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Exhibition Archive

Summer Video Exhibitions at the University of Akron

| Emily Davis Gallery

While the museum's downtown location was closed for construction, Coming to a Neighborhood Near You offered exhibitions, lectures, concerts, workshops, and other activities at various locations around the region. The exhibit areas, organized by the museum and held in conjunction with partner organizations, was inaugurated in April and May when Christian Marclay: Telephones & Other Things was on view at the University of Akron Myers School of Art Emily Davis Gallery. This exhibition contained one video and two sculptures that spanned 15 years of the artist's career.

Jim Dine Prints: 1985-2002

| Akron Art Museum

Since the 1960s, Jim Dine (born 1935, Cincinnati) has transformed familiar everyday objects—hearts, bathrobes, tools, and skulls—into powerful symbols of loss, longing, joy, and wonder. This exhibition of forty-seven large-scale prints reveals Dine's devotion to these time-honored themes, but also his penchant for pushing the boundaries of print medium. He uses power tools to carve images into printing plates, combines multiple techniques within a single print, and hand colors many images using his fingers, brushes, and—in at least one instance—a straw broom. Dine’s prints are distinguished by their rich coloration, textured surfaces, and grand, painting-like scale.

Homegrown: Ohio Artists in the Collection

| Judith Bear Isroff Gallery

Ohio has produced-or become home to many artists who are recognized nationally as well as beloved in their own communities. These artists work in a variety of media and styles and treat a multitude of subjects, but they also often depict the people and scenes most familiar to them. This exhibition of works on paper, selected from the museum's rich collection of regional art, reveals how the landscape and inhabitants of America's heartland provide many artists with vital inspiration.

Eyes on the Body-Selections from the Collection

| McDowell Galleries

Since the beginning of recorded history, artists have used the human form to express a range of experiences and emotions. This exhibition of works from the museum's collection demonstrates how artists working in a variety of media continue to find a vital source of inspiration in the human figure. Some use the human body to explore and questions social norms. In their images of women, painter Malcah Zeldis and photographer Cindy Sherman highlight the potent power of female beauty and how it is represented in film and print media. Other artists use the human figure to examine or confront psychological issues. Thom Shaw's dramatic woodcut print reflects his struggle through illness, while D. Anthony Mahone's haunting photographs signify his experience of racial discrimination.

Elemental Truths: Works on Paper by Hui-Chu Ying

| Isroff Gallery

Hui-Chu Ying, who was born in Taipei, Taiwan, in 1956, came to this country in the early 1980s. Since 1989, Ying has taught printmaking at The University of Akron's Myers School of Art, where she she is an associate professor. This exhibition presents work created by the artist over the last two years, culminating in the mural-sized Peace Prayer created specially for this space. These sensuously beautiful works on paper combine processes from traditional printmaking, which is rooted in reproducibility, with painting, drawing, and even sewing, techniques that result in one-of-a-kind objects.

Hans Hofmann: Selections from the Berkeley Art Museum Collection

| Akron Art Museum

In his teachings and his own work, Hofmann focused on color theory and his "push-pull" principle in which he believed that color, light, shape, and texture could create the experience of depth within the two dimensional surface of a painting. Using eye-popping colors, bold forms, and vigorous brushstrokes, he overlapped shapes and juxtaposed warm colors (which appear to advance spatially) with cool colors (which seems to recede) in order to create the illusion that his compositions are pulsating or "breathing."

Factories, Farms, and Funhouses: Regionalist Paintings by Carl Gaertner

| Isroff Gallery

In his moody, romantic paintings, Cleveland artist Carl Gaertner (1898-1952) captured the varied beauty of the American landscape. Yet at the same time, his works express the feeling of alienation experienced by many during the years between the two world wars. His views of rustic farms, historic beach resorts, and sprawling factories earned him a national reputation, and his paintings were purchased by museums and private collectors throughout the United States.

Monumental Spirit: A Celebration of David E. Davis

| Myers Sculpture Courtyard

The Akron Art Museum's contribution to Monumental Spirit will be the display of Davis' twelve-foot tall sculpture Silent Patriot in Myers Sculpture Courtyard through October. This stainless steel structure is composed primarily of tetrahedrons (triangular pyramids). To Davis, this shape suggested strength and stability and at the same time, tension and excitement. Those emotions relate to the circumstances of the sculpture's genesis: Davis created the work in 2001 soon after the 9/11 tragedy. Silent Patriot's red and blue panels and soaring form emphasizes its role as a silent witness to those terrible events but also serves as an eloquent witness to Davis' talent, imagination, and skill as a sculptor.

In a Romantic Mood: American Impressionists and Their Era

| Akron Art Museum

The Akron Art Museum is pleased to showcase its extraordinary collection of American impressionist paintings and other exquisite late-nineteenth-century American artworks during In a Romantic Mood: American Impressionists and Their Era, on view June 14-August 30, 2003. This compilation of 60 paintings and prints demonstrates how many artists expressed their romantic impulses by creating dreamlike works that emphasized their experiences in the world. It also represents the last opportunity to view these works before they travel to other museums across the nation as part of an exhibition organized by Akron Art Museum staff and circulated by the Trust for Museum Exhibitions.

AAM Collects: Recent Acquisitions

| McDowell Galleries

This exhibition features a small, but rich sampling of works from over 250 that have become part of the Akron Art Museum's collection in the past two years. An Astonishing two-thirds of those objects were given to the museum in the form of gifts and bequests.

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