After Latifa finished installing her Currents exhibition, we had a chance to sit down together and talk about her work. Our Currents: Latifah Echakhch exhibition is the first solo museum show for the Moroccan-born artist. Her project had already brought Read More…
Author Archives: Lisa Dent
Tumbleweeds and Contemporary Art
One of the greatest parts of my job is being able to get away from my desk during installation week. Besides the fact that I can wear my comfortable jeans and high tops, I watch an artist I respect and Read More…
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Free Syjuco Fabric
For Stephanie Syjuco: Pattern Migration, the artist had 5,000 meters of plastic fabric manufactured in Beijing. The fabric design was inspired by an American coverlet from CMA’s Stuck Collection of coverlets from the nineteenth-century. The exhibition perfectly dovetails with the Read More…
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Behind the Scenes: Stephanie Syjuco
A week before an exhibition opens is always an exciting time. It’s when vision becomes reality. This year, as part of our CURRENTS series with living artists, I invited Stephanie Syjuco to exhibit a new project. My hope for the Read More…
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Thank you, Contemporaries!!
This week we had the pleasure of finally receiving one of our newest acquisitions, an amazing drawing by Ahmed Alsoudani. The Contemporaries, our support and interest group that focuses on contemporary art and photography, voted to acquire the work for Read More…
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Studio Visit: 2
On Monday I had the pleasure of meeting a young artist named Danielle Julian Norton. Danielle has been working with a variety of materials that are usually found in the home (such as rice, sugar and soap) to create her Read More…
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Studio Visit
Yesterday I had the pleasure of visiting Melissa Vogley Woods’ studio. I first saw her work at the HERE and Beyond exhibition at the Riffe Gallery this Summer. Over the past several years her work has largely focused on the Read More…
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Inspiration
Some of you may have read one of the many recent stories about artist Shephard Fairey. Fairey recently admitted to lying to investigators regarding the use of an Associated Press image in his artwork and in doing so has once Read More…
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The Craft of Making Art
Next month CMA will open the fall season with the exhibition Chihuly Illuminated. Although I did not organize the exhibition, I am spending the next several weeks giving lectures about Chihuly and his life, creating educational information to use in Read More…
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The Muralist
Recently I was forwarded an email from a Columbus Dispatch reporter asking for suggestions of murals in Columbus. Being new to town, this wasn’t easy for me to answer, but I did know about something else. Keturah Bobo, my current Read More…
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