Exhibitions
Passage
"Passage" is a meditation on mortality and what follows using an installation of object, light and sound.
Artist Robert Falcone.
“One of my most memorable experiences was a visit to Wat Pho, a Buddhist temple complex in the Phra Nakhon District, Bangkok, Thailand. There I had the opportunity to experience the Reclining Buddha, an enormous effigy of the Buddha modeled in a reclining pose gilded in gold and housed in a huge building filled with Buddhist art and beggar bowels . As the supplicants (and tourists) circumambulated the sculpture they would drop small change into the bowls as an offering. It was dead quiet with only the sound of shuffling feet and the melodic clanging of the bowls filling the air with sound. The experience was evocative and meditative. The visual grandeur of the gleaming Buddha was complemented with the other worldly ambient sound. I have been obsessed with sound as an artistic and meditative medium ever since. In fact, my MFA is in the fine art of sound. I am also obsessed with the mystery of life and what follows. Much of my work since has focused on existence and what happens when it ceases.
This piece explores the concept of existence, and the “Passage” of the soul from the corporeal to the ephemeral. The installation will consist of a large boat shaped grouping of white pond boats, not unlike those popular in the early 20th Century (Model boats sailed on ponds by enthusiasts). The boats face an orb of light spotted on to the wall representing the rising sun. My boats are stripped of detail and painted bright white. Only the boats and the “rising sun” are illuminated with spot lighting in an otherwise dark room. The sails are replaced by wind chimes (also bright white). The boat has been a symbol of passage into the afterlife for millennia and has the same function here, at least for me. Sound is often integral to traditional meditative practice, and the sound generated by the chimes is meant to encourage a meditative state.
As the participants circumambulate the installation clockwise (preferably three or more times), as they become immersed in the mesmerizing cacophony of the chimes. They will be encouraged to introspect and meditate for their own reasons. My work can be engaged on multiple levels. For me it will be meditation on the existential and dedicated to the passage of my late wife Deborah M Meesig, MD, JD, who passed peacefully in my arms on the morning of July 6, 2024. thus the title ‘Passage’.”
Opening Reception Jan. 8, 2026 5:00-7:00 P.M. at Beeler Gallery.
Antidote
Exhibition Narrative
Antidote showcases work by seven artists who are founding, current, or past members of Dream Clinic Project Space, a shared studio and gallery in Columbus, Ohio. These artists are not only the architects of the space, but also working artists whose practices have developed alongside it. While Dream Clinic was built to support others, it has also become a structure that sustains those who maintain it.
Dream Clinic Project Space was founded in 2021 to create opportunities where few existed. An artist-run studio and gallery, we are committed to supporting artists working locally, regionally, and nationally through curated exhibitions, open calls, and modest honorariums. The space is shaped by rotating curatorial voices and sustained through shared labor, offering an antidote to an art landscape defined by shrinking opportunities and the decline of grassroots community spaces.
Making work, making space, and making time are inseparable acts. Antidote brings together distinct artistic practices shaped by different materials, themes, and approaches, united by a shared investment in creating and sustaining space for their community. This exhibition marks Dream Clinic not only as a platform, but as a lived practice, an antidote for ourselves and our community.
About the Artists
Rebecca Arp ('97 USA) is an interdisciplinary artist and educator living and working in Columbus, OH. She graduated in 2020 with a Bachelors of Art from Vanderbilt University, and received the Margaret Stonewall Wooldridge Hamblet award for her undergraduate thesis exhibition. Arp has been featured in galleries, residencies, and publications locally and abroad, including group shows at Blah Blah Gallery (Philadelphia, PA), ROY G BIV (Columbus, OH), Ortega y Gasset Projects (NYC), AUTOMAT Gallery (Philadelphia, PA), and Wavelength Space (Chattanooga, TN). She has had solo shows at Dream Clinic Project Space in Columbus, Ohio; Space 204 at Vanderbilt University, Nashville; and Officina in Berlin, Germany. Her work is included in the personal collection of Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons and the Vanderbilt University Library Special Collections. Arp worked as an intern in 2025 for Tiger Strikes Asteroid, and is a current curator at Dream Clinic Project Space. Most recently, she was a recipient of the GCAC Artist Projects grant for her upcoming curatorial project “Solar Flare”, opening June 2026.
