Linnea Larsdotter Mikkelä embraces duality with ‘and there I was in all my danger’
The new exhibition from the poet and visual artist opens today (Friday, June 13) at Secret Studio.
The new exhibition from the poet and visual artist opens today (Friday, June 13) at Secret Studio.
‘These are all different modes of me,’ the Columbus artist said of the abstract figures on display in ‘Beautiful Monsters,’ which will remain on view through July 2.
The Columbus artist makes a welcome return with his first solo exhibition in years, which kicks off with an opening reception at Sonnys Barbershop & Art Gallery on Saturday, June 7.
‘Seeing how Black folk have systematically attempted to salvage or save our own histories … kind of makes me feel like part of a legacy. And it makes me feel like I am doing the work that the predecessors laid out for me.’
The iconic writer and illustrator is the subject of a new retrospective show, ‘Write It Down, Draw It Out: The Comics Art of Carol Tyler,’ currently on view at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum.
For 13 months beginning in 1998, the local artist worked intensely alongside the legendary ceramicist, whose work is part of a retrospective now on display at the Columbus Museum of Art.
Discontent with the large-scale, colorful works with which she made her name, the Columbus artist hit pause, taking time away to reconsider the story she wanted to tell and the form it needed to take.
‘I think my work in this exhibition is a testament … to being who I am fully. I’m allowing my emotions to take up space without hesitation.'
The Columbus creator’s new exhibition, ‘Decomposition: Dusk Effect,’ kicks off with an opening reception at the McConnell Arts Center on Thursday, May 8.
The photographer and Columbus native, whose work is currently on display at Hammond Harkins Galleries, lives to document the interesting people with whom he crosses paths in the course of his day-to-day adventures.