Current Exhibitions
Kojo: Fifty Years in Photography
June 5, 2009 - October 4, 2009
Ohio Art League
June 5 - October 4, 2009
Kleibacker's CLASS ACT: Storied Designers/Women of Note
April 23 - July 5, 2009
George Tooker: A Retrospective
May 1 - September 6, 2009
The Architecture of Painting: Charles Burchfield, 1920
May 22 - August 2, 2009
Eye Spy: Adventures in Art
Ongoing
Kojo: Fifty Years in Photography
June 5 - October 4, 2009
To celebrate Kojo Kamau's seventieth birthday year, CMA brings you Kojo: Fifty Years in Photography. Throughout his life, Kojo Kamau has made major contributions to the vitality of the arts in Columbus. He is a community treasure and has been influential in supporting arts and artists in Columbus since the 1960s.
Kojo: Fifty Years in Photography includes more than sixty photographs, both color and black and white, reflecting Kojo's five decade working the medium. The exhibition addresses themes that run throughout the photographer's career such as community, travels, portraits of local and international artists and musicians, and political and social issues.
Ohio Art League
June 5 - October 4, 2009
Ohio Art League (OAL), the state's premier organization serving artists working in any visual medium, will celebrate its hundredth anniversary in 2009. OAL boasts a membership of more than six hundred artists and hundreds more enthusiasts. Special exhibitions and events are planned with community partners to honor OAL's longtime and ongoing commitment to the visual arts in central Ohio and across the state.
The Columbus Museum of Art will celebrate OAL's centennial with a CMA collection salute to some of OAL's most famous artists some of whom include George Bellows, Alice Schille, Emerson Burkhart, Sidney Chafetz, Ann Hamilton, and Roy Lichtenstein. The collection salute will be accompanied by a Guide by Cell tour voiced by OAL members. More than seventy major, annual, juried OAL exhibitions have been held at the Museum.
Kleibacker's CLASS ACT: Storied Designers/Women of Note
April 23 - July 5, 2009
Organized by Charles Kleibacker, a world renowned fashion designer and the Museum's adjunct curator of design, the exhibition displays clothing worn by women of influence. These inspirational women recognized and recognize the innovative style and elegance of beautiful clothes. CLASS ACT will include a biography and photograph of the women along with one of the designer garments that they have worn. Some of the women being showcased include: Brooke Astor, Nan Kempner, Isabel Nash Eberstadt, Nancy Reagan, Pamela Harriman, and Happy Rockefeller, as well as garments from designers such as Giorgio Armani, Chanel, Christian Dior, Galanos, Norman Norell, and Gianni Versace. Most of the clothes are from the Historic Costume/Textiles Collection at The Ohio State University, Geraldine Schottenstein Wing.
George Tooker: A Retrospective
May 1 - September 6, 2009
George Tooker: A Retrospective will bring together approximately sixty paintings and drawings, including several of Tooker's best-known works such as The Subway (1950; Whitney Museum of American Art), Government Bureau (1956; Metropolitan Museum of Art), The Waiting Room (1959; Smithsonian American Art Museum) and Ward (1970-71; private collection). This exhibition will introduce new audiences to Tooker's hauntingly beautiful and unforgettable imagery. It will reveal the extraordinary range and depth of Tooker's art to scholars and artists who may only be familiar with paintings such as The Subway.
Watch part 1 of a three-part video series covering George Tooker's life and art:
Click here to view parts 2 and 3 of the video on the Web.
The Architecture of Painting: Charles Burchfield, 1920
May 22 - August 2, 2009
The Architecture of Painting: Charles Burchfield, 1920 is being organized by the Columbus Museum of Art in partnership with the Burchfield-Penny Art Center and DC Moore Gallery, which represents the Charles Burchfield Foundation. The exhibition is the first to consider the importance of a body of related paintings created by Burchfield between 1918 and 1920 that depict stark houses and views of industrial landscapes. Distinguished by their austere architecture, the works employ hallmarks of modernist pictorial strategies, such as flattened space, frontality, and reductive simplicity.
Eye Spy: Adventures in Art
Ongoing
Eye Spy, an interactive exhibition for children and families, features important objects from the Museum's collections displayed in architectural settings that relate to the time and place they were made. The center features four areas where, through a variety of games, puzzles, computer stations, and "make and take" art projects, visitors take a behind-the-scenes look at museums, learn about the carvings of Elijah Pierce, and the life and art of George Bellows.
