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Exhibition Archive

Neil MacDonald, Roswell Site, Oil on canvas, 48 x 60 in., Photo by: Andrew McAllister.

Dreamland: Recent Paintings by Neil MacDonald

| Judith Bear Isroff Gallery

Neil MacDonald’s hauntingly beautiful paintings touch on expansive themes of modern-day life such as the desire for connectedness, the need to explain the unexplainable and the wish to understand our place in the cosmos. His art examines the ways in which modern-day myths are often fabricated out of thin air and then evolve and spread within our society.

Pedro Meyer, The Temptation of the Angel, La Mixteca, Oaxaca, Mexico, 1991, digital pigment print of a digitally modified image scanned from 35mm color transparencies, 33 x 44 in., Collection of the Akron Art Museum, Gift of the artist and the Evelyne Shaffer Endowment for Exhibitions. © Pedro Meyer 2008/from Heresies: A Retrospective by Pedro Meyer.

Heresies: A Retrospective by Pedro Meyer

| Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell Gallery

Since contemporary Mexican photographer Pedro Meyer has produced groundbreaking images over the last four decades, why should his retrospective exhibition be ordinary? The Akron Art Museum joins with fifty-eight other museums in twenty-five countries to simultaneously present diverse aspects of Meyer’s art this fall and winter.

Toying With Imagination: A Plastic Camera Exhibition

| The Mary S. and David C. Corbin Foundation Gallery

Some of the most popular cameras today are plastic models. These cameras are making quite a splash in the world of photography, allowing anyone to create fun, breathtaking and experimental images. The Akron Art Museum is inviting locals to submit photographs taken in and around northeast Ohio using these plastic cameras. Selected works will be on view in the Toying With Imagination: A Plastic Camera Exhibition October 18, 2008 - January 11, 2009.

Jean-Pierre Gauthier, Rut (Rut), 2004 (detail), Sound installation, 15 x 4 x 23 ft., Collection of the Musee d'art contemporain de Montreal, Photo: Richard-Max Tremblay.

Jean-Pierre Gauthier: Machines at Play

| Karl and Bertl Arnstein Galleries

Montréal artist, inventor and musician Jean-Pierre Gauthier brings humor and poetry to his kinetic sculptural installations. This exhibition, the first survey of the award-winning artist’s work, will make its exclusive U.S. appearance at the Akron Art Museum.

Sandy Skoglund, Body Limits, 1992, Cibachrome print, 35 7/8 in. x 28 in., Collection of the Akron Art Museum, Gift of the Monaghan-Shebairo Family 2006.46.

Unveiled: Recent Acquisitions from the Museum’s Collection

| Judith Bear Isroff Gallery

Nearly 700 works of art entered the Akron Art Museum’s collection over the past five years, despite the fact that the museum was closed from March 2004 to July 2007 for construction of its new building. Unveiled offers the opportunity to view around two dozen inspiring, and sometimes challenging, artworks never before seen in Akron.

John Heartfield, Goebbels’ recipe against the food shortage in Germany from AIZ, October 24, 1935, photogravure, 141/2 x 10 3/8 in., Collection of the Akron Art Museum, Museum Acquisition Fund 1979.25.

John Heartfield vs. Nazi Germany

| Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell Gallery

“Use photography as a weapon.” This was John Heartfield’s battle cry in his struggle to prevent the Nazis from gaining power in Germany in the 1930s. Unlike many socially conscious photographers of the era who produced documentary work, Heartfield created photomontages. They are composite images made by cutting and joining parts from several photographs (ones he took, commissioned or found), then re-photographed to form a single seamless image.

Smells Like Teen Spirit: Posters from the Akron Art Museum Teen Council

| The Mary S. and David C. Corbin Foundation Gallery

For anyone who lived through the youth-driven grunge rock movement of the 1990s, Smells Like Teen Spirit may stir memories of the band Nirvana, crunchy guitars and flannel shirts. The Akron Art Museum’s Teen Council decided this notorious song-title was also an apt summary for their first major project, an exhibition of hand-screened concert posters on view in the Akron Art Museum’s Mary S. and David C. Corbin Foundation Gallery July 19 through October 12, 2008.

California as Muse: The Art of Arthur and Lucia Mathews

| Karl and Bertl Arnstein Galleries

Two of California’s most important early twentieth century artists are finally being rediscovered by the rest of the country. California as Muse presents almost seventy paintings, drawings, furniture and decorative pieces by Arthur and Lucia Mathews, who strove to unite the fine and applied arts. A lavishly illustrated, long-awaited book on the couple accompanies the show. Both book and exhibition are part of a major re-evaluation of the impact of the style they developed, the California Decorative Style, and its role in American art.

Bill Brandt, Nude #36, London, 1952, vintage gelatin silver print, 9 x 7 in., Private Collection. © Bill Brandt Archive.

Bill Brandt: Shadows and Substance

| Isroff and Bidwell Galleries

Bill Brandt, England’s greatest twentieth-century photographer, began as a photojournalist and became a poet of light and shadow. Decade by decade, Brandt (1904 – 1983) moved toward evermore radical dualities of black and white, not just in his new photographs but also in his printing of older images.

Julie Cohn, Dare Me, 2006, watercolor, 14 x 11 in.

Creativity Transcends

| The Mary S. and David C. Corbin Foundation Gallery

This exhibition features a selection of works by visual artists that have been featured in the United Disability Service's nationally celebrated literary and art magazine, Kaleidoscope.

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