Exhibition Archive

Edward Weston: Life Work

| Karl and Bertl Arnstein Galleries

Edward Weston: Life Work surveys the five-decade career of this American master through an outstanding grouping of 115 vintage photographs. The exhibition is drawn entirely from the private collection of Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg. Most of the works were acquired from members of the Weston family. These include a large collection from his daughter-in-law, Dody Weston Thompson, as well as a Weston family album incorporating rare early self-portraits and landscapes.

Along Water Street: New Work by Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson

| Karl and Bertl Arnstein Galleries

Columbus, Ohio, artist Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson (b. 1940) has been creating sumptuous mixed media paintings and sculptures for more than half a century. These document the stories she has gleaned from her elders, her travels throughout the world and her study of African and African American history. Included in this exhibition are twelve rag paintings, a watercolor of her Uncle Alvin and a sixty-foot-long, cloth and mixed media RagGonNon.

Panel by Kurt Wagner, part of the collaborative work At One South High created by one of the 2007-2008 fourth grade classes at the Miller South School for the Visual and Performing Arts.

At One South High: Collaborative Works by Miller South Students Inspired by the Art of Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson

| Mary S. and David C. Corbin Foundation Gallery

During the 2007-2008 school year, art teachers Julienne Hogarth and Susan Yingling from Akron's Miller South School for the Visual and Performing Arts brought their fourth and eighth-grade students to the museum for several field trips. The classes' resulting art projects, modeled after Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson's "RagGonNons," will be on display in the Corbin Gallery, concurrent with Robinson's own exhibition, Along Water Street.

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.

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