McDonough Museum to Host Guest Artists for “Fall Exhibitions” and “Kilcawley Print Collection”

YSU’s McDonough Museum of Art will welcome guest artists Bonny Leibowitz, Alice Pixley Young, Deborah Wasserman, and Etty Yaniv for its annual “Fall Exhibitions” event titled “Around Here, It’s Always Eternity” beginning Tuesday, August 25, through Saturday, October 24.

Leibowitz’s floor-based sculptures and installations are a combination of salvaged welded metals, plastics, mangled industrial and architectural parts, tree branches, roots, and photography. Her works examine renditions of environmental stories and histories, all of which have been constructed and distorted by humans.

Young’s work examines her own layered environment: culturally the Rust Belt, geologically an ancient fossil bed on the Myaamia homelands, and from now to forever, a nuclear-contaminated site. These ideas inform her multimedia installations, which combine vocabularies from both built and natural environments.

Wasserman paints landscapes of dualities; her paintings evoke environmental destruction contrasted with the beauty and fertility of nature. She draws on her experience of migration between continents, known for the plundering of natural resources and military conflicts. She attaches torn clothing and rags to her canvases as “skin” and body, drawing parallels between the painting process and nature’s cycles of birth, death, and renewal.

Yaniv’s work combines paint, fabric, photography, and found objects to create textured, multi-dimensional environments that appear to be in perpetual flux. From a distance, they resemble topographical terrains, as if seen from a bird’s eye view or a satellite. Up close, the works reveal intricate vignettes evoking archeological layers, where deep time, life’s brief moments, history, and natural forces entwine.

The McDonough will also host the “Kilcawley” Print Collection from August 25 to December 12. Acquired over several years during the 1970s, the exhibit will include 23 signed and numbered prints by prominent artists of the period including Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and Christo, among others. During the building of the collections, the prints were required to meet three criteria: be original, historically important, and of the highest quality.

An opening reception for both exhibitions will be held Friday, August 28, from 5:00 to 7:00 PM.

Entry to the reception and exhibits is free and open to the public. The McDonough Museum is open Tuesday through Saturday from 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM. Parking is available at the Wick Avenue Deck (M30) for a $5 fee payable in cash only.