Can space be a medium?
MAYBE I CALL THEM LEAVES
leave as is
leave alone
leave out
let go, let be
leave nothing
leave something
leave empty
drop
self-leave
fall into, out of
leave a trace, leak
leave behind, to leave, leave,
leave
one leave after another
leave of my life
leaves, pages
leave is a verb
action verb
Richard Serra’s verb list
a manifesto of leaving
two leaves, three leaves, four leaves
more leaves?
drop, soak, spill, spread, the color
spreads!
sag, swim, stick, smudge, smear, set, seek, see
show
form, float, fizzle, fuse
pause
thicken, take
give
accept
teach
no fuss
“Remember that the fool in the eyes of the gods….
and the fool in the eyes of man are very different. One who is entirely ignorant of the modes of Art in its revolution or the moods of thought in its progress, of the pomp of the Latin line or the richer music of the vowelled Greeks, of Tuscan sculpture or Elizabethan song may yet be full of the very sweetest wisdom. The real fool, such as the gods mock or mar, is he who does not know himself. I was such a one too long. You have been such a one too long. Be so no more. Do not be afraid. The supreme vice is shallowness. Everything that is realised is right.
—Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
ABout the Artist
Louise Captein
Louise Captein is an Associate Professor of Painting and Drawing at Otterbein University who works primarily in oils and paper collage. She earned terminal degrees from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam (1991) and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2017). She has taught studio art in higher education since the mid 1990’s – both in The Netherlands and the U.S – and joined the art and art history faculty at Otterbein in 2009. Captein has shown her work locally and nationally in group and solo exhibitions at Keny Galleries of Columbus, The Ohio Arts Council’s Riffe Center Gallery, The Ohio State University’s Hopkins Hall Gallery, the Dublin Arts Council, and the Richard M. Ross Art Museum at Ohio Wesleyan University, among other venues. Her collages have been called “… quixotic in appearance yet meticulous in their approach to the formal elements of space, line, color and composition.”
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Plan
Your
Visit
The Frank Museum is located one block east of Uptown Westerville’s vibrant commercial district. Spend an afternoon visiting the museum’s current exhibition, browsing in Uptown’s locally owned shops, and relaxing in our excellent restaurants or coffee establishments. The Frank Museum staff are always available for tours.
Current Exhibitions
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7th Annual Juried High School Art Exhibition
Miller GalleryNovember 23 – December 5, 2025The purpose of Otterbein’s Annual Juried High School Exhibition is to learn about and to support High School artists in Ohio and the contiguous states. -
Paper Cosmologies
Hiromi Mizugai Moneyhun’s Floating WorldsFrank Museum of ArtJanuary 8 – April 23, 2026Paper Cosmologies draws on Florida-based Japanese artist Hiromi Mizugai Moneyhun’s (水貝 宏美) Ukiyo and Emergence series, which turn single sheets of washi paper into universes that refuse a frame. Through kirie (切り絵)—the ancient and painstaking Japanese art of paper cutting—Moneyhun realizes complex and fantastical worlds where female figures inherit the elegance of bijin-ga (美人画) beauty, even as they emerge, entangle, and transform into animals, architecture, and landscapes. The diaphanous, yet commanding and playful paper forms ask: “What if our ideas of separation are an illusion?” -
Ukiyoe’s Living Legacy: The Yoshida Family Prints
Frank Museum of ArtAugust 20 – December 5, 2025From the Meiji period (1868-1912) to the present day, the Yoshida family has carried forward a printmaking tradition rooted in the aesthetics of ukiyo-e, a genre of Japanese art that flourished during the Edo period (1603-1867) and that depicted transient pleasures and everyday life of the urban population. Beginning with work by the patriarch Hiroshi Yoshida (1876-1950), this exhibition samples the Yoshida family’s artistic re-imagining of ukiyo-e through modern and contemporary periods. The works on view from the Flaten Art Museum demonstrate technical mastery and an ongoing negotiation between past and present, tradition and innovation, place and personhood.