Hannah Fitzgerald is a visual artist whose practice is based in sculpture and installation. She holds a BFA in Fine Art from Columbus College of Art & Design and creates environments that examine the tensions between intimacy, grief, and self-preservation. Prior to establishing a studio practice at the Dream Clinic Project Space, Fitzgerald completed international artist residencies at Burren College of Art, R.A.R.O BCN, and Metafora Studio Arts. She has participated in a variety of juried exhibitions, most recently presenting a solo exhibition at A.R.C. Gallery in Chicago, Illinois. Fitzgerald has received grant support from the Greater Columbus Arts Council, Ohio Arts Council, and CCAD and has been published by FOA magazine.
Morgan Rose Free is a Canadian artist predominantly working in sculptural assemblage. Her conceptual interests lie in human engagement with the outside world, grappling with ideas around our current climate crisis, loss, desire, and our preoccupation with consumption. Based in Columbus OH, she cofounded and operates Dream Clinic Project Space. She has attended seven residencies including Prairie Ronde (Vicksburg MI), Vermont Studio Center (Johnson VT), Bunker Projects (Pittsburgh PA) and ACRE (Steuben WI). Recently she's exhibited at Utopia (Kingston NY), Field Projects (New York), Blah Blah Gallery (Philadelphia PA), Vessel City (Cleveland OH), and Monaco (St. Louis MO). Opening this May, she will present a solo exhibition at the McConnell Arts Center (Worthington OH) and will be attending Wassaic Project (Wassaic NY) for the month of June. She has been awarded grants from The Canada Council for the Arts, MyMA and the Greater Columbus Arts Council. She serves as an Assistant Professor in First Year Experience at the Columbus College of Art and Design.
Miranda Holmes is a Columbus-based artist whose work explores emotional landscapes and intimacy. She received her M.F.A. from The Ohio State University in 2022. Holmes has had solo shows in Berlin, Germany at Vorfluter Projektraum and Raum für Sichtbarkeit and in the U.S. at No Place Gallery, Columbus, OH, and at DePauw University, Greencastle, IN. Her work has been published in New American Paintings, Maake Magazine, and I Like Your Work Podcast’s catalogue. She has participated in multiple group shows, including at Olympia, New York, NY, Urban Arts Space, Columbus, OH, and Curiouser KC, Kansas City, KS. Holmes has received various awards, including a Fulbright Scholarship, a DAAD Fellowship, a Ellen Battel Stoeckel award to attend the Yale Norfolk Summer School of Art, and multiple Greater Columbus Arts Council Grants. Holmes has attended residencies at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Colorado, Chautauqua Visual Arts in New York, and GlogauAIR in Berlin. This year she was the Visiting Artist for Skidmore College’s Work + Space Residency, where she presented a solo show of her work at Schick Gallery.
Cory Mahoney is a ceramic artist and educator based in Columbus, OH whose sculptural furniture explores the possibilities of sitting with the blurred lines between our natural and human-built worlds. Originally from Southern California, he received his MFA in Ceramics from Alfred University in 2018 and BFA in Ceramics from California State University Long Beach in 2015. He is a co-founder of Dream Clinic Project Space, an artist-run space in Columbus, Ohio. His work has been exhibited across the country from Wassaic Project in Wassaic, NY, Flora Kirsch Beck Gallery in Alma, MI, Vessel City in Cleveland, OH, Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, MA and the Arizona State University Art Museum, Phoenix AZ. He has been a resident at The Center for Contemporary Ceramics in Long Beach, CA and Terrain at Enos Park, Springfield IL and has received multiple grants from the Greater Columbus Arts Council. His work can be seen in issue #24 of Suboart Magazine.
Hannah Parrett is an artist and educator based out of Cincinnati, OH whose work explores the malleable boundaries of perception through expanded painting practices. Raised in South Dakota, Hannah relocated to Ohio in 2017 to pursue her master's degree at the Ohio State University, where she taught as a lecturer from 2020-2022. During her time in Columbus she helped co-found Dream Clinic Project Space, an artist-run gallery and studio space, and was the recipient of the Greater Columbus Arts Council Fellowship in 2021. Her work has been exhibited locally and nationally at the Alice F. and Harris K. Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati OH, the Pizzuti Collection through the Columbus Museum of Art, Ortega y Gasset, New York NY, the Carnegie, Covington KY, the Louise Underwood Hopkins Center for Contemporary Art, Lubbock TX, among others. She was the recipient of the Ohio Arts Individual Excellence Grant in 2025 and has attended residences at Visible Records in Charlottesville VA, ACRE Projects, and Kimmel Harding Nelson Residency, among others. Her work can be seen in the Midwest Editions #155 #167 of New American Paintings.
