Exhibition Archive

Open World: Video Games & Contemporary Art

October 19, 2019 - February 2, 2020 | Karl and Bertl Arnstein Galleries

Visual artists are gamers too, yet video games are rarely examined as a major influence on contemporary art. Open World draws attention to this phenomenon through the presentation of artworks including painting, sculpture, textiles, prints, drawings, animation, video games, video game modifications and game-based performances and interventions by makers who self-identify as artists.

Joe Vitone: Family Records

April 27, 2019 - October 27, 2019 | Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell Gallery

Joe Vitone: Family Records is an ongoing series of portraits of photographer Joe Vitone’s relatives living in and around Akron, Ohio. Begun in 1998, this body of work documents evolving interpersonal connections between parents and children, siblings, spouses, cousins and other relations within working class communities of the Rust Belt region.

Dread & Delight: Fairy Tales in an Anxious World

June 29, 2019 - September 22, 2019 | Karl and Bertl Arnstein Galleries

Dread & Delight: Fairy Tales in an Anxious World brings together the work of contemporary artists who use classical fairy tales to address the complexities of our lives today. While some embrace the stories’ promises of transformation and happy endings, others plumb the stories’ more troubling elements—poverty, addiction, and exploitations of power.

Mernet Larsen: The Ordinary, Reoriented

March 16, 2019 - September 8, 2019 | Judith Bear Isroff Gallery

Mernet Larsen (b. 1940) makes intriguing, humor- and tension-infused paintings featuring geometric figures that inhabit space in ways that defy gravity and conventional viewpoints.

Nick Cave: Feat.

February 23, 2019 - June 2, 2019 | Karl and Bertl Arnstein Galleries

Nick Cave: Feat. showcases the artist's work in a wide range of mediums, including sculpture, installation, video, and performance. His creations, bursting with color and texture, are optical delights that can be enjoyed by audiences of all ages and backgrounds. Through this immersive installation, Cave hopes to provide a transformative place where your narrative can be featured and your dreams soar.

Planes, Trains & Automobiles

July 26, 2018 - May 5, 2019 | Mary S. and David C. Corbin Foundation Gallery

Whether it's revving up your engine to head out on a cross-country road trip or jumping on your bicycle to pick up a gallon of milk across town, transportation is an important part of life. We're kicking off a year-long celebration of all the things that get us from point A to point B this summer. Experience transportation as muse in Planes, Trains & Automobiles with prints, paintings, and photographs from the museum's collection including works by Ralph Steiner, O. Winston Link, Christine Chagnoux, Charles Orloff, NASA, and Roger Brown.

Brian Bress: Pictures Become You

October 13, 2018 - April 14, 2019 | Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell Gallery

Brian Bress' complex art enterprise combines character development, costume design and creation, as well as performance and film production. Figures that draw, cut, saw, arrange and pose slowly reveal invented worlds that form, unfurl and disappear again w3ithin the wind of flat-screen television monitors. Humor and playfulness are contained within the slow, deliberate movements of Bress' figures, which feel familiar-a combination of cartoon- and puppet-like beings. Describing his work as existing somewhere between painting and video, Bress states "I enjoy imagining a world where the mot unlikely of things come to life."

The Fabricators

September 22, 2018 - March 3, 2019 | Judith Bear Isroff Gallery

In the mid-twentieth century, abstract painters pushed back against the venerable tradition of easel painting, applying pigment to canvas sprawled directly on the studio floor. A generation of artists working in the late 1960s and 1970s went further, manipulating canvas or paper in ways that fabric is commonly handled; folding, scrunching or sewing. "The Fabricators" bring together the work of four abstract artists who treated traditional art supplies like one might treat cloth.

Jeff Donaldson: Dig

October 27, 2018 - January 21, 2019 | Karl and Bertl Arnstein Galleries

Jeff Donaldson: Dig, the artist’s first museum retrospective, explores Donaldson’s four-decade career. In 1968, Donaldson co-founded the African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists (AfriCOBRA). AfriCOBRA sought to create a new kind of art that was not only politically engaged but reflected contemporary black culture and appealed specifically to a black audience. Featuring paintings, prints and mixed media works, "Dig" reflects on Donaldson's deep belief in the responsibility of an artists to create work that is both socially relevant and visually striking.

Allison Zuckerman: Pirate and Muse

October 27, 2018 - January 21, 2019 | Karl and Bertl Arnstein Galleries

Allison Zuckerman pillages Western art history, dismantling bodies and piecing together new ones that expose vulnerability and imperfection. Zuckerman’s figures are amalgams of body parts, clothing and background elements from artists [all male] throughout history, and Disney and other pop culture imagery. Paintings and sculptures made for Pirate and Muse evidence her embrace of the label “pirate,” as a plunderer of art history who brazenly steals from other artists.

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