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Faculty & Alumni Receive GCAC Awards & Exhibition

September 17, 2014

Faculty & Alumni Receive GCAC Awards & Exhibition

The 2014 Greater Columbus Arts Council (GCAC) Visual Arts Exhibition at The Columbus Museum of Art highlights the outstanding talent and ability of Columbus artists. The exhibition includes work by the recipients of the 2013 GCAC Individual Artist Fellowship Awards: Department of Art MFA Alumni Evan Dawson, Department of Art Assistant Professor Shane Mecklenburger, Shannon Benine, and Clara Crockett. Two others, Kaveri Raina and Laura Alexander, were awarded GCAC residencies in Dresden, Germany this year.

These artists represent a diverse range of practices fostered within Columbus’s artistic community. Clara Crockett’s pencil drawings of human and canine figures are both sensitive and surreal, while Shannon Benine will show her compelling, somewhat mysterious photographs of Molokai, Hawaii. In his video works, Shane Mecklenburger creates weightless fields of computer-generated diamonds, while Evan Dawson’s sculptural gestures begin with the material circumstances of daily life. Laura Alexander cuts intricate patterns into layered sheets of paper, and Kaveri Raina’s vivid abstractions are painted with materials like turmeric, chili powder and cinnamon. Each with their own niche, together these artists demonstrate the region’s vibrant artistic ecology.

Exhibition runs June 27- October 5, 2014. Visit the Columbus Musuem website for more information.