Columbus Spotlight Weekend (10/4–10/6)

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As part of the 2024 Biennial, FotoFocus features Participating Venues in Spotlight Weekends: Opportunities to visit multiple Venues within specific geographic locations where artists and curators are more likely to be on site for talks, tours, special events, and featured programming. This is an opportunity to immerse yourself in the vibrant energy of the FotoFocus Biennial and map out a plan to get to as many Venues as possible.

Featured here: Columbus; Friday, October 4 – Sunday, October 6, 2024

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Sometimes you need to get out of town to see something fresh. And sometimes, that can mean just a short ride up I-71. If you’ve got the itch to get out of town, you’re in luck—FotoFocus has a road trip to Columbus mapped out that allows you to delve into a fascinating array of photography and lens-based Biennial exhibitions. View the Columbus Spotlight Itinerary as a PDF.

EVENTS THIS WEEKEND, OCTOBER 4 – 6, AT OUR COLUMBUS VENUES

ROY G BIV Gallery
October 5, 11:45am–12:30pm
Gallery Tour of ImageOhio: Undercurrents with Amy Schuessler, Executive Gallery Director

Columbus Museum of Art
October 5, 12–1:30pm
Curators’ Conversation on Ming Smith: One Artist, Three Venues
This program is free with registration.
Everyone is welcome to attend virtually at no cost—simply tune in at the event time.

October 5, 2–3pm
Gallery Tours for Fragments of Epic Memory, Ming Smith: August Moon, and Ming Smith: Transcendence.

Left: Sandra Brewster, Feeding Trafalgar Square, 2021. Photo-transfer on wood. Courtesy of Art Gallery of Ontario: Commission, with funds from the Women’s Art Initiative; Middle: Ming Smith, Cook and Duke, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from August Wilson Series, 1991. Archival pigment print. Courtesy of the artist; Right: Ming Smith, Pink Horse, n.d. Archival pigment print. Courtesy of the artist

Columbus College of Art & Design: Beeler Gallery
October 5, 3:15–4pm
Gallery Tour of I Was Here with Dee Miller, Professor and Chair of Photography

German Village Society
October 5, 5–6pm
Opening Reception for Tony Mendoza: Short Stories

Tony Mendoza, Dog Ant, 1990–2000s. Silver gelatin and archival inkjet, 11 x 14 inches. Courtesy of the artist

ALL COLUMBUS PARTICIPATING VENUES

*Please check regular venue hours before planning your visit.

Columbus College of Art & Design: Beeler Gallery (60 Cleveland Ave, Columbus, OH)
I Was Here

Columbus Museum of Art (480 East Broad Street, Columbus, OH)
Ming Smith: Transcendence
Ming Smith: August Moon
Fragments of Epic Memory

German Village Society (588 S 3rd St, Columbus, OH)
Tony Mendoza: Short Stories

The Gund at Kenyon College (101½ College Dr, Mount Vernon, OH)
Ming Smith: Jazz Requiem—Notations in Blue

Left: Ming Smith, Time Out at the Louvre (Painted), 1973. Pigment print on dibond, 60 x 48 inches. Courtesy of Ming Smith Studios and The Gund at Kenyon College; Middle: Ming Smith, David Murray in the Wings (Padova, Italy), 1978. Archival pigment, 77 x 54 inches. Courtesy of Ming Smith Studios and The Gund at Kenyon College; Right: Ming Smith, Judith Jamison, 1981. Archival pigment, 36 x 24 inches. Courtesy of Ming Smith Studios and The Gund at Kenyon College

ROY G BIV Gallery (435 W Rich St, Columbus, OH)
ImageOhio: Undercurrents

Wexner Center for the Arts (1871 N High St, Columbus, OH)
Ming Smith: Wind Chime
Rotimi Fani-Kayode: Tranquility of Communion
Unorthodocs

Left: [Unorthodocs graphic]. Courtesy of the Wexner Center for the Arts; Middle: Ming Smith, Dakar Roadside with Figures, 1972. Archival pigment print, 24 x 36 inches. Courtesy of Ming Smith Studio; Right: Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Four Twins, 1985. Gelatin silver print, 9 x 13⅞ inches. Courtesy of Autograph, ABP London