Columbus, OH.— Previously on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, “Alexis Rockman: A Fable for Tomorrow” will travel to the Wexner Center for the Arts, where it can be through December 30th. The exhibition is the first major survey of the artist’s work, with nearly 40 paintings that trace his career from early works in the mid-1980s to 2009, including several of his monumentally scaled paintings. The exhibition includes three large-scale paintings that are ambitious turning points in Rockman’s artistic development. “Evolution” (1992), his first mural-sized painting, is a panoramic sweep that owes as much to a pop cinema stylistic sensibility as it does to actual prehistory; it reflects Rockman’s interests in evolutionary biology, cryptozoology, and genetic mutation.