Exhibitions
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.
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.
