Past Exhibitions

Exhibition Date: Saturday, April 28, 2012 - Saturday, May 12, 2012

Reception
Saturday | April 28 | 6 to 8pm

This annual exhibition is an opportunity to sample an array of current directions in contemporary art, fresh from the studios of practicing professional artists who are completing MFA degrees in the Department of Art at The Ohio State University.  Participating artists work in Painting and Drawing, Performance, Sculpture, Photography, Ceramics, Printmaking, Art+Technology, Video, Sound, and varied combinations of these media.

Exhibition Date: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 - Saturday, April 21, 2012

Reception
Saturday | April 14 | 6 to 8pm

This annual exhibition is an opportunity to sample an array of current directions in contemporary art, fresh from the studios of practicing professional artists who are completing MFA degrees in the Department of Art at The Ohio State University.  Participating artists work in Painting and Drawing, Performance, Sculpture, Photography, Ceramics, Printmaking, Art+Technology, Video, Sound, and varied combinations of these media.

Exhibition Date: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 - Friday, March 30, 2012

Reception
Thursday | March 29 | 6 to 8pm

In co-creating this performance installation, MFA Dance candidates Fiona Lundie and Rashana Smith craft multi-sensory, interactive environments to highlight the relationship between how we gather information (perception) and how we create conceptual identities thereof (portraiture). 

Exhibition Date: Saturday, February 18, 2012 - Saturday, March 24, 2012

Reception
Saturday | February 18 | 1 to 3pm

In honor of the Columbus Bicentennial, City Center Gallery hosts its first all-Ohio juried exhibition: OHIOCENTRIC.

Exhibition Date: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 - Thursday, March 29, 2012

Reception
Thursday | March 29 | 6 to 8pm

Graduate students in the Department of Theatre investigate site specificity as a tool in the development of original theater works, created through a course taught by Professor Maureen Ryan.

Exhibition Date: Saturday, February 4, 2012 - Saturday, April 21, 2012

Reception
Thursday | February 23 | 6 to 8pm

‘Going green’ is a term that is currently used to describe a commitment to the environment and sustainability.  In this year's Arts Scholars exhibition, Arts Scholars students ask: “how do you feel about ‘green’?"  The exhibition features pieces related to environmental responsibility, or lack thereof.  Whether the work reflects being sustainable or demonstrates the wasteful behaviors of our culture, you will be intrigued by their take on ‘green.’

Exhibition Date: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 - Saturday, March 3, 2012

Reception
Saturday | January 28 | 6 to 8pm

Object /Imprint showcases the work of regional artists who expand on the contexts of object in their approach, and art category.  The conceptual aim of Object/Imprint is to exhibit artists who have transitioned from traditional art making mediums into non-traditional realms while maintaining a fixation on objects that typify those root traditions.  These works address object obsession, proliferation, memory, and value; adapting and shifting through media, idea, place, or situation in an attempt to expand their work conceptually and go beyond the object it self.

Exhibition Date: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 - Saturday, March 24, 2012

Reception
Saturday | January 28 | 6 to 8pm

On the subject of Infrastructure, author Brian Hayes writes, “the common sights of the built environment—the power lines, water tanks, street lights, manholes, traffic signals, cellular-telephone towers—that we pass by every day and yet seldom really notice... many of us would go out of our way to avoid seeing them.” (1)

Exhibition Date: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 - Saturday, February 4, 2012

Reception
Saturday | January 28 | 6pm – 8pm

In bad economic times, people have to be more creative.  An entrepreneurial spirit and thinking therefore seems to define today's generation and post-recession era, which is evident in Columbus through the thriving scenes of food trucks, pop-up stores, public art, and ever-growing local movements.  These tenets of imagination and resourcefulness lead Tim Lai and Eliza Ho of ALTernative (the creative minds behind the exhibition) to ask: how do these ideas relate to the field of design and architecture?  

Exhibition Date: Friday, January 6, 2012 - Friday, February 10, 2012

Reception
Saturday | January 28 | 6pm - 8pm

City Center Gallery launches the new year with an exhibition of large-scale paintings by local artists Stefan Hoza and Adam Johnson.  Extinguishing the myth of the "enlightened painting" is the primary focus of the two painters, allowing audience members to take in that which is presented directly.