Past Exhibitions
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SuperNatural: Landscapes by Bruce Checefsky and Barry Underwood
Oct 29, 2011 - Mar 4, 2012, Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell GalleryCleveland artists Bruce Checefsky and Barry Underwood utilize the effects of atmospheric light in addition to outside light sources to create ephemeral moments in the landscape that give viewers the sense of discovering hidden worlds. Their inventive use of photography and light alters our perception of the landscape to reveal unseen aspects.
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Michelle Droll: Landslide
Between a Rock and a Place
Oct 29, 2011 - Feb 19, 2012, Judith Bear Isroff GalleryCaptivated by the idea of “building” a landscape painting out of the junk that’s found in the contemporary landscape, Kent area artist Michelle Droll questions, “What do we actually see when looking at landscape?”
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Landscapes from the Age of Impressionism
Oct 29, 2011 - Feb 5, 2012, Karl and Bertl Arnstein GalleriesThis exquisite exhibition of more than fifty paintings includes many of the finest examples of French and American impressionist landscapes from the collection of the Brooklyn Museum as well as American impressionist paintings from the Akron Art Museum collection. The exhibition offers an in-depth look at landscape painting as practiced by such leading French artists as Claude Monet and Gustave Courbet and their most significant American followers including John Singer Sargent and Frederick Childe Hassam.
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Flora
Jul 16, 2011 - Oct 22, 2011, Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell GallerySince the Garden of Eden, humans have been seduced by plants. Around 25 works, all drawn from the collection of the Akron Art Museum, will survey the different approaches photographers have used to depict the plant world.
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Kaleidoscope Quilts: The Art of Paula Nadelstern
Jun 18, 2011 - Oct 2, 2011, Karl and Bertl Arnstein GalleriesFor internationally renowned quiltmaker Paula Nadelstern, the word kaleidoscope “promises surprise and magic, change and chance.” Nadelstern (born 1951) has spent over two decades capturing in cloth the excitement of the ever-changing relationships of color, pattern, light and texture of kaleidoscope images. This exhibition places the artist’s quilts within a historical context for the first time, exploring the kaleidoscope’s impact on the decorative arts.
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The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Ohio
Jun 18, 2011 - Oct 2, 2011, Judith Bear Isroff and Karl and Bertl Arnstein GalleriesThe portion of The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Ohio in the museum's Judith Bear Isroff Gallery will remain open through October 16, 2011.
The remarkable story of Dorothy and Herbert Vogel has become the stuff of lore. A Manhattan postal clerk and a reference librarian at the Brooklyn Public Library, the couple began collecting art shortly after marrying in 1962. Together they purchased thousands of artworks, cramming their one-bedroom Manhattan apartment floor to ceiling with art. These unlikely collectors concentrated their acquisitions on emerging art forms, works from a wide range of genres including minimal and conceptual art as well as expressionistic . Because the Vogels only purchased art that would fit in their apartment, most of the works are intimate in scale.
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All-Star Jazz: The Photographs of Herman Leonard
Mar 5, 2011 - Jul 10, 2011, Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell GalleryOften credited with creating the visual archetype of the jazz musician, Herman Leonard photographed his subjects during performances, rehearsals, recording sessions and backstage gatherings to create a visual diary of post-war jazz.
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Sarah Kabot: Unfolding Space
Feb 12, 2011 - Jun 11, 2011, Judith Bear Isroff GalleryCleveland artist Sarah Kabot creates installations that toy with human perception by altering the physical environment, specifically the seemingly mundane structures of the built environment.
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Extended: M.C. Escher: Impossible Realities
Feb 12, 2011 - Jun 5, 2011, Karl and Bertl Arnstein GalleriesBecause of its overwhelming popularity, the museum, in an unprecedented move, is extending the exhibition’s closing date. Visitors now have until Sunday, June 5, 2011 to examine first-hand the masterworks of Maurits Cornelis Escher before the collection returns to Greece.
M.C. Escher: Impossible Realities features 130 works by master printmaker Maurits Cornelis Escher, including woodcuts, lithographs, mezzotints, sculptures, and rare preparatory drawings that provide an in-depth view of the artist's creative processes. The exhibition comes from the Herakleidon Museum in Athens, Greece - Akron is one of only two North American venues for this extraordinary loan.
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Culture Revolution: Contemporary Chinese Paintings from the Allen Memorial Art Museum
Oct 16, 2010 - Feb 27, 2011Four internationally renowned artists reflect on the rapidly changing terrain of contemporary Chinese culture in lush, poetic paintings on loan from the Allen Memorial Art Museum.
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