McDonough Museum of Art announces summer 2022 schedule
June 3, 2022
The McDonough Museum of Art will open its summer 2022 exhibition schedule with five diverse artists beginning Friday, June 3, 2022 and concluding Saturday, July 16.
James Pernotto is a painter, sculptor, and architectural designer-illustrator. He was the founding director of Pacifico Gallery in Greenwich Village and served as a curator with The Butler Institute of American Art. His exhibition “Steel-town” documents the collapse of the industrial revolution in Youngstown, Ohio.
YSU alumna Patty Flauto is an acknowledged color expert. She has served as a past board member of the Color Marketing Group, an international color forecasting organization. Her work has appeared in The Cleveland Museum of Art and The Butler Institute of American Art. Flauto’s exhibition “The Dance of Abstraction” puts forth suggestion, implication, and mystery rather than obvious “real” pictures. Her work serves as an examination of how abstract art acts as a bridge between the conscious and subconscious parts of the brain.
The M.F.A. exhibitions feature the visual art research of Kerrianne Ghinda and Katherine Williamson, who are candidates for the Master of Fine Arts degree in interdisciplinary visual arts. Williamson’s work “Remnants” explores the symbolism of a forsaken home and the emotions it awakens through the use of deconstructed, disregarded building materials and household items, lack of color, and fragments of domestic life. Ghinda’s work “Remains” brings attention to the enormous volume of plastic garbage and one-use plastics that individuals use daily without malice, with a specific focus on the pollution these plastics put into oceans, rivers, streams, and waterways.
The “HopeCAT Youth Arts Exhibition” features work by participants in each of The Hope Center of Arts & Technology (HopeCAT) studios from spring 2022. The studios include painting and drawing, printmaking, and ceramics. HopeCAT is a non-profit organization that provides free after-school art classes for students in grades 7 – 12 from the surrounding regions of Youngstown with the goal of increasing positive mentorship and leading students to pathways that create productive citizens in their communities.
Entry to the exhibitions and reception is free and open to the public. The McDonough Museum of Art is open 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM Tuesday – Saturday.