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Fall 2025 Exhibitions Opening Celebration

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Join us for a night of visual art, insight, and discovery. All ages and experience levels welcome—come curious, leave inspired.

Explore contemporary abstract art through an expansive 40-year survey of Turner Prize–winner Veronica Ryan’s work along with new exhibitions of recent work by Eric N. Mack and Nanette Carter. You’ll experience their innovative use of materials from fabric and Mylar to seeds and packaging and discover the stories behind their work—including new Wex commissions—in a conversation with the artists. Throughout the evening, you’ll encounter key themes to consider, including identity and memory, migration, the Black experience, political upheaval, fashion, architecture, and more.  

In addition, in The Box, experience Mimi Ọnụọha’s video Us, Aggregated, 3.0, which challenges the idea of a singular, unified “us” and raises important questions about technology and who holds the power to decide how we are categorized.

The reception begins at 5 PM. At 5:30 PM, everyone is invited to the Film/Video Theater for an accessible and engaging conversation with Carter, Mack, and Ryan moderated by Ohio State Associate Professor of Art History Sampada Aranke. The exhibitions will open to the public after the talk.

Connect with creative people who help shape today’s art world, enjoy refreshments, and immerse yourself in a vibrant atmosphere of artistic discovery.

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More about the artists and speakers

Nanette Carter

Nanette Carter (b. 1954, Columbus, Ohio) has exhibited her work nationally and internationally since the mid-1970s. Carter earned her MFA from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, in 1978 and recently retired after 20 years of teaching there. She has received many grants, fellowships, and awards, including the Anonymous Was a Woman award. Carter’s work has been featured in exhibitions such as African-American Artists & Abstraction (2014) in Havana, Cuba, and Magnetic Fields: Expanding American Abstraction, 1960s to Today (2017). Her work is in numerous public collections, including Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York; and Studio Museum in Harlem, New York. Her solo exhibition Nanette Carter: A Question of Balance (2025) was on view at the Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey. Learn more about the artist.

Eric N. Mack

Eric N. Mack (b. 1987, Columbia, Maryland) attended The Cooper Union, New York, (BFA) and Yale University, Connecticut, (MFA) and is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards and residencies. His institutional one-person exhibitions include Scampolo!, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin (2022); Lemme walk across the room, Brooklyn Museum, New York (2019) and NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, Florida (2021); In austerity, stripped from its support and worn as a sarong, The Power Station, Dallas, Texas (2019); and Vogue Fabrics, Albright–Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York (2017). A one-person exhibition of Mack’s work will open at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, in September 2025. Learn more about the artist.

Veronica Ryan

Veronica Ryan (b. 1956, Plymouth, Montserrat) lives and works in both New York City and Bristol, UK. She has been designated an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) and RA (Royal Academy of Arts). In 2022, she was awarded Tate museum’s Turner Prize, one of the most prestigious visual arts awards in the UK, and included in the Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Learn more about the artist.

Program Support

Nanette Carter: Sentinels is organized by the Wexner Center for the Arts and curated by Rebecca Lowery, curator of exhibitions.

Veronica Ryan: Unruly Objects is coorganized by the Pulitzer Arts Foundation and the Wexner Center for the Arts. The exhibition is curated by Tamara H. Schenkenberg, former curator, with Molly Moog, curatorial assistant, Pulitzer Arts Foundation.

Eric N. Mack: All the Oohs and Aahs is organized by the Wexner Center for the Arts and curated by Julieta González, head of Visual Arts.

NANETTE CARTER'S PRESENTATION IS MADE POSSIBLE BY

Larry and Donna James

WEXNER CENTER PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY

Greater Columbus Arts Council

The Wexner Family

Ohio Arts Council, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts

CampusParc

The Columbus Foundation

Every Page Foundation

Mellon Foundation

Axium Packaging

Nationwide Foundation

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY

Joyce Shenk

Lachelle Thigpen

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