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Date(s) - May 2, 2024
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

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The Columbus Area Arts Council, in partnership with Mental Health Matters, announces an exhibition at 411 Gallery in observance of Mental Health Awareness Month. “Psyche Relics” by Columbus-based artist Kimberly Rose Free features 2D and 3D artworks that portray Free’s journey through psychiatric treatment over the past three decades.

The exhibit opens May 1, 2024 and is on view until May 24, 2024. The public is invited to visit the gallery at 411 Sixth Street in downtown Columbus during open hours, Thursday and Friday,
12 to 6 p.m. and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. An artist reception will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. on Thursday, May 2, 2024.

Drawings express a lived experience of serious mental illness over 30 years, revealing and documenting its ever-present invisibility through conceptual drawings and sculptures, many using found paper and objects. Through vulnerable yet playful introspection, the artist seeks to include the viewer in her quest for emotional well-being.

Under everyone’s public persona lies a true self, and we all journey toward it. This series came to exist in recent years as the artist sought to create meaning from her journey. Two and three-dimensional works are artifacts from psychiatric treatment over 30 years. They reveal an invisible experience of mental health treatment. Conceptual and symbolic drawings seek to illustrate her healing from dark distress toward serenity. Aspects of treatment such as journaling, individual and group therapy, electroconvulsive therapy, and medication trials are explored with gratitude and good humor.