McDonough Museum announces opening of spring 2020 season
January 17, 2020
The McDonough Museum of Art will open its spring 2020 season with four new exhibitions beginning Friday, January 24 through Saturday, March 7. A reception for the exhibits will be held January 24 from 5:00 – 7:00 PM at the museum.
Acclaimed Cleveland artist Kristina Paabus exhibits drawings and sculptures that examine the systems used to control our surroundings, as well as the structures that try to control us. Paabus, an associate professor of reproducible media at Oberlin College, has exhibited her work throughout the United States, Europe, and China. She will give an artist lecture on her exhibit Thursday, January 30 at 5:10 PM at the museum.
Internationally recognized Columbus artist Ken Rinaldo will present “Scatter Surge,” an exhibit featuring post-nature portraits of phantasmagorical seeds, imagined manipulations with CrisprCas9 targeted gene splicing, and microbiome portrait sculptures. Rinaldo heads the art and technology program of the Department of Art at Ohio State University, and his works have been commissioned and displayed at national and international museums and galleries. Rinaldo will give an artist lecture on his exhibit Monday, February 3 at 5:10 PM at the museum.
Ohio artist Kimberly Chapman, the McDonough Museum’s 2020 Emerging Visual Artist, exhibits porcelain sculptures that balance the beautiful and the macabre. Also included in the Scribe Literary Collaborative program, her exhibition is accompanied by more than 100 journals written by YSU students and inspired by themes presented in the artists’ work. Chapman will give a lecture on her exhibit Wednesday, March 4 at 5:10 PM at the museum.
The final exhibit in the McDonough’s spring season will be a suite of prints celebrating the tenth anniversary of the Red Press Collaborative program. The Collaborative is a program designed to promote fine art printmaking at YSU and in the Mahoning Valley. On display will be limited edition prints created in a collaboration between visiting artists and YSU art students.
Entry to all of the exhibits is free and open to the public. The museum is open from 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM Tuesday through Saturday.