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Featured Artist: Jake Holler

by | Jun 11, 2018 | Acupuncture Columbus

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.

Kelly Reichert painting exhibition

by | Sep 19, 2017 | Art, Community

 

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.