Britny Wainwright is a sculptor, curator, and educator based in Columbus, Ohio. She employs ceramics, fiber, and mixed materials to abstract and draw meaning from domestic objects. She investigates the gendered division of craft and fine art, and queer material culture. She has exhibited work at Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh, PA, Vinegar Contemporary in Birmingham, AL, VisArts in Rockville, MD, The North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, NC, and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, AR among others. She has held several residencies, most notably as a co-facilitator for Clay in the Expanded Field at Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts in Edgecomb, ME. She serves as visiting faculty and Director of Foundations Studies in the Department of Art at Ohio State University.
Join us for the opening reception for Antidote on February 12 from 5:00-7:00 P.M. at Beeler Gallery.
Sometimes My Dad Weeps
Exhibition Narrative
After a stern but startled oncologist told me I had breast cancer, I fainted, then texted my dad while still lying on a waiting room floor. Two weeks later (and now living at my parent’s house in Houston), I hung up the phone and peeled back my middle school bedspread. I walked down the stairs and stood blankly under the doorframe of my dad’s room. The cancer was also in my bones. I held his hand as I sobbed.
Over the next 12 months, we moved slowly through a shrunken world together. We would paint in the same garage when I was well. After chemotherapy, he would hold my arm and help me walk a tiny lap around the cul-de-sac by his house.
Sometimes he would sit next to me and weep.
Low Energy at Low Tide - Chantal Wynuk
How can we rethink relationships to aging and sickness – making someone a cup of juice and cleaning up their vomit and driving to the beach and falling asleep on the couch and losing our hearing and having the same energy level at 30 as 80 and being so scared – through paint?
While we view this ongoing experience from very different perspectives, our work in this exhibition aims to push against the overly simplistic stereotypes primarily attached to cancer patients and caregiving more generally. The paintings utilize gesture, distortion, and the quality of oil paint itself to translate our often-conflicting sensations of grief, hope, pain, love, fatigue, bodily absurdity, and more.
Sometimes My Dad Weeps is the first exhibition of our work side by side.
About the Artists
Chantal Wnuk is a painter currently living and working in Columbus, OH. She was born in Houston, TX, has her BFA from the University of Texas at Austin, and received her MFA from The Ohio State University. Wnuk attended Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture in 2023. She uses her work to better understand and translate the experiences of pressure, weakness, and power resulting from diagnosis and lifelong treatment of metastatic breast cancer.
Recent solo-exhibitions include Walking and Falling at the Same Time at Ortega y Gasset Projects in Brooklyn, NY; Ahead and Above Water at Stop-Gap Projects in Columbia, MO; A Beach for Me (and maybe you) at Ignition Project Space in Chicago; and I Dreamt of a Perfect Ocean, I Dreamt of Stepping in a Hole at Best Practice in San Diego. Recent group-exhibitions include Big Cloud at Urban Arts Space in Columbus, OH and Being Here with You/ Estando aquí contigo at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. Chantal has been awarded residencies at ACRE, Bread & Salt, 1805 Gallery, and The San Diego Art Institute. Wnuk is a recent recipient of an Alumni Grant for Graduate Research and Scholarship and the Coca-Cola Critical Difference Grant for Research on Women at The Ohio State University.
Instagram: @chantalmika
Martin Wnuk was born in Pennsylvania and currently lives in Houston. He received his BFA in painting from Syracuse University in New York and taught art for three years in the Syracuse City School system before receiving his MFA in painting at Arizona State University. He has since taught painting, drawing, and graphic design as faculty at Arizona State, University of Nebraska, University of Houston, and San Jacinto College.
Wnuk has presented papers at multiple national and international conferences including The Fourth International Conference on the Image, The Hawaii International Conference on Education, The FATE Conference in Kansas City, among others. He has shown widely, including at the Everson Museum in Syracuse and the Munson in Utica as well as in California, Nebraska and elsewhere. He has been included in several Big Show’s at Lawndale Art Center, the UT Tyler International, and recently in the 2023 Texas National Exhibition in Nacogdoches.
Instagram: @martinwnuk
Opening Reception: February 12 from 5:00 - 7:00 PM at Beeler Gallery
Jon Green: Look Better. See More.
Jon Green has made a practice of documenting the world of graffiti and the hidden locations that support this underground activity. Train yards, abandoned buildings, and occasionally sanctioned free walls serve as his subject matter. In this body of work, all contextual elements have been stripped away to focus solely on close-up details of paint on decaying surfaces. The compositions emphasize mark-making and the energetic qualities reminiscent of the action paintings found in Abstract Expressionism.
Nov 20, 2025 – Dec 20, 2025.
OPENING - Nov 20, 2025 from 5-7pm
Projection Garden 01
Projection Garden 01
Welcome to an interactive art installation where larger than life flowers bloom with vibrant projection mapped videos, inviting you into a multisensory dialogue with expressions of optimism and meditation.
