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Interdisciplinary artist Leeza Meksin returns to Columbus to share her perspective on why focusing on a specific medium is overrated.
What is an artist’s role in society? How does the answer to that question change if artists have permission to use multiple types of media and expand their work to include curating and teaching? Meksin, whose artistic practice combines painting, installation, drawing, and public art, considers the possibilities while highlighting an important aspect of her process, “darting in directionless abundance.” A Q&A follows the talk.
Diversities in Practice is a collaboration between Ohio State’s Wexner Center for the Arts, Department of Art, and Living Culture Initiative. This series includes talks and moderated discussions featuring a range of artists, thinkers, and practitioners engaged in compelling and critical work, centering projects that examine, shape, and push both material and ideological boundaries.
Leeza Meksin's Peeled Turrets, photo: Julia Featheringill.
Leeza Meksin, photo: Claire Britt.
Pages from Leeza Meksin's book Turret Tops and Before, courtesy of Space Sisters Press.
Artwork by Leeza Meksin, photo: David Todd.
Leeza Meksin's Boobies on a Half Shell posters, courtesy of Space Sisters Press.
New York–based artist Leeza Meksin was born in the former Soviet Union and, in 1989, immigrated to the United States, where Columbus, Ohio, became her family’s new home. Her work investigates parallels between our bodies and the conventions of painting and architecture through site-specific installations. Meksin is cofounder of Ortega y Gasset Projects, an artist-run gallery in Brooklyn that she continues to codirect. She received an MFA from Yale School of Art in New Haven, Connecticut; a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; and a BA/MA in Comparative Literature from the University of Chicago. She teaches at Cornell University in the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning. Learn more on her website.
Cosponsored by Ohio State’s Department of Art Visiting Artists Program.
LEARNING & PUBLIC PRACTICE PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BYAmerican Electric Power Foundation CoverMyMeds Huntington Martha Holden Jennings Foundation Big Lots Foundation ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY Ingram-White Castle Foundation The Ohio State University Office of Outreach & Engagement Ohio Arts Council Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation WEXNER CENTER PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY Ohio Department of DevelopmentGreater Columbus Arts Council The Wexner Family Institute of Museum and Library Services Ohio Arts Council, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts CampusParc Ohio State’s Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme The Columbus Foundation Nationwide Foundation Vorys, Sater, Seymour, and Pease ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY Mike and Paige Crane Axium Packaging Nancy Kramer Ohio State Energy Partners Ohio History Fund/Ohio History Connection Larry and Donna James David Crane and Elizabeth Dang Bruce and Joy Soll Rebecca Perry Damsen and Ben Towle Jones Day Alex and Renée Shumate
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