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Current Exhibitions

Jean-Pierre Gauthier: Machines at Play

September 27, 2008 - January 4, 2009

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.More info...

Toying With Imagination: A Plastic Camera Exhibition

October 18, 2008 - January 11, 2009
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. More info...

Upcoming Exhibitions

Heresies: A Retrospective by Pedro Meyer

December 6, 2008 - February 22, 2009
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. More info...

Dreamland: Recent Paintings by Neil MacDonald

December 6, 2008 - February 22, 2009
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. More info...

Along Water Street: New Work by Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson

January 31, 2009 - April 5, 2009
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. More info...

Edward Weston: Life Work

January 31, 2009 - April 26, 2009
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. More info...