February 17 – April 10, 2010
Opening reception: February 17, 5-7p.m.
Thorsten Brinkmann, Moyra Davey, Elizabeth Gerdeman, Ellen Harvey, Matts Leiderstam, Ryan McGinley, Anna Molska, Susan Sontag, Eve Sussman/The Rufus Corporation, Darren Waterston
Curated by James Voorhies
Bureau for Open Culture
Columbus College of Art & Design
60 Cleveland Avenue
Columbus, Ohio
http://www.bureauforopenculture.org
Calling BeautyWith a consideration of these questions, Calling Beauty is organized around four long-established genres of representational art: still life, landscape, nude and portraiture. Works by participants in this exhibition draw peripherally and specifically on traditional subjects and iconic images in the history of art. Their practices bring to the surface a retreat from that tradition to a reconsideration of it, thus a renewed and contemporary engagement with historic artistic conventions.
Available March 15, the accompanying publication will feature the essay “An Argument About Beauty” by Susan Sontag with generous permission to reprint by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC.
The exhibition is supported by Greater Columbus Arts Council and Ohio Arts Council. Media support provided by CD101.
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