About Us
John J. McDonough Museum of Art
The John J. McDonough Museum of Art is a vital cultural resource for our region — offering a range of dynamic programs that include exhibitions, installations, performances, and lectures that invite campus and community members to discover and explore meaning in contemporary art.
A modernist landmark, the McDonough Museum was designed by the award-winning architects Charles Gwathmey and Robert Siegel, who are nationally known for their work. The McDonough stands as a unique architectural feature on YSU's campus and consists of 20,000 square feet of exhibition, lecture, and office spaces.
Current and upcoming exhibitions
The McDonough Museum offers a range of dynamic programs that include exhibitions, installations, performances, and lectures that invite campus and community members to discover and explore meaning in contemporary art. All exhibitions are free and open to the public.
The museum is located at 525 Wick Avenue, Youngstown, OH 44502. Hours are 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM Tuesday through Saturday (closed Sunday and Monday and major holidays).
Around Here, It's Always Eternity
August 25 - October 24
Opening reception: August 28, 5:00 - 7:00 PM
Bonny Leibowitz
Benny Leibowitz's “sprawling floor-based sculptures and installations combine salvaged welded metals, plastics, mangled industrial and architectural parts, tree branches, roots, and photography to examine renditions of environmental stories and histories— all of which have been constructed and distorted by humans.”
Alice Pixley Young
Alice Pixley Young's work “examines her layered environment: culturally the Rust Belt, geologically an ancient fossil bed on the Myaamia homelands, and from now to forever, a nuclear-contaminated site. This informs her multimedia installations which combine vocabularies from the built and natural environments."
Deborah Wasserman
Deborah 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 their 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.”
Etty Yaniv
Etty Yaniv 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, they reveal intricate vignettes evoking archeological layers, where deep time, life’s brief moments, history, and natural forces entwine."
Kilcawley Print Collection
August 25 - December 12
Opening reception: August 28, 5:00 - 7:00 PM
Acquired over several years during the 1970s, the Kilcawley Print Collectionincludes twenty-three 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 collection the prints were required to meet three criteria: be original, historically important, and of the highest quality.
Contact us
McDonough Museum of Art
525 Wick Avenue
Youngstown, OH 44502
Staff
Claudia Berlinski , Director
Angela DeLucia , Assistant to the Director
Gallery hours
Tuesday – Saturday, 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Closed for University holidays
