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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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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NEO Geo Karl and Bertl Arnstein Galleries November 21, 2015 through April 24, 2016 In the 1960s and 70s, artists in Northeast Ohio garnered international attention through works featuring hard-edged geometric forms or complex illusory patterns. NEO Geo examines geometric abstraction’s continued relevance in the region through the work of eight contemporary artists. Responding directly to this history, Michelle Marie […]
Read moreDeeply dependent on careful planning and choreography, Barbara Probst’s Exposure #106: N.Y.C., Broome & Crosby Streets, 04.17.13, 2:29 p.m. records a distinct moment, blurring the boundary between a staged intervention and documentary proof. The multi-panel photographic installation captures a specific time and place from 12 perspectives using synchronized cameras. Probst sets up her equipment and parts of the scenes […]
Read moreThe exhibition currently on view at the Akron Museum of Art celebrates the exoticism, exuberance and optimism found in the work of thirteen contemporary abstract painters. Beauty Reigns: A Baroque Sensibility in Recent Painting (January 24-May 3, 2015 in the Karl and Bertl Arnstein Galleries) offers viewers visual pleasure, with each artist approaching ideas about beauty in different ways. […]
Read moreThis fall the Akron Art Museum presents Trenton Doyle Hancock: Skin and Bones, 20 Years of Drawing, showcasing more than 300 sketches, drawings, collages and paintings by the master draftsman and storyteller Trenton Doyle Hancock. Skin and Bones explores the genesis of the artist’s mythology as well as his development over two decades. Early childhood notebooks and comics […]
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