PRESENT ’23 Artist Interview Series: Conversations with Contemporary Artists from Around the Globe

<h1>About the exhibition</h1> <a href="https://www.columbusmuseum.org/present-23-building-the-scantland-collection-of-the-columbus-museum-of-art/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">PRESENT ’23: Building the Scantland Collection </a>unveils the second wave of promised gifts comprising the Columbus Museum of Art’s Scantland Collection, generously donated by the Scantland Family. Featuring 33 individual works by a total of 32 artists, the evocative paintings and textiles in the exhibition showcase the vitality and stylistic range of contemporary art practice. The exhibition spotlights artists spanning 10 countries and more than 10 U.S. states, from Alabama to Alaska. Featured artists include Hayley Barker, Raphaël Barontini, Gabriella Boyd, Kenturah Davis, Angela Dufresne, Veronica Fernandez, Sayre Gomez, Asif Hoque, Devin B. Johnson, Heather Jones, Tidawhitney Lek, Amy Lincoln, Kat Lyons, Kylie Manning, Danielle McKinney, Jaime Muñoz, Robert Nava, Patrick Quarm, Lauren Quin, Kenny Rivero, Jamea Richmond-Edwards, Lauren Satlowski, Marina Perez Simão, Sarah Slappey, Emma Webster, Blair Whiteford, Nicole Wittenberg, Mikey Yates, Oscar yi Hou, Guimi You, Yuri Yuan and Yesiyu Zhao. The paintings and textiles in PRESENT ’23 confront and challenge various histories and art historical categories. With dreamlike landscapes, meditations on the figure and explorations of urban space and culture, the artists offer an array of approaches to painting as the exhibition reworks surrealism, expressionism and other modernist frameworks in the service of personal visions and emerging forms of identity. <a href="https://medium.com/the-columbus-museum-of-art-blog/present-23-artist-interview-series-conversations-with-contemporary-artists-from-around-the-globe-f9573e2127a9">Learn More</a>