Sculptor Jason Johnston was perusing the local sights of the Columbus Summer Arts Festival when he happened upon the Big Local Arts Stage located under the Rich Street Bridge where he experienced digital projection artist john cairns illuminating the dark space with animations of light as part of the nonprofit Mural Remix experience. In celebration of each other's work Jason shared his sculpture work with john and when Jason Johnston’s sculpted flowers first caught the eye of john cairns, they bloomed with silent invitation— white petals appearing like blank pages. It was then that the artists dreamed: these delicate forms, larger than life, could become living canvases for light, motion, and reflection.
The smooth surfaces of the sculpted flowers became canvases of color, bathed in slow-moving tides of abstraction — petals awash in dreams. Through projection mapping, the flowers are no longer static objects; they are alive with soft transformations of color.
In this quiet interaction, the voice transcends the self, becoming part of something greater— joyful, luminous, shared. Together, the interplay of light, sound, and sculpted form offers a presence. A meditative joy unfolds, like a bouquet gathered from a field of flowers.
October 2 - November 1
Opening reception October 2, 5-7 pm
Featuring:
John Cairns and Jason Johnston
Marcus Morris - Elegance is Refusal
Marcus Morris - Elegance is Refusal
September 4 - 27
Opening reception September 4, 5-7 pm
Featuring:
Marcus Morris
The Show
The Show
The Show: a new exhibition by artists Allison Crocetta, Nick Fagan, Matt Lynch, Tony Mendoza, and Lisa Walcott located at the Beeler Gallery, on the campus of Columbus College of Art & Design.
Opening reception is September 4th from 5:00 to 7:00. The exhibition runs from September 4th to November 8th.
Anticipating the need for an experience that is both smart and funny in this moment of dreadful uncertainty, The Show is just that. Each work engages the world with a beautifully absurd take on the human condition—a collective vision that is at once funny and sincere. The exhibition includes the documentation of a solitary performance, whirling kinetic sculptures, a web of found materials attached directly to the gallery walls, interactive sculptures, and photos of people taking photos.
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2025 Chroma: Best of CCAD
2025 Chroma: Best of CCAD
Columbus College of Art & Design for 2025 Chroma: Best of CCAD is our annual campus wide exhibition showcasing outstanding student work from across the college’s academic programs. This faculty-juried show features select work from CCAD students of all class years, and is a can’t-miss end-of-year campus celebration recognizing their tremendous achievements.
Exploring the Unknown: Alien Paradises
Exploring the Unknown: Alien Paradises
My artistic practice focuses on creating exotic alien landscapes, blending imagination and reality into captivating scenes. I use acrylic paints for their versatility and vibrant hues, balancing familiar elements like trees and rocks with the fantastical. Through multiple layers and thick brush strokes, my works evoke a dream-like, impressionistic feel. I thoughtfully choose color palettes using scientific principles to add theoretical realism, enhancing viewers' connection to the environments. Themes of exploration, beauty, and scale drive my creative process, aiming to bridge imagination and reality, and inspiring a deeper appreciation for our world and the endless possibilities beyond.
Closing reception is May 1st from 5 – 7 pm. Reception will be located in JVC Atrium. The work will be featured in the Project Room Located in Beeler Gallery.
Featuring:
Andy Menzel
Shadows of Belonging
Shadows of Belonging
An exhibition by Imani Burke.
My artistic practice delves into the complex ways we hold onto our histories, utilizing materials that resonate with personal and collective narratives. By incorporating cement, hair, wooden chairs, chains, ratchet straps, and glass, I explore their inherent meanings and how they converge to reflect themes of race, trauma, and identity. Each medium serves as a conduit for memory and nostalgia, recontextualizing family heirlooms and found objects. Through sculpture and installation, I intertwine fragments of my past with contemporary social issues, aiming to create a dialogue that bridges personal history with the broader human experience.
Closing reception is April 17th from 5 – 7 pm. Reception will be located in JVC Atrium. The work will be featured in the Project Room Located in Beeler Gallery.
Featuring:
Imani Burke
Shadow Cabinet
Shadow Cabinet
A Collaboration by Mary Jo Bole and Danielle Norton
Shadow Cabinet reflects the interplay between power, violence, and the fragile nature of reality in 2025. This exhibition combines drawing, sculpture, and video and draws inspiration from the 1920 silent horror film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. The film's unsettling expressionistic style and exploration of psychological horror provide a haunting lens through which we interrogate our times.
