 30 - Saturday, April 22.
Featuring the works of Marieke Davis, Joseph Jenkins, Krista Faist, Jonathan Lohr, Abbie Ridpath, HOO-DAT?, Jonathan Riles, Nikhita Samala, Hedieh Sharifzadeh, B. Tucker, and Joey Wallace.
Some thing(s): new and recent artwork by Michael Mercil
. . . the occurrence of a word is the occurrence of an object whose placement always has a point, and whose point always lies before and beyond it.
Stanley Cavell, The Senses of Walden, 1972
Michael Mercil’s exhibition at the Beeler Gallery highlights a selection of his new drawings, enameled metal panels and needlepoint works of single words formed from simple, block letters. Like the other objects in the show, the artist considers these two-dimensional pieces to be things—and not stand-ins for or images of other things. Some thing(s) also includes one gallery designed as an “open classroom” for scheduled and impromptu CCAD and community programs and conversations. Each Tuesday and Thursday from 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m., Mercil will use the space for free public performances of his “Reading the Daily News” from the print edition of the day’s Columbus Dispatch.
Mercil wishes to dedicate this exhibit to former CCAD Provost, Anedith Nash (1943-2020) and to his art school mentor, artist Siah Armajani (1939-2020).
Link to Columbus Dispatch’s article on Michael’s performance.
Images provided by Jake Holler.
Tolerance Project
Mirko Ilić was inspired to launch the Tolerance Project following the “House of Tolerance” film festival in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in 2017. He asked 28 artists to create a poster about tolerance, the only requirement being that they write “tolerance” in their native language. After a successful 10-day show in Ljubljana, Mirko decided to tour the posters globally. Now, whenever Tolerance Project appears in a new city, local designers contribute to the show’s ever-expanding catalogue of artworks.
Images provided by: Jake Holler and Jonathan Riles
1,000 Miles Per Hour
Curated by Darren Lee Miller and Tim Rietenbach.
Featuring the work of Ben Kinsley, Robin Hewlett, Roger Beebe, David Bowen, Hans Klompen, Orlando Combita-Heredia, Sam Bolton, Jeremy Naredo, Chad Hunt, Lisa Jarrett, Jon Lomberg and Frank Drake, Dawit L Petros, Stephanie Syjuco, and James Turrell.
MFA Thesis Exhibition 2022
Opening Reception Thursday, March 31st - 6:00 to 8:00pm. Featuring the work of Eric Clift, Lisa Di Giacomo, Jalisa Howard, Nicholas Johnson, Haley Sipsock, Kelsey Moore, Joshua L. Morgan, Carmen Ostermann, Casey Rae Reeves, Shavan Smallwood, Mia Isobel Smith, and Yuqi (Crystal) Zhang.
These Are Things artist talk
Join These are Things creators Jen Adrion and Omar Noory via Zoom on February 24 at 11:00am EST as they discuss their journey through the arts as makers and entrepreneurs.
These Are Things
These Are Things features the work of CCAD alums Jen Adrion and Omar Noory (both Advertising & Graphic Design, 2008), the artists/designers and entrepreneurs behind the wildly successful brand. See hundreds of their iconic and humorous pins and patches.
Land
Land is an exhibition that approaches the word broadly, from the farm to the backyard to the forest. This exhibition, which features the work of five Columbus College of Art & Design alumni, brings together gestural painting, video installation, and painted sculptures that co-opt found structures.
i know it’s the end & i am full of beauty
i know it's the end & i am full of beauty is an exhibition exploring queerness through landscape and temporality. Artists Brezaja Hutcheson and Maria Joranko utilize video, sculpture, and photography to narrate their identities into a physical landscape.
Tamara Gonzales
In conversation with Ingrid Bromberg Kennedy. Free and open to the public Thursday, October 14th at 3:30pm.
Triple Blood Knot
Triple Blood Knot features the work of James McDevitt-Stredney, knotter, artist, and curator of No Place Gallery in Columbus, Ohio. In this solo exhibition, McDevitt-Stredney draws a parallel between his roles as a curator—catching artists in the vast sea of culture—and as a fly-fisher of the Mad River in Bellefontaine, Ohio.
