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April 2015
Marjorie Bender and Barbara Vogel: Family and Friends
Marjorie Bender and Barbara Vogel: Family and Friends offers a moving and amusing look at the pivotal relationships of our lives: those with our families and friends. Bender and Vogel have both exhibited extensively in the Columbus area. Bender is best known for her clay sculptures, but also produces and exhibits drawings and paintings. Vogel’s background is in photography. Many of her works continue to connect to photographic images, often in unexpected ways. The artists excel in conveying the many…
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Catherine Opie: Portraits and Landscapes
Ohio-born photographer Catherine Opie returns to the Wexner Center to debut a new series of artist portraits and abstract landscapes. Among contemporary American photographers, Opie is exceptionally attuned to the histories of representation, and Portraits and Landscapes vigorously embodies the artist’s conversation with classical European portraiture as well as the American Pictorialist idiom within landscape photography championed by Alfred Stieglitz in the early 1900s. Consisting of about 50 color pigment print photographs produced in 2012 and 2013, the series charts…
Find out more »Life on the Leaf Edge
New England based naturalist and artist Samuel Jaffe captures the art of survival of native caterpillars, pupae and moths through high detail photography. Displayed in the Conservatory’s Cardinal Health Gallery, each piece calls attention to the survival techniques and defensive adaptations of these remarkable and beautiful creatures. Free with admission to Franklin Park Conservatory.
Find out more »Eddie Adams: Vietnam
Dublin Arts Council brings a rarely viewed collection of compelling works from Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Eddie Adams to the gallery in honor of the 50th Vietnam War Commemoration year. The exhibition will open on Memorial Day and remain on view through Sept. 11. Adams’ widow Alyssa Adams and Hal Buell, Associated Press photo services Bureau Chief who worked with Adams, will travel to Dublin for lectures and selective personal tours of the exhibition. A video feedback booth will be on…
Find out more »September 2015
MJ Bole: White Elephant (1860 -)
September 18th Visiting Artist Event Talk with MJ Bole from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. in the CCAD Contemporary Art Space White Elephant (1860 - ) is a meditation on how family histories come to life and retain vitality through photographs and artifacts. It’s an interpretation and retelling of a specific family history that serves as both an examination of how histories are encapsulated and assimilated into our present and a reckoning with the nature of the obsession with family history…
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Family Pictures
Original CMA exhibition Family Pictures explores the ways in which black photographers and artists have portrayed a range of familial relationships, from blood relatives to close-knit neighborhoods to queer communities.
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Depth of Field: Metro Parks at the MAC
Depth of Field explores the diversity of our parks’ wildlife and natural resources through the lens of professional and amateur photographers. With more than 11 million visitors each year, Columbus Metro Parks are a vital asset to the social, cultural, environmental and economic health of Central Ohio.
Find out more »May 2018
Dreamers of Columbus Opening
Photojournalist Sahar Fadaian and journalist Leticia Wiggins created Dreamers of Columbus to showcase DACA recipients living in Columbus. Sahar initiated this project to portray an intimate face of Dreamers that goes beyond the headlines we've all seen and into their personal lives. These images and words are meant to shed light on the difficulties Dreamer's face in their everyday. Sahar takes candid photographs and together with Leticia captures the Dreamers words during conversational interviews to let them speak for themselves.
Find out more »ALEC SOTH
Alec Soth has spent his career photographing the peculiarities of life. Many of his most famous works stem from road trips where his motivation has been the meander through rural and suburban places and the capture of everyday life. He has photographed brides at Niagara Falls, hermits living off the grid in Arkansas, kids dancing at prom in Cleveland, and people he met on driveS following the course of the Mississippi River. His works are stark and clear images that…
Find out more »Alec Soth Spotlight Tour
Join us for a spotlight tour of Alec Soth hosted by Chief Curator Greer Pagano. Free with admission.
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