Wexner Center to present summer art exhibitions by residency award recipients
Two solo exhibitions addressing climate, environment and cross-generational identity are to run through much of the summer at the Wexner Center at The Ohio State University.
Jonas N.T. Becker's "A Hole is Not a Void" and Tanya Lukin Linklater's "Inner blades of grass (soft) inner blades of grass (cured) inner blades of grass (bruised by the weather)," both artists' largest exhibitions to date, are to be displayed in the Wexner Center galleries from June 1-Aug. 21.
A public preview from 5-8 p.m. May 31 offers light hors d’oeuvres, a DJ, cash bar, food trucks, open galleries and a conversation with Becker at 5:15 p.m.
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Becker and Lukin Linklater are recipients of Wexner Center Artist Residency Awards, which recognize artists in film/video, learning and public practice, performing and visual arts. Becker received $45,000 and Lukin Linklater received $25,000.
Becker's "A Hole is Not a Void" features photography, video, sculpture and installations focusing on land, labor and extraction, connecting their experiences as a native of Appalachia to broader issues of environmental injustice and inequity.
The exhibition is to include the premiere of Becker's short film "Class Struggle." Created with support from the Wexner Center Film/Video Studio, the film explores generational transmission of political beliefs. Also, Becker’s 2018 short film, "Holographic Mountain," is to be shown in The Box through Aug. 31.
Sugpiaq artist-writer Lukin Linklater's "Inner blades of grass" features immersive visual and performance art and a Wexner-commissioned project inspired by her visit to Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks in Newark.
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Other new works of Lukin Linklater's allude to Indigenous art lineages and ancestral belongings and examine how weather organizes communities and environments.
At the exhibition’s opening and closing, visitors can experience a multiday series of improvisational open rehearsals with dance artists in the galleries, culminating in a gathering of Indigenous artists, musicians, poets and performers in August.
This article originally appeared on The Columbus Dispatch: Wexner Center to host two summer solo exhibitions June 1-Aug. 21
