Featuring: Sadie Benning, Gregg Bordowitz, Phil Collins, Bill Horrigan, William Jones, Chris Marker, Julia Scher, Garry Winogrand

Organized by Jason Simon.

Having been described in words is an exhibition of artworks that relate to exchanges between the artists and curator/writer Bill Horrigan, director of media arts at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio. The artists in the show are mostly people he has known and worked with and are situated in a larger context of media arts: experimental or alternative film, video and their affinities.

Gregg Bordowitz, known for his videos, activism and writing, shows a 2002 installation commissioned by the MCA Chicago entitled Drive. Chris Marker is represented by the little-known series of travel books he “directed” in the 1950s and `60s, Petite Planète. William Jones, whose media work was surveyed at the Tate Modern this year, presents photographic portraits of Los Angeles Latino fans of Morrissey and The Smiths from his film Is It Really So Strange. Sadie Benning presents paintings that offer a preview of new work being developed for a 2007 museum survey. Julia Scher, a video installation artist and the first artist commissioned by the Wexner Center, is included with examples of a recent foray into sculpted marble. Photographer Garry Winogrand and video maker Phil Collins show work consistent with their established media—Collins with his 2005 video for three unsigned bands entitled the louder you scream, the faster we go, and Winogrand with his 1964 photo, Utah.