Exhibition
Vibrancy
Art Impacts Mood. Mood Impacts Life.
Sat, Feb 1, 2025 to Sun, Mar 16, 2025
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Exhibition Details:
Vibrancy: Art Impacts Mood. Mood Impacts Life.
Read More ...Step into a world of color and energy this winter with Vibrancy, an art exhibition designed to lift your spirit and ignite your senses. In the midst of the coldest, darkest days of the year, Vibrancy invites you to experience a kaleidoscope of bright, bold, and beautiful artwork, including immersive installations, sculptures, and paintings that explode with color.
Held inside the stark, architectural galleries of The MAC, this exhibition serves as a powerful contrast to the monochromatic landscape outside—where snow blankets the world in quiet stillness. Inside, however, the atmosphere is anything but muted. Each piece in Vibrancy has been carefully curated to enhance mood and create an environment of warmth, joy, and renewal.
The bright hues and dynamic forms aim to inspire positive emotional shifts, reminding us that color has the power to shape our experience of the world.
Artists Dillon Beck, Martin Beck, Natalie Lanese, Jenniffer Omaitz, & Melissa Vogely Woods all bend color and form in unique ways. Collectively their work expresses a profound sense of kinetic energy that can only be experienced to understand.
Research has shown that exposure to vibrant colors can stimulate the brain’s release of dopamine, the "feel-good" neurotransmitter, which plays a key role in enhancing mood and promoting a sense of well-being. This scientific insight underscores the transformative impact of art on emotions and highlights the capacity of color to inspire.
Vibrancy explores how art impacts mood, and how that shift can influence our lives in profound ways. Whether you’re seeking an escape from the winter blues or simply wishing to connect with the emotional power of color, this exhibition promises to offer an uplifting journey for all who visit.
Join us for an unforgettable experience that celebrates the transformative power of art and color.
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Exhibitors:
Dillon Beck is a contemporary artist, muralist, and designer based out of Columbus, Ohio. He fuses graphic design elements with traditional painting, following and breaking the rules of the former to create a unique visual vocabulary. Hard-edged, regulated forms like stairs and tunnels are rendered in shifting gradient colors, providing formal movement and cadence to otherwise ambiguous scenes. His work has always found its footing somewhere in the realm between analog and digital, between the real and the impossible - a place you’ve never been that somehow feels oddly familiar.
Accolades
GCAC x Columbus Museum of Art - Visual Arts Fellow, 2023
Ohio Arts Council - Individual Excellence Awardee, 2023
Architectural Digest Feature (Josh Dun and Debby Ryan), 2023
Selected EXHIBITIONS
Ekistics (2024), Columbus Museum of Art
Playtime (2024), The James Art Gallery
Unearthed (2024), Brandt-Roberts Galleries
A Chip Off The Old Beck (2024), Granville Center For The Arts
Walled Gardens (2023), 934 Gallery
Head Spaces (2023), ROY G BIV Gallery
Selected Mural work
Sky High (2024) - 1,070sqft mural, Antiques on High
Diurnal Cycle (2024) - 1,232sqft mural, Rubino’s Pizza
Pile Up (2024) - 1,000sqft mural, Lear Block
Altitude (2023) - 2,400sqft mural, Seventh Son Brewing
Somewhere Else (2023) - 80sqft outdoor panel installation, Downtown Columbus
Excavation (2023) - 2,000sqft immersive installation, Otherworld
Portals of Purrfection (2022) - 700sqft multi-story mural, Alley Islands
Natalie Lanese’s work is recognized for its punchy color palette and layered patterns. She makes paintings, installations, and collages, which The Village Voice described as “enigmatic narratives heightened by keen color clashes and jazzy textures.” Ms. Lanese has exhibited her work at MOCA Tucson, the Akron Art Museum, and the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln, MA, and has installed permanent public artworks in San Diego, Cincinnati, Toledo, and Cleveland, OH. Her work has been featured in New American Paintings. She has attended residencies at Yaddo, the Vermont Studio Center, Otis College of Art + Design, and Sim Residency in Reykjavik, and is the recipient of the Ohio Arts Council’s Individual Excellence Award and the Arts Commission’s Merit Award.
Ms. Lanese received a Master of Fine Arts degree from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. She earned her Bachelor’s degree at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio, and a Master of Arts degree at Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Institute of Art. She lives and works in Cleveland, Ohio.
