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Featured Artist: Jake Holler

Jake Holler is a multidisciplinary artist from Columbus, Ohio. His practices interweave oral histories, duration of time, screen printing, graphic design, existentialism, history, social justice, performance and film. He received his BFA in 2012 from Columbus College of Art and Design with a focus in art history and traditional oil painting techniques. As a part time job, Jake works as an Art Handler, but after hours he can be found nesting in his studio space at Corrugate Collective, located on 5th Ave.

Jake is invested in artist-driven arts spaces. In 2014, he and close friends founded MINT Collective. Mint Collective shut its doors in 2017, but it still exists as a mobile arts collective which works collaboratively with similar-minded spaces to disrupt conventional normatively through arts discourse.  He moved to Corrugate Contemporary in 2017, using his skills as an art handler to improve the gallery, and program art shows.

Jake’s paintings can be seen at the upscale boutiques, Kiln, and The Sunroom. His newest work, Blue Chair: Furniture paintings for furnished houses has been on display at Kiln since early April. When he has free time, it goes to skateboarding, which he has been doing since the 7th grade, and going on long walks around Wayne County with his best bud, Gertrude, his wrinkly old Boston Terrier.

In 2016 and 2017 he was awarded resource grants through GCAC for his project, PZPS (Public Zoning Public Space), and Blue Chair: furniture paintings for furnished houses.

Featured Artists

Not-So-Fearsome Critters

Jonathan Juravich with Josie Juravich

 

I have lived a life punctuated with experiences with trees and investigations into forests.  Growing up in the woods of Western Pennsylvania, I became enamored with the different shapes, forms, and colors of the vegetation around me, as well as the adventures that could be had running along tree-covered trails.

I wanted to bring this fascination of the outdoors to my four-year-old daughter Josie.  Together we have taken hikes, hugged trees in local metro parks, and began a series of collaborative works exploring the magic of the forest.  One evening I started sharing with her stories from lumberjack folklore.  These tales explored the Fearsome Critters, a group of magical animals that were said to have inhabited North American timberlands.  These animals took on new life and personality as seen through the eyes of an enthusiastic four-year-old.

 

Jonathan Juravich is the 2018 Ohio Teacher of the Year and is one of four finalists for National Teacher of the Year.  He teaches visual art at Liberty Tree Elementary in Powell, Ohio, where he also oversees the Building’s Culture and Environment.  Jonathan is an active member and leader in the Ohio Art Education Association, and develops programming for the Columbus Zoo and the Columbus Arts Festival.

Josie Juravich is 4 ½ years old and is an avid collector of sticks, rocks, and mulch.  She is excited to be a kindergartner at Clinton Elementary this coming fall, and plans to be an Artist Princess when she grows up.

Print Exhibition: David Stichweh

 

ARTIST STATEMENT- David Stichweh

 

The photographs in the exhibition are weeds and faded flowers photographed on a light box.  Why focus on weeds and faded flowers – plant forms we mostly ignore and discard?  Because once we truly “see” them we discover the beauty of shape, line, pattern, movement.  The photographs focus attention on these visual elements and gives voice  to the unique forms and structures of  these often overlooked subjects, and hint at the forces which shaped them.

 

 

ABOUT THE ARTIST

 

I taught photography in the Art Department at Otterbein University for thirty years retiring in December, 2009.  I have a Bachelor of Arts from Otterbein, A Master of Divinity from United Theological Seminary, and a Master of Fine Arts from Rochester Institute of Technology.

Kelly Reichert painting exhibition

 

Kelly Reichert

fellowship + solitude

 

Artist bio

A Worthington native and Columbus resident, Kelly Reichert is a contemporary artist working in acrylics and mixed media.  Kelly studied art as a young person, taking classes in all media.  She graduated with a BA in Visual Arts from Otterbein University.  Currently working as a painter, she has shown locally since college, and is known for bright color, dynamic drawing, and the shimmer of metallics in her work.

 

Artist statement

As an artist, my work is an expression of the inner life.  I rely mostly on observation translated by my imagination into images that reflect the human experience of relating.  This particular series speaks to the push/pull of aloneness vs. communion.  I am interested in the moments of solitude in which we think, dream, pray, reflect and process the world around us.  This is in contrast with our times of togetherness where we are in fellowship with others; sharing and celebrating, encouraging and uplifting, as well as discussing and disagreeing.  All of these are a part of our lives, and some moments give us energy while some tend to drain us.

I approach my work much as children do, with a basic idea, then let the medium dictate the process.  I am propelled by the relationship of color to light, and the reflection of light on surfaces.  I allow color to create the atmosphere, and to personify the objects.