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15/9/2006

Three exhibitions

Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus

Frank Stella 1958

Twice Untitled and Other Pictures (looking back)
Louise Lawler's influential work

Shiny
culture's love of luxury, spectacle, shiny things, and our own reflections

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Twice Untitled and Other Pictures (looking back)
The Wexner Center is proud to present the first U.S. museum survey of Louise Lawler's influential work.

Through a career that spans more than three decades, Louise Lawler has persistently questioned the meaning of artworks and perceptively revealed how that meaning changes in the different contexts of collectors' homes, auction houses, commercial galleries, and museums. In this show you can investigate Lawler's creative output from the 1970s through the present, including new photographs taken at the Wexner Center in 2005. In addition to the photographs for which Lawler is best known, the exhibition includes examples of the objects such as paperweights, postcards, and etched glasses that are also part of her witty and thought-provoking oeuvre.


Organized by the Wexner Center and curated by Chief Curator of Exhibitions Helen Molesworth.

A catalogue designed by 2 x 4 and distributed by MIT Press accompanies the show, with essays by Molesworth, independent scholar Rosalyn Deutsche, and Ann Goldstein, senior curator at The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, as well as a foreword by Wexner Center Director Sherri Geldin.

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Shiny

The exuberant exhibition Shiny, featuring 13 (literally) shiny works by nine artists, opens this fall at the Wexner Center. Shiny offers a playful and insightful look at the culture’s love of luxury, love of spectacle, and, of course, love of shiny things. Organized by the Wexner Center, it will be on view September 16-December 31, 2006.Showcasing the work of mostly younger artists from the U.S. and Europe working in a variety of media, Shiny features pieces with reflective, shiny, mirrored, sparkly surfaces, many of them produced in the last five years. Some of the work is made of metal and mirrors, offering the viewers twisted and contorted glimpses of themselves and the galleries.

The artists in the show are Jeff Koons, Andy Warhol, Mai-Thu Perret, Kelley Walker, Rachel Harrison, Josiah McElheny (whose chandelier project representing the Big Bang was on view here in the fall of 2005), Louise Lawler (also featured in a concurrent retrospective in two other Wexner Center galleries), Michael Minelli (creating commissioned sculptural pieces for this show), and Jim Hodges (including a new work).

Notes Chief Curator of Exhibitions Helen Molesworth, who curated this show, “Shiny is a look at our culture’s affection for bling and spectacle. Both humorous and critical, this show offers a glimpse into how our expectations are both reflected and refracted in art."

The exhibition also creates a vertiginous experience when set within the Wexner Center’s distinctive architecture. The reflection of the landmark Peter Eisenman building will be doubled and redoubled in the reflective surfaces of the work, extending the exhibition experience from the floors to the rafters.

A few highlights:

Andy Warhol’s Silver Clouds, a batch of helium-filled floating silver balloons that gently bob and weave with the air currents within the gallery

Jeff Koons’s Balloon Dog, a 15-by-10-foot blue stainless steel sculpture of a children’s party balloon

Mai-Thu Perret’s Little Planetary Harmony, a gigantic sculpture of a teapot that’s large enough for gallery-goers to enter and explore the interior, which contains modernist paintings by Perret

Louise Lawler’s photograph of a Jeff Koons work (tying this show back to the Lawler show in the nearby galleries) An illustrated brochure will accompany the exhibition.

Image: Jeff Koons, Balloon Dog, 1994-2001 (1)

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Frank Stella 1958

Sat, Sep 16 - Sun, Dec 31, 2006
Wexner Center Galleries

"A vivid back story for a Stella legend."-NEW YORK TIMES

Experience a turning point in modern painting and the early career of influential postwar artist Frank Stella. Focusing exclusively on a single year, 1958, this exhibition brings together almost 20 monumental canvases created during a seminal, experimental year for the young artist, then just out of college. With their surprisingly radiant, expressive fields of color and brushstroke stripes, the paintings of 1958 preceded the stark, more rigid black paintings that Stella produced the next year and that won him fame for their radical departure from abstract expressionism. This exhibition brings most of these surprising and historically neglected works together for the first time.

Organized by the Harvard University Art Museums and curated by Harry Cooper, Curator of Modern Art, Fogg Art Museum, and Megan R. Luke, Ph.D. candidate, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University.

The Wexner Center is the final venue for this show, which originated at Harvard's Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and also traveled to The Menil Collection in Houston. A catalogue published by the Harvard University Art Museums and Yale University Press accompanies the show.


RELATED EVENT
Art and Ideas Gallery Talk
Harry Cooper on Frank Stella 1958
Tue, Oct 3, 2006 | 1:00PM

Come back to the galleries on October 3 for a gallery talk with Harry Cooper, cocurator of Frank Stella 1958. Cooper is Curator of Modern Art at Harvard University's Fogg Art Museum.

Wexner Center for the Arts
The Ohio State University 1871 North High Street Columbus, Ohio 43210-1393
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Mon Closed
Tue-Wed, Sun 11 am-6 pm
Thu-Sat 11 am-8 pm

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