Exhibition Archive

Howard Finster, Image of Elvis at Three Years Old (2021), 1981, tractor enamel on wood, Courtesy of the Arient Family Collection

Stranger in Paradise: The Works of Reverend Howard Finster

February 25, 2012 - June 3, 2012 | Karl and Bertl Arnstein Galleries

Survey of the works and legacy of Reverend Howard Finster, self-proclaimed “Man of Visions,” in Stranger in Paradise. One of America’s most widely known and prolific self-taught artists, Finster produced over 46,000 works of art before his death in 2001.

Ray Turner, Ethel, 20011, oil on glass, 12 x 12 in., Collection of the artist, Courtesy of Curatorial Assistance Traveling Exhibitions

Ray Turner: Population

March 3, 2012 - May 27, 2012 | Judith Bear Isroff Gallery

Ray Turner: Population is a unique exhibition of nearly 200 portraits of a wide cross- section of people from across the country, including University Park and downtown Akron residents, executed with oil paint on glass. Population is an expanding series of portraits that invites viewers to contemplate identity from an individual and collective standpoint. The portraits of Akronites will be intermixed with Turner’s ongoing series, and as the exhibition evolves with the addition of new portraits from different communities, the body of work will increasingly reflect the nation’s cultural makeup.

Barry Underwood, Pink, 2008, 36 x36 in., archival pigment print, Courtesy of the artist

SuperNatural: Landscapes by Bruce Checefsky and Barry Underwood

October 29, 2011 - March 4, 2012 | Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell Gallery

Cleveland 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.

Michelle Droll: Landslide Between a Rock and a Place

October 29, 2011 - February 19, 2012 | Judith Bear Isroff Gallery

Captivated 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?”

Charles Courtney Curran, On the Heights, 1909, oil on canvas, 30 1/16 x 30 1/16 in., Collection of the Brooklyn Museum, Gift of George D. Pratt 24.110

Landscapes from the Age of Impressionism

October 29, 2011 - February 5, 2012 | Karl and Bertl Arnstein Galleries

This 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.

Imogen Cunningham, born 1883, Magnolia Blossom, Tower of Jewels, 1925,Gelatin silver print, 13 5/8 in. x 10 1/2 in.,Collection of the Akron Art Museum

Flora

July 16, 2011 - October 22, 2011 | Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell Gallery

Since 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.

Charles Clough, Muniment,1988-1994, enamel on fiberboard, 18 1/2 in. x 22 1/8 in., Gift of The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States, a joint initiative of the Trustees of the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection and the National Gallery of Art, with generous support of the National Endowment for the Arts and the Institute of Museum and Library Services

The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Ohio

June 18, 2011 - October 2, 2011 | Judith Bear Isroff and Karl and Bertl Arnstein Galleries

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.

Paula Nadelstern, Kaleidoscopic XVII: Caribbean Blues, 1997, machine-pieced and hand-quilted cotton and silk, 71 x 66 in., Collection of the artist / Photo by Luke Mulks and Diane Pedersen

Kaleidoscope Quilts: The Art of Paula Nadelstern

June 18, 2011 - October 2, 2011 | Karl and Bertl Arnstein Galleries

For 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.