Our Gallery
Root Art Gallery is a space for visitors to see quality artwork in a modern, inviting atmosphere and a space for artists to showcase their talents. This is a place to think, question, talk, and open up to the things around us.
Each show is on display in the gallery for a month and starts off with an opening reception, the first Friday of every month from 6-9pm. Many of the artists featured in that month’s show will be available to meet and to talk with. The artwork for that month is on display and for sale throughout the month.
The gallery is open daily, or by appointment.
Monday - Friday: 10am - 6pm
We are accepting artist images on a continual basis. To submit a proposal online go here.
Current Shows
June 2008: Laura Alexander and Jennifer Radcliff
--Press Release--
The artwork of Laura Alexander and Jennifer Radcliff are featured at Root Art Gallery for the month of June with an artist reception Fri., June 6th from 6-9pm. Layered whimsy can be found in the imagery shown in Alexander and Radcliff’s work. Using their own visual language, each artist creates new worlds to explore through the images created.
Alexander utilizes panes of glass she etches to create ghost like layers of imagery. Using glass as her canvas, she forces the viewer to look through the images, to look beyond. The figure, patterns, and words all work together to create the layers shadowed on the wall.
The child-like imagery in Radcliff’s work are directly inspired by painting with and watching her children create where she creates in her living room. Radcliff says her imagery is also derived from “nature, horizons, and sky, vintage magazines and Deery-Lou, Playskool and old school, secrets and imagination, real and surreal.” Along with the inspiration she focuses on the process, adding and subtracting color, texture and collage.
Alexander and Radcliff both currently live in Columbus, OH. Alexander has studied art on both coasts. Her BFA in General Fine Arts with a minor in Video was received from Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD and she received a MFA in Fibers from the University of Washington in Seattle. She moved back to Columbus, OH and has since become a driving force in the arts scene, belonging to, participating, and organizing many groups and events.
Radcliff came to Columbus from Indiana to study art at Columbus College of Art and Design, where she received her BFA. In the past several years, she has participated in many show throughout Columbus.
Future Shows
July 2008: Adam Brouillette and Jenn Adrion
August 2008: Fiber Show Invitational
October 2008: Brandy Agnew and Jill Gllenstein
Past Shows
February 2008: fill in the ________.
January 2008: Jean Shooter and Lori Lichtenwalter
December 2007: Jason Andrew Bowles and Tricia Bowles
October 2007: Molly Prentice and Melinda Harter
September 2007: Clarence Adrian McKinney
Artists
- Laura Alexander
- Ryan Agnew
- Jason Andrew Bowles
- Tricia Bowles
- Donald E. Boyd
- John J. Donnelly
- Melinda Harter
- Craig Hill
- Lorie Lichtenwalter
- Clarence Adrian McKinney
- Molly Prentice
- Jennifer Radcliff
- Jean Shooter
- Crispin Webb