Ohio State Events

The Bad Plus

This visit is the third time the Bad Plus have played here since we offered them their first gig outside of New York City in 2002�and their expanding local following now requires a bigger hall to express their enthusiasm. The collective�featuring Reid Anderson on bass, Ethan Iverson on piano, and irrepressible drummer David King�have gained avid fans from the jazz world and attracted scores from the indie scene with the rockin' spirit that underscores their approach. Their eclectic playlist combines restlessly exploratory originals with a prescient collection of today's "standards" (as in instrumental takes on Bowie's "Life on Mars" or Tears for Fears' "Everybody Wants to Rule the World").

Mary Heilmann: To Be Someone

Sat, May 10 - Sun, Aug 3, 2008
Wexner Center Galleries

This nationally touring show is the first retrospective of work by influential New York-based painter Mary Heilmann. A pioneer of infusing abstract painting with influences from popular culture and craft traditions, Heilmann is one of the most important yet least recognized artists in the United States today.

One of the very few female abstract painters of her generation, she has nevertheless maintained a steadfast commitment to producing eccentric, engaging, visceral paintings. Featuring 75 works from the last three decades, the exhibition also explores Heilmann's interest in ceramics, decorative arts, film, and music. It is organized by the Orange County Museum of Art. The show also tours to the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, in 2008. A catalogue featuring essays by Elizabeth Armstrong, Johanna Burton, Dave Hickey, and Al Ruppersberg accompanies the exhibition.

Jeff Smith: Bone and Beyond

Sat, May 10 - Sun, Aug 3, 2008
Wexner Center Galleries

Based in Columbus, Jeff Smith is one of the country's most acclaimed and influential comic book artist/writers, best known for the epic graphic novel Bone.

In 2005, Time magazine called Bone, which Smith wrote and drew, one of the 10 greatest graphic novels of all-time. This exhibition�a partnership between the Wexner Center and Ohio State University's Cartoon Research Library�will include approximately 75 original drawings: primarily original black-and-white pages from Bone, with a smaller selection of full-color Bone covers and post-Bone work, including original drawings from Smith's recent Shazam series for DC Comics and from Rasl (forthcoming), a time-travel story.

The exhibition will also include a selection of original comics whose artists Smith cites as direct influences, among them examples from Walt Kelly's Pogo, Will Eisner's The Spirit, George Herriman's Krazy Kat, Charles Schulz's Peanuts, Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury, and E. C. Segar's Thimble Theatre. The exhibition is organized by Lucy Shelton Caswell, professor and curator of Ohio State's Cartoon Research Library, and David Filipi, the Wexner Center's curator of film and video. The catalogue features an introduction by Caswell, and essays by Filipi, Sandman creator Neil Gaiman, and cartoonist and scholar Scott McCloud.

A related show will be on view nearby in Ohio State's Cartoon Research Library (the entrance is just north of the Wexner Center's main entrance, along the sidewalk under the "grid").

Jane Hammond: Fallen

Sat, May 10 - Sun, Aug 3, 2008
Wexner Center Galleries

Now on a national tour, Jane Hammond's Fallen features a large field of colorful, handmade leaves, each inscribed with the name of a U.S. soldier killed in Iraq.

The leaves in the piece�made of paper and fabric�are based on leaves gathered by Hammond between 2004 and 2007, and the spread of leaves grows as soldiers die. Fallen was first exhibited at Galerie Lelong, New York, in 2005, and shortly after was acquired by the Whitney Museum of American Art (and is on view at the Kemper Museum in St. Louis this winter). The current iteration of Fallen includes more than 3,500 leaves; the first version opened with 1,511. The New York-based Hammond has been featured in solo and group exhibitions across the country, and her work is in public collections around the world.

The Bad Plus

"Deviously expands the possibilities of what jazz is and will become."�Paste

This visit is the third time the Bad Plus have played here since we offered them their first gig outside of New York City in 2002�and their expanding local following now requires a bigger hall to express their enthusiasm. The collective�featuring Reid Anderson on bass, Ethan Iverson on piano, and irrepressible drummer David King�have gained avid fans from the jazz world and attracted scores from the indie scene with the rockin' spirit that underscores their approach. Their eclectic playlist combines restlessly exploratory originals with a prescient collection of today's "standards" (as in instrumental takes on Bowie's "Life on Mars" or Tears for Fears' "Everybody Wants to Rule the World"). Their latest release, Prog, continues to open up fresh territory. As All Music Guide put it: "anyone who thinks jazz is dead, that the great innovators have come and gone, needs to listen to the Bad Plus to be proven dead wrong."

Master's of Fine Art: Thesis Exhibition

Thirty department of Art MFA candidates present the culminations of their two-years of research and studio work in the areas of art + technology, ceramics, glass, painting + drawing, photography, printmaking and sculpture.

Reception: Saturday, May 10 6 pm - 9 pm

Co-sponsored by the Department of Art and the College of the Arts; funded by a grant from the Efroyymson Fund, a CICF Fund by Jan and Bob Dilenschneider

Foundation Show: Department of Art and Department of Design

Works selected from the Department of Art Foundation Program courses including Beginning Drawing, Visual Studies:Two Dimensional + Three Dimensional Art and Real + Recording Time Arts and from the Department of Design Foundation Program courses including Drawing I, Technical Drawing and Design Communications I and II

Opening Reception: Monday, May 5 5 pm - 7 pm

Co-sponsored by the Departments of Art and Design

Ryan Trecartin: "I-BE AREA"

Thu, May 1 - Sat, May 31, 2008
The Box

Dazzling and raucous, Ryan Trecartin's first feature-length video takes cues from chat rooms, social networking web sites, YouTube, John Waters, and Pee-weeâ€�s Playhouse, and then turns them upside down and inside out to create an entirely singular video genre. In I-Be AREA Trecartin intertwines the stories of an incredible ensemble cast to follow a day in the life of I-BE II, the rebellious clone of I-BE (played by Trecartin).

Trecartin lives and works in Philadelphia. His work was included in the 2006 Whitney Biennial, and he has had solo exhibitions at Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York; Crane Arts, Philadelphia; and QED, Los Angeles. (108 mins., video)

Deborah Jones Merritt BookMarks Lecturer Discusses Leadership, Education

Dr. Kathryn D. Sullivan, Director of the Battelle Center for Mathematics & Science Education Policy at the John Glenn School of Public Affairs, will discuss the book Generative Leadership: Shaping New Futures for Today's Schools at the 2008 Deborah Jones Merritt BookMarks Lecture. This event is free and open to the public. Please RSVP to: http://glennschool.osu.edu/events/bookmarks.php Reception in Lou's Cafe (Room 135) immediately following the lecture.

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Mershon Center Lecture Series - Layna Mosley "Risk, Uncertainty, and Autonomy: Financial Market Constraints in Developing Nations"

Mershon Center Lecture Series - Layna Mosley
"Risk, Uncertainty, and Autonomy: Financial Market Constraints in Developing Nations"

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