‘Gray Matters’ at Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio

Lazy loaded image — Kara Walker, *Sketch for an American Comic Opera with 20th century Race Riots*, 2012, pastel and graphite on paper.

JASON WYCHE/©KARA WALKER/COURTESY SIKKEMA JENKINS & CO., NEW YORK

Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.

Today’s show: “Gray Matters” is on view at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio, through Sunday, July 30. The group exhibition features the work of “37 contemporary women artists who have explored the practice of grisaille,” according to a press release.

Kara Walker, Sketch for an American Comic Opera with 20th century Race Riots, 2012, pastel and graphite on paper.

JASON WYCHE/©KARA WALKER/COURTESY SIKKEMA JENKINS & CO., NEW YORK

Bethany Collins, Southern Review, 1985 (Special Edition), 2014–15, charcoal on paper, sixty-four elements.

FREDERIK BRAUER/COURTESY THE ARTIST, RICHARD GRAY GALLERY, AND HUDGENS CENTER

Lorna Simpson, Black America Again, 2016, ink and screen-print on clay board.

©LORNA SIMPSON/COURTESY THE ARTIST AND HAUSER & WIRTH

Joyce Pensato, Holy Blackout Batman, 2015, enamel and metallic paint on canvas.

PRIVATE COLLECTION, NEW YORK

Avery Singer, Society of Realist Wanderers, 2014, acrylic on canvas.

©AVERY SINGER/COURTESY THE ARTIST AND GAVIN BROWN'S ENTERPRISE, NEW YORK AND ROME/COLLECTION OF JOHN MORACE & TOM KENNEDY