Main Gallery
Fine Art Exhibitions by Ohio Artists
The Main Gallery is our space for group, individual and juried art exhibitions. The exhibitions, which usually last for about a month and a half, display an assortment of artistic themes and media, and feature impressive work by artists across the state of Ohio.
Current Exhibition
Fuse Factory Annual Exhibition (FFE) – TechnoMEME 2
November 1 – December 14, 2019
Frequency Fridays: Friday, November 1 | Doors open @ 7 pm | Performance @ 7:30 pm
Artists’ Reception: Friday, November 8 | 6-8 pm
Conversations & Coffee – Artist Talk: Thursday, November 21 | Noon – 1 pm
FFE 2019 is considering how new media art translates the ongoing technological phenomena of replication, imitation, variation, reproduction, and mutation responding to technological evolution at the nexus of digital culture. In addition to being the second season of TechnoMEME, FFE 2019 views artistic possibilities of technological and biological matters and platforms that create cultural and behavioral practice as ‘human-nonhuman-meme’, which can be enabled to transmit and replicate between human scientific endeavors and nature. To learn more about the Fuse Factory, visit: thefusefactory.org
Image: Tyler Bohm, Culture, lenticular print on plexiglass
Upcoming Exhibition
Archetypes
work by artist Connie Campbell
January 10 – February 15, 2020
Conversations & Coffee – Artist Talk: Thursday, January 23 | Noon – 1 pm
Originally inspired by the skeletal remains of animals, Connie has evolved an approach to sculpture in wood and metal that follows systematic mathematical ratios from the “Golden Section.” Complexity arises naturally from simple forms.
Image: Connie Campbell, Series III #4, aluminum, steel cable, wood
Upcoming Exhibition
Does this matɔh?
work by artist Todd Camp
February 21 – April 1, 2020
Opening Reception: Friday, February 21 | 6-8 pm
Todd Camp will debut a new series of space-specific work that transforms the Cultural Arts Center gallery into four intimate vignettes with painted chairs, couches, and lighting that melt into and become a continuation of the paintings on the walls behind it. The painting becomes part of the chair and the chair part of the painting. The gallery walls will reflect color, texture, wallpaper, and other interior elements to replicate a dichotomy of decorating choices and begging the question “Does this match?” The answer is affirmation of successful decorating. Viewers are left to ponder their own personal spaces and the importance placed on art and design in their life, if any.
Image: Todd Camp, Moving In, canvas, seat cushions, table, fabric, twine, house paint, varnish, mastic
2020 Main Gallery Exhibit Schedule
Archetypes
January 10-February 15
Originally inspired by the skeletal remains of animals, Connie Campbell has evolved an approach to sculpture in wood and metal that follows systematic mathematical ratios from the “Golden Section.” Complexity arises naturally from simple forms
Does this matɔh?
February 21-April 1
How do the items we surround ourselves with reflect our personal aesthetic? In this series of space-specific work, Todd Camp transforms the Cultural Arts Center gallery into four intimate vignettes with painted chairs, couches, and lighting that melt into and become a continuation of the paintings on the walls behind it. Viewers get to ponder their own personal spaces and the importance placed on art and design in their lives.
Interwoven
April 10-May 23
Artist Elaine Fleck presents a selection of mixed-media works that merge fabric and oils into unique representations of the human figure, landscapes, and still lifes. The exhibition is a rich blending of textures and vibrant colors that focus on nature and how humans are an integral part of it.
Art at the Center 2020 - Faculty of the Cultural Arts Center
May 29-June 20
The Cultural Arts Center’s faculty and staff are featured in this bi-annual exhibition scheduled to coincide with the Columbus Arts Festival. The Center’s Faculty are all professional artists, many of whom hold advanced degrees in art. Their work covers a wide range of media and styles.
Art at the Center 2020 - Students of the Cultural Arts Center
June 26-July 18
Students taking studio classes are invited to show the best of their work, and demonstrate the amazing range of artistic possibilities available within the Cultural Arts Center. Come and be inspired to take a class.
Transmediations
July 24-August 26
Visual artist, Karin Dahl, and pianist/composer, Harrison Price, explore how art and music combine to enhance meaning, showing that music plus art is more than either medium alone. The exhibit will include abstract paintings accompanied by original musical compositions. The artists will be joined for the opening by Ucelli: The Columbus Cello Quartet.
Campfire Stories: Textile Art in our Public Lands
September 4-October 3
A self-described “outdoorist,” artist Sue King developed a deep passion for camping, hiking and canoeing in early childhood. Much of her textile artwork bears a message of conservation and preservation, inspired by her frequent service as Artist in Residence at numerous National Parks and other public lands.
The Essence of Character
October 9-November 14
Three artists – Kristin Morris, David Leonard, Steve Jebbett – with three distinct yet, somehow complimentary, styles fill the Main Gallery with vibrantly colored, thought-provoking, humorous, and sometimes disturbing artworks in clay, watercolor, pen and pencil and mixed media.
The Collectors
November 20-January 2, 2021
Friends of the Cultural Arts Center and noted collectors, Ric Castorano and Doug Howard, share some their favorite pieces by local artists (including students and faculty of the CAC). This holiday treat is sure to inspire others to begin their collections as well.