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Collection Highlights
Featured Exhibition
New Encounters: Reframing the Contemporary Collection at Columbus Museum of Art
Lesley Vance: always circled whirling
ON VIEW
Lesley Vance: always circled whirling marked Vance’s first solo exhibition in a public institution. The Los Angeles-based artist is renowned for her swirling, interwoven forms that simultaneously captivate and challenge the viewer’s perception. For years, Vance has drawn inspiration from modernist masters such as Charles Demuth, Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, and Georgia O’Keeffe.
APRIL 21 – SEPTEMBER 3, 2023
John Claude White, Kampa Dzong, Tibet , 1904. Gelatin silver print.
Charles Sheeler, Lhasa , 1916. Oil on canvas. Gift of Ferdinand Howald.
Lesley Vance, Untitled , 2023, Oil on linen. Courtesy of the artist.
One of the most rewarding aspects of my role is finding innovative ways to connect our collection with the community. A few months into my new role at CMA, I set out to reinstall our contemporary collection. In December 2023, we opened New Encounters: Reframing the Contemporary Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art , the first comprehensive reinstallation of our upper level galleries since the opening of the Margaret M. Walter Wing in fall 2015. With over 100 works by 68 artists from the 1940s to the present, New Encounters presents our collection in an entirely new light. While researching this project, I was delighted to find important works in the collection that had not been on view in recent years, or ever before. These treasures are installed in new thematic groupings that pair postwar art with contemporary works, a reflection of the intergenerational dialogues that continue to shape the art of our time.
This project has been an invaluable part of my journey at the museum, deepening my understanding of our collection and enhancing its relevance to our growing community. Last spring, following a fruitful collaboration on New Encounters , we were delighted to welcome Daniel Marcus as our Curator of Collections and Exhibitions. Daniel, who re-joined CMA from The Wexner Center for the Arts, was our first Roy Lichtenstein Curatorial Fellow in 2018. Daniel received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 2017 and has worked on a broad range of exhibition projects in recent years, including our successful touring exhibition Art after Stonewall , 1969–1989. ”
Artist Lesley Vance drew inspiration from our celebrated American modernist collection. The exhibition featured 27 of her paintings, including three newly commissioned works inspired by pieces from the museum’s permanent collection.
—Brooke A. Minto Executive Director & CEO
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