January 2024 Exhibitions

Columbus Museum of Art at the Pizzuti | 632 Park St.

The Columbus Museum of Art proudly presents “In All Directions” by Sarah Rosalena (b. 1982, Los Angeles, USA) and Alison Saar’s Nocturne Navigator during the January Gallery Hop. 

Rosalena’s artworks fuse the materiality of traditional and indigenous craft techniques with emerging technologies to produce objects that break boundaries and borders imposed by colonialization. Her hybrid forms of ceramic, textile, and beadwork examine the geo-political effects of climate change, dispossession, and extractive economies through anti-colonial and feminist perspectives. Through her art, indigenous and craft technologies open new knowledge between the ancient and the futuristic, the human and nonhuman, handmade and autonomous. 

The title of the exhibition, “In All Directions,” at once signals the irrelevance of the compass points in the expansiveness of the universe and the potential held in multi-cosmologies, temporalities, and the infinite that could help us rewrite the narratives of the past and imagine different futures that break the binary structures rooted in “discovery.”

“In All Directions” includes several major bodies of work, such as “Transposing a Form” (2020), “Above Below” (2020), “Standard Candle” (2021–2023), and “Pointing Star” (2023), as well as new textiles and sculptures created for presentation at the CMA.

Alison Saar’s monumental sculpture Nocturne Navigator, an iconic work from the Museum’s permanent collection is featured on the third floor of The Pizzuti. Nocturne Navigator commemorates the Underground Railroad, a network of secret pathways and safe houses by which slaves of African descent could find their way north to the relative liberty of the free states and Canada. The figure’s billowing skirt shows the constellations of stars that would help guide the fugitives on their nighttime journey, while the figure’s heavenward gaze and outstretched arms suggest a mix of prayer, gratitude, and anguish.

Columbus Museum of Art at The Pizzuti’s January Gallery Hop hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Marcia Evans Gallery | 8 E. Lincoln St.

Stop by Marcia Evans Gallery during the January Gallery Hop to witness artist Robie Benve’s solo exhibition of landscapes and city scenes with an artist reception from 2 to 5 p.m. “Awaken” is a collection of mixed media landscape paintings that employs a distinctive technique combining acrylics, inks, and paper on canvas or wood.

Marcia Evans Gallery’s January Gallery Hop hours are 12 to 8 p.m.

Sean Christopher Gallery Ohio | 815 N. High St. Ste. H

Sean Christopher Gallery invites guests for a Mid-Exhibition Reception and Artist Talk featuring Black Mountain by Kayla Suzanne Holdgreve. Reception is on Saturday, January 6, from 4-8 p.m., with an Artist Talk at 6 p.m.. This solo photography exhibition runs through January 27, 2024.

Sean Christopher Gallery Ohio’s January Gallery Hop hours are 4 to 8 p.m.

Sharon Weiss Gallery | 20 E Lincoln St.

During the January Gallery Hop, Sharon Weiss Gallery presents “Salon Show Featuring New Works by Gallery Artists” through January 28.

Sharon Weiss Gallery’s January Gallery Hop hours are from 1 to 8 p.m.

The Little Blue House by Sharon Weiss Gallery | 24 E Lincoln St.

For the January Gallery Hop, The Little Blue House will host exhibitions in its two distinctive spaces, Gallery II and 24 Lincoln Street Art Studios. Gallery II will feature work from the Women Artists of Sharon Weiss Gallery. 24 Lincoln Street Art Studios will feature new work from the Studio Artists.

The Little Blue House’s January Gallery Hop hours are from 1 to 8 p.m.

Studios On High Gallery | 686 N. High St.

During the January Gallery Hop, Studios on High Gallery presents their annual group show, “The Art of Gifting,” featuring smaller pieces by member artists, ideal for holiday gifting. Patrons can sample a broad range of diverse work from jewelry and oils to wildlife sculpture and mixed media collage.

Studios on High Gallery’s January Gallery Hop hours are from 12 to 8 p.m.