Opening Receptions
Celebrate the opening of three new exhibitions at Beeler Gallery on Thursday, Aug. 26, 2021 from 5 to 7 p.m. The opening reception for Bianca Beck, Tamara Gonzales, Christina Forrer, A Bridge to Uncertainty, and BLM is free and open to the public.
A Bridge to Uncertainty
A Bridge To Uncertainty features existing and new works by artist Johnathan Payne. The works in the exhibition include large-scale, geometric comic abstractions, new constructed paintings, and mixed media works on paper.
BLM
BLM, on view at Columbus College of Art & Design in the Canzani Atrium adjoining Beeler Gallery Monday, Aug. 23–Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021, serves to both capture a moment in time and sustain the conversation surrounding racial inequality and injustice—and hopes for the future—and features more than a dozen of the 200+ #ArtUnitesCbus murals that were painted on plywood throughout Columbus following the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer in 2020.
Bianca Beck, Tamara Gonzales, Christina Forrer
Bianca Beck, Tamara Gonzales, and Christina Forrer, on view at Beeler Gallery Monday, Aug. 23–Saturday, Nov. 6, is a consideration of how we collectively reset ourselves after COVID-19’s dramatic and fatal strike across our worlds.
MFA Exhibition 2020/2021
MFA Candidates: Payal Bhalani, The’Shima Craver, , Keara Ryanne Henry, Alexander Jeney, Marian Lerner, Lévi, Caroline Manley, Lydia Callan Prakel, Benjamin Rader, Meredith Swortwood, Joey Zhao, Rebekah Barbarto, Wei Ling Chang, Tyler Lemmon, Evan Lockhart, CG Ryan, Phil Weasley, Trevin Wyant, Shannon M West.
2021 CCAD MFA Thesis Exhibition
See emerging artists' work at the annual CCAD MFA Thesis Exhibition, which this year features contributions from the Classes of 2020 and 2021. The work of MFA candidates and spring 2020 graduates span such genres as painting, sculpture, photography, video, design, comics, and fashion. Parking and entry to the exhibition are free; the public is invited to view the show by appointment. Beginning Wednesday, June 16, visitors can see a virtual version of the exhibition online at ccad.edu/mfathesis.
Artists
November
For November, Faculty Director of Galleries Tim Rietenbach invited CCAD alum Dean Taylor (Film & Video, 2015), creator of Hiss Mag, to curate a lens-based exhibition featuring 11 emerging local and international artists.
SEASON TWO: Follow the Mud
Organized as a series of “instances” in a process of accumulation, each instance in Season Two: Follow the Mud is accompanied by an installation and activated by performances, screenings, and dialogs both at Beeler Gallery and beyond. Through voices and sounds, objects, spaces, images, movements, and text, we accumulated and uncovered hidden, suppressed, and forgotten histories in art, architecture, and politics, in order to allow individual subjectivities and personal narratives to re-emerge and intersect.
Paris-based artist Laëtitia Badaut Haussmann‘s project WATER is structured as an active score. Referring to water’s states from liquid to solid, from filtration to contamination, the artist is interested in how multiple voices from the past and the present materialize, in traversing various nodes: the disappearance of the Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura, Japan; the craft and design history of architect Charlotte Perriand during World War II; a performative tour of Glenbrow / Gunning House, a 1940 Usonian-style house in Blacklick, OH, built by sculptor Tony Smith, Theodore van Fossen (known for Rush Creek Village, Worthington, OH), and Laurence Cuneo; and a collaboration and dialog with curator and writer Julia Trotta, to present an installation of video vignettes of Forget to be afraid: A Portrait of Linda Nochlin, a film on her late grandmother, the pioneering art historian, known for her 1971 article “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?”.