At the heart of the exhibition is the symbol of the hunting blind—an object traditionally associated with concealment, waiting, isolation, and predatory intent where the potential for cruelty lurks. Here, the blind is repurposed as a metaphor for the psychological traps that entangle the individual in a society where power, violence, and control often go unquestioned. The structure itself evokes the fragmented set designs of Caligari's world, where physical space mirrors the internal chaos of its characters. This distorted form of the blind and related drawings invites unease, creating a space where the viewer's perception of reality becomes destabilized—much like the mind of the somnambulist Cesare, who is manipulated into violent acts by external forces.
Shadow Cabinet also delves deeply into the film's exploration of the fine line between sanity and insanity, a theme that resonates profoundly in our current moment. In Caligari, the film's fragmented reality is a metaphor for a world where what is rational and deranged blur together.
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Book
Book
Book is an exhibition of artwork based on a relationship to books. Some works are inspired by important pieces of fiction, while others explore harsh realities or focus on the book as an object. In each case the distinct vision of each artist examines how a gallery environment engages with the significance of the act of reading and recording in all its connotations.
Collaborators Todd Slaughter and Melissa Yes present the work “Stars Falling” in which they use Atticus Finch, “the hero of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird– as a pathway into conversations exploring complex legacies and moral anxieties. They reflect on Lee’s later novel, Go Set a Watchman, which reimagines Atticus as a white supremacist, offering an alternative perspective on the character. The novels along with this work reveal and explore tensions in American identity and morality, and the tension created when we are disappointed in something we love, whether that is a family member, a leader, or a place.
Justin Sorensen adapts, dissects, and disrupts traditional structures of literature, language, and books. His work explores time, religion, technology, and literature. For Book, Sorensen reimagines text and the book’s format as materials to be dispersed and destabilized. Jack _____ uses a search engine to generate imagery, questioning the contemporary reliance on Google for exploration. Poem plays on both magnetic poetry and Dada poetry, with magnets designed to be removed from the gallery and placed on cars, creating new compositions from existing poems and The Snow Leopard chronicles a search that elevates the unnoteworthy and immediate to something epic.
Migiwa Orimo’s installation The Day Before Tomorrow: Sites and Footprints of ICE Detention Centers was inspired by the U.S. government’s family separation immigration policy. This work maps the footprints of 154 ICE detention centers using Google Maps’ bird’s-eye views, presenting them as dark voids on pages from A Dictionary of the Underworld. Hand-painted birds and zines on immigrant detention accompany the piece. Meanwhile, Loose Leaf draws on notions of margins and peripherals to explore unaddressed spaces within books.
Kent Rhodebeck approaches the book from the outside, focusing on its structure. His Book objects series is rooted in a durational relationship with homemade, hand-bound sketchbooks and journals. These pieces serve as containers for collages, found materials, and carved marks, capturing a playful interaction with different materials that reflect touch, wear, and usage. By “laying flat” these books, Rhodebeck pushes them beyond their functional purpose, transforming them into objects to ponder.
Mark Harris’s video work examines colonial botanical literature of the 18th-century Caribbean, such as Hans Sloane’s Voyage to Jamaica and Maria Sibylla Merian’s Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium. These works highlight instances where European botanists relied on indigenous or enslaved knowledge for their research. Harris incorporates vinyl prints to combine imagery from books on the 1848 Paris uprising with repainted graffiti from the 1968 Paris demonstrations.
Books hold our memories, histories both personal and collective– becoming a pin in time and place- yet as time passes they slip, their meanings change in ways we can not always foresee.
Featuring:
Todd Slaughter | Melissa Yes | Justin Sorensen | Mark Harris | Migiwa Orimo | Kent Rhodebeck |
Constellation
Constellation
CCAD alumni and faculty have changed how we see and perceive the world around us. Their creative works have impacted arts and culture in profound ways in Columbus and around the globe. And, in February 2025, we will celebrate our graduates’ proven potential—as well as the talents of influential CCAD faculty—with an exhibition and art sale benefitting the establishment and endowment of the Constellation Scholarship for Artistic Excellence. Join us for this showcase of outstanding work by CCAD faculty and alumni! You'll have a chance to see artworks by artists you might know, be introduced to works by artists you haven’t yet encountered, and support future generations of CCAD artists and designers by purchasing pieces featured in the show.
Find out more about the event and ticket details here.
