Current Exhibitions
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This exquisite exhibition of more than fifty paintings includes many of the finest examples of French and American impressionist landscapes from the collection of the Brooklyn Museum as well as American impressionist paintings from the Akron Art Museum collection. The exhibition offers an in-depth look at landscape painting as practiced by such leading French artists as Claude Monet and Gustave Courbet and their most significant American followers including John Singer Sargent and Frederick Childe Hassam.
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Michelle Droll: Landslide
Between a Rock and a Place
October 29, 2011 - February 19, 2012Judith Bear Isroff GalleryCaptivated by the idea of “building” a landscape painting out of the junk that’s found in the contemporary landscape, Kent area artist Michelle Droll questions, “What do we actually see when looking at landscape?”
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SuperNatural: Landscapes by Bruce Checefsky and Barry Underwood
October 29, 2011 - March 4, 2012Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell GalleryCleveland artists Bruce Checefsky and Barry Underwood utilize the effects of atmospheric light in addition to outside light sources to create ephemeral moments in the landscape that give viewers the sense of discovering hidden worlds. Their inventive use of photography and light alters our perception of the landscape to reveal unseen aspects.
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Upcoming Exhibitions
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Stranger in Paradise: The Works of Reverend Howard Finster
February 25, 2012 - June 3, 2012Karl and Bertl Arnstein GalleriesSurvey of the works and legacy of Reverend Howard Finster, self-proclaimed “Man of Visions,” in Stranger in Paradise. One of America’s most widely known and prolific self-taught artists, Finster produced over 46,000 works of art before his death in 2001.
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Ray Turner: Population
March 3, 2012 - May 27, 2012Judith Bear Isroff GalleryRay Turner: Population is a unique exhibition of nearly 200 portraits of a wide cross- section of people from across the country, including several downtown Akron residents, executed with oil paint on glass. Population is an expanding series of portraits that invites viewers to contemplate identity from an individual and collective standpoint. The portraits of Akron will be intermixed with Turner’s ongoing series, and as the exhibition evolves with the addition of new portraits from different communities, the body of work will increasingly reflect the nation’s cultural makeup.
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String of Hearts: Photographs by Bea Nettles
March 10, 2012 - July 8, 2012The photographs of Bea Nettles often depict the artist's intimate family life, yet they also speak to the broad ideas of what it means to be a mother, teacher and artist, which she describes as her greatest roles. The focus of this exhibition, a survey of the museum's collection of Nettles' photographs, is the artist's use of autobiographical imagery, animated by her experimental process.
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