My work explores states of change between order and chaos reflecting the visual experience of the constant fluctuations within our urban and geographic environment. Painting and installation art are modes for communicating my sensitivity to environmental factors—these practices provide me with platforms to explore ideas related to climate change and sustainable building. My installations address these issues by constructing abstractions of natural forces frozen in the midst of chaotic events; juxtaposing architecture and nature colliding while simultaneously presenting ideas for rebuilding. Paintings are a meditation on movement, color, permutation, and gesture; boundary coordinates operating between space and color.
My paintings explore ideas of Fold, Gesture and Movement. These are approached in two ongoing series; Solid Movement and Folding Gesture. Solid Movement is an investigation into gesture and its ability to encapsulate time and psyche, fuse internal and external, and record conceptual state changes in solidified form. Folding Gesture explores changes in spatial order that appear fractured or fragmented. These states can remain calm or reconfigure coherence in the painting. I am interested in the connection between a fold as it relates to architecture or design and gesture as it relates to aspects of drawing and 20th-century painting. This series struggles to define beauty, exploring abstraction as incident and artifact of the process in which paint is applied, exposing interior and exterior spaces that may not coexist. There is a constant struggle between surface and ground; between paint and the boundaries within the painting. This series of work attempts to unify my sculptural endeavors with my interests in painting.
Installations built encompass three-dimensional landscapes frozen amid a chaotic event. This “event” is reminiscent of a landscape that has been caught in a fictitious disaster. By incorporating drawing and painting with objects and found materials, ignites play between the structure of the gallery and the theatrics of the painterly gesture and their united associations. This sense of theater is a formal extension of the shadows cast by gallery lights, the configuration of the wall, and ceiling, and the intrinsic architectural nature of the given space.
Overall, my work explores space; both physically and psychologically. This refers to “Space” as it is applied to a two-dimensional surface, or a three-dimensional location.
Melissa Vogley Woods (she/her) born and living in the Midwest in Columbus, Ohio, USA
Melissa Vogley Woods is a multidisciplinary visual artist, teacher, and artist-curator born and residing in Columbus, Ohio. Vogley Woods is a multi-generational caregiver of 30+ years. Her practice is aligned with her life as a way to delve into the intricacies of care within relationships with a specific focus on barriers and how we bridge them. Her metaphorical work spans between public art, social practice, and intimate exploration of the object.
Recent recognition she has received includes a National USA Fellowship nomination, two Ohio Art Council Individual Artist Grants, and A Greater Columbus Arts Council Individual Artist grant, and she has exhibitions locally, nationally, and internationally in such institutions as the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus Museum of Art, Museum of Sisters Aslamazyan in Armenia, and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions. She attended Mass MoCA, Vermont Studio Center, and Wassaic Projects Residencies and her work has been written about in the Brooklyn Rail among others.
Vogley Woods is a dedicated arts organizer, recent curatorial projects include "Lobby," a series of three-person exhibitions held in a Planned Parenthood surgical center, and "Room to Let" series held in donated houses that exhibited seventy artists over three years of programming.
Martin J. Beck is a sculptor, designer, composer, and all-around visionary. He's has decades of experience leading multidisciplinary creative firms, creating unique customer experiences, and making innovative and eye catching works of art.
Always a contrarian, with a quick wit and keen intelligence, Martin has been one of the top leaders in the design industry since the early 1970's, driving and leading some of the top design firms both nationally and internationally. From his time at the helm of Fitch, to his impact founding Big Red Rooster and turning it into a global design powerhouse, he's always had a focus on creating unique experiences - a skill evident in his new body of sculptural work.
Martin grew up in New York. After high school he went on to graduate at the top of his class from Pratt Institute in New York. At the time, there was not a sculpture degree at Pratt, so he ended with a degree in Industrial Design - where he graduated first in his class and won the first Walter Darwin Teaque award for industrial design graduates. After graduating from Pratt, he hopped around agencies in New York City before taking on high level roles at places like Richardson/Smith, Fitch Worldwide, and Lighthouse Global Network.
He then founded Big Red Rooster with partner Aaron Spiess, a multidimensional brand experience firm based in Columbus, OH. While CEO of Big Red Rooster he led ground breaking campaigns for many leading international brands. After the acquisition of Big Red Rooster by Jones, Lang, Lasalle (JLL), he decided it was time to start focusing on making impactful art in his workshop, not in the boardroom.
After retiring in 2017, his passion for sculpture reemerged and he hasn't slowed down since. Martin imbues his pieces with a strength, brightness and a touch of whimsy that is reflective of the artist he has always been. He makes wild sculptural works that are designed to be poignant in any environment using his eye for optical illusions and a lifetime of design experience. Sharp angles, intentional reflections, and cascading color combinations are his signature, and are just as evident in his sculptures as they are in his larger than life personality.
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