Featuring:
Albert Wong | Lowell Tolstedt | Gordon Lee | Christine D Abbott | Tom Gattis | Julie Abijanac | Tayler Beck | Alejandro Bellizzi | Kelley Booze | Lashae Boyd | Sam Branden | Christopher Burk | Dave Butler | Larry Winston Collins | Katie Davis | Suzie Dittenber | Susanne Dotson | Robert Falcone | James Flowers | Elizabeth Gerdeman | Cameron Granger | Denny Griffith | Hiroshi Hayakawa | Raphael Hayes | Bill Hunt | Christa Kimble | John Kortlander | Bing Lee | Jason Lewis | Richard Lillash | Kelly Malec-Kosak | Andrew McCauley | Erin McKenna | Dee Miller | Matthew Mohr | Liz Morrison | Carmen Ostermann | Komikka Patton | Paul Richmond | Tim Rietenbach | Aminah Robinson | Jason Schwab | Mariana Smith | Mia Isobel Smith | Carol Snyder | Julie Taggart | Kaname Takada | Ed Valentine | Brent Webb | Steven Bindernagel | Emma Vassar |
Corners Constrict the Mind
Corners Constrict the Mind
Multidisciplinary artist Nate Ricciuto’s recent work embraces the restlessness and irreverence of tinkering, an activity that eschews the wisdom of established systems and favors playful intervention and disruption. These projects reconsider narratives of progress and resistance and seek to build experiences that conjure idealistic, radical, and flawed visions of the future. He is curious about the practicality and optimism of craft, exploring the possibility that the way we make things is an extension of our beliefs, desires, and doubts. Perhaps imagination is not only a reflection of the things we hope to control, but also those things that control us. Combining carefully crafted objects, homespun ingenuity, and intuitive approaches, Ricciuto creates situations and spaces that entertain paranoid sentiments and invite myopic fantasies of self-reliance and escape.
Inspired by affinities between fringe beliefs, handmade structures, and alternative worldviews, Ricciuto’s projects probe material relationships and perceptual slippages in reflecting and amplifying an atmosphere of uncertainty, distortion, and everyday absurdity. These objects and environments hope to evoke the potential of both isolation and hyper-connectivity in cultivating delusional and speculative attitudes, casting sideways glances toward the growing prevalence of competing and contradictory versions of reality.
Corners Constrict the Mind includes:
Two Points on a Curved Surface, a collection of household items and repurposed objects that is loosely based on amateur experiments to measure the divergence of beams of sunlight in hopes of proving aspects of Flat Earth theory.
Solar Still, a durational project made of wood, mirrors, glass, acrylic, PVC tubing, bottles, pond water, a bucket, and sunlight that focused on a simple contraption using solar energy to distill water from a nearby pond into a purified, drinkable substance. Each day’s distillate was collected, bottled and consumed, allowing participants to consider their engagement with time, environment, and resources.
Bellwether, a project that grew out of a collaboration with a manufacturer of architectural and automotive specialty glass. This work makes use of conductive glass panels to create a Faraday enclosure to shield the interior from radio and wireless signal interference.
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Humming of the Strings
Humming of the Strings
The title of the exhibition, Humming of the Strings, is drawn from the Pythagoras quote, “There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the sphere.” The spheres in the case of Pythagoras were the planets of the solar system, and his assertion was that their movement would literally make a sound and by their order in concert those sounds would make pleasant music. Back on Earth, a poetic embrace of geometry is the motivation to bring these six artists together in one space, and to allow the work of each artist to interact and resonate—much like the music of the spheres.
Humming of the Strings features the work of Stefan Chinov, Heather Jones, Jeffrey Courtland Jones, Kristina Paabus, Marc Ross, Richard Roth, and Mathew Mohr. Each artist was chosen for their nonobjective approach and unique correlation with the history of geometric abstraction. Heather Jones and Roth explore how we look at and into an image by amplifying both the physical and graphic presence in their work; Jeffrey Courtland Jones, Paabus, and Ross create a similar relationship between the surface and the atmospheric potential of mark-making; and Chinov explores the complex relationship of sculpture and pedestal as the pedestal becomes sculpture and Mohr activates his sculpture with motion.
Featuring:
Heather Jones | Jeffrey Cortland Jones | Kristina Paabus | Stefan Chinov | Richard Roth | Marc Ross | Mathew Mohr |
Closer—Still
Closer—Still
Steeped in the histories of abstraction and protest, Closer—Still is a collection of small works by an international group of artists who question the current state of the world. The exhibition is curated by Jeffrey Courtland Jones, one of the artists with work in the Beeler Gallery exhibition Humming of the Strings.
