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Fall 2022 Exhibitions Preview

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Gallery space featuring a father and child holding hands and walking away from the camera.

Sep 15, 2022 5:00 PM

Wexner Center for the Arts

Free for all audiences
(RSVP requested for reception)

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Member preview | 4 PM
Galleries and Lower Lobby

Exhibition open to the public | 5 PM
Galleries

Sharing Circles tour | 5 PM
Galleries (reservations full)

Your Monsters, Our Idols tour | 6 PM
Galleries (reservations full)

Reception | 5–7 PM
Lower Lobby

ACCESSIBILITY
We strive to host inclusive, accessible events that enable all individuals, including individuals with disabilities, to engage fully. If you have questions about accessibility or require an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact Accessibility Manager Helyn Marshall at accessibility@wexarts.org or via telephone at (614) 688-3890. Requests made by two weeks in advance will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the Wexner Center for the Arts will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.

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Celebrate our fall exhibitions featuring Carlos Motta and Carol Newhouse—and get an in-depth look at the work on view through spotlight tours.

Carlos Motta: Your Monsters, Our Idols showcases the acclaimed Colombian-born, New York–based artist’s commitment to radical difference and exploration of LGBTQIA+ issues past and present. This largest exhibition of his work in the US to date premieres Motta’s first multichannel sound installation, The ~~Columbus~~ Assembly—supported by a Wexner Center Artist Residency Award.

Sharing Circles: Carol Newhouse and the WomanShare Collective—the first museum exhibition of Newhouse’s photography—explores the collective life of the queer, feminist, land-based community WomanShare during the 1970s and 80s. Sharing Circles emphasizes the role of visual art, especially photography, as a tool of queer world-making.

Explore the open galleries—and enjoy appetizers and a cash bar in the Wex Lower Lobby! Gallery spotlight tours will be offered during the preview, tracing themes of the exhibition through selected works on view. Due to limited space, reserving your spot early is encouraged.* The Sharing Circles tour will feature the exhibition’s cocurators—artist and Ohio State Associate Professor Carmen Winant and Wex Associate Curator of Exhibitions Daniel Marcus—in conversation with artist and historian Leah DeVun, and the Your Monsters, Our Idols tour will feature Motta in conversation with Wex Associate Curator of Exhibitions Lucy I. Zimmerman.

Also on view is Suzanne Silver’s Wex-supported Vanishing Acts in The Box.

*Reservations to the spotlight tours are full! Become a Wexner Center member to enjoy priority access to intimate gallery experiences like this one. Sign up at wexarts.org/join today.

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Portal For(e) the Ephemeral Passage Preview Party, photo: Kathryn D Studios.

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Carlos Motta: Your Monsters, Our Idols is organized by the Wexner Center and curated by Associate Curator of Exhibitions Lucy I. Zimmerman with Exhibition Research Assistant Indigo Gonzales Miller and Graduate Curatorial Intern Arielle Irizarry. Organizational support for the exhibition provided by P·P·O·W, New York; Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo; and mor charpentier, Paris and Bogotá.

Sharing Circles: Carol Newhouse and the WomanShare Collective is organized by the Wexner Center and cocurated by Ohio State Associate Professor and Roy Lichtenstein Chair of Studio Art Carmen Winant and Wexner Center Associate Curator of Exhibitions Daniel Marcus with Curatorial Research Assistant Raechel Root and Graduate Curatorial Intern Arielle Irizarry.

FALL EXHIBITIONS MADE POSSIBLE BY
National Endowment for the Arts

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY
Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
FotoFocus
Ohio Humanities

EXHIBITION SEASON MADE POSSIBLE BY
Bill and Sheila Lambert
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
Carol and David Aronowitz
Crane Family Foundation
Mike and Paige Crane

FREE GALLERIES MADE POSSIBLE BY
American Electric Power Foundation
Adam Flatto
Mary and C. Robert Kidder
Bill and Sheila Lambert

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY
CoverMyMeds
PNC Foundation

WEXNER CENTER PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY
Greater Columbus Arts Council
The Wexner Family
National Endowment for the Arts
Ohio Arts Council
L Brands Foundation
The Columbus Foundation
Nationwide Foundation
Institute of Museum and Library Services
Vorys, Sater, Seymour, and Pease

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY
Mike and Paige Crane
Axium Packaging
CampusParc
Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams
President Kristina M. Johnson and Mrs. Veronica Meinhard
Nancy Kramer
Larry and Donna James
Lisa Barton
Johanna DeStefano
Jones Day
Alex and Renée Shumate