Wexner Center for the Arts: Exhibitions - Zoe Strauss: Works for Columbus, OH

Images courtesy of the artistSage Jumping, 2010

Zoe Strauss: Works for Columbus, OH

(Zoe Strauss)

Sat, May 8–Sun, Aug 15, 2010
Wexner Center Lower Level

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Zoe Strauss (b. 1970) makes us see things we ordinarily don’t notice, or don’t want to notice. For this presentation, an image of cloud cover shot from a plane window on a journey home from Columbus offers an ironically elevated backdrop for resolutely down-to-earth images taken in South Philly and on her travels to such locales as Biloxi, Chicago, Las Vegas, Atlanta, and the Muckleshoot Indian reservation in Washington state.

Her photographs invest people and places at the margins of our society—the clerk at the convenience store, the façade of an abandoned building, a hand-lettered sign with its characters askew—with the simple dignity of recognition. Strauss is committed to making her work accessible far beyond the art world and has just completed her tenth annual outdoor exhibition beneath a Philadelphia underpass. She also seeks to make her working process and ideas available to viewers, and you can follow her comments, view video clips, and see many of her images on her blog.

Read an essay by exhibition curator Bill Horrigan, the director of the Wexner Center's media arts program, and find a complete checklist in the free brochure accompanying the exhibition, available at the Wexner Center and in a PDF version here.

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