Featuring:
Dave Ackels | Matthew Allen | Nicolo Baraggioli | Arvid Boecker | Ron Buffington | Marc Cheetham | Thomas Condon | Michael Conlan | William Cunningham | Corey Allen Davis | Matthew Deleget | Daniel DeLuna | Tom Duimstra | Stuart Fineman | Russell Floersch | Adam Reid Fox | Alan Greenberg | Nick Grindrod | Billy Gruner | Patrick Morrissey & Hanz Hancock | Gretel Helm | Frank Herrmann | Gary Hinsche | Peter Holm | Andre Hyland | Chris Jackson | Celia Johnson | Heather Jones | Olivia Jones | Cayman K. | Matthew Langley | Geno Luketic | Alex McClurg | Dennis Meier | Edmund J. Merricle II | David T. Miller | Marc Mitchell | Toby Mott | Claire Murphy | Brooke Nixon | Catie Orban | Roland Orepuk | Jacqueline Patton | Jon Poblador | Marc Ross | Tim Schwartz | Dorian Smith | Winston Smith | Benjamin Lee Sperry | Clary Stolte | Richard van der Aa | Don Voisine | Seth Wade | Dan Wells | Paige Williams | Douglas Witmer | Stephen Wright | Mark Zimmermann | Tamar Zinn |
Tracing Echoes
Tracing Echoes
Works by Julie Abijanac and Kelly Malec-Kosak featuring their NYC Residency inspired work.
Opening Reception October 3rd, 5:00 to 6:30 pm
About the Exhibition
Responding to their summer 2023 residency in New York City, artists and CCAD faculty members Julie Abijanac and Kelly Malec-Kosak have created a series of artworks that integrate drawing, fiber, painting, jewelry, and found objects, capturing the essence of their experiences while reflecting on the personal and collective histories shaping our understanding of place. The residency, which saw the duo visit a number of galleries and museums, also inspired them to embrace the repurposing of everyday materials, and to experiment with vibrant hues, unexpected textures, and playful mark-making to convey the emotional impact of the gallery experiences. With Tracing Echoes, Abijanac and Malec-Kosak strive to share the sense of discovery and connection they experienced in New York, inviting viewers to interact with their art and explore their own perspectives within the artists’ ongoing exploration.
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Professor Julie Abijanac (Fine Arts, 1992) chairs both the Master of Fine Arts degree and the undergraduate Fine Arts program at CCAD. Follow Abijanac—and learn more about her work—on Instagram and Facebook.
Professor Kelly Malec-Kosak is Associate Dean of Visual Arts at CCAD and a member of the college’s Fine Arts faculty. Follow Malec-Kosak—and learn more about her work—on Instagram and on her website.
Spitball X - Cartoon Crossroads
Spitball X
About the exhibition
Spitball X: Ten Years of the Spitball Anthology at CCAD celebrates ten years of the successful CCAD comics anthology Spitball, the student-designed publication that pairs CCAD's emerging artists with professional writers to create a graphic anthology. This exhibition at Columbus College of Art & Design’s Beeler Gallery Project Space, 60 Cleveland Ave. is on view Thursday, Sept. 5–Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024. The exhibition will culminate with a closing reception at 9 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 28, immediately following an artist talk from Bryan Lee O’Malley (creator of the Scott Pilgrim comic book series) that comes as part of the annual Cartoon Crossroads Columbus festival.
Spitball X features both current work from CCAD alumni that showcases their post-college achievements, as well as selected pages from past Spitball anthologies.
Featuring:
Lexi Ramos | Alec Valerius | Freddie Crocheron | Vince Mugavero | Khaila Carr | Alan Alanis | Allison Hess | Bonnie Gumser | Sara Guzman | Stasha |
I Was Here
The 2024 FotoFocus Biennial activates over 100 projects at museums, galleries, universities, and public spaces throughout Greater Cincinnati, Northern Kentucky, Dayton and Columbus, Ohio in September 2024. Each Biennial is structured around a unifying theme; for 2024 that theme, backstories, focuses on stories that are not evident at first glance. These stories offer context for what happened previously or out of view, providing narratives not yet told or presented from a new perspective. Yet once told, they shed light on current circumstances and events.
FotoFocus welcomes global artists, curators, critics, educators, and regional visitors to Cincinnati with exhibitions, talks, performances, screenings, and panel discussions during an expanded week of programming. Featuring keynote lecture, talks and panel discussions with artists, curators, and collaborators, receptions and tours, the Biennial Program is designed to inspire conversations about the world through photography, film, and lens-based art.
A catalog of works and artist statements can be accessed here.
I Was Here
Curated by April Sunami and Marcus Morris
Artist Panel: Black Women Imagemakers September 5th, 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm
A panel Discussion featuring the exhibitions Curators, April Sunami and Marcus Morris in conversation with Janet George, Nina (Nine) Wells, Marissa Stewart and Alexis McCrimmon.
