99th Annual Spring Juried Exhibition

Posted on March 27, 2010 by Ohio Art League

The Ohio Art League presents member works as selected by Ron Pizzuti, internationally renowned art collector, at its 99^th Annual Spring Juried Exhibition. Hosted by the Fort Hayes Shot Tower Gallery, the exhibition includes 80 works by 53 Ohio artists, selected from a total of 247 works by 130 artists. A variety of media is represented in the exhibition including photography, glass, ceramic, oils, acrylics, paper and digital video.

The Ohio Art League is privileged to welcome Ron Pizzuti as juror, whose selections yielded a compelling and creatively diverse exhibition. Pizzuti is an internationally recognized collector of contemporary art, recognized by ArtNews as one of the “World’s 200 Top Collectors” for the past several years. He currently serves as a member of the Drawing Committee of the Whitney Museum of American Art and is a trustee of the Wexner Center Foundation. Ron was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the Columbus College of Art and Design, and is a past trustee of SITE Santa Fe Contemporary Art Museum, past chairman of the Ohio Cultural Facilities Commission and Trustee Emeritus of the Columbus Museum of Art and the Columbus Symphony.

The Ohio Art League presents two major juried exhibitions annually. These exhibitions are major cultural events in Ohio, and allow Ohio artists to showcase their work in highly visible and prestigious settings. Members of the Ohio Art League are eligible to submit two works of art in any media for consideration in each of the annual juried exhibitions.

Follow this link to read the review in the Columbus Dispatch:
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/arts/stories/2010/03/21/strong-showing.html?sid=101

Images from the opening reception and awards ceremony on April 5.

The Ohio Art League thanks our generous award sponsors for their continuing support. Five awards were given, award titles and winning work shown below:

The Pizzuti Award given to Frank Oriti for his body of work, This is Not a Life Preserver and Tuxedo Alley.

Two President’s Awards went to Janis Mars Wunderlich for her body of work and David Denniston for his painting, “Eighteen.”

The Bad Girls for Good Art Award went to Lindsay Rodgers for her pastel piece, “There are joys known only to those free spirits who realize that taking a chance now and then makes life more lyrical”

The OAL Member’s Award was given to Jody Hawk for her photos, “Empty Lot” and “Salt Set”.

“Locomotion” by Larissa Mellor

Posted on March 6, 2010 by Ohio Art League

By Tom Hubbard

Curator Nicole Langille

“I have been observing Larissa Mellor’s work throughout our tenure in the Masters of Fine Arts program at The Ohio State University.

Photo by: Tom Hubbard

I asked to curate an exhibition of her work because the compelling personal imagery, references to literature, and formal elements drew me into a unique world that is as quiet and subtle as it is complex and turbulent. Her work is a delicate in both the process of making and viewing, and I felt it would be appreciated by a viewing public.””

Artist Larissa Mellor

Larissa Mellor was sitting on the floor of her studio in the former Porteous department store in Portland Maine. It was 2004. Her studies at the Maine College of Art were almost over.

Her studio did not have windows. “I had a nice Chicago style window last year. They were great for letting in the light but I spent too much time looking out the window,” she said.

She was sorting through left over art materials, glass and tracing paper, wondering which of these materials would she use in her career. “I liked the way they came together and I’ve been working with these materials since then.” she said. She finished her MFA in painting at The Ohio State University College of the Arts last year.

Larissa drew often as a kid. She just didn’t give it up, but the Maine College of Art’s two-year foundation program allowed her to explore all media. For a major, she decided on painting. “It suited me best, and I thought I was pretty good at the time,” she said. It was also an open major that allowed freedom to explore.

She loves painting and, if she’s away from it for a couple of days, she says, “I can’t believe it.”

Personal and family history has influenced her. Her family was among the refugees from the former Yugoslavia and Rumania during World War II. Her grandmother told stories of being bombed by all sides in the war. “The bombs would drop and we would jump into the ditch,” her grandmother said. Such experiences may not be readily apparent in an artist’s work, but they are there. Larissa says, “I’ve been lucky, I have a supportive family.

