06-08-2010
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Photographs by Ohio Artist Jody Hawk On Display at Port Columbus

COLUMBUS — The work of Ohio artist Jody Hawk is now on display in the Port Columbus Gateway to The Arts, an exhibit space located on the ticketing level in the hallway behind MoJoe Lounge.

Port Columbus Gateway to The Arts is a collaboration between the Columbus Regional Airport Authority and the Ohio Art League, which is a non-profit visual arts organization that coordinates the rotating exhibits on a quarterly basis.

“The photographic image has the power to reveal,” explained Hawk. “An image can disclose through documentation or through the creation of an artist. I prefer not to define my work by one or the other of these definitions as a truly great photograph holds a little of both.”

Hawk has photographs from two projects on display at Port Columbus. In the project Provisional Territory, the artist photographs man-altered uninhabited or inhabited locations in rural and urban settings. The Auto Evolution project investigates American culture’s relationship with the automobile.

Hawk’s work has been shown nationally and can be found in the collections of several universities and private collections. She attended the University of Akron for her undergraduate degree and the Massachusetts’s College of Art and Design for her master’s degree. She teaches at the University of Akron and has taught at Lake Erie College in Painesville, Furman University in South Carolina, and Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston. Hawk also volunteers at art museums and belongs to artist groups including Raw Umber in Akron and the Ohio Art League. To learn more about Hawk’s work visit www.jodyhawk.com, email her at jodyhawk@jodyhawk.com, or visit her studio at Red Light Gallery in Akron.

In addition to Port Columbus Gateway to The Arts, the airport also offers rotating and permanent art pieces created by artists ranging from local elementary students to the internationally-recognized Roy Lichtenstein. Standing 26-feet tall at the entranceway to Concourse B, “Brushstrokes in Flight” is a dynamic sculpture by the late Lichtenstein, an alumnus of The Ohio State University.

For additional information about Port Columbus or its art program, contact Angie Tabor, Manager of Communications, at (614) 239-4081 or atabor@columbusairports.com.

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