Opening Reception September 5th, 6:00 to 8:00 pm
About the exhibition
I Was Here is an exhibition of work by emerging and underrepresented lens-based artists, curated by April Sunami and Marcus Morris (Photography, 2011). This exhibition at Columbus College of Art & Design’s Beeler Gallery, 60 Cleveland Ave. is on view Thursday, Sept. 5–Saturday, Nov. 2, 2024 as part of the FotoFocus Biennial: backstories. I Was Here brings together the diverse mediums of photography, video, performance, collage and mixed media to explore the essential act of image-making and storytelling.
“I—(or a specific name)—was here” is a familiar declaration inscribed on the walls of shared spaces, from bathroom stalls to park benches to, yes, even gallery walls, marking a person’s time and presence in a specific place. In 2024, in a social and political climate in which complicated histories revolving around Black people face the threat of erasure, we find that sharing stories through the lens of Black creators and cultural producers is especially critical. In I Was Here, declare their presence as they delve into the myriad ways of being and of existing in our ever-complicated society. Through this perspective, artists in I Was Here offer insights on disability, gender and sexual identity, survival, imagination, aging, ancestry, community, and more. Much of the Columbus-based artists’ work in I Was Here was created for the exhibition.
Several of the Columbus-based FotoFocus presentations, including that at CCAD, are influenced by the life and work of the Harlem-based, Detroit-born artist Ming Smith. In I Was Here, curators Sunami and Morris aim for the art in the exhibition to evoke her perspective of “celebrating the struggle, the survival and finding grace in it.”
Featuring:
Dejiah Archie-Davis | Asa Featherstone | Janet George | Ira Graham | Terrence Hammonds | Iyana Hill | Asha Imani | Magnus Juliano | Alexis McCrimmon | Ky Smiley | Marissa Nicole Stewart | Tariq Tarey | Akeylah Wellington | Nina Wells | Lyn Logan Grimes |
Children of War
Children of War
Organized by: Nataliia Pavliuk & Yustyna Pavliuk
About the exhibition
The origins of Children of War, on view Thursday, Sept. 5–Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024 at Columbus College of Art & Design, 60 Cleveland Ave., can be traced back to a morning in early 2022, when the people of Ukraine awoke to the news that a full-scale invasion of their country by Russia had begun. This event divided Ukrainians’ lives into a clear distinction between “before” and “after,” with many feeling compelled to contribute in any way possible to support the country’s struggle. Some immediately enlisted in Ukraine’s armed forces; others found ways to volunteer in various capacities.
Nataliia and Yustyna Pavliuk, the Ukrainian mother and daughter who co-curated Children of War, decided to help children and their parents through art. Say the Pavliuks:
“From the very outset of the conflict, we dedicated ourselves to aiding children who arrived in Lviv seeking refuge. We met with them in hospitals, shelters, and orphanages, marking the inception of our Art that Saves initiative. Throughout the last two-and-a-half years, children from all corners of Ukraine have passed through our art classes. These young souls used their artwork to express their dreams, fears, thoughts about the war, and their aspirations for what life would be like after victory.”
With Children of War, a multimedia exhibition of work created by young people during this time of war, the Pavliuks intend to provide visitors insight into the experiences of these children and their families and to remind them of how crucial it is to support Ukraine on diplomatic and other fronts. “Only through our combined efforts can we hope to emerge victorious in this war,” say the exhibition’s co-creators, continuing, “We don’t know what story this child has behind him.”
“Even a seemingly simple question like, ‘Where are your parents?’ or ‘Do you have a brother or sister?’ can be very sensitive for them to hear. These children saw what they should not have seen in life… And this will forever remain in their memory and be reflected throughout their lives, decisions, fears and choices. But fortunately, the fire in children’s eyes did not go out, and this war has not broken them.”
“This art brings back their wings! And we, the adults, simply do everything to support that spark and kindle it into a thirst for life.”
Children of War and the Ukrainian Cultural Association of Ohio
The exhibition Children of War was made possible by the collaboration of the Ukrainian Cultural Association of Ohio, a grassroots nonprofit with a mission of promoting Ukrainian culture and providing humanitarian aid. For more information, visit ucao.us.
What Is Real?
Ohio Representational Art Collective Inaugural Exhibit
Curated by Hiroshi Hayakawa
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:
Looking For Family
Featuring the works of Richard “Duarte” Brown + TRANSIT ARTS Youth Program, Larry Winston Collins, and pieces from the Smokey Brown Collection.
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.