ImageOhio
ROY G BIV Gallery for Emerging Artists presents ImageOhio, a juried exhibition of the best lens-based art as determined by our jurors. The invited artists’ work will be exhibited February 19 – March 26, 2021, at the Fort Hayes Shot Tower Gallery (546 Jack Gibbs Blvd., Columbus, OH, 43215) Gallery visitation is by appointment only and can be arranged with Teresa Weidenbusch, Gallery Director by email at tweidenbusch6679@columbus.k12.oh.us
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PATTERN:
Our 2021 theme is Pattern. A pattern is a regularity in the world in human-made design, or in abstract ideas. As such, the elements of a pattern report in a predictable manner. A geometric pattern is a kind of pattern formed of geometric shapes and typically repeated, like a wallpaper design. Patterns can be physical or behavioral, are organic or contrived. Patterns are created by individuals and collectives and they can be honored or disrupted. Work created for ImageOhio incorporates the theme of pattern somehow.
Photography / New Media Juror Amanda Kline
Amanda Le Kline is a Pennsylvania Dutch girl, hailing from Strausstown, Pennsylvania. Growing up in the mountains, she collected moss, rocks, and other sorts of treasures. In high school she was into punk rock and David Bowie, and soon fell in love with photography. She graduated from Lycoming College in 2008 with her Bachelor of Arts, and from The Ohio State University in 2014 with her Master of Fine Arts. She currently lives in Columbus, Ohio and is an Assistant Professor of Art at Otterbein University. In addition to art and teaching, she enjoys gardening, action movies, and traveling.
Kline brings an interdisciplinary approach to her artistic practice by combining the mediums of photography, video, collage, and installation. Her research interests come from the fields of art history, anthropology, nature studies, and women and gender studies. Her most recent projects dissect her identity, explore family histories, and examine the place and culture of her youth. Photography's ability to combine fantasy and reality drives her art making.
Her work has been exhibited locally, nationally, and internationally. She’s recently had solo exhibitions at the Port Columbus Gateway to the Arts Gallery in Columbus, Ohio and the Beyond Gallery in Bennington, Vermont.
Learn more about this amazing and talented creator here www.amandalekline.com
Film / Video Juror Cristyn Steward
Cristyn Steward is the founder and CEO of the Columbus Black International Film Festival (CBIFF). Her debut film, "Chocolate and Lace,” a short-story-turned-short-film tackling society’s ideas about love and sex, premiered at the Gateway Film Center in 2010 as a double bill alongside her second film, “Success It Sucks/Too Much Stress,” an autobiographical experimental short about life after college. In 2016, “Don’t Cover Your Tracks” was officially selected to several film festivals around the country.
After returning home, finding success on the film festival circuit, Cristyn noticed that there was a void and a need for Black film presence in Columbus and thus created the Columbus Black International Film Festival. For the past four years CBIFF has received 309 film and screenplay submissions, screened 100 films, with global participation from 15 nations and have connected hundreds of filmmakers around the world.
Cristyn was the recipient of the Spirit of Columbus Award in 2018 and ‘Create Columbus,’ Visionary Award in 2019 and worked as assistant director on web series “We Fight, We Love” with Artis Creative. For the first time in 2020, Cristyn, exhibited a film instillation at ROY G. BIV Gallery, titled, When Black Panthers and the Nation Speaks, focusing on the parallels from the 1960’s to the 21st century police brutality. Cristyn is the recipient of Art Unites Cbus Film and Art grant awarded by the Greater Columbus Arts Council.
We are thrilled to include work from these talented artists:
New Media: Amy Youngs, CG Ryan, Eric Meiring, ¡Katie B Funk!, Jessica Feldman, Trevor Mahovsky / Rhonda Weppler, BNSL Studio, Chaz O’Neil
Photography: Carmelo Amenta, Josh Arnold, W E Arnold, Emma Brown, Zoe Casdin, John Fadley, Isaac Harris, Kayla Suzanne Holdgreve, Lance Kriesch, Kent Krugh, Minnie Lucas, Fredrik Marsh, Greg Martin, Kenechukwu Memeh, Sophia Moffa, Ardine Nelson, Thomas Osorio, Holly Romano, Ankia Steppe, David Stichweh, Yvette Tang
Video: Kellie Bornhoft, Jacklyn Brickman, Eric Homan, Jonathan Johnson, Alejandra Solano, Shayla Wigand
Congratulations to our Best of Show award recipients
film / video
Eric Homan
new media
CG Ryan
photography
Greg Martin
Than you to our Sponsors whose generosity supports emerging artists
Ohio Arts Council Greater Columbus Arts Council Encova insurance
The Columbus Foundation Vada Beetler Memorial Fund Catherine A. Monro Fund
Hays Family Charitable Trust CASTO Crane Group