The three artists whose works make up the fall exhibits at the Wexner Center for the Arts all explore in depth issues of heritage and culture, be they Mexican, South American or Middle Eastern. At the same time, these artists consistently inject invention and even quirkiness into their works.
And don’t miss the pieces of food that each has incorporated into at least one of their pieces.
All three exhibits reflect the artists’ origins and family: the Palestinian-born Jumana Manna; Sahar Khoury, an American artist and anthropologist whose family is Arabic; and the Chicago-born Harold Mendez, a first-generation American of Mexican and Colombian descent.
Jumana Manna: ’Break, Take, Erase, Tally’
In her work, Manna investigates tensions between agriculture, industrial structures and the humans who inhabit the same areas. The ceramic…