“I’ve been working around similar concepts and themes for some time. I’m interested in shadows, they are ephemeral, like a tracing,” she says. Another influence is film. She is fascinated by the work of the Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami. “I’ve seen some of his films about 50 times. Every time, there’s something new. His work and my work ask you to spend some time with it,” she says.

Her work has a similar unity to it. There are departures but she is always in it. “I do a lot of work the public never sees. It’s things that get made and thrown into boxes. It’s work to get to other work,” she says.

Larissa says, “My landscape pieces are a series of panels with small figures in a vast expanse. It gives you opportunities to examine how these figures are related to the environment.

The work in the show grew out of the previous work I was making. I thought about Rorschach inkblots and combined the idea of those with imagery and processes I have been working with. These will challenge viewers to renegotiate how they look at the world.”

Upcoming OAL Member Events

Posted on March 6, 2010 by Ohio Art League

Lynda McClanahan was one of the top ten finalists in the Columbus Arts Festival 2011 Commemorative Print Competition. She will receive a cash prize and entered into the Columbus Alive! web site in January for a people’s choice vote.

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Third Eye, Curated by Ryan Walters and featuring 10 Columbus based artists
On view: January 7 – February 11, 2011
Opening Reception: Friday, January 28, 5 – 7 p.m.Location: OSU Urban Arts Space, 50 W. Town Street, Ste 130, Columbus, OH 43215

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=179985618693966#!/event.php?eid=179985618693966

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Inaugural Group Show of MFA Students at CCAD
Friday, December 10, 6 – 9 p.m.
Design Studios on Broad, 3rd Floor
Columbus, OH 43215

Eleven students from different disciplines and currently working in different media, will be showing their first semester projects in the program’s studio space.

For more info on CCAD’s new MFA program please visit: www.ccad.edu

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Safari: An Artists Journey by Tom Baillieul

October 11 – November 20, 2010
Northwood ARTSpace, Room 100
2231 N. High St., Columbus, Ohio

Artist’s reception, Friday,November 5, 2010 6-8 pm.

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Creating Completeness by Megan Burkholder

November 1 – 28, 2010 at Gallery 831

831 South Front Street, Columbus, OH, 43206

Opening Reception: Friday November 12, 6-9 p.m.

http://www.clayspace831.com/gallery.php

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Material Collections by Emily Rickard

November 6 – December 7 2010 at Wild Goose Creative

2491 Summit Street Columbus, OH 43202

http://emilyrickard.blogspot.com

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Meet the Artist: Christine Guillot Ryan

Saturday, October 23, 1 – 3 p.m.
Sean Christopher, Gallery815 N. High Street, Columbus, Ohio 43215
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Francis Schanberger

Title of Exhibition: from walking
Featuring four large scale photographs and the ever expanding Gingko Leaf Grid all done in the Vandyke brown process. The exhibition is in the Works on Paper Gallery, runs concurrently with Glen Cebulash’s show at the Triangle Gallery from October 15th (today) until November 18th.

On view: Oct. 15th – Nov. 18th, 2010
Opening: Thursday, Nov. 4th (Coincides with Glen Cebulash: Recent Work).
Where: Go to the fourth floor of building 13 on the campus of Sinclair College in downtown Dayton. The building is open 7 days a week. Sunday: 12-6pm, Monday -Thursday 9am – 9 pm, and Friday / Saturday 9am -6 pm. If you want to see Glen’s work in the Triangle gallery, the best time to see his exhibition is M – F, 9 am – 5 pm.

www.frangst.com
http://www.sinclair.edu/arts/galleries/
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Lynda McClanahan will have 18 pieces at Space237, a downtown Toledo Gallery .
Show title: “Allegories”

On view: Oct 15, 2010 – Jan. 8, 2011
Opening: Friday, October 15
6:00pm-10:00pm
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Lynda McClanahan
“Size Matters: A Celebration of Small Works”
Pennington’s Custom Art Services, 3047 Indianola Ave, Columbus, OH, 43202

Oct 2 – Dec 31
Opening Reception: Oct 2, 4 – 8:00pm
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Lynda McClanahan has been awarded a 2010 Visual Arts Fellowship by the Greater Columbus Arts Council.

