Dear Wexner Center for the Arts Film/Video Department, I am writing this post for the gallery B side as an open letter to you in request that you show Wu Tsang’ 2012 short film For how we perceived a life (Take 3) as part of your online programming. Back in Fall 2013, during the visiting […]
The day after Memorial Day, twelve years ago tomorrow in 2008, the then Wexner Center educator Amanda Potter (now Curator of Education and Interpretation at the Zimmerli Art Museum) delivered a talk on Jane Hammond’s gallery B installation Fallen. At the talk, Potter spoke of how Hammond’s nationally touring installation featuring a large field of […]
At idle moments during this endless lockdown, have you ever imagined what the artworks in all those museums storage units around the world are getting up to right now? Of course, that troublemaker John Waters has. Writing on the Walker Art Center website back in 2011, he mused: Are prints, sculptures, paintings and photographs relieved […]
I can’t recall too many moving image works installed in gallery B, but even if I could, I don’t believe any could compete with the intensity of Mickalene Thomas’ 12 monitor video installation Me as Muse (2016) included the 2018 exhibition Mickalene Thomas: I Can’t See You Without Me. For the earlier (2017-2018) exhibition Trigger: […]
The Wex often creates its own moments of self-reflection, looking back on earlier exhibitions as it looks forward to the new. In September 2019, such a moment occurred when one of the center’s earliest works – The Inbetween by Carole Ann Klonarides and Michael Owen (aka MICA-TV) – was screened in The Box. To accompany […]
Chris Marker: Staring Back, curated by Bill Horrigan, may have been the best single-gallery B exhibition I have ever seen. Here are some of the Wexner Center’s own photographs of the opening, with then director Sherri Geldin. Such a memorable exhibition deserves mementos – including a catalog, postcard and front page on the calendar. Does […]
If you visit the website for Experience Columbus and go to the listing for The Wexner Center for the Arts, you will find that gallery B makes an appearance. However, now in 2020 you will be transported to the gallery as it looked back in 2011 with the above photograph of the exhibition Alexis Rockman: […]
From his initial site visit, [Jimmie Durham] was drawn to gallery B with its triangular floor plan and erratic ceiling heights, which make it simultaneously intimate and expansive. – Will/Power catalogue (1993) 11. the gallery B side is an online community fanzine for gallery B at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio. […]
