Paper Cosmologies

Hiromi Mizugai Moneyhun’s Floating Worlds

January 8 – April 23, 2026 

Public Reception: February 12, 4-6 p.m. 

Artist remarks: 4:30 p.m. 

The Frank Museum of Art, 39 South Vine Street, Westerville  

Hours: Wednesday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. during the University’s academic year. 

Hours: Wednesday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. during the University’s academic year.  

Contact: 614-818-9716.

Paper 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?”

The Mystery is the Meaning

Louise Captein, Sabbatical Exhibition 

January 6 – March 1, 2026 

Public Reception: January 29, 2026 from 4-6 p.m. 
Artist remarks begin at 4:30 p.m. 

Miller Gallery, Art and Communication Building, 33 Collegeview Road, Westerville  

Monday-Friday 8 a.m.-4 p.m.; Saturday-Sunday 1-4 p.m.; closed holidays.  

Contact: 614-823-1792

This Sabbatical exhibition features new work by visual artist Louise Captein, which results from a fresh approach to painting and collage that she has been developing over several years. The Mystery is the Meaning installation takes space as a medium and uses stacked grounds to “produce” shapes that result from apertures of every kind. The work reflects Captein’s explorative process related to apperception—of the space without and the space within, and the paper-thin difference between them.

Extended!

Urushi: exploring the chromacosm

Nhat Tran, artist 

December 5 – March 6, 2026 

Fisher Gallery, Roush Hall, 27 S. Grove St., Westerville  

Hours: 9 a.m.-9 p.m. daily  

Contact: 614-823-1792 

Urushi: exploring the chromacosm showcases the tradition and versatility of urushi, a millennia-old Japanese lacquer tradition that is renowned for its luminosity, elegance, and remarkable durability. This exhibition features work by Vietnamese-born urushi artist Nhat Tran. It showcases the artist’s creative arc that began with a mastery of prehistoric Japanese lacquer techniques and evolved through bold experimentation with varied materials, such as wood, ceramic, plexiglass, animal skulls, and antlers.

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