Serial Intent Karl and Bertl Arnstein Galleries June 3 – September 10, 2017 Artists sometimes create works of art that are meant to be viewed as isolated, individual masterpieces. They also make artwork with Serial Intent. As we experience the world in motion and over time, so too do serial artworks ask to be viewed one after another. While they […]
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Turn the Page: The First Ten Years of Hi-Fructose Akron Art Museum • Karl and Bertl Arnstein Galleries Through May 7, 2017 Turn the Page: The First Ten Years of Hi-Fructose showcases the work of 51 remarkable contemporary artists whose work has been featured in the pages of Hi-Fructose magazine. Informed by street art and graffiti, tattoo art, […]
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Since the opening night in October, I have made repeat visits to Intersections: Artists Master Line and Space at the Akron Art Museum. This show features six contemporary sculptors who use paper as an essential aspect to their practice – from experimental techniques like hand-corrugated paper sculptures to abaca paper pressed into carved wood, the playful nature to this exhibition […]
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The first time I saw Jimmy Kuehnle, I bumped into him literally, but we didn’t meet. We were at the same party in 2011, the Cleveland Urban Design Center’s Hipp Deck, which was on the top level of a downtown parking garage, at East 9th and Euclid. This was as hard and gray as an urban landscape gets–a concrete floor […]
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Arnold Tunstall recently accepted the position of Director of the University Galleries at the University of Akron. His appointment comes and the end of a 25-year career at the Akron Art Museum where he served in multiple roles, most recently as Collections Manager since 2008. Lauren Hansgen: So you’ve been at the Akron Art Museum for your entire career… […]
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Turn the Page: The First Ten Years of Hi-Fructose Akron Art Museum • Karl and Bertl Arnstein Galleries February 11 – May 7, 2017 Opening Party February 10 Contemporary artists have access to unfathomable amounts of information and imagery, from art history to pop culture, from psychology to botany, from nearby and around the world. Artists working today also have […]
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Intersections: Artists Master Line and Space Akron Art Museum • Karl and Bertl Arnstein Galleries Through January 15, 2017 Intersections: Artists Master Line and Space features recent work by six sculptors who also create significant work in two dimensions. With a gallery devoted to each artist, visitors have an opportunity to view works by Mark Fox, Anne Lindberg, Nathalie […]
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Intersections: Artists Master Line and Space Karl and Bertl Arnstein and Judith Bear Isroff Galleries October 1, 2016 – January 15, 2017 Intersections: Artists Master Line and Space showcases recent work by six sculptors for whom working in two dimensions is also an essential part of their practice. Each of the artists’ works in two- and three dimensions relate in […]
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Mark Mothersbaugh: Myopia Karl and Bertl Arnstein Galleries, Akron Art Museum Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland May 29-August 28, 2016 Equal parts engagement and provocation, the art of Akron native Mark Mothersbaugh investigates the tension and interplay between order and freedom, repetition and play, technology and individuality and mutation and conformity. Beginning as an art student at Kent State […]
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NEO Geo Karl and Bertl Arnstein Galleries Through April 24, 2016 For Depthless Without You, Natalie Lanese painted chevrons and stripes directly on the Akron Art Museum gallery floor and walls to generate illusions that play with viewers’ perceptions of dimension. The site-specific installation alternately emphasizes and disguises flat surfaces’ lack of depth. “Depthlessness is a concept I’ve dealt with […]
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