The collaborative project Staples and Rubber Bands (1969-2019) of Ohio-based artist Michael Stickrod and New York-based French artist Michel Auder include sculptural installations by Stickrod that set the scene in the gallery for the viewers of Auder’s video works, including May ’68 in ’78, a newly–edited and newly subtitled video of never-before-seen interviews on the reverberation of the student movement in France in 1968, shot 10 years after. Also on view is Michel Auder’s Cleopatra (1970), which based its characters’ improvisation on Joseph Mankiewicz’s 1963 version of the film that starred Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. Auder’s cast included many in the milieu of Andy Warhol’s factory, including Auder’s former wife Viva as the queen, Louis Waldon, Taylor Mead, Nico, Ondine, Ultra Violet, Andrea Feldman, Gerard Melanga, and Christopher Walken.
Brussels-based German artist Heide Hinrichs presents a series of drawings as part of second shelf, her multi-institutional collaborative book acquisition project that began in 2018 at Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium, and partnering with Beeler Gallery / Packard Library at Columbus College of Art & Design, and University of Bristol, UK. As part of the process of publishing a book on the project, Beeler Gallery / Packard Library and these partner institutions will participate in the Classroom Series at New York Art Book Fair at MoMA PS1 on September 20, 2019.
The graphic identity for Season Two is by Vier5, the graphic design duo known for their irreverent take on design for institutional communication and their work for the quinquennial contemporary art exhibition documenta 14, which took place in Kassel, Germany and Athens, Greece in 2017. Their collaboration with Beeler Gallery is their first American project.
Writing on the Instances with Laëtitia Badaut Haussmann will be conducted by Daniel Marcus. Writing on the Instances with Michel Auder + Michael Stickrod will be conducted by Robert Slifkin. Writing on each Instance will appear in the form of posters designed by Vier5
Season Two: Follow the Mud is conceived by Jo-ey Tang, and co-curated with Ian Ruffino and Marla Roddy.
SCHEDULE
Instance No. 0: Sept. 20, 2019, 1-2 p.m, shelf talk #8; NY Art Book Fair, Classroom Series, MoMA PS1 (off-site)
Instance No. 1: Oct. 10, 2019, 6-8 p.m, Season Two: Follow the Mud opening; sound performance by C. Spencer Yeh
Instance No. 2: Oct. 13, 2019, 1-4 p.m., Laëtitia Badaut Haussmann: EXPOSURE; Gunning House / Glenbrow, Blacklick, OH (off-site – RSVP details to follow. Space is limited.)
Instance No. 3: Nov. 10, 2019, 12-6 p.m., Michel Auder + Michael Stickrod present May ’68 in ’78, as part of Downtown Art Sunday
Instance No. 4: Nov. 19, 2019, 6-7:30 p.m., Laëtitia Badaut Haussmann invites Julia Trotta, presenting Forget to be afraid: A portrait of Linda Nochlin
Instance No. 5: Dec. 12, 2019, 6-8 p.m., Michel Auder + Michael Stickrod present Cleopatra (1970)
Instance No. 6: Jan. 30, 2020, 6-8 p.m., Michel Auder + Michael Stickrod present Subversive Historian (2019)
Instance No. 7: Feb. 1, 2020, 2-3 p.m, Heide Hinrichs and second shelf
Instance No. 8: Feb. 29, 2020, 10am-6pm and March 1, 2020, 10am-4pm, 2nd edition of An Art Book Affair, with a special presentation by Vier5, Onomatopee, performances by VOIDGIG (Gina Osterloh, Liz Roberts, Melissa Vogley Woods), Laëtitia Badaut Haussmann, and Suzanne Silver and more
Instance No. 8:
Details of Instance with Vier5 and the 2nd edition of An Art Book Affair to be announced.
SUPPORT
Laëtitia Badaut Haussmann: WATER is supported by the Cultural Services of French Embassy in the United States and is realized in co-production with Musée d’art contemporain de la Haute-Vienne, France; Ghost House and DICRéAM. This project was made possible by a residency at Villa Kujoyama, part of Institut Français du Japon and benefits from the support of Fondation Bettencourt Schueller and the Institut Français. Architectural consultant: Andrew Cruse. Set-building: Catco. Instance No. 2 – Laëtitia Badaut Haussmann: EXPOSURE is presented in partnership with EXPO CHICAGO and with media sponsor Art in America. Downtown Art Sunday media sponsor: Columbus Underground.