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Artist Talk by Nicholas Hill, “Printmaking as Creative Process”
Sunday, August 22nd from 3:30 to 5:00 pm
Pheonix Rising Studio, 938 Parsons Ave, Columbus, OH

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Linda Gall
‘Wanton Surrender’
Rebecca Ibel Gallery/Miranova, 2 Miranova Place, Suite 150

Artist Reception: Saturday, August 28, 2010 4 – 6 pm
Show Dates: August 24 – September 30, 2010

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Columbus Artmobile
Exquisite Corpse gallery show and silent auction fundraiser
ARTillery Gallery, 1570 N High Street in the South Campus Gateway

Date: Saturday, September 25th, 5-10pm

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Bernice Koff
‘Chihuly @ the Conservatory XIV’

Fur, Fins and Feathers
Columbus Museum of Art, 480 East Broad Street, Columbus OH

Show Dates: Now through May 2011

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Tom Baillieul
‘Lone Tree Camp’
2010 Gallery in the Garden Award at Sanctuary for The Arts

Gallery in the Garden
On view: ArtAccess, 540 South Drexel Avenue, Bexley OH

Sanctuary for The Arts is a center for creativity, surrounded by the sounds of bird songs and waterfalls, where adults and serious teens have a chance to engage/rekindle their creativity in a natural, artistic and educational environment, to relax as nature and the arts inspire, to share through public exhibits.

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Allegra Angellini
‘Conjoined’
2010 Gallery in the Garden Award at Sanctuary for The Arts

On view: The Jung Haus, 59 W. 3rd Avenue, Columbus OH

Show Dates: August 14 – August 28, 2010

Sanctuary for The Arts is a center for creativity, surrounded by the sounds of bird songs and waterfalls, where adults and serious teens have a chance to engage their creativity in a natural, artistic, and educational environment, to relax as nature and the arts inspire, to share through public exhibits.

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Yart at the Mac
McConnell Arts Center, 777 Evening Street, Worthington OH

Date: August 21, 2010 – 9 am-5 pm

Worthington Area Art League, Ohio Plein Air and the McConnell Art Center are having a cooperative exhibit and sale of art. There will be artists demonstrating painting techinques as well as sculpture, pottery, and photography exhibited.

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Lynda McClanahan
Annual Fall Show
Space 237 Galleries & ClaySpace, 237 N. Michigan, Toledo OH

Piece: Ohio Red Woman

Lynda McClanahan has 18 pieces accepted into the annual Fall Show at Space 237 Galleries and ClaySpace in Toledo, Ohio.

Opening Reception: October 15, 2010 – 7-10 pm

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Jody Hawk
‘Chamber Music’

Raw Cycles Exhibit, part of the monthly Art Walk
Northside Ice and Coal Complex, 29 Summit St., Akron OH

Date: August 7, 2010

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Peggy Mintun
New Works and Old by Peggy Mintun
Image Optical, 846 North High St., Columbus OH

Reception Date: August 7, 2010 – 7 pm-10 pm
Show Dates: Now through August 28, 2010

Piece: Cocooning Under The Northern Lights, 48″ x 36″, Acrylic Mixed Media

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Lynda McClanahan
Ohio State Fair, Fine Arts Exhibition

Piece: Buckeye Necklace

Lynda McClanahan won 3rd Best of Show, Professional Division in this year’s Fine Arts Exhibition at the Ohio State Fair for her triptych, “Three Interiors.”

