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GREATER COLUMBUS: THE 2020 GREATER COLUMBUS ARTS COUNCIL VISUAL ARTS EXHIBITION

9.12.20–4.18.21

CMA and Greater Columbus Arts Council (Arts Council) are proud to present Greater Columbus, highlighting the outstanding talent and ability of the recipients of the Art Council’s 2019 Visual Arts Fellowships including Christopher Burk, Nathan Gorgen and Molly Jo Burke (collaborative application), Nick Larsen, and Laura Larson.

Christopher Burk, a Columbus native, is a painter known for his documentation of urban environments in the Midwest and Northeast regions of the United States. His work has earned him recognition from the prestigious Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Arts Council, and Individual Excellence Awards from the Ohio Arts Council. Burk studied at the Columbus College of Art & Design and the University of Akron. He has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in Columbus, New York, Santa Fe, Cleveland, and Chicago. Locally, his work is represented by Brandt-Roberts Galleries.

Nathan Gorgen and Molly Burke are an artist and designer couple raising their family in Columbus, who began collaborating on artwork in 2016. Their ongoing project, Expanding Waste Line, has been exhibited regionally while their individual work has been shown throughout the country, including at the Toledo Museum of Art; the Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts in Wilmington; InLight Richmond, Virginia; and the Center for Contemporary Art in Bedford, New Jersey. Gorgen received his BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, and his MFA from Columbus College of Art & Design. Burke attended Columbus College of Art & Design for her BFA and received her MFA from The Ohio State University in Glass.

Nick Larsen is a Columbus-based artist who studied at the University of Nevada, Reno (BFA, 2007) and The Ohio State University, where he received his MFA in Sculpture. Larsen has had more than a dozen solo and collaborative exhibitions and has been a part of notable group exhibitions, including Tilting the Basin, a survey of contemporary art in Nevada (Nevada Museum of Art, 2015), and several editions of New American Paintings (NAP #131, #135, #143). Larsen works in a number of different formats, including textile-based sculpture, photography, and text. In 2019, he self-published a book of images, drawings, and writing that straddled the line between autobiography and fictionalized archeological inventory of Queer Mountain, a real, though poorly documented, desert wilderness in western Nevada.

Laura Larson has exhibited her work nationally and internationally, including Art in General; Bronx Museum of the Arts; Lennon, Weinberg Gallery; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; SFCamerawork; Susanne Vielmetter/L.A. Projects; and Wexner Center for the Arts. She is the recipient of grants from Art Matters, Inc., Ohio Arts Council, and the New York Foundation of the Arts. Her first book, Hidden Mother (2017), was shortlisted for the Aperture-Paris Photo First Photobook Prize.