Eric N. Mack has created a site-responsive installation titled "A Whole New Thing" for the lobby commission at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus. The work continues his exploration of abstraction, foregrounding fabric as an expressive, atmospheric, structural, and social medium that reveals a painterly sensibility.
This commission matters because it deepens Mack's ongoing inquiry into the transformative potential of fabric within contemporary art, positioning him as a key voice in abstraction. The Wexner Center's lobby commission program provides a high-profile platform for emerging and mid-career artists to engage with architecture and public space, amplifying Mack's visibility and the dialogue around materiality in painting.