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Harry Wozniak
“Goodbye Columbus” Studio Liquidation Sale
Studio of Harry Wozniak, 994 Franklin Ave., Columbus OH
Web site: http://fracturedimage.org/

Date: August 28, 2010 – 6-9 pm

Columbus artist HarryWozniak is relocating his studio to Asheville, N.C. Paintings, pastels, lithograph and giclee prints will be offered during this one time liquidation sale.

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Dan Gerdeman, Stephanie Rond, Coreroc, Sharon Dorsey, Carolyn Slevodnik, Cyrus Fire, Joey Monsoon, Marina Goldshteyn
Hot As Hell
Junctionview Studios, 889 Williams Ave., Grandview OH

Show Date: August 14, 2010 – 6-10 pm

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Paul Wilbur & Malcolm J
Camelot Wine Cellars, 958 North High Street, Columbus, OH

Show Dates: August 6, 2010 – September 25, 2010

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Nicholas Hill & Jean Kirsten
International Impressions: Recent Prints by German Artist Jean Kirsten and American Artist Nicholas Hill
Art Access Gallery
Bexley, OH

Show Dates: July 9 – August 8, 2010
Included in the exhibition will be a suite of collaborative prints that the artists created in Dresden.

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OAL member, Jim Seimer and his wife Larisa, launched a website called LakeErieArt.com & OhioArtwork.com. You can now order online Larisa’s nautical jewelry and Jim’s Lake Erie & Ohio watercolor prints.

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Brent Payne
Ohio State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition
Cox Fine Arts Building

Show Dates: July 28- August 8, 2010

Piece: Conduit, oil on canvas mounted on board, 2009.

Piece: Reflections, oil on canvas mounted on board, 2010.

Contemporary Still-Life

Manifest Gallery in Cincinnati, Ohio

Show Dates: Fall, 2009

Piece: Pillow, an oil on canvas from 2008.

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Lynda McClanahan
Ohio State Fair
Cox Fine Arts Building

On view: July 28 – August 8, 2010, 9 a.m – 9 p.m.

Piece: Grandmother Holds a Mirror

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Brent Payne
Bowery Gallery 18th Annual Juried Exhibition
New York, NY

Piece: “Garlic (Ravaged)“, oil on board, 2010
Show Dates: August 3 – 21, 2010
Reception: August 5th at 5pm.

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Juan Carrera
Peppermint Candy: Showing at What the Rock?!
1194 North High Street Columbus, OH

Show Dates: June 5- June 30, 2010
Reception: Gallery Hop June 5
Peppermint Candy is a White Stripes inspired show by Juan Carrera at exploring the band’s famous 3 color aesthetic: red, white and black and their obsession with the number 3, with 3 new paintings identifying the 3 components which make-up the band: storytelling, melody and rhythm.

Piece: Peppermint Candy Rhythm

For more information about Juan Carrera please visit www.juancarrera.net

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Matt Tisdale & Renee
Carabar

Show Date: April 10, 8 p.m

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Debbie Rosenfeld
Photography Exhibit: Feanside, Rosenfeld, Weller
Mount Vernon Nazarene University, Mount Vernon, OH

Show Dates: April 19- May 2, 2010, 2-4 p.m

For more information about Debbie Rosenfeld please visit www.debbierphotography.com

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Cloudhaus
‘Soundstorm’

Shi Sha Lounge
2369 N High St.

Show Dates: April 20, 2010, 8pm -12am

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Mark Fohl
Stadtarchiv (City Archives)
Dresden, Germany

Show Dates: July- September 2010
Reception: July 5, 7 p.m

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Stephanie Rond
‘Eye Candy: New work by Stephanie Rond’

Image Optical
846 N High St
Columbus, OH 43215

Reception: Saturday, May 1, 2010, 6-10pm
Show Dates: May 1- June 30, 2010

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Debbie Rosenfeld
‘Photography Exhibit: Fearnside, Rosenfeld, Weller‘

