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Fall 2022 Exhibitions Preview at Wexner Center for the Arts

Scrapbook page with a colorized photograph of two women standing in front of a car. A colorful, handwritten caption below the photo reads: “here I am in my outfit. Overalls, boots, and scarf. the bar in my hand is a dibble bar. you push it in the ground and then plant a tree in the hole it makes. the bag on my waist is for trees.
September 15, 2022
4:00PM - 7:00PM
Wexner Center for the Arts

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Add to Calendar 2022-09-15 16:00:00 2022-09-15 19:00:00 Fall 2022 Exhibitions Preview at Wexner Center for the Arts Celebrate the fall exhibitions at the Wexner Center for the Arts featuring Carlos Motta and Carol Newhouse. Carlos Motta: Your Monsters, Our Idols showcases the acclaimed Colombian-born, New York–based artist’s commitment to radical difference and exploration of LGBTQIA+ issues past and present. This largest exhibition of his work in the US to date premieres Motta’s first multichannel sound installation, The Columbus Assembly—supported by a Wexner Center Artist Residency Award. Sharing Circles: Carol Newhouse and the WomanShare Collective—the first museum exhibition of Newhouse’s photography—explores the collective life of the queer, feminist, land-based community WomanShare during the 1970s and 80s. Sharing Circles emphasizes the role of visual art, especially photography, as a tool of queer world-making. Daniel Marcus cocurated Sharing Circles: Carol Newhouse and the WomanShare Collective with Ohio State Associate Professor Carmen Winant.  *Reservations to the spotlight tours are full!  Image Credit: Carol Newhouse, page from a scrapbook for Carol's grandmother, 1974. Mixed Media. Image courtesy of artist.  Wexner Center for the Arts Department of History of Art historyofart@osu.edu America/New_York public

Celebrate the fall exhibitions at the Wexner Center for the Arts featuring Carlos Motta and Carol Newhouse.

Carlos Motta: Your Monsters, Our Idols showcases the acclaimed Colombian-born, New York–based artist’s commitment to radical difference and exploration of LGBTQIA+ issues past and present. This largest exhibition of his work in the US to date premieres Motta’s first multichannel sound installation, The Columbus Assembly—supported by a Wexner Center Artist Residency Award.

Sharing Circles: Carol Newhouse and the WomanShare Collective—the first museum exhibition of Newhouse’s photography—explores the collective life of the queer, feminist, land-based community WomanShare during the 1970s and 80s. Sharing Circles emphasizes the role of visual art, especially photography, as a tool of queer world-making.

Daniel Marcus cocurated Sharing Circles: Carol Newhouse and the WomanShare Collective with Ohio State Associate Professor Carmen Winant. 

*Reservations to the spotlight tours are full! 

Image Credit: Carol Newhouse, page from a scrapbook for Carol's grandmother, 1974. Mixed Media. Image courtesy of artist. 

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