Mount Vernon Nazerene University
800 Martinsburg Rd
Mt Vernon, OH 43050

Opening Reception: Sunday, May 2, 2010, 2- 4pm
Show Dates: April 19 – My 31, 2010

www.debbierphotography.com

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Joanne Stichweh
‘Garden of Earthly Delight’

The Ohio State University Faculty Club

Show Dates: May 14 – June 18, 2010

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Brent Payne
‘Ceres Ninth National Juried Exhibition’

Ceres Gallery
New York, NY

Piece: Hanger on display
Show Dates: May 25 – June 19, 2010

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Krista Birnbaum and Rachel Heberling
‘Emerge/Return’

Opening Reception: Saturday, April 3rd, 7-10pm
Show Dates: April 3- 24, 2010
Artists’ Talk: Saturday, April 24th, 2:30pm
Location: ROY G BIV Gallery in the Short North

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Ginny Baughman

New mural on display at COSI

You can find more information about the mural here.

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Amy Neiwirth
‘Snacktacular’

New Works & Old Favorites by Amy Neiwirth
Wholly Craft
3169 N High St Columbus, OH
614 – 477- 3445

Opening Reception: Thursday, April 8, 7 – 9pm
On view: Friday, April 30 – May 31, 2010

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George Leach
His solo show will be on view at Sharon Weiss Gallery,
Short North Arts District, Columbus, OH

On view: Friday, April 30 – May 31, 2010

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Lynda McClanahan
‘Celebrating Twenty Years, Part One’

Jung Haus Gallery, 59 West Third Ave in the Short North.

On view: March 13 – April 24, 2010.

This exhibit kicks off the celebration of twenty years of exhibitions by the Jung Association of Central Ohio. Over 25 artists will participate, each of whom have exhibited work in the various shows since 1990. The first of the exhibits, Part One, will have 10 artists showing work in such media as photography, fiber, digital work, watercolor, acrylic and oil.
www.jungcentralohio.org/Gallery.html

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Charlie Kearns
‘Public Hangings’

You can find more information on the show here
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Deb and Tom Baillieul
‘We Shine’

The First Unitarian Universalist Church
93 W Weisheimer Rd, Columbus

Show Dates: March 3- May 2,2010

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Deb and Tom Baillieul
‘Harbingers’

Northwood Arts Space; Room 100
2231 North High Street, Columbus

Opening Reception: March 6th, 5:30-8pm
Show Dates: February 21- March 31, 2010

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Tom Baillieul
‘Alleys and Byways’

Shremshock Gallery
6130 South Sunbury Road, Westerville

Show Dates: runs till April 10, 2010

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Deb and Tom Baillieul
‘Escape’

Camelot Cellars and Gallery
958 North High Street, Columbus

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Lynda McClanahan
‘Searching For God’

The Wayne and Geraldine Kuhn Fine Arts Gallery
1465 Mount Vernon Avenue
Marion, OH 43302

Show Dates: February 17-March 18, 2010

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Melissa Vogley-Woods
‘Open House’

Mastul e.V.
liebenwalderstrasse 33
13347 Berlin-Wedding
Germany

Opening: March 26, 2010 8pm

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Melissa Vogley-Woods
“Verlassene Nachbarschaft” Neighborhood Gone’

Kunsthaus Raskolikow e.V. Galerie Dresden Germany

Opening Reception: March 31, 2010, 8pm
Show Dates: April 1-May, 2010

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Great Columbus Arts Council: Front Row Center
Check out GCAC’s Front Row Center March Edition featuring articles about several OAL artists including:

You can access all articles here.

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Nicholas Hill
‘The Dresden Journals’

Dublin Arts Council Gallery

Opening Reception: Tuesday, March 9 6-8pm
Show Dates: March 9- April 23, 2010

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Bethany Jozwiak Butler
Bethany has two hand painted guitars on display in the The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. The show will be on display through the spring.

http://gibson.com/Cleveland-Rocks/VISUAL-ARTISTS/

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James Young
‘The American Farm’ new works in oil